Remixing some more summer memories in a psychedelic flavour. Original song by Melody Stewart.

A video created out of some leftover footage I shot with an old digital compact an early morning in the summer of 2008. The music is an edit of the Harry Thumann song with the same name.

So here I am, at least for the time being.

The final photo gallery in the Chalmers Architecture Excursions trilogy; Berlin. Probably the most dynamic major city of Europe, a city in constant transformation, of constantly clashing ideas and cultures. Furthermore it arguably has the most turbulent and fascinating recent history of any metropolitan area in the world, which is indeed very evident on the architecture and structure of the city.

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I’ll dedicate a couple of posts here to the architecture trips we’ve been having during the three years I’ve been studying at the Chalmers School of Architecture. Last summer we went to Rome on an excursion mainly focusing on the classical eras of architecture; antique roman, renaissance and baroque. Good stuff! Francesco Borromini in particular is a great inspiration and idol of mine. Contrary to Paris, Rome can be characterized by a pronounced lack of forward-looking developments (and an abundance of lousy restaurants), but what’s there is indeed a beautiful place to keep. Let’s just hope the non-tourist population and businesses will continue to out-number the often tacky touristy face of Rome, but being a capital city that shouldn’t be a concern.

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I spent the last week of mars on an architecture pilgrimage to Paris, together with the better part of the 3rd year Chalmers architecture students. Bluntly put, Paris contained unexpected amounts of awesome; I was blown away!  With the expected lavish monumental structures of the 17th to 19th centuries and early modern masterpieces to the more recent grands projets and lovely concrete labyrinths of Jean Renaudie’s Centre Jeanne-Hachette (pictured above) and Ricardo Bofill’s Les Espaces d’Abraxas — how can you not be?

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