Sometime throughout the school year, when applying for the Study Abroad program and Roy DeBoer, I was thinking about another unique opportunity the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture offers – the Emschergenossenschaft Praktikum. Every summer, a student is chosen by Prof. Wolfram Höfer after expressing interest in the program. I had been working on a […]
Post Study Abroad and New Adventures
My experience during the short time of five weeks made me realize a few things. For one, the world is bigger than our little bubble of life. It operates in similar but slightly different ways in different areas. It does not operate around just ourselves. I think this mental block may be due to a […]
Last Week of Study Abroad
Five weeks really is not a lot of time… it went by too fast. For the last week during the study abroad trip, we enjoyed a relaxing few days filled with fun trips. First off, Düsseldorf – one of my favorite areas to visit. We went to Northern Düsseldorf, and enjoyed the beautiful Benrath castle […]
Second Week in Essen – Design Charette
The second week in Essen consisted almost entirely of working on our studio design charette. This was a great opportunity to work in a unique place with a great professor from TU Dortmund University. Dr. Bryce Lawrence works in the Department of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning and is currently involved in a project on […]
First Week in Essen
After a very comfortable train ride, the group arrived in Essen on June 18th. We settled in to our new wg, or wohngemeinschaft in the Unperfekthaus, and enjoyed a nice meal. This is not my first experience in Essen and the Ruhrgebiet, as I visited for a week with my Spring 2019 Studio class in […]
Second Week in Berlin and Preparing for Essen
Berlin is a really wonderful city and I’m so glad I was able to spend two weeks here. I wish I could stay here for a bit longer. I feel like I got a good feel for the city for the short time I was there. I would definitely visit this city again, and probably […]