Finally I’ve handed in my essay. I wish we had been working more actively with this along our design studio over the semester as much of what I find in my essay could have come to good use this year. I’ll take it along for next semester however and hope I get to write more over the years. I think this is the first essay I write where I feel that I’m getting a lot back from the writing process myself.

Spring is time for traveling. Over Easter I went to London with Sabrina and tried to negotiate a bit of Architecture, culture and mandatory shopping. It was really great to get out of Oslo and away from studio for a while even if it had a bit of an impact on the work flow.

We split the stay into two by living in Lambeth for 2 nights and Kings Cross 3 nights. We switched between moving around by foot and by tube every other day to get a combination of rest for the legs and fresh air. This little alleyway here is right around the corner from the Barbican Cantre where they had a great exhibition of Le Corbusier’s work as well as a cool experimental rapid prototyping exhibition in the Curve. Well worth a trip.

On Easter Sunday we went to morning mass in St. Paul’s Cathedral. The acoustics were amazing while the choir sang, but the sound technician who put up the speakers for the preacher didn’t do his sound test before he left I think. It was a really nice experience to see such a great religious building in use and not just full of people being told to turn off their cameras.

This week I’m wrapping up my essay on the use of diagrams in contemporary architecture and the main focus has been on UN Studio and the Design Model. It is very interesting to think of what a design process means and how knowledge is carried on and expanded upon in each project.

On Sunday I’m off to Paris to combine business and pleasure as I go on a school trip and meet up with Sabrina half way through the week to get some time with her as I’m down there anyways.

Over the weekend a few Danes encountered some bizarre things starting to happen on the site in Nordhavnen.