Once a semester we are travelling to see architecture all over Europe, but often also in far destinations. We intensly investigate architecture that is relevant for our semester topic and certainly also see everything worth seeing around it. So far there have been trips to Australia, USA, China, Croatia, England, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey.....and a lot more coming up!

China 2004

In 2004 the studio started a trip to the bustling country far east. Starting in Bejing, looking at the developments for the olympics and the giant constructuion sites in the city as well as visiting small hutongs and - certainly - the great wall. From Bejing we continued to Shanghai, seeing Pudong growing rapidly in on the opposite side of Huangpo river. After visiting Souzhou and Huangzhou we travelled by night train to HongKong - visiting the gateway to China.

(pictures by Michaela Koller)

South England 2009

Preparing for the boarding school project we travelled to south and south west England to study the architecture of Edwin Lutyens as well as contemporary projects in London. Beginning with a few days in the capital, seeing the Gerken tower, visiting the AA and Ove Arup the trip continued through the country to Exeter from where we visited several of Lutyens projects and gardens as well as the Eden Project and our wite east of Oxford.

Croatia 2008

To get a better background for our semester topic, the boat factory, we travelled to Croatia and Slovenia to see on the one hand the site, but also some of the many high tech boat manufacturing companies in this area. We visited giant cnc milling facilities, raceboat prototype builders and, certainly - spent a day sailing to understand the formal implications of a sailboat as a design and technology object.