From Milan to Berlin – Field Trip Pt. 2
The next day, we made our way to Milan. By the time we made it up the Duomo, the sun was beginning to set and surrounded us in soft, golden light as we overlooked ...
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
From Ravenna to Venice – Field Trip Pt. 1
When we arrived in Stazione Termini for our second field trip, my friends and I were surprised by the small amount of people at our meeting spot. The 5 AM wakeup was arduous, but ...
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Field Trip to the North
For our second field trip of the semester, we went on a 6 day excursion to 5 cities that included Ravenna, Venice, Milan, Como, and Torino. We met Jan Gadeyne in Ravenna, a ...
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Wine Tasting
As per usual, I had arrived a little tardy to the planned event of the night. My friends and I arrived in a room filled with excited conversation in large tables that combined ...
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The Ethics of Bricks
John Ochsendorf from MIT discussed thin shell vaults, compressive structures, Peruvian tensile bridges, and other aspects of his research as our second lecturer for the Cornell in Rome Series. Now appointed to a 3-year ...
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Cornell In Rome Lecture Series: Pietro Ruffo
On Monday, we were lucky enough to be visited by Pietro Ruffo, a world-renowned artist from Rome. Having studied architecture at university, Ruffo ultimately diverged into the art world while still maintaining his love ...
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A Wine Tasting to Remember
On Friday, I learned not only about wine and food pairings, but also that I am apparently too weak to open a bottle of prosecco! I was anticipating the wine tasting all week, for ...
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Toscana, un Bel Viaggio
As my friends and I made our way to the train early Thursday morning, bleary eyed with itineraries in hand, we knew what we’d be doing on the field trip but none of us ...
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Cornell in Rome Lecture Series: Philippe Morel
For the first of the lecture series the faculty at Cornell in Rome invited Philippe Morel, the cofounder of EZCT, the CEO of a 3D printing company, and an architectural theorist. From the beginning ...
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On top of the clouds of Montepulciano
Leaving Siena we went on a short bus ride to reach Montepulciano. I had taken a short nap and somehow we had reached a beautiful Tuscan countryside village on a hill rising above a ...
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