Dads gone, but Uncle Stanley was here to Babysit

This past week has been an interesting week of work.  Our third project was put on hold due to the arrival of Stanley Hallet, a former dean of our Architecture school that still sticks around.  He has a background in video and photography, so he decided to teach us a new skill.

With the help of a fantastic camera, Corin, Steph Cervantes, and I were assigned to spend a few hours on Via del Corso.  All we had to do was just experience it, and then express our time through photos. The 3 of us decided that since we were assigned a street, we would focus on movement and how people travel up and down the road.  

We started fairly in the center, in front of Basilica dei SS Ambrogio e Carlo.  After taking some photos in that area we started walking north, towards Piazza del Popollo.  There we had a lot of fun taking photos of the seguay testers and Corin managed to photo-chase the flower man around the piazza until he noticed.

One thing my entire class enjoys is the short busses that ride up and down Via del Corso.  They start at Piazza del Popolo, which gave us the idea to, well, ride the bus down the road.  We had a lot of fun being squished on that tiny little bus all while taking photos of the buildings wizzing by.

We got out of the bus half way down the road, near the small piazza with the big Fendi store, saw an asian tourist in a bright orange track suit, and then continued our walk down the street.  Once we hit Piazza Colonna, we decided to take a quick gioliti break, and then we returned to our walk.  We got distracted by a street artist (and then I got distracted by a pigeon).  At the end of the road was Piazza Venezia, the location of the monument for Vittorio Emmanuel II.  There we found JoJo returning from her day’s project, took a few creeper shots, and then decided it was getting late, and we should be going home.

We added a peppy beat to our photo montage, and presented it to the class thursday afternoon.  All the projects were unique and enjoyable.  We are so used to a 2-D drawings pinned up behind us for each of our presentations.  We all enjoyed this assignment because of how different it was.  The purpose was to focus on people experiencing architecture and the city, instead of analyzing the architecture and the city itself.  We all had a fun week with Stanley Hallet, and we all definitely learned a lot. 

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