Two weeks in!

Elementary school in boca, images of their basketball hoop and gym, and one for Erika of girls walking down the hall.

Random old car on a street in Boca.

Theater in Boca. Image of the exterior, props stored backstage. The third image is of how tickets used to be handled in the box office back in the day

Images of housing in Boca underneath the highway. This is where our site for our studio project is located.

I am now finished with the second week of classes and I have been keeping really busy. First off let me just say that i am new to the blogging world and for that reason my blogs are going to appear a little funky. I am sure i will master photo and text placement soon, but until then you will just have to bear with the messy layout. :) This week we started to get into our studio project a little. We have been doing work exploring the city of buenos aires as a whole up until friday when we had our first site visit. Our studio this semester is about public architecture, about buildings meant for public use. We are still in the beginning phases of things, but our project is going to be centered around a theater group in La boca. They are a community group and everyone volunteers their time to be a part of the productions. They have been around for a few decades and began as street performers and eventually found a theater space to work in. As of right now we will doing a theater located in the area of where all the housing is (see pics above). It was quite an experience to visit the area under the freeway. The people currently living there were hit hard by the financial crash that happened in BA in 2001, some are immigrants and some are just people who have fallen on hard times. Seeing the area was a very sobering experience, and one that I was grateful to have. I hope that this trip and specifically working on a project that involves these issues will teach me a lot about different cultures and different ways of life. I have already gained a bigger perspective on the American way of life from just two weeks here. I am really enjoying experiencing all the different aspects of the culture of Buenos Aires. Hope everyone is doing well back in the states and enjoying their holiday weekend!

Scar