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Great Stupa at Sanchi | History of Architecture 3: Indian Architecture

Date submitted: 31 July 2010

Medium: Prang Watercolour on 1/4 Berkeley illustration board.. ;)

The World Expo Site in Shanghai 2010 (May 1-October 31)

This World Expo features different countries all over the world through the various pavilions showcasing the countries and different styles of architecture. Our college, the College of Architecture in UST, is currently planning for the field trip this semester to Shanghai for the students and the faculty members to see, feel or touch, smell and taste architecture in the World Expo, basically to experience this once in every four years World Expo event. I would like to see it and be able to explore every pavilion exhibited. Gusto ko lang. Haha ;p I think it won’t push through, not the field trip I mean, ‘cause basically it’s kind of expensive and there’s also another plan. Anyway, I hope you’d enjoy this virtual tour of the World Expo. And oh, by the way, the field trip’s very suitable for us, the third year students because of History of Architecture 3, which is about Asian Architecture. :) I’d like to learn a lot from this subject, and hopefully the lectures will be discussed in such a way that the students would understand and absorb and take down notes with ample time at the same time. K.haha :P It’ll be also great if we’d be able to go to all the Asian countries, in time. Haha :P By the way, I’m not impressed with the Philippine pavilion. I’ll post a picture of it. Leandro Locsin’s design is a lot lot lot better, of course. The current one looks like a cube wrapped with photo printed tarpaulins in picture, but I just found pictures of closer view, it’s made of a hard material, maybe wood or steel, diamond shape pieced together. Our professor said that the owners of Oishi or something, if I’m not mistaken, were the ones who funded it. Plus, there’s a massage service, or hilot in Tagalog, in the pavilion, having a lot of customers. It would really take more than one day to tour around the Expo with a lot of people visiting its 5.28 square kilometer site. And definitely a lot of extra people on the background of supposed to be solo pictures. Hay, I’d like to go, but may just save it for later. Hehe :P There’s a Sagada trip for 5th year students. Haha :)) International to local? But I think if you’ll go solo or I mean with your family, maybe our professor would say that it’s different ‘cause it’ll be more about the bonding and not mainly focus on the architecture side, but not really. It depends on the people who you are with, whether they’re your family or blockmate. You might even have more time to take pictures and explore and stuff on the site if you’re in a smaller group. But it’d be definitely different if you’re with your friends. That could still be fun. :) We’ll see in the future field trips. Haha :P Happy watching! ;)