Ananth Abroad

Part 1 Visiting and living in both Vienna and London gave a glimpse into the magnitude of time and a connection between history and culture. The classes specifically tailored my sight towards the effects of erasure on the madness of the city. The two cities had a significant amount of madness present throughout history yet… Read more

This CAT assignment had an interesting interplay between the discussion of mental illness and architecture. We had visited Sir John Soane’s museum to look at the series of artworks by Hogarth called “A Rake’s Progress”. The series depicted the progression of a middle class man who inherited and married into money, lost all his wealth… Read more

For this assignment, we went to two brutalist buildings here in London, the Royal Festival Hall  and the Barbican social housing complex. Both buildings were interesting because they lacked any ornamentation like the buildings we saw in Vienna with the secessionist and historicist movement. This was especially intriguing because the British had borrowed the idea… Read more

The buildings that we visited for the third CAT assignment were interesting because it marked a change in the time. Red Vienna was a huge part of modern Vienna, especially in the communist perspective towards equality and community.  We had walked to Reumannhauf which is housing complex constructed  during that time. It was made to… Read more

After looking at the city, there are small gems of difference embedded into the architecture around the city centers. Visiting the Looshaus, Secession building, and the Otto Wagner apartment complex showed the physical manifestation of the secessionist movement and its opposition. We first the Looshaus, which is a bank across from the Hofburg Palace. The… Read more

Traveling through the Ringstrasse at first sight is overwhelming. Every direction you look is grandiose architecture and intricate details. There is an apparent effort to preserve the beauty of the history present when founding the country. Each palace is organized down to every room and artifact, memorializing the positive, and somewhat ignoring the negative. Frisby… Read more