After some technical difficulties (wherein neither my motivation nor my laptop cooperated for a while), I’ve begun to upload the 350 pictures from our trip to Germany and Austria.
Here is the first set from Darmstadt, Germany. You’re probably wondering “Where?” The quaint, little town of Darmstadt sits around 30km south of Frankfurt, but there’s nothing intellectually and architecturally quaint or little about it. Home to three technical universities, it houses the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, where a number of seminal works of computer visualization were researched and written, and where element Darmstadtium (atomic number 110) was created in 1994. Darmstadt is also home to more jazz clubs and musicians than Frankfurt, the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt (Europe’s largest public jazz archive) and Mathildenhöhe, an artists’ colony founded by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in 1899.
Stories of the crazy architecture of this area, especially the Hochzeitsturm (Wedding Tower) and adjacent Russian chapel, in my next.
Today Team Germany, primarily headquartered in Darmstadt, won the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon again.
I was lucky enough to be in in 2007 and became a real fan of this contest. That German technology/engineering is for real! For the first time a Louisiana team competed, UL Lafayette. They won the marketability competition and I’m sure they would have won the dinner event had the menu been considered.
As a fan of yours, I am so happy you are keeping up the blog and the New Orleans love and I’m sure I’m not the only one who misses your presence in this city.
Best wishes for all your new ventures.
Outstanding! I will have to watch again the rep rate was too fast for my aging eyes and brain.