In my book Another Place, there’s a chapter titled Typical People. In that chapter, I highlight how other typical foreign students in Berlin spend their time on drinking, expensive coffees, and dress in high-fashion just to impress their peers. I don’t call them my peers because that would imply that Read more…
Being a citizen of a country must grant you certain rights and freedoms right? But Canada begs to differ. I’ve tried to apply for an ID card and a driver’s license only to be turned away by ICBC in Vancouver because I wasn’t resident in Canada. I mean sure, I Read more…
Being a student in Berlin is tough, they say it’s “poor and sexy” but the prices have been going up and getting a reasonable apartment to rent isn’t easy. Luckily for me the students’ union had just the place for me, it is a little far in a former Soviet Read more…
Olympiastadion – Germania and Beyond This was the first bit of serious research I’ve done looking into the history of Nazi Germany and how its architectural styles reflect its ideology when I was in Berlin. It’s not very long so I won’t write too much of an introduction.
Authoritarian Themes of National Socialist Architecture in Berlin When I was studying in Berlin, I enrolled myself in an architecture and art history course out of pure curiosity. Being a foreigner in a prominent university in Germany, I took full advantage of this situation and decided to write about a Read more…