Sunday, October 6, 2013

Excalibur Army, formerly a Soviet Military Depot located in Prelouc, Czech Republic

This project I am doing has switched gears from what I had originally had planned to what I realized once I came to the Czech Republic. Upon getting here and learning more about the subject that i am studying I realized that study a series of generally the same type of military development was rather pointless. There are, well there were, much bigger things at play here than this that in my nativity, had missed.  During their occupation...

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Údolí Kunratického potoka

Údolí Kunratického potoka translates to Valley Brook in English and is a very large park in Prague 11, South of the center of the city. Its about a 30 minute trip from my apartment to get here via metro. I came here on a warm day in mid September and was very surprised by what it was. I had assumed that it was a very large but normal park that you find throughout Prague but instead it resembles that of a State Park in New York. Valley...

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

SAPA Vietnamese Market

While there is so much of this city that I have yet to see, I believe that the Vietnamese Market is thus far my favorite place. While I was still at home I spent a lot of time researching things to see in the Czech Republic that weren't pertaining to my study. Seeing as how I was going to be here for three months I felt like I should find as many things of interest to check out while in country. I came across an article published by Vice Magazine...

Monday, September 9, 2013

Central Group of Forces Headquarters. Milovice, CZ

The inevitability of war, in-turn means the inevitability of infrastructure to support such conflicts. I am in The Czech Republic to study the repurposability of now abandoned military and war-time infrastructure. The reason i chose this location specifically was because of both the heavy Nazi and Soviet occupation that took place in the 20th century. Due to the fact that both the Nazis and the Soviets control was mainly in Europe, the centrality...