We've spent so much time walking alongside canals on this #campustour we've started to feel less like dashing thoroughbreds and more like plodding, monotonous, if honest, loyal and sedulous barge ponies. There are, as far as we are aware, no canals in Aachen, yet, and much like those city's who owe their existence to canals, Aachen owes its existence, and name, to its waters: the thermal springs arising in the city meaning that since Roman times the peoples of the region, and from further
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As with all creative professions, design is something into which one grows, where over time your position to it develops and evolves until such time as you reach a place where you are comfortable with what you are doing and why. Sure one starts of under the impression you understand design, the wise quickly realise they don't, step back, reconsider, listen, observe, reconsider, experiment, listen, observe, reconsider, experiment and slowly but surely form their own position to and understanding
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Much like the aardvark, or Alvar Aalto, Aachen is always likely to find itself at the top of any alphabetical list. But aside from such orthographic deceit, would the FH Aachen be at the top of our #campustour list.......? FH Aachen Design Department @ Boxgraben 100 Aachen FH Aachen In what is becoming a popular, almost ubiquitous, sentence in these pages, and one we suspect we will return to at a later date, the Fachhochschule Aachen was formed in 1971 from the fusion of five existing
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