Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Student housing in France is usually not very elegant, but the big exception is here at the Cité Universitaire at the southern edge of Paris. The Cité was founded in Read More …
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Bockenheim Campus of the Goethe University
The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University was founded in 1914 and has traditionally been located in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim, which is just west of the Westend and north of Read More …
Demolition of the AfE-Tower
For over forty years, the 116-meter AfE-Tower stood on the Bockenheim Campus of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt. For the first three years of its existence, from 1972-1975, it was the Read More …
The I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt
The I. G. Farben building — seen here from the top of the Main Tower in 2004 — is one of the few large buildings in Frankfurt that was not Read More …
Body of Knowledge
Recently I took a different route than usual on my daily social-distancing bicycle ride and ended up at the new Westend Campus of the Goethe University, where I hadn’t been Read More …
The Sorbonne
The name “Sorbonne” originally referred to a college created in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, the chaplain and confessor of King Louis IX of France — the king who is Read More …
The former Jussieu Campus
Universities in France are often known by their initials. A student who was enrolled at the UPMC between 1974 and 2017 would have called it exactly that, “UPMC”, and would Read More …
The University Museum in Groningen
The University Museum describes itself as a “Museum of Man, Nature and Science.” When you go upstairs and into the old building you get to the Geology Hall, which has Read More …
Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt
The Humboldt University in Berlin was founded in 1810 by the scholar, linguist and diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1767-1835, who for a short time — less than a year, actually Read More …
Théâtre du Saulcy in Metz
I was reminded of this small theater in France by an outstanding new production of the opera From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), which premiered at Read More …