Open Air Museum

Santa Maria University

We take buses, and shoes, and taxis to a building we will never visit, only to find that it was back where we started. The second building is where it was when Mike had left it two years ago. This is Santa Maria University and its architecture school.

Main entrance to Santa Maria University

View from the main entrance

Swimming pool for engineering students

The stairs and hallways approaching the architecture building seem to crisscross and shift the surrounding buildings from stone masonry into glass and steel. The architecture building is open in plan and section with tendril-hallways that fuse the new addition with the original gothic style campus.

Glass partitions divide rooms...the sun-shading is in all the right spots.

It would be great if MSU's architecture building were this vibrantly designed.

Architecture student experiments in digital design, aluminum triangles riveted together

Valparaiso

Stray dogs are not hard to find in Valparaiso.  Luckily they're friendly!

We stumbled upon an old jail that had been converted into a community art center.

Typical Valparaiso houses.

An exciting find for Banksy fans!

Valpo Funicular Ride