The students received an amazing opportunity to study hands on with earth brick design with Les Grands Ateliers. This workshop will grant the students a one of a kind experience pertaining to material study. The students will be working throughout the week to eventually have designed and built their own Read more…
The students have settled in and learned abut the material they will be handling. Now it is time to design. The students were tasked with thinking in different ways to design earth bricks based off different topics that were given. This is the start to a very interesting project. The Read more…
Today is the day the students get to start mass producing their bricks for their wall. Leading up to this day, the students worked hard in designing their bricks, and furthermore the molds to create the bricks. They are in for a long day ahead. It is now morning at Read more…
The students have now designed their bricks and created multiples of them. Now as they wait for the bricks to dry, they take on a day of learning the process of making and applying mortar to earth bricks. After a brief tutorial, the students set off to create arches using Read more…
As the students end the week, they are tasked to take their, now dried, bricks and construct a wall. Throughout the course of the workshop, they were only able to imagine the pattern of the wall. Using their skills they learned throughout the week, they were able to bring their Read more…
Dean Tsolakis made a visit to Paris to to host a drawing boot camp for the students. Throughout his visit, the students did different drawing technique exercises, learned very valuable advice about drawing, and got to explore the city of Paris in a very different way. We truly appreciate Dean Read more…
While studying abroad, the students have the unique opportunity to travel to other countries on the green weekends. The students traveled to three different countries this past weekend. The countries included the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy. Majority of the students went to Amsterdam this past weekend. Here is a Read more…
During the History of Paris class, the students have lectures on Tuesday in the classroom. On the Thursday portion of the class, the class goes to the actual sites that they are studying to get an up close experience. This week, the class went to Musée de Cluny and Les Arènes de Read more…
The 2019 LSU College of Art and Design Paris Program participants are well on their way with the being acclimated to their new environment. They have toured interesting places, started using french phrases, and, most importantly, studied the different culture they are surrounded by everyday. We are super excited to Read more…
The first day of official class here in Paris was one to never be forgotten. The students were paired into groups of two and assigned a church or cathedral in city of Paris to give a short presentation about. The class, and the professor, walked to these sites throughout the Read more…