Just over a week left in the trip. Most of my information has been collected, now I'm running around getting some decent night photos as well as redoing day photos of anything I shot in overcast skies. Contemporary architecture is monochromatic enough, it needs all the help it can get.
After searching for a decent competition to base my project off of and failing, I've decided that I should not base my thesis in Paris. It would be hard enough to get site information and decent photos, and I wouldn't have acess to the site if I needed to go back for anything. Right now I'm rethinking the thesis end of this, and am now thinking that if it does follow up this bit of research I should do a "french" project along the east coast in the US. For example, a Franco-American art museum in Washington DC or New York. This gives me the added opportunity to raod test a few of the ideas I have developed here to see if they're valid outside of Paris or Europe, and revisioning Washington DC as a hybrid-Parisian-exquisite corpse may ellicit some interesting parallels to the physical urban environments of each, yielding what would essentially be a museum designed specifically for its context. And, since this whole crazy experiment began by searching for a relationship between contemporary architecture and its context, everyhting seems to meld together at the last moment. This is all rhetoric at this point and I still need to pitch it to possible critics, but for now I think that this route will yield an overall stronger project.
So for the next week I'll continue getting the last of my photos in line, and follow up on some final information concerning the METRO system, a few of the Grands Projets, and an interview, rescheduled for the day before I leave.
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