This past weekend the class took an excursion to the Veneto region of Italy, located in the Northeast of the country and along the Adriatic Sea. Our first stop was at TipoTeca and it was fascinating to learn about how people use font and typography in design, especially how they curate different types of fonts. After that we went to an interesting cemetery that used lots of concrete and used various waterways. It was interesting how the concrete was done in such a way to appear so weightless despite being such a heavy, blocky material. The cemetery also used Asian motifs. There were very similar themes in his work on the art museum we visited in Venice where geometric concrete shapes stepped down against the canal and also used Asian motifs. The museum even filled the room with Asian artwork. The garden was similar in that there was water running through it. For our last day in Venice we visited the Biennale exhibition in a large public to the south of San Marco Square. It was interesting to see how so many different countries chose to represent themselves, and I particularly liked Denmark’s pavilion and its focus on a connected city and bridging modern design onto historic sites.