{"id":710,"date":"2017-04-25T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=710"},"modified":"2017-04-26T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T18:38:28","slug":"dakota-rhodes-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2017\/04\/25\/dakota-rhodes-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Rhodes \u201918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Rhodes \u201818<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-711\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/04\/IMG_5565-e1493128016346.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-711\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/04\/IMG_5565-e1493128016346-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/04\/IMG_5565-e1493128016346-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/04\/IMG_5565-e1493128016346-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dakota Rhodes\u200b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Architecture as Art<\/p>\n<p>I was walking through Berlin, on my way to Checkpoint Charlie when what I had been learning at Wabash had kicked in. It was a utopic moment of clarity when I could clearly see the difference in the eastern and western Berlin architecture. It sounds so simple, but this was a defining moment for myself. I had been learning about art and architecture through my many classics classes at Wabash, and then I saw its practicality in real life. Architecture is more than a way of building; it is a way to express a cultures view of the world around them. No architect has ever built something because it looks beautiful; they built it for a reason beyond what a wondering eye can see. The difference in architecture was astounding and showed the separation of a capitalistic view of the world and a communistic past. This was so astounding to me because it is something that everyone else looked past. The public was looking for touristy shops and landmarks, but to stop for a moment and wonder, wonder how great men and women depicted their timeline through these buildings, incredible. I wouldn\u2019t have been able to experience this profound moment without the help of the Givens Family. It is because of them that I was able to experience art as it was supposed to be experienced, in person and with insurmountable appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Rhodes \u201818 Architecture as Art I was walking through Berlin, on my way to Checkpoint Charlie when what I had been learning at Wabash had kicked in. It was a utopic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-givens-scholarship"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/04\/IMG_5565-e1493128016346-768x1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}