HITCHHIKING ACROSS AMERICA
or
111 Days of Freedom
Summer 2014
The Goal
The goal of this amazing journey that totally changed my life was to visit and explore the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. By hitchhiking and walking alongside both coasts, I visited many engineering marvels, national parks, buildings, cities and lighthouses. I wanted to put myself in an environment that I had not been in before and experience a tough and basic human condition. I wanted this journey to be self-educational and to help me reevaluate my relation to architecture, landscape, the world, and help me find myself.
The Achievement
Any kind of accomplishment lays in a realization of goals and dreams associated with what a person loves most – in my case it is architecture and nature. During this journey I visited the places and buildings I had been dreaming about all my life and finally I was able to see and analyze them. Many of them met my expectations and many of them did not. I am lucky to have seen the astonishing beauty of the American wilderness, marvelously designed and built lighthouses, vernacular culture of the West, and great buildings of America. All these would have been useless if I had not realized that dreams are always far to reach but close enough to accomplish.
Sketches and Ideas
Signs and Camps
Lighthouses of America
Architecture of America
Nature of America