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JazzO stated: Now we're doing a project on a specific type of meal and the events that go with it. I'm researching Oktoberfest. (Emphasis added by little ol' moi) Let me point out the fact that research on the ground is the only way to get the feeling of a topic. Therefore, you should have immediately bought a plane ticket to Munich. Your theme would then have been the close examination of the bottom of beer steins. It would have been fun at the time, although I must say that three day hangovers aren't much chop!  Glad you're enjoying it, Jazz. Have fun.
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Therefore, you should have immediately bought a plane ticket to Munich.Though I would have loved to do that, time constraints and the responsibilty for other classes keep me from doing that. There's plenty of German culture in Cincinnati anyway. The second largest Oktoberfest in the world is held here, there's a sister-city organization between Cinci and Munich, and there are a few German restaurants and such here. It's even German Heritage Month at the Cinci Public Library.
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There's plenty of German culture in Cincinnati anyway.
Not just in Cincinnati.. Until very recently, germans made up the second largest sub group in american.. and would have been the first if English/Scots/Irish (GB) were not blended into one group.
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I can see where setting you off on restaurant settings/styles/architecture makes sense. It is a concrete example (like Mav stated) of form and function, art and utility.
Restaurants also feature a lot of support spaces that the casual user rarely thinks about. Probably 1/3 of the floor plan of the restaurant I once worked in was "behind-the-scenes" space. It is important to make young architects aware of the necessity of (and relatively large amount of space needed for) things like water pipes, heating ducts and elevator shafts. I also once worked in an architectural firm with lots of fresh-out-of-school architects and I heard lots of stories about they (or their "classmates" usually) designing really spectacular houses or offices only to realize at the last minute that they had forgot the bathrooms.
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Or that they don't make open spaces large enough.
Close friends of ours just bought a newly built condo. The space above the stairs leading up to second floor bedrooms was barely big/tall/wide enough to let a single bed pass - let alone a double or queen bed. The windows were not tall or wide enough either.
The contractor initially refused to do the changes since he had followed the architect's plans to the line. The estate owner finally paid for it. The contractor had to raise the ceiling above the stairs, which resulted in a wide chunk being taken out of the bedroom immediately above them.
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