Roma vs. Barcelona

After returning from Rome, I compared Rome and Barcelona because every architecture student has to chose between the two.

ROMA

BARCELONA

There's one modern building in the entire city, done by Richard Meyer

Richard Meyer is your neighbor

Peter Keating would go to Rome

Howard Roark would go to Barcelona

As far as Studio, it's heated with a library and computer lab

Cold, powerless studio that gets broken into

You get to live on the Campo

Live on Plaza Universitat

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Be surrounded by the foundations and classics of architecture

Have a mixture of classic and modern

You can read the Menu

Catalan is Confusing

Mussolini

Franco

The 3B's

Art Nuvo

People sell you roses and knick-knacks

People sell you beer and hash

GELATERIA

PANADERIA

Spumante / Prosecco

Cava

Dirty

BC NETA (clean)

Built on Hills, with man-made aquaducts

Surrounded be mountains and rivers

The Colosseum

Bullfighting

Testaccio

Port Olympic

Capuccino

Cafe con leche

Tap water

Zumo de Naranja

Declining Italian Population

Little babies everywhere

Overall I think Barcelona wins, even though Rome is awesome too.

Okay, I'm a little biased.