Every year our first year students embark on a weeklong excursion to a European city. This trip is part of the curriculum, as it probably is in every architectural education in the world. It’s based on the tradition of the Grand Tour where many architects before us have travelled the world for inspiration. The main aims of the yearly excursions are those of learning how to see, how to draw and how to discover the material and cultural context of a city through using intuitive methods such as sketching, mapping, discussing, film making and taking photos for the production of a reel. All in all the excursion is for many students the first time that they will be looking at the city through an architect‘s eyes. We hope the excursion will inspire and open up new perspectives. It aims to create new references for the students within contemporary architecture but also to inspire us all to look at what is there.