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This blog was most active from 2009-2013. Writing about my experiences and life at Harvard GSD started out as a way for me to process my experiences as an M.Arch.I student, and evolved into a record of the intellectual and cultural life of the Cambridge architecture (and to a lesser extent, design/technology) community, through live-blogs.
These days, I work as a data storyteller (and blogger at Littldata.com) in San Francisco, and still post here once in a while.
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Lian Chikako Chang
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Recent Entries
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How to Stay Home (Pt. 1): The Three Easiest Ways to Protect Your Wellbeing During Your Shelter-in-Place
Apr 4 '20
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A Hottish Take on the Future of Environmental Technologies in Buildings
May 30 '19
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A Conversation with Courtney Sharpe and Cara Michell, Black in Design conference organizers
Sep 28 '15
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How Frank Gehry, who doesn't know how to use a computer, started Gehry Technologies
May 12 '15
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Live Blog: Bethany Lang: Ugly Data Duckling: Grooming Messy Data With Policies and Procedures
May 1 '15
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Live Blog: Kristi-Lynn Jacovino, Using Data to Influence Your UX Decisions
May 1 '15
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Live Blog - Cole Nussbaumer, "Storytelling with Data"
Mar 30 '15
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Live Blog: ACSA 103 Opening Plenary
Mar 19 '15
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Live Blog: LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne at UC Berkeley
Oct 20 '14
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Live Blog - San Francisco NERT Training, Class 2
Oct 16 '14
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Live Blog - San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) Training
Oct 9 '14
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Ai Weiwei is @Large on Alcatraz
Sep 28 '14
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Live Blog: W. Gavin Robb, "Roots Run Deep: A Tomb for Manfredo Tafuri" (M.Arch thesis)
May 18 '14
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Live Blog: Anya Domlesky, "HOT ROT: A Breakdown Manual" (MLA thesis)
May 18 '14
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Live Blog - Marian Dörk, "From Bird's-eye Views to Street-Level Data Exploration: Taking Text for a Stroll"
Apr 25 '14
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Live Blog - Mauricio Giraldo, "NYPL Labs Building Inspector" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
Apr 25 '14
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Live Blog - Robert Simmon, "Subtleties of Color" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
Apr 25 '14
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Live Blog - Andy Kirk, "The Design of Nothing: Null, Zero, Blank" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
Apr 24 '14
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Live Blog - Jen Christiansen, "Visualizing Science," at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
Apr 24 '14
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Live Blog - Kennedy Elliot, "Coding for the News," at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
Apr 24 '14
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Live Blog - Mike Bostok from the New York Times, at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
Apr 24 '14
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Live Blog - Eric Fischer, "Mapping Billions of Dots" at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
Apr 24 '14
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Yestermorrow Design/Build for Public Interest
Apr 23 '14
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Review - GSD's "Platform 6: A Year of Research through Studio Work, Theses, Lectures, Exhibitions and Events"
Mar 24 '14
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Live Blog - Manuel Castells, "The Space of Autonomy: Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements"
Feb 18 '14
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Live Blog - Christopher Glaisek and Bruce Kuwabara on Waterfront Toronto
Feb 11 '14
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Review - "If You Build It," directed by Patrick Creadon
Jan 30 '14
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Live Blog - Kyle Bergman and John Connell in conversation
Jan 29 '14
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Live Blog - Futures Past: Design and the Machine (Mindell, Steenson, Theodore, Galison)
Nov 24 '13
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Update - GSD African American Student Union and Dean Mohsen comment on Kanye West Visit
Nov 18 '13
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VIDEO - Kanye stops by studio to talk about architecture with students
Nov 17 '13
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Live Blog - Mohsen Mostafavi in Conversation with Nicholas Negroponte
Oct 29 '13
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Live Blog - Walid Raad and Theaster Gates in Conversation, with Mohsen Mostafavi, "On Art and Cities"
Oct 26 '13
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Live Blog - Robert Wilson, Sensory Media Platform
Oct 18 '13
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Live Blog - Craig Edward Dykers, The Psychology of Space and the Moving Body
Sep 26 '13
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Live Blog - Panel Discussion: Frontiers of Design Criticism
Sep 18 '13
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Live Blog - Dorie Clark, "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future"
Sep 11 '13
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Useless Architectures: Interview with 2013 SOM Prize Winner James Leng
Sep 3 '13
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Live Blog - Sylvia Lavin and Eric Owen Moss
Aug 7 '13
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Graduation: final post as a Harvard GSD M.Arch.I school blogger
Jun 3 '13
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New Haven/Yale School of Architecture
May 24 '13
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Live Blog - John David Todd, "Sometimes alone. Mostly with others" (M.Arch.I thesis)
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - M.Arch.I thesis reviews...pictures
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - Ceri Edmunds, "Consolidation: The suburban shopping mall as a paradigm of public space."
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - Trey Kirk, "Seattle Public Library and Courthouse"
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - Drew Cowdrey, "Contemporary Asylum" (M.Arch.I Thesis Review)
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - Fareez Giga, "Nonsense" (M.Arch.I thesis review)
May 17 '13
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Live Blog - Cathleen McGuigan, "Women and the Changing World of Architecture"
May 10 '13
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Iñaki Ábalos appointed Chair of Architecture at Harvard GSD
Apr 25 '13
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Live Blog - Preston Scott Cohen, "Successive Architecture"
Apr 23 '13
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Live Blog - Techniques: James Carpenter and TriPyramid, "Extending Collaboration"
Apr 8 '13
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Live Blog - Rahul Mehrotra, KUMBH MELA: Mapping the Ephemeral City
Apr 1 '13
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PETITION: Recognize Denise Scott Brown for her work in Robert Venturi's 1991 Prize
Apr 1 '13
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Me-moji.com: an online photobooth and gallery to share your emoji (emoticon) faces!
Mar 12 '13
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Co-Host 'ARCHITECT Live' with Stephen Chung, AIA
Mar 12 '13
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Live Blog - Zaha Hadid
Mar 6 '13
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Live Blog - GSD Alternative Careers Panel
Feb 22 '13
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Defending Your Life--and other stuff
Feb 15 '13
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Thesis FINISHED! (Drawn out: performances of mundane inhabitation)
Feb 3 '13
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Thesis: Drawn out: performances of mundane inhabitation
Jan 18 '13
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Comment: I know that Steve Jobs wasn’t God: That’s the whole point
Nov 13 '12
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Video - GSD Conference on Design I: Liminal Objects - Design and the Museum
Nov 1 '12
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Live Blog - Iñaki Ábalos, 'Thermodynamism and Architecture'
Oct 31 '12
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Live Blog - Toyo Ito, "What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake"
Oct 16 '12
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Live Blog - Aggregate and Ed Eigen
Oct 12 '12
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Live Blog - Kengo Kuma, "After March 11th"
Oct 9 '12
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Live Blog - Günther Vogt, "City as Territory as Landscape"
Oct 4 '12
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Thesis: is performance in architecture like the performance of a machine, or a theater?
Sep 22 '12
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Thesis: unaccomplished performances (video)
Sep 21 '12
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Live Blog - George Lakoff, "The Brain's Politics"
Sep 11 '12
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Live Blog - Jürgen Mayer H., "pre.text / vor.wand"
Sep 6 '12
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Economic Considerations Regarding the Future of the Architecture Profession
Jul 24 '12
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ContemPLAY: Adventures in full-scale digital fabrication (interview with Sophie Wilkin from McGill)
Jul 19 '12
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A Single Surface, Multiple Players: Design and Construction of the Stair for the BSA Space
Jul 17 '12
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Live Blog: Marikka Trotter and K. Michael Hays
Apr 17 '12
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Live Blog: Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani, "my house is better than your house"
Apr 16 '12
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Live Blog: Margaret Livingstone, "What Art can tell us about the Brain"
Apr 13 '12
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note to incoming GSD and Career Discovery students about housing
Apr 8 '12
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video: Marc Simmons, you talk pretty
Apr 6 '12
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Live Blog: One Harvard: Lectures that Last
Apr 3 '12
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maps
Apr 2 '12
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Live Blog: George Baird
Mar 29 '12
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Wide Open: Young designers discuss their professional horizons and architecture’s future
Mar 27 '12
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Live Blog: Rosalind Williams, "Infrastructure of Lived Experience"
Mar 23 '12
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Apeira: architectural speculation
Mar 19 '12
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Comment: GPS-based social networking, or the death of the flaneur
Mar 9 '12
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Live Blog: Rem Koolhaas
Mar 5 '12
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Live Blog: "Ethics of the Urban: the City and the Spaces of the Political"
Mar 3 '12
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Live Blog: Saskia Sassen, "Immigrants and Citizens in the Global City"
Mar 2 '12
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Live Blog: Samuel Klein, "Future of Civic Participation: Lessons from the cult of Wikipedians"
Feb 29 '12
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Live Blog: Richard Sennett, "The Architecture of Cooperation"
Feb 28 '12
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Live Blog: “Design Technologies as Agents of Change,” with Bock, Seletsky, Oxman, Rocker, and Bechthold.
Feb 23 '12
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Live Blog: Philip Glass
Feb 10 '12
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Live Blog: Tom Stocky (from Facebook) at MIT Media Lab
Feb 10 '12
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Live Blog: Patrik Schumacher
Feb 9 '12
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Live Blog: Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders on Landscape and Architecture
Jan 31 '12
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Live Blog: Preston Scott Cohen speaks with Nicolai Ouroussoff about his new Herta and Paul Amir Building, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Jan 24 '12
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final work...finally!
Jan 21 '12
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one week left!
Dec 7 '11
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Finals...
Nov 19 '11
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Live Blog: Wang Shu, Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form
Nov 5 '11
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Midterm work: systems, not forms.
Oct 31 '11
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Live Blog: Stan Allen and Preston Scott Cohen
Oct 20 '11
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Live Blog: The Core of Architecture’s Discourse Now: A New Generation of Scholar Critics Speak Out
Oct 18 '11
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Kinesthesia - M.Arch.I first year project
Oct 16 '11
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Happy Birthday, GSD! And you too, Harvard.
Oct 15 '11
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Live Blog: Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi / Evolutionary Infrastructure
Oct 11 '11
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On Making and Learning Architecture: a conversation with Danielle Etzler (video)
Oct 7 '11
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Live Blog: Why Latin America, Why now?
Oct 6 '11
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The Bridge Towers at the I-95/George Washington Bridge in NYC (Site Visit)
Sep 30 '11
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Flatland: an installation at Gund Hall by Casey Hughes with Hiroshi Jacobs
Sep 26 '11
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Weiss/Manfredi studio at the BMW Guggenheim Lab
Sep 18 '11
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Live Blog: Janette Sadik-Khan, Comissioner of NYC Department of Trasportation
Sep 15 '11
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Live Blog: Naginski, Jarzombek, Savage, and Wodiczko on Memory, Vision, and Practice
Sep 13 '11
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Tennis, not architecture.
Sep 5 '11
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Schmancy new website for the GSD
Aug 29 '11
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Arigatou gozaimasu, Mohsen-sama!
Aug 27 '11
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Gund Hall is Naked
Aug 22 '11
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Slow summer...slummer
Aug 17 '11
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The long road
Jul 9 '11
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On Loyalties Divided (re: sacking of Michael Jemtrud at McGill)
Jun 25 '11
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things of unusual beauty (x rays of my broken bones)
Jun 16 '11
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Live Blog: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
May 5 '11
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Korean Dance-Off and Cory Booker
Apr 15 '11
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In which I question David Brooks on his support of the GOP budget. Read Brooks' reply.
Apr 12 '11
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Letter from "Harvard Design School" re: Ai Weiwei
Apr 10 '11
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Sparking Social Change (Maurice Cox, Marshall Ganz, Duarte Morais)
Apr 6 '11
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Live Blog: Ryue Nishizawa...at MIT
Apr 1 '11
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The Cognitive Science of Embodiment and the Place of Architecture Today: a conversation with Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Mar 30 '11
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Live Blog: Eclipse of Beauty, vol. II
Mar 29 '11
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Great shame upon our family.
Mar 29 '11
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GSD M.Arch.I Q+A
Mar 26 '11
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Live Blog: Junya Ishigami in Piper
Mar 22 '11
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Nicholas Kristof Win-a-Trip finalist, UVA architecture student Hannah Silver!
Mar 20 '11
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On Fukushima
Mar 12 '11
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They can't stop me from live blogging this one: The Eclipse of Beauty
Mar 9 '11
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Conversation with U Michigan's Architecture Program Chair
Mar 4 '11
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Vito Acconci, again and again
Mar 2 '11
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Hamlet on the Red Line
Feb 27 '11
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Inflated
Feb 12 '11
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Mubarak steps down.
Feb 11 '11
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YESNOYESNO.net
Feb 2 '11
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Out
Jan 31 '11
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Deciphering Tracks
Jan 28 '11
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The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.
Jan 26 '11
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Spring 2011
Jan 19 '11
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Not the GSD
Dec 20 '10
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MB DRO ROSHI
Dec 17 '10
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Finally.
Dec 13 '10
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100 hours to go.
Dec 2 '10
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Edward Norton -- seriously??
Nov 30 '10
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Better than Gund.
Nov 29 '10
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Martin and Kipnis: What Good Can Architecture Do?
Nov 22 '10
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Ten signs that the GSD has ruined me
Nov 22 '10
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Campus Catalyst: MASS weighs in at World Architecture Festival
Nov 15 '10
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On the function of folly
Nov 11 '10
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Live Blogging Bjarke Ingels with Preston Scott Cohen
Nov 10 '10
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Krieger: "reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated"
Nov 8 '10
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midterm
Nov 4 '10
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On the Flagship with Preston Scott
Nov 2 '10
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In defense of homasote
Oct 28 '10
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Lessons from the Superfly Machine
Oct 26 '10
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The GSD took my desk away and all I got are these crummy drafting dots.
Oct 22 '10
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Edible
Oct 10 '10
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It's not about the words this time
Oct 6 '10
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Out with the old, in with the new
Oct 3 '10
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Bicycles in Montreal
Oct 3 '10
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Three States of Hors d'oeuvres
Sep 27 '10
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He said they should be rough.
Sep 9 '10
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To the ends of the earth...and back
Sep 5 '10
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China!
Jul 17 '10
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Career Discovery
Jun 22 '10
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School's out!
May 22 '10
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What it Takes
May 12 '10
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Richard Meier Model Museum
May 9 '10
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Game on.
Apr 17 '10
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GSD LECTURE SERIES NAMING ALGORITHM CRACKED!
Apr 3 '10
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In Which Elizabeth Diller Accuses Us of Being Modernist
Mar 31 '10
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What should I ask Rafael Moneo?
Mar 29 '10
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details and grass and jobs
Mar 27 '10
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Thickened Wall: Mission (more or less) accomplished!
Mar 19 '10
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Three things I love about the GSD.
Feb 24 '10
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Yes, James, it was utopia.
Feb 23 '10
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the field trip was a success.
Feb 19 '10
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Thickened Wall
Feb 17 '10
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Aggregate 21 days
Feb 16 '10
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Um, hello
Jan 30 '10
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really advanced kindergarten
Nov 21 '09
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The Return of Nature
Nov 17 '09
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Open House Edition, Part Two
Nov 14 '09
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Open House Edition, Part One
Nov 6 '09
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Second Project Done.
Oct 9 '09
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"Psychoanalysis with twenty people on the couch at once"
Sep 29 '09
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Frankly Speaking
Sep 24 '09
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Project 1 done. Project 2 starting.
Sep 21 '09
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Orientation Week
Aug 27 '09
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This makes me very happy.
Aug 26 '09
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My first project = your comic relief
Aug 20 '09
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God bless Geeks
Aug 18 '09
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Butterflybelly
Aug 13 '09
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Greetings from Gund
Aug 5 '09
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You know that a PhD student will never just give the short answer.
Aug 1 '09
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Hello Archinect!
Jul 27 '09
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Brilliant. Resourcefulness is key. Are those red dots M&Ms cut in half?
you calc the cantilever for that saltine?
Thanks!
@ Kevin: Actually, they're multivitamins.
@FRaC: No worries, it'll be counter-weighted by 1 tsp of peanut butter.
is that seaweed? Brilliant...
Thank you, thank you. Yes, I would like to thank God for giving me this gift, and my agent, my beautiful wife, and all my fans...
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