About this Blog

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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  Harvard University
   

Authored by:

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  Lian Chikako Chang

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Recent Entries

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