Zbawiony Design & Construction

Author: Matthew

  • Winter break reading

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    Second International Conference on Critical Digital: Who Cares(?) 17-19 April, 2009 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA 02138 USA http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic559475.files/CDC2.Proceedings.pdf New Source from the above link: Neo-vernacular | Non-Pedigreed Architecture Design Authorship And Expertise At The Time of Participatory Culture and Crowdsourcing Practices. Yasmine Abbas ———— Trying to figure out how to get…

  • ARCH936: Assignments (#3 Site, #4 Program, #5 Site & Program)

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    Placeholder until I upload zbawionym_ARCH936_Exercise-3_Site zbawionym_ARCH936_Exercise-4_program zbawionym_ARCH936_Exercise-4_Program_appendix (information gathered to inform decisions about program implementation)

  • Haque Design + Research

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    http://www.haque.co.uk/ http://www.haque.co.uk/remote.php http://www.haque.co.uk/flightpath.php http://www.haque.co.uk/burble.php    

  • Titles and hypothesis

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    [title] Disrupting your City: Fostering Interaction through Technoland [title] Interrupting the Social Structure: The Virtual World and Interactivity through Intervention [hypothesis] To promote social interaction in cities through the use of interventions which encourage play through interface.

  • The Happy Machine by Physalia Motion Graphics Studio

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    [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/23155536 w=400&h=225] F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.

  • Wandering Cricket Night Market

    Wandering Cricket Night Market

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    Last night I participated in an event called the Wandering Cricket Night Market. DigBOSTON put together an article explaining what it’s all about. “Here’s the basic Night Market idea: a time and place is selected by The Manager, who then alerts volunteer proprietors who plan to rent and trick out a mover’s truck for one night of revelry…

  • So this one night at MIT…lecture with Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects

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    So tonight when I leaving studio I had this internal dialogue about how my night would go. I hadn’t done a lot in studio and felt pretty burned out. Right before class had ended Semra, the visiting professor from Istanbul Technical University was saying her goodbyes for the weekend and had asked me if I…

  • ARCH 936 Exercise 2 Defining a Thesis: Crafting the Précis: The Visual Abstract

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    Matthew Zbawiony Professor MacPhail ARCH 936 Thesis Prep II 11 October 2011 Revised Abstract Our growing integration with and dependence on the virtual world in the 21st century calls into question the potential redundancy, obsolescence, and diminished nature of architecture’s social function. The emergence of Web 2.0 web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, collaboration,…

  • ARCH 926: Assignment 3b classroom discussion – Bits and pieces I’ll stitch in time

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    Let me try to remember this as best I can… ———————————— So at the end of Thesis Prep II I went down to the studio and talked to one of my classmates who told me, “Dude, you think too much”. Hearing him say that encouraged me to re-examine why I was drawn to topics I…

  • ARCH 926: Assignment 3b

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    [Will edit to reflect classroom discussion] Topic: Can architecture promote spontaneity and social interaction similar to the playfulness and imaginative exploration/fulfillment we experienced as children? Because this topic is fun and something I’ve been interested in since sophomore year of college. To help others understand that you don’t have Peter Pan syndrome if you want…