Category: ARCH 936
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Wandering Cricket Night Market
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…
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ARCH 936 Exercise 2 Defining a Thesis: Crafting the Précis: The Visual Abstract
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,…
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Thesis Prep II: Collages 2nd set
To recap, my earliest explorations in Thesis Prep I and II dealt with sustainability, globalization, and China. Upon investigation it appears that my interest in these topics is based upon the concern for how future environmental pressures may affect the way we live moving forward in the 21st century. Focusing even more suggested that I…
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Thesis Prep II: Collages 1st set
When the assignment was first distributed I intended to analytically explore density and sustainability, two topics related to interests I have had for the past few years. I could not find any images to illustrate the subcategories I organize these topics into, and got away from the point of the exploration which was investigating why…