As we enter our last year, we are synthesizing our learnings on the interrelated topics of energy use, material resources, and environmental design.

If we broaden our historical lens and view multiple decades as a singular historical moment, the Jacquard loom has indeed become one of the most influential inventions in our modern history. This week, we will look at how a piece of weaving equipment directly inspired the first computer, changing the way humans navigate through the world.

Continuing to draw without lifting the pencil between strokes, it is exciting to see where the Tiny-Z goes first - the initial mark across the paper feels confident, not hesitant like the way it felt before when the pencil moved to just the right spot, then finally plunged onto the page. This movement builds momentum, the patterns that follow feel like I had nothing to do with them. The images here are another series of comparative drawings, which use at least one shared layer between the two drawings. By layering patterns and seeing hatches turning into paths, we test registration and mixing lines from a more extensive library into nearly infinite combinations.

"In neighborhoods where mostly single people live, the tea comes in bags. Beşiktaş is a special case: There, they drink coffee instead.”

Traditionally known as the paper collectors (kağıt toplayıcıları) among other names, the informal recycling workers of Turkey walk four to twenty kilometers a day, pulling their heavy loaded cart to earn their bread out of trash. They form a patchy network, often invisible by circumstance and by design.

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The excitement of the nearing mid-autumn festival thrums streets away from the Boylston T Stop. As one moves west from Boston Commons, there is a sense that another world is nearby. The buildings huddle closer to each other, and crouch shorter to open up their front windows. Tables emerge on sidewalks, ushering passerby through a maze of bright red banners and stringing lanterns that guides one to the gate of Boston’s famed Chinatown.

An introduction to the world of ambiguity. This questionnaire is one of many that serve as evidence that the undefined, unfamiliar, and underrepresented need room to expand beyond confinement.

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Textiles, materials that surround our everyday lives but are seemingly overlooked. The innovations behind this industry have had profound effects on our world today.

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Displayed side-by-side, these drawings compare lines drawn in CAD and the path taken by the Tiny-Z. The left side drawings are the more faithful executions of drawings I made in CAD. On the other hand, in the drawings on the right side of each pair, the Tiny-Z did not lift its pencil in between strokes, mapping its movement rather than drawing an image. Viewed side-by-side, these drawings show the machine transforming the hatches and grids on the left into something very different. By not lifting the pencil, the machine turns a series of discrete lines into a continuous pattern- rendering the lines lively, nearly textile.

Nothing exposes you more quickly to another culture as stepping into an ethnic grocery market. From Vietnamese to Ethiopian to Colombian supermarkets, these stores scattered throughout Boston offer such a variety of food products most Boston residents would never see otherwise.

I wake up at 6:09 AM, the 369th of 1440 moments into which we’ve broken the periodicity of darkness and light.

Learned about how Swift, an iPhone application coding language, and started the cooking machine app development.

The two-sidedness of communication was the most rewarding part of drawing with the Tiny-Z. Figuring out how it alters or interprets inputs (in the form of accidents or errors) is another thing that can act as a metaphor beyond this drawing experiment, where physicality and materiality meets planning. Lines interpreted by machine and drawn on a page are not so different than plans read by builders and constructed.

I lived in 6 different NYC neighborhoods in 3 months. This is a review of the branded and unbranded experiences from the neighborhood sampler.

Students who have been admitted through portfolio agencies, students who have not used portfolio agencies, portfolio tutors who teach at portfolio agencies, owners of portfolio agencies, and professors in the architecture schools are all invited to talk about their opinions on this issue.