"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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don’t worry mom this is a joke! (it’s not a joke)

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.

We define accidents as things that are unexpected or happen by chance- and at first glance, it seems like drawing with this instrument is full of them. When it only moves in one direction instead of diagonally along two axes at once, the lines pair up together, every other one spaced differently than how it is drawn in the computer, and the instrument is unaware of this miscalculation of space. Or, the lead breaks when the pencil is lowered along the z-axis, or it lightens as the tip is dulled over the course of a drawing - the instrument doesn’t realize these things either.

My architect friend works long days in the office drafting plans and elevations. They also play videogames avidly. At night they close Rhino & Autocad and open other drawing editors, still clicking, scrolling, rotating, zooming in modeled spaces. Let’s follow their set of deliverables.

I’m on hold with my bank right now - the MITFCU as it happens. The great thing about being on hold is that I’d rather do anything else, even catch up on some things I’ve been putting off.