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In my sketch, I aimed to draw an accurate representation of the heart of Harvard square, slightly off center from the main T stop, so that I could include the Yard in greater proportion. Overlaid on top of the physical layout of the buildings,…

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The general layout of the map I drew is very similar to the official university map, with buildings appropriately located relative to each other. The level of detail for different areas are very apparent though. The areas with the greatest detail…

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My journey began, as prescribed, at the entrance of Copley Place Mall on the corner of Dartmouth and Stuart streets. I found the two horse statues at the entrance to the Copley Place to be an interesting symbol. Almost as if they were regal gate…

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Sketching Harvard and the surrounding area from memory took a number of attemps. The most challenging things was definitely the scale. I initially started by first sketching the river houses and put some time into getting their details and relative…

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In Copley, the glass and brick create a distinct industrial or commercial atmosphere. The large glass panes that let you look inside the building. It helps that “Neiman Marcus” also boasts a giant sign indicating that the department store lies…

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In completing the assignment, it’s obvious that the areas with which we are most familiar come to us easier and larger than others. As a person that both lives in the Quad and completed the majority of studies in the engineering school, my map shows…

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When thinking about my sketch, I started with Harvard Yard because that seemed like the center of campus to me. As I was drawing, I realized that I tended to group certain things together. For instance, I grouped all of the parallel streets between…

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First, the indoor shopping malls, Prudential and Copley Place: these malls, while indoors, attempt to achieve a sense of the outside. In the Prudential, most of the ceilings are made of glass, and in Copley, in the main courtyard there is a water…

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I drew the part of Harvard Yard that I frequented most as a Freshman. Immediately, I realized that for having walked through this area so many times, I struggled to remember the names of certain buildings, but just remembered their general shape. I…
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