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With this drawing, I was interested in how students move throughout an urban system of which their university is a part. I tried to depict from personal experience and observation of others, how students tend to interact with public vs. private…

For my first drawing of the Copley Mall area, I was interested in the boundaries of public and retail space. The main feature that has stood out to me from my trip to that area has been the bridges connecting different buildings. I thought it was…

As a senior, I expected this sketchbook assignment to be relatively straightforward: a mapping of an area I feel relatively comfortable with. However, this sketchbook assignment really tested my knowledge of the Harvard Square area and helped me…

As spaces designed to promote commercial activities, the Prudential Center/Copley Place and Newbury Street serve an identical, core purpose to this area of downtown Boston. However, upon examination and observation of the two spaces, it became clear…

After understanding that the objective is to attempt to make an argument about the space of study, I really focused on elements regarding the way people behave and interact in these locations. For Copley Place I immediately noticed that it is low…

In making my sketch, I started with the Quad, which, while far from the mind’s eye of many, is central to my understanding of Harvard as it is my home, and drew everything in relation to it. Something interesting I found while making my drawing is…

At all three of these commercial spaces, you can see people walking, talking, sipping drinks, sitting on benches, and browsing their phones. The Copley Place and Prudential Center malls, being indoors, both produce a feeling of “entering” as you step…

This assignment turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated. I started by sketching the yard, but quickly found the both the river and the Quad were too far away for me to accurately render. Eventually I figured that drawing the map…

We entered the mall through the Dartmouth and Stuart Street entrance, where there is a set of revolving doors. (Every outside entrance/exit to the mall had a set of revolving doors, as did one side of each pedestrian sky bridge. I suppose this is to…