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I sought to recreate my culinary experience in the Harvard Square area in this map. The eateries are colour coded with green being my strongest recommendation and red being my weakest, while orange is in between. I noticed that I often clustered the…

Although I’m biased, after comparing my map to a Google Maps image of the area, I would say my illustration was decently accurate. I have accounted relatively well for the positions of Harvard Yard relative to the law school, as well as the…

After visiting both the Prudential Center and Newbury Street, a strong irony in their respective designs stood out to me, and it manifested in particular in degrees of naturalness and of symmetry/uniformity in the designs. The irony was that the…

For this sketch exercise I mapped out a very small part of campus that is mostly centered around the portion of Cambridge where I find myself walking often when not in class. This is the region where JFK Street meets Memorial Drive near the Charles…

The Prudential Center: Spatial Consumerism

I must admit that I was struck by how similar everything was in the Prudential Center/Copley Place. I understand that shopping malls are meant to be a cohesive conglomerate of boutiques, but, when…

I sketched a few routes that I’ve recently walked, along with landmark buildings that come to mind when I think about neighboring areas. My path is in red, landmarks are blue, and I made the sketch on top of a horizontal black grid to organize my…

Attempting to reproduce a map of campus from memory, I realized that my knowledge was very limited to a small triangle bounded roughly by Dunster, the Yard, and the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn. My ability to map anything on the "other" side of…

I was interested both in how this space in the mall complex seemed to function as a segue between the two malls and in how it delineated public vs. non-public spaces. In regards to the first point, I noticed that the two malls had very different…