For your final project in Professor Leonhardt’s Architectural Foundations class, you will be asked to design a space or series of spaces that will help travelers achieve rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation.
Continued…
Transit Spaces Design and Writing Project
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– November 25, 2009
New Unit: Digital Intimacies
Unit 4: Digital Intimacies
This unit explores the ways in which social networks have created new types of “ambient intimacies” that are now finding their way into architectural theories
Monday
READING
– Finish Urban Computing and Its Discontents
– Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”
– Penelope Green, “Yours for the Peeping”
WRITING
– post paragraphs on Urban Computing blog post
For Wednesday
Christopher Allen, “Intimacy Gradient and Other Lessons from Architecture”
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– November 18, 2009
Urban Computing and Its Discontents
Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard, Urban Computing and its Discontents (pdf)
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– November 16, 2009
Class Notes — Oct. 7
Five types of interactions you’ve had with people on a social networking site
Continued…
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– October 12, 2009
Deleuze’s “The Fold” Now Available
I’ve added the Deleuze reading to our Readings page. Please download and print it from there.
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– September 26, 2009
Oct. 9th Lecture on Human-Computer Interfaces for Energy Efficiency
Hi Everyone,
Please see below for an announcement of an upcoming lecture at City Tech that should be of interest to members of this class.
– Prof. Gold
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On Friday, October 9, 1 pm, in the Atrium Amphitheater, the Emerging Media Technologies initiative in the Entertainment Technology Department is presenting Joern Loviscach who will speak on Human-Computer Interfaces for Energy Efficiency.
Here is poster containing info about the event (PDF) and below is a longer abstract of the upcoming talk.
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– September 26, 2009
Summaries
Summarizing an Essay – working towards a one paragraph summary
Your summary paragraphs should follow the following form:
TOPIC: What is the subject of the essay?
One sentence summary of essay topic.
Format: In “[Title],” a [type of writing] published in [publication info + date], [author] discusses [topic].
THESIS: What is the author’s point of view on the topic?
One sentence summary of essay thesis.
Format: [Author’s last name] argues that [thesis].
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: how does the author support her thesis?
Include three or four supporting points in the essay and quote important phrases.
Additional Assignment (not part of the summary paragraph):
Come up with 4 or 5 key terms from essay. Use these to help you identify key concepts in the essay.
Journalism – types of writing
Article – extended story. Presumption of objectivity
Op-Ed – opinion piece by reader or public figure.
Editorial – opinion piece written by newspaper staff. Generally
unsigned. Expression of editor’s viewpoints
Review essay—review of a book or exhibition
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– September 14, 2009
