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Spring Break: Quito!
This week was MIT’s spring break. For myself and the rest of my classmates in the Media Lab’s “Quito Innovation Hubs” course, however, there would be no catching up on House of Cards or sleeping until...
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It’s Always Sunny in New Haven, Connecticut
A few weeks ago, Core 2 studio ventured across New England to sunny New Haven, Connecticut. It’s tempting to say the best part of the day was a huge pizza feast at Bar (rumor has it New Haven pizza...
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DUMBO: Down Under the (windy, cold, noisy, wet) Manhattan Bridge Overpass
New Year. New City. New Commute. New York. My IAP internship has brought me to New York City for a month long stint at nARCHITECTS. Their office is, as you guessed, in DUMBO, a neighborhood that not...
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IAP in Fiji
This January, I’ve left the gloomy winter weather of Boston behind to travel to the South Pacific. My first 1.5 weeks have been in Suva, Fiji’s capital (population 75,000) working on climate change...
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n-TERN
nTERN: 4 weeks at nARCHITECTS MIT’s January Independent Activities Period (IAP) has come and gone but the memories from a month interning at nARCHITECTS will last forever. Namjoo and me with Mimi and...
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Guest Post: Inside the Walls of Fez
Lina Kara’in (BSA 2015) writes for ArchKiosk on her trip to Fez, Morocco with Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Fall 2014 undergraduate studio, Platforms of Exchange in the Medina of Fez. – AK — The medina of...
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Guest Post: Qalandiya International Art Biennial
Nisa Ari, a PhD student in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture program, writes on her research trip to the Qalandiya International Art Biennial. – AK — Last October, I had the...
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TUVALU: January on a sinking island
In addition to spending three lovely weeks working with the UNDP in Fiji this IAP, I also traveled to Tuvalu for one week to conduct research on my thesis, tentatively titled “Post-Island Futures.” The...
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Notes from Mexico City
Gabriel Kozlowski, a SMArchS thesis student in the Urbanism program, travelled to Mexico City over MIT’s Independent Activity Period (IAP) this January. He writes about his travels from the centers to...
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Accelerated Urbanism Studio: Spring Break in India
Last week my studio travelled to India to explore steel urbanism in the state of Orissa, and visit our site, the planned steel city of Kalinganagar. It was a full week of steel factories, helicopter...
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Bogotá-Santiago-São Paolo-Mexico City-Barcelona
Five advanced studios have the great privilege to travel and visit studio sites during Spring Break. Students are currently in Bogotá, Santiago and the Atacama desert, São Paolo, Mexico City, and...
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