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• Environment • Issue 008

  Awakening Cities

  Once known simply as “The Wall,” the Green Monster is Fenway Park’s legendary left field wall: one so tall, it’s wildly difficult to hit a ball over. Imagine you’re near Fenway Park, Lansdowne Street on a summer night. As you approach the gigantic steel structure that supports the Green Monster, you hear a rhythm emanating from its bays. Not from a concert within the stadium, but from the actual wall. Then, you see that wall light up, and realize there are people in those bays, drumming on the beams like they’re instruments.

  

• Community • Issue 006

  Moving Faster

  The process for creating prosthetic devices is painfully slow and based on out-dated technology. Digital tools and 3D printing can change everything; they certainly did for Paralympic cyclist, Denise Schindler.

  

• Environment, Workplace • Issue 006

  Compact Urban Living

  Living in Boston is great, if you can afford it. A new design methodology for housing might hold the key to both affordability and livability.

  

• Community • Issue 005

  From Pod to Place

  Todd Ferry guided students in the process of building a neighborhood of homes for some of Portland's houseless community.

  

• Environment • Issue 004

  Architecture in Revolution

  Why Cuba? After watching the documentary Unfinished Spaces, I fell in love with the idea of visiting Cuba. The film chronicles an arts-focused campus that Fidel Castro commissioned soon after his socialist regime gained control of the island, and then the campus’ ultimate demise. The documentary artfully weaves the design and construction of the art schools with the political climate of Fidel’s regime. The film was an inspiring starting point for my research.

  

• Education • Issue 001

  Where Design Meets Play

  “It’s a place that seems a bit wild and a little risky, a place where the unexpected can happen.”