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Being a Maker

May 5, 2014by Sarah Leave a comment

“Are you a maker?” inquired my new boss (edit: almost a year and a half ago now). I replied with a blank expression (an excellent first impression, I’m sure). She […]

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Design, Theory

Succeeding at Failing

March 9, 2014by Sarah Leave a comment

Well it’s been an interesting year. Unfortunately, very little of it appeared on this blog. As part of my commitment to write more in 2013, I took a plunge and […]

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Theory

Human Elemants

August 13, 2013by Sarah Leave a comment

In this post-(post?)industrial era, as in all eras, there is a culture and a counter-culture. And then there are hipsters, trying to out counter them all.  But setting aside the […]

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Design, Theory
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Perspective

January 19, 2013by Sarah 2 Comments

I’m more than half a year graduated from my 5 year college, and it’s only finally starting to really hit me that I’m done. This sounds silly even to me. […]

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Theory

Why being social makes people work better.

January 14, 2011by Sarah 2 Comments

It’s a fairly common belief that people are at their most efficient when locked into solitary confinement, alone and able to work without distraction.  I am coming to a growing […]

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Theory

I may rename this blog “things I steal from gizmodo”

December 30, 2010by Sarah Leave a comment

But if nothing else, this way I have a record of things I find cool and interesting.  And  my current favorite author who doesn’t write sci/fi (and I have very […]

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Graphic Design, Theory

This isn’t actually Venturi’s fault per se,

November 16, 2010by Sarah 1 Comment

but I’m blaming his stupid “building as a duck” theory for all of the modern ones anyways.  I don’t consider this creativity, I call it lazy people who don’t understand […]

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Architecture, Theory

Plans, glass and privacy

November 13, 2010by Sarah Leave a comment

This is the first of the responses I had to write for my seminar class this semester.  It is based off a reading by Colomina from the book “Privacy and […]

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Theory

“I’m having fun…”

November 10, 2010by Sarah Leave a comment

is one of my favorite lines from the game No One Lives Forever. The main character is a female spy in the 70s, who after being limited for ages to […]

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Architecture, Theory

The possible peril of air conditioning

October 11, 2010by Sarah 2 Comments

I think I’m becoming a historicist.  It worries me because it is such looked down on position to take in architecture these days.  Corb’s* legacy remains; depending on the past […]

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Architecture, Theory

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