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...Harvard dating scene got you down? Then the April Speed Social/Mixer is the place for you. Get outside the Harvard dating bubble for some stress-free speed dating at Lounge Aria. 246 Tremont St., Boston. Friday, 8 p.m. Free Cambridge Science Festival Get outside and head over to MIT Museum to check out the Cambridge Science Festival. Tons of free activities and exhibits all day long including “Bioart” self-portraits, “The Secret Life of Nature,” and “Days of Our Half-Lives.” Thursday-Sunday...
...Maki’s projects now include Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary,” said Toshiko Mori, chair of the GSD’s department of architecture. She said Maki’s buildings in Tokyo provide...
When Ptolemy I founded the world’s first museum at Alexandria in 280 BC, he could have had no idea museums would one day be so prevalent—or so high tech. If only he could see the museums of today, complete with automatic temperature and lighting controls, computer catalogs—and, now, iPods?Yes, iPods. Alexandra M. Hays ’08-’09 is creating a podcast for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—a twenty-first century audio guide geared towards the student body. The project, funded by a grant...
...residents of Murad Khane. "I wouldn't see the point of teaching this stuff unless I thought that it could be a vibrant, living, income-generating project for Afghans," he says. "Because if it was just beautiful Afghan tradition, it may as well just sit in a museum...
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART OF ITALY? Because the Galleria Borghese is my favorite museum, I'd probably say I like Rome more than any other place. But Bologna is dazzling also. Plus those beautiful towns nearby: Modena, Ferrara and Parma...