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...Shanghai's architectural history-an East-West hybrid combining the modest sturdiness of a Chinese trading town with the showier Art Deco ambitions of the foreigners who began descending in the 19th century-is fast disappearing. Helping us remember this remarkable urban legacy before the last of the wrecking crews strikes is Canadian photographer Greg Girard, a longtime resident of China's largest metropolis, whose new book Phantom Shanghai was published last month. Many of the historic buildings that Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos...
Reading of “Nibbler” by Ken Urban Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...Europe compiling over 35 hours of footage. He has held numerous photography exhibitions and created a total of four documentary films on topics like a high school oenophile and a foam factory in Somerville, MA. Arts First will also screen two of his short fiction films that deal with urban life in America. There’s a simple motivation behind Collins’s impressive accomplishments: ceaseless curiosity and creative outpouring. “I’m very inspired by what I see around me,” he says. Then again, Collins has done more seeing...
...year-old academy are Fikes Professor of Pediatrics Nancy C. Andrews, Coolidge Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87, Bernbaum Professor of English Literature Leo Damrosch, Professor of Astronomy Lars E. Hernquist, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, University Art Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz, Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Geophysics Richard J. O’Connell, Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History E. Roger Owen, and Professor of Psychology James H. Sidanius...
...their environment. “Students are often very out of touch with the land,” she says in the video, which includes interviews with faculty and students, as well as a vocal tribute to the project. “And building a farm in an urban community could be a model for other schools to potentially follow.” And according to the members of the Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment interviewed in the video, a sustainable farm will prepare students for the future of agriculture...