October 10, 2009 at 2:03 am
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"The NY Times reports that architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder “have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as ‘visionary’ were planned but never built. The map is available as an interactive iPhone application…that uses GPS technology to detect when a user is near any of the roughly 50 notable sites, triggering a feature that allows the user to learn about the proposal through the architect’s foiled designs and words. ‘It’s a wall-less museum where the art isn’t even there,’ Mr. Snyder said. ‘The juxtaposition of what could be against what is’.”"
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"Today’s class in ENG 198, Introduction to the Missing Basics of Engineering (syllabus here), is covering engineering modeling in the lecture Engineering and Models: Hint – Real Engineers Use More than Just Equations."
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