http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim [architecture.live] Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:28:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The final saga in the five-year architecture program at Cornell is an independent design thesis. For the majority of our undergraduate lives, this looms far in the future and is conceived vaguely as a ritual act performed by the most mature members of the architecture cult. Then, the moment arrives ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/21/thesis-looming/ The Cornell architecture students in New York recently discovered the Myers-Briggs personality test and have been consuming the descriptions of “personality type” like scientific fortune cookies. The classification system assesses an individual on the basis of four categories that, when combined, describe 16 unique personalities. We each took a brief ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/17/personality-test/ Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. Take a spin in Frank Lloyd Wright's famous museum! The Kandinsky exhibition will run through January 13th. http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/13/the-guggenheim/ I learned very early on that donations to homeless people do them little good. Throughout the United States, and especially in wealthy cities like New York, the handouts given by kind individuals to ease the suffering of the less fortunate do precisely the opposite. They offer an incentive for homeless ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/09/subway-blues/ Living in New York City gives you the impression of being at the center of the universe and, although Copernicus may have proven otherwise, many New Yorkers believe the world revolves around them. Culturally speaking, this conclusion is surprisingly difficult to refute. Here, the rich and famous walk ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/08/new-jersey-exists/ Italy may be known primarily for pizza and pasta, but its culinary expertise extends far beyond fine-grain foods.  Two summers ago, my friend Annie set out on a two-month mission to collect regional recipes with the flavors of Italy, but without the gluten.  The best of these have recently been published ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/03/gluten-free-cookbook/ Saturday morning, those of us studying history with Mary Woods wrestled ourselves out of bed and headed downtown to the Staten Island Ferry. On the other side -- after a free ride past Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty -- we climbed aboard a Park Service bus and headed ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/03/freshkills-park/ Rarely do I rub elbows with world-famous architects, but this Friday night I found myself chatting alongside Richard Meier at Cornell’s studio in Chelsea. As strange as it may seem, the encounter didn’t involve a lecture or design review. It involved cake. The evening festivities were organized to celebrate Richard Meier’s ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/02/richards-birthday/ Frida Kahlo & Wolverine: home-grown unibrow, hand-made claws. http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/11/01/halloween-2009/ This Tuesday I experienced the first MRI scan of my life at the Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center. The entire procedure and follow-up survey took less than two hours and I earned $70 in cold hard cash. This proves that selling one’s body to science is a much more lucrative pastime ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/tim/2009/10/22/the-m-r-i-experience/