I come from North Attleboro, MA, a town near the border of Rhode Island that doesn’t really have much to say for itself. It’s got a bowling alley, a few pizza places, and a good-sized mall. Route 1 is also close by, which has a whole chain of stores like Walmart and Stop and Shop, and is sometimes not the easiest place to navigate. Enter Boston. Navigating became seemingly impossible, and the first thing I did to orient myself was latch my view on to the Prudential building. Now, if I ever need directions anywhere, I ask people to first relate its location to that building. Architecture has framed the way I inhabit Boston by providing a guide point for my navigation, which, as you know, is a large part of living in a city. You gotta know where things are, what they’re locally referred to as, and how to get there.
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