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Everyone has their favorite go-to word. It appears tliat Michael Arad's ARCHITECTS' is "enormity." ARCHITECTURAL Arad was just another struggling, unrecognized assistant architect working for the New York ( Jty Housing Authority until his memorial LIFE-FORMS design Reflecting Absence was chosen by the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition juiT on January 6"'. The final design, the result 03 EAVESDROP of Arad's LMDC-sponsored collaboration with California land.scape 07 AT DEADLINE architect Peter Walker and negotiations with Daniel Libeskind, was 12 DIARY unveiled in a press conference January 14'\ 16 INSIDE STORY On the single board he submitted to the jury last summer, Arad called for placing two reflecting pools in the tower footprints, thirty feet below grade, leaving the rest of the site cleared to draw attention to the void. More than any of the other seven finalists, Arad ignored master ARCHITECTURE SUMMER planner Daniel Libeskind s emphasis on the pit and the slurry wall, PROGRAMS:USEFUL OR USELESS? caUing rather for a flat field with walkways down into die twin voids and back out, a long memorial walk that emphasized, he said,"the enormity of the destruction." Challenging Libeskind's design, Arad proposed, in the words of SUMMER the recently leaked text from his original submission,"an alternative view of how the site can be integrated into the fabric of the city," bring• ing the memorial back up to street grade. When asked how he felt about the initial proposal and final choice of a design that disregards SWEAT his vision, Libeskind said that he found the memorial to be a "simple, clear statement" that was in line with, if not the exact master plan, Architecture schools nationwide began his spatial "matrix." accepting applications to summer programs The second version of the design, edited by the LMDC and beefed again this lanuary, reigniting the debate up with the aid of $1.30,000 they provided, was continued on page 2 over the programs' value among leading architecture educators. In the pa.st few ° Arad, Walker, and Libeskind's WTC spatial matrix. years, demand for architecture summer programs at Columbia, Cornell, Parsons, and Pratt, the four major architecture schools in New York that offer summer sessions for non-degree candidates, has ri.sen steadily, according to program admin• istrators. With rolling admissions policies, prograins have been filling up before dead• line and turning away qualified candidates even as some expand. New York schools have been offering summer architecture programs for high school, college, and graduate students with a wide range of educational backgroimds FEASIBILITY OF QUEENS MUSEUM DESIGN UNDER REVIEW In 2002 the city of New York, in an attempt to since the early 1970s. Marching under upgrade the status of public architecture in the banner of opportunity, these month- Moss Still Growing In Queens the city, sponsored an international competi• long intensive courses—Introduction to tion to select a design for the expansion of the Architecture (lA) at Columbia University, Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadow Summer College(SC) at Cornell University, Park. The competition was organized by Summer Intensive Studies (SIS) at Parsons former Princeton Dean Ralph Lerner and the School of Design, and summer architecture high-profile jury included Peter Eisenman, seminars at Pratt Institute—have few, if Merrill Elam, Ben Van Berkel, Susan Chin any, admissions requirements, accepting from the Department of Cultural Affairs, and students on a first-come-first-serve basis. Anne Papageorge from the Department of The programs claim to offer unprecedented Design and Construction. breaks for underqualified or indecisive bud• Out of nearly 200 entries, the committee ding architects by permitting just under selected a design by Eric Owen Moss 400 students each year to try architecture Architects of California, continued on page 2 at top schools before continued on page 4 CO (\J 3 O LU

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MOSS STILL GROWING IN QUEENS PUBLISHER The dead of winter might seem a strange time to be publishing an Diana Darling continued from front page Tal

CONTRIBUTORS experiences with students. Now, studios and classrooms are mostly undoubtedly nervous that his design will PHILIP BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ about mastering new technological tools. be compromised during the usual round MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / of modifications and changes. But there JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/ The gap between what goes on in the classroom and what goes is reason for hope. The current Museum JAMES PETO/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ on in the workplace has been a persistent dilemma in architectural KESTER RATTENBURY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ Director Tom Finkelpearl applied for his ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER education. Thomas Hanrahran, dean of the School of Architecture position on the basis of his enthusiasm at Pratt Institute, thinks this rift is especially pronounced in New for the Moss design. Let's hope for the best in Queens, WILLIAM MENKING EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD York, due to the fact that the city's most active architects lack sub• PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ stantial relationships with local schools. For them, contact with WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ Eric Owen Moss Architects' expansion of SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ schools is limited to occasional jury appearances or accreditation the Queens Museunn of Art's opens to the LISA NAFTOLIN/HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ visits. For the many practitioners who do indeed teach, those who surrounding park. KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN are actually building often breeze in and out of their classes, and are relatively inaccessible to students. A walk through the haUs of most GENERAL INFORMATION: INF0(3iARCHPAPER.C0M EDITORIAL: EDITORfJ'ARCHPAPER.COM architecture schools reveals that the teacliing load is increasingly ADVERTISING: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION: SUBSCRIBE@ARCHPAPERCOM shouldered by young architects with limited building experience. Just as schools need more professional involvement, schools must prove the validity of their approaches in order to gain the THE VIEWS OF OUR REVIEWERS AND COLUMNISTS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE STAFF OR ADVISORS OF THE AHCHlTECT-5 NEWSPAPER. profession's interest and willingness to test the ideas that their stu• dents are so eagerly developing. In New York, schools tend to have VOLUME 02 ISSUE 02, FEBRUARY 3, 200-1 THE ARCHITECrS NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAR, BY THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, LLC, P.O. BOX 937, NEW YORK. NY 10013, more pedagogical debates internally or with institutional rivals PRESORT-STANDARD POSTAGE PAID IN HEW YORK. NY. POSTMASTER; SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: THE ARCHITECrS NEWSPAPER, CIRCULATION than they do with potential employers and clients. But research DEPARTMENT. P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK. HY 10013. FOR SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: CALL Z12-9A6-0630, FAX Z1Z-9M-0633. S3.9S A COPY. S39,00 ONE YEAR. INTERNATIONAL $149.00 ONE YEAR. INSTITUTIONAL and projects that lack engagement with the real world help neither SI75.00 ONE YEAR, ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE ARCHITECrS NEWSPAPER, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED students nor the profession, WILLIAM MENKING AND CATHY LANG HO [email protected]

REFLECTING ABSENCE UNVEILED continued awkward Arad managed to remain calm was working on a proposal for the biggest from front page released in November. Thi.s throughout his presentation, which at times memorial competition ever—Arad won prc)pt)sal moved Libeskind's cultural center resembled a first-year studio review. He out over 5,200 others—an associate at off site and emphasized the stone parapets pointed out the featiu-es of the memorial NYCHA says that he's happy for Arad, a surrounding the voids, the names of the vic• in a manner reminiscent of David Childs" "smart, enthusiastic, hardworking, dedi• tims inscribed Maya Lin-style, underscoring straightforward explanation of Freedom cated, and talented" man. A collaborator the scope of the tragedy with, Arad wrote, Tower's design in December, but without of Arad's, former dbox animator Eric the "enormity of the space." CJiild.s' poli.sh. While acknowledging his own Schuldenfrei—who prepared the graphics The final design—the result of a jury- inability to comprehend the families' loss, for the memorial and the SOM/Libe.skind steered collaboration with Walker—evolved Arad professed hope that his design might "reconciliation plan" (the LMDC'sterm to include low shrubs, paved walkways, and satisfy everyone, from civilians' children to for the Freedom Tower revision)—spoke "teeming groves of trees." Walker explained heroes' wives. highly of Arad, saying that he is "extremely the lack of open ground by pointing out at When the competition was announced, capable" of the task facing him. the unveiling at Federal Hall that this is to be Arad was working for the New York City Now that Arad has joined the cast of a space for "contemplation and reflection," Housing Authority as an assistant architect the Lower Manhattan redevelopment not"Fri.sbee-throwing." In the press release on the only project he ever did for them— process, it remains to be seen what is in announcing his .selection Arad spoke about initial feasibility studies involving the mass• store. If the short but tumultuous history "the enormity of the task" presented to him; ing, site, and fa(;ade considerations for the of Ground Zero is anything to go by, it is holding fast to his favorite word even as his design of a police station. Arad's wife became likely that his design will be pushed and baptism by redevelopment process fire began. pregnant, a fortuitous coincidence because pulled, tweaked and re-tweaked, eventually NYCH A's excellent maternity leave policies— playing into the hands of those whose Not used to being on stage, the tall, slightly "you're pregnant, your wife's pregnant, commercial interests are at the real heart your dog's pregnant, you get four to eight of this spectacle. It's still possible that 5 In Michael Arad's memorial design, the months"—allowed Arad time off from work someone may come along and do to ^ original towers are occupied by reflecting to complete his proposal. Michael what Michael just did to Daniel. g pools. Below the pools he has included spaces S for guiet contemplation. While no one in the office knew that he EVA HAGBERG CO ro 3 o LU

1X1 A PRITZKER PRIZE-WORTHY SNUB :i: When a Pritzker Prize winner shows up, the least you could do is say Hi. That, o at least, was what some were thinking at a recent two-hour talk given by Kevin Roche at the AIA New York Chapter's Center for Architecture. There to discuss his design for the new Museum of Jewish Heritage, the 81-year-old Pritzker < recipient arrived from his Connecticut office a full hour and a half early. However, • • we hear chapter executive director Rick Bell hardly acknowledged Roche, despite being spotted in the building during much of the nearly four-hour visit. O "I was astounded and flabbergasted that no one [including Bell] came down to greet Kevin," says a well-placed attendee, who-wildly or not-speculates the snub has something to do with Bell's rumored support of Richard Meier in the LU Pritzker winner-only race to design a new building for the United Nations > (Roche is also one of four contenders). Roche's rep declined comment, while < LU Bell did not return repeated calls. STOREFRONT WARMS UP, CHILLS OUT Almost twenty years after it opened its sliver of a Kenmare Street space-with its funky but drafty and uninsulated 1993 facade by Steven Holl and Vito STEVEN HOLE'S FIRST NEW YORK BUILDING STILL ON TRACK Acconci-the notoriously frigid Storefront for Art and Architecture has finally Pratt Institute's School of Architecture was to rebuild the building's vacant center and entered the climate-controlled era. Donated services and materials recently gave housed for many years in a 19"'-century Steven Holl was selected as principle the downtown institution a central heating system, and we're told air condition• former prep school a block from its main designer. Holl collaborated with Rogers ing is also on its way campus in Brooklyn. In 1996 the building Marvel Architects which redesigned and caught fire and, while the two wings of the renovated the building's wings. 'MKOOLTOO! H-shaped structure were salvageable, its The institute is still seeking a major donor five-story center was destroyed. for the project but is committed to rebuild• One of the more curious collaborations recently has been between nonagenarian Preservationists were distraught at the ing the school using Holl's design, which Philip Johnson and nightlifer Steve Lewis on the design of the super-trendy new destruction of the historic building, but was applauded by both preservationists Marguee club, which features a slick facade, central stair and glass wall designed Pratt's architecture faculty joked that with and the school's modernist-leaning faculty. by Johnson and Alan Ritchie's firm. How did this happen? Apparently, Johnson's the fire insurance settlement they would at Construction of the building—Holl's first still got some competitive yen in him, and it's been brought out by (relative) least get a new facility. In fact, the insurance in New York City—is set to begin in March young'uns like Rem Koolhaas. "[Johnson] was asking why Koolhaas is consid• money was nearly enough to renovate the and the institute has just selected F. J. ered for trendy and hip projects like Prada," says someone close to the project, remaining wings and the school was able Sciame Construction Company as project "and why someone [like himself] who's designed the world we live in wouldn't be to reoccupy the building. manager. The institute expects classes to a hip and trendy guy." Before long, those familiar with Johnson's yearnings intro• In 1999 the institute held a competition begin in the building in fall 2005. WM duced him to the Marguee's owners, and so began his induction into clubland.

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Santiago Calatrava unveiled his wing-like design for the permanent World Trade Center PATH station at the Winter Garden on January 22nd. A soaring structure that incorporates Libeskind's "wedge of light," the ribbed glass ground-level structure will bring light through the terminal to platforms 60-feet below. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's response? "Wow." EH

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SUMMER SWEAT continued from front page summer programs." Ranalli added that City attempting application to degree programs. College does not conduct a summer program SUMMER STUDY Cooper Union also conducts a summer pro• due to a perceived low demand among its gram which includes thi cc-dimensional draw• students. Bernard Tschumi, former dean of Date Faculty ing classes geared toward aspiring young Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, School Summer Program Tuition Enrollment Founded Employed Location architects. New York summer programs draw Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). dis• students from around the world and compete agreed, claiming, "Summer programs help Columbia Intro, to Architecture $1,980 100 1991 10 New York, NY with similar programs across the nation, includ- people to decide, relatively quickly and cheaply, Cornell Summer College $4,560 70 1972 Ithaca, NY uig Harvard University's Career Discovery (CD), whether architecture is right for them." At 3 the largest of the programs. Summer programs $ 1,980, Columbia's five-week summer session Harvard Career Discovery $2,225 320 1972 (•t Cambridge, MA are four to six weeks long and cost between is by far the cheapest credit-bearing program. $2,000 to $5,000. Danielle SmoUer of the GSAPP added, Parsons Summer Intensive Studies $2,130 140 1991 15 New York, NY Summer programs have long been marketed "Applying to grad schools is more competitive as ways for inexperienced students to build than ever and education costs are rising so Pratt Summer Seminars $5,640" 60 1989 3 New York, NY portfolios, and thus gain entry to undergradu• summer programs look more and more like •Tuition for undergraduate seminar Including two courses-one studio and one lecture ate or graduate degree programs. Completion a great investment." Columbia does not offer of a summer program is indeed correlated with financial aid, though Pratt and Cornell do, makiny reputation by pulling the program produced by students at summer programs. higii acceptance rates. Abby Eller, director of and Parsons has a work-study program. closer to the School of Architecture." During He said, "For inexperienced students, the SC, calculated that around 10% of undergrad• Summer programs have proved to be valu• Wheelwright s tenure, the architecture .school compressed time is just not enough. The work uate architecture students completed Q)rneirs able assets for schools as well, paying for them• at Parsons has taken control of teacher hiring that I've seen coming out of these summer summer school; Peter Wheelwright, chair of selves and more. Though administrators for the summer program and has moved the programs is not very good." But Wheelwright Parson's Department of Architecture, Interior would not comment on the net profits of the program into its classrooms. Wheelwright claimed that Ranalli had missed the point, Design, and Lighting, estimated tliat up to 12% programs, income from tuition ranged from claimed thai "pride" was the motivating factor "It all depends on the level of expectation." of the graduate architecture class attended SIS; around $200,000 to $700,000. Summer pro• for the move—he did not want any connect• Tschumi agreed,"A summer program is a and Sophia Emperador, Coordinator of CD, grams at Columbia and Parsons also provide ed programs sullying Parsons s reputation. place to make a first contact with architecture." said that 25% of graduate students at Harvard's summer employment for 10 to 15 faculty Ranalli worried about the quality of work DEBORAH GROSSBERG Graduate School of Design had gone to CD. members, but competing programs like Columbia declined to give an estimate, but Harvard's CD hire mostly young architects, administrators from all tour schools conceded graduate students, and recent grads from other thai summer programs function as recruiting institutions. Some programs additionally tools for architecture degree programs. serve as pedagogical testing grounds, allowing NEW NEW I STUDENTS STRAP ON Although summer programs can be useful departments to experiment with curriculum for students with a summer to spare, George and assess young teachers. YORK MAS THEIR TOOL BELTS Ranalli.dean of the Department of Architedure The increasing value and popularity of at City College, the only public architecture summer programs has caused some architec• New York will be inundated with The number of design/build with Take the Field, a non• school in New York City, argued, "Many stu• ture schools to take greater interest in the .state a flood of new degree-granting programs in the country profit organization created dents feel too much pressure to gain work of their summer programs. Wheelwright said, design programs in 2004. In is limited, and New York in 2000 by Richard Kahan experience and earn money during the sum• "In recent years I have tried to rid the summer September, City College and boasts only one: the Design to rebuild neglected public mer months, making them unable to afford program (at Parsons] of its lightweight, money- Pratt Institute will introduce new Workshop at Parsons school athletic facilities, degrees in architecture, land• School of Design. An eight- designed and built a proto• scape architecture, and historic month session for 12 sec• type field house for the preservation, and Parsons ond-year graduate students Grand Street Campus High THE School of Design will replace its in architecture, the Design Schools in Williamsburg, one-year M.A. in lighting with Workshop—unlike other Brooklyn. 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AS BRUCE RATNER BUYS THE NJ NETS, HE GETS ONE STEP CLOSER TO BUILDING A GEHRY-DESIGNED ARENA ARAN AN ARENA GROWS SOCIETY IN BROOKLYN TECHNOLOGY CITY ANNOUNCES INCENTIVES FOR INVESTMENT With Bruce Ratner s purchase of the New jersey Nets for $300 mil• lion, his development company, Forest City Ratner, is taking a first & TRADITION IN step towards bulding Frank Gehry-designed arena, office, and MAYOR'S HOUSING residential complex in the adjoining Park Slope/Fort Greene area CONTEMPORARY of Brooklyn. While The New York Times reported that even with the INITIATIVES Nets purchase, "There is no guarantee that Mr. Ratner will be able to JAPANESE fuinil his vision in Brooklyn," the purcha.se is a major victory for the developer, who is determined to move the team from New Jersey. In December 2002 Mayor Development Corporation, ARCHITECTORE Bloomberg announced a $3 and ETB Joint Venture (which in I )ccfmlx'r R.itncr unveiled (khry's plan, which was mostly billion plan to build 27,000 new includes Beth Cooper unfinished, save for a very defined public plaza and a 20,000-seat A SYMPOSIUM homes and renovate 38,000 Lawrence Architect, PC), to arena structure, with rough blocks representing the adjacent mixed- AT JAPAN SOCIETY more by 2008. Two weeks ago create approximately 1,500 use office and residential towers. Ratner, who first established a rela• the New York City Department apartments in Harlem, tionship with Gehry through Forest City's competition to design The 333 EAST 47TH STREET of Housing Preservation and Brooklyn, and the Bronx. New York Times headquarters in 2000, has had the architect working NEW YORK NY 10017 Development (HPD) released Construction is expected to under wraps for the last several months. The design was unveiled a progress report entitled begin over the next two years before conplclion in December to coincide with the bid process for FEBRUARY 20-28,2004 New Housing Marketplace: and will cost $361 million. The the Nets, which began in November and ended this pa.st January. Creating Housing for the Next projects, part of the HDC's Intent on bringing basketball to Brooklyn, Ratner .said at the December Generation, which stated Cornerstone Initiative to press conference, as he pounded his fist on the podium, "We are Participants include: that "10,197 [housing] units develop vacant city-owned going to get the Nets to Brooklyn." Ratner, who raised his bid from are already in the develop• lots, are funded through $275 million to $300 million for the Nets over ChrLstmas, defeated ment pipeline with 8,549 and private sources and a variety the team of developer Charles Kushner and Senator Jon Corzine, Fumihiko Maki 13,250 units projected in the of HDC programs, including who offered $268 million in cash or $200 million in cash with $100 second and third years." New Housing Opportunities million over several years. Shigeru Ban Program (New HOP), Tax To finance these plans the Ratner's arena plan is adjacent to Forest City's exi.sting Atlantic Exempt 80/20 Program, and New York City Housing Center shopping complex and the soon-to-be-finished Atlantic Jun Aoki Low-Income Affordable Development Corporation Terminal (anchored by an office building, a Target store, and hubs for Marketplace Program (LAMP). (HDC) is leveraging $500 mil• the 2,3,4,5, Q, and W subway lines). The six-block plan, as it is cur• Richard Gluckman lion of its assets for construc• The mayor inaugurated rently conceived, will cover below-street-level rail yards of the LIRR, tion and rehabilitation of New Ventures Incentive and will require moving some railroad tracks and demolishing two Hitoshi Abe 17,000 units. HPD is redirect• Program (New VIP) on residential and commercial blocks not owned by the developer. ing nearly $555 million from January 13,2004 to promote The displacement of existing residents, which ivatncr estimates at Shuhei Endo maintenance of existing hous• private investment in 10,000 100 and the residents estimate at closer to 1,000, has been a contro• ing to constructing approxi• of the housing units. The pro• versial issue. Among the buildings to be demolished are several Takaharu Tezuka mately 8,000 new units in gram assists in pre-develop- recently completed loft conversions and a co-op loft that houses the targeted neighborhood ment costs associated with studio of artist Louise Bourgeois. Potentially displaced resideiii Terunobu Fujimori renewal. Two billion dollars "property acquisition, environ• Karla Rothstein said, "We're not opposed to a basketball .stadium, came from HPD through the mental review/remediation, we just don't want it on our homes." Rothstein, an architecture pro- Kenneth Frampton city's housing capital and and site clearance," which are fes.sor at Columbia and a principal at SR+T Architects, .said the city expense budgets for creating the most frequent obstructions would be using the right of eminent domain to evict residents for a Paola Antonelli and preserving about 40,000 to brownfield clean-up, devel• private .speculative venture, which would be a conflict of interest units. Additionally, HPD and opment, and reuse. Rezoning Forest City Ratner has been a major investor in rejuvenating John Jay HDC launched new and mod• waterfronts and underutilized downtown Brooklyn in the past several years, having developed the ified existing fiscal, legislative, manufacturing areas for mixed $ I billion MetroTech Center. However, the cheaply constructed, and administrative programs residential and commercial suburban-.style Atlantic Center, which opened in 1996, is widely to facilitate public investments, use is planned to attract more regarded—even by the developer himself—as architecturally dismal, For information relax density restrictions, and private construction. and has had recent occupancy issues, losing Macy's and gaining the provide subsidies to develop• Department of Motor Vehicles as a tenant. Though out of scale and and tickets visit ers who make 20 percent The Bluestone Organization visually out of sync with the Atlantic Center, Ratner's Atlantic Terminal of new homes affordable is now building the Rheingold japansociety.org transit hub and .shopping center has been eagerly anticipated. housing. Gardens project in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with 249 housing All of these developments are a stone's throw away from the or call 212-752-3015 The Cooper Square Urban units developed through the Brooklyn Academy of Music and an Enrique Norten-designed visual Renewal Area development in city's Partnership New Homes and performing arts center slated to be finished in 2007. Ratner's Manhattan's Lower East Side Program and the New York office declined to comment lor this article. ANDREW YANG is utilizing these programs. State Housing Trust Fund. Gehry's preliminary design for ttie new Nets stadium in Brooklyn. Chrystie Ventures LLC is The city previously owned developing the proposed the Rheingold site and could Symposium sponsors: four-building complex to pro• assume the costs of environ• vide 712 rental units, with 178 mental testing and mitigation reserved for low-income hous• to encourage private investors ing. Avalon Chrystie Place, to step in. ARCHITECTURAL RECORD the first of the four, designed According to HPD, the best by Arquitectonica, is currently way for architects to get under construction for $150 involved in these programs million and will provide 361 is to partner with a developer. oiToegmi rental apartments. Although HPD does not hire OBAYASHI In November HPD entered architects it does pre-screen ©HermanMlller KPF negotiations with thirteen them for many of its rehabili• developers, including Artimus tation programs. TOSHIBA IfSITEnrSIATIOIMAL f=OUtMDATION Construction, Abyssinian JAMES WAY CO ^0 3 O LU

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Plinth-wall-floor buildings, the wall and onto the floor plane above, and so on. It is as if a drawn building section has been simply extruded using a CAD program from a two-dimensional plane into a three-dimensional form, weaving its way up and around to become structure and enclosure. S buildings seem stylistically appealing to architects because they are automatically diagrammatic and serve an explanatory function, visually clarifying the material and spatial elements that produce architecture. In many cases, the ribbonlike form becomes imbedded within a set of traditional programmatic needs, blurring the boundaries of structure,enclosure, function,and program. Rem Koolhaas's 1997 Educatorium is an early example, as is MVRDV s 1997 office building. Villa VPRO, both in the Netherlands. The 2001 competition for the design of Manhattan's Eyebeam Museum elicited more than one S building, including one from Thomas Leeser and the winning entry from Diller -l- Scofidio. Leeser also submitted an S scheme for the Nam June Paik Museum competition. Lindy Roy's Poolhouse Project (2000) in Sagaponak also employs the S strategy. The folding and unfolding in S buildings is an effort towards an evolutionary architecture capable of growing, evolving, and re-articulating the laws of gravity. This animation of a traditionally static form has been seen before in Frederick Kiesler's Endless House Project (1959), Andre Bloc's early 1960s habitual sculptures and Gian Carlo de Carlo's unbuilt design for a sl^scraper with an outside transpar• ent shell of mesh and twisting ribbon shreds of floors. But the current crop of S buildings is more likely a response to contemporary reflections like Gilles Deleuze's The Fold, and the availability of new lightweight concrete compounds. With the future creation of even more versatile building inaterials, will the ubiquity of the design evolve into a style of the age? It should be fun to see just how many floors can be looped into and onto themselves in this fashion, WM

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The renovations included introduce timed, 150-second traffic signals, OVERSEAS COMMISSION The building, called Parcel 12, will include a new HVAC, smoke evacuation systems, 10,300 additional feet of pedestrian fenc• Belmont Freeman Architects has been over 2,225,000 sguare feet comprising and increased egress in the form of a new ing along the street, and striped lanes to chosen to design the new music depart• 19 floors of residential apartments and elevator and a stairwell. guide vehicles in heavily congested areas. ment building at Ogaki Women's College 50 floors of commercial office space Most of these improvements will focus on in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The first topped by a sky lobby. The tower will sit two areas, from Van Dam Street to the overseas commission for the New York- on two floors of retail space, cafes, NIELSEN APPOINTED Long Island Expressway and from Union based firm is a design/build collaboration restaurants, and a casino. Construction Signe Nielsen of Mathews Nielsen Turnpike to Hillside Avenue. with Tsuchiya Gumi, a construction man• will commence fall 2004, with completion Landscape Architects has been appointed agement corporation headguartered in slated for 2007 to the Art Commission of the City of DEVELOPMENT LIMITED Tokyo. The 25,000-sguare-foot facility New York. She is one of 11 commissioners houses classrooms, recital and practice and will provide the only landscape archi• Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg THE HIGH LINE LOW DOWN rooms, a library, musical instrument labs, tecture perspective on projects on city- said he wants to use findings from the The State Supreme Court's Appellate and a roof garden. The poured concrete owned property. Staten Island Growth Management Task Division unanimous decision overturned structure will be clad in ceramic tile, glass, Force as a model to limit development in lower court Justice Diane Lebedeff's April and natural, painted, and perforated alu• the outer boroughs. Bloomberg, speaking 2002 ruling that the city must submit a UPGRADE AT YALE minum. Construction is to be completed during his state of the city address, com• plan to the community and to the Uniform Peter Gisolfi Associates, of Hastings-on- in time for classes in September 2004. plimented the task force that found suc• Land Use Review Procedure before it Hudson, New York, recently completed cessful ways to minimize residential sprawl could tear down the High Line. While this renovations of Timothy Dwight College while accommodating growing populations, BIG MULCH reversal may seem potentially threatening, and Rosenfeld Hall at Yale University. The increase open space reguirements, and 127,719 holiday trees became mulch this Robert Hammond, co-founder of Friends 192,000-sguare-foot project cost $55 improve road and parking conditions in year through New York City Department of the Highline, said, "the previous ruling million and added a level of student hous• areas with high population densities. of Parks & Recreation and Department of was a backstop to protect the High Line," ing, a library and student activity area, Sanitation's tree recycling program in and that "this is not a serious setback" expanded the dining area, and updated AIRTRAIN ON TRACK early January. Sixty-nine designated park because the city supports and is working mechanical and electrical systems within drop-off locations in the five boroughs closely with Friends of the High Line. the existing colonial character. The build• AirTrain to John F. 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While the International Olympic billion, not including West Side New Yorkers? NYC 2012 is heavy on Whetting the Committee won't be announcing development, a city priority. In all, talk of Olympic "legacy"—the long- the host city for the 2012 Olympics the Olympics may cost $6 billion. term effects of frenzied, multi-year until luly 2005, NYC 2012, the non• Such a staggering sum and a preparation for a two-week event— Olympic Dream profit private organization funded complicated and nuanced vision and what it will contribute to the city by large corporations and private has required cooperated planning of New York. Since the West Side donors that is initiating New York's between the private NYC 2012 and and Queens West are under-utilized New York City s bid, is commissioning enough work many city departments—a difficult areas that are transportation-rich to build a small city. In fact, a small feat, or .so one would think. Wliile and in attractive locations, their city is what NYC 2012 has most NYC 2012, the mayor's office, and development would be beneficial Olympic bid recently announced. the Department of City Planning for the city, and many of these After an initial round of RFQs, are discreet entitites, the players projects have been on track and NYC 2012 selected five architects involved—Doctoroff and Alexander would be happening anyway, sans committee^ NYC 2012, to submit designs for an Olympic Garvin, NYC'sdirector of planning Olympics. The best and most origi• village in Queens West, near Long and a city planning commissioner— nal part of the proposal would be Island City: Henning Larsens give every impression that the the acres of parks thai it would add has made some great Tegnestue, Zaha Hadid, Morphosis, Olympics and the city's priorities to the city (including the greening MVRDV, and a mostly hometown are in tandem. of Staten Island's Brookfield land• team consisting of Smith-Miller -i- Doctoroff"currently maintains no fill). However, the importance of a design decisions Hawkinson, Ralph Lerner, Shigeru official association with NYC 2012, state-of-the-art equestrian center is Ban, lulie Bargmann and others. and Garvin has voluntarily submit• questionable for a city that prides The plans, which will be presented ted his positions for review to the itself on industries like finance, media, including the publicly this March, will be both a city's very active and very pedantic nightlife, and entertainment. building and an urban plan. The Conflicts of Interest Board, which There can be a case made for the architects will be concerned with has very publicly given its permis• transit system, which has been choosing of finalists fulfilling the Olympic program, but sion. In fact, while there is nothing engineered to link sporting venues. also creating market-rate (read: non- whatsoever to suggest that Garvin Those hubs will ostensibly link dorm-style) housing on a site near or Doctoroff's public and private neighborhoods in the boroughs, for its Olympic Long Island City. While the village roles are in conflict, "The priorities despite the fact that neighborhoods will house 16,000 athletes and between NYC 2012 and the city are aren't traditionally anchored by coaches during the Olympics, it completely aligned," says Marcos sporting venues. Organizafions such Village. However, could house nearly 18,000 residents Diaz Gonzalez, director of events as the Regional Plan A.ssociation after the Olympics are over. "They for NYC 2012. (Incidentally, one of are not studying the impact of the appropriately put a very high pre• the private companies spon.soring Olympics because, according to a as the very powerful mium on design,"said Ralph Lerner. NYC 2012 is Bloomberg, LLR) spokesman, the Olympic proposal The Olympic (and post-Olympic) However, the very massive and pri• "really isn't adding any kind of Village would be the first residential vate efforts of NYC 2012, and the infi'astructure, except for the exten• private organization complexes for many of the designers. very public and civic-minded roles sion of the number 7 (subwayl line." Because New York City is competing occupied by these two officials nec• Additionally, the economic ben• to host the Olympics, the architects essarily make the private and public efits of the Olympic Games have prepares to make are not guaranteed a commission— boundary a delicate one. never been quite clear. The 1976 yet. However, the quality of propos• Currently, several of the city's games left Montreal in long-term als and designs will be contributed planning efforts, including debt, while Barcelona thrived after its final push, into New York's candidature file, Doctoroff's exploration into financ• the 1992 games. Athens is using the from which the ultimate decision ing options for the West Side, are not 2004 games to build a much-needed will be made. being pursued solely for the sake transit system, while Beijing is giving Andrew Yang asks. of economic development, but are itself a total overhaul—complete From the start, NYC 2012, found• ed by Daniel Doctoroff, now the tailored to be especially accommo- with a city master plan and a new deputy mayor for economic devel• dafing should the Olympics happen. skyline for 2008. Many of those cities How much does will no doubt benefit from being in opment, has been courting good The Mayor's office recently opposed design. It has already commissioned a power-plant proposal in the purview of the rest of the world. the city really need biggies like Hardy, Holzman and Williamsburg, on the grounds that However, does New York—currenUy Pfieffer, Deborah Berke, and Rafael it was improperly situated in a resi• competing with London, Paris, Vinoly for speculative designs into dential area, and—many speculate— Moscow, Madrid, Lstanbul, and the Olympics? the all-important candidature file. that it interfered with the adminis• Rio de laneiro—really need to be in "I'd like to think that the tide is tration's plan to use the site as an the world spotlight more than it turning j for good design in New Olympic sporting venue. already is? York|,"said Laurie Hawkinson. The Olympic Village site. Queens Beyond economics and value, Beyond the Olympic Village, West, currently a four-phase devel• then, the Olympics may just be a there are much heralded infrastruc• opment initiated by the Empire clever way of getting all of New ture improvements including the State Development Corporadon, York's improvements under one plan, Olympic "X" plan, which extends and involving such players as the and getting it done by a certain date. ea.st-west from Queens to Midtown Rockrose group, Kohn Pedersen and "[The Olympic bid] is deadline- to the Meadowlands, and north- Fox, and Arquitectonica, would be driven," says Diaz Gonzalez- -south along the East riven The main significantly altered if NYC 2012 Financing, designing, and con• elements of the Olympic proposal has their way. Even after borough struction will have to foUow a defi• consist of fortifying existing sport• president Helen Marshall told the nite schedide—which would be an ing sites in all five boroughs, build• Gotham Gazette last year that she achievement."And that's difficult to ing new venues in key places like thought the Olympics might delay achieve, especially in New York." It's the Queens and Brooklyn water- Queens West development, which reasonable to assume that without fn)nts, and developing the west side could potentially be completed a deadline of 2012, many of these of midtown Manhattan. before 2012, her office is now main• capital improvements might take The linchpin of the plan is, and taining a careful stance. "We have longer than necessary. has been from the beginning, the no problem with the [Olympic] While many organizations may development of a stadium ibr the village as long as it's done right," be willing to help make the big push New York lets to be used as the offi• said spokesman Uan Andrews. for the Olympics, there is one non- cial Olympic stadium, along with an Even if the convergence of city New York resident who makes a anticipated extension of the num• priorities and Olympic-planning strong case against pouring the time ber 7 subway line from 8th Avenue priorities weren't an issue, what, and energy into such a massive to 12th Avenue along 42nd Street. exactly, would the Olympics bring undertaking. Last spring as a visit• NYC 2012's estimate is a cost of $3 that would be of long-term value to ing professor continued on page 10 LU O

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WHETTING THE OLYMPIC DREAM continued which is a huge strike.) Considering those from previous page in Geneva, Smith College factors, compounded by the global hostility economics professor and sports journalist towards the U.S. over the war in Iraq, his Andrev^ Zimbalist spent some time talking odds: 1 to 50. to the IOC in Lausanne. Good bid cities, he ANDREW YANG IS AN EDITOR AT PRINT AHD said, are places that could benefit die most WRITES ABOUT ART AND ARCHITECTURE. from improved public infrastructure, and are Above: Weiss/Manfredi Architects' Flushing located in countries and continents that have Meadows Centers for Rowing and Slalom not hosted it recently before. (North America Canoeing. Below: Deborah Berke Architects' will have been host five times since 1980, Queensbridge Athletic Center.

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Olympics are usually awarded to cities that can benefit from the infrastructural improvements that the games typically bring. As part of New York's Olympic bid, NYC 2012 incorporates many of the ambitious civic improvements that have been on the drawing boards for years. Which of these proposals are Olympic benefits and which of these are happening anyway? Here are some Olympic X's.

PROPOSAL OLYMPIC ALREADY PROPOSAL PROPOSED

West Side business development X X

Jet's Stadium X X

Extension of Number 7 Subway X X

Waterferry on East River X

Queens West housing and waterfront development X X

Converting Staten Island landfill into sports complex X

Strengthening existing sports facilities X

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On Pace Wildenstein Gallery, projects are the Yokohama Ferry the end wall scrolls the endless 534 West 25th St., Manhattan Through February 14 Terminal, the BBC scheme, and clauses of the building contract Foreign Office Architects: Breeding Architecture the stunning model of twisting used for their large-scale Institute of Contemporary Art, London towers that FOA proposed for projects. Through Feburary 29 the World Trade Center site. The next room highlights Looking at photographer Richard Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark (Actar, 2003) The room is heavy and dark, architectural labor. An illuminat• Misrach's enormous color prints of people with only ultra violet light, and ed world map traces the web• swimming, wading, and sunning them• Foreign Office Architects have Alejandro Zaera-Polo set up the same atmosphere is contin• like comings and goings of the selves, one is not immediately struck by put on the hot new architectural their company in 1992. She is ued in the corridor to the bar. staff that have worked for FOA their emotional pull. Seen, however, in show in London. Already widely from Iran and he from Spain, and Along the corridor walls, FOA over the past decade, from their the context of Misrach's explorations of tipped as a star practice for the they both studied at Harvard have taken abstracted black- places of origin to London to the politically charged sites—Bravo 2Cfs doc• future, they are now the subject together before working for Rem and-white images of surface destinations they moved on to umentation of bombing grounds in the of a major exhibition that con• Koolhaas in Rotterdam. Of the details from their projects and when they left. On the opposite American West, his ongoing Cantos—it veniently coincides with its win• Koolhaas descendants, they blown them up as giant sheets wall is a real-time animation is clear that these idyllic settings are not ning of the competition forthe seem to have the formal confi• of wallpaper. They create simple that demonstrates how a typical the full story. BBC's proposed Music Centre dence and intellectual grasp to but beautiful motifs, with a curi• CAD drawing is produced, from Misrach turns the idea of this pristine in West London. do something original with the ous 1950s tinge due to their the first tool selection through landscape on its head. He uses the images' Farshid Moussavi and culturally driven critique of stark and simplified geometry. to the final rendering. perspective, made precarious by altitude But the most ambitious and angle, as well as sheer size; a few aspect of the exhibition is the prints reach almost 6 by 9 feet. Forcing attempt by FOA to devise a the viewer to contemplate the site from quasi-scientific categorization overhead, he evokes a view akin to that system to define their projects. from a helicopter or a highrise. What Openly indebted to Koolhaas' emerges is a new and unfamiliar spatial mock-Darwinian diagram of condition, full of tension. One is kept con• the evolution of the shopping stantly hovering, suspended over the mall, FOA opt for a drier sand and water indefinitely. approach—one that is closer Misrach made these images over the to early trained botanists such past two years with an 8 x 10 view camera, as Linnaeus, or passionate cropping the photographs but employing amateurs such as Goethe, who no digital effects. While many ask him wanted to classify the natural about technique, he doesn't reveal how life-forms being discovered as he was able to position his camera part of Enlightenment enquiry. (especially one so cumbersome) so The book to accompany the high overhead. On the Beach, Misrach show is titled Phylogenesis: explained, refers to the apocalyptic 1959 FOA's Ark and is designed more movie of the same name, directed by in the style of a scientific text• Stanley Kramer and starring Ava Gardner book than the usual architectur• and Gregory Peck. In the film, the charac• al monograph. ters struggle with the knowledge that the FOA have drawn out a large end is drawing near for life on the planet. tree-diagram of their design In this work, Misrach smartly uses people approach, with the fundamental as a foil for the gorgeously detailed, branching point being the gigantic landscape. While several of the relative importance in each images lack human presence, the most "specimen" project of either the effective in the series suspend figures ground plane or the built enve• within expanses that become terrifying. lope. Species diversity is then The pictures, presented simply, without provided (or in their phrase, titles or locations, could be anywhere in "bred") by the number and type the world—or perhaps set in another one. of surfaces, folds or incisions SARA MOSS IS A DESIGNER, WRITER, AND made into the ground plane or PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN NEW YORK CITY. envelope to suit the brief and site. It is typical of the architects' method: intense, possibly a touch over-earnest, yet totally in thrall with the process of making architectural forms. In the end, the diagram resembles nothing so much as a potential section through one of their trademark wrapped-landscape buildings. The germ for another project, perhaps?

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Bernardo Bertolucci variations will light areas in www.artnet.com Rebuilding: A Study Lead designers must www.nyu.edu/greyart Retrospective the five boroughs. organize a team to include Exhibition of the World Trade Competitors are to respond American Museum of the architects, exhibition design• Olaf Breuning Center Site Proposals, THROUGH APRIL 4 to the city's diverse architec• Moving Image ers, landscape architects, Home Commentaries, Responses Smartwrap ture and urban landscape. 35th Ave. and 36th St., and engineers, and submit Yuri Masnyj Urban Center Galleries Aleksandra Mir: Naming Jury: Judith Bergtraum, Queens qualifications, A World of Interiors 457 Madison Ave. Tokyo (Part III) Amanda Burden, Elizabeth www.ammi.org www.vvmf.org Metro Pictures www.archleague.org Institute of Contemporary Art Diller, Peter Eisenman, Paul 519 West 24th St. University of Pennsylvania CONTINUING FILM Marantz.Guy Nordenson, www.metropictures Recovery: The World Trade 118 South 86th St., & THEATER 400,000 Dwellings and Anne Papageorge. gallery.com Center Recovery Operation Philadelphia Registration Deadline: wvvw.nyc.gov/buildnyc/ UNLIMITED ENGAGEMENT at Fresh Kills www.icaphila.org February 24, 2004 citylights Private Jokes, Public Places THROUGH FEBRUARY 8 New-York Historical Society The Architectural Colleges (Oren Safdi) Bravehearts: Men in Skirts West 77th St. and Central THROUGH APRIL 11 of Catalonia organized this Designing for the 21st Century Theater at the Center for Metropolitan Museum of Art Park West llya and Emilia Kabakov international professional Student Design Competition Architecture 1000 5th Ave. vvvvw.nyhistory.org The Empty Museum and student housing design Registration Deadline: 536 LaGuardia PI. www.metmuseum.org Isidro Blasco, Ana Linnemann, competition conceived on a March 30, 2004 www.private-jokes.com Christina McBride Juliane Stiegele, Karin territorial scale for one of Students are to design a Robert Olsen Miller/Geisler Gallery Waisman, Ross Knight, et al. three sites. Designs should community center in Asia, Plane Space 511 West 25th St. In Practice Projects BEYOND NEW YORK address growth, density, Africa, or Latin America. 102 Charles St. wvvw.millergeislergallery.com SculptureCenter building, and sustainability Site-specific programs and www.plane-space.com 44-19 Purves St., Queens FEBRUARY 8-MAY 3 that exceeds the merely community contacts are THROUGH FEBRUARY 27 www.sculpture-center.org From House to Home: practical. available to registered THROUGH FEBRUARY U Computer Graphics and Picturing Domesticity Jury: Stan Allen, Alejandro entrants. Designs must meet ROY Interactive Media Faculty THROUGH APRIL 23 Pacific Design Center Zaera Polo, Ryue Nishizawa, sustainability, low-cost, X: Recent Architectural Exhibition Jean Prouve: 8687 Melrose Ave., Jacques Herzog, Joseph universal design criteria, Projects Pratt Schafler Gallery Three Nomadic Structures West Hollywood Anon Acebillo, Nuria diaz, www.adaptiveenvironments. Henry Urbach Architecture 200 Willoughby Ave., Columbia University www.moca-la.org Jaume Catellvi, LIuis Ortega. org 526 West 26th St., 10th Fl. Brooklyn Buell Hall wvvw.coac.net/400.000 wvvw.huagallery.com www.pratt.edu Arthur Ross Gallery THROUGH MARCH 1 2003-04 Leading Edge vvvvw.arch.columbia.edu Non Standard Architectures The International Highrise Student Design Competition Joseph Beuys THROUGH FEBRUARY 28 Centre Pompidou Award Registration Deadline: Just Hit the Mark: Works Chris Burden THROUGH APRIL 24 Place Georges Pompidou Deadline: February 26, 2004 April 2, 2004 from the Speck Collection Gagosian Gallery Harlemworld: 75004, Paris The city of Frankfurt am Main The competition seeks explo• Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Ave. Metropolis as Metaphor www.centrepompidou.fr and DekaBank host this rations in new materials 980 Madison Ave. www.gagosian.com Studio Museum in Harlem 50,000 Euro award for a and building strategies, and www.gagosian.com 144 West 125th St. THROUGH APRIL 26 building that stands above integration of aesthetics and Collier Schorr wvvw.studiomuseum.org Ant Farm 1968-1978 others in aesthetics, planning, technology for high-perform• Richard Misrach 303 Gallery Berkeley Art Museum and innovative technology, and ance sustainable architecture. On the Beach 525 West 22nd St. THROUGH APRIL 25 Pacific Film Archive cost-effectiveness. Faculty sponsor required. Pace/MacGill wvvw.303gallery.com Significant Objects from the 2625 Durant Ave., Berkeley Jury: Dominique Perrault, Jury: Gregg D. Ander. 534 West 25th St. Modern Design Collection wvvw.bampfa.berkeley.edu Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Stephen Castellanos, Randall vvww.pacewildenstein.com THROUGH MARCH 6 Metropolitan Museum of Art Jorg Schlaich, Willi Alda, T. Higga. Rob Hudler. Vivian Helena Almeida 1000 5th Ave. Hans-Bernhard Nordhoff. Loftness, and Tony Pierce, THROUGH FEBRUARY 15 Inhabited Drawings www.metmuseum.org wvvw.highrise-frankfurt.de www.leadingedgecompetition. Marimekko: Drawing Room org Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture 40 Wooster St. Glass and Glamour: The Findus Site and the Arctic Bard Graduate Center LIST YOUR www.drawingcenter.org Steuben's Modern Moment, Culture Centre CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 18 West 86th St. 1930-1960 EVENT Deadline: March 1, 2004 Research: Architecture's www.bgc.bard.edu Giuseppe Penone Museum of the City of This international ideas com• Media, Messages, and Modes The Imprint of Drawing New York DIARYHiARCHPAPER.COM petition asks architects to Deadline: February 13. 2004 Strangely Familiar: Drawing Center 1220 5th Ave. develop the Findus site in University of California. Los Design and Everyday Life 35 Wooster St. www.mcny.org Hammerfest. Norway, and Angeles Critical Studies in Heinz Architectural Center vvvvw.drawingcenter.org design an Arctic Culture Architectural Culture Program Carnegie Art Museum THROUGH MAY 16 Centre. Architects with a cor• issued a call for papers for a 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh THROUGH MARCH 8 Corporal Identity- responding competency in conference on April 23-24. wvvw.cmoa.org Pencil: Drawings from the Body Language accordance with the EU direc• 2004. at UCLA. Collection Museum of Arts and Design tive for architects, and their http://neutra.aud.ucla.edu:160 THROUGH FEBRUARY 16 MoMA QNS 40 West 53rd St. teams, may participate. 80/csac04 Viennese Silver: Modern 11 West 33rd St., Queens www.americancraftmuseum. Design, 1780-1918 www.moma.org org Neue Galerie New York 1048 5th Ave. THROUGH MARCH 14 THROUGH JUNE 13 306090 05: www.neuegalerie.org Mori on Wright: Designs for Walter De Maria Teaching + Building F. L. Wright's Martin House The New York Earth Room, THROUGH FEBRUARY 20 Visitor Center 1977 365: AIGA Annual Design SUNY Buffalo Dia: With essays on the effects of Exhibition 24 Albright Knox Art Gallery 141 Wooster St. practice on education and AIGA National Design Center 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo www.earthroom.org education on practice, 306090 164 5th Ave. vvww.ap.buffalo.edu The Broken Kilometer, 1979 05 features the built work of wvvw.aigany.org Dia: Available now: design instructors alongside Gerardo Rueda 393 West Broadway Retrospective www.brokenkilometer.org MoMA Design Store the studio projects of their Chelsea Art Museum Urban Center students, among other 556 West 22nd St. Or at www.306090.org revealing juxtapositions. www.chelseaartmusGum.org CO

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dogma, and the two begin to Siza's drafting table for the squabble, seeming to forget Carlos Ramos Pavillion for the PRIVATE LIVES, where they are. Betrayed by Faculty of Architecture, Porto the timorous William, University. Portugal, 1985. Margaret finally begins to PUBLIC SPACES fight back, and it is a relief. She delivers a spirited attack on the failures of modernism, and describes her own moti• vation to be an architect. Her earnest monologue begins f 1 to sound like Safdie himself Private Jokes, Public Places, a play by Oren Safdie. speaking, and it becomes Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia PI. clear why he tossed over his Unlimited engagement. training as an architect to become a playwright. The play's climax involves Margaret's silent rejection of Architects have never been and clear presentation of the their racism, sexism, and known for approaching their ideas behind her final project, hollow ideas. work (or themselves) with a a public swimming pool, her sense of humor, so Oren two critics barely even look Safdie uses the characters Safdie has plenty of fodder at the project. Instead they of the critics as figures rep• for his satiric play Private argue with one another, resenting two poles in the Jokes, Public Spaces. Using excluding Margaret and her profession—the vaguely the crit-from-hell as a launch• teacher William (Anthony European architect Erhardt ing point, Safdie takes shot Rapp). They manage to touch (played by Sebastian Roche, after shot at the verbose on every current fashion in complete with a dashing red underbelly of the profession, architecture, never conde• scarf), with his "bridge to and as many of its preten• scending to listen to what she, nowhere" standing for the sions and foibles as he can or her work, has to say. After overly theoretical approach, fit into an hour. one critic delivers a wonder• and the British Colin (Geoffrey While the young Korean- fully Polonius-like speech on Wade), the ruthlessly prag• American student Margaret what one should strive for as matic. The two verge on cari• (played by M.J. Kang, Safdie's an architect, the other angrily cature, but are saved from PURE wife) gives a straightforward responds with his own being cutout figures by the sharp and funny lines Safdie gives them. At times, how• SIZA ever, the play feels aptly named: It is a private joke AT indeed, and one wonders if the endless jargon-filled bickering would hold much PROTETCH appeal for an audience not composed of architects and SiZA 5:50 IVlax Protetch Gallery, their long-suffering families. 11 West 22nd St., Manhattan. ; Private Jokes, Public Places Through February 7 \ falls just this side of didactic •I M ' though, and has the appeal • 'II ; of a horror movie—you can't 1 : watch, but you love it. Alvaro Siza is known for his quietly elegant and subtle approach -p i to modem design that, as Kenneth Frampton notes "occupies ANNE GUINEY IS BASED IN NEW ; YORK AND WRITES ABOUT a place somewhere between the real and surreal." Siza s current ; ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. show at Max Protetch Gallery highlights his extraordinary design skill at all scales from doorknobs to site planning. Curated by Matthew Becker (Ohm Design founder), the show traces Siza's 50-year career, taking a single iconic building from Hit the nail on the head. each decade and presenting its working drawings, sketches Focus your advertising in our upcoming issues. and quick renderings. Although it also features elegant period furniture,hardware,and newly produced tea set and coffee cups, Category Month this is an exhibit for those who can translate detailed drawings Glass March into architecture. Max Protetch Gallery and Ohm Design are Lighting April obviously committed to Siza's work and present it straightfor• Model Makers April Furniture May wardly, without attempting to popularize it. Books May In an Architecture League-sponsored conversation with Technology June Kenneth Frampton, Siza bemoaned the difficulty for contem• porary architects to work continuously with the same craftsmen To advertise your products, services, or projects during and builders as he has done throughout his career. One wonders these issues contact Jonathan Chaffin, Sales and Marketing Manager, at [email protected] or 212.966.0630. then what today's young architects spinning inside their cyber orbits and celebrity designers pitching projects on multiple THE continents make of this figure who slowly worked out every ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER detail of a project in an effort to perfect his craft and profession. WILLIAM MENKING IS AN EDITOR AT AN. NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM in

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well as corporate firms not previously known for school design. Such increased o interest in the public school market has I- raised the design stakes for school design SCHOOL DESIGN: practice. Local firms now face stiffer com• petition seeking NJSCC projects—devel• oping plans, models and animations for presentation at interviews and placing a C/5 greater emphasis on design. Research results have begun to demonstrate a link LESSONS FROM NJ between environmental quality and stu• dent performance, promising further improvements. Public education has often been conducted plan, presented six months after the State Construction and Finance Act of 2000 in physical environments that lack ameni• Court of Appeals decided in the Campaign (EFCFA), authorizing $8.6 billion in long- With a relatively small impact on a state ties usually taken for granted in most for Fiscal Equity case that New York term debt to fund $6.2 billion in new con• budget facing its third year of large deficits. workplaces. The lack of adequate heat State funding formulas shortchange the struction and renovation projects in the New Jersey's school construction pro• and ventilation (not to mention air condi• city's 1.2 million students, follows recent urban districts and $2.4 billion in direct gram has provided positive headlines in tioning), lighting, toilet facilities, and suf• initiatives in states (Ohio, Texas, and grants to all cover as much as 40% of proj• Governor McGreevy's first term. His ficient instructional space itself, especially New Jersey) and cities (Chicago and ect costs in all other districts in the state. decision to require new schools to score in urban school districts, has been thor• Philadelphia) in response to similar court Though still in the early stages of a minimum of 26 Leadership in Energy oughly documented and widely reported. actions. If the Bloomberg proposal suc• implementation, EFCFA has already had and Environmental Design (LEED) points, and to include emergency shelter provi• Corporations can justify the cost of ceeds in obtaining matching funds from a significant effect on the school design sions, should ensure design innovation architectural projects by enhanced visibil• Albany, it could significantly raise the and construction industry in New Jersey. in these areas. A national design compe• ity in the marketplace, improved produc• profile of public school design projects in The New Jersey Schools Construction tition, funded by the NEA and the NJSCC, tivity, and ultimately a better bottom line. New York's architectural landscape. Corporation (NJSCC), the state agency was held for the new Perth Amboy High As the role of design quality in achieving New Jersey's recent school construction established to finance and manage this School, but the finalists' designs remain those results has become increasingly initiative may have important lessons for task, has retained program management unpublished. clear, its value in the private sector econo• New York. Since 1973, the Abbott v. Burke firms (PMF's) to manage projects in each my is more widely, albeit sometimes litigation and its precedents have sought large district or in regions comprising New Jersey pushes ahead with large grudgingly, acknowledged. to redress disparities in educational qual• several smaller districts in the state. numbers of school projects in an appar• Educational success—whether meas• ity and funding between New Jersey's Pre-qualified architects compete for ent effort to spend its way out of deficit. ured by test scores, enhanced quality of urban and suburban school districts. In a each individual project (or a group of With the first projects not yet completed, life, reduced rates of future criminality and series of Abbott rulings, the New Jersey projects) in a formalized two-stage the program's impact on school design dependency, or a more productive labor Supreme Court has required the state to process. Short-listed firms submit written remains difficult to assess. However,the force—cannot be taken to the bank and fund education in its 30 neediest districts— technical proposals and are interviewed program's impact on construction costs applied to debt service. Moreover, educa• including Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, by teams of district and NJSCC personnel. is being felt, with prices nearing $200 per tion theorists were historically unwilling and Camden—at rates equal to the aver• Goals for the inclusion of small, and square foot. Still, New Jersey's costs are to blame educational failure on poor facil• age expenditure of its wealthiest locally women- and minority-owned firms have approximately half of New York's. ities, focusing instead on the human funded suburbs. been identified for both design and con• Although the New York program may aspects of teaching and learning, as well In its May 1998 Abbott l/decision, the struction. Additional funds have been have to compete with a resurgent design as funding reform, as the key to improved court acknowledged the importance of directed towards workforce development and construction industry in a reviving learning outcomes. adequate school facilities in delivering programs, and efforts have been made overall economy, it will provide architects to develop the capacity of the design and with the opportunity to contribute to the As a result, boards of education may the state constitution's pledge of a "free, construction industry to absorb such a quality of life for New York's teachers and not fund new schools or upgrade existing thorough and efficient education" for all large volume of work. students, a deserving clientele. ones until they are forced to by court deci• New Jersey citizens, ruling that the state was obligated to fund 100 percent of the Coming during a major recession, the sions brought by advocates for children JAHES NICHOLS, A NEW JERSEY ARCHITECT and their parents, who lack the political facilities' needs in its 30 "Abbott" districts. New Jersey schools program has AT THE THOMAS CROUP IN PRINCETON, IS clout to make it happen for themselves. To comply with Abbott V, the state legis• attracted the attention of national firms FORMER DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL FACILITIES AT Mayor Bloomberg's $13.1 billion capital lature enacted the Educational Facilities with experience in the school market as THE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

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