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CON T 08 WATER, ICE, AND ADS TALK BACK SOMETHING NICE 18 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Queens is set to become the city's new THAT '70S urban leisure hot spot with the construc• tion of a pool and ice-skating rink com• SHOW WINS STIRLING PRIZE plex in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. 03 EAVESDROP The $55 million stand-alone building 04 DRAWING BOARD houses the two indoor facilities. Funded 16 DIARY The new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh— A scandal arose when costs shot up to by the city and borough and designed by 21 CLASSIFIEDS a building called one of the worst wastes of around £425 million after politicians asked Handel Architects in association with 22 MARKETPLACE public finances—has just received the 10'" for more space. It didn't help that the original Hom + Goldman Architects, the project Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA) estimate was also hopelessly inaccurate. is located on the north side of the park Stirling Prize for best British building of the The winning competition entry intended to next to the Van Wyck Expressway, and year. It was designed by Catalan architect invoke upturned traditional Scottish boats, will open in Fall 2007. Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, but after subsequent revisions and refine• The project was launched in 2000, put his partner and second wife. Miralles was ments, the design became more supple on hold after 9/11, and revived in early a respected figure who sprang to fame with and complex, and better for it. The entrance 2004, albeit modified to be a part of the his archery center for the 1992 Barcelona sequence—from the building's shallow city's 2012 Olympics bid. Olympics, and who was revered for his mar• vaulted entrance lobby, up an asymmetri• Though the city lost the bid to London, velous spidery drawings. He died after win• cal staircase to a vast debating chamber the complex will be completed anyway, ning the Edinburgh project, tragically young. with its downstand roof trusses—is superb• overseen by City's Economic Tagliabue was left to finish the project— ly handled. Externally the building is more Development Corporation (EDO, which dinners m thaarchitecture and also to dodge the brick-bats. continued on page 2 developed the continued on page 3 category (from left) Charles Renfror*^ Ricardo Scofidio, and Elizabeth Dlller.

Despite extensive media coverage of the NEW HOCKEY FACILITY THE proposed (and reviled) FEMAvilles current• CENTERPIECE OF CITY'S DOWNTOWN ^ NATIONAL ly popping up in Hurricane Katrina's wake, REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT the mechanics of housing an estimated DESIGN AWARD 250,000 or more individuals have remained unclear. Engineering firms like Bechtel and WINNERS NAMED Fluor, both California-based, and Colorado- based CH2M Hill have been contracted to The 6"' Annual National Design Awards oversee the installment of these temporary gala, held at the Cooper-Hewitt, National A FEMA trailer yard in Purvis, Mississippi. villages. Each company is working in a dif• Design Museum on October 20, was ferent state—Bechtel in Mississippi, CH2M punctuated with a few surprises: FEMAVILLES DOWNSIZED in Alabama, and Fluor in Louisiana—as DEVILS DECAMP Laura Bush, the awards' honorary patron, contracted by FEMA. didn't show up (the crowd snickered when The companies, which each received con• TO NEWARK her name was mentioned) and graphic This Land tracts exceeding $100 million, are responsible design's enfant terrible Stefan Sagmeister for locating and planning the sites for On October 3, construction of a new venue bested 2x4 and Paula Scher of Pentagram between 200 and 300 temporary housing for the New Jersey Devils began in down• in the communications design category. units, as well as managing the infrastructure town Newark. The new arena will replace Okay, so the First Lady's absence wasn't IsYourLand and facilities of these continued on page 6 the hockey team's current home at such a big surprise, and Sagmeister's Continental Arena in the Meadowlands. win should not have been either, given Called simply Newark Arena (its name the fact that all the finalists—in the cate• will be put out to bid at a later date), the gories of architecture, fashion, product, 850,000-square-foot arena will include and, new this year, landscape and interior approximately 17,500 seats, a significant —should probably, at some point in their decrease from Continental Arena's 19,040 careers, win the nation's highest design capacity. The difference will be made up honor. with an increased number of revenue- Sagmeister was in fact a finalist for generating luxury suites (78 total). The the award in 2000. Architect Rick Joy arena will also feature a gourmet restau• was an architecture award finalist in rant overlooking the continued on page 2 2002, before winning continued on page 7 CO f\J 3 O LU

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DEVILS DECAMP TO NEWARK CO In the run-up to next week's mayoral election, incumbent Michael R. continued from front page field, 750 television Diana Darling Bloomberg announced the expansion of his five-year housing plan. monitors dispersed around the facility, and COITORS O the latest in ice field technology. Cathy Lanq Ho I— New Housing Marketplace, which he initiated in 2003. His enhanced The project has been criticized by Repu• William Menkinq l-H housing plan promises to boost the city's target number of new blican gubernatorial candidate Douglas ART DIRICTOR affordable housing units from 65,000 to 164,000 over the next ten LU Forrester for its reliance on public funds. Martin Perrin years (the original plan only spanned five years)and to increase its Public money accounts for $210 million of SENIOR EDITOR Anne Guiney funding commitment from $3 billion to 7.5 billion, among many the arena's S310 million cost, with the Devils

ASSOCIATE EDITOR other ambitions. These revised targets actually bring Bloomberg clos• picking up the difference. (By contrast, the Andrew Yang er to what his primary challenger, Bronx Borough President new $800 million stadium to be shared by PROJECTS EDITOR Fernando Ferrer, and housing advocates such as Housing First! have the New York Jets and New York Giants in Aaron Seward the Meadowlands is being paid for entirely recommended. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION by the football teams.) But according to Christine Korokl But how has housing in the city fared since Bloomberg took office? Newark Mayor Sharpe James, who has long EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS The election promises to be no contest—as of press time, polls show touted the arena as the cornerstone of the Gunnar Hand city's Downtown Core Development Project, Jaffer Kolb Bloomberg with a 28-point lead over Ferrer—but it's still worth look• the use of public funds is justified. Sited a Stephen Martin ing at some of the mayor's accomplishments measured against his few blocks from Newark's Penn Station, on EDITORIAL INTERN campaign promises. Rebecca Fuchs Mulberry Street between Edison and Lafayette,

SALES AND MARKETINC DIRECTOR Certainly, residential construction has boomed in recent years—in the facility will accommodate Devils games Karen Begley fact, it's at a 32-year high. Property development throughout the five as well as other sports events, concerts, and boroughs has been buoyed by the city's vast rezoning plans and the activities that, James argues, will draw peo• CONTRIBUTORS simplification of permitting processes at the Department of ple into a part of town that is currently dead MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ after 6:00 p.m. Subsequent phases of the ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / Buildings (DOB). Though Bloomberg opposes mandatory inclusion- Downtown Core Development Project call RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE / JOE KERR/ ary zoning (the use of zoning to make housing developers include LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ for a new hotel, offices for the Devils, a com• KESTER RATTENBURY/CLAY RISEN / units for people with low and moderate incomes)—a key difference munity center for the public, a new office D.GRAHAME SHANE / PETER SLATIN/ between him and Ferrer—affordable housing units are indeed being complex for the Newark Board of Education, KATSU TANAKA/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER added the market under Bloomberg's watch: According to the his and 4 million square feet of office, housing, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD New Housing Market-place Progress Report 2005,28,550 units have and entertainment businesses, all within an PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ ambitious five-year time period. M. CHRISTINE BOYER / PETER COOK / been funded, with 39,000 existing units being preserved. In August The exterior of the arena was designed by WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ the city released four RFPs on the last major remaining city-owned SARAH HERDA / REED KROLOFF/ CRAIG KONYK / Morris Adjmi Architects, whose collaboration JAYNE MERKEL/ LISA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / land for 3,200 mixed-income units and it's currently working with with the late Aldo Rossi on the extension of HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / the Housing Authority to create 1,800 new units. The Scholastic, Inc.'s headquarters in SoHo was KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) lauded for its use of modern elements in an TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR/MICHAEL SORKIN is busy too, preserving existing units and planning the increase of historic context. "Newark has an amazing GENERAL INFORMATION: INFOSfARCHPAPER.COM supportive housing (for the elderly, disabled, or homeless) by 65 per• series of historic buildings—there's a real EDITORIAL: EDITORflOARCHPAPER.COM opportunity for restoration that reminds me DIARY: DIARYiSARCHPAPER.COM cent, or 12,000 new units. Promising, though we don't know how of SoHo several years ago," noted Morris ADVERTISING: [email protected] many affordable units have been lost under Bloomberg. SUBSCRIPTION: SUBSCRIBEflOARCHPAPER.COM Adjmi. "At the same time there are two Mies PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING Bloomberg's late-game housing push might be "an election-year towers (the Colonnade and Pavilion apart• DUPLICATE COPIES. ments] nearby." The arena's exterior seeks ploy," as Ferrer said. 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It is expected trademari< IVIirallesfeatures such as curious ing the city's famous art festival this sum• Jubilee Library (Brighton), and Alsop to be complete for the 2007 hockey season. cut-out shapes and endless striated lines mer, and there is no doubt that it is a worthy Design's Fawood Children's Centre rampaging across the facades, as if he want• winner of the £20,000 prize, named for archi• (London). Bookies gave Hadid's building the AARON SEWARD ed it to lool< literally liice a built drawing. tect James Stirling. The building was one of best odds of winning (5:1) with O'Donnell + Many find these external details the hardest six finalists, which included Zaha Hadid's Tuomey's gallery second favorite (7:2). Both part of the design to swallow. BMW Central Building (Leipzig), O'Donnell schemes are exquisite, but on balance the W.ARCHPAPER.COM But overall the Scottish Parliament, set + Tuomey's Lewis Glucl

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O of Arts & Design (MAD), which was prepared to begin radical alterations ^\ immediately. In countering preservationists, proponents of that plan long o insisted that (1) the building had no architectural merit and (2) it was unus• CO able as it was and would simply languish otherwise. The first argument was UJ > always shaky. As asserted in a September 20 letter to Mayor Michael R. < Bloomberg from artist Chuck Close-with co-signers Robert A. M. Stern, Agnes Gund, Milton Glaser, Mark Wigley and dozens of others-the building "has for too long been mischaracterized and underappreciated for the impor• tant work of art that it is." And now, we can say with confidence that the MAD clan's second point is also bunk. Eavesdrop has gotten exclusive access to a July 26 letter from Susan Soros in which the Bard Graduate Center director and ex-wife of billion• aire George Soros offers to save the beleaguered structure. Addressed to the |HRGs,'I'IFFs, and Pinwri'dint may ho the prdcrrcd method for storing and mayor, the message states clearly that "the Bard Graduate Center would be presenting images, hut slides will always play a part in the work ot the Jigiialh most interested in taking the building over and restoring and preserving it' challenged. Columbia L'niversity's Hepartment of .Art History and .Archaeology [emphasis added]. But according to our sources, her proposal-which followed asked Marhle Fairbanks Architects—whose principals also teach at the architecture similar efforts by the Dahesh Museum in the past-received no response. How school^—to come up with a decidedly contemporary h(»me lor their olJ laiigled come? Soros had no comment and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission collection. The library is now in a new l,()0()-square-lool "room within a room" did not respond by deadline. But it's important to remember a series of e-mails, on the windtiwless top lloor »)l the art department s offices in Schermerhorn flail. uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act and previously reported Marhle Fairbanks designed an ingenious and easily constructed room of ultra here and elsewhere, in which Landmarks Commission chair Robert Tierney lightweight medium-densitv fiherboard (MDF), linoleum.and glass. F»»r the east- betrayed the impartiality of his position by offering a little too much help to tacing wall, they milled MDl- into 43.T one-inch thick layers in the architecture MAD representative Laurie Beckelman. Indeed, Tierney refused to even hold a department's lahrication lah and then sandwiched them together, (ilass panels hearing to discuss landmarking the building-which is all that preservationists, are interspersed between the VIDF. which is held in place with metal rods. The led by Landmark West, were asking for. Alas, it seems plenty of things need glas relracts light fn^m .i skylight above. The other three walls are more traditional changing-but 2 Columbus Circle is not one of them. coastruction.with MP!' panels laminated with linoleum. According to Scott Marble, the slide room is a model lor "innovative design ARCHITECTS: "GROSS" projects on campus: "The university henetlts from sponsoring quality design and the architecture sch(K)l benefits from the chance to do full-scale materials testing AND "UN-AMERICAN" in its own lab." Gather 1,300 architects who are downing champagne faster than they eat up outdated theory and discipline breaks down. That's what happened last month at the AIA New York chapter's Heritage Ball dinner at Chelsea Piers, honoring J. Max Bond, Jr., Amanda Burden, Frank Sciame. and Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project. "Sit down! SIT DOWN!" AIA president Susan Chin kept admonishing from the dais, trying to put a lid on the gabfest that was drowning out the evening's speakers. "EXCUSE ME!" was the indignant phrase invoked by Urban Assembly founder Richard Kahan as he tried to introduce Burden. Indeed, things got so bad (though we were too busy chatting to notice) that Jeanne-Claude, the Fraggle-haired counterpart to wrap artist Christo, took it upon herself to storm the podium. "You gross people! Be quiet!" she berated in her French accent. "[Your behavior] is not only gross, but impolite and-l dare not say-un-American." Later, however, Midler hilariously got everyone's atten• tion. "I do look good," she announced, with eyelids and cheekbones stretched out to Hoboken. "I am a restoration project."

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WATER, ICE. AND SOMETHING NICE The cable system, the most visible struc• continued from front page building's pro• tural element of the building, was another gram for the Department of Parks and element left over from the Olympics. It was Recreation. originally designed to relieve structural pres• center stage The revised design, constructed of sure from one of the walls, which could be muted precast building and glass, features removed to create an expanded grandstand. New York City i.s the city where great arc hiieciurc- never .sleeps a cable system that supports a large "The whole idea is to juxtapose the two rhat s v\liy ()kicasik- (.l.iss lias criMicd ilic Commerdai Projects canopy roof and giant windows that frame spaces—cold rink and warm pool—and Group. riH \ K- our top gki/ing experts ready to liandle New York the park beyond. Blake Middleton, project have them interact via spectators who can City's toughe.st glazing challenges So. give them a call icxlay— designer and principal at Handel, said that simultaneously watch both," Middleton they're ready and wailing to help make your next projeci a star. the inspiration came from the pavilions for said of the walkway between them. Call 1-866-653-2278 MI MMI US online at wviAw.oldcastleglass.com the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair, which were The complex's dual uses posed the held in the park. unique challenge of condensation. "Given The design also kept the Olympic-sized the temperature change, one side would pool, which features a mechanical system always have to sweat," said Middleton. The that raises and lowers the pool's floor to problem will be solved through the use of OkJcastle Glass allow for both competitive meets (which precast concrete on the interior and exterior requires a greater depth) and handicappyed of the building. The material has the densi• Where glass becomes architecture' if\ i^^^ i accessibility. According to Kevin Horn, prin• ty and thermal resistance to prevent the cipal of Horn + Goldman, "It's like a giant different climates from affecting each colander—the basin remains full of water other, while remaining easy to for the city while a perforated secondary floor raises to maintain.

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clear—to open up the windowless struc• removed to create a grander entrance. AARON SEWARD ture to light and give it a colorful, irides•

cent surface. Section through horizontal and vertical cuts TERRA COTTA TILE During the bidding process, Allied ON UNITIZED CURTAIN Works budgeted restoring the building, WALL FRAME demolishing it and replacing it with a VAPOR BARRIER SYSTEM new structure, and replacing the fagade. WIND LOAD ANCHOR Each of these three strategies would GALVANIZED STEEL have cost about the same (the current SHEET jack budget is between $50 and $60 million). MINERAL FIBER The architects and the museum decided INSULATION on the latter option—replacing the fagade in order to give the museum its own identity while preserving part of FORMED the original structure. LINE OF STRUCTURAL ALUMINUM STEEL TUBE BEYOND Zoning regulations only allowed the architects to push the existing fagade out by 4 inches, which complicated mat• ters because the redesign required the incorporation of insulation and a vapor GLASS barrier to meet current museum stan• dards—features which Stone's building GLASS lacks. The building's new skin is a unit• ized curtain wall system of 8-by-30-inch terra-cotta tiles placed in galvanized steel pans and clipped onto an alu• minum rail system. Terra cotta was cho• sen primarily for its ability to accept a nacreous glaze, which would vary in 100 color and tone in reaction to changing watt RESOLUTE light conditions. The glaze is being - CONCRETE - GLASS & ALUMINUM network developed by Allied Works in collabora• WALL BEYOND CURTAIN WALL tion with Dutch artist Christine Jetten

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The design for the new Louvre Lens satel• lite museum Includes reflective aluminum walls (far left), and an open, airy entrance pavilion (left). The site is a 153-acre plot on a former mining site (above).

The Louvre has awarded the design of its new satellite in Lens, France, to the team of archi• seven interconnected glass and aluminum pavilions, each roughly 82 feet wide by 300 feet tects that includes Tokyo-based SANAA, New York-based Imrey Culbert, and Paris-based long, according to Tim Culbert, a partner in Imrey Culbert. "The program was not about creat landscape architects Mosbach Paysagistes. The team, in a partnership coordinated by Imrey ing a new Bilbao," he said. "Over 60 percent of the brief addressed the art collection." The Cuthbert, beat out Zaha Hadid and Rudy Riciotti (who with Mario Bellini are designing the single-level complex will house a wide range of the Louvre's historic art collection, with the Islamic Gallery for the Louvre in Paris) to win the job. aim that the museum will be in a more open, fluid space. This led to the design of "a non- For the past several years, the Louvre has entertained proposals from towns wanting hierarchical building that's sympathetic to more traditional ways of showing art and sympa• to host an extension of the museum, eventually settling on Lens in the north of France thetic to the landscape," said Culbert, who is a fluent speaker of French and Japanese. near Belgium, a largely blue-collar town with a good rail connection to Paris. By extending The firms were selected by a committee of nearly 30 members, comprised of Louvre its Paris-based facilities, the Louvre is following in the footsteps of the Centre Georges administrators, local and national government administrators, along with a small number of Pompidou, which is building a satellite museum in Metz, designed by Shigeru Ban. architects, including Jean Nouvel. Currently on a fast track, with a 10-month design develop• The $77 million facility, to be built on 153 acres of a former mining site, will be a series of ment window, the museum is expected to open in 2009. ANDREW VAMC

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CIVIC-MINDED ARCHITECTS BRING IMPROVEMENTS TO CHINATOWN'S STREETS flat with residents, many of whom speak THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND little English. continued from front page communities. Hester Street's four summer interns sought So far, FEMA has purchased 30,000 hous• community input by handing out postcards ing units, all mass-market trailers and at AAFE's street fair in August. But they drew mobile homes, according to James STREETWISE blank stares. "Having compelling visuals was Mclntyre of FEMA's public affairs office. Hester Street Collaborative's outreach Hare and Mark Turkel, Yale classmates and not enough," said Frederick. "To engage the FEMA intended to create settlements of tactics are targeting the street. In 2004, the principals of Leroy Street Studio, started the public you need larger strategies." up to 25,000 inhabitants but widespread nonprofit design group joined a coalition to collaborative in 2001, when they moved their So interns William Chung and Dominick outcry prompted the agency to scale spruce up Allen and Pike streets, which run firm to Hester Street in Chinatown. The Freeman, who both graduated from high them down, which means that it will be from Houston Street through Chinatown to group's first project, still in process, is aimed school in June, concocted a board game necessary to find more, if smaller, sites. the East River. In coming weeks, the collabo• at improving the campus and gardens of the called Bad Design Darts. "Targets would be "Our teams are working with the rative—with the research of local teens— neighboring I.S. 131. The nonprofit's execu• areas that seem unlikable," explained Chung, political leadership and residents in each will create street signs honoring immigrants tive director Anne Frederick also helps who's now enrolled at the Fashion Institute [county] to find the best sites," said Lee for Allen and Pike's midblock malls. teach art at school. Earlier this year, pro• of Technology. "Participants would throw Tashjian, vice president of communica• The street sign project brings new gram coordinator Alex Gilliam started a at the targets and it would be like a survey." tions at Fluor. The teams ensure that exposure for Hester Street Collaborative's summer internship program, engaging Frederick and Gilliam hope to adopt some water, sewage, and electricity are readily kid-focused mission, to initiate design/build local students to address neglected neigh• of their interns' tactics for subsequent com• available and that there are no environ• projects in its community. Architects Morgan borhood sites. Frederick hopes to the mock- munity engagement efforts. "It'd be great to mental issues such as ground toxicity ups of new Allen and Pike Street signs use Bad Design Darts to pull people off the or oil seepage. (which may be cloth banners or metal) to street and ask, 'What's wrong with this site?'" The sites will be a mix of industrial, engage public feedback. said Frederick. commercial, and some private residential This effort emerged from the architects' The design of the Allen-Pike signs remains land. The trailers can be installed within frustration with the nature of community uncertain, pending student input and public a matter of days if the sewage and elec• development in Chinatown. In 2004, response. "Each student [in our art program] tricity are in order. After a site is selected, Frederick joined United Neighborhoods To is submitting a sign," said I.S. 131 art teacher it is submitted for FEMA's approval, after Revitalize Allen and Pike Streets (UNRAP), Alison Plump. "Anne's going to have to do a which the land will be leased by the U.S. created by social service agency Asian lot of filtering to figure out what's important General Services Administration (GSA). Americans for Equality (AAFE) after exten• to the larger community." The GSA is expected to pay full market sive public outreach on design questions. Frederick is coordinating an advisory board price for these leases, said Tashjian. "There's no compelling design aesthetic for of civic leaders to vet design suggestions. The corporations will manage the Chinatown," explained Robert Weber, AAFE's She hopes to disperse a public ballot before government-sponsored trailer parks until policy director. Many civic groups sought to mid-November. Advisors would vote on a they are dismantled. The leases are glamorize the Allen-Pike corridor, and AAFE design strategy in December, ALEC APPELBAUM expected to last two years, JK created UNRAP to pool political strength. But according to Frederick, city bureaucrats muddied design options at a spring meeting. WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM "They said, 'Do you want high density or low density,'" she recalled. These terms fell

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Department of Parks and Recreation RAISING began the process of redesigning a playground in Union Square. Originally AWARENESS announced in 2004, the $14 million On October 18, the National Trust for renovation of Union Square Park < Historic Preservation began accepting North was intended to consolidate LU nominations for their 2006 America's and expand the playground, construct 11 most Endangered Historic Places a new plaza for the farmers' market List. The list is intended to raise and other public events, and restore awareness about and become an the pavilion, which is operated by impetus to protect places that "tell Luna Park as a cafe in warm-weather America's story." Previously listed months, into a year-round restaurant. sites include the French Ouarter in The pavilion, being renovated by ARO, New Orleans, Ellis Island in New York came under fire by area residents who City, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis claim the restaurant will inhibit needed House in Los Angeles. Nominations playground space for the growing are due by January 18, and the 2006 family population in the neighborhood. The Parks Department agreed to keep list will be announced in early June. Luna Park a seasonal establishment, allowing the playground space to be AND SO IT increased by 60 percent. BEGINS Last month, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced $8 million BACK ON in city capital funds and $17 million in TRACK city and state housing tax credits for On October 19, the Chinese govern• the first phase of Palmer's Dock, locat• ment resumed construction of the ed at 164 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. national Olympic Stadium in Beijing, RENEGADE SlTICKERING SUBVERTS k\)^ERJS As part of the first development result• the centerpiece venue for the 2008 ing from the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Summer Olympics. Designed by Herzog rezoning, Palmer's Dock will designate & de Meuron, the structure's original 117 of its 900 total units affordable. $362.4 million price tag inflated to THOUGHT BUBBLES Through inclusionary zoning, various $422.8 million, and construction was housing programs, and the conditional halted over the summer in order to Ads are so ubiquitous on New York City observers, soap boxes, and creative poster sale of city property, 3,500 units of optimize the design. The 100,000-seat streets—shouting from buildings, street boards without being abrasive. affordable housing are to be developed stadium, whose bands of steel stretch furniture, subways, and taxis—that many Last month the Bubble Project launched along the Greenpoint-Williamsburg across the structure in every direction, of us just tune them out. Freelance art its own website where visitors can read its waterfront. The project will begin con• is supposed to resemble a bird's nest. director Ji Lee has devised a way for manifesto, view a catalogue of message struction next August and is anticipated The Beijing Organizing Committee for New Yorkers to talk back. "The bubbles bubbles, and even download a template to to be completed in 2008. the 2008 games claims that the over• are a platform for people to express them• start pasting their own bubbles. By the end all concept of the stadium will not be selves," said Lee. of October, the Bubble Project website will THE NEW MOON compromised. The stadium will hold For the Bubble Project, Lee designed a begin selling bubble stickers at cost for the opening and closing ceremonies cartoonlike thought bubble sticker that he distribution. A book about the project is Heeding community concerns, last and all track and field events. places on advertisements he passes by. Some scheduled for release next summer To find month the New York City time later, he'll revisit the bubble, which out more or to get involved in the bubble inevitably have been filled with a caption of project, go to www.thebubbleproject.com. some fellow citizen's devising. He then Note the caveat on the website that photographs the revised advertisements. reminds interested parties that placing bub• Edmund Bacon Dies at 95 The bubbles grew out of a project Lee bles on public or private property is illegal and engaged in at the user's own risk. One of the few urban planners who is cred• Bacon is survived by six children, including developed for a client four years ago. The ited for single-handedly transforming the his son Kevin, the actor. The sometimes goal was to come up with a fun way for par• GUNNAR HAND landscape of a major American city in the cranky, irascible Bacon remained free• ents and children to leave one another notes 20'" century, Philadelphia's Edmund N. wheeling in his commentary on urban around the house. This strategy was ulti• Bacon, died on October 14 at the age of 95. planning in recent decades. In 2002, he was mately rejected but Lee decided to take the Bacon served as executive director of the footloose on a skateboard in Philadelphia's concept to the streets. Said Lee, "There are Philadelphia City Planning Commission LOVE Park, which he designed in 1932, to so many ads, and so many of them are bor• from 1949 to 1970, and his planning skillful• protest the park's ban on skateboarders. ing, that I wanted to transform them into ly combined redevelopment and preserva• The Ed Bacon Foundation (www.edba- something imaginative. Also, by combating tion for Society Hill, Penn's Landing, and con.com) was launched in 2004 to advance the media bombardment with this outlet for Independence Mall. His face graced the his vision and legacy. That same year. the public, I am essentially balancing out cover of 77rT7e magazine's November 6, Bacon donated his personal collection of my work in advertising." 1964 issue for a story on urban renewal. books to Philadelphia's Charter High In the scribbles one regularly sees Although he retired from his official post School for Architecture + Design, which on advertisements around the city, the 35 years ago, his influence on urban plan• named its library after him. JOHN CZARNECKI vulgarities are prominent. But it was the ning lasted. His 1967 book. Design of Cities, more social and political commentary that is a classic planning text in which Bacon inspired Lee to keep posting stickers. "I was ties his work in Philadelphia to the history very surprised by the depth and complexity of great urbanism with great clarity. of the content." Everything from accusations Alexander Garvin, a former vice presi• of clandestine involvement of the Bush dent at the L MDC, was a friend of Bacon in government in 9/11 to tart commentary on the last decade. Describing him as "the consumerism has shown up on bubbles most extraordinary planner of the 20'" cen• Lee has photographed. They serve as a tury," Garvin noted, "he had a vision of form of indirect communication among downtown Philadelphia where people lived and worked. His plan was not to just build offices and clear housing as was often the practice in the urban renewal era." Bacon was born to a Philadelphia pub• [email protected] lishing family, earned a BArch from Cornell University in 1932, and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. [

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HOUSE IN TOWN. TOWN HOUSE

WITH NEW YORK CITY'S REAL ESTATE BOOM. FEW PARCELS OF LAND , MANHATTAN HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED. EVEN THE CITY'S TINY INFILL LOTS HAVE ALEXANDER GORLIN ARCHITECTS BECOME HOT PROPERTY-AND THE PERFECT SITES FOR REINVI60RATING THE TOWN HOUSE TYPE. ACCORDING TO ARCHITECT AND TOWN HOUSE Unlike ottier urban infill projects that EXPERT ALEXANDER 60RLIN, THESE NARROW AND LONG RESIDENCES build to the lot line, ttiis jewel-box of a tiouse, wtiicfi occupies a 25-by-100-foot ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE CITY. lot on the Upper East Side, is set back 25 feet from the street. It actually occupies the footprint of a previous structure, a 1958 two-story modernist town house to which architect Alexander Gorlin wanted to pay respect. He also preserved the glazing and mullion rhythm of the origi• nal ground-floor fagade, extending them upward, to the renovated second floor and a newly added third floor. "In the original house"—sandwiched by two big apartment buildings—"it got darker as you went up," said Gorlin. He made the quite natural decision to glaze both front and rear elevations, and also funneled light through the home via a skylight- topped open staircase. Further, he floored the hallway of the top level with glass blocks, which allow light to penetrate below. Gorlin converted the basement into a children's playroom, reserving the entrance level for spaces for entertain• ing—kitchen, dining, and living room. Private bedrooms fill the second floor and the top floor contains a guest room, office, and an acoustically isolated media room that opens to a terrace. "The hus• band is in the music business so the media room is the ultimate space in the

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The dense residential urban fabric of Manhattan and Brooklyn was historically defined as much by the Second floor plan blocks of town houses as by the voids between them—the unbuilt lots that until very recently were a prominent part of the streetscape. Their constricted sites have long made town houses an absurd economic master proposition. Multifamily residences have obvious economies of scale and higher returns. Moreover, bedroom bedroom building a town house has its unique problems in New York: With no staging area for contractors and the need for expensive underpinning of the neighbor's foundations, prices can range from $500 to $ 1,500 per square foot. But the phenomenal rise of real estate prices and ability to flip even small properties bedroom (this, the town of million-dollar studios), it has become economically feasible to build on these empty parcels. With the city's small infill lots being snapped up at unparalleled pace, the experience of walking in the city has been forever changed in a relatively short period of time.

The town house as a building type in fact reaches back to Crete and Pompeii, a city built almost Third floor plan entirely of these narrow-fronted single-family structures. Le Corbusier describes them in great detail in his 1923 Towards a New Architecture. He admired them for the great variety of space and light they allowed within a standardized plan, which fit in with his theories about the potential industrialization of housing, and the relationship of the part to the whole in the house and the city. Leon Battista Alberti bedroom ?~j and Andrea Palladio also wrote at length about town houses, and in his 1516 socialist tract Utopia, Renaissance scholar Sir Thomas Moore described his ideal city Amaurote as composed of town houses: study QJ media room roof "The houses be of fair and gorgeous building, and on the street side they stand joined together in a long terrace row through the whole street without any partition or separation." » ! I ir-t 111!

As a former Dutch colony, New York City inherited the town house type originally from Amsterdam, though the local variations derive equally from London precedents. The stoop is of Dutch origin, while the common half-level dropped floor is drawn from the London type. These references persisted—per• haps too persistently. From the massive construction of and classical townhouses in New York in the late 19"' and early 20"' century, one can count one hand the number of modernist takes on the town house. There's the glass block front of the Lescaze House of 1937 on the Upper East Side; the lacy stone fai^ade of Edward Durrell Stone's own uptown house; George Nelson's continued on page 14 LU

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FEIFER-CHUN RESIDENCE with a second-floor terrace that overlooks BOERUM HILL, BROOKLYN their backyard. The rental unit has its own TINA MANIS street entrance, leading to the top floor and a terrace facing the street. "Basically, they The clients of this ground-up infill house want the rental to be invisible," said Manis. wanted "a suburban house in an urban In suburban style, the fagade is wood- setting," said New York architect Tina sided, though in this case, the elegant Manis. They wanted a garage and a big cedar-birch panels are arranged in alternat• backyard. But they also wanted a rental ing widths and patterns, forming a moire unit and separate entrances. The challenge pattern. The different textures create a for Manis, formerly a project manager at screen (left, top) that cleverly hides the OMA who broke off on her own five years owner's entrance, the garage door, and the ago, was to design a structure that allowed tenant's entrance. The project features an all the home's future inhabitants to have all-glass back fagade (left, below) that open views and space as well as privacy. opens to their backyard.

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In addition to being architect Matthew Baird's first ground-up building, this 5,000-square-feet West Village town house also has the distinction of being the first single-family home built in the district in the last 14 years. A former architect at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Associates, Baird used a single, prefabricated 40-foot- tall steel plate to create a sense of privacy within the building—a feature not unlike the massive metal-alloy fagade employed at Williams and Tsien's Museum of American Folk Art. Inside, the house, which sits on a 20-by-60-foot lot, features such striking spaces as terrace and kitchen that are completely open to each other, a double-height media room, and plenty of skylights. The project is both forcefully modern and context-appropri• ate, in scale and even material (Baird argues that the house's industrial feel relates to the surrounding Meatpacking District), despite neighbors' initial disap• proval of the project. AY LU (\J

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photovoltaic roof deck 114-116 HUDSON STREET rent zoning laws, it is only 45 feet deep— ready MANHATTAN much shallower than the adjacent building BKSK ARCHITECTS to which has been attached. With the street appearance of two separate buildings, in This 19,000-square-foot residential conver• fact, the new structure is united, with indi• 3rd floor fire escape sion includes an existing five-story 19'"- vidual apartments occupying full floors. century commercial loft building and an The new, glazed half is open in plan, hous• adjacent narrow, vacant 1,615-square-foot ing the kitchen, dining, and living room 4th floor lot "We wanted to acknowledge the recent spaces. Bathrooms, bedrooms, and stor• history of the site in our design," noted age spaces are housed in the more closed George Scheiferdecker, a principal of BKSK existing structure. The new, enlarged 1st floor rear yard Architects. "Having something transparent ground-floor is now available for lease to is a reminder of that long-standing gap in one or two commercial tenants while a cellar the city fabric." The infill structure has a two-story penthouse was added to the glass and aluminum fagade. Due to cur• twin structures, AARON SEWARO LJJ ro a: ^

DONOVAN RESIDENCE AND STUDIO SOUTH 3RD STREET,WILLIAMSBURG STANDARD ARCHITECTS

This three-story apartment and studio for the artist Tara Donovan is a two-level addition to a one-story garage on Williamsburg's south side. For ail intents and purposes, it is a new building. li Standard Architects developed a scheme in which three very distinct spaces—a ground-floor working studio and garage, and second-floor private studio, and a third floor apartment—are linked by dra• matic, skylight-lit stair that runs up diago• nally along the side of the three spaces. "We had to sacrifice a little bit of floor space, but Tara was really enthusiastic about the idea of the single stair," explained principal John Conaty. The new building is in scale with its 1 front yard 5 master bedroom neighborhood, but unlike the tenements 2 living room 6 bedroom nearby, is oriented almost entirely toward ! I

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HOUSE IN TOWN continued from page 10 streamUned Fairchild House of 1941 at 17 East 65"" Street; Philip lohnson's Miesian Rockefeller Guest House of 1950, in Midtown; and Morris Lapidus' home and office at 256 East 29"' Street, of 1950. The great breakthrough in modern town hou.ses in New York are the ones by Paul Rudolph, primarily his own mirrored extrav• aganza, designed in 1972, overlooking the East River. All these houses owe a great debt not only to the modern movement but to a number of houses that are—but almost never referred to as—town houses. Sir John Soane's own London town house—actually three linked houses, built from 1792 to 1812—is one of the best examples. On the exterior it is stately and reticent; inside the house is an archeology of the architect's mind, exploring the house as the site of life and death with a sarcophagus and dome of heaven above. His architectural innovations have inspired Philip lohnson and oth• 5^ ers for their insight into the town house typology. Le Corbusier's series of town houses of the 1920s—the Oz^nfant House and Studio (Paris, 1922), Maisons Guiette (Anvers, 1926), Maison M. Cook (Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1926), and Maison Plainex (Paris, 1927)—are also 5! ^5 very important. Despite his loathing for the street and urban life in general, Le Corbusier ?5 designed these town houses as respectful neighbors of the urban street wall. On the interi• ors, however, all hell breaks loose, following the French tradition of the asymmetrical plan• ning of the hotel particulier. The ma.sterpiecc of the modern town house is without a doubt the Maison dc Verre, designed by Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet in 1931 for the French gynecologist Dr. Dalsace. It is an obsessive exploration of the relationship between technol• ogy and the sensual domestic interior. Its striking translucent glass block facade provides privacy and recalls Adolf Loos' dictum that "a cultivated man does not look out the window... It is only there to let light in, not let the gaze pass through." On the interior, indu.strial details of structural steel bolted columns are surrounded by articulated wood cabinets framed by wrought iron and steel on a rubber tile floor. Its unlikely juxtapositions of materials has provided a model for the town house interior for over 75 years. Loos him.self designed numerous town houses that explored his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud's idea about the ps7che, that the "dream has a fa<;ade like a house." The AND Tristan Tzara House in Paris of 1926 contrasts a sy mmctrical fa«^de with a labyrinthine interior of stairs, different levels, volumes and materials. Even the Schroeder House by Gerrit Reitveld in Utrecht of 1923, one of the seminal houses of the 20"" century, is really a town house. At the end of a block of traditional Dutch hou.ses, it takes the same rhythmic dimensions and explodes into a series of planes, De Stijl primary colors, and interior sliding panels— containing lessons that have been rediscovered time and again by contemporary architects. The New York town hou.ses depicted here show the latest exploration of the ancient build• ing type that is at once inflexible in its constricted frame, generous with opportunities in sect ion, street expression, and circulation,and rich with challenges in lighting,budget,and eoiisiruLtion. ALEXANDER GORLIN. FAIA, IS THE PRINCIPAL OF ALEXANDER GORLIN ARCHITECTS, HE IS THE AUTHOR OF CREATING THE MEW AMERICAN TOWN HOUSE (RIZZOLI, 20O5>.

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Maqnusson Architecture & Planning worked witti community group Nos Ouedamos to draw up Recombinant Urbanism provi(ies a simple but a renewal plan for Melrose Commons, a 35-block area in ttie Bronx. The plan Includes several comprehensive framework for urban design - from its new residences, including a 9S-unit coop (top) on 3rd Avenue between 158th and 159th streets.

origins in Europe and America, to contemporary issues of AIA-NEW YORK 2005 HOUSING DESIGN are now a close-knit group of friends becau.se imagery, finance and marketing in an age of globalisation AWARDS continued from page 13 they worked on the houses together." As oriented toward a community garden across .Santos .stated,"There's always been some kind paperback ISBN 0470093315 the street, and skylights within make the of ambiguity, as to whether housing is really hardback ISBN 0470093293 most of limited space. As the jury notes architecture with a capital A." And for this stated,"These aren't cheap gestures, Init reason, Lizenberg posited,"People who do I the architects] decided where to prioritize," hou.sing feel a bit marginalized." She conclud• bringing an element of delight to this low- ed, "I'm glad they're doing [this awards pro• November 17: budget scheme. Another standt)ut project, gram]—the people working in housing need Melrose (.ommons in the Bronx, took root all the support they can get." If McCullar has Lecture by when Magnusson Architecture & Planning his way, this will only be the beginning. The began pro-bono consulting for the client, New York AIA housing committee is in talks • Grahame Shane, author of N()sQucdamos ("we stay" in Spanish), a with the BSA about coordinating both cities' Recombinant Urbanism community group formed in 1993 to protest housing awards, with New York taking the the city's Urban Renewal plans for Melrose. odd-numbered years and Btiston the evens. Co-sponsored by the Architectural League The project won an award in the "Building But for its inaugural year, the New York and Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of die C(K5per Union. (Community" category, more for the com• (Chapter's Housing Design .\wards was all munity-involved design process than for the about the home city: Following the same cri• buildings themselves—tidy rowhouses with teria as the New York Chapter Design Awards, sliver-sized front lawns, awnings, and orange- announced on September 19, all of the proj• and-terracotta patterned fat^ades. ects had to be either by or for New Yorkers. )WILEY Similarly, Murphy admitted of his firm's ANNA HOLTZMAN IS A NEW YORK BASED WRITER Habitat project, "The architectural expres• Now you know. AND A FORMER EDITOR AT ARCHITECTURE sion is not necessarily that exciting, hut the wiluyxom Available at all good bookstores and online MAGAZINE. SHE IS COMPLETING A DOCUMENTARY result is exciting: The people who live there ABOUT NEW YORK CITY'S SUBWAY MUSICIANS. MINIAA/t

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WEDNESDAY 2 SATURDAY 5 Calvin Tsao TUESDAY 1 5 o LECTURES EXHIBITION OPENINGS 6:15 p.m. LECTURE o Maya Lin Hans Haacke Parsons the New School Elisabetta Terragni for Design The Beauty of Leftovers CM 6:30 p.m. State of the Union 25 East 13th St. OtL Asia Society Paula Cooper Gallery 6:30 p.m. 534 West 21st Street www.parsons.edu Steelcase LU 725 Park Ave. wvvw.asiasociety.org www.paulacoopergallery.com 4 Columbus Cir CD Meejin Yoon, Alvin Lucier, www.nyit.edu Joel Sanders, Ben Rubin, Rafael Moneo MONDAY 7 Karen Van Lengen On Arbitrariness in LECTURES SYMPOSIUM Architecture and Sounds > Architecture Avis Berman Innovation: Shaping 6:30 p.m. the Future of Design Ol 6:30 p.m. Edward Hopper's New York Columbia GSAPP 6:30 p.m. Urban Center and Construction Wood Auditorium Cooper Union 457 Madison Ave. McGraw-Hill 113 Avery Hall Great Hall www.mas.org 1221 Ave. of the Americas www.arch.columbia.edu 7 East 7th St. www.construction.com www.cooper.edu Floramae McCarron-Cates, THURSDAY 3 Jordan Kim TRADE SHOW DESIGNING THE TAXI LECTURES Neil Denari Excavating the Vocabulary Build Boston Parsons the New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street Jacquelin T. Robertson Formagraphics of Design Seaport World Trade Center November 3 to January 15 Architecture and the Politics 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 200 Seaport Blvd.. Boston of Design Yale School of Architecture Cooper Hewitt. National www.buildboston.com Last spring. Parsons the New School for Design and the 6:00 p.m. Hastings Hall Design Museum Design Trust for Public Space sponsored a public program City College 180 York St., New Haven 2 East 91st St. WEDNESDAY 16 based on improving the taxicab. This month, the responses Shepard Hall www.architecture.yale.odu www.ndm.si.edu LECTURE are on view at Parsons along with a full-scale model of a city Convent Ave. and 138th St. Michael Bell street with a mock-traffic jam showcasing past, present, and www.ccnycuny.edu TUESDAY 8 EXHIBTION OPENING Binocular House future cabs. Design and architecture firms such as Birsel + LECTURES Preservation on the Edge: 6:00 p.m. Seek. IDEO, Weisz * Yoes. Pentagram, and FXFOWLE submit• Helen Strangeland, Alessandra Comini Preserving our East Village Princeton School of ted a range of entries that incorporate energy efficiency, Reinhard Kropf Art Before the Abyss: Heritage Architecture handicapped accessibility, bright LED displays, a real-time A New Wave in Norwegian From Fa^de to Psyche Municipal Art Society Betts Auditorium map of the cab's route, glass roofs, and systems of hailing Architecture in Schiele's Vienna 457 Madison Ave. www.princeton.edu/-soa a taxi at the push of a cell-phone button. New York based 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. www.mas.org technology designer Sigi Moeslinger of Antenna Design pre• Scandinavia House New York University The Design Workshop: sented a cab (pictured above) that simplifies the driver/pas• 58 Park Ave. Deutsches Haus EVENT Seven Years of Design senger interface with clearer signage, improved safety, navi• www.scandinaviahouse.org 42 Washington Mews Marina Abramovic: Build at Parsons gation systems, and rear display panels. The accompanying www.nyu.edu Vito Acconci's Seed Bed Parsons the New School catalogue, published by the Design Trust, offers an in-depth Glenn Murcutt 5:00 p.m. for Design look at each project. Sustainability: A Cop-out for Susan Yelavich, Huda Solomon R. Aronson Galleries Good Design? Smithshuijzen, Abi Fares Guggenheim Museum 66 51h Ave. Peter B. Lewis Theater 6:30 p.m. Global Issues in Design and wvvw.parsons.edu 1071 5th Ave. Yale School of Architecture Visuality www.guggenheim.org Hastings Hall 6:00 p.m. THURSDAY 17 180 York St.. New Haven Parsons the New School LECTURES www.architecture.yale.edu for Design FRIDAY 11 Grahame Shane. Tishman Auditorium EXHIBTION OPENING Diana Agrest, et al. SYMPOSIUM 66 West 12th St Calvin Tsao Architecture and Cities: Global vs. Local: Critical www.parsons.edu Serving Conscience Recombinant Urbanism Sustainability in Architecture Parsons the New School for 6:30 p.m. and Urban Form WEDNESDAY 9 Design Cooper Union Hal Foster, Stan Allen. Juhani LECTURES 25 East 13th St. 7 East 7th St. Pallasmaa, et al. Vincente Guallart wvvw.parsons.edu www.archleague.org Rockefeller University Microgeographies Caspary Hall 6:00 p.m. SATURDAY 12 Anne Collins Goodyear 1230 York Ave. Princeton School of SYMPOSIUM Modernism on High: The www.archleague.org Architecture Leadership in Impact of the Airplane on Betts Auditorium Creative Domain Art of the 20th Century EXHIBITION OPENING www.princeton.edu/~soa Linda Yaven 7:00 p.m. Designing the Taxi Cooper-Hewitt, National Pratt Manhattan Gallery Parsons the New School Eva Zeisel Design Museum 144 West 14th St. for Design 6:00 p.m. 2 East 91st St. www.pratt.edu 2 West 13th St. Cooper-Hewitt, National www.ndm.si.edu TRANSCENDING TYPE www.parsons.edu Design Museum SYMPOSIUM Yale School of Architecture, 180 York Street, New Haven 2 East 91st St. MONDAY 14 Bernard Tschumi, et al. November 14 to February 3 FRIDAY 4 www.ndm.si.edu LECTURES The Politics of Design LECTURES Beatriz Colomina Van Alen Institute Transcending Type, Yale School of Architecture's newest John Zukowsky Jeffrey Kipnis Unbreathed Air, 1956: 30 West 22nd St., 6th Fl. exhibition, shows how six American architectural firms define Building for Space Travel How I See Things, at the Alison and Peter Smithson's vvww.vanalen.org modern building types. Originally presented in the U.S. 3:00 p.m. Moment House of the Future Pavilion the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. which was Intrepid Sea, Air & Space 6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 212 Robertson Hall, themed Metamorph, the show has jumped the puddle to Museum Columbia GSAPP Princeton School Princeton Yale. Curated by the editors of Architectural Record, West 46th St. and 12th Ave. Wood Auditorium of Architecture wvvw.princeton.edu/-soa Transcending Type will feature drawings, digital media, and www.intrepidmuseum.org 113 Avery Hall Betts Auditorium three-dimensional installations that provide new takes on www.arch.columbia.edu vvww.princeton.edu/--soa FRIDAY 18 public architecture, such as shopping centers, sports arenas, Peter Eisenman, Leon Krier LECTURE and parking garages. One project, a film by New York-based Two Ideologies EVENT Michael Maltzan Wilbert Hasbrouck, firm Reiser • Umemoto, shows a bridge that is placed in both 6:30 p.m. Modernism: A Century Oblique Actions John Zukowsky real and fictional settings, constantly assuming new charac• Institute of Classical of Style and Design 6:30 p.m. The Chicago Art Club teristics. In response to Venice's constant flooding, young Architecture 6:00 p.m. Yale School of Architecture 6:30 p.m. California-based Predock_Frane Architects suspended nearly 20 West 44th St. Park Avenue Armory Hastings Hall Municipal Art Society 6.000 green and white filaments from the ceiling to evoke the www.classicist.org 643 Park Ave. 180 York St.. New Haven 457 Madison Ave. sensation of a sinking city. Works by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis. www.brooklynmuseum.org wvvw.architecture.yale.edu www.mas.org Kolatan McDonald, George Yu, and Studio/Gang also SYMPOSIUM appeared in the Biennale and will be on display at Yale. Fabricating Identity THURSDAY 10 EXHIBITION OPENING MONDAY 21 Gwen Wright, Diane Favro, LECTURES Transcending Type LECTURES et al. Tom Angotti, Daniel Yale School of Architecture Peter Zumthor, Olafur Center for Architecture Goldstein, et al. 180 York St., New Haven Eliasson 536 LaGuardia PI. Planning Forum: www.architecture.yale.edu Architecture and Art: www.bwaf.org Atlantic Yards Architecture as Platform 8:30 a.m. Cooper Union Urban Center Great Hall LIST YOUR EVENT AT 457 Madison Ave. 7 East 7th St. DIARY(aARCHPAPERXOM www.mas.org www.cooperedu CO

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Brazilian photographer Andre Cypriano has been documentlnq the favelas of Brazil for many years, particularly Rocinha in Rio one can understand global poverty and the market." This (pictured here), Brazil's largest, with over 250,000 inhabitants. His book Rocinha was published last year by SENAC Editoras. sounded promising indeed, and yet, despite Sumila Gulyanl's presentation "Housing: The Masses and a Post- ethical City," the global aspect remained the most under• cooked part of the symposium, addressed only by some Introductory comments on the world's Increasing housing demand, and by noting the fact that slums and illegal set• tlements take up more than 50 percent of the housing stock in fast-growing cities around the world. Moreover, dated terms, and Orientalist and Western missionary habits, still surfaced; this textured the debate with implications that the Third World is waiting for our help, orthat housing can pro• vide local resistance to the global. It could be overlooked if only It did not hint at a subconscious but persistent tendency to Imagine the U.S. as the world's great shaping force. Above all, does New York really give the best perspective to learn and discover critical strategies for the housing demand of the world at large? In their presentations, Richard Plunz The Global and Lance Freeman acknowledged the relative failure of affordable housing in the U.S. Moreover, once the discus• Housing Question sants brought up the question whether or not housing is a human right, one could not help remember that, when

Four Conversations: The Columbia Housing Studio the United Nations tried to recognize housing officially as and New York City a universal human right in the 1995 International Habitat for GSAPR Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall Humanity meeting, only the U.S. resisted the proposal since October 10 this would have put extreme financial burden on the govern• ment to provide housing for its own poor. It is risky (if respectable) for an Ivy League school to address affordable housing, since it easily stirs up patronizing com• ments about how the rest of the community—or the rest of the world—should live. Fortunately, Kenneth Frampton At the daylong conference Four Conversations: been the central focus of discussions about the possibility explicitly addressed this risk In his introductory remarks by The Columbia Housing Studio and New York City at of critical practice (or lack thereof) for architects who hope to stressing the need to approach housing in a subtle way, with• Columbia University, Dean Mark Wigley contrasted the provide living spaces for society as a whole ratherthan a small out either imposing or being totally absorbed by the mass "responsible housing" and "experimental" studios of number of rich clients. taste and trends. He cited Alvar Aalto as an architect who the school in the past, only to make it clear that this confer• In the midst of this ever-changing context, the sympo• successfully walked that line. ence marked the productive merging of the two. For those sium's organizers made an understandable decision to Rather than extending New York, or even the Columbia who work on the history of housing around the world, this invite—almost exclusively—those who have either taught Housing Studio to the rest of the world, how could one think remark on the potential gap between dull housing and or studied in the Columbia Housing Studio. This led to of expanding the studio to include ideas and examples from experimental design was a disorienting starting point, since a day of Informative presentations on the work of students around the world? Still, the conference was a well-conceived modern architecture can hardly be appreciated without giv• and graduates in New York and elsewhere, as well as a rich attempt to bring to the fore some urgent and meaningful ing credit to the intense level of experimentation in the field account on the history of housing In New York City, the Intri• questions. Housing, once again, proves to be one of the most of housing. From expandable houses to folding ones, the cate relations between real estate and design, and the pressing Issues in architecture and In the world at large. first factory-produced standard kitchens, experiments with need to reimaglne the architect's role in housing production. ARCHITECT ESRA AKCAN IS A POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND CORE new construction materials, and self-help organizations in But the conference aimed for more. In his introductory LECTURER AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. SHE ALSO TEACHES semi-legal neighborhoods, there are countless examples speech, Michael Bell, the coordinator of the Housing Studio, GRADUATE SEMINARS AT PARSONS NEW SCHOOL OF DESIGN. that demonstrate that there is no intrinsic conflict between stated that the Intention was to "conceptualize from a global responsibility and creativity in design. Housing has long lens, to see New York as a palimpsest of the world where

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Creating the New American Town House the work of many important Japanese architects, such as ects all over the country, some which most examples, as the most common Alexander Gorlin HitoshI Abe, Kengo Kuma. and Shuhei Endo, for example. stretch the definition (a condominium direction for expansions. "Above" has Rizzoli, S50 By contrast. Modern Japanese Houses by veteran design in San Francisco and a beach house the quirkiest examples, and "Below" journalist Naomi Pollack is a more involved study of the uses in Southern California) Unsupnsmgly, IS potentially the least interesting House Plus: Imaginative ideas for Extending and typologies of Japanese homes. Pollack correctly discusses the New York specimens—by (basement conversions) though It Your Home the Japanese house In the context of the tight confines of Christian Hubert, Marpillero Pollack. does include David Adjaye's striking Phyllis Richardson 1100 Architects. Gluckman Mayner. Huguenot house, with a backyard Thames & Hudson. $45 Japanese cities. Hers is a much more succinct and tightly curated work. Leslie Gill, Hann and Hariri, and Gorlin patio made of glass bricks that double himself—are the best. as a roof for a subterranean studio. 00 00 3 ^ LLl >l-H LU

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earthworks, Smithson's early proj• Although not drawn to scale and ects were more portable, or made roughly worked out, they provided for gallery settings. However, his the blueprint for this project, his ode ART REVIVAL fascination with the landscape is to Manhattan. Thirty years after evident in early proposals for proj• Smithson tried unsuccessfully to ects such as the conceptual draw• raise the funds and get permission Robert Smithson and Floating Island ing Proposal for a Monument in to float an island of trees and shrubs Whitney Museum of American Art Antartica{^966). in which he around Manhattan, a group of insti• 945 Madison Ave depicts a cuboid form set within the tutions—including the nonprofit Closed October 23 icy landscape. Mirror Displacement public arts organization Minetta (Cayuga Salt Mine Project) from 1969 Brook, the Whitney Museum, the Odd Lots: Revisiting Estate of Robert Smithson, James Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates is an attempt to bring the outside Queens Museum of Art indoors. Mounds of salt rock are Cohan Gallery, and Smithson's New York City Building installed in a straight line and over• widow Nancy Holt—all worked Flushing Meadovi/s Corona Park laid with square mirrored tiles that together to make the project hap• Through January 22 reflect the material and the context pen. The project was developed by White Columns in which they are placed, bringing the landscape architect Diana 320 West 13th Street Closed October 15 the two into play with one another. Balmori and Nat Oppenheimer, an The exhibition provides a compre• engineer. Last year, Christo and hensive background for Smith Jeanne-Claude also made headlines son's work, yet his monumental when they realized The Gates, a in-situ works remain his trademark. project conceived thirty years These include his iconic 1,500 foot- before. Compared to their $21 mil• long Sp/ra/Jetty (1970), a curlicue lion venture. Floating Island cost a form made from salt-crusted rocks mere $200,000. In Manhattan, embedded in the Great Salt Lake in where we have become used to Utah, and Broken Circle and Spiral seeing floating cities in the form of Hill, two works he created in cruise ships that compete with the Emmen in the Netherlands for the scale of skyscrapers. Floating Island Sonsbeek Festival in 1971. might seem like a futile gesture. But Smithson borrows his forms from the hundreds of people that gath• shapes found in nature: the curve ered on Pier 46 in the West Village of a landscape, the mound on September 17 to witness this of a hill, the irregular patterns of floating oasis of trees, rocks, shrubs a slowly eroding coastline. Yet his and grass proved that you don't works also give back—they make us always need to make the biggest look again at our surroundings and splash to create a ripple effect. find beauty in unexpected places, Like Smithson, who grew up in materials and forms. A cliche per• sight of Manhattan in New Jersey, haps, as good art always has the Gordon Matta-Clark was an artist of ability to prompt reexamination, the city and his work pays homage yet I never tire of looking at footage to the detritus of everyday urban of these works, such as The Spiral life, He too died at the age of 35, in Jetty F//m (1970). In it, viewers fol 1978. A trained architect, Matta- Robert Smithson's Mirror with Crushed Shells (Sanibel Island). 1969. installed at the low Smithson from an aerial per• Clark is best known for his building Whitney Museum of American Art spective as he runs the length of cuts such as Pier In/Out ^973) and the spiral, stopping at its central- Day's End (1975). Illegally entering most point to look out across the the warehouses, he laboriously sliced holes through them, open• Coincidental or not? This fall, rare opportunity to understand the (where it was first shown), the lake. His sense of achievement is ing up views of the water and works by Robert Smithson and two artists and their influence on exhibition successfully identifies palpable in his solid pose and sud• allowing light to stream in. Fake Gordon Matta-Clark, which were current discourse about public the main themes in the body of denly calm body language. Estates, a project that recently came never completed during their lives, space. Floating Island was created paintings, drawings, work on Smithson worked on his projects to light, is a smaller scale work but have been realized. Although in conjunction with a major retro• paper, essays, photographs, with a ritualistic fervor and created it further illustrates Matta-Clark's organized separately, the simulta• spective of Smithson's work at the objects, and films Smithson made an immense quantity of sketches, insatiable curiosity with the urban neous presentation of Smithson's Whitney Museum. Curated by from 1955 until his 1973 death in paintings, drawings, and plans. It is frame and his desire to expose the Floating Island and Gordon Matta- Eugenie Tsai of the Los Angeles an airplane crash at the age of 35. thanks to these that it was possible mechanisms continued on page 20 Clark's Fake Estates provided a Museum of Contemporary Art Although known for pioneering to realize Floating /s/andtoday.

The creative services agency Art + Commerce, best known for its represen• tation of provocative photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Steve Meisel, and Ellen von Unwerth, has organized its second annual Festival of New Emerging Photographers. With 150 works by 24 budding artists, all based in the tri-state area, the exhibition showcases photography that is both conceptually driven and broadly appealing. Accessibility is important to the organizer Jim Moffat, which is part of the reason the show is sited in a Focus facility—a grand, brick tobacco warehouse—that's in a public park. Most of the works have a documentary feel, which is likely to resonate well with the general public. A dominant feature among the varied works is an impulse to capture the bizarre in sensuous colors and disciplined compositions. Beauty is revealed in an eclectic mix of subjects, from ani• mal agriculture (Samantha Bass) to male vulnerability (Jesse Burke), iso• lated urban encounters (Matthew Conners), and transgender lifestyles (Cass Bird).One photographer, Shai Kremer, focuses on roads in Israel (where Art * Commerce: 2005 Festival of he is from) and Palestine, articulating cultural theorist Paul Virilio's theory Emerging Photographers that "possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but Tobacco Warehouse first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation." In tranquil pho• Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, tographs of roads that divide and delineate the contested space between DUMBO these two embattled lands, Kremer makes a poignant observation on con• Closed October 25 flict, describing it as a virile "infection" of the landscape.

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labs. The pair has developed experimental design strategies in order to explore the social and cultural implications of new tech• nologies on everyday life. Their work is fea• tured in several publications and some of their designs are currently on view in the exhibition SAFE: Design Takes On Risk at the . Dunne & Raby's work considers products as mediums. Objects embody social values and are also potential research instruments The Farady Chair is a modern take on the daybed-an airtight, technological womb. that permit us to trace how our habits evolve. In their 1996 Faraday Chair, Dunne & ios, bouncing us from funny to grave con• Raby tried to respond to a very contempo• texts. For example, they are developing a rary "need": In the last years, wireless tech• concept called BioLand—a sort of biotech• nology has modified the concept of nology mall, offering services like IVF, cloning, public space. We are constantly surrounded cosmetic surgery, storage (of skin cells, by radio frequencies and electromagnetic blood, embryos, what have you). With shop• ping by far the major leisure activity today, rquet-si waves, so the designers wanted to create a space that protects us from these invisible and the commodification of all science, the threats. The prototype of the Faraday Chair project proposes a "move away from a is a rectangular transparent airtight case, a purely abstract and philosophical space into In ourstressed-out age, have we all become small version of a day bed. To dwell in this one of everyday consumerism and industrial• neurotic? What are our fears? What makes micro-shelter, one must be willing to not only ization," as they write. SAFETY us feel safe? What gives us psychological and use a snorkel to breathe but also to assume "The end justifies its means. Is there a emotional comfort? What gives us economic a fetal position. This technological womb line?" was a question from an audience and ecological comfort? Will the designer be exposes our vulnerabilities and perhaps some member that prompted Raby to smile. "We the new shrink? Fiona Raby, a London-based paranoia as well. Dunne & Raby's Huggable won't have the possibility of choosing," she NETS designer, addressed these and other ques• Atomic Mushroom also responds to our replied. There is no space for blind optimism tions in a recent lecture at Columbia University. fears: The bomb is exorcised by turning it about our future. The probability that we Blood, energy, electromagnetic waves, into a domestic toy—^therapy through design. could buy an advanced DNA for our son fashion models, genetically modified pets, How does a designer today deal with the or that we could design the perfect fiance Fiona Raby and chickens were integral parts of Raby's complexity and contradictions that scientific is perplexing. Will Harry meet Sally in the Design for Fragile Personalities dark-humored presentation. Raby teaches and technological innovations raise? Many BioLand? Will everybody say I love you to his in Fragile Times Columbia University GSAPP at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and runs of the projects Raby presented in her lecture or her mushroom? We are anxious to find out. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall a design practice with her partner Anthony were based on the research of her former OLYMPIA KAZ IS A NEW YORK-BASED ARCHITECT. October 12 Dunne. The firm Dunne & Raby has worked students. The projects predicted a broad SHE WAS A JUNIOR CURATOR IN THE ARCHITEC• within academia, museums and cultural spectrum of potential futures, from the TURE OFFICE OF TRIENNALE Dl MILANO. institutions but also with industrial research extremely positive to less promising scenar-

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ART REVIVAL contmued from page 18 bakeries, La Flor, Yi Mei Bakery and inherent in its intricate structure. Victory Sweet Shop, she produced The project, which Matta-Clark Queens Cookies/Sweet Splits (2005), THE PUPPET began in 1973, was left unfinished on a selection of cookies cut in the his death. In the early 1990s his shape of Lots 3,6 and 15. Ukeles set widow Jane Crawford came across up her own makeshift cookie stand THEATER a box of photographs, building in the gallery and invited visitors to deeds, and maps and began piecing enjoy the results. Julia Mandle chose Frente Faroz the work together. to connect the dots between plots. 1825 Park Avenue at 125th Street, Harlerri In the 1970s, Matta-Clark discov• Performers wearing bright yellow ered that the city was selling "gut chalk shoes moved in a slow rhythm terspace," small parcels of land across Roosevelt Avenue tracing a between houses, on the edges of line from Lots 7 and 3 in a process streets, and down alleyways that that marked "the physical self in were the result of anomalies in the relation to place." Valerie Hegarty's urban planning process. He bought piece drew inspiration from the new 15 of these leftover spaces for $25 life that grows untamed within these each at auction: 14 in Queens and interstitial spaces. She constructed one in Staten Island. However, his a rose bush made from paper and plans for the sites were never real• wire that appeared to be bursting ized. Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon through the brick wall in a corner of Matta-Ciark's Fake Estates, a two- the gallery. part exhibition in New York, this fall, Both Smithson's Floating Island revisited this project. Although the and Matta-Clark's Fake Estates show spaces are now back in the hands of us the world in which we live, the city, Cab/nef magazine invited whether fake or real; we come to an 19 artists to revisit the work by understanding of the complexity of the spaces around us and its ever In her latest work, Frente Feroz, the New York-based Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amoros has created a site- proposing new projects for the sites changing condition. During Julia specific work that directs attention to a part of a building that typically goes unnoticed. While most pedes• that would not only explore their Mandle's performance an irate trians only see buildings' ground floors, with the occasional craned-neck gander at certain skyscrapers, current state (many have been taken neighbor yelled: "Stop or I'll call Amoros' piece—colorful silhouettes of exotic animals projected on the windows of a historic Cass Gilbert over by factories or have houses the police. This is private property," office building in Hariem—draws attention to the neglected second floor. built along them) but would pose a reminder that cities only work Developer Eugene Giscombe of Giscombe Henderson Inc. owns the Lee Building on 125th Street, and new possibilities for the overlooked when we all don't think the same. commissioned the permanent installation. "The work is a reflection of [Giscombe]," said Amoros. "His love corners of our dense cityscapes. The results were displayed at White of exotic animals inspired the silhouettes." The silhouettes are mechanically controlled, moving in rhyth• ZOt RYAN IS SENIOR CURATOR OF mic cycles and backitt with theater lights. Though conceptually rich, the piece was executed in a disap• Columns. You could call Mierle THE VAN ALEN INSTITUTE. pointingly flat manner. Diverting attention from the street—which in New York is a quite lively theater Laderman Ukeles' project sweet WWW.ARCMPAPCR.COM in itself—would require a bit more than cartoonish, childlike imagery and garish lighting. revenge. With the help of three local

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