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collaborative team of MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI VOTED OUT OF Rotterdam-based MVRDV, CO HIS JOB AS CHAIR OF THE 04 Boston-based StoSS ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION CHRISTO AND Landscape Urbanism, and LU New York's Leeser I— JEANNE-CLAUDE Architecture. The team PLAY TO A squeezed its buildings on o Wanted: o HOME CROWD a small corner of the site, raising the village's density above Manhattan's average 08 while halving the size of the New Chair THE SHAKEDOWN city grid. Twelve 450-foot ON OTHER towers taper and tilt to open Last month, the chairman of the Architectural up views, and sometimes Association (AA), Mohsen Mostafavi, was OLYMPIC 2012 connect or "kiss" at their voted out of his job leading 's presti• BIDS pinnacles. In their scheme, gious school, putting yet another of the FINALISTS UNVEIL DESIGNS FOR the remainder of the site world's top architectural education jobs on 14 OLYMPIC VILLAGE becomes an expansive urban the market. The overthrow came at the regu• ANOTHER beach. Thomas Leeser lar five-year review meeting in which the chair explained, "We wanted to must be ratified by the school community. FILIAL FILM VILLAGE VANGUARDS create a super-dense New Mostafavi has been in the position for ten York condition, rather than years and is widely credited for stabilizing the 16 NYC2012 unveiled the five Hunters Point. Mayor a 'towers in the park' or school, particularly its business footing. SHOPTALK: finalist design.s for its pro• Michael R. Bloomberg, suburban campus model In an apparently emotional speech during PUBLI-CITY posed Olympic Village at a Queens Borough President because there's a low per• the meeting, he let it be known that he centage of public spaces in press conference on March Helen Marshall, founder of would take the job for a further five years. 03 EAVESDROP the program and the site is 10"- in Grand Central NYC2012 Daniel Doctoroff, But unexpectedly heavy voting from the 600- 15 CLASSIFIEDS TerminarsVanderbilt Hall. and NYC2012's director of in the heart of the city. strong school community turned against Principals from the five par• planning Alexander Garvin (Compacting the density him: He was voted out by a narrow margin, ticipating teams were all on also spoke. meant creating the possibil• just 211 to 200. Mostafavi has agreed to stay hand to present their projects All five groups proposed ity for social interaction and in place until Summer 2005, giving the school to house 16,000 Olympians tall buildings surrounded by urban experience." time to form a search committee, which will (and later 18,000 New open space, but the forms firm consist of three nominees from the school's Yorkers) on a 73-acre penin• and layouts of the projects Morphosis' proposal con• elected governing council, three from its staff, sular site located at the geo• vary radically. The most centrates height in a cluster and three from the student body. graphical center of New York succinct plan is Weaving of towers near the northern The AA, which has produced such cutting- in Queens West, al.so called Village oti the Beach by the edge of continued on page 4 edge talents as Rem continued on page 2

BUSH APPROVES LOAN A loan from the U.S. ing Secretariat tower Other sources would allow the UN to OF $1.2 BILLION and other facilities, might include split• renovate its facilities which suffer from ting the cost among LOAN-WITH INTEREST and build a new build• overcapacity and an member states or ing, just south of the antiquated safety having the UNDC existing UN campus. infrastructure. (United Nations In a surprising turn There is one catch, Development of events, the Bush however: The 25-year Corporation), a New PETER COOK RAVES ABOUT HIS administration has loan comes with a York State public FELLOW LONDONER AND EX-AA'ER offered the United 5.54-percent interest entity that owns Nations a $1.2 billion rate, which means many of the UN's loan to renovate its that the UN would office buildings, float bonds. "I have heard ZAHA WINS headquarters com• ultimately pay $1.3 plex in . billion in interest. speculation that if the If approved by the And while the loan, UNDC has the ability U.S. Congress and which is included in to do so, it could get PRITZKER accepted by the UN the president's 2005 lower rates on the General Assembly, budget proposal, has open market," said I'm going to gush. This time the Pritzker the loan would allow to be approved by Steve Dimoff, vice has gone to a real designer, a real leader. the international Congress, there are president of the United At last we can move past the gray period body to rehabilitate already indications Nations Association. UN Capital Master Plan that kept incanting we had passed the its rapidly deteriorat- that the UN could The loan offer is an age of heroic architects. Now we have a reject the offer. almost 180-degree full-blooded heroine. Zaha Hadid is deft In a March 5'^ reversal from the and insistent, her visions clear and report, Secretary- Bush administration's unmitigated. We do not have to make General Kofi Annan position a year ago, allowances for her products. They are recommended that when disagreements special and haunting. the UN "explore with the UN Security Not long ago, I saw her exhibition in other funding oppor• Council overthe war Vienna. I was (to use a London term) gob• tunities, including in Iraq, not to men• smacked, silenced by the theatricalism of contributions from tion the burgeoning her presentation—first the projections, public and private U.S. budget deficit, then the rockery of models, then the train sources." continued on page 4 of drawings. continued on page 2 00 C\J 3 O

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ZAHA WINS PRITZKER continued from CO In this issue we feature a comparison of the nine cities bidding to front page Exhausting and irrefutable Diana Darling host the 2012 summer Olympic games, focusing on the role that proof of worth and depth. Evidence O piled upon evidence of talent sustained architects, planners, engineers, and designers play in the plans. Cathy Lanq Ho from her years as a student at the William Menkinq According to lacques Rogge, the International Olympic Architectural Association to last week's m Committee (IOC) president, the 2012 games should be simple, crowning prize. Martin Perrin humble, and compact—a welcome attitude considering the bloated Zaha has arrived at that special position occupied by Frank Gehry and few others, media-circus character of recent Olympics. Rogge's emphasis on Deborah Grossberg which is what Pritzker should be about but James Way downsizing the games has encouraged competing cities to play up hasn't always been—ideas, dynamism, the small scale of their plans. "Compact" might be the buzzword and motivation, which should never be Jonathan Chaffin evaluated by mere efficacy. Zaha's low for the 2012 Olympic planners, but a claim like "within city limits" threshold for boredom and quick coming from a city as large as Rio de Janeiro or London has little response (reminiscent, sometimes, of Christina Ficicchia meaning. Most cities' response to the IOC's call for modesty is tak• John MacEnroe on the center court); her TECHNICAL CONSULTANT ing the form of plans to make maximum use of existing facilities. inability to suffer fools or the overly Keith James sensitive; and her accurate one-liners Still, nearly all the cities (except Havana) have proposed fistfuls of on other architects remind us that sweet new structures. New York's proposed 9 new facilities begin to look reasonableness rarely gets you to good restrained compared to Rio's and Leipzig's 19, ' 18, Istanbul's architecture. On behalf of London, we congratulate her and continue to CONTRIBUTORS 14, and London's 13. breathe a great sigh of relief that Columbia PHILIPPE BARRIERE / ARIC CHEN / So where does New York stand? The bookies put our chances University did not whisk her away. MURRAY ERASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL/ JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE / JAMES PETO/ around 8 to I,tied with Madrid and well behijid London and Paris, PETER COOK LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ KESTER RATTENBURY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ the favorite to win. It's widely perceived that the IOC thinks it's ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER Europe's turn to for games, since the United States played host in WANTED: NEW CHAIR continued from front 1996 () and again in 2002 (Salt Lake City). page Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Bernard EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Tschumi, and others, was becoming PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ How likely is it that New York's massive plans for Olympic devel• M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ regarded as overly conventional in recent WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ opment in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn will ever be realized? years. Many have criticized it as "homog• SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ Was the Olympic Village design contest just another ideas competi• enized" and "all a bit polite" compared LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSON / to what it had been in its glory years (no JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ tion doomed to remain unbuilt, recorded in history books alone? matter how financially unstable) under KYONG PARK / ANNE RIESELBACH / And do New Yorkers even want the Ohmpics? Of the nine bidding TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN Alvin Boyarsky in the 1970s and '80s. 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BRAVO Portraits realize our vision in TALKING BACK The Castleford Project is a The Architect's Newspaper is Grand Central Terminal. The Delighted to read Kester proper piece of work, funded [email protected] exactly what we've needed StoryBooth design process was Rattenbury's article on our by government agencies, non- for ages: a regular reminder a truly collaborative effort. Eric revitalization project in the UK departmental government that design professionals can Liftin of MESH Architectures (2.17.2004). It IS exciting, agencies, charities and trusts. be thougfitful. opinionated, was an important participant unusual, and truly seeks to get Through the project, the broad• authoritative, and fun. And, as from the eadiest conceptual TV working in support of improv• caster, Channel 4, is expressing ing neglected public space and its position as a cultural patron, a graphic designer, I particularly phase of the project through its The Architect's Newspaper \s sold at: appreciate that Martin Perrin's completion. Thank you. featuring outstanding architec• as well as a partner and force for change in the public realm. MoMASoHo design does more with two DAVID M. REVILLE. DIRECTOR tural and urban design. 81 Spring St., Manhattan colors than most of us do with SOUND PORTRAITS PRODUCTIONS Just to be clear though, the Time was that the media would six. Congratulations. revitalization of Castleford is just observe and report upon St. Mark's Books the world. TV is now redefining WAY OVER being delivered by a partnership 31 3"'Ave., Manhattan MICHAEL BIERUT. PARTNER its relationship with its audi• PENTAGRAM DESIGN, NEW YORK A fellow architect just sent me of local and national agencies. ence and Its material. The Urban Center Books Michael McDonough's "Top 10 They are providing the capital 457 Madison Ave., Manhattan funding for a project spear• Castleford Project is part of THE WHOLE STORY Things They Never Taught in headed by Channel 4. The cap• that. It would be great if some• Micawber Books I was very pleased to see our Design School" (2.17,2004). I ital work will cost some £5 thing similar could take place 110-114 Nassau St., Princeton project, the Stor/Corps had been telling this friend that million (almost U.S. $8 million), in the U.S. StoryBooth. featured in your American architects are over- Hennessey & Ingalls paid for by these agencies, and 214 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica issue of 3,9,2004, We wanted professionalized (I worked DAVID BARRIE. DIRECTOR, is being followed by TV cam• to note, however, that you abroad for ten years). This article THE CASTLEFORD PROJECT AND Prairie Avenue Bookshop eras, editorially independent EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, failed to give credit to a fourth was a clever take on what I have 418 South Wabash, and working with a much TALKBACK UK and crucial member of the been trying to explain. Thanks. , Illinois 60605 smaller budget. design team that helped Sound JEREMY KARGON, BROOKLYN CO ro 3 O LU

TSCHUMI'S GREEK TRAGEDY ing or going, especially without light in the COURTHOUSE interior ring," said Ward White, creative No stranger to controversy, Bernard Tschumi is now involved in a big, fat Greek coordinator at TEK. o mess. Last month, officials in Greece's newly installed center-right government TEK focused most of its design attention o initiated criminal proceedings against the jury that selected the former Columbia BECOMES on the entry sequence, improving the con• dean's design for Athens' new Acropolis museum. The suit, which doesn't name nection between the exterior and interior. the architect, alleges that the design threatens antiguities at the site. Tschumi The entry axis is anchored with an aluminum- insists the building, which he estimates is only 25 percent finished and which will CLASSROOMS composite panel "media wall" featuring a 0. largely rest on stilts above an existing archaeological excavation, poses no harm programmable LED ticker that announces o and that a Greek court earlier agreed. "It's the right wing fighting the left, and public information and orients visitors. attacking the project because it was initiated by the previous government," Thanhauser + Esterson + Kapell Architects Entrance lobby walls are embedded with CO Tschumi says. "The design has nothing to do with it, but nothing in Greece is simple." (TEK) recently converted a former court• touchscreen monitors, providing building LU house into Hagerdorn Hall, a 63,00 square- information and Internet access. Located > foot university building for the School of off the lobby are a cyber-lounge and cafe, < MAU WANTS GREEN, REM WANTS GLAM Education and Allied Services at Hofstra partitioned by a semi-transparent, dual- LU It seems Bruce Mau and -the duo behind SML,XL and other University in Hempstead, Long Island. The sided projection surface. projects-are parting ways. Recently, Mau told us why he split with the Dutch three-story $10 million renovation added architect last year over the commission they won in 2000 to design Toronto's The architects also created new "con• a new entry, a curriculum materials center, versation spaces" along the building's 600-acre Downsview Park, which is expected to break ground this fall. "When counseling rooms, classrooms, offices, and perimeter, which funnel light into the we started, he was already famous, but then he just went through the roof," computer labs. building's core and "add an ambience of explains Mau, who's now working with Frank Gehry on a museum of biodiversity The design challenge was that the circu• interaction," accoding to Dr. James in Panama City, "and for him the project went way down the list, while for me it lar 1960s federal courthouse "was disori• Johnson, dean of the School of Education was the most important." Wanting to get his attention, Mau says he offered enting—you couldn't tell if you were com• and Allied Services, JAMES WAY Koolhaas the project's lead, but the latter still chose to move on to greener pastures. "There's always drama between Rem and me," Mau joked, adding, "He can be obsessive about everything. How can you possibly be worried about letterhead when you have to design a new city in China?" Meanwhile, at last month's Manhattan launch of his new magabook (part magazine, part book). Content, Koolhaas was spotted hitting up kV fashion glossy editor James Reginato. "Rem went straight for the jugular," our snoop reports, "and said 'I would like to do something with your magazine that would be very radical.' Jim turned around and said, 'Radical? For W7 What could he possibly mean?'" DON'T VOTE FOR ZAHA Last month, an (unauthorized) e-mail from the office of Santa Monica-based Morphosis made the rounds, asking recipients to vote for the firm's NYC2012 t Olympic Village proposal in an online Newsday poll. "Evidently the sponsors of the competition are taking this poll seriously," the e-mail read, before warning, "Select the voting button carefully, it is easy to mark Zaha Hadid's scheme instead of ours." No word yet on who's favored to win Prom Queen this spring. ANDO, SEX GOD It's official: Tadao Ando is a playboy. The shaggy-haired designer is seen caressing a model (no, not that kind) on the cover of this month's Japanese edition of Playboy. Alongside stories on the Playboy Mansion and tips on becoming a BUILDING WITH lady's man, Ando is featured as the designer of a "man's dream house" in Malibu. "In Japan, they have two versions each month," confesses a Playboy reader. "One is more like pornography, but the other-with Ando-is more cultur• STONE: ally oriented." Heard that one before. LET SLIP: ACHEN a ARCHPAPER.COM Granite & Marble for

MIDTOWN GETS ANOTHER THEATER A former hotel ballroom (then health club/ Architectural Exteriors & Monuments Christie's showroom/gym) has been renovated An intensive 2-day conference/training program into the 59E59 Theaters, named tor its address. OPENING DAY Leo Modrcin of uRED Architecture with Franke, exploring the use, performance, and care of granite and marble in Gottsegen, Cox Architects were behind the existing and new buildings and monuments . . . 11,000-square-foot gut renovation for the • quarrying • selection SZ specifying of stone • evaluation Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation. • fabrication ez detailing • repair S[ maintenance On a 36-x-lOO-foot site nestled between two imposing highrises, the new $7 million the• Saturday, May 8-Sunday, May 9, 2004 ater complex is intended for not-for-profit performing arts productions. Cambridge, Massachusetts The architects opened the facade with a syn• Sponsored by copated rhythm of vertical mullions holding Technology St Conservation, Ivan Myjer/Building St Monument Conservation, triple-layered wire safety glass. The building's the MIT Department of Architecture, and steel structure remains exposed (uninsulated the Historic Resources Committee, Boston Society of Architects/AIA because the building is less than 40 feet tall) for in a small reveal between the facade and the • architects • building preservation specialists • engineers • construction specifiers adjacent vertical circulation which doubles as • architectural conservators • contractors • stone masons • campus planners • landscape architects • real estate developers • facilities/operations managers the building's lobby. The aluminum grating • others responsible for the care, rehab, &/or continued viability of buildings & of public art stairs and landings lead to exposed concrete Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration fee: $495 per person. floors and one of three theaters, stacked one Registration lee includes: May 8 & 9 conference program and luncheons. May 8 reception, and above the other. At the top of the stair, a win• optional lour on May 10 to Fletcher Granite Quarries or Mount Auburn Cemetery. dowed office is projected into the space, over• For the schedule (topics and speakers) and AIA continuing education credits details, & looking the lobby much as a director's booth registration form, contact Susan E. Schur, Hon. AIA, Conference Co-Organizer/Co-Chair. overlooks a stage. Tel: 617-623-4488: e-mail: ses [email protected] In a part of town that is notorious for its massive buildings, the theater is refreshingly bare and exposed, JAMES WAY 00 N^- 3 O LU

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UN CAPITAL MASTER PLAN have backfired. Observers The news of the loan as an ongoing debate continued from front page are quick to note that, typi• comes on the heels of the between the UNDO, the made it unlikely that the cally, host countries either UNDC's selection of city, and the local commu• president would waste pay all the costs or at least Japanese architect nity over how to compen• political capital on the the interest on loans Fumihiko Maki to design sate for the loss of the 1.3- project, known as the UN granted to build and a 35-floor office tower on a acre park. The UN General Capital Master Plan. maintain UN facilities on city park just south of the Assembly is expected to A year later, however, the their territories. In March, UN complex. That project, make a decision on the loan UN is poised to play a vital for example, France which is now in a consul• in the next six months, or role in rebuilding Iraq, and offered a no-interest, 17- tative stage, is also being certainly before fall, when many see the loan as a year, $112 million loan to held up by a dispute over the renovation of its exist• peace offering. renovate UNESCO's the tax status of the bonds ing facilities is set to Nevertheless, it may headquarters in Paris. needed to fund it, as well begin, CLAY RISEN

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i Zaha Hadid's proposal (top) draws from the "towers in the park" idea. Morphosis' plan (above) promises to create a large waterfront park.

VILLAGE VANGUARDS continued from front page ot the site, merging the village with existing neighborhood structures like the LI RR's newly renovated Long Island City terminal. Along the eastern and western boundaries, the towers give way to horizontal, twisting buildings or "ribbons" canted 14 degrees to increase solar access. "The undulating ribbon structure [is] visually rich and porous, depicting a connective tissue that will be a powerful symbol of the Olympic Games," according to Morphosis' proposal. A 43-acre park—promising to be the largest urban waterfont park in the five boroughs—runs between and often underneath the giant ribbons, 80 percent of which are elevated four stories above grade. The project by Copenhagen-based Henning Larsens Tegnestue is the most fragmented of the designs, with five separate "cities" meant to interlock like the rings of the Olympic logo—Pier City, Olympic Valley, Olympus, Water City, and Olympic Forest. Olympus constitutes the central iconic element of the village with THE NEW YORK-BASED ARTISTS FINALLY REALIZE A PROJECT IN THEIR ADOPTED HOMETOWN five 35-story spiraling glass towers featuring hanging gardens. Water City resembles Venice, with canals lined with gleaming white boxy Next February, Christo and his wife Reichstag project stretched on for 23. his support and the Central Park five to sbc-story buildings. Pier City's 12-to- 14-story structures have Jeanne-Claude will erect 7,500 Up until now, politics and econom• Conservancy and Parks Department courtyards and stretch over the water along piers. Olympic Valley saffron-colored gates with matching ics have foiled the pair's proposed followed with approvals. It's now mixes the typologies of Pier and Water Cities, and the Olympic banners in Central Park, covering works for New York City. In 1966 hard to see what the city has to lose. Forest, based on Central Park, contains 8-to-10-story buildings with 23 miles of pedestrian walkways. It they wanted to wrap two buildings The art project will employ thou• greenhouse entrances and community gardens. The plan focuses on has taken these international art stars in near the water• sands of New Yorkers in everything recreation and leisure in an urban setting, and the designs of the five some 30 years to execute an artwork front, but were refused permission. from the fabrication of the gates to mini-cities reinforce their individual theme-park motifs. in their adopted city. A show fully Two years later, civil unrest over the their installation and maintenance; Vietnam War made it impossible to generate as much as $5 million in Smith-Miller f Hawkinson Architects collaborated with Ralph documenting the evolution of the get insurance and city permits to tax revenues from visitor spending; Lerner Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Dean Malt/. Architect, and project, called The Gates, will open wrap the . attract international media attention; D.l.R.T. Studio to produce a proposal with six components: a park, on April 6"' at the Metropolitan A similar proposal for the Whitney and bring some joy to a still stressed- a ring of paths through the park, fiveslende r towers, an extension of Museum of Art. Museum of American Art was shot the local street pattern across the site, a transit hub, and a system for What took so long? After all, Christo OUt city. MARISA BARTOLUCCI down by the museum board, as was sustainabilit)'. The plan is the most straightforward and least expres• and Jeanne-Claude have wrapped one to wrap the Allied Chemical sive, though it is accompanied by deeper technical and financial the Pont Neuf in Paris, the Reichstag building in Times Square. details than some of the other proposals, indicating the team's in Berlin, and the coast of Little Bay, emphasis on planning and feasibility. Sydney. In fact, few of these projects When Christo and Jeanne-Claude moved easily or speedily. Their com• Zaha Hadid proposed a "constellation" of 14 glass skyscrapers first suggested The Gates for Central plexity requires the engagement of tapered toward their bases and slightly sunken into an undulating Park in 1979, financial woes had the hundreds of people from all walks landscape shaped to accommodate parking and other common city in a glum mood, and the park of life in a discourse about the work spaces below ground. "|Thel plan...evolv[ed] out of the modernist was in a fragile state. Believing it and in its realization.The artists also dream of'towers in the park,'" according to Hadid's proposal. In her could not bear the brunt of the traffic finance the projects themselves scheme."the textured ground.. .provides a rigorous framework the project would draw, the Parks through the sale of related artworks. without the spatial rigidity of the traditional grid." Department rejected it All this "irrationality" turns their When the art-collecting Michael NYC2012 anticipates that the Olympic Village will be financed with proposals into lightening rods for $ 1.5 billion of private investments along with $ 120 million in govern• Bloomberg became mayor, the situ• local social, political, and economic ation changed. Upon receiving a ment funding for land acquisition and site improvements, some of tensions. The Pont Neuf project took which has already been spent. The winning design will be announced scaled-down version of The Gates 10 years of political wrangling; the last fall, Bloomberg quickly lent in Mav. DEBORAH GROSSBERG c/5 in 3 O LU

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LU CITY PLANNING Culture and State Board of Antiguities to-2 vote on March 22'" that would allow to cost $30 million and is part of a larger and Heritage and UNESCO (United municipal governments to buy develop• $216 million renovation. The Commission COMMENTS ON WTC National Educational, Cultural, and ment rights from farms and undeveloped on Fine Arts and the National Capital The City Planning Commission (CPC) Scientific Orginaztlon) to halt and repair areas. The municipalities could then des• Planning Commission will review the devel• recommended changes to the WTC site damage to Irag's cultural heritage, includ• ignate preservation areas and control oped design this summer for approval. < plan in a March 8"' letter to the LMDC. LU ing architectural and archeological sites. growth by selling development rights in Construction is slated to be complete in a, The New York State Urban Development targeted areas. time for the museum's reopening on Corporation Act regulres the LMDC to July 4, 2006. refer its WTC plan to the CPC, which BAIRD BACK TO suggests restoring Dey and Cortlandt TRUE BLUE PARK OR ASTRO-PARK? FORD'S FIVE Streets; encouraging street life with George Baird is leaving Harvard to return Parks & Recreation broke ground at minimum sidewalk widths, transparency to his alma mater, the University of Hester and Canal Street Field in the Sara The Ford Calumet competition has selected controls, and sky lobbies (to free ground- Toronto, where he has been named dean D. Roosevelt Park. A new synthetic turf Carol Ross Barney, Jeanne Gang and floor space for retail); and preserving of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape field and state-of-the-art practice track Mark Schendel, Brian Strawn and Karia light and air flow with setbacks. If the CPC and Design. Baird will begin his four-year will replace the current asphalt field. The Sierralta, Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn, disapproves of the plan, the LMDC Board term on July P^, and replace Larry Wayne $3 million improvements are part of a 14- and Kevin Yim as its phase one winners of Directors will need a two-thirds majori• Richards who held the position for over park rejuvenation plan in Lower Manhattan. to design an environmental center includ• ty vote to override CPC's recommenda• seven years. ing exhibit, research, educational, and site management facilities. The winner will be tions. LMDC's board will address CPC's DESIGN TRUST modifications in an upcoming meeting. announced April 22, 2004. WILL BLANTON BLOW IT Deborah Marton has been named the AGAIN? executive director for the Design Trust for Public Space. Marton brings expertise INTERN PITT BRONX MUSEUM The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the in planning and design strategies with a Brad Pitt has signed on as an informal EXPANDS University of Texas at Austin has hired focus on land reclamation, natural systems, intern at Frank 0. Gehry and Associates A new $11 million wing for the Bronx landscape architect Peter Walker and and urban ecology. She played a key role where he will be a cinema, sporting Museum of the Arts is scheduled to open multidisciplinary artist Mel Chin to col• in developing the winning scheme for the venue, and restaurant design advisor. He late 2005. The 16,000-sguare-foot proj• laborate on a 72,000-sguare-foot plaza Fresh Kills Landfill Master Plan with Field also hopes to develop and hone CAD ect by Arguitectonica will add galleries, and garden. 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The 39 cities that have hosted the summer and since it made a profit of $223 million, but other and 20 to 30 percent from public resources. winter Olympic Games for the past century have cities haven't been as lucky. Atlanta barely survived Leipzig's bid includes an 80,000-seat stadium taken a mixed approach to the task, reflecting the its 1996 stint, reportedly losing hundreds of mil• designed by that can break down issues of their times more than the particularities lions of dollars, though it did add over 5,000 units and be downsized or carted away, leaving open of place or the universality of the event. The of low-cost housing to the city in the process. space and parks more appropriate to the scale of famous—or infamous—Berlin Olympics of 1936, Today, the competition has become a war of the small Saxony village. Leipzig is the anti- awarded to the German capital before the Nazis battling trophy buildings by star architects, with Los Angeles of the Olympics, offering a pleasant, came to power, became an opportunity for Adolf New York City leading the way (see page 1 and small town experience—a new approach that may Hitler to demonstrate to the world, in an Albert Issue 2.3.2004). Historically, the Olympics have prove that the Olympics does not have to be the Speer-designed stadium, the efficiency of Nazi proven to be capable of spurring the creation of great invasion feared by residents. Havana is also Germany. In 1984 Los Angeles reused many facili• public amenities like parks, housing, and sports playing up the modest Olympics angle, carrying its ties built for its 1932 Olympics, dressing up the city facilities. The latest strategy is the use of celebrity anti-commercial, anti-big platform to the in banners and public art projects, like an designs as a wedge to open neighborhoods to gen• extreme by barely publicizing its bid. Every plan, Archigram Instant City. With its real urban prob• trification, for example, bringing spectacular in fact, is notably restrained, responding to the lems papered over for two weeks, L.A. pulled off housing by the likes of Zaha Hadid and MVRDV International Olympic Committee's (IOC) call for an event that was considered a triumph of corpo• to Queens, one of the most mixed-income residen• quick commutes and sustainable development. rate sponsorship and patronage, reflecting the tial and manufacturing areas of the city. It s worth On May 18"', the IOC will announce which of Reagan era as much as the movie Wall Street. noting tliat all the 2012 bids (except Havana's, which the nine bidding cities have been accepted as offi• The organizers of the L.A. games predicted theirs has not been made public) call for 70 to 80 percent cial candidates. The host city for the 2012 games would become the model for future Olympics, of their budgets to come from private investment will be named on July 6,2005. The contenders: CO ON LU O

HAVANA built for the Pan American Games since its last bid, however, due to based on a 2001 feasibility study LONDON Nowhere near able to match its in 1991. Havana is the frequent the 2002 completion of the 80,000- by Albert Speer, Jr., features flexi• London's 2012 bid follows the rivals' investments in architectural host of conferences, is well experi• seat Ataturk Olympic Stadium and ble designs by a number of big- Barcelona model of Olympic or infrastructure! projects (or even enced at organizing large-scale a brand new subway system that name architects, including Peter development. The bid proposes a a website) to enhance its Olympic events, and has quality hotel is still in the process of expanding. Eisenman, Dresden-based Peter scheme in which the games serve bid, Havana is, unsurprisingly, accommodations as a result of its The $120 million Ataturk was Kulka, and Berlin-based Barkow as an engine to spur city improve• banking on high-minded social thriving tourist trade. designed by Michel Macary and Leibinger Architects. Kulka's ments, leaving behind a sustain• ideals to make the cut. The Cuban Havana's downfall will be its Aymeric Zublena, the same French project connects various sports able legacy after the games. Keith Olympic Committee (COC), headed weak transportation system. The architects responsible for the Stade arenas with transparent, cloudlike Mills, chief executive of the bid, by Jose Ramon Fernandez, who is charm of the 1950s tail-finned de France, Paris' key Olympic sta• structures and numerous bridges was quoted in the Telegraph as also the vice-president of Cuba, Chevys, well-educated taxi drivers, dium, in collaboration with local crossing Leipzig's river basin. saying, "There will be no white points out that the Olympics have and diverse buses (donated from architect Doruk Pamir. The archi• After the games, Kulka's stadium elephants at the London games. never been held in the Caribbean countries around the world, still tects opted for an open top to the will be "melted down," leaving a We'll build what we need and no and only once before in Latin bearing original destination signs concrete brut design after the Stade smaller arena. Eisenman's stadium more." America (, 1968). Many such as Oslo, Maastricht, Edmonton) faced serious humidity problems is also designed to be downsized Though London's planned new feel it's about time the games are will surely not be enough to con• due to its closed-roof construction. after the games, leaving an arena venues have not yet reached the awarded to a developing country. vince the IOC to make the dream Still, the stadium shelters 54,000 more appropriate for Leipzig's design stage. Foreign Office Furthermore, Fernandez argues of Fidel Castro, an avid sportsman, spectators, 36,000 of whom are population of 500,000. Assembled Architects completed the master that the country deserves to be come true. protected on the west side by a out of movable modules, the sta• plan for the project, situating 70 awarded the Olympics for its monumental canopy in the shape dium will provide seats for 80,000 percent of all venues within a 500- sporting achievements. Cuba con• ISTANBUL of a crescent, the symbol of during the Olympics, and can be acre park 13 kilometers outside sistently performs well at interna• Istanbul is the only city in the Turkey. The dramatic semi-circular downsized to a stadium for 20,000 central London in the Lower Lea tional sporting events (for example, world to straddle two continents, roof is suspended between two once the games are over. Or the Valley, a river flood plain and run• winning 11 gold, 11 silver, and 7 and its 2012 Olympic bid, themed 60-meter poles set over 200 meters whole thing can be taken apart and down light industrial area. The bronze medals at the Sydney The Meeting of Continents, plays apart, serving as yet another relocated after the games. park, designed by EDAW, an Olympics)—far out of proportion up this unique condition. The city's metaphor for Istanbul's role as the The Olympia Pavilion, designed international urban design and to the size of the island's population bid argues that Istanbul's symbolic link between Europe and Asia. by Barkow Leibinger, will function planning firm, will restore the of 11 million. "The priority should role as a bridge between Islamic as a "sign" and "traffic knot," flood plain by removing existing be athletic merits, not a nation's and Judeo-Christian culture is LEIPZIG according to the architects, a highly river walls. London-based Allies wealth or sponsors or television," especially appropriate given the Leipzig, a city in Saxony known visible marker located on an and Morrison Architects and HOK he said in a press conference current state of world affairs. for its Renaissance and Baroque important thoroughfare leading to Sport are also involved with the announcing the city's bid. Cuba is Istanbul yearns to reclaim its buildings and classical music ven• the main Olympic grounds. The London bid. promising a modest, dignified, non- status as a superpower city. Its bid ues, is an unusual Olympic con• pavilion, which will house exhibi• An Olympic stadium, velo• commercialized Olympics that marks the city's fourth consecutive tender. Its compact historical tions during the games and later drome, aquatic center, and media restores emphasis on athletes. attempt at hosting the Olympics. center and quiet residential sub• serve as a sports museum, has a center will be built along the valley Cuba uses sport, like the former An 89 percent approval rating fur• urbs could be a plus for the 2012 dynamic, irregularfapade, wrapped in a plan that takes into account Soviet bloc countries did, as a way ther proves Turkey's determination, bid, though. "The IOC wants simple with textile "ribbons." If Leipzig Richard Rogers' Millennium Dome, to promote its socialist ideals. For but the city's relatively weak infra• and compact games and we are wins the Olympic bid, the facility situated 5 kilometers away, which this reason, the country actually structure continues to place perfectly suited for that," said bid could be built as early as 2006, to will be recruited to serve as an has decent existing sports facilities. Istanbul as a long-shot contender. manager Peter Zuehlsdorff. act as a media center for the FIFA Olympic venue. Norman Foster's It even has an Olympic Stadium, The city's chances have improved The Leipzig proposal, which is World Cup. new Wembley Stadium, dubbed

Peter Eisenman's stadium for Leipzig (opposite) is composed of modules (left, top) that allows it to be downsized or dissembled completely. Leipzig also asked Barkow Leibinger to design an information center (left, bottom). Dominigue Perraulfs design of the Olympic Tennis Center in Madrid has been nicknamed "the Magic Box" (center, top and bottom). Cruz & Ortiz is designing the enlargement of La Pelneta stadium in Madrid (right, top). The team of Foreign Office Architects, EDAW, HOK Sport, and Allies and Morrison won the competition to prepare the master plan for London 2012 (right, bottom). 00 LU a:

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"The Church of Football" with its As is the case with other bidding as Olympic facilities in 1980, like in St-Ouentin-en-Yvelines, and the road to Sugar Loaf and Maracana. curved, partially retractable roof, cities, staging the Olympics will the Luzhniki, Krylatskoe, and Shooting Centre in Versailles. The Sugar Loaf, another white sand, will be completed in late 2005 and give Madrid the chance to develop Olympiskiy complexes, but some plan also makes clever use of his• clear water paradise 20 kilometers will serve the 2012 games. new sporting facilities and upgrade new projects are planned as well, toric landmarks. The Eiffel away from Barra, will house most• ly outdoor events like beach vol• The key to the success of existing ones. Won by an interna• including a new 200-acre Olympic Tower's foundation is slated to leyball, canoeing, cycling, and London's plan will be a reorganized tional competition in 2002, the Village and a 17,000-suite residen• be transformed into a beach sailing in mostly existing or tem• transport system capable of shut• new Olympic Tennis Center by tial-style Media Village. Moscow volleyball court, the Chateau de porary facilities. tling visitors from central London Dominique Perrault is conceived also boasts a strong transporta• Versailles' grounds will become out to the valley. Rail infrastruc• as a multipurpose "magic box" tion infrastructure, starring an a cycling track, and the historic Deodoro and Maracana are both ture already exists but new sta• with dozens of indoor and outdoor excellent subway system that Longchamp racecourse, built in inland sites in need of the type tions will be needed. The city's bid courts, and cultural spaces. Seville- meets 90 percent of the city's 1857 and upgraded in 1966, will of economic rejuvenation the hopes that 90 percent of visitors based Cruz & Ortiz is expanding commuting needs, carrying six to house equestrian events. Olympics can ignite. Deodoro to the Olympics will be able to La Peineta stadium, which they eight million passengers daily. The According to the Paris 2012 bid, offers 5 million square meters of commute by train, given London's designed in 1994. The stadium's city also plans to create a fourth the rest of its new construction will green rolling hills, which will be congestion problems and corre• new neighbor will be an aquatic ring road and a number of new be for temporary use only. used for equestrian and shooting. sponding steep tolls for motor center by Juan Jose Medina, also expressways before 2012. Maracana Stadium, the largest transport. Athletes will be housed won by competition. RiO DE JANIERO in the world and "the soul of within walking distance from The proposed projects are sup• PARIS Rio's bid claims "passion" is the Brazilian football," according to most venues in the valley, though ported by Madrid's highly devel• With its compact plan, high-quality most abundant resource the city Rio's bid, will play a significant commutes to distant venues like oped transportation networks, transportation facilities, and sub• can offer the Olympic Committee: role in the region's plans, along Wembley could be daunting. soon to be enhanced by the new stantial experience with hosting "Passion for nature, the environ• with two new arenas. One of them, terminal of the Madrid-Barajas world-class sporting events, Paris ment, life, sport, excellence, and the S166 million Joao Havelange the future." Indeed, Rio 2012 is Stadium designed by architect MADRID Airport by Richard Rogers and is the bookmakers' favorite for the playing up the city's festive reputa• Carlos Porto, is currently under Madrid's bid for the Olympic Estudio Lamela. Though the air• 2012 Olympics, even though pub• tion, emphasizing "music, dancing, construction, also for the Pan Games of 2012 comes at a time port is just 12 minutes from the lic approval for the project is low street performances...[and the] American Games, and is sched• when the city is already immersed city center via the underground (compared to other cities), at 75 spirit of celebration "on its website. uled for completion in 2005. The in an extensive process of urban metro, the airport expansion percent. The Parisian plan situates developers of the Havelange hired transformation, spurred by eco• includes plans to link it to all the the majority of its Olympic venues Rio's Olympic theme. One Minneapolis-based Ellerbe Becket nomic prosperity and heavily Olympic venues, as well as the in two clusters, one to the north of Village, One City, One World, as engineering consultants. The dependent on designs by signa• commuter train system and the Paris, centered on the Stade de alludes to the city's planning strat• 45,000-seat enclosed structure ture architects. Pei, Cobb, Freed & regional High-Speed Train (AVE). France in St. Denis, built for the egy which fits all of its venues will focus on environmental Partners, Foster and Partners, 1998 World Cup; and the other in within the city limits, not more than friendliness, with a roof designed Rubio & Alvarez Sala, and Cesar MOSCOW the 16"'Arrondissement, home to 20 kilometers apart, in four separate to capture rainfall with which to Pelli are building new office tow• The year 2012 would mark the the Roland-Garros Stadium, built zones: Barra, Sugar Loaf, Maracana, water the grass field. ers. The city's cultural institutions 100'" anniversary of Russia's par• in 1928 and upgraded in 2000. The and Deodoro. are being enriched by Herzog & ticipation in the Olympics. Olympic Village, to be designed by The Barra region constitutes PRODUCED BY DEBORAH GROSSBERG, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALEXANDER de Meuron's Caixa Forum, Jean According to the Moscow bid, the French architect Frangois Grether, "the jewel in Rio's Olympic crown," EISENSCHMIDT, CATHY LANG HO, WILUAM is situated in Batignolles, on a according to the Rio 2012 website. Nouvel's addition to the Reina city hopes to use the opportunity MENKING, LAURA MULAS, KESTER RAT• Sofia Museum, and Rafael to introduce "a new and demo• 50-hectare site that is 6 kilometers Situated on one of Rio's lagoon TENBURY, BUKE URAS, AND JAMES WAY. Moneo's extension of the Prado cratic Russia" to the world. The from each cluster. It includes a beaches, the area is one of the Museum. And more projects are city last hosted the games during 10-hectare park, which will be con• city's fastest growing, which working toward fortifying the Communist era (1980). The structed regardless of the success means developers will have no OLYMPICS ODDS Madrid's historic urban center, such city's previous experience could of the city's bid. trouble marketing its residential . 13/8 as the reconstitution of the Prado benefit its bid by proving it is capa• Most of the sports venues Paris and commercial real estate after LONDON . 7/2 axis by Alvaro Siza and the expan• ble of hosting the games, but it plans to use for the Olympics the games are over Barra will . 8/1 sion of open space with new parks could also be damaging if the IOC already exist, though the city is house a number of new venues . 8/1 such as La Gavia by Toyo Ito. considers the 32-year interlude as planning to start construction on which are already under construc• Finally, Madrid is seeing its resi• too short to merit a double-play. five new stadiums in 2009. Three tion for the 2007 Pan American RIO . 10/1 dential panorama enlivened with Moscow's bid concept, Olympic of them will be located within the Games, including a new Olympic LEIPZIG . 20/1 new dynamic proposals by inter• River, builds on the social and two clusters: the Dome, for volley• stadium with an 80,000-seat MOSCOW . 20/1 national architectural studios like cultural importance of the city's ball, the SuperDome, for artistic capacity. A linear park, the Olympic ISTANBUL . 50/1 MVRDV, river by situating many of its devel• gymnastics and basketball, and the Boulevard, will extend along HAVANA .100/1 Barra's beachfront, linking the Architects, and Morphosis, in col• opments along its waterfront. Aquatics Centre. The other two will FROM WWW.BOOKIESINDEX.COM laboration with local Spanish teams. Most of the city's venues served be outside the city: the Velodrome, new Olympic Village with the ring

Most of the 2012 bids emphasize the use of existinq structures. The Ataturk Olympic Stadium (left), completed in 2002. Is at the center of Istanbul's bid, just as the Stade de France (above), built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, anchors Parts' proposal. Coincidentally. both were designed by the same French architects, Michel Macary and Aymeric Zublena. CO

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Technology and Tradition in Peter Wegner's precise works are a The eye fills in missing details. Thomas Contemporary Japanese Architecture perfect match for the raw spaces of the Demand's photographs of paper models Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street Bohen, designed in 2002 by LOT/EK. His confirm that fact. His new exhibition, while February 26-28, 2004 material and inspiration palette—house• sparse, shows a broad range in terms of hold paint chips, plain sheets of colored both methodology and subject matter. paper, fonts—are as elemental as the Portraits of models of the flight simulator metal boxes (recycled shipping contain• used for the Apollo 13 astronauts and the ers) that house the Bohen's offices and kitchen from Saddam Hussein's hideaway define its gallery space. (titled simply Space Simulator and Kitchen, The range of Wegner's achievement stripping them of their histories) accom• with such simple building blocks is aston• pany reconstructions of more generic ishing. In this show, as in previous works, subjects, such as a lightbox, a sunlit forest. Wegner draws on the endless and minutely Space Simulator \s the most prominent shifting shades of household paint and piece, and the most architectural, its form their poetic, if abstract, labeling. His paper even responding to the gallery's faceted totems, Wall-to-Wall Reds and Floor-to- skylights above. Its flimsy chipboard spiral Ceiling Blues, are composed of outsized stairs gives its artifice away (contrasting sheets of paper in gradating tones, stacked with the unnerving realism of Lightbox). As a testament to the appeal breaking ground on April 14*. Architects in Tokyo, said tight. They appearto hold up the ceiling Most startling is the working machine, made of contemporary Japanese Maki has also been com• there was a misconception and keep tension between the walls. His of paper, in Recorder, a film loop of a reel- architecture, a recent sym• missioned to design one of of Japanese culture in plac• dissected, excised, re-ordered maps are to-reel recorder playing a lost Beach Boys posium on the subject, co- the WTC towers and the new ing emphasis on "temporal• meticulous as well as disorienting, in the song fragment Through this work. Demand organized by the Japan United Nations building. ity as the essence of most pleasurable way. CATHYLANGHO takes on both reconstruction and repro• Society and Architectural Ken Tadashi Oshima, an Japanese architecture." duction, distilling his subjects and adding Record with the sponsor• architect and fellow at the Several panelists an unexpected poignant quality. ship of the Architectural Sainsbury Institute for the addressed technology as the SARA MOSS IS AN ARCHITECTURAL WRITER. League of New York, was Study of Japanese Arts and driving force for Japan's sold out a month in advance Cultures in London, dis• architectural production. and attracted attendees cussed various architects' Suzuki Hiroyuki, chair of the from all parts of the country. explanations of "Japanese University of Tokyo Graduate Fumihiko Maki launched space and temporal dimen• School of Architecture, the symposium with a talk sions" to interrogate claimed, "Tokyo is constantly that detailed his projects assumptions and expose under construction" due to built after winning the historical and contemporary disasters throughout history. Pritzker Prize in 1993, most similarities. Architectural This allows continual urban notably the Kaze-no-Oka theorist Sanford Kwinter and architectural renewal. Crematorium (Nakatsu, Oita, followed remarking, "Each site stands alone and 1996) and Floating Pavilion "Japanese space is an can be approached without (Groningen, , unnecessary mystification the tethers of historical con- 1996). However, he said sur• that is merely a hybrid of textualism" said Hiroyuki. prisingly little about his four space-time," before launch• Masato Araya, a leading architect and historian, acterize "Japanese architec• work very hard in the office." current projects in the United ing into a theoretical expo• structural engineer, was showed work that synthe• ture," especially by non- Kengo Kuma, Waro Kishi, States. MIT is currently rais• sition of the "in-between" especially helpful in shed• sized technology and tradition Japanese panelists and and Kazuyo Sejima all ing funds to build his design that involves spatial transi• ding light on the tradition by using history as a material attendees. In "Living explained their work in terms for an addition to its Media tions and temporal synco• of dialogic exchange while avoiding postmodern Architecture Tokyo Style: of technology and tradition. Lab building, and his Visual pation. Shigeru Ban, whose between architects, engi• quotation. Architect Shuhei Architectural Expression in But when Paola Antonelli Arts and Design Center at paper buildings have out• neers, and craftsmen, that Endo showed a series of a Fast-Paced World" both moderator of the final panel, Washington University is lasted their intended dura• has yielded innovative projects that displayed a Mark Dytham and John Jay, "New Names, Future Fame tions, approached details, construction meth• rigorous investigation of foreigners living in Tokyo, in Japanese Architecture," Top: The Echigo-Masunavama architectural temporality ods, and material uses. Such inexpensive industrial mate• displayed Tokyo as a kind of asked panelists how their Museum of Natural Science and permanence differently collaborations exist world• rials, such as corrugated media wonderland that easi• work related to tradition, by Tezuka Architects. Below, when he commented, "There wide but in Japan credit and steel, in methodic formal ly imports and exports ideas. Hitoshi Abe answered most left to right: Shuhei Endo's is no difference; [temporality explorations. But, Jun Aoki remarked, Sprlngtecture B; Terunobu creativity are more readily succinctly: "Tradition is Fujimori's tea house; Endo's and permanence are] defined shared among a project's Throughout the sympo• "Mark's and John's Tokyo something you live in." Growtecture S; and Hitoshi by the user." Furthermore, participants. sium, issues of identity looks like a foreign country Abe's Miyagi Stadium. 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Eugenia Ellis, Sian Loftus, Justin Ferate Jonathan Massey. William Nooks and Crannies of Braham New York City Claude Bragdon: Multiple 6:30 p.m. Perspectives on a Singular Cooper Union Figure Albert Nerken School of 6:30 p.m. Engineering Columbia GSAPP Wollman Auditorium

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APRIL U APRIL 17 at \ IV Matthew Coolidge Joan Darragh, Matthew Postal Interpreting Architecture at Anthropogeomorphology: Brooklyn Museum of Art Programs and Projects of 5:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m. the Center for Land Use Brooklyn Museum of Art Interpretation 200 Eastern Parkway, h\ 6:00 p.m. Brooklyn Princeton School of www.brooklynart.org Architecture Betts Auditorium, Princeton APRIL 19 www.princeton.edu/~soa Julie Bargmann, New Sound, New York, a festival organized by The Kitchen and Cooper Union s Irv^in S. Chanin School D.I.R.T Studio, Michael Kalil Lecture on of Architecture, explores connections among music, architecture, and the visual arts in a .series of Winka Dubbeldam From Hardware to SoftForm Natural and Technological installations, lectures, and performances throughout the city in April and May. (A piece by architect 6:30 p.m. Systems Victoria Myers, included in the event, is pictured above.) The highlight of the program will be Columbia GSAPP 6:30 p.m. Resonating Frequencies: Dialogues on Architecture and Music, a series of panel discussions organized Wood Auditorium New School University Tishman Auditorium by Christopher Tanney. The dialogues, held at Cooper, pair Phillip Glass with Thorn Mayne (April 7); 113 Avery Hall www.arch.columbia.edu 66 West 12th St. Laurie Anderson and Martha Schwartz (April 14); and Moby with Bernard Tschumi (April 21). www.parsons.edu/architecture Martha Schwartz, Laurie New Sound. New York APRIL 20 Lectures, performances, and exhibitions at various locations, www.thekitchen.org. Through May 16 Anderson Resonating Frequencies: Donald Friedman Dialogues on Architecture Picking Up the Pieces and Music 6:00 p.m. General Society Library Francesco Dal Co APRIL 8 8:00 p.m. LECTURES Cooper Union 20 West 44th St. Brian McGrath The Lesson of Raphael Eric Lipton The Great Hall www.generalsociety.org Urban Interface: Building Soriano: Architecture and City in the Sky: The Rise and Economy of Means 7 East 7th St. Trans-local and Trans- Fall of the World Trade Center Norman Brosterman, Richard www.cooper.edu Jim Rasenberger 6:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m. Kostelanetz, France Morin disciplinary Knowledge High Steel: The Daring Men Columbia GSAPP Urban Center On SimpiicitY: 1:00 p.m. Who Built the World's Wood Auditorium APRIL U, 28, Columbia GSAPP 457 Madison Ave. From Belief to Practice MAY 12, 19 Greatest Skyline 113 Avery Hall www.mas.org 6:30 p.m. 201 Fayerweather 6:30 p.m. www.arch.columbia.edu/buell Decoding Zoning in NYC Solomon R. Guggenheim www.arch.columbia.edu Center for Architecture Wiliam Katavolos 6:30 p.m. Museum 536 LaGuardia PI. Thorn Mayne, Philip Glass Experimental Structures CUNY Graduate Center Sackler Center Diana Agrest www.skyscraper.org Resonating Frequencies: 6:00 p.m. 365 5th Ave. Peter B. Lewis Theater Object/Fabric/Field Dialogues on Architecture Pratt School of Architecture www.cuny.edu Displacements and Mutations Anne Wagner 1071 5th Ave. and Music 6:00 p.m. 115 Higgins Hall South www.guggenheim.org APRIL 15 Reassessing Minimalism 8:00 p.m. 200 Willoughby Ave., Princeton School of 6:30 p.m. Cooper Union Brooklyn James Traub Johan Martelius Architecture Solomon R. Guggenheim www.pratt.edu The Devil's Playground: Setts Auditorium, Princeton The Great Hall In Pursuit of a Modern Sacred 100 Years in Times Square Museum www.princeton.edu/~soa 7 East 7th St. Space: Lewerentz, Celsing, Sackler Center www.cooper.edu Dietrich Neumann 12:00 p.m. and the Swedish Experience Peter B. Lewis Theater Architecture of the Night: Urban Center 6:30 p.m. 1071 5th Ave. Illumination for the Modern 457 Madison Ave. Vassar College www.guggenheim.org Metropolis www.mas.org 206 Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie 6:15 p.m. www.vassar.edu Apples to Apples: A Dialogue APRIL 21 Parsons School of Design about the RFP process Renzo Piano Glass Corner 6:30 p.m. 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. 6:00 p.m. Center for Architecture Columbia GSAPP www.parsons.edu 536 LaGuardia PI. Wood Auditorium www.aiany.org 113 Avery APRIL 12 www.arch.columbia.edu Les (Enfants TerriSCes Edwin Chan @foga.com Ed Mazria Meeting Humanity's Bernard Tschumi, MOBY Cam[xi.Ludlow,JfYC 6:00 p.m. Greatest Challenge Resonating Frequencies: Pratt School of Architecture ('F train, station 'East Broadway) Dialogues on Architecture 115 Higgins Hall South 6:00 p.m. and Music reC 212 777 75 18 200 Willoughby Ave., Pratt School of Architecture 8:00 p.m. Brooklyn 115 Higgins Hall South Cooper Union www.pratt.edu 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn The Great Hall www.pratt.edu 7 East 7th St. Clive Dilnot www.cooper.edu Cool Britannia? The Salvatore La Rosa, Ronald Reawakening of Design Bentley of B Rve Studio 6:00 p.m. Two Houses New York Design Center 6:15 p.m. 200 Lexington Ave. Parsons School of Design LIST YOUR EVENT Open for breakfast at 9.30, funcH andbrmwh at 10, dinner from 5pm to 12pm Late night bar www.bgc.bard.edu Donghia Center DIARY(»ARCHPAPER.COM 25 East 13th St., 3rd Floor www.parsons.edu/architecture >- or <

SYMPOSIA Jean Shin THROUGH MAY 1 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26 00 Shrinking Cities Janice Cervelli Schach, Susan Frederieke Taylor Gallery Vito Acconci Building a Collection z Registration Deadline: Szenasy, Carol Whipple, APRIL 9-10 535 West 22nd St., 6th Fl. Diary of a Body 1969-1973 Skyscraper Museum o April 15, 2004 Paul Marion. Social xCHANGE vkrvm.frederieketaylorgallery. Barbara Gladstone Gallery 39 Battery Park Archplus and Domus ww.asla.org Pablo Castro. Jae Cha. com 515 West 24th St. www.skyscraper.org magazines have organized an Teddy Cruz, et al. www.gladstonegallery.com Ideas competition addressing I- Pleasanton Central Park Rhode Island School of Design Thomas Demand New York's Moynihan urban shrinkage. Detroit, Registration Deadline: LU 106 Bayard Ewing Building 303 Gallery LE.FT Museum of the City of Germany's Halle/Leipzig, May 1, 2004 231 South Main St., Providence 525 West 22nd St. Suburbia Datahome New York Q. Russia's Ivanovo, and The City of Pleasanton, departments.risd.edu/depts/ www.303gallery.com Artists Space 1220 5th Ave. England's Liverpool/ California, sponsors this socexchange/web 38 Greene St., 3rd Fl. www.mcny.org O Manchester are sites for phased design competition The Yesmon, www.anistsspace.org project proposals responding for a 300-acre park to include APRIL 15 - 16 The Atlas Group, et al. o to de-densification and ques• a sports field, and consider tions of urban transformation. Transparency: The Art and The Future of the Reciprocal Richard Sigmund FILM & THEATER civic and wildlife amenities. Jury: Azra Aksamija. Reudi Science of Building Design Readymade Pacific Coast Highway Jury: Galen Cranz, Michael Lee, APRIL 8 Baur, Regina Biltner, Stefano James Carpenter, Werner apexart PS.1 Contemporary Art Center Donn Logan, Richard Haag. A Constructive Madness Boeri. Nikolaus Kuhnert, Sobek. Matthias Schuler, 291 Church St. 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us (Jeffrey Kipnis. Thomas Bell, Anne Lacaton, Philipp Oswalt, Helmut Jahn, et al www.apexart.org www.ps1.org Brian Neff, 2003), 63 min. Illinois Institute of Technology Walter Prigge, George 6:15 p.m. Schollhammer, Barbara Social Club for Suicide Hermann Union Building, THROUGH APRIL 19 Life Symphony Design Yale School of Architecture Steiner Survivors (Returners' Club) Auditorium David Piscuskas, Jurgen Reim Review and Exhibition Part 3 180 York St., New Haven Deadline: May 1, 2004 3360 South State St., Chicago 1100 Architects Felissimo Design House www.architecture.yale.edu www.shrinkingcities.com Mastermind magazine spon• www.iit.edu Parsons School of Design 10 West 56th St. sors this open ideas design Architecture Gallery www.felissimo.com competition for an exclusive CONTINUING Broadway in Bloom APRIL 17 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. club for suicide survivors. FILM a THEATER Deadline: April 16, 2004 Power for the People www.parsons.edu The Morrow Sound Cube The Broadway Mall The site can be any major ONGOING 8:45 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Listening Room Association and HSBC Bank metropolis with a minimum l^y Arct)itect CUNY Graduate Center THROUGH APRIL 23 The Kitchen USA sponsor this design population of 2 million, (Nathaniel Kahn, 2003), 365 5th Ave. Jean Prouve: 512 West 19th St. competition to re-landscape should be publicly visible and 116 min. www.cuny.edu Three Nomadic Structures www.thekitchen.org the mall and crosswalk on convey the unusual nature Cinema Village Broadway between 85th and of the program. 22 East 12th St. Buell Hall THROUGH MAY 8 86th Streets. Jury: Jacqueline Abrams, EXHIBITIONS Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Arthur Ross Gallery Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Jury: John Emmanuel, Charlie Koolhaas, Kevin 1886 Broadway APRIL 6-JULY 25 www.arch.columbia.edu Basilico, Guido Guidi, Mimmo Roberta Gratz, Len Hopper, McLeod, James Westcot. www.myarchitectfilm.com Christo and Jeanne-Claude Jodice, Martino Marangoni, Liam Kavanagh, Lynden web.mit.edu/arbona/www/ret The Gates. Central Park, NY The Colors of Berlin: Stadtblind Massimo Vitali, Silvio Wotf Miller, Wolfgang Oehme, urnerscompetition.pdf Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Alen Institute Italy: Spaces and Places Saundra Parks, Elizabeth Robert Mann Gallery Bariow Rogers. 1000 5th Ave. 30 West 22nd St. Campus Planning Awards 210 11th Ave., 10th Fl. APRIL 8 www.broadwaymall.org www.metmuseum.org www.vanalen.org Program 2004 www.robertmann.com Career Day & Evening Deadline: May 24, 2004 12:00-3:00 p.m. APRIL 17- THROUGH APRIL 24 Design Excellence in Housing Boston Society of Architects Pratt School of Architecture SEPTEMBER 31 Harlemworld: THROUGH MAY 11 Deadline: April 16, 2004 and the Society for College 302 Higgins Hall North Noguchi: Sculptural Design Metropolis as Metaphor 2004 Whitney Biennial AIA New York Chapter and and University Planning 200 Willoughby Ave., Noguchi Museum Studio Museum in Harlem Whitney Museum of Boston Society of Architects sponsor this program to Brooklyn 9-01 33rd Rd., Queens 144 West 125th St. American Art cosponsor this housing identify long term views of 5:30-7:30 p.m. www.noguchi.org www.studiomuseum.org 945 Madison Ave. awards program. Architects educational campus building, Pratt Institute Manhattan www.whitney.org currently residing in New landscape, and infrastructure 144 West 14th St., 4th Fl. CONTINUING Dieter Roth: England may submit any design. Plans must have EXHIBITIONS www.pratt.edu been prepared within the past Prints and Multiples THROUGH MAY 19 housing project while other ten years by a New England THROUGH APRIL 11 Matthew Marks Gallery Singular Forms architects may submit Feedback design or planning firm. llya and Emilia Kabakov 523 West 24th St. (Sometimes Repeated): housing built in New England. Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Jury: Richard Dober, Geoff The Empty Museum www.matthewmarks.com Art from 1951 to the Present All projects must have been Nic Collins, Ben Neill. Freeman, John Furiong, Carol Isidro Blasco. Ana Linnemann. Solomon R. Guggenheim completed after January 1, Kato Hideki, James Fei, Johnson, Robert Simha. Juliane Stiegele, Karin Francesca Gabbiani Museum 1997. Jim O'Rourke www.architects.org Waisman, Ross Knight, et al. Marianne Boesky Gallery 1071 5th Ave. Jury: Scott Keller, Barbara 8:00 p.m. In Practice Projects 535 West 22nd St. www.guggenheim.org Skarbinski, llkka Suvanto, The Kitchen SculptureCenter www.marianneboesky- Martha Werenfels, Peter Exhibition of 9/11 Renderings 512 West 19th St. 44-19 Purves St., Queens gallery.com THROUGH MAY 31 Wiederspahn. Deadline: June 1. 2004 www.thekitchen.org www.sculpture-center.org Illuminating Surfaces: Bisazza www.architects.org Salmagundi Artists Club is THROUGH APRIL 25 and the Art of the Mosaic sponsoring a jury-selected APRIL 13 THROUGH APRIL 12 Significant Objects from the UrbanGlass A New Home on the Range exhibition of renderings of Herman Miller Inc. Barnard and Columbia Modern Design Collection Robert Lehman Gallery Registration Deadline: master plans and memorial Design Studio Visit Architecture Faculty Metropolitan Museum of Art 647 Fulton St., Brooklyn April 23, 2004 designs in response to the elevenbyseven 1000 5th Ave. www.urbanglass.org 6:30 p.m. This ideas competition World Trade Center attack. Barnard Hall, 3rd Fl. www.metmuseum.org Call for registration and sponsored by the AIA is for Jury: Roger Black, Arthur 3009 Broadway THROUGH JUNE 2 location: a site with climatic conditions Rosenblatt, Robert Strong. www.barnard.edu THROUGH APRIL 28 Architecture by Numbers 212-849-8380 similar to the Denver www.archpost911.info Perth Amboy High School Whitney Museum of International Airport. Designs Design Competition APRIL 14 are for a prototypical 2,400- Manhattanville: American Art at Altria Villeneuvette and the Coeur Hidden in Plain Sight Architectural League 120 Park Ave. Transportation Forum square-foot single-family home. d'Herault City College Library 457 Madison Ave. www.whitney.org 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Jury: David Brems, David Deadline: June 1. 2004 Convent Ave. and 138th St. www.archleague.org Mechanics Institute Greenbaum, Ed Hord, This ideas competition is open www.ccny.cuny.edu THROUGH JUNE 7 20 West 44th St. Ronnette Riley, Mark Rylander. to students and professionals THROUGH APRIL 30 212-486-7745 www.aia.org Roth Time: under 35 years old. The pro• THROUGH APRIL 14 Haresh Lalvani A Dieter Roth Retrospective gram is open to interpretation CIMA Architects on Art APRIL 15 MorphoGenomics: The Milgo MoMA QMS American Society of Landscape and asks designers to make Cooper Union anyware Experiment in Shaping Surfaces 11 West 33rd St., Queens Architects 2004 Awards proposals to create evocative The Great Hall Gallery Opalab + Cyberpipe, Municipal Art Society RS.1 Contemporary Art Center Registration Deadline: places at various scales, 7 East 7th St. Ubermatic, Societe des arts 457 Madison Ave. 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens April 30, 2004 www.lamanufacture www.cimaarchitects.org technologiques, et al. www.mas.org www.moma.org Professional categories despaysages.org 8:00 p.m. include design, analysis and THROUGH APRIL 17 Cari Andre THROUGH JUNE 15 The Kitchen planning, research, and com• West Kowloon Cultural Sol LeWitt Lament for the Children Peter Wegner 512 West 19th St. munications. The Community District Structures 1962-2003 Paula Cooper Gallery Bohen Foundation www.thekitchen.org Service Award recognizes Deadline: June 19. 2004 PaceWildenstein 534 West 21st St. 415 West 13th St. pro bono services and the Hong Kong Special 534 West 25th St. 212-255-1105 APRIL 18 212-414-4575 Landmark Award, cospon- Administrative Region www.pacewildenstein.com Bus Tour: Modern sored by the National Trust Government sponsors this Erieta Attali Architecture and Urbanism THROUGH JULY 29 for Historic Preservation, invitation for proposals for Preston Scott Cohen in Brooklyn Lucid Dreaming: Shock of the Old: recognizes a project completed various cultural and New Building, Tel Aviv Museum 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Eight Japanese Architecture Christopher Dresser 15 to 50 years ago. commercial facilities under of Art and Other Forms Municipal Art Society Works in Glass Cooper-Hewitt Jury: Frederick Steiner, F. a 40-hectare masterplan for 457 Madison Ave. Thomas Erben Gallery Columbia GSAPP National Design Museum Christopher Dimond, Barbara an Integrated Arts, Cultural www.mas.org 516 West 20th St. Avery Hall 2 East 91st St. Faga, Richard Haag, Gary and Entertainment District. www.thomaserben.com www.arch.columbia.edu ndm.si.edu Hilderbrand, Bill Marken, www.hplb.gov.hk/wkcd CO

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00 come later. as more conservative What was particularly and less tech-savvy? LU remarkable was the Structural engineer Tim M open and positive aniM Macfarlane criticized the > MIND atmosphere of the sym• way engineers are con• posium. All seemed to tracted in the U.S.,saying, realize that there are "Here architects gravi• real benefits to be had tate toward using con• THE GAP from opening the archi• ^AD 3HT sultants not in a creative tectural scenes in both way but rather in a Britain and the U.S. slimmed-down way." According to Macfarlane, For most of its life, it was activity has emerged Here a parallel might be For a British architect commonalities: a mutual this often results in less inconceivable that the renewed dialogue drawn with the influx of beginning to work in the desire to shape a innovative design and an Royal Institute of British between the RIBA and foreign players that United States, profession• thoughtful built environ• unwillingness to experi• Architects (RIBA) would the AIA on issues such came into British soccer al adjustments involve ment, encourage emerg• ment with materials. ever have a presence in as reciprocal education a decade or so ago. At more than swapping ing talent, and increase the United States. Born qualifications and how first there were com• centimeters for inches. diversity in the field. It Still, practicing archi• as it was in the 19"'-cen- to make it easier to set plaints of taking jobs The First US/UK wasn't until after the tecture in the U.S. has its tury era of nation states up as an architect. A away from British play• International Architect's opening remarks that advantages. "Planning in and imperialism, the previous "gentleman's ers, but now the benefits Symposium, an all-day evidence of a cultural England is a nightmare— parochial nature of the agreement" was effec• have worked through conference organized by gap began to emerge. the planning commis• RIBA has become increas• tively ripped up at the the system and no one the RIBA-USA (Royal "Have you heard our sions have so much ingly apparent during the start of the 1990s, leading wants to go back to Institute of British joke about the American aesthetic control," said last few decades. A major to a period of rancour. what it was like before. Architects USA) in con• commitment to sustain- Wimpenny. "Here you spur to change came Now, thankfully, a spirit Standards have junction with the AIA New ability? It must leave can build something with with the arrival of the big of cooperation has bro• improved dramatically York Chapter and held at room for improvement," any aesthetic you like." American practices in ken out again, inspiring and the game is more the Centerfor Architecture cracked Ferguson during While cultural differ• London in the 1980s, hope for a more fluid exciting than it's ever on March was partially a discussion of American ences can be problem• leading as it did to the transfer of architects been. In the same sense, intended to help ease building codes. (Ferguson atic, they are not formation of the first-ever across the Atlantic. British and American transitional woes for quickly added that the ultimately prohibitive. overseas AIA chapter. If architecture can only get British practitioners. joke also ran true for the The RIBA-USA website As a signal of this more better as a result of inte• the Yanks could do it, so "We are here to learn UK.) (www.riba-usa.org) progressive approach, a gration. This first gath• could the Brits. fascinating symposium from each other's expe• Vincent Chang, head of notes that there are 700 ering was a significant architects in the U.S. Thus in 1996 a British has just been held in the riences," said Jonathan operations for Nicholas landmark on the road to with professional ties to architect in California, Center for Architecture. Wimpenny, RIBA-USA Grimshaw & Partners greater cooperation. the UK, indicating a Tim Clark, set up the first Well attended, the meet• vice president and event USA, shared the frustra• clear measure of suc• U.S. chapter of RIBA. He ing was made up of MURRAY FRASER TEACHES organizer, in his intro• tions of designing a per• cess for the cross- urged another expatriate, roughly half Brits and ARCHITECTURE AT duction to the day's forming arts center in Atlantic conversion. Jonathan Wimpenny, to half Americans. A range THE UNIVERSITY OF events. Wimpenny, an upstate New York. Among WESTMINSTER IN LONDON. set up a second chapter of speakers, including the English architect who other problems, Chang As conference attendee in New York. There are current RIBA President, has worked in New York said the project was Christopher Gaylord of since 1986, stressed the hampered by a rigid British firm Assael now two more chapters, George Ferguson, talked First US/UK importance of strength• timeline that resulted in attested, "The only one serving Chicago/The widely about the benefits International ening ties between "cycles of redesign" and problem is notknowing Midwest and the other and potential pitfalls of Architect's British and American "an unevenness in the whether there's some• for Boston/New England. extending the "special Symposium architectural organiza• acceptance of modeling thing we can contribute." Discussions about a relationship" across the Center for Atlantic. It was more of a tions. Likewise, AIA New techniques in the U.S." fifth and possibly final Architecture, ABBY RABINOWITZ IS A symbolic event, stronger York director Rick Bell and chapter to cover the 536 La Guardia Place Do British architects NEW YORK-BASED WRITER RIBA president George Southern states are in on feeling than details; March 6, 2004 and engineers see their AND WORKS IN AN the works. Out of this the latter, after all, can Ferguson focused on American counterparts ARCHITECTURE FIRM.

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