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Skeptics held their breath and The phrase "enduring spirit of politicians considered their freedom" was engraved in all- futures as the 20-ton cornerstone caps, twice the size of the com• HOW THE FAR WEST for Larry Siiverstein's Freedom memorative words, in a physical Tower was lowered onto its tem• marker of the political game the SIDE WILL BE WON porary wooden platform, 10 feet World Trade Center reconstruc• 14 above its final resting place. The tion has become. Under Sunday's granite stone was inscribed with cover of night, when all the offi• PERRIAND'S PUCE the words "To honor and remem• cials and photographers were will become invisible as con• the progress of the building's ber those who lost their lives on long gone, the stone was low• struction continues. It will not hold design, the groundbreaking did EAVESDROP September IT" and as a tribute to ered from its plinth to its under• any structural weight. carry more than symbolic weight: CURBSIDE the enduring spirit of freedom." ground resting place, where it Despite lingering doubts as to Construction continued on page 2 CLASSIFIEDS

New York teenagers will have increased ANNE PAPAGEORGE LEAVES DDC ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS SPRING UP ACROSS NYC opportunities to study architecture in the near future as the city completes its plan to create FOR LMDC five new public high schools devoted to the field over the next two years. Four schools— WTC MEMORIAL NEVER TOO EAR the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, the Urban Assembly School of MOVES FORWARD Design and Construction in Manhattan on West 50"' Street, and the East and West Bronx The Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Academies for the Future—will begin classes Agency recently named Anne Papageorge this fall, and another, the High School for as the design director for the World Trade Architecture and Urban Planning in Ozone Center Memorial, Reflecting Absence. Park, Queens, will open its doors in 2006.The Equipped with a landscape architecture five new design-themed magnet schools fol• degree from CUNY College of Environ• low on the heels of two others—the Academy mental Sciences and Forestry, as well as a of Urban Planning in Bushwick and Pablo business degree from Baruch College, Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Papageorge most recently served as deputy cture and Studies in the Bronx, which opened last fall. commissioner in the city's Department of ns by Arquite All but one of the seven continued on page 6 Design and Construction (DDC). She has held a number of posts at the DDC over 18 years, including acting commissioner, Again?" (Issue Gluckman, who and has overseen the department's annual WHITNEY LEADS ARCHITECTS ON, E 10_6.8.2004), David completed an exten• $1 billion budget. In addition to developing THEN DUMPS THEM D'arcy reported that sive renovation of the sustainable guidelines for city buildings, her BIG the museum jetti• Whitney in 1998, the notable projects include the Queens soned its original and museum asked him Museum and City Lights competitions. amended shortlists to submit a detailed "I think it's a great opportunity to work on EASE to extend the job to design in 2003 when a large-scale urban project which will have The twists and Renzo Piano last it became apparent a lasting impact on Lower Manhattan,"said turns in the month. that Koolhaas' $400 Papageorge."I'm very excited." ANDREW YANG Whitney Museum Richard Gluckman, million project was of American Art's one of the six archi• far more than it seemingly endless tects involved in the wanted to pay. LONDON ARCHITECT WITHDRAWS search for an archi• Whitney's first inter• Gluckman was FROM CONTROVERSIAL tect is a practition• view process in 2001 asked to design a TRIBECA TOWER er's worst night• that led to Rem more realistically mare. In "On Koolhaas' selection, priced alternative that has spoken out about met several criteria. Foster Bows Out what he considers The museum wanted Foster and Partners has announced that the confused manner the addition to maxi• it has resigned from the team designing in which the Whitney mize gallery space proposals for the 35-story Resnick conducted its search. while respecting the Tower in New York (see "Foster Builds in (Others on the first height of the Marcel Tribeca—or Not," Issue 10_6.8.2004). The list were Norman Breuer-designed project team claims it has reached an ami• Foster, Jean Nouvel, building and pre• cable agreement with developer Scott Peter Eisenman, and serving the facades Resnick over the future of the scheme, Steven Holl.) of the adjacent a controversial residential development According to continued on page 4 on a city-owned lot continued on page 2 LU o z

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CO The New York Times' recent announcement that Nicolai Diana Darling continued from front page of the tower's on foundation began on the Tuesday follow• O Ouroussof would assume Herbert Muschamp's post as archi• ing the ceremony. Cathy Lang Ho I- tecture critic is quintessential good news/bad news. No one M The atmosphere was one of frantic William Menking seems sorry to see Muschamp leave the job, even within the a relief. Governor George E. Pataki had set LU paper. As Clay Risen (who also contributes to The Architect's what Quentin Brathwaite, deputy director Martin Perrin Newspaper) wrote in his sharp, obituary-like front-page story of planning of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, termed an Deborah Grossberg in the July 19 edition of The New York Observer, Muschamp's "extremely aggressive schedule," begin• James Way transition is "a relief to a new crop of editors unwilling to ning with Pataki's pressure on the starkly defend, as their predecessors did, the critic's iconoclasm and different Childs and Libeskind camps to Jonathan Chaffin obscurantism." For readers, his writing wavered between come up with a design for the tower by incisive and incomprehensible, socially minded and narcissis• December. In response to rumblings of Paula Lehman a politically significant overlap between tic. In any case, the roller-coaster ride seemed interminable. MANKermc ihtern the groundbreaking and the Republican Lori Macdonald The bad news is, as Peter Slatin laments in Curbside (page 4), Convention (August 30 to September 3), Pataki completed the numerical symbolism that the NYT conducted a narrow search to fill this important Keith James of the site by choosing July 4, post. The NYT remains the most influential newspaper in the Independence Day, continuing the White House's motif of tenuous connections Paul Beatty country, and its power to shape the priorities of the profes• sion—and the perception of architecture among a broad audi• between September 11,freedom, and, as he said at the ceremony, "attacks on our ence—is unrivaled. It's a shame that more of the talented way of life." journalists and critics who have been writing consistently and During the pomp-filled cornerstone- conscientiously about architecture in New York and beyond laying ceremony, business around the weren't given a shake. site carried on as usual: the PATH trains periodically interrupted the incongruous, But more importandy, the appointment of a new critic doesn't prearranged bagpipe music as they roared fix the larger problems of the NYTs treatment of architecture. through the temporary station while com• First, Muschamp clearly suffered from poor editing. Will his mercial airplanes flew disturbingly low, PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ a reminder of the Towers' loss. But there MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / successor be similarly left to his own devices? Second, the JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ were signs of the day's significance out• LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ paper's scattershot reporting on the field must be blamed for side the tightly controlled site, where only D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / our heightened expectations of Muschamp's columns. The media, family members, and an assorted GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER "newspaper of record" does cover architecture routinely (espe• panoply of invited guests made up the surprisingly meager crowd allowed to cially so since 9/11) but it has never had a dedicated architecture PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ witness the ceremony. A group of protes• M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ beat. And when stories do appear, they tend to be sifted tors from the Westerboro Baptist Church WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ through a trend filter. This is perhaps a legacy of Muschamp, of Topeka, Kansas, held up horrific signs SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ ("Thank God for 9/11") while bomb-sniffing LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / whose analysis of architecture brought it ever-closer to fashion dogs checked every entrant's bag. This JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ and further from dull but crucial matters such as financing, KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ writer observed one arrest. TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN land use, ecology, community-building, zoning, and so on. The political spectacle within the site was a culmination of the subtle takeover GENERAL INFORMATION: [email protected] The NYT is rumored to be interviewing candidates for a of power that began with the selection of EDITORIAL: EDITOR^ARCHPAPER.COM staff architectural writer, which is great news. But what will DIARY: DIARY®ARCHPAPER.COM Libeskind's masterplan. The dais was ADVERTISING: [email protected] these changes at the NYT mean? Will we see more coverage of divided into two sections. On the left stood SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] architecture as a complex nexus of countless, complicated the public players, such as newly press- PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING spheres, from real estate to politics to technology and more? happy Michael Arad-later seen schmooz• DUPLICATE COPIES. ing like a pro, with baby Nathaniel on his Fingers crossed. arm—and the grimly smiling Libeskind, THE VIEWS or OUR REVIEWEffS AND COLUMNISTS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE Or THE STArr OR ADVISORS Or whose control of the site has been steadily THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. One last word: We are taking the rest of the summer off, to refresh and prepare for a busy fall. Look to our fall issues to eroded. On the right stood the power- VOLUME 02 ISSUE 13, JULY 27. 2004 holders of the moment—Skidmore, THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAR, BY THE ARCHITCCT-S NEWSPAPER, LLC, P.O. BOX 93T. NEW YORK. 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Though the event was geared at assuag• FOSTER BOWS OUT continued from front ing doubts about the construction of the Spread the news. page three blocks north of the Ground Freedom Tower, skepticism persists. Zero site. Silverstein is running out of money, and The firm decided to resign after the the building is as yet untenanted. What If you agree that a timely, reliable newspaper is just what the local project became increasingly embroiled the cornerstone will ultimately sit under is profession needs, here's what you can do to help us: in discussions with local authorities and anyone's guess, EVA HAGBERC community members. Community Board • Please ensure that every RA you know (friends, colleagues, relatives) 1 rejected the initial design in April, and has signed on to receive the paper (www.archpaper.com). As you asked that the 353-foot-tall tower be know, we send the newspaper free of charge to Registered Architects reduced in height by a third. in the New York tri-state region. It is understood that Foster has agreed • For non-registered architects, other design professionals, and that elements of its designs can be used if the project's development continues with designers outside the NY tri-state region, we encourage firms to take out another practice. "We have decided to go institutional subscriptions that can be shared among all employees. our separate ways," said a spokesperson • Give us your feedback. Share your stories with us. Rant. Rave. from Foster and Partners. "B ut I can assure Don't be shy. you that it is a completely amicable split." ED DORRELL 3 O LU

COOPER-HEWITT EXORCIZES PARKS DEPARTMENT ISSUES RFEI TO •I MAKE OVER 1964 WORLD'S FAIR PAVILION MAILER DAEMONS ol The Cooper-Hewitt has had its difficulties in the past few years, but we had no CITY SEEKS PITCHES idea how serious its e-mail problem was. And we're not talking about viruses < or spam. It seems a bout of "emaiiitis" recently prompted the design museum's FOR JOHNSON'S TENT CL administrators to schedule a somewhat infantalizing employee workshop on O e-mail "do's and don'ts." With an excruciatingly thorough, 13-slide PowerPoint presentation obtained by EavesDrop, staffers were instructed on such matters as how to use the Reply-All function ("judiciously") and the proper length of a CO subject line ("2-3 words"). Reminded that "E-mail is NOT an outlet for emotion," LU they were also told to "Avoid unnecessary replies" such as "Thank you" and > < "You're welcome." And in case you're wondering, before sending any messages, LU one should ask oneself: "Does it make sense?" "Some of this is obvious," acknowl• edges the museum's rep, Jennifer Northrup, who put the presentation together. "But a lot of staff said they appreciated it and saw the need." The presentation was subseguently e-mailed to workshop attendees (and then to us...oops!), with a note admonishing them to "review it again and implement changes to [their] email habits." It also announced yet "another meeting in September to evaluate our collective emaiiitis." There was no update on proposed potty training classes.

SCI-ARC'S UNHAPPY LOT The New York City Parks deteriorated since its last Design, suggested transform• Department has issued a incarnation as a roller rink in ing the structure into a glass- There's perhaps nothing worse than depriving Angelenos of their parking spaces. Request for Expressions of the mid-1970s. "The site has a enclosed air and space Especially when a big bad developer is to blame, and the victims are a bunch Interest (RFEI) from architects great deal of history and poten• museum. According to of architecture students who don't seem to like what said developer wants to for a project to stabilize, reno• tial and we'd love to keep it Reardon, another reason why build. Indeed, things are getting ugly between the Southern California Institute vate, and adaptively reuse the alive," said Parks spokesman the request is happening now of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and developers Richard Meruelo and Daniel Villanueva. New York State pavilion Ashe Reardon. "We want to is that a recent engineering As first reported two weeks ago in the Los Angeles Downtown News, Meruelo designed by Philip Johnson for get as many brains behind this study commissioned by Parks and Villanueva plan to build two residential highrises on a 15-acre parking lot the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing as we can." found that an adaptive reuse adjacent to the school, currently used by SCI-Arc students and staff. They're also Meadow Corona Park, known Part of what prompted Parks of the structure could prove reportedly trying to buy the land on which the school itself sits (which it cur• as the Tent of Tomorrow. The to open up an RFEI was the as economically feasible as rently leases). Needless to say, SCI-Arc doesn't like either proposal-one faculty oval structure appended by receipt of a number of propos• demolition. The budget for the member we contacted disparagingly describes the towers as "Miami-style"-and three slim towers topped with als for the site over the past project has not been set. filed suit to block the latter. The developers' response? In a classic tit-for-tat, observation decks was most few years. One plan, by Expressions of interest are they erected a fence around the parking lot, which locals have since dubbed the recently made famous by the Frank Campione of CREATE due August 11. "Berlin Wall." "They built it right against the building," the outraged instructor movie Men in Black but has Architecture Planning & DEBORAH GROSSBERG says, "so we not only lost our parking, but we couldn't even exit the building on that side." We're told the fence has since been moved a few feet, but the battle rages on. MOVE OVER, KARIM We hear Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote, who are also design• ing the main installation at this fall's Venice Biennale, are working on a top- secret project for Alessi. Rashid confirms that a collaboration with the celebrated design manufacturer is currently in its prototyping phase. However, he would only say that it will be "an extension of what Alessi is known for" that also ven• tures into new territory, just as the kitchenware- and tabletop-maker has done with recent forays into bath fixtures and small appliances. When asked whether the commission has sparked any sibling rivalry with his ubiquitous brother, Karim, Rashid chuckled, "No, he's a very busy guy and has lots of other clients."

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BREAK DOWN Two-st IN 2003, $34.6 BILLION WAS SPENT ON NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE Peer pa STATE OF NEW YORK. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CLAIMED THE BIGGEST

SHARE OF INVESTMENT-31.5 PERCENT, OR $10.9 BILLION. Open R CONSTRUCTION DOLLARS GOING TO EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES CAME Optimi IN SECOND AT $5.6 BILLION, EXCEEDING COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT'S $4.2 BILLION. HERE ARE THE TOP TEN SPENDERS: Negotii

Construction Type Percent of Dollars spent total construction 1 Residential 31.5 $10.9 million •Includes categories that 2 Educational 16.3 $5.6 million account for less than 1.5% of O he Department of Design S. Construction total construction: Religious, clivers roughly Si billion-worth of work 3 Commercial 12.2 S4.2 million ew York City every year. Designing for Amusement, Conservation, 4 Highways & Streets 8.7 $3 million DC gives you a direct impact on the city Military, Sewers, Water Supply, 5 Governmental 7.3 $2.5 million which you live. and Transportation. 6 Power 6.8 $2.4 million Design IConstructic 3:00 — 6:30 pm 7 Medical 4.7 $1.6 million 8 Miscellaneous Public 2.9 S991,600 Excellence Initiatives TuesdayAugust3,2004 9 Communicniions 2.8 $990,300 Centerfor Architecture 10 Manufacturing 1.7 $601,700 536 LaCuardia Place for RFP information visit: Other* 4.9 $1.7 million NewYork, NY wwwnyc.gov/buildnyc

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So why is Daniel Libeskind suing estate folks grumble, but is nonethe• MAYA LIN COMPLETES SECOND PROJEC Larry Silverstein? less well done and typically more FOR CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND It's about money, of course, and you worth reading than the commercial can read all about it in The New York coverage has been on Sundays. 00 Times. But while that tug of war may It feels like a double-whammy for or get its due from the very gray lady, anyone serious about architecture LU the newspaper appears to be moving and/or real estate. As far as the for• H- away from exploring the intersecting mer goes, the NYThas blithely lis• LLI circles that foreshadowed this turn tened to its brilliant but power-puffed of events long ago. critic in choosing his successor, set• • • LU While Bronx cheers have greeted ting the stage for a Muschampian both the announced departure of dynasty. Ouroussoff is qualified—he M Herbert Muschamp from his dizzying can meet a deadline and he knows CO perch atop the world of architecture the padance of the realm. But would• CQ criticism at The New York Times, n't it have been more rewarding to 0^ and word of the imminent arrival mount a full-scale search for some• in his place of the unloved-in-L.A. one to fill this important post, Nicolai Ouroussoff, now with The extending its reach beyond the usual Los Angeles Times, there have also suspects? And as for the world of been unhappy sounds about recent commercial real estate, it does changes in the section covering the appear that the newspaper of record Dark Side of Architecture: real estate. is happy to cede this territory—cov• It's not that there isn't enough erage of the billions of dollars worth coverage. After all, the Sunday Real of bricks, mortar, and debt traded in Estate section has expanded greatly. the city and region each year—to the But the expansion is entirely given newspaper of discord, the New York over to residential features, leaving Post. At the same time, the NYT is the paper's coverage of the com• flashing a huge, sheltering smile mercial real estate world at a virtual for the brokers and agents who sell standstill. While columns like "The and lease apartments, condos, and Hunt" and "Big Deal" have been homes, as well as for the designers added to the section's stalwarts, and decorators who make them "Habitats," "Your Home," and "If cozy and camera-ready. You're Thinking of Living In...", the Meanwhile, commercial real commercial beat, now ingeniously estate has grown in reputation, size, called "Square Feet," rotates weekly and speed, becoming an important TWO- between retail and office-market part of the national and international coverage. In addition,a residential capital and debt markets. More and development column that appeared more young men and women are weekly on Fridays has been dropped seeking advanced degrees—of which altogether, despite the sharp increase more are being offered—in real estate in multifamily construction through• from institutions such as NYU, TIMER out the city and region. Columbia, Baruch, and Fordham With memorials, earthworics, and sculptures far outnumbering her architectural Commercial real estate coverage because they recognize its importance designs, Maya Lin's second major commission from the Children's Defense Fund has not vanished. There is still ongo• in the future of the city and the region. (CDF) Haley Farm Freedom School—and one of her few buildings—was dedi• ing reporting on Ground Zero's real In short. The New York Times is cated last week. The 6,100-square-foot Riggio-Lynch Chapel shares its 157-acre estate drama, as well as the sharp passing on a dual opportunity, which reporting of Charles V. Bagli and is also a responsibility—to expand rural Clinton, Tennessee site (the former estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David W. Dunlap's wonderful "Blocks" the architectural debate, zoom in on Alex Haley) with her design of the Langston Hughes Library, completed in 1999. column. And on Wednesdays, the real estate discussion, and illumi• The CDF, founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman, is devoted to children's Business Day offers a column on the nate the too-often unhappy connec• care and education. national commercial real estate tion that binds the two. The project is actually two buildings and an exterior court, set on the banks of a scene—a column that makes self- PETER SLATIN IS THE FOUNDER AND obsessed, parochial New York real EDITOR OF WWW.THESLATINREP0RT.COM. pond. The larger, more poetic of the two buildings is a 3,400-square-foot chapel— a timber construction with smooth curves that meet in a monumental prow shape thrusting into the bucolic landscape. Inside, the chapel's exposed wood beams and before the museum would was hired not necessarily walls and concrete floors keep the space spare and serene. continued from front page make its final selection. This because he could do the best The second, smaller 1,100-square-foot structure is a strongly contrasting stolid Madison Avenue brown- was the last word he heard job but because he is an block of bare concrete masonry units. Housing a bell pole, meeting rooms, and stones, which would be on the subject until the press easier sell to funders. Though claimed in the expansion. announced that Piano was Gluckman was paid for his service functions, it provides a utilitarian counterpoint to its organic twin. A 1,600- The new design should also given the job. work, he is understandably square-foot covered walkway with a straightforward wood-and-steel-framed trellis maintain the existing retail The second shortlist was upset that he was bypassed links the two buildings and e.xtends the functions of both buildings outdoors. space while incorporating a never made fully public, without having had the Bialosky + Partners of New York, the architect of record, previously worked opportunity to present his proper theater. though it was rumored to designs to the museum or with Lin on the 1990 Rosa Esman Gallery in Manhattan and the Weber Residence Gluckman developed a include David Chipperfield, its board of directors. in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Edwina von Gal of East Hampton, New York, was detailed proposal addressing Herzog & de Meuron, Tod these requirements, adding Williams Billie Tsien, and But remember, the the landscape designer. about 65,000 square feet of Smith-Miller + Hawkinson. Whitney previously com• The chapel joins some of Lin's other major projects—including the Vietnam space. Whitney officials "Losing to Renzo is noth missioned Michael Graves Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. (1982), the Civil Rights Memorial in and Koolhaas to develop promised him inclusion in a ing to be ashamed of," Montgomery, Alabama (1989), and the Women's Table in New Haven, Connecticut Gluckman declared, but he is designs, only to drop them. group of up to ten architects, (1993)—in addressing social and political issues of our generation, such as civil, from which two or three nevertheless unhappy with Will Piano see the project through? Stay tuned. would be invited to partici• how he was treated by the women's, and children's rights. pate in design charrettes museum. He believes Piano WILLIAM MENKINC The non-denominational chapel is named after benefactor Leonard Riggio, founder and chair of Barnes & Noble, and William Lynch, former deputy mayor of New York City. Both are members of CDF's board. In honor of the dedication, [email protected] the Knoxville Museum of Art will present Maya Lin's Designs for East Tennessee through September 19. JAMES WAY FOUR FINALISTS UNVEIL DESIGNS FOR THE HIGH LINE HIGHTI

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Field Operations ana Oilier Scofldio + Renfro propose program spaces such as an open-air cinema.

After a 2003 ideas competition eliciting 720 Belle, Architecture Research Office, James Nordensen Associates, the team also plans Line to create programmable spaces, and also entries, a $15.75 million commitment from Turrel, among others, exhibited the least ab• to remove pieces of the High Line to allow plans an entirely new building that would City Council, City Planning rezoning plans, stract and most pragmatic plan, proposing light and access to the street below. Holl plans provide access to the High Line and house and an RFQ in March that elicited 52 respons• a complete process for ecological renewal. for public artworks and hopes to integrate the educational and cultural activities. es, the steering committee of the Friends of Field Operations, working with Mathews- project with buildings along the L5-mile route. The proposals will contribute to the selec• the High Line (FHL), chaired by City Planning Nielsen, Piet Oudolf, Olafur Eliasson, Diller, Zaha Hadid, whose team includes Balmori tion of a team, not a commitment to a design Commissioner Amanda Burden, has pre• Scofidio + Renfro, and Buro Happold, creat• Associates, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, or plan. The FHL and city hope the plans will sented the master plans of the four finalist ed an urban ecology of water, marsh, and Creative Time, The Kitchen, and the Public Art also help to engage the community. The devel• teams. Each team tackled the idea of how to land that weaves through the city. The team Fund, presented a more formally expressive oped master plans will be on view at the transform an urban industrial artifact into hopes to excise portions of the High Line plan. The team warps the surface of the High Center for Architecture through August 14. jw a contemporary public amenity. and insert glass-bottomed pools along the The Field Operations and TerraGRAM structure to provide a connection between groups presented landscape-intensive plans the new intervention above and the frantic sensitive to sustainability. TerraGRAM, streets below.

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LU COLUMBIA DEAN million by the LMDC and Port Authority a feasibility study for relocating the NEVER TOO EARLY continued from front page SDL is seeking additional fees for its flower market from its current location schools were created under the New collaboration with Skidmore, Owings & around 6'" Avenue and 28'" Street to the Century High Schools Initiative (NCHSI), It's official: Mark Wiqiey has been named Merrill. Meatpacking District. Washington Square which, with $30 million of funding from dean of Columbia University's Graduate Partners, the Environmental Simulation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the < School of Planning and Preservation. LU MAYOR'S 2005 BUDGET Center, AKRF, and Capalino+Company Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Wigley has been serving as interim dean The City of New York has released its will conduct the study. The Flower Open Society Institute, transforms large since last fall. $47 billion budget allocations for 2005. Market has been in its current area for high schools into multiple small schools The Department of Buildings received more than 120 years but zoning changes meant to inspire learning through hands- STRAND EXPANDS $670,000 to hire approximately 12 addi• increasing residential growth has been on, theme-based approaches. "What's dif• Hacker-strand, the art and architecture tional construction inspectors. Parks edging out the florists. ferent about NCHSI schools is that they're extension of Strand Books, closed its & Recreation received $7,286 million small enough that no child slips through doors last month when its lease expired for seasonal employees. City Planning NAVY YARD SWELLS the cracks. The students are motivated by at its 57'" Street location. Its contents, was allocated $335,000 to fund zoning On July 14, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg interesting themes, they learn by doing, and however, will be incorporated into its reforms. The New York Water Taxi was announced a five-year, $71 million project they're exposed to non-academic partners 828 Broadway location, now undergoing subsidized $125, 000 to maintain ferry to extend the Brooklyn Navy Yard's 3.5- like design professionals," said Lorraine expansion. Art and architecture books, service from the 69'" Street Pier/Brooklyn million-square-foot industrial park west• Whitman, executive director of the Salvadori the number one and two best-selling Army Terminal to lower Manhattan. ward. The plan will improve the Yard's Center, a nonprofit educational organiza• categories, respectively, will be located Hells Kitchen Neighborhood Association infrastructure, allowinq for the creation of tion that uses engineering as a teaching on the 11,000-square-foot second floor. received $5,000. a privately funded $60 million, 560,000- tool and trains public school teachers to do The expansion will be completed in square-foot manufacturing, industrial, the same. The Salvadori Center has part• September when the Strand's tagline will RIVERSIDE and retail development. One building is nered with the Pablo Neruda Academy and change from 8 to "18 miles of books." RENOVATIONS already under construction, with others the Bronx Academies. Strand Books, founded in 1927, contin• Parks & Recreation reconstructed slated to be built over the next few years. Design magnet schools are not new in ues to be family owned and operated. Riverside Drive Walkway from 79'" to 87'" NewYork—two 10-year-old institutions, streets. The $1.45 million project restored HHPA SPLITS the Renaissance Charter School in SUING SILVERSTEIN the original 1875 Frederick Law Olmsted Hugh Hardy, Malcolm Holzman, and Queens and the School for the Physical studio Daniel Libeskind (SDL) is suing design. Work included new paving, cob• Norman Pfeiffer, the founding principals City in Manhattan, base their studies on Silverstein Properties for $843,750, the bled tree pits, street curbing, historically of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates investigations of the city—but NCHSI has sum Libeskind claims he is owed in appropriate City Hall-style benches, and (HHPA), are going their separate ways helped to foster a trend of themed schools, architectural fees. The lawsuit, filed with Riverside Park lampposts. Riverside Park, on August 1, and will each lead their which, though small, still serve around 400 the State Supreme Court on July 13, also which stretches from West 72"" to 125'" own companies. H3 Hardy Collaboration students each. About 10 percent of the seeks legal fees and punitive damages. Street, is one of only eight officially desig• will remain in HHPA's Manhattan offices. initiative's small schools are architecture- SDL arrived at the sum as one-fourth of nated scenic landmarks in New York City. Holzman, along with HHPA partner related, a percentage Whitman chalked up 1.5 percent of $1.5 billion, the estimated Douglas Moss, will lead Holzman Moss to statistical likelihood. "All these schools cost of the Freedom Tower. Silverstein FLOWER POWER Architecture, in Manhattan. 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WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO DEVELOP FAR WEST MIDTOWN? ALL SIDES AGREE ON THE NEED FOR MORE RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. AS WELL AS IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION AND OPEN SPACE. BUT HOW THE PIECES COME TOGETHER IS THE STUFF OF POLITICAL BRINKMANSHIP LAURA WOLF-POWERS PUZZLES IT ALL TOGETHER.

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Here are the indispensable pieces opponents argue that a stadium- sponsored by the Newman Real vow to "get ahead of the curve" in their sheer walls." The RPA dealt of the Far West Side development ft"ee .solution, one that relies on zon• Estate Institute at Baruch College— anticipating and shaping new large- the city a blow in a report last week puzzle: an expanded Jacob K. Javits ing changes and the lavits would produce different urban scale development. But this monu- opposing the stadium on both Convention Center; the westward expansion to spur phased growth environments for those who live mentality has also run the city's design and fiscal grounds. e.Ktension of the midtown business in the area, will promote better and work in the district. Because of plan into trouble. Though it makes The city's proposal to expand the district; the new residential develop• development at lower cost to tax• the fiscal as well as the design rami• sense to place a large-footprint lavits Center northward, blocking ment the market is craving; usable payers and with far less disruption fications of the city's proposal, which structure in what is already a super- view corridors and waterfront block corridor fi-om 30'" to 34'" streets access at 39'", 40"' and 41" streets, has open spaces that connect the city to the existing city fabric. may go forward as early as this month, the debate over Hudson between 7'" Avenue and the river, also drawn fire. But neighborhood with Hudson River Park; the vitality This is the backdrop for the jigsaw Yards has mushroomed into a super- the proposed stadium is so over• groups are most upset about a and .scalar integrity of the South of design and politics that is Far issue that engages elected officials whelming as to diminish the quality rezoning of 10'" and 11'" avenues in Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. West Midtown. Three solutions— and citywide planning groups as well of the streets and spaces that sur• the 30s, a move that would pave the Here's the piece with the uncom• one by Cooper-Robertson as local residents, developers, and round it, according to Rob Lane, way for a north-south wall of olTice fortable fit: a stadium facility that Architects on behalf of the property owners. A season of politi• director of design programs at the towers that, with FARs of 24 or anchors the city's bid for the 2012 Department of City Planning, Regional Plan Association (RPA). more, could resuh in buildmgs with one by Meta Brunzema Architects cal brinksmanship awaits them all. Olympics, linked to a major transit "(Though the plan does] a really as much as 2 miUion square feet, as endorsed by Manhattan Community The city's Hudson Yards Plan is investment, the extension of the #7 good job of animating the base of high as 90 stories. The proposed Board 4 and a neighborhood-based ambitious and monumental, full of subway line. The Bloomberg the stadium,"he said,"there is still a rezoning is already a compromise: coalition, the Hell's Kitchen/Hudson large buildings and .sweeping administration, digging in its heels, question of whether people can be Under pressure, the city agreed to Yards Alliance (HKHYA), and a gestures that embody Cit)- Planning says plans to transform the Far West comfortable in these spaces given increase density only moderately in third by Robert Geddes, which is Commissioner Amanda Burden's Side will go nowhere without it. Its Q:: O

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The two axonomentric drawings (below) depict a view along 11th Avenue that shows potential development under the city's plan (opposite page) and under an alternative plan endorsed by HKHYA, a coalition of local community groups (this page). The low, white buildings in the foreground are existing structures. Both plans focus commercial development along the western edge of the area, though the city's plan allows a much higher scale. Hudson Rail Yards as it exists today (above left) and the city's proposal to extend the Javits and build a stadium over the western portion of the rail yards (above right).

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Hell's Kitchen east of 10"' Avenue townhouse on West 35''' Street, ers atop the convention center open space without much relief in um—were removed from the mix. and maintain residential zoning in asserted, "We see the neighborhood extension, perched on the periphery terms of massing," said the RPA's A third alternative, a study that part of the neighborhood. as a place with its own rhythm of of the building. A public park, on the Lane, who also points out that park sponsored by Newman Real Estate Still, for the grassroots community scales and building programs—not rooftop amid the towers, provides a users would have to ascend 32 feet Institute at Baruch College, claims group Hells Kitchen Neighborhood a tabula rasa." The plan adds only connection from die blocks to the from 1 r'' Avenue—and 60 feet from to let disputants have it all. This so- A.ssociation (HKNA), the Cooper moderate density above 34"' Street, east (also fully built-out commer- Hudson River Park—in order to called "dream scheme," spearheaded Robertson plan amounts to a tem• putting most new bulk on the 34"" ciiilly) through to the Hudson River. access the space. by Robert Geddes, dean emeritus plate for uniform building mass, Street east-west superblock, includ• Critics have praised the plan's move Brunzema's plan has a much of the Princeton University School type, and program that would leave ing the rail yards. (Both HKHYA to concentrate bulky new develop• simpler flaw in the eyes of the city: of Architecture, would demolish ment on an east-west corridor that the community without the water• and the city allow for about 40 mil• It rejects the stadium and the #7 the existing Javits Center, reconnect front connection it has sought for lion square feet of new development, is already large in scale, and applauded extension, the official sine qua non the street grid to the river from 34"' so long, and choke out the residen• though tlie community would its translxirmation of odd-shaped for a new Far West Side. The city also Street northward, and build an tial and industrial u.ses that give the prefer less). publicly owned sites into innovative, maintains that, imder the HKHYA- entirely new convention center on neighborhood its mixed, gutsy organic open spaces (including endorsed design, the lavits would To accomplish this, the HKHYA the superblock corridor, where it character. several abutting Lincoln Tunnel lack needed contiguous floor space. alternative excises the stadium from would cover both the eastern and on-ramps). However, the idea of The design is nonetheless a power• Community responses to these the western rail yards and expands western rail yards. According to a 10-acre park on the roof of the ful statement of how Far West concerns are expressed in Brunzema's the lavits Center southward in its architect Chuck Lauster, the newly south-expanding Javits has drawn Midtown development could be scheme, a collaboration with plan• stead. The plan accommodates appointed director of the Pergolis skepticism. "You would have these more flexible and sensitive to context ner Daniel Ciutman. Brunzema, desired development by allowing Gallery at the Newman Institute, enormous towers meeting a vast if City Hall's obsession—the stadi• who lives and works in a five-story for residential and coinmcrcial tow• both a sports stadium and up to I— < LLI

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The city's plan (left) features an expanded Javits and new stadium, and concentrates commercial development along 10th and 11th avenues and along an east-west superbiock between 30th and 34th streets. It cuts a mid-blocH boulevard between 10th and 11th avenues, featuring a swath of open space. HKHYA's plan (middle) also puts development along 10th and 11th avenues, but concen• trates bulk on an east-west superbiock that includes the rail yard. A pedestrian network links small parks and a green space on the roof of the Javits. It omits the stadium entirely. The Newman Real Estate Institute's study (right) places a new convention center over the rail yards, and allows the possibility of a stadium on its roof. It focuses mixed development on the old Javits site.

10 million square feet of office space compromises have been struck in a rezoning of the area. A political could be built on the roof of the this town. observer close to the issue predicts convention center. Advocates say Far West Midtown's fate depends "a complete reshuffling of the deck" Because of the fiscal as well as the that if city and state officials would on the interface of design solutions on the West Side if the city stops jettison the lavits—a young build• with fiscal and political ones. RPA's campaigning for a Manhattan sta• (design ramifications of the city's ing in good structural condition but opposition to the stadium has been dium and sets its Olympic sights proposal, the debate over Hudson Yards an admitted eyesore—New York damaging. Neighborhood activists on Queens. In the aftermatli of could have a waterfront greenway, now have powerful allies in West such a reshuffle, could former com• has mushroonned into a super-issue high-density development potential, Side property owners, including batants sit across from one another and a stadium all at once. Many view Madison Square Garden owner and discuss the distribution of den• that engages elected officials and the lavits "flip" as an outrageously James Dolan. But the city claims sity, the role of east-west connectiv• planning groups as well as local residents, expensive nonstarter, and the pro• that if activists defeat the stadiimi— ity, the relationship of a city to a posal does not prevent monolithic by persuading the State Assembly to river? We may yet find out. developers, and property owners. office development on 10'" and 11'" block it or through litigation—^there LAURA WOLF-POWERS TEACHES CITY avenues. Nevertheless, stranger will be no redevelopment, not even AND REGIONAL PLANNING AT PRATT.

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Abrams, 2003), $65.00 19 other entries that challenges the common opinion that she Werner Sewing, with contributions from Erik Wegerhoff learned modernism from the master (Esther (Prestel, 2004), $70.00 were completed The much-anticipated book Charlotte da Costa Meyer); her collaboration with Le before last year. The Perriand: An Art of Living, edited by Mary Corbusier in the late 1920s and the mutual projects are beauti• McLeod, sets a refreshing example at a influences between the two designers fully illustrated in moment when the ubiquitous formats for (McLeod); her departure from the archi• crisp architectural architectural publications have grown tired. tect's office and involvement with the radi• photography, sketch• Monographs have long been challenged for cal Popular Front movement in the 1930s es, and drawings. their limited ability to generate critical and (Danilo Udovicki-Selb); her productive years The author makes contextualized analysis of an architect's body in Japan in 1940 and 1941 that not only con• fleeting reference to of work. Anthologies of loosely connected, tributed to the design culture in the country the work of sculp• randomly matched scholarly and critical but also reshaped her own artistic sensibili• tors, however his essays are also beginning to seem less ties (Yasushi Zenno); and her collaboration comparisons lack satisfying than books with a focused and with Prouve in the late 1940s and 1950s depth and specifici• coherent argument. (Roger Aujame). ty. He uses the word By contrast, the editorial strategy of The book's remaining two articles syn• "sculpture" 68 Charlotte Perriand succeeds in creating a thesize some continuous themes through• times, "sculptural" comprehensive and meaningful narrative in out Perriand's career. Arthur Riiegg 123, "sculpturality" reconstructing the life and work of the mod• demonstrates the evolving use of the bath• 16, and "sculptor" 7, ernist French designer. Though the book room throughout Perriand's career; and Joan Sculptural architec• Sculptor Dan! Karavan's Negev Monument though he only men• consists of contributions from seven differ• Ockman theorizes the designer's contribu• ture avoids classical (1963-68) In Beersheba, Israel, is an Inhabit• tions a few specific able sculpture. Of the book's 40 projects, this tion in terms of her life-long appreciation proportions and is a works (as expected, ent authors, McLeod, the book's editor and is the only created by a non-architect. professor of architecture at Columbia for ordinary objects and vernacular culture personal approach Donald Judd, Sol University, ensured that each focused on a that made her a "selector and 'improver' to form that denies sculptural architec• transformation" of Lewitt, Frank Stella, different moment in Perriand's career, and of forms rather than ... an inventor." categorization and ture firmly within a architectural pur• Richard Serra, as assembled the articles in chronological order. The book also offers comprehensive doc• style, claims Werner history of expressive pose into something well as Boromini). While this allows less room for tensions and umentation of Perriand's designs with high- Sewing, a German and monumental more sublime. His discussion of discussions between different viewpoints quality images, recollections by colleagues, architecture sociolo• a rch itect u re—a n d The book's main Santiago Calatrava's usually expected in books with multiple and a set of translations of her own texts. It gist. In his book has surprisingly scant section presents 40 Oriente Railway voices, it provides a diverse but integrated, deserves the highest praise for the writers' Architecture: references to sculp• post-World War II Station in Lisbon detailed account of the designer without focused scholarly analyses. Sculpture Sewing ture or sculptors. The projects that bear out doesn't even mention chronological gaps or repetitions. One question remains, however, about aims to present lone non-architecture Sewing's thesis, and his sculpture studies. Perriand is now well known as the woman the project's initial political and feminist sculptural buildings image is a painting are generally geared Ultimately, the designer whose name had been omitted aspirations. The book produces the overall "taken out of their (not even a sculpture). at inspiring the book is a well-curated from the canon, despite her important con• impression of Perriand as a designer with a pigeon holes of The Sea of Ice public with formal selection of stunning tributions to the design of the three famous satisfying and fulfilling career. McLeod architectural theory, (1823-24) by Caspar extravagance or works linked by a tubular steel chairs previously attributed to mentions in passing that "the objective of and perhaps liberated David Friedrich, monumental auster• vague argument. in the process." illustrating Sewing's ity. Ifs no coincidence Le Corbusier alone. McLeod's book does this book is not to present [Perriandl as a JAMES WAY IS AN far more than simply undo this exclusion, major architect of the scope of Le Corbusier However, his intro• take on the romantic that a fair number of ASSISTANT EDITOR although such feminist motivation initiated or Frank Lloyd Wright." Yet why a gifted ductory essay reins movement's "heroic churches, museums. AT AN. the research. The book does not value designer such as Perriand did not turn out Perriand only on the condition of her collab• to become a "major" figure in architecture oration with famous architects and artists, is left unspoken. It was not only the exclu• defines as different from, such as Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, and sive canon but also the profession that must FALLING IN LINE though bearing on, his recent Jean Prouve. That would have affirmed the have blocked her opportunities. In other installations and more famous very notion of the "star male architect" the words, it is not only historiography but also The Storm and the Fall obsessive drawings. book intends to challenge. Instead, it explores history that is responsible for her omission. Lebbeus Woods According to Woods, both (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), S50.00 Perriand's career as a whole, and aspires to In order to celebrate her work and correct installations were meant to "help provide a fuller and more nuanced historians' omissions—which is perhaps the "free larchitecturel from the understanding of French modernism," as only effective strategy in paying debt to an Though "pure trash" is not an book, The Storm and the Fall. tyranny of the object." provid• artist hitherto ignored—the book sets a soft uncommon evaluation in grad an image-saturated explication ing the alternative structure antagonistic tone for the ideological con• school crits, it's rare for an of two installations of his work, of the force field, a more inter• text of the profession or any other forces architect to publicly advertise the first at Cooper Union, the active, connected structure, that might have diminished Perriand's such a condemnation of his own second at Fondation Cartier in in its stead. The Storm is an chances. Charlotte Perriand stands as an work, especially one from an Paris, both presented in 2002. abstraction of a field, while exemplary work in demonstrating the con• online chatroom. But that's His light-hearted self-depreca• The Fall manifests the action tribution of feminist theories to historiog• what Lebbeus Woods did at tion made sense given his of the twin towers on 9/11. raphy, as well as to a more complex the Center for Architecture on expressed disinterest in mak• Woods used an iterative comprehension of modernism. June 21 at a talk about his new ing architecture, which he method continued on page 14 ESRA AKCAN IS AN ARCHITECT AND PH.D. CANDI• DATE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

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Through September 15 291 Church St. www.aiany.org 2nd Ave. between East 59th www.apexart.org and 60th streets THROUGH AUGUST 8 www.nyc.gov/parks CONTINUING Dangerous Liaison: EXHIBITIONS LECTURES Fashion and Furniture in the Jack Lenor Larsen: Walter Hood Brigitte Boyer, Tomoko THROUGH JULY 29 18th Century Creator and Collector Uncommon Ground: Hybrid Askikawa, Ross Cisneros, Rudolf Stingel Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Arts and Design Robert Hammond, Dan (neighbor) Hoods et al. Plan B 1000 5th Ave. 40 West 53rd St. Biederman, Kent Barwick, 6:30 p.m. Salad Expo III Grand Central Terminal www.metmuseum.org www.madmuseum.org et al. Arsenal Gallery, Central Park 4:00 p.m. 15 Vanderbilt Ave. Defining Stadiums: New 64th St. and 5th Ave. Artists Space www.creativetime.org THROUGH AUGUST 13 Bernar Venet Districts and Open Space www.nyc.gov/parks 38 Greene St., 3rd Fl. Seeing Other People Indeterminate Lines 8:00 a.m. www.artistsspace.org Shock of the Old: Marianne Boesky Gallery Park Avenue Malls between Center for Architecture JULY 29 Christopher Dresser 535 West 22nd St. 50th and 51st streets 536 LaGuardia PI. David Burney, Christopher AUGUST 3 Cooper-Hewitt, National www.marianneboesky www.nyc.gov/parks www.aiany.org Albanese, Michael Deane, Christopher Grawburg Design Museum gallery.com Daniel Kaplan Basics of Commercial HVAC 2 East 91st St. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 Negotiating the Developers Forum: Building Systems ndm.si.edu THROUGH AUGUST 14 Going Coastal: The Beaches Public Process a Greener New York 8:00 a.m. Counter Culture of New York City 6:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Center for Architecture THROUGH JULY 30 New Museum of Arsenal Gallery Center for Architecture Yale Club 536 LaGuardia PI. Ezra Stoller Contemporary Art 5th Ave. at 64th St. 536 LaGuardia Pi. 50 Vanderbilt Ave. vmw.hvactraininginstitute. 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THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13 THROUGH OCTOBER 10 Janet Cardiff Solos: Future Shack All that Glitters Is Not Gold: Meet the Architects Her Long Black Hair; Cooper-Hewitt, National The Art, Form, and Function 5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. An Audio Walk in Central Park Design Museum of Gilt Bronze in the French La Maganette Ristorante 6th Ave. and Arthur Ross Terrace Interior 3rd Ave. and 50th St. Central Park South and Garden Metropolitan Museum of Art www.pwcusa.org wvvw.publicartfund.org 2 East 91st St. 1000 5th Ave. ndm.si.edu www.metmuseum.org FRIDAYS THROUGH THROUGH SEPTEMBER 15 AUGUST 27 IKEAGRAMS Into the Storm: Expressions THROUGH APRIL 18 Design + DJs + Dancing Urban Center in the American Landscape, Agnes Martin in the Garden 457 Madison Ave. 1800-1900 ...going forward into 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. www.mas.org National Academy Museum unknown territory... Cooper-Hewitt. National 1083 5th Ave. Dia: Beacon Design Museum THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18 www.nationalacademy.org 3 Beekman St., Beacon 2 East 91st St. Chip Hooper www.diaart.org ndm.si.edu California's Pacific THROUGH OCTOBER 17 Robert Mann Gallery Vasemania: Neoclassical SATURDAYS THROUGH FILM & THEATER FOUR-PLY 210 11th Ave.. 10th Fl. Form and Ornament: SEPTEMBER 4 Andrea Rosen Gallery www.robertmann.com Selections from the Warm Up 2004 525 West 24th Street Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Views Outdoor 3:00p.m.-9:00 p.m. Through August 20 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 19 Bard Graduate Center Film Festival RS.1 Contemporary Art Center Constantin Brancusi: 18 West 86th St. 6:30 p.m. Courtyard A new exhibit at the Andrea Rosen Gallery brings together 12 The Essence of Things www.bgc.bard.edu Parade Ground lawn. 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens artists in a group show that explores the sculptural properties Solomon R. Guggenheim Governors Island www.ps1.org of paper. With works from 1965 to the present, the show is Museum THROUGH OCTOBER 22 www.vanalen.org loosely organized into four sections, hence the title. Four-Ply. 1071 5th Ave. Teresa Hubbard and WITH THE KIDS A conceptual minimalism group features text-based works of www.guggenheim.org Alexander Birchler: Single Wide CONTINUING FILM Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Gober. Whitney Museum of & THEATER A second section, including a Robert Rauschenberg cardboard American Art at Altria LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit THROUGH AUGUST 15 Castles in the Sand box construction, a Linda Benglis handmade-paper form, and 120 Park Ave. Whitney Museum of Paradise(Lost|: 12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. a papier-mach4 sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle, showcases www.whitney.org American Art Los Angeles on Film Coney Island Beach works with an overtly material approach. Similar is the third 945 Madison Ave. American Museum of the [email protected] collection of works by Eva Rothschild, Simon Periton, and Aric www.whitney.org THROUGH OCTOBER 24 Moving Image Obrosey that explores cutting and weaving, some with surpris• David W. Dunlap 35th Ave. and 36th St.. Queens ing detail and intricacy. The fourth group is devoted to repre• THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20 From Abyssinian to Zion: www.ammi.org Kid Size: The Material World sentational narrative, including contributions from Ryan Hands to Work, Hearts to Photographs of Manhattan's of Childhood Johnson, Rachel Foullon, and Matthew Ronay (whose architec• Houses of Worship God: Saving the North Family THROUGH AUGUST 22 Wadsworth Atheneum tural exploration Magic House is pictured above), james way New-York Historical Society Shaker Site California Dreaming Museum of Art 2 West 77th St. World Monuments Fund Whitney Museum of 600 Main St., Hartford wvm.nyhistory.org Gallery American Art www.wadsworthatheneum.org 95 Madison Ave. 9th Fl. 945 Madison Ave. www.wmf.org Subway Series: www.whitney.org BEYOND The New York Yankees and Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, the American Dream THROUGH AUGUST 23 JULY 31 - JANUARY 16 etal. The Bronx Museum of the Arts Bryant Park Summer Lebbeus Woods: Hard Light 1040 Grand Concourse at Film Festival Experimental Architecture RS.1 Contemporary Art Center 165th St.. Bronx 8:00 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Art 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens www.bxma.org 40th St. and 6th Ave. 4400 Forbes Ave.. Pittsburgh www.ps1.org www.bryantpark.org www.cmoa.org THROUGH OCTOBER 30 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26 Austria West THROUGH SEPTEMBER A Building a Collection New Alpine Architecture Coney Island Saturday Night Image, Space, Object Skyscraper Museum Austrian Cultural Forum Film Series Rocky Mountain College of 39 Battery Park 11 East 52nd St. Coney Island Museum Art and Design www.skyscraper.org www.acfny.org 1208 Surf Ave. 1600 Pierce St., Colorado www.coneyisland.com www.aiga.org/rocky New York's Moynihan THROUGH OCTOBER 31 mountain2004 Museum of the City of 0+A EVENTS New York Blue Moon SEPTEMBER 8- 1220 5th Ave. World Financial Center Plaza. JULY 28 DECEMBER 12 vvrww.mcny.org Battery Park City Municipal Art Society 13th Ant Farm: 1968-1978 www.creativetime.org Annual Summer Boat Tour: Institute of Contemporary Art Curious Crystals of A "Blue Links" Look at at the University of Unusual Purity Andy Goldsworthy Ferry Terminals Pennsylvania Phoebe Washburn: on the Roof 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. 118 South 36th St., Philadelphia TEXTURE CITY Seconds of Something Metropolitan Museum of Art Pier 83 www.icaphila.org Van Alen Institute William Gedney, Christopher 1000 5th Ave. 42nd St. and 12th Ave. 30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor Wool: Into the Night www.metmuseum.org www.mas.org THROUGH AUGUST 29 Through August 20 RS.1 Contemporary Art Center Yves Klein: Air Architecture 22-25 Jackson Ave.. Queens THROUGH JANUARY 2 JULY 29 MAK Center for Art and OPEN VIEWS 2: FILMS ON THE CITY www.ps1.org Subway Series: A Walk in the Park with Architecture 6:30 p.m. The New York Mets and NYC Parks Commissioner 835 North Kings Rd., Parade Ground lawn. Governors island THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27 Our National Pastime Adrian Benepe West Hollywood August 6 Tall Buildings Queens Museum of Art 6:00 p.m. www. makcenter.org Humble Masterpieces New York City Building Museum of the City of The Van Alen Institute has big plans for August, with an exhibi• Santiago Calatrava's Flushing Meadows Corona New York THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6 tion entitled Texture C/fy and its second annual film festival. Transportation Hub for the Park. Queens 1220 5th Ave. Samuel Mockbee and the Marc Boutin's Texture City is an interactive installation exploring WTC Site www.queensmuseum.org 212-534-1672 ext. 3393 Rural Studio: Community the changing nature of the public realm. Previously exhibited Projects 81: Jean Shin Architecture in various public spaces in Rome, this is the first United States MoMA QNS THROUGH JANUARY 9 National Building Museum showing of Boutin's glass and steel models, as well as photo• 11 West 33rd St., Queens Faster, Cheaper, Newer, Walking Tour: Downtown: 401 F St. NW.Washington. D.C. graphs, drawings, text, and audio recordings of the ambient www.moma.org More: Revolutions of 1848 What's in a Name? www.nbm.org sound in Roman piazzi. The exhibition emphasizes the multiple Cooper-Hewitt. National 11:00 a.m. layers of activity and information in the urban environment. THROUGH OCTOBER 3 Design Museum Former U.S. Customs House Out of the Box: Price Rossi The Van Alen has also organized OPEN views 2: films on ttie Fred Sandback Prints 2 East 91st St. Broadway and Bowling Green Stirling + Matta-Clark city, an evening of live music and independent short films on 1971-79 ndm.si.edu www.mas.org Architect's Books Governors Island, which opened to the public for the first time Dan Flavin Art Institute Canadian Centre for this summer Curated in conjunction with Rooftop Films, the Main St. and Corwith Ave., THROUGH JANUARY 31 AUGUST 3 Architecture festival focuses on urban life in public space and is intended to Bridgehampton Shirazeh Houshiary, Pip Home DDC Open House 1920 rue Baile. Montreal get New Yorkers to experience new urban spaces. Marie- www.diaart.org Breath 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. www.cca.qc.ca Francoise Plissart's Occupation of the Ground, shot entirely Ritz-Carlton New York Center for Architecture from Brussels rooftops (pictured above) is one of six films that 2 West St. 536 LaGuardia PI. will be shown. Tickets include round-trip ferry fare. To purchase www.creativetime.org www.aiany.org tickets, go to www.vanalen.org. jw LU M > LU (XL

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functionality. Glass, for textured series resembling musical notation, Sobek, is a stratigraphic lay• initially seem to have nothing to do with ering of reflective films, Systems of Order Cohen's. Yet Cohen and Cottrell both map out filtering devices, and the complex territories between orthogonal Ultra-Tech translucent material, that description and perspectival illusion, the first Architecture by Numbers can be adjusted in response by using old projective methods in new ways, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria to environmental demands. 120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street the second by establishing interferences Chameleons of modern Closed July 9 between image and afterimage. Michelle Eco-Warrior building, Sobek's walls Fornabai's dynamic sculptural forms are also change hue. Here, the engi• charactenzed by visual and spatial indetermi• neer-architect re-infuses Architecture by Numbers was a compact, nacy: Rather than figuring numerical values in building with a new form of concept-oriented show that focused on the any literal sense, they dramatize geometrical Show Me the Future: old-fashioned organic logic. relationship between architecture and mathe• relationships by generating luminous reflections. Engineering and Design from Werner Sobek Pinakothek der Moderne, Kunstareal Miinchen, The final room holds the• matics. Although the exhibition, curated by the Unlike Laura Kurgan, whose satellite pho• Barer StrafSe 40, Munich oretical projects that empha• Han/ard theorist K. Michael Hays, claimed to tographs are refreshingly simple, though not Through August 28 size adaptability. A fully con• bring out the numerical dimensions of con• directly related to the show's mathematical vertible office environment temporary architecture, only two of the five emphasis, Ben Nicholson hews most closely accompanies a second protagonists, Preston Scott Cohen and to the exhibition's stated theme. In his case, Werner Sobek lives in a the Deutsche Post Tower in domestic design, R129. Marsha Cottrell, may be said to realize the however, the results are disastrous: appropri• glass house and is a man of Bonn,and the Bangkok This shallow, domed circle, show's theoretical aspirations, even if they do ating easily identified religious iconographies, (lightweight) steel. His cur• Airport. There isn't a single entirely transparent and not explicitly address its problematic of number. Nicholson's hieratic musings are wrapped in rent exhibition, Show Me technical document—like a free of interior division, is Geometry reigns supreme in Cohen's uni• an obscurantist fog. Caught in the trap of fixed the Future, curated by Sobek plan or a section—through• equipped with service pods verse. Whether he is utilizing the 17"'-century meaning, his cosmologies, like all faux-naif with architectural historian out. Instead, beautifully that emerge from the floor. projective techniques of French mathematician artifacts, are, in reality, highly contrived, As a Winfried Nerdinger in constructed models, full- The entire shell can be G6rard Desargues to chart the transformation result, they display none of the geometric (and, Munich's new Pinakothek scale building components, clear, partially darkened, or of figures in colored ink on paper, or is trans• more generally, mathematical) ambiguity that der Moderne, skillfully wall-sized video screens, completely opaque. Such lating these techniques into the latest digital continues to shape some of the more promis• persuades us of the structural and sophisticated computer an enclosure—synthetic languages, his work engages the paradox of ing explorations in contemporary architecture. engineer's progressive cre• animations present Sobek's material laminated to one a disembodied, quasi-Platonic architecture, DANIEL SHERER TEACHES HISTORY AND THEORY dentials. His zero-energy, buildings in an accessible millimeter of glass, with a marked by abstract flux. Cottrell's images, a AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP. lightweight glass house, form. Indeed, plans would low E-value,fully recyclable, R128 (Stuttgart, 2001), is show nothing; Sobek's work emission-free, self-suffi• borderline ascetic, free of is precisely focused on the cient—makes it "possible FALLING IN LINE continued steel or wood dowels sen/ing book further blur the concept curtains, sinks, wall switches. structural membrane to live in closest contact to from page 11 in designing and as basic linear elements. of the two-dimensional draw• The bathtub migrates freely between inside and out, an surrounding nature in constructing the two installa• These "lines," as he calls ing and the three-dimensional around the open bedroom, interface that, he implies, extreme comfort." Sobek's tions, laying out simple sets of them, frenetically bundle and field, flattening the installations limited only by the snaking can be "beinahe nichts"— exhibition ends by noting rules for materials, joinery, and diverge, anchored in a larger into its pages, that borders between inte• umbilical cords of supply almost nothing—in the rhythm. He sees the resulting rule system. The copious DEBORAH GROSSBERG IS AN and evacuation. Ultra high• hands of the right designer. rior and exterior "become structures as drawings, with installation photographs in the ASSISTANT EDITOR AT AN. tech, self-sufficient and But if Mies is one subtext blurred." Furthermore, the environmentally friendly, the here, there are others. building is transportable, house can also be fully recy• The show is divided into ready to be installed any• cled. Here is the new engi• five sections: Structure, where. neer-architect—alchemist Adaptivity, Transparency, Here we are, all futurism and Franciscan monk, com• Materiality, and Design. aside, back to "classical" puter nerd andeco-warrior, Sobek heads the Institute for modernism, with a nod to all wrapped into one. It's Lightweight Building Design contemporaneity (the apparent that for him, and Construction (ILEK) at "blur"). The reduction of transparency is all. the University of Stuttgart boundaries between interior Sobek, still relatively (where he fills both the and exterior is an old theme— unknown in American Frei Otto and Jorg Schlaich as is the siteless, trans• architecture and engineering chairs). Among the most portable house and the circles, has had a presence interesting products of ILEK, belief in advanced technol• in Chicago and New York where Sobek and his team ogy. Sobek is, however, also (where he recently opened deploy state-of-the-art aero• a man of his time, and the an office) and notable suc• nautic and information rhetoric about living in har• cesses elsewhere (Lima, technologies, is a glass-to- mony with nature also reg• Bonn, Bangkok). Covering glass bond made of glass, isters his evident awareness work since 1992, the show which eliminates synthetic of this problematic notion. includes huge building joints in curtain wall design; The house Sobek has built projects he collaborated on the slim "Stuttgart beam" is a zero-energy building. with Helmut Jahn, such as that adapts to dynamic and The one he has not built the Sony Center in Berlin, short-lived loading condi• (with nodstoBuckminster Sobek's theoretical house is tions; and other experiments Fuller and Le Corbusier) is a translucent shell that with glass that explore new meant to sit even lighter on touches lightly on the land. structural capacities and the land, a translucent flying saucer delicately perched on its fragile host. How to square the ultra-high-tech engineer with the earnest ecologist? The old dreams of the power of modern technology have been taken out, dusted off, and revamped—ecology replac• 100 ing social reform—^forthe watt RESOLUTE new millennium. network CLAIRE ZIMMERMAN IS A PH.D. CANDIDATE AT COLUMBIA NEW YORK • SAN FRANCISCO • SEAHLE T18881 477-9288 F18881 882-9281 wvnK.IOOwatt.nBt UNIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY. in

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