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EAVESDROP USA 37 CURBSIDE DIARY CLASSIFIEDS AND DESIGN SHOPTALK FEATURED ON NEW BATCH OF STAMPS MODERNIST GARDENS IN THE 's modernist open spaces, such VILLAGE UNDER THREAT as the plaza of the Seagram Building and the courtyard of the Lever House, are well known, NEW LAW TO REQUIRE Bucky s Dome but the city's legacy of modernist gardens is MANDATORY CERTIFICATION more obscure and potentially under threat. FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS R. Buckminster Fuller's bald geodesic head In Greenwich Village, two major examples— is about to appear on 96 million first-class GOING the formal garden that I. M. Pei designed in INTERIOR postage stamps. In addition to Bucky's 1965 to accompany his University Village tessellated head, the designs of Isamu towers between Houston, La Guardia and Noguchi, McKim, Mead, and White, Walter Bleecker streets, and the adjacent Washington DESIGNERS Netsch and Skidmore Owings and Merrill Square Village designed in 1959 by land• (SOM), and Rhode Island architect scape architecture firm Sasaki, Walker and GET SERIOUS Friedrich St. Florian will be appear on TO Associates—face uncertain futures. Both stamps this summer. surround New York University housing. The United States Postal Service (USPS) Apart from its value as a leafy respite, the The old turf dispute between New York receives nearly 50,000 requests a year for gardens of University Village are noteworthy. interior designers and architects could commemorative postage stamps, but only According to Andrew Berman, the executive arrive at a truce this June if a proposed bill 25 to 30 make it into production. The USPS director of the Greenwich Village Society for requiring certification for interior design• has few requirements for commemoration SEED Historic Preservation (GVSHP), the ers passes through the state legislature. beyond the obvious one—that the events, superblock is a particularly sensitive one: Historically, the two have been at odds over persons, or themes continued on page 3 "While it is the antithesis continued on page 7 the issue of interior design certification, with designers pushing for it as a way to gain greater professional legitimacy and RISING PRICES ARE THE NEW HEAVY Herzog & de Meuron's expansion Herzog & de Meuron's $67.5 million architects resisting it due to worries that of the Walker Art Center expansion of the Walker Art Center in IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS certification requirements aren't stringent Minneapolis mirrors and distorts the enough and will allow interior designers original 1971 building by Edward Larrabee to execute work for which they are inade• Barnes. The architects reorient the build• ARCHITECT, quately trained. ing toward Hennepin Avenue, a major The current interior design certification thoroughfare,"reinventing the museum STEEL THYSELF law, a 1990 measure that legally designated urbanistically," said Herzog at the project's interior design a profession in New York, unveiling in last week, and creating a new Since the middle of last year, the price of steel instituted a voluntary certification process "civic lounge." has skyrocketed, causing worries about bal• for designers in the state. Certification The architects chose light materials like looning construction costs and leading archi• requires the so-called "three Es": educa• metal and glass to oppose the brick of the tects and contractors to grapple with creative tion (two years), experience (five years), original building. The 260,000-.square- solutions to ensure that projects remain on and the NCIDG exam (1372 hours), and OWER WALKER foot addition and renovation will open track and within budget. bestows a designer with the official title in April 2005. JAMES WAY And the word "skyrocketing" isn't hyper• "certified interior designer." So far, fewer bole. Prices have increased by as much as 50 than 5 percent of New York designers have percent in the last six months: Scrap steel that elected to get certified. Under the amend• sold for $120 per ton last summer has recently ed act, assembly bill A-8587, certification been selling for upwards of $250 per ton. would become mandatoryforall those wish• "It's having an effect," said Kenneth Drucker, ing to identify themselves as interior design• design partner for Hellmuth, Obata and ers. Exempted individuals would include Kassabaum (HOK). "It's causing people to architects and uncertified designers with hurry up and bid their projects. And some 15 years experience who apply within a clients who would have done a steel build• window of approximately one year after ing as a matter ofcourse are now looking at the passing of the amendment. concrete." continued on page 2 continued on page 2 00 CM 3 O LU

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INTERIOR DESIGNERS GET SERIOUS Architects have a unique relationship to architectural books. They continued from front page Diana Darling love to acquire them, display them, thumb through them, but almost The bill's biggest supporter is Interior O Designers for Legislation in New York State Cathy Lang Ho I- never read them from beginning to end. 's , an HH (IDLNY), an organization founded in 1984 William Menking academic and now practicing architect, claims,"! don't read books, by architecture-trained designer Ruth I only write them." LU Lynford as a means of unifying the voices Martin Perrin There are reasons—beyond perhaps architects' fetishistic tenden• of interior design organizations such as cies—to explain their biblioholic nature. Umberto Eco conveys the the American Society of Interior Designers Deborah Grossberg point best in his essay "How To Justify a Private Library," from his (ASID) and the International Interior Design James Way Association (IIDA)that support the bill. Jim book How To Travel with a Salmon (Harcourt, 1994). He describes Lothrop, president of IDLNY, explained Jonathan Chaffin his sizable library and his annoyance with the typical reaction of the group's view of the importance of visitors: "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" He is sur• the new measure: "Right now, I could call Anne Guiney prised that many people, evidently, "consider a book shelf as mere myself an interior designer if I was a fifth storage place for already-read books and do not think of the library grade student. It's not currently recognized Paula Lehman as a working tool." as a profession by the public." Lothrop is an architect and partner at Valhalla based For architects, the tool analogy is especially apt. People don't use Keith James Lothrop Associates. their hammer or screwdriver everyday, but are grateful when the Lovejoy Duryea, chair of the interior

Paul Beatty items are in the toolbox when needed. Architects use books as design department at the School of Visual sources of reference and inspiration. Current books, whether theo• Arts, agreed, "It's to the benefit of every• retical tracts or monographs on the works of other architects, are a body who practices in a professional way. The main thing is to get rid of the people CONTRIBUTORS means of staying connected and provide a sort of continuing educa• who are just putting up shingles and print• PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ tion that the discipline requires. ing business cards without any training." MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / "Architects can only gain from it," said JOE KERR/DANE LEFAIVRE / JAMES PETO/ Of course, the quantity of architectural books published every year LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTEN8URY/ is something to be envied by other professions. Architects must be John Mack, a partner at the architecture D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN perennially torn over which titles deserve their hard-earned dollars and interiors firm HLW."Requiring certifi• ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER cation improves the quality of the design and precious bookshelf space, with so many tempting offerings profession overall." from academic presses, specialized, intellectual imprints, purveyors PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ The AIA New York chapter's (AIA-NY) M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ of beautiful monographs, and of course, publishers of technical main gripe with the bill involves its WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ handbooks. In this issue, we recommend several titles grouped under exemptions. AlA-NY's lobbyists have suc• SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ ceeded in upping the experience prereq• LISA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / the feature "Summer Reading," with the idea that summer is the per• uisite for exemptions from the originally JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ fect catch-up season—for catching up on rest, relaxation, a long- KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ proposed 5 years to 15, and are currently TERENCE RILEY / KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN postponed vacation, or self-assigned homework. working on clarifying the exact process

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ARCHITECTS, UNITE! Bless 's heart. In a May 26 report from the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, the 96-year-old Brazilian architect was harshly critical of the Bush administration. But then he got a tad blurry. Describing Fidel Castro as "one of the greatest leaders of humanity," the avowed communist reportedly suggested that "Bush envies the Cuban Revolution." Q- Niemeyer went on to affirm that he's still a believer, "since besides the O [revolution's] permanence, there is a worker"-socialist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva-"heading the government of Brazil." (Shhh! Don't tell him that Brasilia didn't work out the way everyone hoped, either.) Meanwhile, closer to CO home, a coterie of New York architects has also united against Bush. We hear LU that designers Calvin Tsao, Zack McKown, Richard Gluckman, and Deborah > < Berke are among those who will be opening their own residences this summer LU to host intimate $500 and $1,000-a-plate dinners, prepared by celebrity chefs. Proceeds will go to Downtown for Democracy, a group of creative types who believe that regime change begins at home. Its recent design auction at the Maritime Hotel raised $50,000 and featured an Oval Office installation by John Erik Karkula and Steven Sclaroff, along with works donated by Vladimir Kagan, Ali Tayar, David Weeks, Joseph Holtzman, and others.

TULANE'S NEW REED MADISON SQUARE PARK kiosk shrouded in ivy that, as won a nine-year contract to GETS A GREEN FOLLY project architect Denise Lee open, operate, and maintain Since reporting major staff changes at Architecture, we've learned that the described, "combines the the food kiosk. The $750,000 magazine's former editor-in-chief, Reed Kroloff, is making a move of his own. idiosyncratic styles of the expanded metal shack was Kroloff, who has served as an architecture consultant since resigning in 2002, A Hot Dog roadside diner type with the prefabricated off-site and will will take a new post as dean of Tulane University's School of Architecture on billboard nature of the BEST be installed later this month October 1. "I hope they asked me to join them because they saw an opportunity buildings." Pentagram on the southeastern corner of to propel the program forward, much as we did with Architecture," Kroloff says. in the Sun designed the signage. the park, near the 23"' Street The Madison Square Park and Madison Avenue. Meyer's Madison Square Park will Conservancy, restaurateur Union Square Hospitality Group "BOB? IT'S HUNTINGTON" replace its seasonal hot dog Danny Meyer (whose restau• operated the park's previous Landmarks Commissioner Bob Tierney has gotten lots of opin• stand this year with a new rants Tabia and Eleven Madison summertime hot dog cart ions about Edward Durell Stone's 1964 Two Columbus Circle, which may be sig• kiosk dubbed the Shake Shack. Park are across the street from and donated proceeds to the nificantly altered by its possible future owner, the Museum of Arts and Design. The New York firm SITE, the park), and SITE teamed up Madison Square Park But we doubt he expected to hear from Huntington Hartford, the notorious known for its sculptural and to win an RFP issued by the Consen/ancy—a tradition the supermarket heir and onetime playboy who first built the structure to house his environmental architecture, city's Parks and Recreation new kiosk will continue. art collection. After a judge recently cleared the way for the building's sale, the designed a 500-square-foot Department in 2003. They JAMES WAY enfeebled 92-year-old mustered enough feistiness to call from the Bahamas. "I heard he lambasted the decision and demanded to know why the building wasn't landmarked," says one source. "He really gave Tierney a piece of his mind." Tierney only confirmed that Hartford called. Meanwhile, we've learned that a very prominent and wealthy cultural doyenne-who we've been scared into 606 Universal Shelving System not naming-is still working to buy the building from under the museum. VITSGE Timeless, movable and constantly evolving LIP: ACHEN « ARCHPAPER.COM

continued from front page The Noquchi stamp series nnarks the depicted have widespread appeal and sig• centenary of the artlst-deslgner's birth nificance. Architecture is usually chosen ual to be commemorated is that they be more for the significance of the institution dead for a minimum of 10 years, but usually it houses than for design merit. McKim, involves a long process of lobbying. The Mead and White's 1897 Low Memorial Buckminster Fuller Institute and its board library represents Columbia's University's member Robert F Curl led the Fuller 250"' anniversary in the USPS' historic campaign, beginning in 1992 to advocate preservation series, and Netsch and SOM's for a stamp to acknowledge Fuller's 100"' Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy birthday in 1995. It took years but the group honors the academy on its 50'" birthday. The finally succeeded this year, marking the release of the stamp picturing St. Florian's 50'" anniversary of his patent for the geo• neoclassical World War II memorial in desic dome. The image on the stamp is an Washington, D.C., is more surprising given illustration by Artzy Basheff that appeared that it was just inaugurated in recent weeks. on the cover of 77me magazine in 1964. It The series on Noguchi's works marks the depicts a kind of Buckyworld, with three centenary of his birth and coincides with geodesic domes, one swinging from a heli• the reopening of the Noguchi Museum in copter, three lightweight air-deliverable Queens. The set, art directed and designed tower structures, two Dymaxion cars, and Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960 for Vitsoe and 146 Greene Sireei produced continuously ever since. Add more by Derry Noyes, features five different what appears to be a father and son, point• moss dna New York, NY 10012 T 212,2047105 when you need. Take it with you when you move. designs, including his sculpture and iconic ing upwards to a heroic, geodesic Bucky. VIlsoe®mossonline com www.vitsoe.com rice paper lights. Sales of the stamp begins on Fuller's birth• The only real requirement for an individ- day, July 12"'. WM LU o

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observers believe that the choice will fall to Related—and that the decision NOGUCHI MUSEUM GRAND is foreordained. One person with inside knowledge of the process says that the competition was basically set UNEASE up by billionaire Angeleno Eli Broad, GETS FACELIFT through the invitations the commit• tee extended to those it wanted to The Isamu Noguchi of Isamu Noguchi's Akari approve of—it's a museum answer the RFP. These included not Foundation and Garden Light Sculpture that not a mausoleum." However, FOR only the team led by local developer Museum will re-open on appeared at the Gallery at like another museum creat• J.H. Snyder, which included the Jerde June 12'" after a two-and-a- Takashimaya in New York in ed by an artist for his own LU Partnership, but also the Gehry team, half year, $13 million reno• 1994, consulted on the mas• works—Donald Judd's l-H GRAND led by developer/financier Richard vation, or what curator ter plan for the restoration Chinati Foundation—the CO Weintraub, and the Forest City team, Bonnie Rychlak described as and suggested the New Noguchi Museum has cre• m which was allowed to make its initial "a massive facelift." The York firm Sage and Coombe ated spaces that are acutely submission without naming any con• Noguchi Museum closed in Architects to undertake the sensitive to specific works. z> AVENUE sultants, including architects. October 2001 to embark on renovation project. The museum will open o Suddenly, it seems as if New York What does all this mean? Well, an extensive project to As many of Noguchi's with the exhibition, Isamu is gaining on Los Angeles in the sources say, Snyder lost out when repair water damage and sculptures combine rough Noguchi: Sculptural Adventurous Architecture sweep• the same committee that invited him seepage that eventually led and finished surfaces, Sage Design, designed by Robert stakes. Much to its chagrin, Los concluded that he might not have the to a complete overhaul of and Coombe's renovation Wilson and organized by the Angeles itself has pitched in to help financial staying power to hang in the museum. retained the warehouse's Vitra Design Museum. It the Big Apple. The sprawling city— during a potentially years-long enti• Noguchi established a raw construction—I-beams will cover nearly every facet or its beachy neighbor, Santa tlement process. The Gehry team studio in a former photo on exposed masonry and of Noguchi's career, includ• Monica—has provided New York must have raised hackles on the engraving plant at the west• wooden joists—while ing furniture, stage design, with Thorn Mayne and Morphosis, committee with its vociferous criti• ern edge of City refinishing its white-walled landscape, architecture, and whose ambitious, exciting plan for cism of the entire process. And, the in 1960. In 1975 he bought a galleries and installing new of course, sculpture. the Olympic Village in Long Island logic goes, the invitation to Forest City neighboring warehouse to windows. The gift shop was Future exhibits Noguchi City was chosen by NYC2012 on May was window dressing that provided store work and establish an rebuilt, though its rusted and Graham: The Imagery 26 for the still-unawarded 2012 games. Related with an evenly matched office for his longtime col• and stained steel plate ceil• of Chess Revisited and Meanwhile, at a public meeting on national competitor. laborator, architect Shoji ing was preserved. Noguchi: Sources and May 24, Grand Avenue Committee Whether this conspiratorial con• Sadao. In 1983 Noguchi Jennifer Sage said that Influencesare in the works. officials passed over jecturing is on the mark is irrelevant. decided to convert the ware• renovating the 27,000- JW and a collection of movie and design What is essential to understand, house into a museum, or square-foot institution stars, as well as another team however, is what's at stake: The what he described as an "posed a difficult problem including Jon Jerde, in its selection future of one of the country's most "attempt to define my role in historic preservation— of the 3-miHion-square-foot redevel• dynamic cities, a city that has played as a crossing where inward how to modernize the facili• opment. Instead, the committee said a leading role in defining the national and outward meet." Sadao ty without violating it." The it will continue negotiations with the character and contemporary urban- designed the space, which most obvious additions two remaining teams: Forest City West, ism. This one massive project can opened to the public in 1985. include a nicely detailed working with architects AC Martin, significantly alter the progressive Located in a gritty, industrial steel and wood ramp and and Related, with David Childs. march splendidly embodied in neighborhood, the muse• stair and a new elevator, The committee wants to see more Gehry's concert hall by ignoring the um's unassuming facade which improves the muse• fully developed plans from the two challenge offered up by that build• subtly announces its con• um's circulation and brings finalists in June, and will announce ing—to continue to remake the down• tents with an understated it up to ADA code. While its final decision in July. While the town gateway. This corridor should sign and a dog-tooth bond recasting the original pile narrowed field surely represents the not become a mere extension of the on the angled masonry foundation, the architects potential for excellent commercial Bunker Hill nearby. It entrance. It is only upon dewatered and lowered the design, it also suggests an outcome should, instead, be a place where entering the covered court• basement to create class• that will do little to advance the L.A. each new venue—whether cultural yard and seeing several room space for the muse• skyline, besides enlarging it. The com• or commercial—takes up the concert large sculptures and a small um's public programs. The mittee is clearly seeking a predictable hall's gauntlet rather than muffling garden—a smaller version room opens to the garden. rather than an exciting solution. its glory. of the museum and garden— Rychlak, Noguchi's assis• that one appreciates the tant from 1980 until his Predictability may also extend to PETER SLATIN IS THE FOUNDER AND faQade's delicate gesture. the ultimate selection: many EDITOR OF WWW.THESLATINREP0RT.COM death in 1988, said although Tod Williams Billie Tsien the new additions were not Associates, which designed in Noguchi's original vision SUBSCRI BEfi ARCH PAPER.COM the traveling exhibition they were "done in the spirit Quiet Light: An Installation of what we thought he would

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THE FUTURE OF PRESERVATION 27-member council. Scherer, whose firm is currently working on a number of library projects, will advise on the 's Graduate School of Architecture Peter Cook will be stepping down as chairman of the future design direction for both public and private libraries. Planning and Preservation has launched the inaugural Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of The Americans for Libraries Council, a national library issue of Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation London, in October 2004. Cook, who joined the school advocacy group, was founded in 2000. < IHistory, Theory and Criticism. The semi-annual journal, in 1989, pushed creative design to the forefront of the LU founded by assistant professor of historic preservation school's agenda and will remain a professor for two more Jorge Otero-Pailos, aims to expand preservation from SENATE SAVING CREDIT years as an international ambassador for the Bartlett. buildings to the larger built environment and landscape, The United States Senate saved the Federal Historic Christine Hawley, dean of the Faculty of the Built and to include broader disciplines, such as art, history, Rehabilitation Tax Credit's from being absorbed by the Environment at UCL, will assume the additional role of philosophy, law, planning, and materials sciences. The Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act (S. 1637). chairman. Hawley previously served seven years as editorial board consists of Paul Byard, Barry Bergdoll, Enacted in 1981, the credit-which amounts to 10 percent director of the School of Architecture. Jean-Louis Cohen, , Mark Jarzombek, of the cost of rehabilitation-applies to pre-1936 Helene Lipstadt, Fernando Man'as, Daniel B. Monk, Joan commercial buildings. It is meant to deter demolition FINAL FOUR FOR HIGH LINE Ockman, Marc Treib, and Gwendolyn Wright. and spur private sector renovation of older buildings in Four teams made the cut for the High Line master plan: "disinvested" areas. The provision to terminate the tax TerraGRAM's Michael van Valkenburgh, Julie Bargmann DE GAULLE TERMINAL COLLAPSE credit was included in the JOBS bill as a revenue offset of D.I.R.T, Neil Kittredge of Beyer Blinder Belle; Field A 120-foot-wide, 160-foot-long elliptical section of that would have gone into effect after December 31, Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Olafur Eliasson, Terminal 2E at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris col• 2004. Preservationists credit Senator Max Baucus Piet Oudolf, and Halle Light & LObservatoire; Steven lapsed on May 23'", killing four people. The hybrid struc• (D-MT) with saving the incentive. Holl with Hargreaves Associates and HNTB; and Zaha ture of concrete and steel lattice, which spanned over Hadid with Balmori Associates, Marilyn Taylor of SOM, 100 feet, did not have intermediate interior supports. COLUMBUS CIRCLE JOINS LIST and Markus Dochantschi of Studio MDA. Designs will be reviewed in early July and exhibited at the Center for Paul Andreu was the chief architect, GTM Construction The National Trust for Historic Preservation placed Two Architecture. built the concrete shell, and Vinci and Eiffage helped Columbus Circle on its "11 Most Endangered Places" list construct the terminal. Paris firms Eiffel Construction as an effort to preserve the 1964 Edward Durell Stone and Laubeuf built the glass roof and nonstructural steel building. The designation, which does not ensure protec• GOLD MEDAL FOR MAYNE lattice, and Herve built the columns, which had been tion or guarantee funding, is meant to raise public aware• On the heels of the International Olympic Committee reinforced after cracks appeared during construction. ness of the controversy surrounding the Museum of Arts naming New York City as one of the five finalists to host At press time, specific blame for the failure could not be and Design's plan to reskin the building by Brad Cloepfil the 2012 Olympics, Morphosis won NYC2012's Olympic identified, although faulty construction due to insufficient of Allied Works. The building joins the list of such sites Village Design Study competition. The Queens West communication between several collaborators and as Pennsylvania's Bethlehem Steel Plant, the Tobacco Development Corporation, in consultation with NYC2012, rushed construction are the prime suspects. 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GOING TO SEED continued However, New York Washington Square Village, from front page of the low, University opposes the designed in 1959 by Sasaki, Walker and Associates dense, urban fabric of proposal put forward by Greenwich Village, the Bermanand theGVSHP Washington Square Village, design deftly relates to the In 2002 NYU purchased two massive 17-story build• streetscape around it while a one-story supermarket at ings designed in 1959 by maintaining its modernist LaGuardia and Bleecker Paul Lester Wiener are integrity." The three towers next to the park, and tenants relieved by the 2-acre are arranged in a pinwheel believe the university garden designed by Sasaki, pattern to frame a monu• intends to build a much Walker and Associates. mental 60-ton sculpture larger structure—perhaps The once pleasant space is inspired by Picasso's a science building—on the seriously deteriorated; Portrait ofSylvette. The site and wants to be able to residents have appealed to open space includes a dog develop it as it sees fit. NYU and management firm run, children's playground, While NYU's spokesperson Grubb and Ellis to attend to a community garden, and a had not returned phone the garden. Many years of landscape piece called Time calls by press time, Berman inattention exacerbated by "...the new Phaidon Atlas is an amazing adventure. Never have I seen more designed by artist Alan says the university has not recent structural work on a works of architecture from around the world so extensively documented. Sonfist in 1978, a recreation yet been willing to address garage under the space may This Atlas which covers the globe is a must-have for architecture students and of native pre-colonial the landmarks proposal, have caused a large section professionals alike, as it documents built work from Iceland to New Zealand." Manhattan vegetation. and is reserving its right to of the garden to depress Richard Meier, Architect Like many of its urban develop the site to its fullest and crack. Furthermore, renewal brethren. University potential. The problem is a once attractive fountain "I spent part of my childhood looking at maps of the world. In my teenage years Village was originally derid• that by disturbing the rela• now sits waterless behind my interests turned to ethnography, a human geography. Today the maps I love ed by the Greenwich Village tionship among the towers, a metal fence. Angelo the most are the ones about architecture. They provide all the information you community for destroying their landscape, and the Grimma, a building manag- need without bias. They leave you free to love or hate, without any interference. blocks of tenement build• surrounding streets with erfor Grubb Ellis, explains I love atlases." Renzo Piano, Architect ings and shops. But 40 a multi-story building, their that the facade is currently years later, there is a preser• delicate balance would be under renovation to bring it "Move over Bannister Fletcher, there's a new book in town." vation movement afoot to thrown off, rendering the in line with safety codes, Aaron Betsky, Director of Architecture Institute (NAI) landmark the towers and block just another awkward and the garden will be next. their surrounding open cluster of towers surround• Until then, this important "It's a fascinating education for those of us who build or care about making space, which is integral to ed by green space. modernist landscape is architecture." Hani Rashid, Architect and Designer, Asymptote the project's composition. A block north of Pel's derelict and forlorn, WM "Now we need to reinforce the shelving!" Zaha Hadid, Architect By disturbing tine relationship among "What a brilliant resource." David Adjaye, Architect "Unique, definitive and authoritative, the Atlas demonstrates that architecture tine towers, their landscape, and the is a truly global phenomenon." Deyan Sudjic, Curator and Critic surrounding streets with a multi-story "A wonderful resource on architecture." Bob Emmerson, Chairman, Arup Group building, their delicate balance would "A firet-class ticket" Will Aisop, Architect be thrown off, rendering the block No wonder it's big. It contains 236 single houses, 59 universities, 91 office buildings, 45 apartment buildings, 4 international airports, 26 multiple housing buildings, 69 museums, 20 town halls, 16 railway stations, 15 churches just another awkward cluster of towers and 39 art galleries. All for $160 from good bookstores. surrounded by green space. For more information www.phaidon.com/atlas 00 o < LLI

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Avery Fisher Hall, the firm aims to the Diller Scofidio + Renfro plan. The Stealth Designers. integrate the different topographic Twelve new cultural organizations, levels of Lincoln Center into a including Bomb magazine and the public space that's more transpar• Museum of Contemporary For years, avant-garde darlings ent and functional. If subtlety is Diasporan Art, have ju.st recendy the mark of this project, then the been announced to fill 80 Arts, an Diller -I- Scofidio have kept fresh with designers' masterplan for the BAM eight-story building that will be Cultural District may be .so subtle renovated by the BAM LDC. it's downright invisible. Becau.se of the sharing of various art projects, technologically innovative When the BAM Cultural District, amenities by the different groups, designed in collaboration with Rem "80 Arts is in many ways a micro- media installations, and paper architecture. Koolhaas/OMA, was completed in co.sm of what this district is going 2002, very little in tlie way of fancy to be about," said Lutfy. renderings was released to the press. lust as ideas of performance, However, writes Andrew Yang, That's because there weren't any. technology, surveillance, and the According to the firm, the master- public domain are centrd to Diller plan really isn't a masterplan at all. .Scofidio -I- Renfro's conceptual what's propelling the firrn—now with It is a series of programmatic and work, they are proving to be a trade• building recommendations for a mark of the firm's public planning partner Charles Renfro—are two major network of systems and spaces that projects as well."We didn't think of will maximize the dynamic inter• it as a masterplan as much as 'There play between the di.strict's different is a performance on the inside of urban planning projects that may cultural institutions. "We wanted the building and we want to bring them to understand that the project that quality out,'" said Scofidio. transform the face of New Ifork City, I had to be implemented] in phases, "And we wanted to add the aspects and could change, and affect what of street performance and bring followed," said Scofidio. them in." None of the blocks in the The plan for BAM, unlike Lincoln district as proposed are solid, but Center, is more of a conceptual in.stead composed of varied units schematic for the buildings in the with public spaces cutting through. district, and less of a stringent plan By tlie time this long-term process for buildings. While it recommends is complete, the entire cultural area .spatial programming like artists' may be eclipsed by developer According to Rebecca Robertson, work—such as the monitors at the live/work lofts, retail, administra• Bruce Ratner's proposed new the executive director of the Lincoln bar of the Bra.s.serie—and knew tive offices, residential buildings, Frank Gehry-designed basketball Center Redevelopment Corporation, they would be a good fit. and a hotel, its salient feature is a arena a block away. Its mon.strous there was a moment in 2002 when "For us, Lincoln Center was about plan for "acculturation." Because proportions and planning are the she was really doubtful that she more communication between the the area is several blocks away from antithesis of OMA and Diller could get Diller -i- Scofidio on the arts," said Robertson. By focusing on still-gritty downtown , a Scofidio + Renfro's delicate, piece- final list of competitors to redesign that element of Diller -i- Scofidio's period of reinvestment and renew• by-piece, neighborhood-building Lincobi Center's public spaces. The work, she was able to get the firm al could make the artistic aspects of strategy. The invisibility of the others were all ma jor players with on the list, and the rest is history. the neighborhood more visible. BAM Cultural District—and how it several large public projects under Now renamed Diller Scofidio -f- The plan recommends installing unfolds over the ne.xt several their belt—Norman Foster, Cooper Renfro, to reflect the addition of temporary public art projects and years—is ju.st how the firm wants ii. Robertson, Richard Meier and partner Charles Renlro, the fu-m still even an "urban beach" in order to "Our interests are really broad Santiago Calatrava. At that point, shows up on the shortlists of major draw in passersby and raise interest and not about an image,"said Renfro, Diller + Scofidio had a handful of competitions, but they arc no longer in the area. By incorporating the who is a generation younger than installations and a much-loved the long .shots. Two of their recently BAM ethos into the very sidewalks, his partners and has witnessed the restaurant interior, the Bras.serie. completed projects—the redesign it would attract more foot traffic transformation of the office since he That summer, their conceptual of Lincoln Square's public spaces and other cultural organizations, arrived seven years ago, after four architecture-cuni-art piece. Blur, a and a master plan for the Brooklyn thus encouraging a more organic years with Smith-Miller -»- mist-filled cloud-making apparatus Academy of Music Cultural type of development. Hawkinson. "Brasserie was their over Lake Neuchiitel in District—re-envision two of New "The essence of this plan is mix• first permanent work in this coun• opened to the public. WTiile Diller -f- York's cultural epicenters, and put ing," said Jeanne Lutfy, president of try," he said. "That project really Scofidio clearly had the intellectual the designers in a position to shape the BAM Local Development Corp• changed the way people think acuity to go toe-to-toe with these not ju.st the buildings of New York, oration (LDC)."The streetscape about the firm. And it helped pro• architects, their lack of built projects but aspects of the city itself will be the connective tissue that ties mote the development of the work meant the firm would be a tough "It's like they've absorbed Lincoln the district to Fort Greene," she said, into larger and larger scale.s,"he says. sell for Lincoln Center's board. Center into their DNA, and the noting that the programming of Just as Lincoln Center is a Robertson had worked with the outrageousness of what they have visual art into the public infrastruc• dynamic interplay of buildings duo in the early 1990s, when .she done is subtle," said Robertson. ture is already happening. designed by heavyweights like Philip was the director of the 42~' Street The most drastic and controver• And the chips are falling into lohnson, Belluschi, and Wallace K. Redevelopment Corporation. As sial part of the plan calls for the place. Enrique Norten's Library for Harri.son, Diller Scofidio -i- Renfro's part of a plan to animate the closed eradication of the Milstein Plaza, Visual and Performing Arts, which intervention is subde and respectful. theaters and other dead spaces in a rai.sed platform designed in 1965 was unveiled in 2003, will fiU out a And the BAM district is also prov• the district, the corporation worked by Harrison & Abramovitz, and triangular block .south of the BAM ing to be a fruitful collaboration of with the public-art organization which covers much of 65"' Street Opera House. The Manhattan- architectural visionaries, the public Creative Time to commission between Broadway and Aiiislerd.im based Theater for a New Audience can take it as a sure sign that the projects from the likes of lenny Avenue. Their plan al.so calls for recently announced that Hugh built reality will finally match the Holzer, Tibor Kalman, and Diller + slicing lhrt)ugh a corner of the Hardy and Frank Gehry will design imaginations of the firm guiding it. Scofidio. She knew of the designers' hard, brutalist Pietro Bellu.schi- a 300-seat, $22 million theater

knack for multidi.sciplinary design, dcsigned Alice TuUy Hall, also home adjacent to the visual arts library. ANDREW YANG, AN EDITOR OF 306090, and the strong element of perform• of the lulliard School. Along with In between the buildings will be an CONTRIBUTES TO WALLPAPER, MEN'S ance and surveillance in their an elevated lawn in the plaza behind open public space, which follows HEALTH, AND SURFACE. o a: O

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The majority of focuses on the trend of architects', the othertexts are either well- He is one of the few narrators artists', and designers' renewed commit• who have been able to make researched glosses on spe• ment to social issues following in the sense of the myth structure cific cases, such as Chicago's footsteps of (but very different from) the of modern architecture. But black history, which presum• activists of the 1960s and '70s. his persona has been evolv• ably served as a historical ing from cynical outsider into crutch for OMA's design of You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays sequence, a satirical blazon architect-demiurge. Elevated the new student center at IIT, of Charles W. Moore to star status as a Pritzker or more sloppily researched Kevin Keim, ed. continued from page 10 for the old world followed stabs at au courant topics MIT Press, $24.95 (paper) a subliminal hint that the by a straightforward plug? laureate. Harvard don, taste- such as Beijing preservation This complete collection of Moore's essays ranges from his subject of the book might In all I counted 16 full-page maker for Prada, and hub of (which fails to acknowledge graduate dissertation at Princeton to the writings of his Grays be architecture, aided by ads and three seemingly a multinational-style enter• Francoise Choay's funda• years, providing an inside look at the architect's inspirations and such subtitles as "perverted fake ads—but I am not sure prise, there is no longer any mental positions). There is methodology. architecture" and "big of the difference, which I doubt that his ironic critiques serve as affirmations of and also an interview with Martha brother skyscrapers." The guess is the point. It all Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America not alternatives to the system. 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The blur dressers alike to remake their bodies in what he terms "the paring the TV reality show added self-parody as part of between real and fictional, Design School Guide to other arms race." Big Brotherto Vermeer, the game, inferring an inclu• satire and endorsement, Shopping. Obviously whittle away at the architec• sion on the side of power. advertising space and habit• Koolhaas wants the piece to Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy (The Architext Series) tural content to make it seem Stephen Oairns. ed. The political aspirations of able space is the point. Icons stand as his manifesto. more like the trendy maga• Routledge, $39.95 (paper) the book continue through• and trademarks occupy most In this kaleidoscopic zines to which it aspires. out, always as a sensational• of the pages of the book, report on the environment This weighty text includes essays by Oatherine Ingraham. Mark While it is truly refreshing to ist tease, never as true accompanied by timelines, produced for consumer Rakatansky, and Jacques Derrida, setting architecture as a stable have the appearance of so entity against the flow of migrant populations and their cultural engagement. I decided a consumer maps, and the society, the world is begin• many different authors in a baggage. good subtitle for Content juxtaposition of titillating ning to seem like one vast monograph, lots of the writ• would have been "Rem for pictures. airport, an "endless build• ing is frankly self-conscious How Images Think President" when, toward the ing" that has become the The content of Content \s lubrication about work in Ron Burnett end of the book, he actually ineffable condition of thus primarily graphics, and the office and its favorite MIT Press, $34.95 (hard) enunciates his political vision this is its ultimate message designers. Junkspace is "the candidate. Burnett's book offers a framework for interpreting the information for Europe like the leader of product of the encounter for architecture. Koolhaas age through the lens of images, analyzing their organization and a political party: "if I were muses in the preface, between escalator and air Many of the pages are manipulation on both page and screen. foreign minister of the EU..." "Maybe architecture doesn't conditioning, conceived in a tagged with the dingbat "Go incubator of sheet rock." While other architectural have to be so stupid after all. east," which lingers as the Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition) firms have diversified Liberated from the obliga• Like the text itself, which is cornerstone of Koolhaas' Suzi Gablik through research and devel• tion to construct, it can densely packed with hyper• foreign policy. It might serve Thames & Hudson, $18.95 (paper) bole, it is "flamboyant and in fact as the motto for all opment to expand their mar• become a way of thinking Gablik adds two new chapters to her classic critique of postmod- unmemorable." Amid the western carpetbaggers, ket into architectural services, about anything." So while ernism's betrayal of modernist ideals in this revised edition, con• OMA's strategy was to branch the book remains to a cer• ecstasy of description ("the cashing in on the lack of fronting globalization and offering transdisciplinarity as a way of off into AMO, a cultural think tain extent a monograph on ceiling is a crumpled plate professional preparation in integrating aesthetics and ethics to challenge rampant consumerism. tank concerned mostly with the works produced by OMA like the Alps; grids of unsta• dramatically expansionist COMPILED BY DEBORAH CROSSBERC, JAMES WAY, AND PAULA LEHMAN. image analysis and image- and AMO between 1993 and ble tiles alternate with settings. Why Koolhaas con• making. The methods of 2003, the projects seem monogrammed sheets of siders himself distinct from find that irony, which satu• marketing and advertising almost inconsequential in black plastic, improbably other imported sycophants obtaining the retroactive manifesto of the rates this book from cover to are littered as evidence comparison to the concep• punctured by grids of crystal is arguably due to his supe• Manhattanists of the 1920s cover, when elevated to the throughout. Open the book tual armature surrounding chandeliers") the real mes• rior perspective on history, who created Delirious New level of ideology, is a suffi• to find on the inside flap, them. sage resurfaces: "Junkspace geography, and the mecha• York, but I guess we cannot cient response. That said, 1 prime advertising space, Only in the last 30 pages is political, it relies on the nisms of globalism. Having trust the Chinese to go it will always vote for the less• what appears to be a two- under the rubric of central removal of the critical grown up in a colonial situa• alone toward such an er of two evils. page ad for Prada; the logo is "Property" is there a clear faculty in the name of com• tion, in the Dutch East Indies, fort and pleasure." This is a perhaps made him more epiphany. there but the picture shows summary of the works, treat• RICHARD INGERSOLL TEACHES denunciation in search of an I could not agree more an itinerant African vendor ed with consummate irony sensitive to the questions of URBAH HISTORY AMD URBAM with Koolhaas that architec• displaying cloned Prada as real estate items with tiny ideological solution, but if self-determination, but it is DESICM IN ITALY. HIS MOST ture and design are funda• RECENT BOOK IS SPRAWLTOWN purses in a parking lot. This pictures. 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THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER JUNE 8, 2004 of the proposal is a $1.96 billion extension of the When The Architect's going through airport security. CO Number 7 subway line, complemented by an Zi Newspaper asked what And as for the size—if ever LU $800 million plan for a new boulevard, parks, LU I was reading this summer, a publication cried out to be FUZZY and a plaza over the yards' eastern section. This I naturally replied, "Hegel's on CD-ROM... o $2.8 billion package, intended to spur high-den• Phenomenology of Spirit." Jane Jacobs' Dark Age LU Q. sity commercial and medium-density residential But seriously, me, read? Ahead doesn't have that 1- Li. development, would be financed through bonds As the manager of Urban problem. She's a great prose MATH FOR ^1 backed by expected revenues from the sale of Center Books, I barely have stylist who writes about O air rights and by the promise of taxes (or, in one time to look at the truckloads heavy topics with a decep• case, payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs) on • • of catalogs I get from pub• tively light touch. Her lecture new development. lishers. But the newspaper at the City College of New < THE WEST -J also asked me to consider an York was not to be missed. But again, the city's plans don't have PILOTs < intriguing theory: Architects For two hours she covered < arriving until 2014, leaving $900 million in inter• I- est costs that will somehow have to be bridged. Q. spend more money on books over 3,000 years of history. related to their profession It was like listening to her SIDE Moreover, real estate sages have questioned O X than any other profession. private thought process. the development estimates, saying they are CO C/) Incredibly, members of the based on aggressive projections. The fix? The I'd like to know when UJ audience started leaving full faith and credit of the City of New York. This architects have time to read —I early, in droves. Later, I STADIUM adds up to a potential $3.7 billion claim on the all these books they buy. o heard she was competing city's credit if development doesn't proceed as Maybe on the airplane, since A fawning portrait of Deputy Mayor Daniel L. with the televised finale of Q- planned. The gamble may be worth it—a similar they're always jetting about. Doctoroff in the Sunday, May 16"' edition of Friends, which made me air rights arrangement a century ago enabled Or could it be they buy more The New York Times mentioned in passing that think her book should have the city to cover an open rail yard with what is books because there are so members of a "local economic planning board" been titled Dark Age Now. were set to come out against the stadium ele• now Park Avenue and finance the construction many stunning monographs of Grand Central Terminal. But there must be to choose from? The medical That's not to say there ment of his Hudson Yards plan when Doctoroff and other officials began working the phones, a candid accounting, describing both the pro• profession doesn't have a haven't been happy devel• ject's impact on the city's capital budget and its glossy publishing industry opments in the world of convincing them to postpone their vote. This "local board" is none other than the Regional potential impact on the operating budget, prior behind it (unless you count architecture book-selling. We to any celebratory groundbreaking. two recent books on med• plan to open a new store in Plan Association (RPA), whose directors include ical abnormalities from September at the Center some of New York's savviest businesspeople and There is another element of the Hudson Yards D.A.P.). Or maybe architects for Architecture. Like Robert real estate investors. Ten days earlier, another package that rankles. This is the use of $350 simply have more room for Smithson's SpiraiJetty, article, buried in the Times' Metro section, had million in bonds backed by the Battery Park City books since they are experts we're increasing our visibility reported that the RPA was on the verge of exco• Authority (BPCA) for the otherwise uncontro- at organizing space. But how after 25 years. But now riating the stadium plans until the Doctoroff-led versial Javits Convention Center expansion. do they sort them? Thomas, maybe I should get to what onslaught began. Why had Doctoroff had to The problem here isn't fiscal imprudence—just an architect who works for everyone really wants to spend such political capital to get the widely appalling lack of regard for the city's previous me on Saturdays, arranges know. What are Meier, respected RPA to back down? commitment of BCPA revenues to affordable his books by color. It's true— Tschumi, Frampton, One reason may be that virtually no one who housing. Battery Park City, constructed by a most people remember the Eisenman, Wigley, Moneo, isn't employed by the City of New York or the quasi-public development corporation on city- orange Breuer book over the and Abalos reading? Or not? New York Jets can find a good reason to support owned landfill, has been heavily subsidized by one from the Vitra Museum. I can't divulge. What about the stadium. Economists caution that it will fail taxpayer money from its inception. The city has This is worth delving into my summer reading fun? to anchor West Side residential and commercial pledged several times (most recently during the but let's move on to a The unlovely pile on my expansion. While city officials portray it as Koch Administration) that hundreds of millions weightier topic. floor includes Norman M. indispensable in the larger vision for Far West in BPCA revenues will be dedicated to low-cost Klein's The Vatican to Midtown, RPA board members reportedly think housing elsewhere in the city. BPCA funds have The "publishing sensation" Vegas: A History of Special it will create "border vacuums," hampering produced virtually no housing; subsequent of the season, Phaidon's Effects because, like Jacobs, other development. And Hell's Kitchen residents mayors have used a loophole to treat them as Atlas of Contemporary World he talks about where we concerned about scale and displacement issues general revenue—a move one former BPCA Architecture, arrived with a may be headed but within are threatening lawsuits that could compromise president has called a "breach of faith." Last thud on our loading dock the framework of history as the city's bid for the 2012 Olympics, for which month, a mayoral aide accused stadium critics last week. It tips the scales at illusion and how spaces are the stadium is crucial. Then there are financing of sophism, but there is nothing misleading 16 pounds and comes with scripted. Mr. Wilson's questions. Bonds issued to finance a platform about drawing attention to a broken promise. a clear plastic carrying case. Cabinet of Wonder is in my over the western section of the rail yards would Especially when such a breach worsens the Josh, a writer moonlighting stack. Author Lawrence mature at least two years before the revenues plight of nannies and grocery clerks, artists, and at the store as a sales clerk, Weschler takes readers on earmarked to repay them begin flowing. Who EMS workers—and yes, architects and plan• quipped, "It's no GOAT," a tour of the Museum of would service the debt meanwhile? If the MTA ners—struggling to find housing that doesn't referring to Taschen's 75- Jurassic Technology and simply hands over rail yards real estate to the city set them back by over 50 percent of their month• pound tribute to Muhammad challenges our notions of and state, is this not $500 million that the agency ly income. Ali. The Atlas, billed as the truth and fiction. Alternative might have spent on its own capital projects? The case for the public benefits of developing only resource of its kind, is history and trompe I'oeil Furthermore, the city has no identifiable source the Far West Side as Doctoroff wants it devel• certainly thorough and seem like appropriate for its own S300 million contribution. oped may yet turn out to be overwhelming. But packed with factoids; maybe themes in the run up to this despite high-concept persuasion, the numbers the companion board game Though only the stadium proposal was fall's election. still don't add up. will follow. But that plastic before RPA in early May, other facets of the Hudson Yards plan have also furrowed brows in LAURA WOLF-POWERS TEACHES CITY AND REGIONAL carrying case is just wrong, JO STEFFENS MANAGES PLANNING AT PRATT. though it could be useful URBAN CENTER BOOKS. the world of public finance. The priciest element

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