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CO 08 KURT FORSTER I— z MEATPACKING HARLEM'S NAMED CURATOR LJJ DISTRICT: AN OF 2004 ARCHITECTURAL FIRST o HOTBED o BIENNALE 09 SKYSCRAP WILL THE AIA'S Kurt Forster has been named curator of NEW CENTER BE the 9"' Venice Architecture Biennale. The Swiss-born critic and historian has been ITS SAVIOR? living in Italy since 2002, though for the past year has been teaching at the Bauhaus TT Universital in Weimar where he holds the BLOBS FIND Walter Gropius Professorship. His recent THEIR WAY (BACK) curatorial projects include an exhibition TO EUROPE on Carlo Scarpa for the Palladio Center, held in Verona and Vicenza in 2000; and a ZAHA'S OUT AND retrospective on Her/.og 8( de Meuron at COLUMBIA STILL the Canadian Center for Architecture in SEARCHING 2002, where he served continued on page 4

Harlem's first skyscraper, the 380-foot-tall building will in glass. Despite the appar• HOLL DESIGN CITED AS POSSIBLE FACTOR IN MUSEUM'S FAILURE designed by Enrique Norten be die tallest in Harlem when ent incongruity of the pro• of" TEN Arquitectos, is racing completed in late 2005. ject's scale and materials to toward a January 2004 The project's developer, its context, the architect was groundbreaking. Dubbed Michael Caridi, selected inspired by Harlem's lively BELLEVUE BELLY UP Harlem Park, the project's Norten from a pool of five street culture to enclose t he When the Bellevue Art Museum (BAM) moved into its new, $23 million Steven Holl-designed approval process has been architects recommended ground floor in sliding glass facility in 2001, it was a watershed moment in the museum's history. Dramatically increasing expedited by the City by City Planning officials, panels, aimed at creating an programming opportunities—as well as operational costs—the building was heralded as a gem Planning Department as attracted by what he environment more akin to in the landscape of Bellevue, Washington, which had often been thought of as second citizen to part of its 125"' Street describes as "his ability to a marketplace than a mall. adjacent cities Seattle and Tacoma. It came as a surprise then, when the museum announced Corridor Initiative, a new think originally about Moreover, according to in September that it would be shutting its doors temporarily, letting go all but three of its thirty program geared toward Harlem's particular archi• Caridi, the hotel, conference staff members. developing a planning tectural condition." But center, and banquet hall will "The decision to close the museum was a preemptive strike," says Barbara Jirsa, a be the only such facilities framework for Harlem's Nellie Hester Bailey of the spokesperson for the museum. Cutbacks in funding—as well as the new realities of operating in Harlem, allowing local primary thoroughfare. Harlem Tenants Council a facility three times as large as its former home, in a shopping center—forced the museum's worries that the project will companies to congregate The building site, at the board to realize that continuing to operate would put the museum In a serious deficit." It took "open the floodgates of on their home turf and corner of 125"' Street and a lot of courage to own up to the fact that we weren't hitting our mark," says Jirsa. development," threatening increasing opportunities Park Avenue, is now home Many critics cite the building's architecture as a factor in the museum's continued on page 5 to displace small businesses for tourism. to a parking lot owned by and low-income tenants. the College of Caridi also estimates that Podiatric Medicine. Pending Norten, who has offices the complex will create a site rezoning to allow for in Mexico City and New between 1.800 and 2,000 new commercial uses, the project York, insists that the build• jobs. However, community wiU accommodate a mix of ing will be integrated with activists arc skeptical about tenants, including a Marriott its environment, both the quality of these jobs. hotel, the Podiatric College, culturally and economically. I larlem is just the latest in business offices, and retail His design consists of a two- the ongoing urban gentrifi- outlets. Located in a neigh• story street-level podium cation .saga; the location borhood of mostly low- to supporting a massive 14- might be different, but the medium-rise residential story cube and a slender issues are the same. and commercial structures. 30-story tower, all sheathed DEBORAH GROSSBERG

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Just months after his midtown respectively. Interestingly, the demolition of disruptive than cut-and-cover excavation. The design showroom was renovated the noisy Els was approved with the under• $3.55 billion project remains uncontracted, 2^' AVENUE by Michael GabellinI, DDC owner standing that the construction of the 2"" though according to the MTA website," MTA Nadir Hakakian was seen in SOHO Avenue subway was imminent. The subway NYCT will consider strategies such as issuing SUBWAY ON A with what appeared to be realtors. was considered better for the neighborhood, Design-Build contracts ... for project imple• "They're looking for new spaces," as it was becoming increasingly residential mentation including final design and construc• ROLL AGAIN confirms the store's publicist. and commercial, and less industrial. Plans for tion ... [with the aim of] reducing the project's "SOHO is a definite possibility." In May 2003 the MTA approved construction the subway have been on the boards since time and cost, and improving the performance At a party in honor of Roberto de of the long-awaited 2"" Avenue subway line, 1929, and work commenced briefly in the late of the completed project." Alba's new book on Paul Rudolph, which will run from Hanover Square in Lower 1970s only to be halted due to financial crises. Among the design priorities are sustainable held at the townhouse he designed Manhattan to 125'" Street in East Harlem. The Construction is planned to begin before measures including energy efficiency, material at E. 58"' St. (where his partner line will alleviate the burden from the Lexington 2005 and to be completed in 2016, The line's conservation, natural lighting and ventilation. Ernst Wagner still resides), an Avenue line (4, 5,6), which carries 645,000 8.5 miles of track and 16 stations will be sunk As part of the 1982 Arts for Transit (AFT) legis• original Corb Open Hand sculpture riders per day—more than any other route in the deeper than existing subway tracks—40 to lation, 1 percent of the project budget will be was toppled, losing a finger. The MTA system. Completed in 1918, the Lexington 80 feet below street level compared to the dedicated to public art projects. The AFT com• author's wife was seen scrambling line has been the sole service on the East Side average 20—to avoid existing lines and utili• missions site-specific artworks in the stations, under the stairs, in search of the since the removal of the 2"" and 3"' Avenue ties. MTA engineers propose construction which include consideration for architectural missing digit. elevated lines, or "Els," in 1942 and 1955, primarily by tunneling, which will be less design and historic preservation, JAMES WAY LET SLIP: ACHEN(S)ARCHPAPER.COM

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Steven Hoi I and 's The Storefront Facade: A Collaborative Project, fabricated by local architecture firm FACE. It replaced the gallery's tradi• tional fagade with sliced Supraboard, creating rotat• ing panels that dissolved the physical and visual barrier between inside and out. The work was meant to be temporary—the first of a biannual tradition. However, the installation was never replaced, and has become an enduring STOREFRONT icon for Storefront. Ten years later, the FACADE TURNS 10 facade is showing its age. Storefront is embarking In 1982 architect-artist Scofidio in 1987. When on a campaign to raise the Kyong Park founded Storefront moved from its funds necessary to main• Storefront for Art and first location at 51 Prince tain the facade. The work, Architecture, an alternative Street to its current address which they hope to begin gallery "committed to the at 97 Kenmare Street in in early 2004, will address advancement of positions 1986, artists reacted to the some problems that always in architecture, art, and oddly-shaped, 900-square- existed with the design. design." It provided many foot sliver of space with The kinetic architecture now well-known artists and installations that moved never provided sufficient architects with their earliest toward the street and insulation and was never shows, such as Michael frequently used the facade made compliant with the Manfredi in 1983, Lebbeus itself as a site. 1990 American Disabilities Woods in 1984, and Dilier + In 1993 the space featured Act. jw

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When Marcel Breuer designed the Whitney of a staff, including the appointment Museum in 1966, he intended a small of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as Director of windowed corner of the fourth floor to be Conservation. used for art conservation. The space was Sam Anderson, principal of Alspector never used as such, and served instead Anderson Architects, inserted a state-of-the- over the years as administrative offices and art lab into the tight, two-story, 480-square- storage. In October, the museum unveiled foot space. The renovated room now meets its new conservation studio, fulfilling not the strict climate requirements for art only Breuer's original intention for the conservation, which were never met by the space but the last of ex-director Maxwell original architecture. Alspector Anderson is Anderson's many architectural dreams known for its work with conservation labs, for the Whitney. "When I started here five and is presently consulting on the addition years ago, I was struck by the absence of a to the Museum of Modern Art. conservation studio," says Anderson. The new conservation room was unveiled Though the Board of Trustees initially just days before Maxwell Anderson's opposed the idea, Anderson argued, "The departure from the Whitney on October 1". role of the museum, after all, is to preserve He resigned over his dismay with the art. The director of the Met once said that Whitney trustees' decision to shelve plans if he had to fire everybody except one for a -designed extension. person, he'd keep the conservator." The "Museums are supposed to take risks, not Collaborative Process Re-configurable Modules Personalized Systems Smart Manufacturing Whitney was the only major art museum affirm the expectations of the marketplace," in without a dedicated he says. As director, he worked toward conservation space or staff. bringing architecture within the museum's Milder Office Inc. The museum raised $7 million, including agenda. During his tenure, the Whitney , NY a $1.85 million grant from the Andrew W. hired K. Michael Hays as Adjunct Curator Telephone: 718.387.0767 Mellon Foundation. The budget covered of Architecture and produced shows on Fax: 718.486.7691 the $600,000 to renovate the 480-square- John Hejduk and Dilier + Scofidio. www.milderoffice.com foot two-story space, and the endowment CATHY LANG HO CO st 3 O LU

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The long perspective of the Arsenale society and the conflicts among and within will serve as a corridor of discourse, tracing nations are only some of the most glaring the major stages of growth and change in manifestations of this process. For architec• architecture. The Italian Pavilion will be ture, the main challenges lie in new methods BOERI the site of immediate experience, providing of collaboration and realization, processes contact with the key phenomena of this on• that cannot exist without the fullest use of going metamorphosis. Naturally, we hope computers and information science. This that the various national pavilions will add is neither a fad nor a capitulation to tech• TO their voices to the poly-phony programmed nocracy, but the only way to overcome the in this Biennale. divisions that have taken hold among the What specific themes will you investigate? professions engaged in realizing buildings. DIRECT The Biennale will map the itineraries that Technological progress in architecture have brought us to the current moment and may no longer be measured by the quality ofter key instances of these transformations. of individual crafts and contributors to It will address the emergence of what might construction, but by the level of integration DOMUS be called "hyper-projects," as well as muta• among them. Room will certainly be given to The venerable Milan-based magazine FORSTER continued from front paqe briefly tions of the landscape and processes of urban the swift developments of digital technology. Domus has announced that architect as director. The peripatetic Forster took growth and rehabilitation. But instead of In this domain, young architects have the Stefano Boeri is to become its next some time to tali< with AN contributor Luigi running in many directions at once, the lead. Imbedded in the theme is an attention editorial director. Founded by Gio Ponti Prestinenza Puglisi about his plans for the Biennale will focus on the fundamental to the field's latest, and youngest, tendencies in 1928 and led over the years by 9"^ Architecture Biennale, which is themed changes that are occurring on a more basic and accomplishments. luminaries like Alessandro Mendini, "Metamorphosis." scale—on the level of natural evolution, of What do you think about current architec• Mario Bellini, and Frangois Burkhardt, the sort that has brought about the extinc• tural research and production? the magazine has been under the The 2000 Biennale curated by Massimiliano tion of old and generation of new species. Architecture today is experiencing an editorial stewardship of English architecture critic Deyan Sudjic since Fuksas featured experimentaJ architecture, There are many areas in which architec• unprecedented period of expansion, gaining 1999. Sudjic, who also directed the while Deyan Sudjic's 2002 Biennale ture can make only a limited contribution new footing and improving its ways of 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale, will featured more realistic projects. What are to—or may even have a negative effect exercising its cuhural role. Engineering is no return to England, where he was the your plans for the 2004 exhibition? upon—social and cultural evolution. The longer architecture's antagonist, industry its architecture critic for the The Guardian If you characterize the last two exhibitions as old conflict between formal and social harness, society its dictator. Architecture newspaper before his Italian foray. "experimental" and "realistic," then mine will values is itself an ideological relic. It cannot has begun to advance its own disciplinary According to rumors, publishers were be "hyper-realistic" in the sense that its main be that one gains only at the price of the other. discourse while finding new ways of dismayed with decreased newsstand focus is the current transformations occur• That would be akin to a double suicide. shaping sites, experiences, and memories. sales, though subscriptions were ring in the profession. Today, architecture has Gain only arises when architecture changes Architecture's genuine poetic capacity need reportedly up. It's worth noting that reached both prominence and depth, open• the processes of its invention and execution, no longer be seen as irreconcilable with Domus has historically changed thus enabling itself to operate under industrial organization and entrepreneurial ing itself to enormous cultural diversity and editors every several years, ostensibly interests. There's no question that the world technological potential. The Biennale has radically changuig conditions and to fulfill to keep its look and direction fresh. become an instalhnent in the discourse, its demanding role as cultural catalyst. is filled with places plagued with the worst propelling architecture from its fairly closed, How much space will you devote to experi• architecture—they are as common in highly At 47, Boeri is considered one of professional status to its current role as a mentation and young talents? advanced nations as in less developed ones— the most interesting young architects catalyst of cultural ideas and experiences. The entire Biennale 2004 is predicated on and that more is being built every day. But in Italy today. He is the founder of The 2004 Biennale will center on the trans• a hypothesis, that we are witnessing a phe• it is also clear that imagination, tough Multiplicity, a research agency focused formations of energy, historical time, struc• nomenal metamorphosis, a transmutation thinking, and unprecedented possibilities on urban issues, and was a collaborator ture, envelope, and impact—which place so deep that, as a resuk, all conventional abound. Three words capture the qualities with Rem Koolhaas on Mutations, a architecture at the forefront of technological problems of architecture appear in altered of the present: invention, indulgence, book developed with Harvard and cultural evolution. guise. The challenges of an information and intelligence. Design School's Project on the City. " Domus [under Sudjicl had its own physiognomy, a good one," says Boeri. "1 cannot adjust it. I have to invent a Step Up With Style new project." 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well as a dramatic new dormitory by IIT APPLICATIONS BOOSTED Helmut Jahn, which uses corrugated metal, seemingly in homage to the BY KOOLHAAS DESIGN most celebrated aspect of Rem's Rem Koolhaas hasn't just brought construction, "Prospective students scheme: a 500-foot-long, sound- the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) were waiting to see some new muffling tube around the elevated new architecture—he's also bringing architecture on campus," she said. railroad. And the architecture school's it new architecture students. The IIT had let its 18 buildings by Crown Hall has been spruced up construction of the McCormick former architecture dean Ludwig too, with money from Canada's Tribune Campus Center has resulted Mies van der Rohe deteriorate, and "Joan d'Architecture" and keeper in a doubling of the size of the had not built a new building in 25 of the Mies flame, Phyllis Lambert. freshman class this year, according years. As a result, the campus had The enrollment boom reflects to Dean Donna Robertson. Graduate come to resemble an outdated increases in both the number of enrollment has also increased by office park. (The surroundings, which applications to the school and the more than 50 percent. Robertson include an elevated railroad and percentage of accepted students credits the spike directly to the new some of Chicago's nastiest public who choose to enroll (the "yield"), Koolhaas building, which opened housing projects, didn't help.) according to IIT spokesman Phil

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donation-supported organization behind COOPER the bid, has devised a plan, Olympic X, to take full advantage of the region's trans• portation assets. UNION Two intersecting lines of travel, one rail and the other water, form the Olympic X. ] . J ' Shootinq GETS NEW The Harlem and East Rivers join with the New York Harbor to form the north-south

Baseba axis of the X. Along this axis, venues including Yankee Stadium will be served ACADEMIC SoccerV Basketball by a special high-speed ferry system. Mi',iilowl,ir\Us Sports Existing commuter rail lines, running from BUILDING Complex New Jersey through Manhattan to Queens, form the east-west axis. Venues such as the Olympic J9 Swimming X Cooper Union, one of the nation's most Stadium ^ Meadowlands in New Jersey, the proposed Badminton prestigious training grounds for young Tennis Olympic Stadium and Square at 34'" Street architects, is planning an architectural Rowing and 11" Avenue (to be built above the rail OIVrt»nic Village revision close to home. The two-story Flushing yards, just south of the Javits Center), and Meadows- Hewitt Building on 3"' Avenue and 7"' Archery Corona Park the National Tennis Center in Queens, will Street will be demolished by Fall 2005 to be served along this leg by an exclusive make way for a new, $96 million, nine- 0 M LES FROM OLYMP C VILLAGE Olympic rail system. story structure to house the School of The Olympic Village will be situated at Engineering, currently located at 51 Astor the crossing of the X, in City, Place. The new building will contain and have its own ferry stop and rail station. engineering labs, interdisciplinary class• All the events will take place within a rooms, student facilities, and classrooms 20-mile radius of the Village; most within 10. to be shared by Cooper's Schools of Art The Village's anticipated population of and Architecture. 16,000 athletes, coaches, and officials will Cooper's selection committee includes Greenbelt Park be able to reach all the venues via dedicated Anthony Vidler, Dean of Cooper's School rail or ferry transportation. (NYC2012's RFQ Mountain of Architecture, Leslie Gill, architect and Biking for the Olympic Village is due November Cooper Trustee, Henry N. Cobb, architect, Equestrian 17'".) Meanwhile, spectators will have among others. In October, the committee access to all events via public transit. (The sent out requests for proposals to Shigeru proposed extension of the Number 7 sub• Olympic Rail Ban, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Rafael way line westward will connect the new Olympic Ferry Moneo, William Pederson, Ben Van Berkel Olympic Stadium and Square to the rest of and Caroline Bos of UN Studio, and Tod the transit system.) Williams and Billie Tsien. A selection will OLYMPIC X IS NYC'S ACE IN Though the International Olympics The lasting legacy of a New York 2012 be made by the end of 2003. ITS BID FOR THE 2012 GAMES Committee (IOC) will not make its final Olympics might just be an East River ferry Apparently the project has been a long decision about which city will host the 2012 network that will expand transportation time coming. Hewitt has been an archi• games until July 2005, the prospect of a options for the growing populations on tectural disaster since it was constructed New York City Olympics has prompted much Manhattan's far East Side. In the aftermath in 1912. Originally designed to be a six- discussion among local architects and of September IT", the city demonstrated story building, lack of funds and structural urban planners. New York's bid includes that large numbers of people could be problems in the foundation stopped con• an intelligent scheme to locate most of transported to and from Lower Manhattan struction almost immediately, leaving the 28 different sports venues within the via ferries. New York City has always Hewitt a two-story tangle of supporting most compact area in the recent history struggled to sustain ferry service, despite halls and stairs sprawling across a full city of the games. Alexander Garvin, formerly its desire to maintain a lively waterfront. block. The building has also deteriorated of the Lower Manhattan Development Perhaps Olympic X will provide the shot of substantially over the past 90 years, and Corporation and now Director of Planning, adrenaline that the city's transportation by all accounts will not be missed, DG MARKS THE SPOT Design, and Development for NYC2012, the system needs, BILL WOODS DOMINGO GONZALEZ ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN

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site not far from the Vitra store, her first New York project. mark the area. As of September, the LPC must approve any Packed with PotentM. Over the summer. Asymptote unveiled its first retail environ• new construction, demolition, or alteration of any existing ment, the flagship of Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele. building within the newly named Gansevoort Market Historic Will the Meatpacking District s Last year, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano of LOT-EK com• District, an area that reaches roughly from IS"" Street to recently approved landmark pleted the interior for the Bohen Foundation, a raw open space Horatio, Hudson to the West Side Highway. made flexible with exquisitely hacked shipping containers and Supporters of this effort are primarily concerned with status help—or hinder— exhibition walls that slide on tracks. Ali Tayar of Parallel Design preserving the characteristics that make the area unique— just completed Pop Burger, a hamburger joint/lounge that's at its intimate scale, rough texture, libertarian mbc of uses. Had its architectural edginess? once refined and fiinky. SHoP/Sharples, Holden, Pasquarelli the neighborhood been landmarked, the problematic aspects Tames Way reports. is finishing a condominium tower—a ten-story glass and of the 13-floor Hotel Gansevoort could have been mitigated. steel addition that's planted, parasitelike,atop a six-story 1905 "It looks sterile, like a hospital," says one meatpacker. Morellet Like raw meat, trendy spots in New York have short shelf brick warehouse. Mancini Duffy Architects is designing a new agrees that the zinc-and-glass cladding is inappropriate, as is its scale. "It doesn't fill out the lot line, which is important lives; however, the lure of Meatpacking District endures. For restaurant in thetipof highly visible triangular building at 14"' around here," says Morellet. "The building is piled on one end the past several years, the area has been a strong hook for hip Street and 9"' Avenue. Many more projects are on the boards. of the site, to push it higher becau.se hotels can charge more restaurants, clubs, galleries, boutiques, and more recently, The intense building activity has inspired the neighbor• for rooms with a view." hotels, turned on by the grit (and gristle) of its still-active agri- hood's old-timers to try to monitor the nature and quality of industrial businesses. Beyond the romantic grunge appeal, new developments. One active group, Save Gansevoort Market, Locals are wary in particular of the introduction of high- there are plenty of practical reasons—for example, a supply led by Florent Morellet.who opened his eponymous restaurant priced residences, which threaten to drive up rents and force of low-rise buildings with open-floor plans—that have made on Gansevoort Street in 1984, and Andrew Berman, Executive out existing businesses. The neighborhood's most controver• sial project is Landmark Development's 450-foot-tall hotel the Meatpacking District the most architecturally happening Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic and condominium highri.se, designed by Jean Nouvel. More quarter of the city. Preservation (GVSHP), lobbied successfully for the New York than a year ago, residents vilified the project as inappropriate Lindy Roy has designed a new bar for an as-yet-undisclosed City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to land•

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It's a sad irony that it took the destruction building, then you would have to say the of the World Trade Center to bring New AIA-NY /icis changed. The 12,000-square- York's architectural community together foot Center for Architecture, which opened New York may be home to an impressive last month, occupies the storefront and two number of movers and shakers within the basement levels of an eight-story industrial international architecture scene, not to building in Greenwich Village, and it is a mention five architecture schools and a host luminous, inviting, well-conceived space. of architecture advocacy groups, but it lacks Key to architect Andrew Berman's design the kind of community found in Chicago or was the removal of the central slab of the even Los Angeles. After 9/11, things changed. three-bay space at both the street level and A large group of architectural, planning, the floor below. The dramatic void enables and design organizations banded together daylight to flood the subterranean galleries under the rubric of New Yorfc; New Visions and passersby to glimpse the goings-on on to di.scuss Lower Manhattan's rebuilding. all three floors. Since the scheme required Professional walls came down; unexpected digging deep into the earth, Berman installed alliances were made. Wlien ordinary New two geothermal wells to provide all the cool• Yorkers cried foul against the banal site plans ing and most of the heating for the facility. for Ground Zero and a world-class design This was a bold move, especially for the ALA. competition was launched, it looked like a No other existing institutional building in new architectural age was finally dawning. the city has yet to employ this cost-effective, Under executive director Fredric M. Bell's highly sustainable system. Berman's open, mm leadership, the New York chapter of the flowing plan features galleries, a lecture hall, AIA (AlA-NY) was integrally involved in a public resource center, a reading room, a fomenting this sudden, lively, cross-discipli• conference area, and administrative offices nary discourse. This came as a surprise to for the chapter and its charitable affiliate, the many in the community, who had long New York Foundation for Architecture. mocked and loathed the organization for its Since opening, the Center has been abuzz bureaucratic pettiness, its lack of vision, its with activity—lectures, exhibits, and lots in use and scale for its context. In response. "We're not against change, as long as [the old boy's club ways. But efforts had already of people coming in off the street. "Can you Landmark's Stephen Touhey asked Nouvel area] maintains diversity and tension."The begun within the chapter before 9/11 to imagine that happening when we were in for a revised plan, eliminating the residences potential danger of landmark .status is transform it into a civically engaged, open, our old office?" asks Bell with unabashed and keeping the hotel and retail components, that the neighborhood become frozen in a egalitarian, progressive organization. excitement. "With the Center we can finally which he hopes will break ground in 2004 romantic image of the past. The LPC is Creating a new home that could serve as a reach out to the public and get away from and be completed by 2006. At the base of the currently advised by a review committee nexus for the larger design and planning our ivory tower image." 34-floor hotel will be 32,000 square feet of that includes Morellet and Berman, who are community became central to this project. By the looks of things, the Center for retail space, filling the lot. The Highline runs strong advocates of contemporary design, If you can judge an institution by its Architecture could become a welcome through the site, and will be preserved, but there is no guarantee that the district becoming a public "urban terrace" that is won't fall into a more "by the books" admin• accessed from the building's second floor. istration, with Disneyfied results, once these However, in October, the GVSHP staged a open-minded protagonists are gone. Boyer small protest, charging that the hotel is a offers South Street Seaport as a cautionary Trojan horse, and will in fact house as many tale. The former maritime district was land- long-term residents as transient visitors. marked in 1977, with the similar intention of maintaining "authenticity.""But what Alternatively, there are those who insist the hell is authenticity?" Boyer asks. South that a mix isn't a mix unless it includes resi• Street Seaport ended up becoming a tourist- dences. Historian M.Christine Boyer keeps oriented shopping district, despite best the point simple: New developments are intentions."! fear the same thing might fine, "as long as the meatpackers can stay." happen with the Meatpacking District." Change is not just inevitable, but welcome to many. Says early settler Lignano of LOT-EK, JAMES WAY IS AN EDITORIAL ASSISTANT AT AH.

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changed. (No one I interviewed would speak freely about it intentional, according to Bell, because he wants to see how the on the record.) An example of the chapter's stubborn insular• place evolves. "I don't want us to be a dino.saur before we're ity cited by one observer was the design competition for the grown." he said. What programming there is, some claim, has Center. It was open only to AIA members, a stipulation that been borrowed fi om the city's other architecture advocacy excluded many of the city's talented architects who are not organizations. These critics also allege that the chapter has members on principle, feeling that the chapter does not cha.sed after the various funders ofthe.se groups. "This is represent their interests or needs. (Membership numbers their moment for good will, and instead they've rankled us." support this story. Wliile AIA-NY is the largest of the AIA's observed one well-respected architect, active within several chapters, its 3,200 members compri.se only a little more than advocacy groups. "It doesn't make .sen.se at a time when the a third of the city's architects.) Berman him.self admits that he profession is becoming more collaborative." only became a member in recent years. "I designed the Center How the Center's ambitious mission will be funded is a according to what I hoped my client aspired to be, not what serious concern among several interviewees. Two who were 1 thought it then was," he says. And it's Berman, not the in a position to know the chapter's finances worried it could chapter, who must lauded for hatching the idea of geothermal go bankrupt if new revenue sources are not established. One wells for a sustainable cooling and heating system. Designing chapter member interpreted recent attempts by the leadership a facility that would strive toward sustainability was not part to cut some committee budgets and pool committee funds as of the original competition program. This lack of conviction a stealthy way to direct monies toward the Center's program• is what bothers many architects about the organization. ming agenda. In response to such worries, Bell has stated that "Where's the vision?" asked one young architect who is an the chapter is in many respects in an excellent financial posi• active AIA member. He complained that he and other mem• tion. Donations Irom members, corporations, and the city bers were never consulted on the Center's program or on the have enabled the chapter to buy its new headquarters and pay eventual progran^ming of its exhibit spaces. "The prevailing its renovation costs without dipping into its own pockets. view," he said, "is that the chapter is always calling for money, Bell speaks regretfully of any hard feelings among the larg• never for ideas." He went on to note that he and his peers con• er architecture community about the Center's liiture plans. sidered most of the chapter's continuing education courses He notes that he has already offered its lecture hall at little or gathering .space for the city's larger design and planning com• "yawners." For him, this inability to assemble an interesting, no cost to other architecture and planning organizations that munity, while engaging the public through its exhibits and content-rich curriculum bodes ill for the development of a lack meeting spaces of their own. "We want to reach out to programs. Indeed, believing it could fill such a role, the city meaningful exhibit and events program for the Center. just about anyone here," says Bell. coughed up $500,000 to help pay for the $2.5 million renova• Even Bell admits that the chapter has had lackluster events. Even the chapter's harshe.st critics hope that Bell succeeds. tion. The rest of the funds came from chapter members and "In my previous position as Chief Architect of the City's New York's architects and architecture lovers can only pray corporate donors, who also contributed the $1.4 million Department of Design and Construction, I was active in the that a great building can reshape AIA-NY. Never has the city required to purchase the space. AIA. but I was also a member of the Van Alen Institute needed architectural leadership and vision more. becau.se that's where everything was happening," he said. However, if AIA-NY looks different, those inside and out• MARISA BARTOLUCCI WRITES ABOUT DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, side the organization insist that little about its culture has If the programming for the Center seems inchoate, it's AND OTHER CULTURAL SUBJECTS.

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This show draws on the tradition happens on it while walking through the city. screens in their high-profile exhibition at the explain the great formal diversity of the of the Wunderkammer, or Cabinet of The museum's four large display windows American Pavilion at the in material on display. The work betrays a split Curiosity, a 17th-century tradition that were given over to three young architects, the summer of 2000, their work has begun personality. They seem unable to decide brings together works of art and works of invited by the museum to conclude its year• to ooze into European museums and even which camp they're in, deconstruction or nature. It is the second architectural show long series exploring New York's immigrant into the real world, morphing into solid, blobism. Some of the beautifully crafted in Vienna in the past six months that does communities. Points of Entry. Though the built form. models and graphic work fall into the one so; the first. Like a Bird, is an exhibition installation appears slight, it is hardly modest A kind of U.S.-Dutch-Austrian blob axis category, and some in the other. The exhibi• I curated last spring at Kunsthistoriches in intention. Goil Amornvivat, Can Tiryaki, and has begun to jell. Currently the Netherlands tion ultimately gives the impression of a Museum, which put the work of Santiago Tom Morbitzer, coworkers in Robert Stern's Architecture Institute (NAI) in is career of eclectic formalism, which is only Calatrava alongside bird skeletons and office, hope that it transports passers-by exhibiting The Asymptote Experience. This compounded when one looks at the rare taxidermy from the Naturhistorisches from Orchard Street to a more contempla• is a big, slick, and ultimately, uni-dimen- actual building the architects have realized Museum. What is original is that Lynn's tive plane. sionally technophilic show. Asymptote is in their long professional life, the Hydrapier show brings live animals into the museum, The architects—^from Bangkok, , dead serious. Rashid and Couture write in in Haarlemeer (2002), which somehow juxtaposed with his project for a Visitor's and Columbus, Ohio, respectively—recall the exhibition pamphlet that their work doesn't match up to the rhetoric in the show. Center in Costa Rica, the focus of the show. the hardships of immigrant tenement life by explores "technology's impact on society" Peter Noever, the director of the Museum The small darkened exhibition space closing off three windows with a brick cur• contains an illuminated blue tank filled with tain. The fourth window features model of live Moon Jelly jellyfish, another with blue a Mihrab, or Muslim prayer niche, made of Morpho butterflies, and yet another with colored plastic panels knitted together with miniature cobalt-blue tropical dendrobates wrist ties (the kind used to handcuff people). frogs borrowed from the local zoo. These In the sacred space of a mosque, these small, softly croaking, squirming creatures niches are meant to direct the body towards are exhibited side by side with a baroque mecca. Here, its poetic recreation takes Viennese silver coffee set and Lynn's own viewers away, if briefly, from its secular bulbous titanium coffee set for Alessi. From shopping street. a morphological point of view, the Visitor's The exhibition, cosponsored by the Lower Center could just be a distant cousin of the Manhattan Cultural Council, is well suited baroque coffee set, with its body resembling to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, hollowed out, hairy red testicles with giant which has worked since its establishment housefly's wings. ten years ago to convey the cultural diversity Meanwhile, in nearby Graz, another and difficulty of immigrant life. Like this charming architectural creature has taken storefront installation, the museum's pro• shape. It's taken forty years or so, but gramming and preserved tenement apart• Archigram has finally hatched out of its ments strive to avoid sentimentalizing the cocoon. Peter Cook's Kunsthalle was inau• immigrant experience. At a time when Islam gurated in early October—just in time to is being demonized in American culture, this remind us that once upon a time, way back little exhibit is a thoughtful, poignant, public

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Josiah McElheney Charles Jencks DECEMBER 4 o On The Garden of Cosmic Will Alsop o 6:30 p.m. Speculation Working with the People CM Dia: Chelsea 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Urban Center Cooper Union School Q^l 548 West 22nd St., Manhattan www.diacenter.org 457 Madison Ave., Manhattan of Architecture LLl vvvvw.urbancenterbooks.org The Great Hall, 7 East 7th St., CO Manhattan 51 NOVEMBER U Gerhard Seltmann, IBA & NOVEMBER 20 www.cooper.edu LU Landrat UWE SchuIze, Lois Swirnoff > Innovative Approaches to Speaking on Light Hans Haacke O Revitalizing Brownfields 6:15 p.m. On Joseph Beuys 6:00 p.m. Parsons School of Design 6:30 p.m. Pratt Graduate Center for Glass Corner, 2nd Floor, Dia: Chelsea Planning and the 25 East 13th St., Manhattan 548 West 22nd St., Manhanan Environment www.parsons.edu www.diacenter.org 144 West 14th St., Room 213, Manhattan Tadao Ando Stephen Gottlieb www.pratt.edu Next! Restoration of Louis 6:30 p.m. Sullivan's Historic Bayard NOVEMBER 17 Cooper Union School Condict Building Michael Maltzan of Architecture 6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Great Hall, 7 East 7th St., 3rd Street Music School Pratt School of Architecture Manhattan 235 East 11th St., Manhattan Higgins Hall South, Room 115, www.cooper.edu Reservations required. Brooklyn www.gvshp.org/events.htm www.pratt.edu/arch John H. Loret The Old Port of New York DECEMBER 5 Mark Lakeman & Jenny Leis 1:00 p.m. Housing Conference: A survey of Austrian public housing, from historic landmarks to The Village Lives: Presentation Museum of the City of How Does the Design of Housing Matter? contemporary prototypes, demonstrates that social awareness can of the City Repair Project in New York Portland, Oregon 1220 Fifth Ave., Manhattan Donnell Library Center coexist with innovative architectural developments. 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Is there an audience for an but that no one could succinctly stated that London has been able commissioned does not create But of course all this might "architect's newspaper"? In New define. I sat at my corner of the to sustain a more dynamic and the same drama. But could change. What will an architect's LU York? In the United States? table thinking of the John broadly shared sense of intrigue reporting about the political newspaper mean for the QQ The question was the center of Cheever characters who take about the profession than New intrigue surrounding who has American profession? Will it LU discussion last summer at the the Metro North trains home York, in part as a result of the won what produce the same foster competition, openness, < first meeting of the editorial after a day at work in midtown. competition process that sustains sense of creative competition? camaraderie among New Xi board for what was then an Are there still details, traits, terri• so many practices in Europe. There's another significant York's architectural tribes and o M untitled biweekly news journal. tories of professional identity left The race—the sport of winning— difference between the American tributaries—the Architectural z: Though still without a name, the in our or any profession at this galvanizes architects abroad, and European sense of profes• League, the Van Alen, Cooper publishing schedule was set. time in New York? Haven't we all fomenting a "scene" akin to sional identity. The former has Union, Columbia, the old guard, _i The meeting ended up being not at some level migrated towards those addressed by Billboard or become more managerial in the upstarts, the interns, the < so much about what would be some new century version of Variety. This sense of competi• nature, while the latter continues observers, the politicians? It Q. covered or who would write the data managers and mid-range tion, combined with a more open to embrace the profession's does seem odd to start a news• O articles, but about a question that negotiators? Of course, architects and varied architectural press, foundation in craft and invention. paper to find an audience. But it stumped us all, and is perhaps share many attributes and encourages the production European practitioners see build• might be much like most of our CO the task of the newspaper to interests, but are these com• of meaningful "hit" buildings of ing technology as more than practices already: First you get determine: Do architects have any monalities enough to sustain a the sort that we rarely see in this something to implement, but the job, as Louis Sullivan advised, collective identity in New York? newspaper in New York? country. Even if we did have a something intrinsically involved and then you find your way.

The meeting was a kind of Tom Hanrahan jolted me out broader sense of identity in New in the creation and execution of York, the RFP/Q process through the design—something not evi• MICHAEL BELL IS AN ARCHITECT retroactive search for an audience my daydreaming of Cheever's AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT that everyone was sure existed. professional chasms when he which most major projects are dent in enough American work. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

Looking for a Leader. Zaha s out CO. THE WIZARD Early calculat^ • and Columbia is back to the drawini LU OFGALLONRY The "calculating art," as 16th-century board in its search for a new dean. scholar John Dee referred to architecture, can reveal the magical in the mundane.

Since Bernard Tschunii announced in June Hadid took time to consider how, logistically The use of numbers as a "semaphore 2002 that he would step down, after 15 years, as well as pedagogically, she would lead the divine" signaling worldly and metaphysi• as dean of Columbia's School of Architecture, school while running a 60-person practice cal desires is played out all over the Planning, and Preservation, rumors swirled with several large commissiom in die works. architectural map, from medieval churches about who would succeed him. The amount Part of the negotiations included the extent to Alberti's theories and beyond. Huh? Okay, so it's not the absolute solu• of gossip surrounding this appointment cor• to which Columbia would support the cost Not long ago, an architect friend told me tion for divining the mysteries of the relates not just to how much time New York of moving her office to New York. Cynics about a calculating device targeted at the mundane, but it can hold a few surprises. architects evidently have on their hands in interpreted that, in putting forth demands architectural profession—an Architect's My architect friend told me about an these recessionary times, but the importance the school couldn't accept, Hadid was not Calculator My mind quickly conjured the incident when, while on a job site, an of Columbia in the architecture universe. interested in the job, but this is not the case. "cross-staff and astronomical rings" of overbearing contractor asked her to Under Tschumi, the school achieved a level "Zaha is not the kind of person do to some• Dee's survey devices that were to allow calculate how many gallons of premixed mortar were needed for a project under• of status and influence that few other in.stitu- thing half-baked," says New York-ba.scd him to unlock the secrets of nature's way He assumed she'd have to go back tions boast. Its faculty and alumni are con• Markus Dochantschi, Hadid's longtime design. I searched fruitlessly for the to the office and figure it out. Turning her stant fixtures in exhibition.s,publications,and associate. "If she was going to take the job, Architect's Calculator, only to be told back, she whipped out her Construction building shortlists all over the world. Even she would have to consider New York her that such a thing did not exist, that it had Master, input the area, multiplied by the those who begrudge the constant attention headquarters and London her satellite." to be specially ordered, or, most intrigu- thickness of the mortar bed, and got a thrown at Columbia must acknowledge that This experience has forced Columbia to ingly, "Sorry, we're out; just can't keep result in cubic inches, which she swiftly its dean .search is a bit more intriguing than do some serious soul-searching."Really there them in stock." I finally found one online. converted into gallons. A minute later the average academic appointment. are two options," says Rashid. "You either get It was called the Construction Master— she strode over to the contractor and Most of architecture"s big names were an emerging talent with unbridled energy to pretty wicked-sounding, even if the photo gave him a deserved lesson in humility swept into the tittlt'-l:iilk\dc-spitcthc fact that devote to the job, or an established superstar didn't quite live up to the expectation of Architects—being, in general, big Zaha Hadid was the only candidate contacted who continues to bring recognition to the Dee crossed with de Sade. show-offs—will tell you that they can by President Lee Bollinger, following the school and does not remain in the shadow Construction Master promised to do these calculations in their heads. A recommendation of a search committee. The of Bernard." There are good models for both: "calculate and convert between: Feet. Construction Master means you don't school made an offer, and Hadid seriously Tschumi him.self was 43 when he got the job Inches, Fractions, Decimal Feet, Decimal have to, though you can look like you are. considered it ft-om spring until last month, and only had one major project (La Villette). Inches, Board Feet, Yards, Miles, People will marvel at your grasp of the when she declined the position. Back to Stan Allen at Princeton falls into this category. Kilometers, Meters, Centimeters, and "calculating arts," and even if you're not square one, the school has appointed Mark On the other extreme, there's Robert Stern Millimeters including Square and Cube of unlocking the secrets of the universe, at Wigley interim dean. (The .search committee at Yale. Hadid is at an in-between phase of each." It swore, also, to "convert easily to least your mix quantities will be correct. included administrative officials and faculty her career; she's hardly emerging, though and from ALL DIMENSIONS." How cool members from several departments; tiic not corporate enough to leave her operation is that? "Dedicated fraction of an inch KEITH JAMES IS A PERIPATETIC DILETTANTE IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARTS. architecture school was represented by Steven to others. keys for direct entry with a single stroke." Holl, Gwendolyn Wright, Elliott Sklar, Laurie So what next? Bollinger is convening a Hawkinson, Mark Wigley, and Hani Rashid, new .search committee and might just revisit 1— http://www.johndee.org though the latter two were encouraged to the other two names put forth by the search • C/) "The First Nerd Tool," by Eric Levin, Discover magazine move off the committee when it became clear committee last May, Wolf Prix and lean-Louis -1 (August 2003), p. 66. they wanted to be considered candidates.) Cohen. Gwen Wright is optimistic. 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