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CRIT: JULIE V. lOVINE CO 03 SHADOWS FALL ON CHILD'S MOMENT AS A BIG-LEAGUE ARCHITECT I— z INSTITUTE OF FREEDOM TOWER STALLED VINOLY 05 For David Childs, the drawing board might Baum of Darby & Darby, rebutted with an o just have a silver lining. The architect of the equally detailed response, including a blow- BROOKLYN'S Freedom Tower is in the process of altering by-blow deconstruction of character witness FUTURE his design in response to security concerns Richard Meier's affidavit in support of Childs. WATERFRONT cited by the New York Police Department last His history-laced analysis, with 12 exhibits month. This latest turn of events is sure to rob attached, focuses on two towers designed 08 some thunder from Yale architecture school by Shine for Pelli who had asked students SEASON'S grad Thomas Shine, who is hanging tough to design a media headquarters for NYC2012, READINGS with the copyright infringement lawsuit he sited next to the West Side stadium. The filed against Childs and SOM last November. first design, called Shine '99, evolved into PAINTER AND THEORIST 09 DIES AT 75 But Childs, also a Yale alumnus, doesn't a second, called Olympic Tower. TSCHUMI ON seem to be taking any chances with Shine's At issue is the distinctiveness of the claim that skyscraper designs he created in a MONEO architectural elements in the work presented Robert Slutzky, 1999 Cesar Pelli senior studio look remark• by Shine, including models, site plans, cur• 04 CURBSIDE ably like the Freedom Tower. On March 25, tain wall details, elevations, sections, floor 11 BOOKFAIR Childs' lawyer Richard A. Williamson filed a plans, and massing models. A key feature An Appreciation 57-page brief with the U.S. District Court of of both of Shine's designs is a twisting the Southern District of New York to dismiss tower with an expressed structural grid of Robert Slutzky, artist, theorist, and teacher, the lawsuit on grounds that Shine's work elongated diamonds weaving in and out graduate of Cooper Union and Yale, and LMDC LOSES HEAD does not qualify for copyright protection. from base to top and flattening out as it rises. former professor in architecture and art Late last month. Shine's lawyer, Andrew The structural system continued on page 6 at Cooper Union and the University of Pennsylvania, died on Tuesday, May 3. EXIT RAMPE His painting and three-dimensional tion of a 6-acre strip of land modeling, in the tradition of Piet Mondrian, The timing was bad—coinciding with the that served as a graveyard for Theo van Doesburg, and Josef Albers new confusion at Ground Zero, it made him Afi-icans in the 17" and IS" (who was his teacher at Yale), explored look like a fall guy—but Kevin Rampe's centuries. The burial ground the dimensions of color and abstract recent announcement that he was stepping lay forgotten until workers form in relation to the picture plane, and down as director of the Lower Manhattan uncovered it while excavat• its three-dimensional implications. It was Development Corporation (LMDC) was a ing the site for a new federal these implications, of course, that made long time coming. As far back as November building in 1991 (see his work and theoretical investigations of 2003, within months of his appointment, "Invisible Memorial," AN serious interest and importance to archi• there were rumblings that he wanted out 12_7.13.2004). Activists tects, and his teaching at Cooper Union and his hat was in the ring when the Port continue to worry that the between 1968 and 1990 formed genera• Authority searched for its own new director winning design does not tions of students sensitive to color, light, last year. After all, his job was rather thank• touch lightly enough on and space. His dedication to teaching n's winninq design less: shepherd of the unruly mob that fate the grave site, but Leon sees was legendary—he even gave his course and politics conspired to entrust with the things differently. "We feel to select groups of students who were redevelopment of the World Trade Center AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND very strongly about com• listed on his roster. His trenchant but site. Rampe stood between the all-too- memorating the memory of reasoned criticism was a stimulus to familiar players—Larry Silverstein, the MEMORIAL RESURRECTED those who have passed with intensive study. Slutzky's work was always Port, victims' families, nearby landholders, a strong, visible symbol," envisaged in the collaborative mode that the menagerie of architects, the feisty power The eight-year saga to choose ral path and jutting stone he said. "The reason people informed his teaching continued on page 2 brokers on his own continued on page 4 a memorial for downtown chamber, bested four other have been able to build over Manhattan's African Burial finalist designs for the GSA- the rest of the site and forget Ground drew to a close on owned site at Broadway and about it is that there was If fundraising proceeds on schedule, the faint April 29, when the U.S. Duane Street. The structure nothing permanent there to blue glow that bathes the faces of visitors General Services will be engraved with sym• memorialize it." to Times Square will soon be joined by a red Administration (GSA) and bols from African and Although there is no one: the much-heralded winning design for a the National Parks Service African-American cultures. schedule set for design final- new TKTS booth. On May 2, the revised plans announced that Rodney Leon The memorial process has ization or construction for Father Duffy Square and the TKTS booth of the New York-based firm been a tumultuous one, with of the memorial, the GSA were unveiled, and according to architect Aarris Architects won the community members dis• has budgeted the project at Nick Leahy of Perkins Eastman, construction competition. Leon's design, agreeing over what should $3 miUion. could begin as early as next spring. which features a ramped spi• occupy the site, a small por• DEBORAH GROSSBERC While the fundamentals of the project— the amphitheater-like red steps floating above 12 ticket windows—will be familiar to those who saw the 2000 exhibition at the Van Alen Institute, its scope and complexity has expanded significantly. Australian firm Choi Ropiha—surprise winners of the interna• tional competition sponsored by the Theatre Development Fund (TDF)—has been joined by the New York office of Perkins Eastman and the engineering firm Dewhurst McFarlane, while the Coalition for continued on page 3 00 CM 12 O

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CO In the past 15 years New York City parks have undergone major Diana Darling improvements. Their renovation schemes are always presented EDITORS o to the public as attempts to upgrade overused and badly cared Cathy Lang Ho William Menking h-i for public spaces, as well as to increase safety. The renovated

ART DIRECTOR LU parks (beginning with the controversial Tompkins Square and Martin Perrin later Mount Morris, Abingdon Square, and others) have undoubt• SENIOR EDITOR edly become more pleasant and functional environments, with Anne Guiney manicured plantings, safe and clear circulation, improved light• ASSOCIATE EDITOR ing, park benches, and the like. It must be said that many of Deborah Grossberg the makeovers, like that of City Hall Park, are ersatz Victorian DCSION AND PRODUCTION Daniil Alexandrov revivals, in the spirit of genteel 19"'-century promenade grounds, exacting polite behavior from all. Quaint iron fences are part of EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Gunnar Hand the vocabulary, imposing order and, more importantly, control• EDITORIAL INTERN ling spaces from squatter settlements, political demonstrations, Stephen Martin or other unruly or unsanctioned gatherings. In their "dangerous and explosive little SALES AND MARKCTINC DIRECTOR Washington Square is now slated for a $16 million renova• essay" as Rowe called it, however, Slutzky Karen Begley tion, which includes a 4-foot-high iron fence that will surround and Rowe worked to criticize this then-nor• MARKETING INTERN malized tradition through a rigorous appli• the park. The city wisely decided against closing the park at Irina Kosoy cation of Gestalt theory to the experience of night, heeding public outcry. But the redesign still raises ques• architecture, both modernist and humanist. tions about what's appropriate for the park—and all city parks, CONTRIBUTORS In their first essay, they distinguished MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ for that matter, which are being systematically remade in repeti• between what they called literal and phe• PHILIPPE BARRIERE / ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / tive, nostalgic fashion. Washington Square functions differently nomenal transparency in the work of Le MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL/ Corbusier, and especially his rejected proj• JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA in the grid than a refuge at the end of a block or a shaded ect for the League of Nations competition PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ respite tucked among the city's relentless buildings. In its past, D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN/ in 1927, demonstrating the extraordinary KATSU TANAKA / GWEN WRIGHT / PETER ZELLNER it has been a pauper's graveyard, a site for hangings, a military complexity of Le Corbusier's response to

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD parade ground. Traffic passed through it from the 1870s until transparency compared with that of Walter PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ the 1950s. And it has always served as a gateway to New York Gropius. In their second essay, they took on M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ Renaissance facades—the Ca d'Oro in University and Greenwich Village. Though its heavily paved WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ Venice and Michelangelo's project for San SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ grounds are a left-over from its historic vehicular moment, this LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / Lorenzo—in every case relating their analyses HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / trait was integral to the park's evolution into a piazza or town to painting. Cubist and post-Cubist. In later KYONG PARK / ANNE RIESELBACH / square—an urban, open space found in most European cities articles in Oppositions and elsewhere, TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN and even small towns across the United States. Slutzky expanded on these themes, develop• GENERAL INFORMATION: INFOfSARCHPAPER.COM ing his nuanced and concentrated analyses EDITORIAL: EDITOR(i>ARCHPAPER.COM Parks Department landscape architect George Vellonakis, of the relationship between painting and DIARY: [email protected] ADVERTISING: SALESiSARCHPAPER.COM responsible for Washington Square's redesign, seems to want to architecture in the context of Le Corbusier's SUBSCRIPTION: SUBSCRIBEOKARCHPAPER-COM erase much of the park's history and transform it into a polite own relations to cubism and purism, follow•

PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING English cottage garden. His plan calls for replacing much of the ing the implications of De StijI founder Bart DUPLICATE COPIES. Van der Leek's assertion, "The description of hardscape with grass. (In The New York Times on May 13 he TMC VIEWS or OUR RtVICWERI AND COLUMNISTS 00 NOT time and space by means of perspective has NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE STAFF OR ADVISORS OF remarked, "A park shouldn't be multiple layers of concrete! THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER. been abandoned; it is the flat surface itself That's the failure of this park. Let it feel like a park! Let it be VOLUME 01 ISSUE 9, MAY ZS, ZOOS that transmits spatial continuity." THt AKHITtCrt MtWSFAPCR (\tiH I9SZ-806I) IS PUBLISHED ZD TIMES A YEAR, SY TNE ARCHITCCVS NEWSPAPER, LLC, P.O. BOX 937, NEW YORK, green!") Washington Square Park needs to be beautiful, green, Published in 1963 and 1971 respectively, NY 10011. PRESORT-STANOARO POSTAGE PAID IN NEW YORK. NY POSTMASTER; SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER, safe, and accessible—and also a bit gritty and hardscrabble, these essays became the foundation of a CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT, P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK. NY KMIl. FOR SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: CALL Z1Z-9M-0«10. FAX ZIZ-««6-0«ll. inviting the mix of people that has always gathered there (gen• teaching and practice that actively intercalat• tl.M A COPY. $19.00 ONE YEAR. INTERNATIONAL $160.00 ONE YEAR, INSTITUTIONAL $M9.00 ONE YEAR. EHTIRI CONTENTS COPYRIOHT Z003 ed architecture and painting. In his work with BY THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. teel and otherwise) to soak up and contribute to the local scene. I. M. Pei & Associates (1956-59), his design of record jackets for Atlantic Records, his teach• ing at Cornell, Pratt and Cooper Union, his collaborations with Hejduk, Richard Meier, and Anthony Eardley on competitions; and his ROBERT SLUTZKY continued from front page between 1954 and 1956, together with archi• as architecture in itself. work with the Institute for Architecture and and writing, ranging from his visual tects Hedjuk and Bernhard Hoesli. In this Transparency, of course, was a fetish Urban Studies, painting, architecture, and "conversation" with Cooper Union Dean context, the "transparency" essays form a of modernism, attaining the status of urbanism were all submitted to rigorous analy• John Hedjuk on the Architectural League's seamless continuity with Slutzky's theories what Colin Rowe termed a "sacred cow" for architects like Walter Gropius and sis and inventive spatial transformations. 1967 exhibition The Diamond in Painting of painting, developed in his thesis at Yale Mies van der Rohe. From the expressionist Robert Slutzky's presence was warm, his and Architecture, to his construction of the on Gestalt psychology and art education, "glass architecture" of Bruno Taut, Paul vision direct, his criticism deep, and his influ• three-dimensional studies in color and where the painted surface is viewed, so to speak, as transparent to space, acting less Scheerbart, and Mies' early projects for ence on all those he taught or encountered space with the architects Peter Versteegh as a substitute for a "window" (the com• glass skyscrapers, to Gropius' Fagus Werke unforgettable. His stalwart support of abstrac• and Bruce Dunning, CUBE/cHrOME, exhib• monplace of perspectival representation) and Bauhaus (the corner of which was in tion as the modern language of art and archi• ited in Architekturmuseum Basel in 1988. than for a series of superimposed layers, turn fetishized by Sigfried Giedion in his tecture, and his passionate research into all Perhaps he is best known today as the implied or revealed, that both project and 1949 book Space Time and Architecture as its implications constitutes a legacy to be coauthor with Colin Rowe of two essays on introject a spatial construction. In this sense, an equivalent to cubism in painting), and developed and a powerful moral example in the theme of transparency, written in the while painting may always be carefully sep• thence to the universalization of the glass the fight against superficiality. mid-1950s but not published until much later arated from architecture in its formal aims curtain wall as the emblem of corporate ANTHONY VIOLER IS DEAN OF THE IRWIN S. While these essays generally have been seen and social intentions, in Slutzky's work modernism, transparency was seen largely CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, COOPER more as an integral part of Rowe's oeuvre, the two arts have developed an endless as a literal, visual attribute of the modern, UNION. THIS REMEMBRANCE IS AN EXPANDED close inspection of Rowe's previous writ• reciprocity, whereby painting is taken, as a virtue equivalent to social democracy dis• VERSION OF HIS INTRODUCTION TO SLUTZKY: ings indicates the strength of Slutzky's influ• Le Corbusier assumed but hardly theorized, playing the "open society" from outside RECENT WORK, THE CATALOGUE FOR THE EXHIBI• TION OF ROBERT SLUTZKY'S LATE PAINTINGS, ence as the two collaborated in teaching as a laboratory for architecture, or better. to inside. HELD AT THE COOPER UNION IN FALL, 2002. and writing at the University of Texas, Austin

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2: interest that the Choi Ropiha scheme LU MIAMI PARTY GETS PUNCHY engendered, things quieted down when an X There was probably enough hair product and cologne to start a forest fire at the earlyfeasibility study was shelved. In 2001, recent Miami opening of Agua, developer Craiq Robins' gated island community TDF hired Perkins Eastman to revisit the o of upscale homes and condos by architects Walter Chatham, Alexander Gorlin, plans, and ultimately asked the firm to devel• Alison Spear, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany, and Gisue and op the design. "After the competition, TDF < Mojgan Hariri. However, despite the soiree's salsa dancers, DJs, and various could have abandoned the project," said other entertainments, nothing got as heated as the elevator in Spear's building. Leahy, "but everyone thought it was a great CL It seems that Spear was confronted by a rowdy reveler who'd bought one of idea. We tried to stay as true to [the original O her apartments and was unhappy with some of its details. "You're a terrible conceptl as possible." The design's stand• architect," he said, not realizing that Spear had little to do with them. He out feature is a wall/roof of steps vaguely resembling the famous Casa Malaparte in CO then got increasingly belligerent and rumors soon ran amock that he punched LU Spear in the nose, that Spear asked Chatham to punch the man in the nose, or Capri. In the context of Times Square, the > that Chatham offered to punch him, also in the nose. "Everyone thought I got structure becomes an outdoor ampitheater < punched," Spear laughs, insisting that she wasn't. "They were ready to call an and resting stop. LU ambulance. I did, however, ask Walter to punch the guy in the nose." She could In the distillation process the resin have asked Robins. When he heard about it, he joked, "You should have gotten treads in Choi Rophiha's scheme gave way me, I would have taken care of the guy." to glass, and the ticketing booth became a discrete object within the structure's shell. BUSH GIVES THE FINGER (FOOD) With engineer Tim McFarlane, Leahy inves• tigated an all-glass structure in which red Last month, the White House once again hosted a luncheon for the Cooper- glass risers and treads are attached to lami• Hewitt's National Design Awards (or, had the President been there, the NASHernuh nated acrylic and glass stringer beams. The DEEsign Awards), where honorees including James Polshek, Bill McDonouqh, roof structure is supported by load-bearing Yves Behar, Amanda Burden, Milton Glaser, and Yeohlee Tenq mingled with glass walls which enclose the rounded Laura Bush. "It was very nice and very efficient," reports one award-winner. The volume of the ticketing area. LED lighting lunch was so efficient, in fact, that it was determined that guests could do with• railing fixtures attached just belowthe treads will out knives, and so none were provided. "You didn't really need one," our source laminated glass treads and risers keep the red glass glowing 24 hours a day. admits, referring to the bite-sized fare. "But there was some roast beef on bread acrylic stringers All of the mechanical systems are pulled out that proved a bit daunting." It seems the knifelessness was a security precau• glass beams of sight to the rear of the structure to maxi• tion, as was the fact that all of the guests had to walk, rather than drive, to and bearing wall mize transparency and focus attention on from the White House itself. There was, however, one exception: at the event's ticket booth the ticket windows and roof. conclusion, a black limousine pulled right up and whisked McDonough away TKTS 2006 continued from front page "Considering it's one of the most pho• DIA'S CRANK UP Father Duffy Square and the Times Square tographed places in the world, the ground Alliance have also gotten involved. Father level of Times Square is pathetic," said Tim If you haven't heard, the Dia is indeed planning to leave its home in Chelsea- Duffy Square will also get a makeover, and Tomkins, president of the Times Square a rumor we first reported a year ago-for a site in the Meatpacking District. So William Fellows Architects has been work• Alliance. "There is no place to sit and look we decided to ask artist Dan Graham about the fate of his Rooftop Urban Park ing on plans to expand it. at the wonder of it all, which is another rea• Project, a walk-in glass cylinder within a rectilinear glass perimeter wall that's After the initial flurry of attention and son this project is great." ANNE GUINEY been a fixture on the Dia's roof since 1991. "I like [Dia director] Michael Govan, so I'll work with him," Graham told us. Nevertheless, while the Dia seems com• mitted to reinstalling the work (though, last year, they also told us they were committed to staying in Chelsea), Graham has been hesitant because of its site- specific nature. Among other things, its cylindrical shape references an adjacent water tower, while its current views of the city are integral as well. He also complains that the Dia has never been entirely forthcoming about the work; for example, he says that the institution never kept promises that it could be used as an outdoor performance space for the likes of Thurston Moore and Laurie Anderson. "I'm in denial about the future of my piece," he told us. We're in denial, too. The Dia in the Meatpacking District?

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On April 25, Rafael Vinoly Architects (RVA) Instead, students in the training course will launched a set of in-hou.se training and follow a hypothetical project through three research courses that harken back to the days phases: commission, design, and implemen• of architecture apprenticeships. The pro• tation. "There is a level of need and expecta• grams, one a free 14-week training seminar tion for a more practice-oriented type of for architects, and the other a 3- to 12-month training," he said. "This is like a cooking class research fellowship carrying a stipend of up in a world where everybody is a poet." to $60,000, will be housed in RVA's offices The architecture training course is geared and staffed by its principal architects. toward practicing architects and advanced According to Viiioly, running educational architecture students, but Viholy hopes to courses has been on his agenda for 25 years. attract an interdisciplinary group of research "The idea is only now coming to fruition fellows including planners and urban simply because we have the capacity to do it designers. RVA requires applicants to submit independent of institutional or monetary a portfolio, references, and a personal state• support," said Viholy. ment for both programs. Although tuition is PERFORINAHCESSMTMAYr Vifioly is hoping the close quarters between free, no educational credits will be awarded. his staff and new students will help to foster The class will begin this coming dialogue about the current state of the pro• September, and the deadline to apply for TICNETSANDINHhWWWJ00ZYSH0W.COM fession. He insisted, however, that the class both the course and the fellowship is July 1. OR CAlLTICKETMASTERffT 212-307-4100 will not be used a recruitment tool, and that Application materials can be found online students will not be working on RVA projects. at www.rvatr.com. CUNNAR HAND 3 O

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EXIT RAMPE continued from front page foundered as an office destination until mass transit reached board—and the one politician who still STARTING FROM ZERO its doorstep. That date is still years away, and that is when matters in this fight, his patron, George we will begin to see the future of Lower Manhattan as a Pataki. The wave of security concerns at Ground Zero surrounding workplace and tourism destination begin to be fulfilled. More often than not that was an uncom• to the Freedom Tower's construction has highlighted the sharp That's also when the need for the kind of office space repre• fortable place to be, but Rampe was a very a: and deep issues that tear at that site and at the future of Lower sented by Freedom Tower and the millions of other square effective point man for the governor. The LU Manhattan. Our view: The painful divide that now embroils feet of commercial space that are mandated for construction most public victory, of course, was in solv• the tower's location and design is appropriate and healthy. will actually be manifest. ing the epic squabble over the design of LU It reflects genuine, organic concerns about issues far beyond There are those who will insist that by building now, the Freedom Tower in the summer and fall Q. the tower's development timetable—a timetable that itself is we will anticipate and catch that need, and that if we don't, of 2003. With Matt Higgins (who left the • • emblematic of a larger problem. Glossing over these issues potential tenants will go elsewhere—New Jersey, for example. LMDC last year to bring his PR genius to LU and rushing into construction would provide no resolution But that gives short shrift to the true strength of the larger the Jets in the fight over the West Side stadi• to these conflicts. Thus, the surprisingly unforeseen pause in Manhattan marketplace: It's the gravitational pull of the um), Rampe rodetlie spatting David Childs CO development activity offers New York, the United States, and island, as determined by existing business activity and a cli• and Daniel Libeskind quite hard—first by the world an extremely valuable opportunity to look back with mate of encouragement balanced with civic responsibility— getting them in the same room and not let• Q:: care on the acrimony and political gamesmanship that have not big empty buildings—that will determine the demand ting tliem out until a politically acceptable o brought us to this point and that have characterized so much for space, as well as the quality of those who seek it. That's framework of collaboration was on paper, of the rebuilding effort. Only then can we move forward, with another way of saying that the kind of gamble represented tlien by intervening frequently as a crisis hope, toward something better. by 7 World Trade can work on a limited basis but, as was counselor during the last months of that The biggest question about the Freedom Tower: What is proven by the long-term struggle to rent the Twin Towers, it's "forced marriage." The current form of the it? It is certainly a statement: We are here. That's an essential not such a great idea on a grand scale. tower, still not final, as we learned in late message. But is an office tower the appropriate messenger? Difficult as it is to step back from where we are now, and April, reflects Rampe s firm hand as much That's a question worth asking, but one that has never been distressing as it is to witness the blame game now unfolding, as the artistic wills of its dual designers. allowed to move to the floor. One look at 7 World Trade Center, it is still possible to discern some real movement toward That is probably a hard pill for most archi• now nearing completion, and the question gains potency. a progressive vision for downtown. The Department of tects to swallow—a bureaucrat impinging There is little question that 7 World Trade, now devoid of City Planning has been preparing plans for what it calls the on their turf, shaping with memos and tenants, will be occupied. It's a fine building and represents Greenwich Street South district and for the downtown East meetings what should, we still romantically a large block of "non-commodity" or unique office space on River waterfront. Market forces continue to fuel the acquisi• believe, spring whole from a single inspired the downtown market. And are there really no tenants for this tion and redevelopment of historic office properties as resi• mind. But that is the game downtown, and property? Well-informed sources tell us that the Port Authority dential towers (and sometimes, as at 14 Wall Street, as office indeed on every site where similar quanti• of New York and New Jersey stands ready to take much of space). The rehabilitation of Battery Park itself is also under ties of power and money converge. It is for the building but also say that developer Larry Silverstein is way, and we will see solid evidence of that later this summer that reason, having said goodbye to Rampe, waiting for a non-government rent-payer. with the opening this June of the Battery Bosque, a 58,000- having appreciated the craft of what he accomplished if not approving of every He should, but he should also be prepared to wait for some square-foot garden retreat inside the park. Designed to dis• method or motivation, all eyes should now time. Once the spectacular Santiago Calatrava-designed play perennials and located on historic soil, it also will turn to his newly filled chain The next head PATH station at Ground Zero and the Nicholas Grimshaw- make an eloquent and far less grandiose statement about of the LMDC, Stefan Pryor, will be in a designed transit hub at Fulton and Broadway open, we Manhattan's capacity for rebirth. position to imprint himself ju.st as surely may indeed see a Manhattan replay of Canary Wharf, which PETER SLATIN IS THE FOUNDER OF WWWTHESLATINREP0RT.COM on the skyline, PHILIP NOBEL

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from the benches up into the diamond- ECCENTRIC WESTHAMPTON BEACH HOUSE FACES DEMOLITION shaped pods that contain three bunkrooms and a bathroom. When the house was first constructed, Gorst claims the U.S. Coast Guard spotted it from the sea and called the town police to tell them that two houses had turned over in a storm. When the police rushed to the site, Geller assured them it is supposed to look that way. According to Alastair Gordon, author of Beach Houses: Andrew Ge//er (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), these houses were often representations of each client's personality. Pearlroth, Gordon writes, was something of a lady's man, and Geller designed the house to represent a "square brassiere." Gordon notes that it was fre• quently referred to as a pair of giant specta• cles or binoculars, and that Geller himself spoke of the twin forms "telescoping out," or in Gordon's words, " leering at the object of desire—the Atlantic Ocean." Gordon pushes the libidinous reading of the house further, describing its "phallic, candy-striped chimney stack rising from the center of the house with testicular pods bulging on either side." However, Gorst, who is working on a documentary about Geller and his work, From 1946 to 1974, architect Andrew Geller or knocked down to make way for the believes these assertions are exaggerated. worked in Raymond Loewy's New York McMansions so favored in the Hamptons. Not only was the house commissioned by office, designing, among other things, the Perhaps the quirkiest of Geller's designs is Mrs. Pearlroth, but Gorst found a drawing body for the aluminum Anscolex camera, the 1959 Pearlroth House in Westhampton his grandfather made many years before the elegant Lord & Taylor store in Garden and it, too, is slated to be replaced by a with an almost identical profile. City, Long Island, and, as chief architect of larger house now. Geller's grandson, Jake The house still belongs to the Pearlroth Loewy's Housing and Home Components Gorst, is leading an effort to turn it into a family, which has offered it to Gorst if he division, scores of residences and even entire museum. can have it moved before May 28. The subdivisions, such as Leisurama in Montauk. Commissioned by Port Authority executive Southampton Town Board has offered a site But Geller also wanted to do his own thing Arthur Pearlroth, the original 600-square- for the house, several miles west on Pikes and began moonlighting, designing what he foot house consists of two elongated Beach, and supports Gorst's idea of making called "summer-use playhouses" for adven• boxes rotated in tandem and perched on it a museum devoted to local architecture. turous clients on East Coast beaches. Of the edge,forming a box kite or "double diamond" Gorst is trying to raise $50,000 to move nearly 50 wildly eccentric beach houses he shape. The void between the two forms is the house. Those interested in making designed (the first in Sagaponack in 1955), filled with a glassed-in living area. Inside the donations should contact David Shearer at almost all have been subsumed by larger house, long low benches stretch along the Exhibitions international, [email protected].

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MAPPING THE FUTURE OF BROOKLYN'S WATERFRONT

The City Council approved the long-awaited rezoning of the Greenpoint/Wiliiamsburg waterfront on May 11, signaling the end of an era in the industrial neighborhood. The rezoning allows for medium- and highrise residential development with street level retail along the East River, and includes incentives for developers to set aside 20 percent of units for affordable housing. Based on the plans of those who have already snapped up riverfront parcels, here's a look at what's in store for Brooklyn's northeastern shore.

1 George Klein/ 4 Joshua Guttman 7 New York State Park Tower Group Developer Joshua Guttman The state parks department A 19-acre site along a half mile reportedly owns this site, but his acquired this property in 2000 frog stretch of waterfront currently representative declined to com• for inclusion in NYC2012's bid owned by Greenpoint Lumber ment on development plans. for the 2012 Olympics. Exchange is under contract with Park Tower Group. The parcels 5 B&H Photo and Video 8 Jeffrey Levine/ are slated to house Greenpoint The photography equipment Williamsburg Edge Landing, a complex with a Floor wholesaler owns the company Jeffrey Levine of Levine Builders Area Ratio of 4.7 after affordable which owns this parcel. B&H purchased this 250,000-square- housing credits are applied. declined to comment on devel• foot parcel in 2002 from 4G's opment plans. Truck Leasing. Levine hired Fox 2 Huron Towers & Fowie and TEN Arquitectos This 65,000-square-foot site was 6 New York City as planning consultants on the home to Deven Lithographers The city parks department will project, called Williamsburg until September 2004, when it move to acquire this still indus• Edge, whose total floor area was purchased by Huron trially-zoned site, which currently will be 1,250,000 square feet. Towers. New York-based JWC houses the Bayside Fuel Oil Architect was selected to plan Depot, for designation as a 28- 9 Ron Moelis/ and design the development. acre city park connected with L&M Equity Participants the state park abutting the site Ron Moelis, former president of 3 Java Street Realty to the south. Both parks are the New York State Association This 100,000-square-foot lot slated to house 2012 Olympics for Affordable Housing, is devel• 100 was acquired from Vanguard venues, including an aquatics oping this 1-million-square-foot watt RESOLUTE Industries in September 1996 center and a beach volleyball former site of USA Waste. Fox development site network and is currently occupied by facility, but plans have not been & FowIe are the planners and park development site a number of small businesses finalized. TransGas Energy architects for the development. I commercial www.100watt.net including a limousine service. Systems is also vying for a medium-rise r JWC Architect is consulting on southern piece of the site, on 10 184 Kent Ave. Associates mixed use NEW YORK • SAN FRANCISCO • SEATTLE the planning of the develop• which it hopes to build an The developer declined to com• highrise residenti T [8881 477-9288 F[8881882-9281 ment, but a design architect has underground power plant. ment on plans for this small manufacturing not yet been selected. site which it purchased in 1985. 00 NO 2 O LU

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SOM's motion to dismiss Shine's planner Alex Garvin, and critic Unfortunately for Childs, much ening to the free flow of Childs' suit includes exhibits showing the Paul Goldberger—and attending of the text is nitpicky and obtuse. creative juices could be Governor firm's use of twist in work predating students all clapped, a not entirely (Sample quote: "By 'crenelated' Pataki's blithe assumption that the Shine's design, such as the unbuilt common form of appreciation at I can only assume that Plaintiff is senior architect—always more Xiamen Post and Telecommunications studio crits. Childs did not return referring to the manner in which design plodder than visionary— Building, designed In 1995. calls for comment. the panels shown are angled in will be easily able to whip up agree about whether or not there is Garvin, fellow Yalie, architecture triangular segments and appear "another magnificent design," as a significant likeness between the professor, and former planning to weave in and out. Rather than the governor suggested he could works. The reward he seeks? Design director of LMDC (which has a big 'crenelated' perhaps a better word at a recent press conference. credit and "fair payment" (perhaps stake in the glorious execution of would be 'textured' or simply non- But the heart of the conflict is taking into account the $1.4 billion the Freedom Tower), commented to planar.") Meier goes on to complain really about what constitutes an that developer Larry Silverstein the Yale Daily that there were no that Shine's massing models don't architectural idea, who shapes it has already spent for the building's stock elements in Shine's towers. have enough detail and that dia- and how it evolves over time. The development, some in fees to SOM). James Axley, a structural engi• grids and twisting towers are old Shine lawsuit—along with the riv• ^ But his primary goal, said Shine neer and Yale architecture school hat, citing such questionably rele• eting Meier affidavit—casts a fleet• ° in a phone conversation, is to get professor since 1994, was Shine's vant precedents as Joseph Paxton's ing beam of light on how ideas in S "recognition for my contribution." studio consultant. In a detailed Crystal Palace of 1851. More curious architecture are generated, pro• g "Slugging it out with titans" has declaration of support for Shine, still, Meier dismisses as clumsy an cessed, winnowed, and retooled been challenging, he added, even he noted that soon after Governor entrance that Goldberger specifi• for real-world application, some• FREEDOM TOWER STALLED though the famously velvet-gloved George Pataki unveiled Childs' cally praised back in 1999. Turns times over a long period of time continued from front paqe has been Childs has yet to appear at a single Freedom Tower in December 2003, out Meier mistook a hole in the and involving many hands. Perhaps dubbed in the legal papers with meeting with the lawyers. (Shine he noticed that Dean Stern had model for a doorway concept. With icon-envy has distracted the profes• the catchy tag, the "Shine Grid." If attends with his wife and partner, Shine's model taken out of storage supporters like this, who needs sion from remembering that archi• those various pieces of the design Jin Choi, and his father.) and placed it on his desk. Axley prosecutors? (It's not that Childs' tecture is a collaborative discipline are deemed common stock ele• Arguing that Shine's work calls Shine's Olympic Tower "a lawyers aren't vetting its testifiers: forged by the free-flow of con• ments—as Childs lawyer contends doesn't warrant protection could striking, memorable, original At an urban issues conference in cepts, human aspiration lassoed to they are—then Shine's towers do be a risky gamble. In more typical design." Stern did not respond to February, Peter Eisenman bragged technological advance. Authorship not warrant copyright protection. copyright infringement cases, the requests for comment. that he was approached by Childs' is almost beside the point. lav^^ers but they didn't like what he Shine counters that not only are defendant only has to prove that To make his case for dismissal, Looking back to December 1999 had to say and moved on.) his design elements unique but he wouldn't know the plaintiff's Childs' lawyer has pulled out the when Childs invited Shine to come they have never been combined work from a hole in the ground. stops. He has even joined forces It all must be incredibly frustrat• visit his office, perhaps he had in quite this way, except for In But that's not an option here. After with Marcia B. Paul, a tough intel• ing for Childs, for whom proving a premonition. If only he had just his Olympic Tower and in Childs' all, Childs was not only a juror but lectual property lawyer best known to the world that he is a top-class hired Shine on the spot for a sum• Freedom Tower. This "substantial he invited Shine to visit him after for successfully representing the design architect has been a career- mer job, the Shine Grid would similarity," he contended, paves graduation in his New York office. reclusive novelist J. D. Salinger. long struggle. The Freedom Tower already belong to SOM. Childs presumably joined in after Also in Childs' corner is venerated was meant to be his breakthrough the way to copyright infringement JULIE V. lOVINE CONTRIBUTES TO THE and untold damages. To avoid dis• Shine's presentation when the jury architectural historian, Kenneth icon but it's all been muddied— MCW YORK Times AHD OTHER PUBLICA• missal, Shine only needs to prove —including Pelli, architect and Yale Frampton, who partially or largely first by Libeskind, now by Shine. TIONS. THIS ARTICLE LAUNCHES HER that reasonable minds might dis- dean Robert A. M. Stern, urban ghost-wrote Meier's comments. Quite possibly even more threat• REGULAR CRITICAL COLUMN, GRIT. Sustainability is more than just a color. Be financially and environmentally profitable, not green with envy.

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LLI FENCED IN On May 10, the Landmarks l-H Preservation Commission (LPC) heard a presentation < from the Parks Department LU about a $16 million plan to renovate Washington Sguare I— Park. The plan calls for the < realignment of the central fountain with the arch, the removal of chess tables, and Take The Leed.™ the erection of a fence around the park that will be locked with Clayton Concrete Products at night. There is currently no scheduled date for an LPC vote on the plan. AA SHORTLIST London's Architectural Association narrowed its search for a new architecture chair from 44 initial applicants layton concrete products down to three finalists: Brett Steele, Jeremy Till, can help your projects meet and a joint ticket of Farshid C Moussavi and Karl Jormakka. L^EDTM (Leadership in Energy Administrators, faculty, and students will vote on June 1. and Environmental Design) CB3 PLAN Manhattan Community Board Credit requirements toward 3 (CB3) conducted a zoning l^^QTM forum in April to jumpstart Certification. an initiative to rezone the East Village and Lower East Side. CB3 began discussing a forth• coming 197-a plan in response Get concrete solutions for a to a lack of community-driven planning in the gentrifying better environment. neighborhoods. DOB BOOST On May 5, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for a 17 per• cent increase in funding for the Department of Buildings (DOB) from $66.4 million to $77.9 million in his executive budget for the fiscal year beginning • Lightweight Concrete July 1. City Council is currently reviewing the mayor's budget proposal. • High Performance Concrete LURCHIN' GEHRKIN • Control Density Fill Last month a windowpane fell from the 28'" floor of Norman Foster's Swiss Re building in London. No one was injured • NJ State Approved Mixes from the accident, but the building's plaza was closed while repairs and inspections of • Sand/Cement Grouts the remaining 743 glass panels were conducted. The plaza was reopened on April 28 after a faulty opening mechanism was blamed for the incident. REED TAKES NEW MOMA POSITION On April 26, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) named Peter Reed as its Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. This permanent posi• tion was previously filled by rotating staff, and serves as For more information: a liaison between the adminis• trative and curatorial functions 1 -800-662-3044 • www.claytonco.com ^LJKIflPlf 1^ of the museum. Peter Reed had been a curator in MoMA's RO.Box 3015 • Lakewood, NJ 08701 <^rete . bl^k^and Department of Architecture and Design since 1992. c/) 00 3 O UJ >M LU

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old and some new. Texts range from pendium of work by resident artists ARCHITECTURAL PUBLISHERS ARE A Jonathan Swift's 18'"-century satire and designers of every stripe shows HYPERACTIVE BUNCH-A REFLECTION OF A Modest Proposal to Los Angeles that there is plenty to boast about. The THE AUDIENCE THEY SERVE, NO QUESTION. 77mes critic Christopher Knight's essay Architect's Newspaper's own art direc• WITH MOUNTAINS OF BOOKS SIGNALING THE on the planning of the Washington tor Martin Perrin imposes order on the ARRIVAL OF A NEW SEASON, WE DECIDED IT mall, The Mall in Peril. diverse and unruly nature of the work by organizing it by zip code, and inter• WAS TIME TO SORT OUT THE BEST. The Modern Procession sperses descriptions of each artist and Francis Alys his or her work with photographs of Public Art Fund, dist. by D.A.R, $24.95 the rooftops, streetscapes, train tracks, (hard, including DVD) and waterfront that inspire it. SEASON'S The Museum of Modern Art's return to Manhattan left its temporary quarters Record Pictures: Photographs From the in Queens nearly forgotten. This book Archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers recalls the journey organized in June Michael Collins. Steidl/MACK, $50.00 (hard) READINGS 2002 by Belgian-born, Mexico-based "Record pictures" was the name given artist Francis Alys designed to com to the photographic accounts of civil The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of memorate the original move to the engineering projects in the 19'" century, the Modernist Dream outer borough. The procession, in and artist Michael Collins has gathered Meredith L. Clausen, MIT Press, $45.00 (hard) which 200 participants shouldering a series of these extraordinary images The turmoil surrounding the redevelop• replicas of some of MoMA's best known into a book of the same name. While ment of the World Trade Center might works—and artist Kiki Smith—marched the photographs of railways, bridges, seem unprecedented but Meredith from West 53'" Street to Long Island and power stations have specific docu• Clausen reminds us that we've been City, is documented in images, text, mentary concerns, one can see them as here before. The history of the Pan Am and film. precursors to the precise typological Building at Park Avenue and 45"' Street studies of Bernd and Hilla Becher and is as contentious as that of any build• Nothing Less Than Literal the many students who emerged from Mark Under, MIT Press, $40.00 (hard) ing in Manhattan, involving celebrity their influential Dusseldorf school. architects, power-brokering, even Mark Linder looks at the cross-pollina• death at the blade of a helicopter. This tion of ideas between minimalist artists Cruelty & Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of biography of a landmark proves to be and architects in the late 1960s. Latin America Eduardo Baez, Jean-Francois Lejeune a cautionary tale. Examining writing by figures like Colin Princeton Architectural Press, $45.00 (paper) Rowe and Robert Smithson as well as BuK the work of more recent architects like This catalogue for an exhibition of the Various authors, BiikAmerica, John Hejduk and Frank Gehry, Linder same name, held in 2003 at the > $1.49 each (paper) claims that, contrary to conventional International Center for Urbansim, Each book in this brand new collection wisdom, architecture preceded art in Architecture, and Landscape in Brussels of pocket-sized pamphlets is meant to the development of the formal language and organized by Jean-Francois be read in the time it takes to drink your of minimalism. Lejeune, tries to get at the contradictions morning coffee. At $1.49 each, they also in Latin American cities like Quito, Lima, cost less than the average latt6. But the Brooklyn: New Style and Mexico City by looking to their Liz Farrelly content of the miniature volumes is roots. From the overlay of the 1573 Booth-Clibborn Editions, $45.00 (paper) weightier than might be expected: Each Law of the Indies on ancient Aztec cities Su/Ccontains an essay, short story, Brooklynites can be noisy in their pref• to Le Corbusier's pleasure in Brazil's picture portfolio, or biography, some erence fortheir borough, but this com• vibrant public sphere, the essays

Barreneche and The New Modern House by THE NEW London-based Will Jones show us residen• tial architecture that's stylishly international INTERNATIONAL in its concerns and references—something Philip Johnson could never have imagined. STYLE Tellingly, two of the most intriguing examples featured in Modern House Three are in China. In the misty foothills of Qinlin, the Shanghai Modern House Three Raul Barreneche architect Ma Qing Yun has built a stately Phaidon, $69.95 (hard) modernist box of concrete masonry and wood that reverently recalls Louis Kahn. The New Modern House Yet details like the local river stones set into Will Jones the exterior walls and the interior of woven Princeton Architectural Press, bamboo sheeting make this an architecture Above: In Gary Chang's 2002 Suitcase House $35.00 (paper) entirely of its place. in Badalinq, near the Great Wall In China, pneumatic hinges prop open trap doors that House/ Housey: A Pattern Book Meanwhile, in the countryside outside of open to sleeping quarters below the floors. of Ideal Homes Beijing and in sight of the Great Wall, Hong Left: Bioembollenhof, a housing subdivision Claire Melhuish and Kong architect Gary Chang has designed a In Vijfhulsen, Netherlands, designed by S333, Pierre d'Avoine Architects brings together clean modern forms, simple house to serve the extraordinary vista. The Black Dog Press, $39.95 (hard) materials (like wood panels and corrugated striking timber-covered rectangular box, steel), and innovative planning. banded by large windows, is set on a tall Call it the triumph of hope over experience. concrete base. Inside, the main floor is a handsomely designed coffee-table tome are Bioembollenhof, a housing estate in the vast loftlike space with folding partition walls Architectural publishers continue to put the high-style showplaces of the design-con• Netherlands, designed by the Dutch firm that can be configured in numerous ways. out glossy modern house books promoting scious rich. By contrast. Will Jones' modest S333 as an alternative to suburban sprawl. A hidden ladder pulls down from the ceiling better, smarter ways of living, even as soft-cover book presents a more idiosyn• The firm devised four simple low-rise build• for entry to the rooftop terrace, and pneu• McMansion subdivisions metastasize the cratic collection, ranging from single-family ing types with gables, dormers, and sky• matically hinged trap doors in the floor open world's remaining open spaces. Yes, it's residences to unbuilt concepts, prefab sec• lights that can be variously arranged to create for access to sleeping quarters (accommo• true: American-style tract houses are being ondary homes to multifamily housing. 52 different homes, from single dwellings to dating up to 14 people), as well as a kitchen, as enthusiastically consumed by the rest of Among the 40 projects featured are quirky townhouse blocks. Constructed out of wood bathrooms, storage, and a meditation the world as Kentucky Fried Chicken and examples like British architect Laurie and corrugated steel, the buildings resemble chamber. Chang has radicalized the week• Britney Spears. Chetwood's Butterfly House in Surrey. farm structures. By massing them closely end house. If there is good news, it's that the "mod• Fashioned from cables, wires, fiber optics together, the architects have helped pre• ern house" has also gone global. Modern With only a few exceptions, the 33 dream and sculptural metalwork, it depicts a serve the rural character of the surrounding House Three by New York writer Raul A. houses profiled in Barreneche's insightful. caterpillar's metamorphosis. There's also landscape. CO 0^ 3 O LU > LJJ

included in this book immerse readers in Moneo associates with Eisenman and > "0 > ~n-n ZJD :r the complex development of urbanism Venturi. But the formal takes precedence I— m r" ^13 3 m m in Latin America. over the material in Moneo's comparison of a -H < > > <: XI Eisenman's Columbus Convention Center Tschumi o m > 2: Ornaments of the Metropolis: ^ s ° (1989-93) to Gehry's Santa Monica Place Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture :x) ^ o ^ Shopping Center (1980). Moneo never Henrik Reeh. MIT Press, $39.95 (hard) _ o cn ° — LO ^ ° o talks about the role of Los Angeles' climate m ^ • Sigfried Kracauer's writings on cities have on on Gehry's early collaged materials, as m 1^ CD never been as well known as his film work, opposed to the Swiss climate and its energy but reward a look. In this slim but dense conservation laws on the continuous stucco i > book, Henrik Freeh analyzes the early surfaces he admires in Gehry's Vitra build• essays and autobiographical novel of the Moneo ing, which he identifies as a new direction architect turned social theorist and critic. in the master's oeuvre. He shows that, for Kracauer, ornament Switzerland would have no architecture was not merely a pleasantly decorative without insistence on materiality. Moneo THEORETICAL ANXIETY addition to buildings and streets but cen• correctly locates this interest in the work Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in AND DESIGN STRATEGIES tral to the way each of us understands the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects of Herzog & de Meuron, in which he cities. Freeh's own photographs illustrate Rafael Moneo observes, "materials are what makes forms his text. ACTAR/MIT Press, $39.95 (paper) emerge." But he again shows his desire to isolate architecture from construction. Pioneers of Modern Design, From William Because their work does not explicitly Morris to Walter Gropius Rafael Moneo is a major figure in world analysis is formal and compositional, at manipulate forms, he finds "no personal Nikolaus Pevsner; revised and expanded architecture, at once a respected designer once praising the architectural landscape gesture" in it. Here Moneo is limited by the by Richard Weston and an important influence in Spanish build• Yale University Press, $40.00 (hard) of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie (1977-83) fact that he discusses only works through ing culture. He is also an excellent teacher. and joining Rowe in lamenting its lack of the early 1990s. He perceptively character• If you only know Nikolaus Pevsner's 1936 His new book. Theoretical Anxieties and facades. izes their early work as a search for origins book from one of its later black-and-white Architectural Strategies in the Work of Eight Stirling rarely discussed theoretical con• marked by fascination with the archaic, not• paperback Penguin editions, this new Contemporary Architects, is largely texts cerns, but Robert Venturi and Aldo Rossi ing how they "explore the formal potential larger format book will come as a revela• expanded from lectures given in the early- often did. Moneo excels in his analysis of of materials" in their Napa Valley winery or tion. Pevsner was an early champion of to mid-1990s at Harvard's GSD and Madrid's these two figures. He not only describes Swiss countryside projects. However, the modernism and contended that it was Circulo de Bellas Artes, and it keeps the their intentions with precision and clarity book's scope precludes examining more the only true and appropriate style for "live" feel of a master performance. His but, having lived through the ideologies of recent, culturally informed projects in which contemporary architecture. While theo• subject is an influential group of architects, the era, can also assume a critical distance. surfaces and different components of archi• rists like Manfredo Tafuri and others have all except one Pritzker Prize winners like Moneo's presentation of Rossi's view of tectural form provide receptacles for other, shown his argument to be oversimplified himself. The result is an exacting but easy typology as the embodiment of timeless- external influences. (Certainly Herzog & de and limited, this new Yale edition supports read that unfolds like a novel by Italo Calvino. ness and permanence, and of type as a Meuron's Tokyo Prada store of 2002 would Pevsner's stance with luscious color pho• In Calvino's Invisible Cities, the explorer basis for temporal continuity, is accurate have altered Moneo's view on their explo• tography that makes it easy to understand describes dozens of cities but at the end and insightful. ration of the archaic.) why he believed a new world order was confesses that they evoke a single topos— Moneo is less at ease in presenting Peter This time restriction also limits his read• on the horizon. Venice, the city he loves above all others. Eisenman's often far-ranging theories. He ing of Rem Koolhaas, whom he presents as COMPILED BY DEBORAH OROSSBERG, ANNE Moneo describes architecture similarly. This is more comfortable with formal analysis a rigid anti-contextualist, for whom "place OUINEY, PHILIP TIDWELL, AND WILLIAM MENKING is his own perspective, but he elaborates of Eisenman's work; he understands and doesn't matter." This conclusion ignores architecture's nooks and crannies. But what reads with sensitivity and connoisseurship the sophisticated dialogues that Koolhaas' view of architecture are we talking about here? the frontality, shifts, intersections of planes, recent buildings in Seattle, Berlin, Porto, Could Moneo's "Venice" be regional? diagonals, rotations, and other devices and Chicago establish with the cultures in Reading Theoretical Anxieties, I was remind• that make up the architect's repertory. which they are located. Moneo is better at ed of an event in Barcelona nearly 20 years He confesses to being "less impressed analyzing Koolhaas' individual projects than Another perspective on the modern ago, where I was invited to introduce my by [Eisenman'sl sources of inspiration— his overall project. For example, describing house is offered in Housey Houseyby first built project to an audience of architects. incongruent, unnecessary borrowings from Koolhaas' stylistic mixings as "cocktail the Bombay-born British architect Pierre I talked about architecture and culture, film other fields—than by the skillful manipula• architecture" is reductive, but elucidating d'Avoine and his wife, architecture writer and literary criticism, establishing parallels tion of formal proceedings." Are these Rem's flair for iconographic representations and ethnologist Clare Melhuish. Subtitled and suggesting cross-fertilization among reservations symptomatic of Moneo's of programs, as in the Zeebrugge Ferry A Pattern Book of Ideal Homes, it is an disciplines. At the end came outrage: "No wish for a self-contained discipline of Terminal in Belgium (1989), makes for highly assemblage of 23 housing plans, drawn crossovers, please: Architecture is architec• architecture? Or do they reflect his abiding perceptive commentary. Given the writer's from D'Avoine's 20 years of practice and ture, literature is literature, film is film!" view of architectural history as a history of astute talent at establishing comparisons research in residential design in Britain To this day, the certainty of the audience forms, not concepts? (Later, commenting and parallels among different architects, I and abroad. While appealing and contem• puzzles me. Is architecture an absolute on Herzog & de Meuron, he writes that per• would have been interested in seeing a link porary, these are not showy, mega-dollar value that can be isolated from everything haps the only external field useful to archi• developed between Rossi's view of type as projects. They are instead highly original around it? To find out more, I read further tects is art.) a universal constant and Koolhaas' obses• responses to real-world building condi• in Moneo's book. One of the elegant things about this book sive efforts to invent new typologies, which tions, which should make them particu• Moneo discusses each architect in turn, is Moneo's way of deconstructing how are never mentioned by Moneo. larly useful to most architects. Take the beginning with an introduction that explains architects work. Would Frank Gehry recog• Moneo's attention to "architecture as prefab Piper Penthouses that were lifted the architect's intentions and concerns and nize himself in Moneo's observation of architecture" finds its culmination in Alvaro onto the rooftop of a converted London then proceeding to a group of projects Gehry's strategy of breaking apart the pro• Siza's work. Perhaps because Size's practice apartment building by crane. Or the large he considers exemplary of the designer's gram, reshaping it through an elemental echoes Moneo's own cultural origins, it two-story Invisible House neatly inserted oeuvre. This structure works well, and the impulse, and searching for the appearance resonates throughout the book as a whole. into the former back garden of a suburban grainy black-and-white illustrations do not of immediacy? The description tells the Size, Moneo writes, "seems to want to tell London house. So as not to disturb the detract from the rhythm of the reading. He reader as much about architectural strategy us that he simply wants his architecture to views of neighbors, one of its floors was sets the tone in the first chapter on James as about Gehry. Moneo convincingly differ• 'reek' of architecture. And it is this 'aroma dug into the ground. NIMBYism, it seems, Stirling: This book is about the architect's entiates Eisenman's and Gehry's attitudes of architecture'—or, if you wish, of what we exists everywhere. tools and forms. Stirling's tools are the sec• toward representation, noting that if the understand as architecture...that we breathe These three books demonstrate just tion (in his early "constructivist and 19'" cen• first fetishizes traditions of graphic repre• in his works." What in architecture "reeks" how universal a language modern design tury industrial period") and the plan (in his sentation, the second fetishizes the more of architecture? Am I not religious enough has become. Let's hope more architects later career, influenced by Corb's architec• intuitive production of models. (Moneo to grasp it, or am I missing—or missing out the world over can teach their clients, tural promenade and Colin Rowe). Moneo is scathing about Gehry here: "In the final on—some attainable absolute value? Moneo especially developers, to speak it. characterizes Stirling's forms as "a balance analysis, to make architecture is to know revels in the formal operations of Siza's art, MARISA BARTOLUCCI LIVES IN NEW YORK of masses...achieved in a quasi-canonical how to make a model.") Although Moneo describing the Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor AND WRITES ABOUT ARCHITECTURE, ART, manner" when discussing the Leicester rarely discusses construction, he does men• (1971-74) as an "attempt to show architec• AND CULTURE. Engineering Building (1959-63), which cele• tion Gehry's understanding of the American ture at its purest, devoid of phenomena and brates "the meeting of the diagonal and the WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM construction industry as well as the archi• event." Opposed to "purely linguistic con• perimeter." From the outset, Moneo's tect's avoidance of simulation, which siderations," it is "a continued on page 10 CO O

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Yet city, and begins in 1831, when New Yorkers within these preconceptions, few writers began to first fret that important buildings have addressed the territory with equal were being lost, and continues through the Kristen Jones and Andrew Glnzel's 1992 incisiveness or authoritative command. destruction of the World Trade Center. Along installation, Mnemonics, at Stuyvesant Hlqh Hence the second question raised by this with every official landmarked building in School, featured In City Art. volume: How can an architect write well The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated about his colleagues? 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Convent Ave. and 138th St. Austrian Cultural Forum Dia: Beacon llStti St. and Broadway www.ccny.cuny.edu 11 East 52nd St. 3 Beekman St., Beacon www.arcti.columbia.edu www.acfny.org www.diaart.org Jean Prouv6: Jack Goldstein A Tropical House THROUGH AUGUST 21 Mitctiel-lnnes & Nasti Yale School of Architecture All the Mighty World: FILM & THEATER 1018 Madison Ave. 180 York St., New Haven The Photographs of Roger JUNE 3-12 www.architecture.yale.edu www.miandn.com Fenton, 1852-1860 Brooklyn International Metropolitan Museum of Art Film Festival POLICY AND DESIGN FOR HOUSING: Nicholas Prior THROUGH JULY 1 1000 5th Ave. Various venues in Brooklyn LESSONS OF THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Yossi Milo Gallery Michael Elmgreen, www.metmuseum.org www.wbff.org 1968 - 1975 525 West 25th St. Ingar Dragset PAUL BYARD, STEPHEN LEFKOWITZ. JOHN STAINTON, www.yossimilo.com End Station THROUGH AUGUST 31 ALLAN TALBOT, FRANK BRACONI, RON SHIFFMAN, Bohen Foundation Hugo Martinez EVENTS THEODORE LIEBMAN. SUSAN SZENASY, THROUGH JUNE 17 415 West 13th St. Project in the Projects ROBERT CAMPBELL, SHAUN DONOVAN, JAMES POLSHEK. Jennifer Bolande, 212-414-4575 Viewings by appointment JEROME BELSON, ET AL. American Institute of Dan Graham, Robin Hirst, www.martinezgallery.com Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place Architects Staten Island Louise Lawler, et al. Darren Almond CUNY Graduate Center. 365 5th Avenue, 9th Floor Awards Luncheon Out of Place Matthew Marks Gallery THROUGH SEPTEt^BER 3 June 10 and 11 UBS Art Gallery 523 West 24th St. City Art: New York's 11:30 a.m. Hilton Garden Inn 1285 6th Ave. www.matthewmarks.com Percent for Art Program A June symposium focused on the legacy of the New York State 1100 South Ave., Staten www.ubs.com Center for Architecture Urban Development Corporation (UDC) hopes to lend an added Island Wegee: Idiot Box 536 LaGuardia PI. boost to the push for affordable housing by looking at current www.aiasiny.org THROUGH JUNE 18 Matthew Marks Gallery www.aiany.org performance figures for the program's projects built from 1968 Andrea Zittel 521 West 21st St. to 1975. The UDC, launched by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller A-Z Advanced Technologies www.matthewmarks.com THROUGH SEPTEMBER A JUNE 1 and directed by Edward J. Logue, built 33,000 units of housing Michael Ashkin Peter Wegner: Artistry and Architecture: and three new communities, such as the development on Adjnabistan Sarah Sze Lever Labyrinth The Spring Gala Roosevelt Island (1974, pictured above), all of which are still Andrea Rosen Gallery Marianne Boesky Gallery Lever House Lobby 7:00 p.m. functioning. Studies undertaken by graduate students from the 525 West 24th St. 535 West 22nd St., 2nd Fl. 390 Park Ave. National Academy of Community Design Center at Syracuse School of Architecture www.rosengallery.com www.marianneboesky- 310-586-6886 Design Museum and the CUNY Environmental Psychology program will be gallery.com 1083 5th Ave. presented alongside photographs of the buildings and public Robbert Flick Hella Jongerius Selects; www.nationalacademy.org spaces as they stand today. An evening program featuring Trajectories THROUGH JULY 3 Works from the Permanent original UDC staff members Paul Byard, Stephen Lefkowitz, Robert Mann Gallery Disegno: The 18Dth Collection JUNE 1 - 4 John Stainton, and Allan Talbot at the Center for Architecture on June 10 will also open an exhibition of the same name, on view 210 11th Ave., 10th Fl. Annual Exhibition Cooper-Hewitt, BX1: Bronx Arts Festival through September 10. A full day conference will take place at www.robertmann.com National Academy of Design National Design Museum Various venues in the Bronx CUNY on the 11th. To register, go to www.udchousing.org. Museum 2 East 91st St. 212-947-4557 Matthew Buckingham, 1083 5th Ave. ndm.si.edu Joachim Koester www.nationalacademy.org JUNE 7 Sandra of the Tuliphouse or THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 Spring Benefit and How to Live in a Free State THROUGH JULY 6 Sunscapes: Our Magnetic Star Silent Auction The Kitchen Situating: Young Architects American Museum of 6:00 p.m. Storefront for Art 512 West 19th St. Forum Natural History and Architecture www.thekitchen.org Urban Center Central Park West and 79th St. 457 Madison Ave. www.amnh.org 97 Kenmare St. Maarten Van Severen www.archleague.org www.storefrontnews.org Dimensions THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18 Storefront for Art and THROUGH JULY 7 Carl Andre, Peter Campus, Architecture American Dollhouse RonI Horn, Ed Ruscha, et al. 97 Kenmare St. The Future Perfect Landscape JUNE 2-5 www.storefrontnews.org 115 North 6th St., Brooklyn Whitney Museum of Justice By Design Conference www.thefutureperfect.com American Art Metropolitan Design Center Richard Prince 945 Madison Ave. 89 Church St. S.W., Gladstone Gallery THROUGH JULY 18 www.whitney.org Minneapolis, MN 515 West 24th St. The High Line www.designcenter.umn.edu www.gladstonegallery.com Museum of Modern Art Tony Oursler 11 West 53rd St. Metropolitan Museum of Art JUNE 3-4 THROUGH JUNE 23 www.moma.org 1000 5th Ave. Hillman Curtis, BLIK Tags Brooklyn www.metmuseum.org Janet Abrams, et al. BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NV Design Room THROUGH AUGUST 1 Revolution: Philadelphia Various venues in Brooklyn 339 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn John Cage, Brice Marden, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26 Sheraton Society Hill June 3 through 12 www.nydesignroom.com Gabor Peterdi, et al. Greater New York 1 Dock St, Philadelphia, PA Prints Into Drawings P.S.I Contemporary www.aiga.org If paying $10 for a festival flick in Tribeca seemed a little steep, THROUGH JUNE 25 Whitney Museum of Art Center then head out to the 8th Brooklyn International Film Festival, Hilary Harkness American Art 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25 which opens June 3 at the Brooklyn Museum. You'll find free Mary Boone Gallery 945 Madison Ave. www.ps1.org World Exposition 2005 screenings of nearly 80 features, shorts, documentaries, experi• 745 5th Ave. www.whitney.org Various venues in Aichi, THROUGH OCTOBER 2 Japan mental films, and animations—many making their United States www.maryboonegallery.com premieres. 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