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After five years of planning, politics, and simple procrastination, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations is finally replacing its UTA FOCUS aging home at 45"' Street and First Avenue. The 98,000-square-foot Brutalist struc• ture, built by Kahn & Jacobs and Kelly & SAVE HISTORIC Gruzen in 1961, is set to be demolished over the next four months. In its place will HARLEM rise a 23-floor, 141,000-square-foot, high- security structure designed by Gwathmey CURBSIDE Siegel & Associates. The new building is DIARY scheduled to open in 2008. In the mean• CLASSIFIEDS time, the 160 U.S. continued on page 2 When What Went Wrong?, this simplistic perception. conducted in this country. venerable Islamic .scholar Such misreadings make it all Not well known in the U.S., Bernard Lewis' take on the the more satisfying to report the AKTC is an agency HOUSE CHOMPS AT history of Islam's clash with about things gone right. With established by the Aga Khan, PENN STATION BUDGET modernity, was published in imagination and sensitivity the religious leader of the 2001, many Americans felt to people and place, the Shia Imam lsmaili,to im• confirmed in their opmion Aga Khan Trust for Culture prove built environments in Another Detour that something was indeed (AKTC) has overseen two societies where Muslims wrong with Islam. Horrific recent urban revitalization have a significant presence. for Penn Station? images of terrorism and projects that could well The first project is the $30 civil warfare from across the serve as exemplars for the million tran.sformation of a A year and a half after his death. Senator Islamic world have reinforced way urban renewal .should be continued on page 4 Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been proved right about the vulnerability of his decade-old pet plan to rebuild Penn The National Museum of the American Station. He often referred to the $800 WILL CONTROVERSY OVER CREDIT Indian, which opens to the public on million project—an ambitious design by BLOW OVER WITH TIME? September 21, is big in every way. The Skidmore, Owings and Merrill that moves $200 million building sits on the last the station from Madison Square Garden's site along the National Mall in dingy basement into the grand James A. Washington, D.C., houses the largest Farley Post Office next door—as "a fat collection of artifacts of the native pop• porpoise in a sea of sharks." In July, the ulations of North, Central, and South transportation subcommittee of the U.S. America, and represents an attempt House of Representatives voted to divert at a recognition and reconciliation of $40 million of Penn Station's funding their complex histories. The opening toward the MTA's East Side Access ceremonies will last for six days and SUPERSIZED MEGAPHONE IN project, which extends the Long Island include a procession for which 15,000 FOLEY SQUARE ENCOURAGES Rail Road into Grand Central Terminal. people have already registered. And PEOPLE TO SPEAK THEIR MIND "Now that Senator Moynihan has yet, in this age of celebrity architects, passed away, it's continued on page 3 no one is racing to claim credit for the building as a whole. The architect SHOUT IT OUT originally hired to design the building, The nonprofit public arts organizadon Ottawa-based Douglas Cardinal, has Creative Time, deciding which public art publicly disowned the building, and projects to reprise this year as part of its one of the firms brought in to bring 30''' anniversary celebrations, felt that the project to completion, the Polshek l^urie Hawkin.son, Erika Rothenberg, and Partnership, politely demurs. "We John Malpede's supersized megaphone. acted more as continued on page 2 Freedom of Expression continued on page 3 o
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CO Hundreds of architectural monuments of the future are on view at the continued from front page Diana Darlinq Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened last week, but a less visible facilitators than anything else," said o attraction is the Italian government's presentation of the last 50 years of Aislinn Weidele, publicity manager at Cathy Lang Ho I- Italian architecture, located in the Venetian pavilion. The show includes Polshek. William Menldng M Giancarlo De Carlos megastructural College of Urbino (1973-78) and The reason for this is that the process of the building's design has not always Martin Perrin LU Aldo Rossi and Carlo Aymonino's public housing in the Gallaterese been a pretty one. When the Smithsonian quarter of Milan (1969-73), which, lil
VOLUME 02 ISSUE 15, SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 documentation and conservation of relics of the modernist movement, The NMAI's opening ceremonies will THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED ZO TIMES A VEAR, BY THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. LLC, P.O. BOX 937. HEW YORK, NY 10013. will address these dilemmas and others in its conference at Columbia no doubt steer clear of any of the contro• PRESORT-STANDARD POSTAGE PAID IN NEW YORK, NY. POSTMASTER; SEND ADDRESS CHANCES TO: THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, CIRCULATION versy that attended its birth, and the DEPARTMENT, P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK. NY 10013. FOR SUBSCRIBER University this month. We encourage you to attend and learn more SERVICE: CALL 212-966-0630. FAX 212-966-0633. $3.9S A COPY, Smithsonian describes the building's S39.00 ONE YEAR, INTERNATIONAL St6O.00 ONE YEAH, INSTITUTIONAL about what can be done to protect the highest achievements of the SM9.00 ONE YEAH. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE design as a collaboration. Thomas ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. architectural profession, WILLIAM MENKING ANDCATHY LANGHO Sweeney, the publicity director for the NMAI, diplomatically suggested that "collaboration is actually an important element of Native American culture." That continued from front of the design have not been released, New York 77mes architecture critic Herbert may be so, but when it comes to architec• page Mission staffers are being housed in although it is known that the structure will Muschamp described it as "black helicopter ture. Cardinal isn't buying it. He laughed, nearby rented office space. have 30-inch poured-concrete walls, sand• stuff: a crisp but hulking tower of power." "That is ridiculous! Native cultures are The $50 million replacement was origi• stone in color. Except for the entrance hall The project's inauguration coincides with individualistic, about honor and respect." nally conceived in 1999, necessitated not (which will feature shatter-resistant tem• the opening of the exhibition devoted to the While nobody likes the situation, and only by the cramped and decrepit conditions pered glass and an air-pressure curtain to General Services Administration's design NMAI Director Rick West has made public of the existing facility but also by concerns ward off chemical and biological clouds), accomplishments. Civic Spirit: Changirig overtures to Cardinal, inviting him to the of terrorist attacks against State Department the first six floors will be dedicated to HVAC the Course of Federal Design at the Center opening and crediting him with providing and mechanics. The rest of the building will structures in the wake of the 1998 African for Architecture {see Diary}. Charles the vision, there are signs that it may soon be dedicated to offices, save an auditorium embassy bombings. But despite a complet• Gwathmey, along with Moshe Safdie, will blow over. Cardinal (and others involved) that will occupy the top floors. The building's ed design, anti-UN sentiment in Congress speak about the challenges of designing for imagines that in a few years, when the central elevator and ductwork core will be prevented the project from going through, security on September 28, as part of the NMAI gets attention more for its program• even after September 11. That sentiment, clad in zinc to protect it from fires. lecture series accompanying the exhibition. ming than its history, the building will however, has diminished over the last year— The exterior reflects the design's priority CLAY RISEN be ultimately be regarded as his. "In time, in part, perhaps, as a result of Washington, on security. Narrow window slits begin when people look at my work, they will D.C.'s surprise reversal on funding the only at the seventh floor, increasing in den• look at this building too. After all, George UN Headquarters renovations earlier this sity as they rise up the side of the building. Washington fired Pierre L'Enfant [from his year—which may explain why the UN One corner of the roof will fold inward to EAVESDROP IS ON ASSIGNMENT role as the planner for Washington D.C.j, Mission has finally gotten the go ahead. reveal the top of the zinc-wrapped core. and nobody's forgotten him and his role." Because of FBI restrictions, many details Writing about the project in 2002, former ANNE GUINEY o
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis' Rotare LUIS BARRAGAN'S HOUSE AND A SERIES OF ARCHITECT-DESIGNED fixture for Ivalo continued from front page all the more STUDIO DESIGNATED WORLD LIGHTING FIXTURES BR^S Contemporary Architecture shameful to try to divert the funds for HERITAGE SITE NASA KNOW-HOW DOWN^MEARTH Practice. this important New York landmark," said Hakkarainen explains that Charles Gargano, chairman of the Empire she wanted to work with State Development Corporation (ESDC), FR ^PSPACE architects like Lewis. the state agency In charge of the project, BECOMES A MONUME Tsuramki.Lewis because of which has been named after Moynihan. TO OM?E SPACE Ivalo's belief that decorative "We will under no circumstances allow The World Heritage Site list got a little bit fixtures should also act as the subcommittee's decision stand." bigger this summer. At its annual meeting architectural elements that In order to be approved, the funding in Suzhou, China, home to several World relate to and define a space. diversion must pass through the House Heritage sites itself, the United Nations There is also a healthy dose of and the Senate, a possibility that Gargano Educational, Scientific, and Cultural the modernist ideal of marry• deems unlikely. "Everyone's behind the Organi7.ation (UNESCO),unveiled its 2004 ing new technologies with project—Governor Pataki, Mayor Bloom• list of cultural and natural heritage sites new, beautiful forms, and this berg, even the MTA, which stands to gain worthy of identification, protection, and is where Harrakainen's back• from the diversion of funds," he said. preservation because of their outstanding ground comes in handy. LTL's According to the ESDC, the project Is value to humanity. The ILst of nearly 800 design for Rotare has a series finally going ahead after years of delays sites is dominated by entire places and land• of compound curves that due to belabored negotiations with the U.S. scapes, such as hi-storic towns in Yemen and would be difficult to fabricate, Postal Service and Amtrak. Though $50 Morocco and national parks in Zimbabwe so she went to the folks who million remains to be secured for proper and Malawi. This year's 34 addition.s per know best; a metal stamping ventilation of the train platforms, the rest petuate this preference, with the inclusion firm in Detroit that works on of the funding has been in place since 2001. of Bam, Iran, the 2,000-year-old city that race car bodies and motorcycle A recent request for qualifications for was devastated by an earthquake last year. fuel tanks. "They said programming the station's commercial But the 2004 list also includes a signifi• 'Sorry, we don't do lights,'" space drew bids from six developers— cantly smaller site: the home and studio of Hakkarainen laughed. "Once Boston Properties, Jones Lang LaSalle and Mexican architect Luis Barragan. In 1948 I started dropping military Tishman Speyer Properties, LCOR Inc., Barragan built his refuge in Tacubaya, a specifications, they were more The Staubach Co., The Related Companies working-class suburb of hectic Mexico interested, because they are From the Hubble Space School of Architecture on L. R, and Vornado Realty Trust. The next City. UNESCO cites the project's impor• used to working within incredi• Telescopes to lighting fixtures^ board to guide the company's stage of the project is an RFP that will be tance to the modernist movement and bly fine tolerances. We also It sounds improbable, but philosophy and aesthetic. issued within the next two months. The mastery at fusing traditional, philo.sophi did a CATIA analysis of how Susan Hakkarainen's career in Ivalo has just introduced ESDC plans to begin construction almost cat, and artistic elements into a new design the metal would be formed, illumination has taken just that Rotare, the first in a series of immediately after picking a developer in language. Locals hope that the house's and when it showed that the route, and as the founder ot five collaborations with archi• early 2005. As of now, the project is slat• designation as a World Heritage site will fixture could be done with Ivalo Lighting, she is bringing tects. Designed by the New ed for completion by 2011, eight years encourage further preservation not only of conventional stamping tech• her background in hard science York firm Lewis.Tsurumaki. after Moynihan's original projection. Barragan's work but of other modern niques, they agreed to start to the admittedly less rigorous Lewis (currently representing DEBORAH GROSSBERG architecture in Mexico, GUNNAR HAND designing the dies." world of decorative lighting. the United States at the Hakkarainen's enthusiasm After a Ph.D. in Plasma Venice Biennale), Rotare will for the skills of Detroit metal• Physics from MIT and a stint be followed by fixtures from workers turned out to be with a NASA subcontractor, Winka Dubbeldam of Archi- mutual. "At first the stampers Harrakainen founded Ivalo in Tectonics, David Bergman gave me the hairy eyeball, and 2000, and brought Stefano of Fire & Water, Bill Pedersen now they have decided to get Casciani of Domusand and Rob Goodwin of Kohn a Rotare fixture as a present William Braham of the Pedersen Fox, and Ali Rahim for their boss." AG University of Pennsylvania's and Hina Jamelle of
continued from front page feel."The megaphone faces the courthou.sc in National Monument was the perfect choice. which Martha Stewart was recently tried, and In a time of political and cultural apathy, the is in the middle of a bustling downtown civic project, which will be installed in downtown plaza, the "center of justice," as Hawkinson Foley Square until November, invites people (somewhat ironically) called it, as opposed to to "step up and speak up." its earlier iteration on the Battery Park beach. The interactive monument was initially Although the sound isn't that amplified or installed in 1984 on the Battery Park Landfill, dispersed, the size of the megaphone is pur• which was created with land excavated from posefully misleading. Only people standing the World Trade Center site. According to direcdy in the mouth of the megaphone can the Creative Time website, the issues spoken hear what the speaker is saying. about then were "the AIDS pandemic, home- Among the pronouncements recently over• lessness, human rights, economic disparity, heard at the project: "War—what is it good and the environment." Times have changed, for?" and "Stop the Republicans. Stop the but as Maureen Sullivan of Creative Time killing. Stop the hate." Not everyone was so points out,"With what's happening in the political, however: One couple on the way to world and such things as the Patriot Act and City Hall used the megaphone to announce the upcoming election, freedom of expres• they were getting married. sion is as important as ever. People want a Tourists .seemed less sure of themselves. platform. They don't feel represented." "I wouldn't go say anything," .said Pete Foley, The placement of the project in Foley who was visiting New York from Edinburgh. Square, installed with the help of the Lower "I think it's a cool project. I'd maybe go up Manhattan Cultural Council and produced and have a laugh with a group of friends— by the same fabricators who built the origi• but not on my own." A group of tourists nal, is a play on the simultaneous power and from (California was also shy about going up, powerlessness that the amplification of one although they thought it was a great project. voice can create. "It's a humorous piece and "It .seems like everyone in New York is always RKSOLTITE it's also serious," said Hawkinson, of Smith- racing," .said Guy Gov of Los Angeles. "It's network Miller + Hawkinson. "It's about being pow• cool to have something that just makes you erless. Having power, the power to go up and slow down to stop and think." NEW YORK • SAN FRANCISCO • SEATTLE T 1888] 477-9288 F [8881 882-9281 www.100watt.net scream, but al.so the powerlessness that we all EVA HAGBERC O
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public gardens and long electronics. On September 15, the New York State slag has meant that no one, not even boulevards. Wanting Al- Al-Azahar park will earn M Public Service Commission (PSC) New York's happy-go-lucky residen• 500-year old garbage Azhar to express a contem• income from its restaurants, was expected to rule on the latest tial developers, was about to step up dump in Cairo's historic porary Egyptian aesthetic, a parking garage, and from < -I iteration of a proposed power plant to the plate. but derelict Darb al-Ahmar the AKTC commissioned a fees for public performances CO to be built on the Brooklyn waterfront There is one other proposed district into Al-Azhar park, local landscape architecture in its outdoor venues. The just south of Bushwick Inlet. The use for the site. Deputy Mayor Dan 74 acres of luxuriously land• firm. Sites International, to AKTC predicts it will draw 2,000 visitors a day, including LU PSC faced three choices: approve Doctoroff sees it as the perfect venue scaped open space replete interpret what that might be. y- this latest version of the TransGas for beach volleyball in the 2012 with citrus groves, palm Maher Stino, one of the many tourists who will pay LU Energy Facility; study it further as Olympics—a certifiably benign and trees, waterfalls, a lake, firm's principals, explained entrance fees, and become CL a reasonable and feasible proposal; uplifting activity that produces no restaurants, amphitheater, his formidable task to The economically self-sustaining or shut it down cold. electricity and has no noxious emis• and a sports center The park, Art Newspaper last spring: within three years. LU which ojjened this spring, was "We have almost no open The desired response is not a knee- sions but will require the same kind "We basically run all our desfjerately needed to serve as space [ in Cairo ]. We want to h-i jerk "lights out!" As a range of high- of cleanup, as will any use of the projects as businesses," a verdant leisure destination help the public understand CO ranking public planning officials and site. Pushing the city's very real Mohammed El-Mikawi, the for Cairo's 17 million resi• what a park is and how to CQ private development representatives power needs to the side for this, project's general manager, dents and as a "green lung" appreciate plants and nature. have told me off the record, oddly however, seems capricious at best. told Egypt's Business Today. ID for this highly polluted and We also want something employing the same phrase as if Nevertheless, Doctoroff emits suffi• "Once the park is in opera• O congested megalopolis. unique. We don't want a reading from the minutes of a single cient power all on his own to keep tion, we want to get the copy of London's Regent's secret meeting, "TransGas is not the TransGas proponents from going The project, which took highest revenue from the Park." Stino believes a suc- devil." Thus, without having to say public. In the week before the PSC's seven years to complete, was operators [though] not in cessfiil park might finally they like it, they acknowledge that ruling, he was—no doubt success• epic in scale and ambition. a commercial sense—you convince the city of the ben• TransGas has something important to fully—seeking to intimidate propo• Before construction could won't see ads for Coke and efits of outdoor architecture offer and is by no means a 19"'-century nents of the plan from taking their begin, 80,000 truckloads of Pepsi and potato chips." The and urban planning. smoke-belching dragon. case directly to Governor Pataki. debris had to be removed AKTC shares Stino's belief in the persuasive powers of Why would they feel this way There are serious questions about from the site. During the Too often urban revitaliza- a successful park, and hopes about a power plant whose presence TransGas: the public demands suffi• process, workers discovered tion projects call for the the Al-Azhar will inspire the might impede public views of and cient leverage to be able to hold the the mile-long remains of sanitization of old neigh• government to reverse the access to the waterfront? Well, for developers' feet to the fire from the a 12"'-century fortress wall borhoods and the clearing indiscriminate development one thing, it won't—and that was the minute they are empowered to build, built by the Crusader- out of the poor. The AKTC that stripped this former case even before TransGas, respond• to make sure that their beneficent conquering general Salah sought to make Darb al- Garden City of its gardens. ing to pressure, took the enlightened public promises of clean, safe energy al-Din. Having already Ahmar an alternative model. route of choosing to build the plant are fulfilled and maintained. undertaken the restoration Through extensive research lust as flowers now bloom underground a la Riverbank State Then, there's the matter of the tower, of three nearby medieval into the district, the trust in Cairo, hope is budding Park, the world-class recreation facil• a.k.a.,the emissions stack. You can landmarks, the AKTC then learned that while the hous• once more in Mostar, thanks ity atop a pile of, well, you know what dress it up, but it's still an emission made the excavation and ing core was deteriorating to the AKTC. The bombard• in West Harlem. stack. At present, TransGas develop• restoration of the medieval and there was an absence ment of that historic city wall and its integration into of communal facilities and Indeed, careful review of TransGas' ers want it to emulate a residential was one of the most heart- the urban fabric another services, the neighborhood application for permission to build its highrise—shades of window decals wrenching episodes in the aspect of the project. was highly cohesive and S1.3 billion, 1,100-megawatt addition showing flowerpots, cats, and people Bosnian war. The Old Town most of the residents had to the New York City power grid— that were slapped on tenements in Creating a park on an possessed the enchantment jobs, albeit low paying ones. part of a mandated switch to so- East Harlem and the South Bronx in ancient landfill was itself a of a fairy tale, with narrow So the AKTC instituted called in-city generation—the facility the city's darkest days. It's a horrible challenge. The AKTC had to winding streets, fine stone programs to revitalize and offers at least two positive contribu• idea. Far better would be a competi• address the site's highly saline houses, citrus and fig trees, strengthen the existing tions, one to the Brooklyn waterfront tion that would encourage not only soil and accommodate three and of course, the fabled Stari community. These have and the other to power generation. forward looking design but seek enormous tanks for the city's Most, a I6"'-century stone included restoring houses bridge that arched steeply In addition to electricity, TransGas possible additional uses or even newer drinking water. As there and giving micro- loans for across the deep green waters will generate steam, a clean, efficient, clean technologies for the tower. isn't much of a landscaping locals to open small busi• of the Neretva River. The and cheap fuel, using graywater If all else fails, they could build one industry in Egypt, it needed nesses, such as carpentry bridge was the true heart from the Newtown Creek sewage of the many discarded plans from to set up specialist nurseries shops and a dry cleaner. It of the city—Mostari means treatment plant. Second, TransGas the ballyhood Childs/Libeskind to grow environmentally has also established training "bridge keeper." With the will fully remediate a century of toxic Freedom Tower collaboration just suitable vegetation. and employment opportu• most mixed marriages in the waste created by a now-shuttered lying around collecting particulate In the late 19'" century, nities in better-paying former Yugoslavia, Mostar coal gasification plant. The un-pen- matter, PETER SLATIN IS THE FOUNDER foreign designers helped job sectors, ranging from was a living monument to cillable cost of cleaning upthis toxic OF WWW.THESLATINREP0RT.COM transform Cairo into a horticulture to automobile religious tolerance and cul- European-style capital with
In 2002 Robert Queens Expressway. office, which spreads of the firm's work is ARCHITECT'S ROOFTOP OFFICE ECHOES MANHATTAN BR Scarano, Jr., had a Scarano and Dedy throughout the smaller residential 10-person architec• Blaustein, an archi• building's top floor, structures in the outer tural firm housed in tect in his firm, have is like wandering boroughs. The firm a 250-square-foot planted a dramatic, through a rabbit is now designing or office in Brooklyn. corrugated metal warren where archi• completing an aston• Afire destroyed his and steel extension tects work elbow to ishing 240 houses in small space and he on the roof that's elbow along long East Williamsburg moved to the top floor seen by thousands desks, in an unusual• and Bushwick. of 110 York Street on of commuters every• ly tight arrangement. Scarano's new the edge of DUMBO. day. Echoing the His is surely the most 5,200-square-foot From the street, the bridge's structure, the busy architecture roof addition office 100-foot-tall building roof's angled arches office in Brooklyn, structure will con• is indistinguishable are a backdrop a with 250 to 300 nect to his current from hundreds of nightly play of col• projects currently in office via a grand other New York ored light. the ground or on the metal staircase and buildings but it is boards and another features an outdoor The two-floor quickly becoming 15 hires planned terrace facing annex, nearing com• a landmark. The before October. Manhattan and pletion, will house Manhattan Bridge Scarano is designing the noisy but spec• the firm's growing arcs past the build• two large live/work tacular Manhattan staff, which numbers ing's roofline, as projects in DUMBO, Bridge. at 75. A walk through does the Brooklyn but the vast majority Brooklyn's Newest Landmark Scarano's current WILLIAM HENKINC in O LU
tural diversity, making it generation of con.servation The centerpiece of Mostar's especially hateful to the professionals, and identify renewal effort was the recon• struction of the 16th-century Serbs. They regularly shelled significant historic buildings Stari Most bridge, destroyed in need of renovation. Five of the Stari Most until it finally by the Serbs in 1993. crumbled in 1993. these buildings have already After the war, rebuilding been restored, and funds paving and landscaping the bridge and restoring are being raised to renovate around the Stari Mo.st. fhe Mostar became crucial to another ten. restored buildings will pro• Bosnia's cultural and eco• At the opening of the vide income for Stari Grad nomic recovery. But when reconstructed Stari Most for the next ten years. reconstruction on the city bridge this past July, the These two urbaji revitaliza• started, it was hasty and AKTCAVMF announced the tion projects should greatly TRENGTH BY DESIG unregulated. With the coop• inauguration of a municipal enhance the lives of their cit• eration of the municipality, agency, the Stari Grad, to izens. One hopes they will al.so MMiw i :idi jnc;er associatfs, inc CON S L: J..T1N (i 1 IN GWIA •. RS in 1999 the AKTC, in collab• guide Mo.star's future con• demonstrate to citizens of the www.wai.com oration with the World .servation and development. world, especially Americans, Monuments Fund (WMF), Now the AKTC/WMF will that Islamic modernity is Bi/n/di Co/kge Acedi (212) .367-W)() stepped in to devise a frame• concentrate on funding the not a viable po.ssibility, but work for the reconstruction restoration of characteristic a vital, if incipient, reality. of the urban core, train a new Ottoman buildings and HARISA BARTOLUCCI
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Taino Towers Associates, 1976 1983 New York Times Polshek Partnership MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY IDENTIFIES Silverman & Cika, 510-580 Main Street 590 Madison Ave. Printing Plant Architects, 2000 30 "FUTURE LANDMARKS" 1972-79 Roosevelt Island Polshek Partnership Central Park West 221 East 122" 13 Trump Tower Architects, 1997 at 81" Street Street Roosevelt Island Der Scutt with 26-50 Whitestone Tram Station Swanke Hayden Expressway 2 5 The New 42- 9 West S?'" Street Prentice & Chan, Connell Architects, Queens Street Studios 30 UNDER 30 and Grace Building Ohihausen, 1976 1983 Piatt Byard Dovell Skidmore, Owings Second Avenue at 725 Fiftti Avenue Alfred Lerner Hall, Architects, 2000 and Merrill, 59"' Street Columbia 229 West 42"" Street both 1974 14AT8eT/Sony University 9 West 57'" Street Citicorp Center Building Bernard Tschumi . American Folk Art and 1114 Sixth Hugh Stubbins& Philip Johnson and and Gruzen Museum Avenue Associates and John Burgee, 1984 Samton, 1999 Tod Williams Billie (The jury consid• Emery Roth & 550 Madison Ave. 2920 Broadway Tsien Architects, ered these adjacent Sons, 1977 2001 buildings insepara• 153 East 53"' Street Firehousefor Korean 45 West 53-" Street ble.) Engine Co. 233 & Presbyterian Woodhull Medical Ladder Co. 176 Church of New York Scholastic Building 3 Waterside Plaza and Mental Health Eisenman Greg Lynn FORM, Aldo Rossi with Davis Brody & Center Robertson Garofalo Architects, Gensler Associates, 1974 Kallmann Architects, 1985 and Michael Associates, 2001 on Arctiitects, 1985 FDR Drive at McKinnell& Wood 25 Rockaway Ave. Mclnturf Architects, 557 Broadway 25"' Street Architects, 1977 Brooklyn 1999 760 Broadway at Richard Meier's 1977 Bronx around the five boroughs. Vicki 43-05 37"' Avenue 28173/176 Perry Street Tracey Towers Flushing Avenue 16lsamu Noguchi Queens Developmental Center, which was Weiner, a Kress Preservation fellow Condominium Paul Rudolph with Brooklyn Garden Museum Towers ineligible for landmark status and at the MAS and organizer of the Jerald L. Karlan, Isamu Noguchi and LVMH Tower Richard Meier, 2002 protection because it was less than watch list, said she hoped to "raise 1974 Paul Rudolph Shoji Sadao, 1985 Christian de 173/176 Perry Street 30 years old, was partially demol• consciousness about buildings that 20,40 West Penthouse 32-37 Vernon Portzamparc and ished and turned into an office park might be considered historic in the Mosholu Parkway Paul Rudolph, Boulevard, Queens Hillier Architecture, •Austrian Cultural in 2002. This catastrophe prompted future." The exhibition 30 Under30: Bronx 1977-83 1999 Forum the Municipal Art Society (MAS) The Watch List of Future Landmarks 23 Beekman Place Storefront for Art 19 East 57"' Street Raimund to create the Watch List of Future was on view at the Urban Center Sea Park East and Architecture Abraham, 2002 Landmarks. Jurors Paola Antonelli, in May and has returned there to Apartments ! 1 New York Marriott Steven Holl and 23 U.S. Armed Forces 11 East 52'^ Street Joseph Giovannini, Kitty Hawks, coincide with DOCOMOMO's Hoberman & Marquis Hotel Vito Acconci, 1993 Recruiting Station Wasserman, 1975 John C. Portman, Jr., 97 Kenmare Street Paul Makovsky, Greg Pasquarelli, (Documentation and Conservation Architecture I New York Public Surf Avenue at 1981-1985 Research Office Library South Nina Rappaport, David Sokol, and of buildings, sites and neighbor• West 27"" Street 1531-1549 Broadway Takashimaya (ARO),1999 Court Jacob Tilove selected 30 structures hoods of the Modern Movement) Brooklyn John Burgee Times Square Davis Brody Bond, from a list of 150 public nomina• Eighth International Conference. IBM Building Architects, 1993 2002 tions, all New York structures built The exhibition will be on view Eastwood Edward Larrabee 693 Fifth Avenue AMNH Rose Center Fifth Avenue at within the last 30 years, scattered through October 3. JAMES WAY Sert, Jackson & Barnes Associates, for Earth and Space 42"" Street
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Box 3015 • Lakewood, NJ 08701 00 o THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 DESTINATION UNKNOWN EERO SAARINEN'S LAST WORK, THE TWA Long before Santiago Calatrava struction—a reinforced concrete challenges that Terminal 5 (as it's unveiled his architectural allegory sculpture that tested die limits of officially known) could not meet TERMINAL AT JFK, WILL SOON ENJOY A for flight that will become the down• its material and of what modernism without serious alteration. When SECOND, TEMPORARY LIFE AS A KUNSTHALLE. town PATH station, Eero Saarinen could be—was the source of its dis• the terminal closed in 2001 (in the AND AFTER THAT-WHO KNOWS? gave New York City a symbol that tinction as well as downfall. The wake ofTWA's demise in 1999), captured the grace and excitement building's stand-alone, sinewy form no other airline stepped up to take AS iJigJEPORTS, THE FUTURE OF of the jei age by mimicking the shape made it difficult to adapt it to the over the space. THE MODERNIST MASTERPIECE IS AS OPEN AS of a soaring bird. Since its comple• rapidly modernizing airline indus• The Port Authority of New York THE SKY. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEAN KAUFMAN. tion in 1962, the TWA Terminal try. Larger airplanes, increased pas• and New jersey (PA) did, however, at lohn F. Kennedy International senger flow and automobile traffic, receive dozens of expressions of Airport has served as an icon of both computerized ticketing, handi• interest from sources ranging modern air travel and modern design. capped accessibility, and security from the Finnish government to But its daring gull-winged con• screening are just a few of the the Municipal Art Society to the o o < LU curator who worked previously reason why the PA accepted her airport's 30 million pa,ssengers year• New York photographer Dean with the theme of tourism and proposal. The exhibition's run pre• ly— was initially interested in the Kaufman has been documenting the cross influences of global travel cedes a long period of construction possibility of aaivcly using the Terminal 5 over the course of and global art in an exhibition in that will not end until 2008. "The Saarinen structure but found that the past year. His father was Switzerland. Her particular interest exhibition is a great opportunity to the cost to retrofit the relic exceed• an architect in Warren Platner's in tourist sites and destinations was let the public enjoy the space," said ed that of building an entirely new office, which renovated the the basis of an idea to stage a series Tragale, "and to show other poten• terminal. Jet Blue commissioned terminal's restaurant, The Grill, of installations that respond to and tial uses for it." Gensler and Associates to design a in 1970. Kaufman recalls playing are situated within the arch-symbol Plans for Terminal 5's future new terminal adjacent to Terminal in his father's office, filled with of commercial travel itself. The have been contentious, with a 5, which, though .still in concept models of Terminal 5, remarking, result, Terminal 5y presents site-spe• battle played out publicly last year phase, was released last month. "The building has been in my cific works by 18 artists, as well as a between the PA and preservation• The $850 million, 625,000-.square- consciousness for a long time." series of lectures, events, and addi• ists who objected to a new terminal foot terminal is much smaller and tional temporary installations (see design concept that would have more respectful of its .site than the sidebar), on view from October 1 engulfed the landmark. Critics initial concept that so riled preser• to January 31. "The building is such blasted the inital plan's intent to vationists last year. a potent .symbol, representing .so cut off Terminal 5's views of the "The sheer reduction in size many thing.s—air travel, the 1960.S, runway, which motivated the makes it better, but we're still con• transitions, globalism,"said Ward. design's floor-to-ceiling windows. TERMINAL 5 cerned about the terminal being "Each artist had a unique response." They also objected to the idea that it an active space," said Theodore would no longer be used as a func• CURATED BY RACHEL K. WARD First lady of text messaging Jenny Prudon, president of DOCOMO- tioning terminal. At that time, OCTOBER 1 THROUGH JANUARY 31 Holzer has, naturally, staked out MO-US. "If it becomes ju.st a left• JOHN F. KENNEDY Kent Barwick, the president of the the arrivals and departures board, over space, it's a disservice to the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Municipal Art Society, said,"By while Ryoji Ikeda has created a building. Al.so, it's more vulnerable eliminating use of the terminal, .series of light and sound installa• if it's economically unviable." you're condemning the building to tions for one of the tunnels. In "Terminal 5 will be used, but the a slow death." mid-September, Vanes.sa Beecroft question is how intensely," .said Bill filmed a live performance piece in Even Philip Johnson, who knew Hooper, senior principal in charge Partnership for New York City. "We the terminal—her first since 2001— Saarinen, weighed in, telling The of the project at Gen.sler. "We're still expected to hear from preservation• which will be screened in the space. Los Angeles Times earlier this year, in de.sign development now, trying ists, cultural organization.s, and Toland Clrinnell, known for his "This building represents a new idea to figure out how to make as much penchant for luggage, will make use business people, but what surprised in 20"'-century architecture, and of the original terminal work." of the baggage claim area. "What's us was the number of requests we yet we are willing to strangle it by Gensler's design begins with the exciting to me is that the artists are got from the general public—regu• enclosing it within another building. renovation of the two tunnels that using the building's forms to create If you're going to strangle a building lar people, travelers—who are just extend from the terminal to con• works that will only exist in this to death, you may as well tear it down." deeply interested in this building," nect to waiting airplanes, known as space," .said Ward. Organizers are said Ralph Tragale, manager of gov• In October 2003 Jet Blue entered Flight Wing Tube #1, which was trying to arrange a shuttle service ernment and community relations an agreement with the PA to expand part of Saarinen's original design, trom Manhailan, and encourage RUGG for the Port Authority. its presence at JFK. The upstart and Flight Wing Tube #2, which the u.se of the new AirTrain. One of the requests came from domestic airline—the busiest at was designed in the late 1960s by Rachel K. Ward, an independent Ward's fiming was an important JFK, accounting for 7 million of the Roche Dinkeloo to support 747s THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 ARRIVALS OCTOBER 1 OCTOBER 30 DECEMBER 9 Opening Hesse McGraw Holiday Travel: 12:00-6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 50% More Sale A series of temporary. Kansas Is Scary The airport gift shop. in-transit projects OCTOBER 5 Halloween Party curated by and events, called Yuji Oshima Music by Tobias Wong, "Arrivals," will take Hey, They're Gonna Blood on the features Surface to place throughout Play Music! Wall Air, original designs Terminal 5 to accom• 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. and installations by pany the exhibition. 8:00 p.m. young designers They include architec• Brian Eno NOVEMBER 6- based in New York, ture and art lectures, Music for Airports DECEMBER 1 as well as selections organized by critic 7:00 p.m. Hussein Chalayan from Colette, Paris. Adam Kleinman, and Place to Passage screenings of films OCTOBER 9 DECEMBER 11-20 based on the year Abba Tor NOVEMBER 13 - Duben Canales 1962, coordinated by Collaborating with DECEMBER 20 The Future of Anthology Film Saarinen Dirk Westphal Transportation Archives, every 2:00 p.m. Photography Saturday from 2:00 Alastair Gordon, JANUARY 8 to 4:00 p.m. Also on Chris Sharpies, et al. NOVEMBER 18 Agnieska Kurant Saturdays, a revolving On the Airport Hans Uirich Obrist with John Armledder, line-up of DJs will 3:00 p.m. Terminal 5 artists et al. spin at the vintage 7:00 p.m. The Exhibition Lucky Stril around the corner on the fringes beyond the gate to the sky off the path across the tracks past the doorman open up to openhousenewyork Announcing openhousenewyork, a city-wide celebration of arctiltecture and design, inviting the public to explore 1 GO fascinating buildings and sites, many of which are usually closed to the public— all free of charge. Famous Landmarks to insider Favorites Subways to Substations Tunnels to Towers Boardrooms to Bedrooms Mansions to Markets Radical New Work to Historic Sites Support New York City and its nch legacy of art and architecture. Be a part of the second annual openhousenewyork October 9 & 10, 2004 openhousenewyork inc. 917 583 2398 www.ohnyorg ©TARGET Uta Barth's minimal, often opens the investigation, book that she uses both (2000), and white blind out-of-focus photographs uncovering Barth's exasper• photography and painting to (bright red) (2002). Yet of the hackneyed spaces of ation with critics who seek serve the same function—^to references to painters everyday life gain new critical to invest her photographs force the viewer to become like Vermeer and Gerhardt context in an eponymous of her own home's interior aware of the experience of Richter abound throughout monograph published by with themes of domesticity seeing. "If you are not invest• the text, and are far more Phaidon. The book is divided ("What interests me the ed in pointing (your camera] convincing than comparisons into five major sections— most is that it is so visually at things in the world but made between her work and a revealing interview with familiar that it becomes instead are interested in the that of photographers like Matthew Higgs, a long essay almost invisible," she said), act of pointing (or looking) Sherrie Levine. by Pamela M. Lee detailing as well as those who wish to itself, you have a big prob• Barth comes off as intel• the artist's trajectory since label them painterly ("This lem," she said. "For many lectual yet unpretentious the early 1990s, a short piece implies a curious hierarchy, years now I have had this throughout the monograph. by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe of painting as 'higher' art very big problem... My way She attributes her practical dealing with Barth's treat• than photography"). of dealing with this problem side to her upbringing in ment of focus and surface, The comprehensive book of choice was to make no "austere," Cold War, West a series of "extracts" from begins with Barth's post- choice." In Barth's early Berlin and her scientist- a prose work by Joan Didion UCLA grad school, multi- works, painting served father's penchant for objec• titled Democracy, a 1996 paneled pieces juxtaposing merely as a way to introduce tivity. Though hesitant to interview with Sheryl eye-popping Op Art-esque the purely optical qualities of attach her personal history Conkelton, and a collection color fields with found and the painted surface to the to meaning in her art, Barth of poetic recollections by constructed photographs of referential sphere of photog• agrees with Higgs' conjec• Barth herself called "The eyes, landscapes, and interi• raphy. As time progressed, ture that her abrupt transi• Colour of Light in Helsinki"— ors. She dismisses her she began to employ a short tion to 1970s California at all of which offer different, choice to mount her early depth of field and unusual the age of 12 might have if overlapping perspectives photographs on wood pan• framing techniques in the had something to do with on Barth's process, product, els, which critics interpreted photography of banal sub• her detached sensibility and and intent. Well chosen and as an attempt to move pho• jects to the same end, leav• the impression of longing perfectly placed examples tography into the realm of ing painting behind in series evident in her later works. such as Grounc/( 1992-97), of Barth's work and other painting, as motivated by DEBORAH GROSSBERG IS AN related imagery, including simple aesthetic necessity. F/e/d (1995-97), nowhere ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT AN. a number of gallery installa• Barth argues throughout the near {1999), ...and of time tion shots, accompany the text, providing a good overview for her die-hard SIGHT fans, as well as for those unfamiliar with heroeuvre. The most interesting addi• tion this book has to offer the already voluminous critical writings on Barth is its insis• tence on debunking misin• terpretations of the artist's work through a careful examination of her inten• tions. The Higgs interview K-TownofTom THE SU "Koreatown is more than the heart of "K-town," just food," according to showcases a broader view architect Bockduk Jueng, of Korean art and culture one of seven young while housing much- New York-based Korean needed offices, convention participants in Beyond halls, and civic spaces. 32"" Street: New Visions of Other contributors, like Koreatown in Manhattan, architect Do-Yong Um, Upon its centennial, the New York Transit Museum has pro• an exhibit at the Korean envision Koreatown as a duced a compilation to honor the eclectic architecture and Cultural Service's Gallery dynamic urban destination. design of the New York City subway system. The publication Korea meant to promote Um's project suggests coincides with an exhibition organized by the New York Transit alternative possibilities activating the streets Museum, scheduled to take place in Vanderbilt Hall in Grand to the 100-year-old area's through a series of multi• Central Terminal in October. With a thoughtful introduction by mediocre architecture. media walkways. Joseph Giovannini and original photography from Andrew Jueng feels that the abun• The Koreatown plans Gam, best known for his 1999 work, Bethlehem Steel dance of Korean eateries are works in progress, (Princeton Architectural Press), Subway Sf//e pieces together has reduced Korean cul• presented through draw• the diversity of architectural styles and elements showcased in ture to kimchee and bar- ings, models, and com• throughout the system, highlighting details, furnishings, maps, beque in the eyes of many puter simulations, but they advertisements, and rail cars as they have evolved overtime. New Yorkers. Her propos- embody the energy and Giovannini argues that the amalgamation of styles that < al for a new trade center spirit of a new generation typifies the New York City subway would not be possible in I on 32"" Street between of architects hoping to a place like Paris "because of the Napoleonic uniformity of i Broadway and 5"' Avenue, make their mark on the France's top-down, governmentally initiated, bureaucratically place they call home. controlled project." Ultimately, Subway Style ls intended to Bockduck Juenq's proposal TERRI CHIAO IS A PROGRAM generate a greater understanding of and appreciation for for a multipurpose complex ASSISTANT AT THE a system that is the foundation of every New Yorker's mental in Koreatown. ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE. map of the city, GUNNAR HAND IS AN EDITORIAL INTERN AT AN. 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Columbia GSAPP SEPTEMBER 25 cuny.edu Buell Center LLl Matteo Pericoli 114 Avery Hall h- See the City: The Journey Dennis Sharp www.arch.columbia.edu/buell GL of Manhattan Unfurled Men from MARS: UJ 11:00 a.m. Connell, Ward & Lucas Gisela Baurmann, CO 192 Books and English Modern Jonas Coersmeier of Biiro Never been to Cuba? Storefront for Art and Architecture s 192 10th Ave. Architecture of the 1930s 6:00 p.m. www. 192books.com 6:00 p.m. Pratt School of Architecture long-awaited show, Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, Center for Architecture 115 Higgins Hall South 536 LaGuardia PI. 200 Willoughby Ave., 1959-1969, provides a rare glimpse into the heart of the Mariana Figueiro www.aiany.org Brooklyn embargoed country's modernist tradition. Hundreds of Light and Health: www.pratt.edu A New Framework for Diana Agrest, images of more than 50 projects constructed by the Cuban Lighting Practice Mario Gandelsonas SYMPOSIA government in the ten years immediately following the 6:15 p.m. Architecture in the Parsons School of Design Expanded Field: SEPTEMBER 26-29 revolution, like the Center for Construction Research and Glass Corner New York, Paris, Shanghai 8th International Experimentation by Hugo D'Acosta, pictured above, are 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. 6:15 p.m. DOCOMOMO Conference: www.parsons.edu Yale School of Architecture Import/Export: Postwar accompanied by video interviews with prominent Cuban 180 York St., New Haven modernism in an Expanding Stephanie Gibbons, Carrie www.architecture.yale.edu World, 1945-1975 architects. An accompanying film screening will take place at Moyer, Maurice Vellekoop, Columbia GSAPP the Anthology Film Archives on September 28 at 6:30 p.m. Michael Wilke, Drew Hodges Avery Hall Gay-I. G. A.: Toshiko Mori www.docomomo2004.org How Gay Is Design? Material Evidence Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1969 6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. SEPTEMBER 30- Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street. Through October 30 AIGA National Design Center Princeton School of 164 5th Ave. Architecture Technology Sessions www.aigany.org Betts Auditorium Baruch College www.princeton.edu/~soa Conference Center Thomas Balsley LECTURES 151 East 25th St., 7th Fl. Paul Goldberger Paper, Scissors, Rock: Charles Gwathmey, Suzanne Stephens, 55 Lexington Ave. The Rebuilding of New York Design in the Public Realm Moshe Safdie Robert Ivy vvvvw.docomomo2004.org Thorn Mayne 12:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Facing Reality: On the Road to Venice Environmental Stewardship: 92nd St. Y Arsenal Gallery Security Challenges in 6:00 p.m. 35 West 67th St. 5th Ave. at 64th St. Federal Design The New San Fransisco Columbia GSAPP When Modern Was Modern www.92Y.org www.parks.nyc.gov 6:00 p.m. Federal Building Wood Auditorium Donald Albrecht, Dietrich Center for Architecture 6:00 p.m. 113 Avery Hall Neumann, Robert A. M. Stern, Franqois Roche, 536 LaGuardia PI. Center for Architecture www.arch.columbia.edu Jean-Louis Cohen, et al. Stephanie Lavaux Karen Bausman, Gilbert vmw.aiany.org 536 LaGuardia PI. Yale School of Architecture Corrupted Biotopes Delgado, Casey Jones, www.aianv.org Nanoko Umemoto, 180 York St., New Haven 6:00 p.m. Gianne Conrad Jesse Reiser www.architecture.yale.edu Lee Bontecou, Mona Hadler Columbia GSAPP GSA Architect/Engineer Lebbeus Woods Three Consequences and 6:30 p.m. Wood Auditorium Selection Process The Space of Thought Their Projects 113 Avery Hall 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center 6:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Gain: AIGA Business www.arch.columbia.edu Center for Architecture Columbia GSAPP 365 5th Ave., 9th Fl. Yale School of Architecture and Design Conference 536 LaGuardia PI. Wood Auditorium 180 York St., New Haven www.moma.org Equitable Center Big & Green: www.aiany.org 113 Avery Hall www.architecture.yale.edu 787 7th Ave. Large NY Buildings www.arch.columbia.edu www.aiga.org Marianne Eggler-Gerozissis Embrace SustainabiHty Patricia Cronin, Dore Ashton Paola Antonelli The Machine Aesthetic 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m George L. Legendre Architecture, Design, and Decoration in Modern Art, Architecture, New York University MoMA QNS Before and After: International Practice Issues: and Design Kimball Lounge 11 West 33rd St., Queens On the Surface 6:15 p.m. Cross-Cultural Partnerships 12:30 p.m. 246 Greene St. www.moma.org 6:00 p.m. Parsons School of Design Max Bond, Bernardo Arts Consortium www.greenhomenyc.org Princeton School Glass Corner Fort-Brescia, et al. 1 East 53rd St. of Architecture 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. www.moma.org Betts Auditorium wvvw.parsons.edu Center for Architecture www.princeton.edu/~soa 536 LaGuardia PI. wvvw.aiany.org FOR COMPETITIONS LISTINGS SEE WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas A. Hines Paul Goldberger A Liminal Modernism: The Search for an The Architecture of Irving Gill EXHIBITIONS American Architecture 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Columbia GSAPP SEPTEMBER 22- f RANK LLOVO WRIGHf! NEW FROM PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS New-York Historical Society Buell Center NOVEMBER 3D MARTIN HOUSE Vibrant Communities: 2 West 77th St. 114 Avery Hall Green Maps of New York www.nyhistory.org www.arch.columbia.edu/buell I-" V"— FRANK LLOYD A fascinating biography of the H/lartin and the WoHd WRIGHT'S House. Its architect and its client. Author SEPTEMBER 30 Urban Center Gallery MARTIN HOUSE Jack Quinan mines the Wright-Martin Gianne Conrad, Keller Easterling 457 Madison Ave. ARCHITECTURE correspondence of over 400 letters, along Steve Lewis, Charles Matta Believers and Cheaters wvvw.mas.org with the physical artifacts and architectural AS PORTRAITURE Small Rrms and Diversity 6:00 p.m. remains of the house—which Is currently JACK OUINAN 8:00 a.m. Columbia GSAPP SEPTEMBER 23- under restoration—to investigate Wright's 7.5 X 10, 248 PP. Center for Architecture Wood Auditorium NOVEMBER 13^ 130 DUOTONES often-made claim that his buildings 536 LaGuardia PI. 113 Avery Hall Wijnanda Deroo J34.95 HARDCOVER "portray" their clients. www.aiany.org www.arch.columbia.edu Robert Mann Gallery 210 nth Ave., 10th Fl. www.robertmann.com TO ORDER, 1,800,722.6657 Mil OR WWW,PAPRESS,COM Joan Firestone, Jan Lowrie The Riders and the Fusion Prints: Rebirth of City Transit: Design * Art: Functional LU Illustrated Throughout: The Gotham Series 25 Years of Transit Advocacy Objects from Donald Judd Reconsidering the Role Cooper Union by the NYPIRG Straphangers to Rachel Whiteread of Photography in the Survey Great Hall Gallery Campaign Cooper-Hewitt, of Modern Architecture 7 East 7th St. Urban Center Gallery National Design Museum Columbia GSAPP www.cooper.edu 457 Madison Ave. 2 East 91st St. i 100 Avery Gallery www.mas.org ndm.si.edu wwfw.arch.columbia.edu Solos: Future Shack Austria West: FILM & THEATER Cooper-Hewitt, National New Alpine Architecture Design Museum Austrian Cultural Forum The Emergence of Arthur Ross Terrace and 11 East 52nd St. Alvaro Siza Transforming Industriearchitektur in Berlin Garden www.acfny.org Reality (Michael Blackwood, 1840-1910 2 East 91st St. 2004), 58 min. Columbia GSAPP ndm.si.edu 6:00 p.m. 100 Avery Gallery PSFS: Nothing More Modern Parsons School of Design Columbia GSAPP www.arch.columbia.edu Yale School of Architecture Tishman Auditorium Avery Hall Matthew Baird and 180 York St., New Haven 66 West 12th St September 26-29 Parsons Graduate www.architecture.yale.edu www.parsons.edu Architecture Students The theme of this year's DOCOMOMO conference, Import- Variable City: Fox Square Design Build 2004: Export: Postwar Modernism in an Expanding World, 1945-1975, Van Alen Institute Common Ground Around Town Underground will explore the impact of preservation on modernism, and 30 West 22nd St., 6th Fl. Parsons School of Design New-York Historical Society of modernism on preservation. Held at Columbia's Graduate www.vanalen.org Glass Corner 2 West 77th St. School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as part of 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. www.nyhistory.org AIGA Design Legends Gala the school's 250th anniversary celebration, the symposium will www.parsons.edu 6:30 p.m. bring together speakers and attendees from over 25 different Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 Bob the Roman: countries. Said Theodore Prudon, president of DOCOMOMO-US, www.aigany.org Heroic Antiquity and the THROUGH OCTOBER 22 Civic Spirit: Changing the "This year we'll address the struggle for modernist preserva• Architecture of Robert Adam Teresa Hubbard and Course of Federal Design tion all over the world." New York School Of Alexander Birchler: Center for Architecture In addition to many lectures, which will take place through• AIA New York Chapter Design Interior Design Single Wide 536 LaGuardia PI. out Avery Hall, the conference will also include a number of Awards Exhibition Opening 69th Street Gallery Whitney Museum of www.aiany.org/civicspirit walking and bus tours of modernist New York City landmarks, 161 East 69th St. American Art at Altria 6:30 p.m. as well as a series of technology seminars detailing modernist Center for Architecture www.nysid.edu 120 Park Ave. THROUGH NOVEMBER 1] design and construction methods, DEBORAH GROSSBERG 536 LaGuardia PI. www.whitney.org Freedom of Expression www.aiany.org OCTOBER 1 - JANUARY 31 National Monument Vanessa Beecroft, Foley Square Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Lebbeus Woods, Kiki Smith www.creativetime.org Design-in Marathon Tobias Wong, et al. Firmament Terminal 5: Henry Urbach Architecture THROUGH NOVEMBER IS 8:30 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Center for Architecture A Project for Air Travel 526 West 26th St., 10th Fl. Variable City: Fox Square 536 LaGuardia PI. John F. Kennedy Airport, www.huagallery.com Van Alen Institute Terminal 5 30 West 22nd St. www.aiany.org/architecture www.terminalfive.com Richard Long www, vanalen.org week/designin.html Sperone Westwater OCTOBER 1 - FEBRUARY 27 415 West 13th St. OCTOBER 7 Josef and Anni Albers www.speronewestwater.com Ant Farm Heritage Ball 2004 Designs For Living Media Burn, 6:00 p.m. Cooper-Hewitt, National The Eternal Flame Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 Design Museum Warl Protest in America International Center www.aiany.org 2 East 91st St. 1965-2004 of Photography ndm.si.edu Memorials of War 1133 6th Ave. Party@theCenter 2004 9:30 p.m. SculptureCenter Whitney Museum of www.icp.org 44-19 Puves Street, Queens American Art Center for Architecture Through November 29 Doug Michels: 945 Madison Ave. 536 LaGuardia PI. www.aiany.org Life and Work www.whitney.org Rita McBride SculptureCenter hosts artist Rita McBride's first U.S. exhibition, Pratt Schafler Gallery Exhibition displaying one of the architecturally minded sculptor's largest 200 Willoughby Ave., David W. Dunlap SculptureCenter works, Arena, a 98-foot-wide semi-circular knock-down seating Brooklyn From Abyssinian to Zion: 44-19 Purves St., Queens structure, pictured above. The piece is fully functional and will www.pratt.edu Photographs of Manhattan's www.sculpture-center.org be used for a performance on October 24. Houses of Worship Design Futures Council Eleven additional works, created by McBride over the past six CONTINUING New-York Historical Society Leadership Summit on years, give the SculptureCenter's rooftop garden a distinct junk• EXHIBITIONS 2 West 77th St. Tracing Tony Smith's Tau Sustainable Design yard feel, with pieces fashioned from architectural elements www.nyhistory.org THROUGH OCTOBER 3 Hunter College Bob Berkebile, Spiro N. like skylights and awnings. The works transform commonplace 30 Under 30: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Pollalis, et al. architecture by juxtaposing standard vinyl, steel, and aluminum The Watch List of Subway Series: Art Gallery Charles Hotel constructions with precious materials like bronze. Curated by Mary Future Landmarks The New York Yankees and Lexington Ave. and 68th St. 1 Bennet St., Cambridge, MA Ceruti, SculptureCenter's director, the exhibit hopes to bring Urban Center Gallery the American Dream www.hunter.cuny.edu www.di.net/summit recognition to an American artist with a largely European fol• 457 Madison Ave. Queens Museum of Art lowing. DC www.mas.org New York City Building Flushing Meadows Electrifying Art: Modern Dutch Housing: A Corona Park, Queens Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968 Living Architectural Laboratory Beyond Koreatown: www.queensmuseum.org New York University Winy Maas, Francine Houben, New Visions of 32nd St. Grey Art Gallery Teddy Cruz, Tracy Metz, et al. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in Manhattan 100 Washington Square East Various venues 2 East 91st St. Gallery Korea Architecture and Revolution www.nyu.edu/greyart Amersterdam and Rotterdam October 1-February 27 460 Park Ave., 6th Fl. in Cuba, 1959-1969 www.aia.org/br_cod_dutch04 www.koreanculture.org Storefront for Art and Architecture Subway Series: Investigating Where We Live: 97 Kenmare St. The New York Mets and NeoCon East www.storefrontnews.org Our National Pastime Baltimore Convention Center From Grit to Glamour The work of Josef and Anni Albers comes to life in a new exhi• Bronx Museum of the Arts Urban Center Gallery 1 West Pratt St., Baltimore bition that chronicles the renowned couple's work from their 457 Madison Ave. Reiser + Umemoto 1040 Grand Concourse at www.merchandisemart.com/ austere Bauhaus years to the more playful decades they spent www.mas.org Flux Room 165th St., Bronx neoconeast in the United States at Black Mountain College in the 1930s and Artists Space www.bxma.org '40s, and in the 1950s at Yale, where Josef headed the Department 38 Greene St., 3rd Fl. of Design. 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