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NEW YORK TIMES NAMES CO NEW ARCHITECTURE CRITIC h- 04 Z DOWNTOWN PARKS LU Muschamp Out, TH GET BOOST Ouroussoff In O 05 MUSEUMS Following quickly on rumors that BULK UP The New York TTmes'venerable—and much-maligned—architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, would step down, the paper has already quietly installed his INVISIBLE successor, Nicolai Ouroussoff, critic for MEMORIAL: The Los Angeles Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. WHAT HAPPENED Ouroussoff's selection, confirmed by TO THE AFRICAN /VVTculture editor Jonathan Landman, iser + Umemoto's proposal BURIAL GROUND? came as little surprise to observers, a highway interchange who predicted that Muschamp would be REVIEWS allowed to influence the selection of his PARTICIPANTS IN 9'" VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ANNOUNCED PROTEST successor, a privilege said to have been CLASSIFIEDS granted to both of his predecessors. When Kurt Forster, director of the 9th and graphic design. Dedicated to explor• Ouroussoff is widely seen as "Muschamp- International Architecture Exhibition of ing "the fundamental changes underway lite," with a comparable focus on the the Venice Biennale (September 12 through in contemporary architecture, both in position of architecture within aesthetic, November 7), settled on Metamorph as theory and practice, and in the use of WAVERLY THEATER social, and political currents, rather than this year's theme, it was perhaps natural new building technologies," the exhibition REOPENS AS IFC CENTER the nuts and bolts of a building's design that he would select one of the leading addresses the profession's increasing and construction. "He's similar to Herbert proponents of the blob movement. dependence on multidisciplinary research in that there's continued on page 2 Asymptote, to guide the event's exhibition on everything from continued on page 5 COMING SOON

CHICAGO HOSTS 2004 CONVENTION, SHOWS OFF NEW ARCHITECTURE AIA CONVENES, After being shuttered for three years, the 67-year-old Waverly Theater on Sixth Gehry's bandsheli and bridge GOES Avenue in Greenwich Village will reopen as the Independent Film Channel (IFC) Center at the end of this year. The art deco FOUR YEARS LATE, CHICAGO'S SUPER-SIZED PARK FINALLY OPENS GREEN theater established a cult following in its later years for showing independent This year s AIA National Convention, held last films, including midnight showings of Post-Millennium Park month, was noticeably low on star power. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Gold Medal presentation was given However, its programming of marginal The ambitious Millennium an addition to the 319-acre northwestern tip of Grant posthumously to Samuel Mockbee. Keynote titles, combined with the general degra• Park has brought top lakefront Grant Park in Park, into a new arts park. speakers included writers Erik Larson, author dation of the block (now crowded with designers and artists to 1998, but an ever-growing British sculptor Anish of Tile Devil in the White City, Virginia Postrel, tattoo parlors and sex shops), led to the Windy City while raising list of programming Kapoor, Spanish artist a New York Times economics reporter and the theater's closing in 2001. the perennial question of requirements, planning Jaume Plensa, Seattle- autlior of The Substance of Style, and Helmut New York-based Bogdanow Partners howto balance public and concerns, and designers based landscape architect Jahn, the closest thing to a "starchitect" at the Architects is behind the face-lift, which private financing for civic resulted in a total budget Kathryn Gustafson, and convention. "It was much more of a roU-up- re-skins the original fapade with expanded amenities. Mayor Richard of $475 million, and the Dutch planting designer your-sleeves kind of year," said Rick Bell, metal sheeting and refurbishes its old M. Daley proposed the expansion of the project Piet Oudolf are just a few executive director of AIA-New York. marquee. "The [metal] strips are evoca• $150 million, 16-acre park to transform a sunken rail of the participating artists, The real star was Chicago, the host city, tive of a film reel in its linear form," said for downtown Chicago as yard, 24.5 acres on the continued on page 7 which is seeing a major influx of signature lighting designer Leni Schwendinger, buildings, including the hotly debated Soldier who collaborated on the project. Field renovation by Wood + Zapata, new "The colors change directionality just buildings at Illinois Institute of Technology as film moves through a projector." by OMA and Murphy Jahn, and a new educa• The designers maintained the grand tional building at the University of Chicago by feeling of the original two screening Rafael Viiioly. Millennium Park was nearing rooms by retaining their high ceilings. completion and attendees could see much of A new, third screening room occupies Frank Gehry's new band shell for the Grant an adjacent building which was claimed Park Music Festival through the chain link for the theater's expansion. Ttie annex fence, as well as glimpse the monumental also houses a film editing facility and sculptures and gardens continued on page 2 a cafe/bar. PAULA LEHMAN 00 o

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CO With all the work underway to reshape and improve Lower continued from front page an emphasis Diana Darling on o , we thought it was an opportune moment to revisit an on form and aesthetics and buildings as aesthetic expressions," said Martin Cathy Lang Ho I- almost-forgotten project on Duane Street, near —^just a Pedersen, executive editor of Metropolis. William Menking cobblestone's toss from City Hall. The site is an empty fenced-in lot, M "He doesn't seem to write about the with a sign indicating it's the future home of the African Burial insides of buildings as much." Martin Perrin LU Ground (ABG) Memorial. As Deborah Grossberg reminds us in But others see a contrast between the her feature story (page 8), the project was front-pagenew s when critics. Sylvia Lavin, chair of the architec• Jeanne Verdoux construction crews unearthed the 18th-century burial ground ture department at UCLA, says that while while doing site work for a new federal building for the U.S. General Muschamp is more of a "cultural writer Deborah Grossberg Services Administration (GSA) in 1991. Soon thereafter, as a result who has a particular interest in architec• James Way ture," Ouroussoff, who has been with of pressure fromgrassroot s activists, the GSA signed an agreement the LATsince 1996, is more of a tradition• Jonathan Chaffin with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the New al critic. "Herbert tries to show how archi• York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to construct tecture operates in the cultural sphere Paula Lehman a memorial on the site. In 1995 the GSA completed its building on and how it interacts as an equal. Nicolai a portion of the site, but it did not launch a memorial competition sees architecture as a specific case, Lori Macdonald which has a particular responsibility to, until two years later By the end of 1998, the GSA had 61 submissions and a specific bearing on, social and from which to choose but another four years would pass before it political issues." Keith James named five finalists. The finalistspresente d their designs for public Whatever the case, Muschamp and Ouroussoff are linked by more than criti• Paul Beatty review for the first time last month. cal affinities. Ouroussoff, who majored Since the ABG Memorial began, our expectations of the memorial- in Russian studies at Georgetown and PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ building process have grown considerably more sophisticated. later received an M.A. in architecture MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / Unfortunately, the lessons of the Oklahoma City and World Trade from Columbia, is a personal friend JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ of Muschamp; the elder critic is said to LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ Center memorials can't be retroactively applied to this case. At this have even helped him get the LAT\ob. D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / point, the most important thing is that the ABG Memorial be carried GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG / PETER 2ELLNER "He's a Herbert protege," says Pedersen. on, as smoothly and transparently as possible. The GSA has announced While his personal connections to the unlikely completion date of Fall 2005. Let's see what happens. Muschamp should have no bearing on PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ whether Ouroussoff will succeed as the M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ The LPC's role in this project has been slight, though we touch on WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN / its responsibilities in two other articles—"More than Metal" (page 3), A/VTcritic, some people are grumbling SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ about an unresolved violation in the recently landmarked that his selection represents a failure by LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / the paper to address shortcomings in its JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ Gansevoort Market Historic District, and our Protest column (page architectural coverage. In the December KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN 14) which recounts the failed attempt to preserve the Feigen Gallery, 2002 issue of Architectural Record, the designed in 1969 by Hans Hollein. magazine's editor, Robert Ivy, called on GENERAL INFORMATION: INF09ARCHPAPIR.COM The Feigen Gallery is just over 30 years old and thus eligible for the /VVTto add a second critic to its EDITORIAL: EDITOR®ARCHPAPER.COM architectural coverage. DIARY: DIARYdiARCHPAPER.COM landmark designation, but it was brought to the LPC's attention too Ivy said he is hopeful that the A/VTwill ADVERTISING: SALESlSiARCHPAPER.COM SUBSCRIPTION: SUBSCRIBE(»ARCHPAPER.COM late to be saved. The efforts of local preservationists certainly aren't now take advantage of the changing of the guard to expand its critical coverage. PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING helped by the fact that the LPC is one of the smallest of the city's DUPLICATE COPIES. agencies, and will likely be smaller as a result of the cuts in funding "The fact is, it's a big world and it's hard for one person to cover it." THE VIEWS or OUR REVICWEB3 AMD COLUMNISTS DO NOT it has been dealt in Mayor Bloomberg's 2005 budget. The case of the NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE STAFF OR ADVISORS OF Nevertheless, with two Pulitzer finalist THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. Feigen highlights the challenges facing modernist preservation in nods under his belt, Ouroussoff comes to

VOLUME 02, ISSUE 12. JULY 13, 2004 particular, which, argues Michael Gotkin of the Modern Architecture New York with presumption on his side. THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAR. BY THE ARCHlTECrS NEWSPAPER, LLC, P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK. MY lOOlJ. Working Group, requires more than education and publicity but Several of his articles in recent years, PRESORT-STANDARO POSTAGE PAID IN MEW YORK, NY. POSTMASTER; SEND ADDRESS CHANCES TO: THE AHCHITECrS NEWSPAPER, CIRCULATION concerted advocacy as well. We will cover this issue in more depth in including an emotional September 13 DEPARTMENT, P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK, MY 10013. FOR SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: CALL 212-966-0630. FAX 212-966-0633. $3.95 A COPT, piece about the World Trade Center $39.00 ONE YEAR, INTERNATIONAL SI60.00 ONE YEAR, INSTITUTIONAL September, in our coverage of the DOCOMOMO conference to SI49.00 ONE YEAR. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE attacks and a fascinating look at Baghdad ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. be held at Columbia University, WILLIAM MENKINO AND CATHY LAMG HO post-Saddam won him rave reviews in the architecture community. Indeed, his Baghdad writing was singled out for praise in his 2004 Pulitzer AIA CONVENES, GOES GREEN to hear what is going on at the grass nomination. In it, he deftly drew on Iraqi In response to Liane Lefaivre's letter continued from front page roots level across the country." Mayor history—recent and ancient—to describe (Issue 11_6.22.2004) lamenting the lack of that fill out the park. Mayor Richard Daley opened the convention by talk• Baghdad's current decrepit state. The presen/ation activity surrounding the Feigen M. Daley's ambitious green building ing about green design, a theme that erosion of Baghdad's building stock, Gallery designed by Hans Hollein, we would efforts were displayed prominently was later picked up by Honolulu he argued, was the result of a variety of like to clarify that DOCOMOMO's primary at the Chicago Foundation for Mayor Jeremy Harris, recently factors, ranging from the "cultural amne• mission is to raise awareness of the impor• Architecture, and were in evidence named to the AIA's national Board of sia" induced by the Hussein regime to tance of modern architecture and to be a at street level in the countless land• Directors, who practically shrieked the lack of solid building materials. resource for historical, technical, and advoca• scaped medians recently installed at conventioneers, "We need to design In summing up the city's architectural cities for people, not for automobiles!" cy work as an all-volunteer organization. throughout the city. dilemma, he compared the city with This admonition was greeted with Most people don't even realize that buildings Sustainability was a major theme, Los Angeles and Rome. Unlike those polite applause. and sites from this era are eligible for city with fully one-third of the seminars cities, he wrote, "Baghdad has neither and national landmark status. touching on subjects ranging from The focus on substance over spec• the benefit of an unbroken history nor Working closely with Friends of the Upper permeable pavers and green roofe tacle didn't deter attendance. The AIA the freedom that comes with youth." East Side Historic Districts. DOCOMOMO to architectural solutions to global counted over 22,000 attendees and And though no stranger to New Work worked to bring the significance of the Feigen warming. "There was much less exhibitors, a record for the organiza• City, Ouroussoff is bringing with him Gallery to the attention of the owner and of pedagogy than in previous years, and tion. Look for a return to spectacle at a perspective free of the "Manhattan much more of an exchange of ideas," the Landmarks Preservation Commission next year's convention—to be held below 96th Street" myopia that has said Bell. "It was a great opportunity in Las Vegas, ALAN C. BRAKE atter we learned of the renovation work hindered Muschamp. underway. We are as disappointed as Lavin, for one, agrees. "I think having Lefaivre is over the alterations to the gallery. someone come to New York now from NINA RAPPAPORT AND JEFEREY MILES an interesting city like L.A. is an incredible CO-CHAIRS, NEW YORK TRI-STATE CHAPTER SUBSCRIBECDARCHPAPER.COM opportunity to help break New York's

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LU TIMES BITES BACK Looks like we'll have to find someone else to complain about now that Herbert BUCKY O Muschamp is stepping down as /VVf architecture critic. But-nothinq against his successor, Nicola! Ouroussoff-we're still hearing calls for the paper of LAN F 1 record to add other critics to its architecture coverage. Why? Because, as Architectural Record's Robert Ivy notably argued in a December 2002 edito•

<• • rial, two pairs of eyes are better than one. And one critic too easily engenders IN the kinds of ethical transgressions, megalomaniacal behavior, and general o wackiness that marked Muschamp's tenure. "First, I vigorously reject the assertion that Herbert was corrupt," A/Vf culture editor Jonathan Landman told us when we checked in. "It's nasty gossip." (Nasty maybe, but not really CO just gossip.) "All fields think they should have more critics," Landman contin• LU ued, "and they all think they need it uniguely." But why is architecture the > only cultural beat with a single critic (even dance has more!)? "It's not a com•

MEATPACKING DISTRICT'S FIRST The violation includes a $250 fine that has still VIOLATION OF LANDMARK LAW not been paid. The LPC, too, issued a warning after the building owner slapped on a billboard for More than Metal Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights in January 2004. However, no fines or calls for action have been One of the first controversies confronting taken, and it is unlikely the LPC will move on the the newly created Gansevoort Market Historic matter any time soon. In 2003,17 LPC staffers District IS the case of 440 West 14th Street, were responsible for 7,875 applications, and a cold-storage warehouse that dates to 1887. Gansevoort Market was the only district they In August 2003 owner Gachot & Gachot ripped were able to create out of 273 applications for off the building's distinctive metal awning. individual and district landmarks. Furthermore, Though the act was committed before the the LPC has suffered a 10 percent cut in Mayor area's landmark designation in September Bloomberg's 2005 budget, announced in April. 2003, the Greenwich Village Society for But things might be looking up for the Historic Preservation (GVSHP) contends that, defaced building. Diane von Furstenberg had the owners gone through the standard recently acquired the building and, as the new 40-day procedure to secure the proper permit, owner, all outstanding violations will be trans• the project would have been forced into ferred to her. Many expect that the fashion examination by the Landmarks Presen/ation designer, who has been active in the neighbor• Commission (LPC). hood's preservation, will do more than simply In October 2003 the Department of Buildings pay the outstanding fine—not only removing for full Information visit; www.nyc.gov/buildnyc issued an Environmental Control Board violation the billboard but perhaps even restoring the or call: Bernarda Ramirez 718 3912666 for work done to the building without a permit. metal awning, PL 00 3 o LU

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LMDC GIVES DOWNTOWN t. 6. Al Smith Playground This 19"'-century park, decommis• With an aging play area and an 3. Canal / Laight Park 4. Sara D. Roosavelt PARKS A BOOST sioned in the 1920s and a vacant entryway in need of repair, Parks is Park space ever since, will soon be home reconstructing this playground with 2. Triboca Park to a new athletic facility. The park newly coated sports courts, fences, 5. will feature resurfaced sports courts, picnic tables, and lighting. The City an updated irrigation system, and 7. East River Ballfields reconstructed turf areas. 6. Al Smith will gain two new Playground 1. Washington Market Park 2. Tribeca Park natural grass fields and two artificial Beautiful This triangular concrete open space turf fields. The LMDC is also propos• reopened this month as a park fea• ing a relining of the waterfront wall, 7. East River While grand plans for the Freedom Tower, turing a central oval-shaped plaza which would postpone the park's Ballfields 8. Plaza completion to 2005. World Trade Center Memorial, a sprawl• surrounded by bluestone and gran• & Drumgoole Plaza ing arts corridor, and direct rail to JFK ite paving. New planting beds line the park's edges. 8. Brooklyn Bridge/Drumgoole Plaza airport are still pending, The landing area for the Brooklyn is beginning to see incremental improve• 3. Canal/Laight Park Bridge will soon cater to New York's ments in some of its long-overlooked cor• Motivated by 9/11, the Association fittest with three tennis table units, 9. Wall Street Triangle ners. The LMDC donated $24.6 million of Landscape Contractors of America a volleyball court, a reconstructed 12. Bowling lO. QWSUp (of the $1 billion it received from city and made a donation toward the trans• basketball court, tai chi areas, and formation of what has been for a newly landscaped seating area. Green . state funds when it was formed by 11. Coenties Slip years an automobile graveyard. Meanwhile, nearby Drumgoole Plaza Governor George Pataki and Mayor The Parks Department is working (just south of the Brooklyn Bridge 13. Battery Park Rudy Giuliani following 9/11) toward the with DOT and the Port Authority on Plaza), was the first of the LMDC- Bosque restoration and renovation of 13 down• the project, which features an orna• supported parks to be completed. town parks, mostly below Canal Street. mental fountain, flowering trees, Built in less than five months and opened last fall, the once empty lot "Parks can become marginalized in and decorative paving. now features a new seating area 10. Old Slip 12. Bowling Green urban development or redevelopment comprised of benches from the 1964 The existing plaza that runs from Bowling Green, the oldest park because of more complex or costly A paved walkway will guide strollers World's Fair, surrounded by 1,100 Water Street to is being in the country, finally got a face-lift. issues," said Joshua Laird, chief of plan• and other wheeled park-goers past shrubs, perennials, and ornamental reconstructed with new granite Completed last month, the park ning for the Department of Parks and newly coated sports courts and grasses lining the pathway that con• curbs and planting beds for events features restored elements such as the original iron fencing that Recreation. "This project is unprecedent• a brand-new synthetic turf soccer nects Frankfort and Rose Streets. related to the on-site Police Museum. The museum itself will was knocked down when George ed. People are seizing on open spaces as field. The reconstructed park will The Department of Transportation also include a new entrance. managed the extensive improve• be illuminated with new light poles Washington's troops heard of the qualities that will make Lower ments to the street and sidewalks. at the west end of the park. Declaration of Independence and Manhattan great again." The parks 5. Columbus Park stormed the park to topple the department raised an additional $65 This historic Five Points park, locat• 9. Wall Street Triangle 11. Coenties Slip statue of King George III. million from private sources and grants, ed in Chinatown, will see its grand This existing roadbed is being con• Home to the city's Vietnam and established a general priority of mod• pavilion restored. Built in 1897, verted into a pathway/park. Granite Veterans Memorial, this park now 13. Battery Park Bosque and glass benches line the lunch- also features a bluestone sidewalk This park saw the creation of a lush ernizing the parks with regards to both the pavilion was closed to the public in 1999 due to its crumbling infra• friendly allee, which terminates with and an array of planting beds. 57,000-square-foot grove of 50-year- design and technology (such as improved structure. Private funds are support• a fountain designed by an artist New benches and flowering trees, old London plane trees. The park lighting). All 13 parks are expected to ing the rebuilding of the park's (yet to be chosen). The west half of shrubs, and perennials will surround also gains a carousel designed by be complete within two years, PL ballfields. the park was completed this month. a new bronze fountain. sculptor Barbara Broughel.

The American Institute of Architects announced the 2004 AIA/HUD 606 Universal Shelving System Secretary's Housing and Design Awards winners residential and community Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960 for Vitsce and VITSCE produced continuously ever since. Add more design. The projects include the Carver Academy and Cultural Civic Center, when you need. Take it with you when you move. a mixed-use cultural community center in San Antonio, Texas by Lake/Fiato www.vitsoe.com Architects, and ALEGRIA-Salvation Army, a residential housing project by BIRBA GROUP in Los Angeles for families dealing with HIV/AIDS.

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association awarded Fox & Fowie the Northeast Green Building Award Honorable Mention in Places of Learning for the Black Rock Forest Center for Science and Education in Cornwall, New York. The annual competition recognizes outstanding high-perform• ance buildings.

Michael A. Herrman received the 2004-2005 Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome for his project entitled Nomadic Spaces.

Japan Art Association has announced the five recipients of the 16th Annual Praemium Imperiale Arts Awards, including Oscar Niemeyer for architecture and Bruce Nauman for sculpture. The program recognizes lifetime achieve• ment in arts categories not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

Architect Louise Braverman received the 2004 National Housing PIA Design Award and 2004 BSA/AIA New York Housing Design Program Award for Chelsea Court, an 18 unit low-income housing project located on 17th Street in Manhattan.

The Art Commission of the City of New York, devoted to reviewing the aes• thetic merit of works of art, architecture, and landscape architecture on city- owned land, presented the 22nd Annual Awards for Excellence in Design t o eight projects, including: the entrance canopy of the Museum by James Turrell and Roger Duffy of SOM; the south fagade of the West 8th Street Station by Vito Acconci of Acconci Studio and James McConnell of Daniel Frankfurt PC; and the reconstruction of the ground floor and plaza of

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CITY OVERHAULS NOISE CODE, Predock_Frane has created a field of 5,000 nearly invisible filaments to evoke Venice's TARGETS CONSTRUCTION SITES continued from front page computational science to bioengineering to cinema. flood patterns and a contemplative space (top). Kolatan/MacDonald consolidates live For those who were under the impres• and work spaces in stacked pods (middle). sion that the curve was verging on passe, LTL explores parking in relation NOISY NY, Forster has found over 200 projects from to various building types (bottom). around the world, grouped under sections such as "Atmosphere," "Topographies," NO MORE "Surfaces," and "Hyper-Projects," According to deputy commissioner that defend his contention that a "new Suzanne Stephens, also an editor at In a 2002 press conference Mayor morphology of living spaces is beginning Architectural Record, "We selected firms Bloomberg grouped noise with city to eclipse the era of Vitruvian architecture." based on their ongoing research activity problems such as prostitution and drug The exhibition will study contemporary and advancement of ideas about particular dealing when he launched Operation architecture's fluid, organic impulses, building types." For example, Kolatan/ Silent Night, a noise code enforcement "not just in metaphoric, but also in MacDonald has been steadily exploring plan targeting 24 high-noise neighbor• metabolic terms," according to Forster. new approaches to residences; Reiser + hoods. This June, he revisited the prob• New York firms are well represented, Umemoto's work on the Alishan Railroad lem, announcing, along with Christopher including Diller + Scofidio, Field Operations, in Taiwan reconsiders the intermodal hub; Ward, commissioner of the Department Leeser Architecture, Steven Holl, Michael LTL has done extensive research on parking of Environmental Protection (DEP), a pro• Sorkin Studio, Rafael Viiioly, Peter garages; George Yu's previous work has posed overhaul of the 32-year-old New Eisenman, Richard Meier, Bernard Tschumi, studied shopping centers; Studio/Gang has York City Noise Code that would increase Vito Acconci, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, advanced ideas about public event venues; the effectiveness of noise laws while among others. and Predock_Frane has honed its approach accommodating development, The works will be presented in the long to spiritual centers. construction, and nightlife activities. Corderie, the facility where rope was made This is the second consecutive architec• The amended code defines offensive from the 16th to 18th centuries for the ture biennale in which the U.S. pavilion is sounds between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. at area's vast shipbuilding industry. being promoted by the U.S. Department 7 decibels (dB) and between 7 a.m. and Asymptote's Hani Rashid and Lise-Anne of State. In previous years, it was adminis• 10 p.m. as 10 dB above the area's ambient Couture have designed a processional tered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim sound. The code would make construc• frame that gives the space a sense of Foundation, primarily for the art biennale, tion illegal between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. continuity and movement. Asymptote which occur on alternating four-year during the week and all day on weekends, also designed the installation for the cycles with the architecture biennale. As with the exception of work on certain Italian Pavilion and collaborated with the it stands, the U.S. government's support owner-occupied or religious dwellings. New York graphic design firm Omnivore of the pavilion is minimal, covering only Some city construction projects and on the Biennale's graphic identity. the cost of security and the building's basic emergency work within an 8 dB limit For the second time, Robert Ivy, operation. To pull off this year's exhibition. would be able to apply for after-hours editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, Architectural Record has actively sought work permits. The code is still under is serving as commissioner of the U.S. corporate and private sponsorship. review. If passed, it could go into pavilion. Themed Trancending Type, Autodesk has stepped up, as has architect effect July 1,2005. the pavilion will feature fresh installations Herbert McLaughlin of Kaplan McLaughlin The current code prohibits sound that by Kolatan/MacDonald Studio; Reiser+ Diaz, to support the country's participation is "unreasonable to a person of normal Umemoto; Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTD; in what is considered the world's most sensitivities." Traditionally, police officers George Yu Architects; Studio/Gang/ important architecture event.

have measured sounds with handheld Architects; and Predock_Frane. CATHY LANG HO meters 15 feet from the source on a public right of way. But according to the Mayor's office, these devices require frequent calibration and have a large margin of MANY OF THE CITY'S MUSEUMS ARE IN THE MIDST error. They also tend to miss low-frequency MUSEUMS OF MAJOR RENOVATIONS AND EXPANSIONS. SOME ARE vibrations. For this reason, the new code SIMPLY UPDATING THEIR AGING FACILITIES WHILE allows meter-less police officers to evalu• ate subjectively if sounds exceed typical OTHERS ARE LETTING THEIR EXPANSIONS BE A BLUE• noise levels in residential areas. BULK UP PRINT FOR NEW INTERNAL ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM• The code also sets out legislation MING. HERE'S A LOOK AT CHANGES ON THE HORIZON: for "noise mitigation strategies, methods, procedures and technology that shall be used at construction sites" where air Museum Existing Renovation/ Renovation Budget Completion compressors, pile drivers, bulldozers, (Original architecture) Square Feet Addition (sf) Architect (in millions) Date pneumatic hammers and tools, cranes, and power tools are in operation. The law Afdrich Contemporary Art IVIuseum (Anonymous, 1783) 13,000 12,000 Tapp6 Associates $9 2004 also requires that, prior to construction, Bronx IVIuseum IVIuseum of the Arts 10,500 16,000 Arquitectonica $13.6 2005 each involved party must adopt a DEP- (Castro-Blanco, Tiscioneri and Seder, 1982) compliant noise abatement plan, which Brooklyn Children's Museum 51,000 51,000 Rafael Viiioly Architects $39 2006 could include perimeter fences, portable (Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, 1977) acoustic barriers, blanket insulation, and Brooklyn Museum of Art (McKim, Mead & White, 1897) 560,000 98,000 Polshek Partnership Architects $63 2004 mufflers—measures already commonly used. A DEP-compliant plan need not be Isamu NoguchI Garden Museum 42,400 0 Sage and Coombe Architects $13.5 2004 filed however it must be available on-site. (Isamu Noguchi and Shojl Sadao, 1985 Non-compliant construction sites must file Liberty Science Center 170,000 125,000 EwingCole $104 2007 an alternative plan for approval by the DEP (E. Verner Johnson & Associates, 1993) For the building industry, the new law Metropolitan Museum of Art 2,000,000 60,000 Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo S900 2007 could mean more paperwork and poten• (Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold, 1870) and Associates tially lengthier construction schedules. Musem of Modern Art 315,000 315,000 Yoshio Taniguchi S425 Said one representative of a large con• 2004 (Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, 1929) tracting company, "I guess we'll find out [how the new law will affect us] when we Pierpont Morgan Library (Charles McKim, 1906) 110,604 40,097 Renzo Piano Building Workshop $100 2006 get ticketed." Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 90,000 0 Swanke Hayden Connell $25 2006 Noise is the city's number-one (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959) complaint, with its telephone hotline Museum of Art (Armory Embury, II, 1939) 50,000 100,000 Eric Owen Moss Architects $24 2008 averaging at nearly 1,000 calls each day. JAMES WAY Whitney Museum of American Art (Marcel Breuer, 1966) 35,660 TBA Renzo Piano Building Workshop TBA TBA o

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The site for the African Burial Ground Memorial ^ft stands today (above). On a map from 1763 (below left), a rectang^|^r^acre strip just north of the Commons-today's City Hall P^riH^X^eled "Neqro Burial Ground."

After seven years of fits and starts, the United States General Services Administration's project to memorialize downtown's African Burial Ground is taking I I African Burial Ground off again. But does the latest series •• Memorial Site of public forums really mean the process is back on track? Deborah Grossberg investigates. o 3

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Although the United States General Services The memorial is slated for completion in to contain no human remains in 1995. Administration (GSA) has received high December 2005, according to the GSA. "The memorial project was a mitigation of honors in recent months from the National The African Burial Ground project fell our responsibility for constructing a building Building Museum and the American into the GSA's hands in 1989 while it was on the burial ground site," said GSA's Dremel. Architectural Foundation for its design conducting a cultural site survey for a federal The MOA also required the GSA to flind achievements, the organization stands office building at the corner of Broadway a research project to study human remains accused by some New Yorkers of dropping and Duane Street. The study, mandated by removed from the site. Dr. Michael Blakey the ball on a crucial project close to home: the 1966 Historic Preservation Act, uncov• of Howard University led the research team the African Burial Ground Memorial. ered 18th-centiiry maps depicting a forgot• whose findings have provided new insight After the high-profile discovery of the his• ten Afi'ican graveyard occupying 6 acres just into the brutal conditions of slavery in colo• toric site nearly 15 years ago and the north of —known in colonial nial New York City, which was the second- announcement of an RFP for a memorial times as the Commons—cutting through largest slave port in the U.S. in the 18th design in i 997, the project has fallen off the the south side of the GSA's building site. century, after Charleston, South Carolina. GSA's and the public's radar. "Basically, the The find reversed centuries of hidden his• At the time, 10 to 20 percent of the city's GSA's been on vacation on this project," tory for New York's African-American com• population was of African descent. To date, said Mabel Wilson, an architect on the munity. "The African Burial Ground proved the GSA has spent $30 million on archaeo• finalist team Groundworks, whose design that Harlem is not the only black New York," logical and anthropological research. was selected along with four others in said Eustace Pilgrim, director of graphics at Dremel blamed the memorial competi• February 2003. the Department of City Planning and one tion's holdup on the lengthy research being City councilmember Charles Barron, of the memorial finalists. conducted at Howard. But many wonder an active participant on the Committee Preserved under 20 feet of landfill, the why the memorial project could not have of the De.scendants of the Afi'ican Burial Aft-ican Burial Ground occupies what was gone forward at tlie same time as the Ground, voiced his dissatisfaction more once a desolate ravine outside city limits. research, as was originally planned. forcefully: "The GSA has been showing us In the 17th and 18th centuries, Dutch and "The initial RFP asked us to accommodate the same kind of arrogance and disrespect as English settlers denied Afi'icans permission a future reinterment of hiunan remains and it displayed at the beginning of this project." to bury their dead in church graveyards artifacts," said architect and finalist Joseph Acknowledging that the memorial was, within the city proper, forcing them to use DePace. Reburial of the remains on the site in the words of GSA chief of staff Karl this out-of-the-way, undesirable strip of took place at a ceremony last October. Reichelt, "long overdue," the GSA stepped land. Archaeologists estimate tliat approxi• "Now that die remains are back in the ground up the pace on the project last year. mately 20,000 Africans, both enslaved and it's unclear whether further construction In September, the organization brought free, were buried on the site from the late on this site poses the possibility of some in the National Parks Service (NFS) as a 1600s to 1794, when the burial ground was kind of disrespect," said DePace. consultant and public liaison, a role it often clo.sed. Memories of its existence slowly Tender treatment of the site, which many plays in work involving national historic faded after Dutch-Americans brought the community members see as sacred, was a hot landmarks. (The African Burial Ground site to grade in the early 1800s. topic at the June forums. But dialogue was was designated a landmark in 1993.) In 1991 the GSA began archaeological site repeatedly bogged down by questions that "We're not necessarily in the business testing. The African-American community, were more suitable for a GSA delegate than of building memorials." said Mark Dremel, already frustrated at its exclusion from the the newly appointed NFS representative and project manager for the African Burial process, became enraged when The New York designers who were present at the meetings. Ground at the GSA. "NFS knows monu• Times reported that the GSA planned to Community members also expressed disap• ments and memorials. They're taking the excavate the burial ground with the so-called pointment at the forums' poor attendance, lead on this." Dennis Montagna of NFS coroner's method, a technique consisting of claiming they had not been well organized. agreed. "The GSA ran the competition much digguig up graves with a backhoe. Waging a Forums drew between 20 and 80 people in like its arts and architecture program, which grassroots campaign, activists campaigned auditoriums capable of seating hundreds. primarily contracts design and construction for increased oversight. In December 1991 At the June 14 forum in Brooklyn, atten• services and commissions works of art for Senator David A. Paterson established a task dees debated whether building on the site federal buildings," he said. "At a certain point force to supervise the project. Soon tliere- would be sacrilegious. OUie McLean of the the competition just ground to a halt." NFS after, the GSA signed a memorandum of Descendants of the African Burial Ground got the ball rolling in May, facilitating two agreement (MOA) with the Advisory asserted, "We don't build on a sacred ceme• small public workshops as a prelude to five Council on Historic Preservation and the tery. We want a green, landscaped space with larger, if under-publicized, forums held at New York City Landmarks Preservation an eternal flame on that land." As an alterna• schools, churches, and community centers in Commission outlining its responsibUities to tive, McLean suggested seizing abutting each borough in mid-June. The forums in the African Burial Ground, including the properties by eminent domain, one for the turn set in motion a six-week revision construction of a memorial on the site. memorial and the other for a museum dedi• process to be followed by final submissions The GSA completed construction of its cated to Afi'ican-American history. "In and the selection of a winner, though the $276 million building at 290 Broadway on Brooklyn, we're displacing thousands for a GSA has not set dates for those milestones. a piece of the site deemed by archaeologists ballpark. It's the least GSA can do."

The African Burial Ground Memorial's five finalist designs attempt to tread lightly on a site many consider sacred. At left: Groundworks proposes greening the site, save a small clearing for a lanternlike "spirit catcher," a chamber for contemplation and mourning. Above, top to bottom: Eustace Pilgrim and Christopher Davis have created a sloped berm with a curved wall adorned with Yoruba-inspired terracotta faces; McKissack & McKissack's slave ship tells a literal tale of suffering; Joseph DePace's proposal refers to African burial prac• tices; and Rodney Leon draws from African architecture with its spiral path leading to a libation chamber. o

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LMDC. Though the WTC breaks the City was bombed and memorialized about eight months, raised doubt accountability. But Joseph DePace, Comparative record for contemporary memorial in less time than it took the GSA about whether a memorial design another finalist, warned against too budgets, even another new down• to pick the finalists for the ABG should be selected in such hasty much public involvement, citing Studies town memorial—the Irish Hunger Memorial," said Mabel Wilson, a fashion. Eustace Pilgrim, an artist Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Memorial, completed in 2002— finalist. The Oklahoma City National and ABG memorial finalist, argued, Veterans Memorial. 'A lot of con• TheSI million appropriated by fared better than the ABG Memorial. Memorial (built at a cost of $10 mil• "Something this important should servatives didn't want an Asian- Congress for the African Burial It netted $5 million from lion, funded by private donations) not be rushed." Amencan woman designing the Ground (ABG) Memorial doesn't Park City Authority. went from RFP to completion in Another notable difference in the memorial, but their chosen alterna• seem like much when compared Other recent memorial competi• under four years. At the same time, handling of the ABG Memorial is the tive was a two-story-tall pair of with the whopping $300 million set tions have also proceeded signifi• the fast-tracked WTC competition, anonymity of the selection commit• Army boots," he said. "The issue aside for the WTC memorial by the cantly more quickly "Oklahoma which went from RFP to winner in tee, which has led to questions of is to select the best project." DG

Rodney Leon, a finalist and principal of terror of slaves flung overboard. AARJ^IS Architects, looiced at the issue dif• Constructive public design dialogues ferently. "There's a difference between an notwithstanding, the project—now in its occupied building and a memorial. The real seventh year—remains crippled by lack 5UBSCRIBE(a)ARCHPAPER.C0M question is how do you create a gravestone of managerial continuity. "Consistency has for 20,000 anonymous people? How do you been an issue," conceded Dr. Sherrill D. undo their anonymity?" Leon derived his Wilson, director of the Office of Public design's sequence of monumental forms Education and Interpretation of the African —a spiral ramp, a circular gathering space, Burial Ground (OPEI), an informational and a triangular tapering tower—from West center funded by GSA. "We're the only func• and North African architecture. "The forms tioning part of the project that's been here MANHATTAN create a visible contrast against the grid of from the beginning." Janovic Plaza - East Side cniiciamts the city," said Leon. Adding to the confusion is the issue of 212.645.5454 Other forum participants supported the project's budget, which, according to MANHATTAN building on the site, arguing for the use of the GSA, may get a boost from its initial cap Janovic Plaza - Soho references to African burial practices. Said of $1 million to account for inflation. But 212.627.1 100 one,"If you're looking for the place where GSA has not released an estimate of the exact increase, forcing finalists to guess for we put buildings on our dead, then you'll RosLYN HEIGHTS. NY find it in Africa." The same speaker cited themselves. As it stands, some hope for $2.5 Willis Paint Egyptian pyramids and Dogon burials with• million while others are attempting to stay 516.484.2721 in the walls of houses as examples. DePace within the original budget. agreed, arguing,"Paradoxically, |the Mabel WUson sees the project's delays as SOUTHOLD, NY Descendants'proposals] are referencing unsurprising continuations of the site's his• Southold Paint European burial practices." DePace's project tory of invisibility. "Slavery is the blind spot 631.765,3113 uses African symbols and materials like a in America's eye," said Wilson. "The govern• WAINSCOTT. NY pyramidal perimeter fence woven from cop• ment and the general public don't see this Janovic/Paint House per strips and a groundcover of crushed site as visible and relevant." 631.537.9700 white oyster shells, used to decorate graves Wilson intends to combat the site's invis• in West Africa to symbolize the spirit living ibility by greening the memorial site as well ENGLEWOOD, NJ on the sea. "Our design is respectfiil of the as the landscape surrounding the buildings Eagle Paint & Wallpaper site's sacred nature, touching lightly on the on the entire burial ground. The centerpiece 201.568.6051 ground," he said. Eustace Pilgrim and of her team's project, a glowing, tapered Christopher Davis, a team of artists, also glass shelter, appears in a clearing witliin the GREENWICH, CT McDermort Paint emphasized a light touch with a design that larger grove. Wilson said, "Though the plan 203.622.0699 features a curved pathway dividing a land• goes beyond the scope of the competition, scaped berm from a reflecting pool. it's a relatively feasible way to make visible DARIEN, CT Herbert Wilson, IH, of McKissack & an area of the city whose history has been The Paint Center/Rings End McKissack, one of the finali.sts and principal systematically erased and forgotten." 203.656.7553 of the oldest minority-owned architecture With no date set for the announcement firm in the nation, defended his team's plan of the winning design, no jury publicly to put a more substantial building on the named, no clear budget, and no di.sclosure THE PINNACLE OF THE DUTCH ART OF PAINT-MAKING. site. "We need to mark the site with a symbol of what the remainder of the memorial- Formulated with great care using only the finest ingredients, our paints that stands out for years and is emblematic building process would entail, it remains to produce complex living colors that enhance any environment. of lives lost." His firm's project references be seen whether the GSA and the NPS will Please call i.soo.332.1556 or visit our website for product information, the middle passage with a ribbed structure give the African Burial Ground Memorial retailer locations or home delivery: WWW.FINEPAINTSOFEUROPE.COM in the form of a slave ship surrounded by the visibility it deserves. reflecting pools, waterfalls, and a sound DEBORAH GROSSBERG IS AN ASSISTANT installation of screams meant to recall the EDITOR AT AM. CO lU M > LU

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Austria West: New Alpine Architecture Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street Through October 30

This survey of recent architecture in the western Austrian provinces of Tirol and Vorarlberg is anything but provincial. In fact for an American audience, it's amaz• ing that a show like this could be mount• Armin Linke's GhazI Barotha Hydroelectric ed at all. Where in any rural part of the Power Scheme, Site Workers Prayirtg, U.S. would one find a similar high level Hattian, Pakistan (1999) of modern architecture? Even in well- healed resort towns like Aspen or Sun offers a decidedly experimental and is of an idealized image of spiritual connect• Valley one finds mostly McMansions and conceptual perspective. A fixed camera is edness in the seemingly incongruous ersatz Alpine-style buildings, but never pointed outward from inside a glass-fronted context of toiling on a large public works a hint of contemporary architecture. POWER elevator in the Baghdad Sheraton. First project. In this image, Linke creates a strik• While Austria West: New Alpine offering a view of the lobby opposite it ing image encoded with both contemporary Architecture includes buildings aping —in which the focal point is a formal por• and ancient uses of monuments, amusingly current design fashion—walls of opaque PLAY trait of Saddam Hussein—the camera and highlighting the circumstantial conflict of milky glass and blobby metal skinned image suddenly begin to move upward as the site and inventive cultural adaptation. buildings—one must be impressed that the elevator rises slowly and steadily. About Spirituality appears again as a theme in there is barely a pitched roof or traditional a third of the way up, the hotel interior goes Linke's 15-minute DVD entitled Gaza City, detail to be seen. The wall text alludes to Armin Linke: out of view and in its place appears a splen• 2003, Roadblock at Netsareim, Settlement the controversy that many of these build• An Uneven Exchange of Power did, commanding vista of the well-lit city on Storefront for Art and Architecture Beach Road {2003) in which he documents ings caused when they first appeared in 97 Kenmare Street a peaceful night. After a mesmerizing one- the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict at their small villages. The Blue Hall Federal Closed June 5 minute-and-thirty-second ascent, the eleva• its most everyday level. In contrast to the Ski Academy by Peter Lorenz is a typical tor halts and in a split-second edit, night unobstructed vertical elevator ride filmed case: a prefab blue box tilted off the turns to day and the descent begins, with with a fixed camera in a long single expo• ground, accessed by a cantilevered stair• Like other artists who have created large the camera offering a view of the dirty exte• sure, this piece is shot from eye level and case covered with a large bright orange archives of photographic images, most rior of the glass elevator and a less visually cinematically edited. It shows Palestinian sail. It must have seemed like a Martian notably Gerhard Richter and August engaging sunlit cityscape behind it. Linke's men, women, and children on their routine invader in its Sound of Mus/c surround• Sander, Armin Linke took on the subjective carefully planned project leads the viewer trips back and forth to work and school, ings—but somehow it was built. task of creating categories for organizing to consider the distinctions between profes• crossing sand dunes along the sea, walking There is a beautiful show within the his body of work, which covers themes sional and amateur art and media—an parallel to the roadblock of the title—which show, devoted to residences, which fur• such as fashion, interior, landscape archi• especially compelling consideration at a is defended by inland gunfire—and beyond, thers the case that the region is develop• tecture, performance, portrait, reportage, moment when candid digital photographs on the shore, climbing up steps to an ing a convincing vernacular that marries reproduction, still life, work, and industry. of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prison• uneven landscape of foliage and makeshift steel and glass with traditional wood con• Curator Anselm Franke drew from this ers has radically shifted the perception of structures, dodging bullets to cross the struction to create something that fits in broad archive to present the exhibition the ethical balance of power and momen• road on the other side of the barrier. well with its dramatic landscape. Housed Armin Linke: An Uneven Exchange of tarily upstaged photojournalism and sur• The poignancy of watching the Palestinians in a beautifully crafted pine room, the Power, highlighting three provocative veillance photography. negotiating this dangerous daily obstacle section features delicate wooden models, projects with imagery of Iraq, Israel, Taken from the artist's archival category course has more political and emotional a video wall displaying 40 new houses, Palestine, and Pakistan. of landscape architecture, the large-scale impact than a direct hit by an Israeli gun• and take-away cards on each.

At first, the exhibit's title and subject Inkjet print Ghazi Barotha Hydroelectric man. In this regard, Linke is successful in WILLIAM MENKING IS AN EDITOR AT AN. matter appear to speak simply to the politi• Power Scheme, Site Workers Praying, capturing the quotidian drama of ongoing cal turmoil in these countries. But like the Hattian, Pakistan {^999) deftly displays social conflict, rarely conveyed in the seemingly conventional and ultimately restrained humor through incongruity. conventional category of broadcast news. idiosyncratic categories of his archive, In a night view, anonymous workers are Linke's ability to explore and record Linke's art offers an ambitious, subversive clustered before the massive incline of one events in various parts of the world and perspective that resists definition: side of a dry canal with a narrow, ambiguous his risk in the face of danger shows his the exhibit ultimately reminds the viewer organic formation rippling at the top. The determined engagement, curiosity, and that there is room for many points of view structure is reminiscent of both commemo• passion to document, interpret, and com• in the current debate over the ethical and rative architecture (a pyramid, for example) municate. These politically loaded, timely moral responsibility of those in authority. and a massive wave of glassy water. The images challenge ideas of perception, In contrast to the fast-paced, narrative scene is illuminated from above with electric value, and equality, and ultimately raise TV news images of Baghdad to which we lights, and brilliant rays in the upper right- the question: What might actually consti• have grown accustomed, Linke's three- hand corner shower down upon the wor• tute an even exchange of power? minute DVD entitled Baghdad, 24.04.2002 shipers from an invisible source. The effect ROBERT THILL IS AN INDEPENDENT WRITER.

Who remembers Fortran? international academic journal. It was the primitive computer If you are interested in the language that allowed the first state of architectural comput• International Journal virtual prototypes of buildings ing research, this quarterly of Architectural Computing to be plotted, laboriously, in x journal, led by Andre Brown Andre Brown, editor-in-chief (Multi-Science and y coordinates. The use of of the University of Liverpool, Publication, published quarterly), Lohbach housing development in Innsbruck, computers in architecture has is for you. It is available in both £170 per year Tirol (1998-2000) by Baumschlaqer & hard and electronic format, come a long way—so far that Eberle Architects. Balconies are shaded the subject now has its own naturally, WM with folding copper shutters. <

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Bunny Williams CONTINUING Corvettes to Cuisinart: O Bringing Garden Design Developers Forum: EXHIBITIONS Alumni Work from Pratt's O into the 21st Century Building a Greener New York THROUGH JULY 13 Industrial Design Department 6:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Larry Racioppo Pratt Manhattan Gallery Sotheby's Institute of Art Yale Club Keeping the Faith: 144 West 14th St. 1334 York Ave. 50 Vanderbilt Ave. Restoring Hope, www.pratt.edu www.classicist.org www.pwcusa.org Rebuilding Neighborhoods Urban Center Gallery 2004 Summer Program JULY 15 457 Madison Ave. apexart SYMPOSIA Kurt Andersen, Steven www.msa.org 291 Church St. Holl Architects, Balmori www.apexart.org Associates, et al. Summer Design Institute, THROUGH AUGUST 1 4 Teams 4 Visions: 10th Anniversary Worldscapes: The Art of Erro Treble: An Exploration Design Approaches Kurt Andersen, Ralph Caplan, New York University of Sound as a Material and to the Master Plan Seymour Chast, William Grey Art Gallery: 6:00 p.m. Subject in Contemporary Art McDonough, et al. 100 Washington Square East Center for Architecture Sculpture Center National Museum www.nyu.edu/greyart 536 LaGuardia PI. 44-19 Purves St., Queens of the American Indian www.aiany.org www.sculpture-center.org 1 Bowling Green THROUGH JULY 18 www.aiany.org Digital Avant-Garde: From Dakota to Montana Celebrating 25 Years of Ars THROUGH AUGUST 7 6:00 p.m. Electronica Next: The Future-Shaping Dakota EXHIBITIONS Interactions/Art Generation 1 West 72nd St. and Technology New Residential Tower 212-534-1672 ext. 3393 American Museum at 80 South Street Sculpture by Barry Flanagan, of the Moving Image Architecture, Energy, Robert Indiana, Andrew Lord, JULY 19 35th Ave. and 36th St., Urbanism: Designing the Santi Moix, Nancy Rubins, Bruce FowIe, Randy Croxton, Queens New Convention Corridor and Frank Stella Center for Architecture Janno Lieber, et al. www.ammi.org Implementing Paul Kasmin Gallery 536 LaGuardia PI. 293 10th Ave. www.aiany.org a High Performance Prix Selection www.paulkasmingallery.com Lower Manhattan Eyebeam 5:30 p.m. 540 West 21st St. THROUGH AUGUST 8 JULY 15-AUGUST 14 Dangerous Liaison: Wall Street Rising Downtown www.aec.at/nyc Mark di Suvero has planted three Information Center Team Visions Fashion and Furniture sculptures in Madison Square Park: 25 Broad St. Center for Architecture in the 18th Century 536 LaGuardia PI. www.civic-alliance.org The American Dream Metropolitan Museum of Art Double Tetrahedron (above), Aesopes www.aiany.org Post 9/11 1000 5th Ave. www.metmuseum.org Fables, Beyond. Salmagundi Club and Madison Square JULY 16-SEPTEMBER 27 Russel Shorto 47 5th Ave. Tall Buildings Park Conservancy is presenting his The Epic Story of Dutch www.archpost911.info Manhattan, the Forgotten MoMA QNS Seeing Other People work in honor of the fifth anniversary 11 West 33rd St., Queens Colony That Shaped America THROUGH JULY 24 Marianne Boesky Gallery www.moma.org of Madison Square Art, an annual 6:30 p.m. Playpen: 535 West 22nd St. www.marianneboesky- Center for Architecture Selections Summer 2004 summer art exhibition. The three JULY 18-OCTOBER 24 gallery.com 536 LaGuardia PI. Drawing Center Subway Series: sculptures—ranging from 11 to nearly www.skyscraper.org 35 Wooster St. The New York Yankees www.drawingcenter.org THROUGH AUGUST 14 37 feet tall, two of them in eye-catching and the American Dream JULY 22 Counter Culture orange—bear di Suvero's signature Leni Schwendinger Museum of the Arts New Museum 1040 Grand Concourse of Contemporary Art Extending the Night: Lighting Christo and Jeanne-Claude of monumentally scaled welded-steel at 165th St., Bronx in the Urban Landscape The Gates, , 583 Broadway www.bxma.org compositions. Di Suvero, 71, founded 12:00 p.m. New York www.newmuseum.org (on a ex-landfill U.S. Realty Building Metropolitan Museum of Art Conference Room 1000 5th Ave. Vasemania: Neoclassical in Queens) in 1986. He has not had a 115 Broadway, 7th Floor virww.metmuseum.org Sensacional de Diseno www.lightprojectsltd.com Form and Ornament: Mexicano Selections from the major exhibit in New York in 20 years. THROUGH JULY 29 AIGA National Design Center Metropolitan Museum of Art David Hupert Rudolf Stingel 164 5th Ave. Bard Graduate Center Madison Square Art: Mark di Suvero Mansions and Museums Plan B www.aiga.org 18 West 86th St. Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue and 23rd Street 6:00 p.m. Grand Central Terminal wvvw.bgc.bard.edu Through October 31 Museum of the City 15 Vanderbilt Ave. The Unfinished Print: Prints of New York www.creativetime.org by Rembrandt, Piranesi, 1220 5th Ave. JULY 22-OCTOBER 22 Degas, Munch, and Others Teresa Hubbard Prick Collection www.mcny.org Shock of the Old: and Alexander Birchler: Christopher Dresser 1 East 70th St. LECTURES Single Wide Jan Pokorny, Cooper-Hewitt, www.frick.org Whitney Museum Ken Frampton, Mark Webber Kathy Benson National Design Museum of American Art at Altria THROUGH AUGUST 16 Recent Architecture Villa Tugendhat: Behind the Scenes 2 East 91st St. 120 Park Ave. At the Ansonia Hotel: in Shanghai Monument of Modern World in East Harlem ndm.si.edu www.whitney.org and the Contribution Architecture 1:00 p.m. A Broadway Landmark Turns 100 of Western Architects 12:00 p.m. Museum of the City THROUGH JULY 30 JULY 23-JANUARY 2 Urban Center Gallery 6:00 p.m. Center for Architecture of New York Ezra Stoller Subway Series: 457 Madison Ave. Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia PI. 1220 5th Ave. Ten Spaces The New York Mets www.msa.org 536 LaGuardia PI. www.aiany.org www.mcny.org Freecell and Our National Pastime www.cimarchitects.org Moistscape Queens Museum of Art THROUGH AUGUST 21 Henry Urbach Architecture New York City Building Whiteout: 526 West 26th St., 10th Fl. 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THROUGH AUGUST 29 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26 FILM & THEATER WITH THE KIDS Dennis Oppenheim Building a Collection LU Entrance to a Garden Skyscraper Museum M Tramway Plaza 39 Battery Park James Sanders Artist + Youth: > 2nd Ave. between East 59th www.skvscraper.org Domestic Elaborations: A Dialogue with LOT-EK LJJ and 60tii streets Residential Interiors in the 2:00 p.m. www.nyc.gov/parks New York's Moynihan Movie City Whitney Museum of Museum of the City 6:30 p.m. American Art Jack Lenor Larsen: of New York Center for Architecture 945 Madison Ave. Creator and Collector 1220 5th Ave. 536 LaGuardia PI. www.whitney.org Museum of Arts and Design www.mcny.org www.aiany.org 40 West 53rd St. www.madmuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27 JULY 21 Kid Size: The Material WoHd Humble Masterpieces James Sanders of Childhood Bernar Venet Santiago Calatrava's Edge of the City: Wadsworth Atheneum TERESA HUBBARD/ALEXANDER BIRCHLER: Indeterminate Lines Transportation Hub Waterfront, Train Station, Museum of Art Single Wide Park Ave. Malls between 50th for the WTC Site and Grand Hotel 600 Main St., Hartford Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria and 51st St.s Projects 81: Jean Shin 6:30 p.m. www.wadsworthatheneum.org 120 Park Avenue wvi/w.nyc.gov/parks MoMA QNS Center for Architecture July 22 to October 22 11 West 33rd St., Queens 536 LaGuardia PI. BEYOND www.moma.org www.aiany.org Single Wide tells what could be a familiar story—an upset Going Coastal: The Beaches JULY 25-NOVEMBER 29 woman walking out of her house, maybe for the last time—but of New York City CONTINUING Rodney Graham: FILM & THEATER in short order, changes the details so dramatically that viewers Arsenal Gallery Fred Sandback Prints 1971-79 A Littfe Thought will find themselves guessing, second-guessing, and wonder• 5th Ave. at 64th St. Dan Flavin Art Institute THROUGH AUGUST 15 Sign Language ing again at what has happened and why. Teresa Hubbard and www.nyc.gov/parks Main St. and Corwith Ave., Paradise(Lost): Museum of Contemporary Art Alexander Birchler's 2002 video piece, opening in July at the Bridgehampton Los Angeles on Film 250 South Grand Ave., Altria branch of the Whitney, is as precise in its detailing of THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 www.diaart.org American Museum Los Angeles the spaces in and around its trailer set as its narrative line is Between Past and Future: of the Moving Image www.moca-la.org unclear The woman's conflicted actions make one look even New Photography THROUGH OCTOBER 10 35th Ave. and 36th St., more carefully at the rooms, which then take on a deeper psy• and Video from China Solos: Future Shack Queens International Center Cooper-Hewitt, chological charge and evidentiary quality. And because Single www.ammi.org PROCESS: of Photography National Design Museum Wide is looped, a visitor may wander in at any point during The Como Workshop 1133 6th Ave. Arthur Ross Terrace its six-minute run. The story it tells becomes even more slip• THROUGH AUGUST 22 Palazzo del Broletto www.icp.org and Garden pery, ever more reliant on details supplied by the viewer's California Dreaming Piazza Duomo, Como, Italy 2 East 91st St. imagination, ANNE GUINEY Whitney Museum www.gt04.org Art Deco Paris ndm.si.edu of American Art Ruhlmann: Genius 945 Madison Ave. THROUGH AUGUST 29 of Art Deco THROUGH OCTOBER 24 www.whitney.org Yves Klein: Air Architecture Metropolitan Museum of Art David W. Dunlap MAK Center for Art 1000 5th Ave. From Abyssinian to Zion: THROUGH AUGUST 23 and Architecture 1 www.metmuseum.org Photographs of Manhattan's 835 North Kings Rd., Houses of Worship Summer Rim Festival West Hollywood New-York Historical Society 8:00 p.m. www.makcenterorg The Dreamland Artist Club 2 West 77th St. 40th St. and 6th Ave. Coney Island www.nyhistory.org www.bryantpark.org/calen- THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 www.creativetime.org dar/film-festival.php Maerkische Viertel: THROUGH OCTOBER 50 Idea, Reality, Vision THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13 Austria West: THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 Aedes West Janet Cardiff New Alpine Architecture Coney Island Else-Ury-Bogen 600, BeHin Her Long Black Hair: Austrian Cultural Forum Saturday Night Film Series www.aedes.de An Audio Walk in Central Park 11 East 52nd St. Coney Island Museum 6th Ave. and www.acfny.org 1208 Surf Ave. Made in Germany: Central Park South www.coneyisland.com Architecture * Ecology www.publicartfund.org THROUGH OCTOBER 31 Barcelona Centre Andy Goldsworthy Arquitectura CALIFORNIA DREAMING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18 on the Roof EVENTS Calle Aragon 247, Barcelona Whitney Museum of American Art Chip Hooper Metropolitan Museum of Art www.aedes.de 975 Madison Avenue California's Pacific 1000 5th Ave. Robert Mann Gallery www.metmuseum.org 4th Annual Summer Benefit Through August 22 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6 210 11th Ave., 10th Fl. for Friends of the High Line Samuel Mockbee www.robertmann.com 6:00 p.m. Long before it was a no-brainer for artists to choose film and the Rural Studio: as their medium, Ed Ruscha and a few of his Los Angeles Faster, Cheaper, Newer, Diane von Furstenberg Studio Community Architecture contemporaries were picking up cameras and experimenting. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 19 More: Revolutions of 1848 389 West 12th St. National Building Museum While their Hollywood milieu may have been a suggestive Constantin Brancusi: Cooper-Hewitt, www.thehighline.org 401 F St NW, Washington, D.C. force in their work, an upcoming screening at the Whitney The Essence of Things National Design Museum www.nbm.org makes the point that the landscape and culture of Southern Solomon R. Guggenheim 2 East 91st St. California were also sources of inspiration. Museum ndm.si.edu New York Building Congress Out of the Box: Price Rossi 1071 5th Ave. Annual GoH Outing California Dreaming, organized by curator Chrissie lies, Stirling + Matta-Clark presents a series of short and rarely seen films by Ruscha, vww.guggenheim.org THROUGH JANUARY 31 Call for time and address Architect's Books John Baldessari, and Kenneth Anger, along with lesser-known Shirazeh Houshiary, Pip Home 212-481-9230 Canadian Centre for artists Will Mindle and David Lamelas. lies explains that the LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling UnK Breath Architecture museum wanted to screen Ruscha's 1975 Miracle (film still, Whitney Museum Ritz-Carlton New York FRIDAYS 1920 rue Baile, Montreal above) along with the retrospective of his work currently on of American Art 2 West St. THROUGH AUGUST 27 www.cca.qc.ca view at the Whitney, and decided to gather several other 945 Madison Ave. www.creativetime.org Design + DJs + contemporary films to give it context. Together, the six pieces www.whitney.org Dancing in the Garden show how deeply the local culture of Hollywood, cars, the THROUGH APRIL 18 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec desert, and of course, sex, affected their creators' work. AO THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20 Agnes Martin Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Contemporary Art Hands to Work, Hearts ...going forward into Design Museum 250 South Grand Ave., to God: Saving the North unknown territory... 2 East 91st St. Los Angeles Family Shaker Site Dia: Beacon ndm.si.edu www.moca-la.org World Monuments Fund 3 Beekman St., Beacon Gallery www.diaart.org SATURDAYS THROUGH JANUARY 23 95 Madison Ave. 9th Fl. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 Liquid Stone: www.wmf.org Warm Up 2004 New Architecture in Concrete 3:00p.m.-9:00 p.m. National Building Museum Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, PS. 1 Contemporary Art 401 F St. NW, et al. Center Courtyard Washington, D.C. Hard Light LIST YOUR EVENT 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens www.nbm.org P.S.I Contemporary Art Center FOR COMPETITIONS LISTINGS DIARYriARCHPAPER.COM ww/w. ps1.org 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens SEE WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM www.ps1.org LU

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In 1972 the classic treatise Learning the pleas of the 9/11 families, the National any single security code for design, departments, code officials, and design LU from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Institute of Standards and Technology technology, and facility operations professionals in cities large and small Steven Izenour, and Denise Scott Brown (NIST) has just released interim findings applicable to public and private sector across the country through training pro•