About:

Raymond Gastil is the former executive director of the Van Alen Institute in NYC, of which he was the founding director. He is currently director of NYC's City Planning Manhattan Office, named to that position in 2005. He received his master's degree in architecture from Princeton.  After 9/11, Gastil helped lead the New York New Visions coalition and the Institute’s simultaneous independent initiative, “Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering” on the process of cities that have rebuilt after disaster. The Institute directs conferences and competitions for key issues and sites for the future of New York. Gastil has taught urban design at Pratt Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the advisory board of the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
 

Books:

Gastil, Raymond. Beyond the edge: New York's new waterfront.  Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.   NA9053.W38 G37 2002

_____________. "Jappelli’s gardens: ’In dreams begin responsibilities’."  in The Italian garden: art, design, and culture. Edited by John Dixon Hunt.  Cambridge University Press, 1996. (available through Inter-Library Loan).

Information exchange: how cities renew, rebuild, and remember.  Van Alen Institute, 2002.  HT170 .I54 2002

Stern, Robert A. M.  Modern classicism. Robert A.M. Stern, with Raymond W. Gastil.  Rizzoli,  1988.   NA680 .S84

Stern, Robert A. M.  Title    New York 1930: architecture and urbanism between two world wars. Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, Thomas Mellins ; assisted by David Fishman and Raymond W. Gastil.  Rizzoli,  1987.
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles (Selected from 2002- 2004):

"Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City [by] Matthew Gandy. The lower Manhattan plan: the 1966 vision for downtown New York [ed. by] Carol Willis. Beyond the edge: New York's new waterfront [by] Raymond W. Gastil [book review]. Shane, Graham., Journal of architectural education, vol.57, no.3, pp.77-79, Feb 2004.

"Beyond the edge: New York's new waterfrontl" [by] Raymond W. Gastil [book review]. Marshall, Richard., Journal of the American Planning Association, vol.69, no.3, pp.324-325, Summer 2003.

"Competition rules [World Trade Center site]." Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-], Architecture, vol.91, no.9, pp.39, Sept 2002.
        Note: Protest of the way the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is going ahead with plans for the WTC site, including a design competition
                 for a memorial and a masterplan for Lower Manhattan. (source: Avery Index online).

"Planning New York New Visions [interview]." Hutton, Ernest.; Strauss, Mark, [1953-]; Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-]; Blumenfeld, Joan.; Taylor, Tess.; Bell, Rick., Oculus, vol.64, no.7-8, pp.21-22, Mar 2002
        Note: An interview with several members of this organization, a coalition of interested parties in the design, engineering and planning fields, formed
                 to develop recommendations for the rebuilding of the areas of lower Manhattan damaged or destroyed by the ... (source: Avery Index online)

"City design centers [New York, Seattle, Chattanooga]." Rahaim, John.; Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-]; Hundt, Karen., Places, vol.15, no.1, pp.77-80, Fall 2002.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

January 2005 Press release from the NYC Department of City Planning naming Gastil as director of the department's Manhattan office. www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr011305.shtml.

Transcript of a PBS interview of Raymond Gastil by Raphael Pi Roman.   www.thirteen.org/nyvoices/transcripts/gastil.html
 
 
 

Judy Connorton
August 2005