What Goes Up The Right and Wrongs to the City Michael Sorkin In What Goes Up, Michael Sorkin takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of his beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks not simply the forms and practices—from zoning and political deals to the finer points of architectural design—that shape cities today but also offers spirited advocacy for another kind of city, reimagined from the street up on a human scale, a home to sustainable, just, and… Read More »
Depositions Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship Catherine Seavitt Nordenson Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) is internationally known as one of the preeminent modernist landscape architects. He designed renowned public landscapes in Brazil, beginning with small plazas in Recife in the 1930s and culminating with large public parks in the early 1960s, most significantly the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Depositions explores a pivotal moment in Burle Marx’s career—the years in which he served as a member of the Federal Cultural Council… Read More »
Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles Fran Leadon An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street. In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century’s Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the… Read More »
var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).hide(); Adjunct Lecturer Quardean Lewis-Allen has been named in Crain’s 40 under 40 2018 list of rising New York… Read More »
Previous‹ Shawn Rickenbacker Rickenbacker and Boudreau spoke about housing and architecture in Harlem as well as the legacy of J. Max Bond on the March 28, 2018, radio show/podcast, From City to the World. Next› var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300,… Read More »
Previous‹ Teach X Change Listen! Bio Bowl Next› var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).hide(); Three groups of SSA students in the BArch and… Read More »
Previous‹ Urban Design student group during their site visit to historical core of San Juan, Costa Rica, spring 2018. City College, University of Pennsylvania, Tech University of Costa Rica students and staff during their site visit to the historical core of the city. City College, University of Pennsylvania, Tech University of Costa Rica students and staff during their site visit to the historical core of the city. A site visit to the community building in “La Carpio” informal settlement A site visit to the community center in “La Carpio… Read More »
James Bailey, "Harlem's Besieged Masterpiece," Architecture Forum 125, no. 4 (Nov. 1966): 48-51. Photo by George Cserna. var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).… Read More »
Concrete Break is one of six installations created by first-year architecture student teams in an exploration of the use of technology in design. Sited on the rooftop of the Spitzer School, Concrete Break and its student designers participated in a 3D scanning workshop to examine the response of the scanning software and the active installation to one another. Video courtesy Nick Losi M Arch ’20.
Previous‹ Next› var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).hide(); BArch students Samantha Ong, Juan Vallejo, Emir Abdul-Emir, and Daniella… Read More »
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