Abstract by Andrea Hunniford The New York Public Library’s Central Building, constructed just over a century ago, is in the midst of a major renovation. The Library’s trustees have asked the architects at Foster + Partners to imagine the space currently occupied by the research collections’ closed book stacks as a new, publicly accessible, circulating library. The administration’s public relations strategy glosses over the meaning of this architectural reinterpretation, selling the renovation plan with...
On September 18th, the 1A class made the trip from Cambridge to the big sprawl of New York City for a five-day field trip. Led by Professor Rick Andrighetti and adjuncts Suzy Harris-Brandts, Timea Jakab, Fiona Lim Tung and Haji Nakamura, the class covered large portions of the city with walking tours, including Central Park and Midtown. The students spent an afternoon with Le Corbusier at the Museum of Modern Art, tasted New York street...
A living organism connected at multiple ends by arteries and veins, the island of Manhattan pumps blood through it’s buildings and cavities every day. One of the most heavily photographed places on earth, each photo is depicted as a slice being cut away from a body. The imagined blood of New York is rich with experience, history, events, and feelings . In this series of architectural photographs the biological quality of Manhattan is exhibited as...
