The High Line scavenger hunt
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Imagine: a public park that floats above the city, slicing the urban grey with its narrow green body. It winds its way through Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea to the Rail Yards. It is the beneficiary of millionaires, politicians, and citizens, who rescued it from demolition. Every tour book points here. Cities around the world clamor to reclaim their(...)
The High Line scavenger hunt
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Imagine: a public park that floats above the city, slicing the urban grey with its narrow green body. It winds its way through Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea to the Rail Yards. It is the beneficiary of millionaires, politicians, and citizens, who rescued it from demolition. Every tour book points here. Cities around the world clamor to reclaim their own abandoned train tracks as parks, inspired by this success. This is High Line Park.
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Perched along the East River in midtown Manhattan, the exceptional modern buildings of the United Nations Headquarters house an organization with an equally exceptional mission. Designed in the 1940s by the most renowned international architects of the day, including Wallace K. Harrison of the United States, Le Corbusier of France, and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil, the UN is(...)
Contemporary Architecture
November 2015
The United Nations at 70: restoration and renewal
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Perched along the East River in midtown Manhattan, the exceptional modern buildings of the United Nations Headquarters house an organization with an equally exceptional mission. Designed in the 1940s by the most renowned international architects of the day, including Wallace K. Harrison of the United States, Le Corbusier of France, and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil, the UN is both an architectural and a historic landmark. The United Nations at 70 documents the restoration of the entire building complex.
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The new Museum of Modern Art
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Having undergone the most extensive building project in its history, The Museum of Modern Art reopened in Manhattan in November 2004, coinciding with MoMA's 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot complex is nearly twice the size of the former facility, with dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and(...)
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
November 2004, New York
The new Museum of Modern Art
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Having undergone the most extensive building project in its history, The Museum of Modern Art reopened in Manhattan in November 2004, coinciding with MoMA's 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot complex is nearly twice the size of the former facility, with dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research. This book offers a concise overview of the new building and MoMA's intentions for its construction project by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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The planners of today’s global cities encounter many of the same personalities — architects, builders and developers — but they rarely have the opportunity to meet each other. In May 2007, the Cities Conference on Urban Design gathered for the first time the chief city planners of Boston, London, New York, Singapore, Toronto and Vancouver. Over the course of two days, at(...)
The 2007 Cities Conference on Urban Design
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The planners of today’s global cities encounter many of the same personalities — architects, builders and developers — but they rarely have the opportunity to meet each other. In May 2007, the Cities Conference on Urban Design gathered for the first time the chief city planners of Boston, London, New York, Singapore, Toronto and Vancouver. Over the course of two days, at a variety of venues in Manhattan, they examined common challenges, shared urban design strategies and argued over what defines a successful city.
Urban Theory
A walk in New York
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New York City — the perfect place for a boy and his dad to spend the day! Follow them on their walk around Manhattan, from Grand Central Terminal to the top of the Empire State Building, from Greenwich Village to the Statue of Liberty, learning lots of facts and trivia along the way. In this unabashed ode to America’s biggest city, Salvatore Rubbino’s fresh, lively(...)
A walk in New York
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New York City — the perfect place for a boy and his dad to spend the day! Follow them on their walk around Manhattan, from Grand Central Terminal to the top of the Empire State Building, from Greenwich Village to the Statue of Liberty, learning lots of facts and trivia along the way. In this unabashed ode to America’s biggest city, Salvatore Rubbino’s fresh, lively paintings and breezy text capture the delight of a young visitor experiencing the wonders of New York firsthand.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Urban code : 100 lessons for understanding the city / Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Pürckhauer.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel(...)
New York streetscapes : tales of Manhattan's significant buildings and landmarks
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph.
Urban Theory
Being and neonness
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an(...)
Being and neonness
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.
Critical Theory
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''New York Rising'' is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation- of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
November 2018
New York rising: an illustrated history from the Durst collection
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''New York Rising'' is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation- of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth century, this book presents a broad historical survey, illustrated with images drawn largely from the archival resources of the Durst Collection at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
General Idea: Imagevirus
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission.(...)
General Idea: Imagevirus
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. Bordowitz explores the virus as idea, as tactic, and as identity.
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