Istanbul UIA22
by Rick Bell, FAIA

"I am not going to talk about architecture, I'm going to talk about cities" were the opening words of Charles Correa's keynote address at the 22nd World Congress of Architecture, organized by the International Union of Architects (UIA) in Istanbul, July 3-7. He issued an urban manifesto that spoke of cities as "centers of hope, of pleasure and of freedom, as places where people can achieve a better future for themselves and their children." The conference theme "Cities: Grand Bazaar of Architectures," was enunciated by congress president Suha Özkan as evocative of "a pluralist world where humanity's differences are no longer sources of animosity or atrocities" and where "architecture, as the profession that shapes our built environment, has an important ethical role."

The sense of architecture being defined by its civic context was reinforced by the triennial UIA conference occurring in the most beautiful city in the world. Istanbul, the city itself, defies descriptions. Orhan Pamuk's new book Istanbul: Memories and the City, evokes the characteristics that make the city so memorable: the ancient streets "full of vendors selling simits, fried mussels, pilaf, chestnuts, grilled meatballs, fish bread, doughballs, ayran – a yogurt drink – and sherbets" and especially the ferries that "were such a part of everyday life that they assumed an almost totemic importance." For a visitor who has not been to Istanbul in 30 years, there is much that is wonderfully constant: the boats and city walls, the markets and Bazaar, the relation of the hills to the Bosphorus, the vistas incorporating the Süleymaniye and Sultanahmet Mosques, the Aya Sofia and Topkapi Palace, SOM's 50-year-old Hilton Hotel, the detail of tile work, and the accumulation of centuries of bejeweled ornament and urban grit.

But there is even more that is different, or changing, including the newly opened (12/11/04) Istanbul Modern museum, an adaptive re-use of waterfront warehouses with architectural design by Tabanlioglu; Mark Butler's Sumahan – an exquisitely detailed and sleekly cosmopolitan hotel in a former raki distillery on the Bosphorus dating back to 1875; Turkish cable television taping a debate between Denise Scott Brown, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, and Robert Venturi in the sacred heart of the Aya Sofya sanctuary under the 30-meter-diameter dome, clubs and restaurants that could be in New York or Los Angeles – except for the extraordinary views and food. The cavernous Basilica Cistern, once fed by aqueducts originating 20 kilometers to the north, is newly revealed and accessible, with a walkway above the pools under a 143-meter-long roof supported by 336 ancient columns. The key preservation battle, keeping the landmark Haydarpas¸a Railway Station from being replaced by a high-rise residential complex, was relatively under the radar screen at the conference, where a huge banner near the conference registration desk called for the demolition of the recently built spot-zoned too-tall Ritz Carlton Hotel.

Peter Eisenman, in his keynote said: "We must have a social critique, a new relation of architecture to the social and political." And Michael Sorkin, describing his Eutopian (read "good place") Manifesto on the 4th of July, listed a dozen principles starting with self-sufficiency and clear delimitation, stating: "The only cure for sprawl is to call a halt to it." Sorkin described cities based on neighborhoods, density, complexity, appropriate technology, and being green, asking the 2,000 students, theorists, and practitioners in the room to "imagine the absolute revolution that will take place when we have cheap photovoltaics and desalination."

Other keynote speakers included Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Cengiz Bektas¸, Mario Botta, Denise Scott Brown, Francesco Dal Co, Odile Decq, Massimilliano Fuksas (who called for "less aesthetics and more ethics"), Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Sumet Jumsai, Mathias Klotz, Kengo Kuma, Aziz Lazrak, Glenn Murcutt, Mikhail Plotrovsky, Paolo Portoghesi, Joseph Rykwert, Moshe Safdie, Alexandros Tombazis, Robert Venturi, and Ken Yeang. But the convocation was not only about "archistars" and standing-room-only speeches in huge auditorium spaces. More than 300 symposia and 200 additional poster display panels, a subset of the 885 abstracts submitted, covered topics as diverse as:

• Transnational Architecture Design (Ling Gao Li from Yanshan University, China)

• Caracas Urban Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg, Caracas Urban Think Tank, NY)

• Social Challenges of Urbanization in Africa (Charly Gabriel Mbock, UNESCO)

• Sustainable & Affordable Housing (Naima Chabbi-Chemrouk, Algiers)

• Fictional Cities: Venice (Lorraine Farrelly, University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Street Furniture and Identity (Deniz Derniraarsian from Kocaeli, Turkey)

• Neighborhood Participation in School Design (Susanne Hoffmann of TU Berlin)

• Bazaar Architecture in Planned Cities (Yasser Mahgoub of Kuwait University)

• World Trade Center Sustainability (Neil Chambers of Green Ground Zero, NY)

• Fractal Characteristics of 3-D Cities (Satoshi Ymada of Nihon University, Japan)

• Emergency Response Worldwide (Patrick Coulombel of Architectes de l'Urgence)

• Architectonic Implications of Rotterdam (Ronald Wall from Erasmus University),

• Strategic Planning in Early Phases (Giselle Luzia Dziura from Curtiba, Brazil), and

• Center for Architecture Re-Forms AIANY (Rick Bell, FAIA, AIA New York Chapter)

Compared with AIA conferences and conventions, what was most remarkable was the diversity of the conference participants, with a significantly greater number of students, recent graduates, and architects from Africa and Asia. Issues of practice and UIA governance were clearly subsidiary to broad themes. The opening ceremony took place at the Seven Towers Fortress in a light mist, and the farewell dinner concluded the congress at the Istanbul Archeological Museum, housed in the Tiled Kiosk of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror dating to 1472. Special events, orchestrated in part by Istanbul's Arkitera Architecture Center, included an exhibition of the work of Spanish architect Campo Baeza at the Aya Irini Killsesi chapel adjacent to Topkapi Palace, and an exhibition of contemporary tile design by 20 architects, including Zaha Hadid, in the Aya Sofia galleries. A reception for 5,000 people took place at the Istanbul Modern – the party, which almost rivaled the AIA's Center for Architecture celebration at MoMA in June, featured live music by Burhan Öçal, who also frequently performs in New York.

The Royal Institute of British Architects was represented by RIBA Journal editor Amanda Baillieu and crimson-clad president George Ferguson; gregarious George spoke of planning for London's sustainable design program as a result of the 2012 Olympic decision, announced by a call from Singapore as an Olympic seminar on the impact of the games in Sydney and Athens took place. Representing the American Institute of Architects were president Doug Steidl, FAIA; first vice-president Kate Schwennsen, FAIA; past-presidents Gene Hopkins, FAIA and Gordon Chong, FAIA; along with executive vice-president Norman Koonce, FAIA; director of international relations Ellen Delage; and Karen Plunkett, AIA, chair of the AIA National Component's International Committee. Also attending was Michael Geary, executive director of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS).

Although Peter Eisenman wore a Galataasaray yellow and red football jersey while delivering his jam-packed keynote speech, others found the AIA black-white-red colors of the Besiktas team more palatable, particularly since the team's soaring eagle logo (no AIA chicken-on-a-stick kebab comparisons here) comes with the motto "no fear of flying." The AIA was active at the conference, participating in the process that elected Mauritius architect Gaetan Siew, currently 1st Vice President of UIA Region V, as UIA president, and hosting a reception for architects from Asia in a wonderful space overlooking Taksim Square.

Other New Yorkers (or former New Yorkers) on hand included Giancarlo Alhadeff, AIA, now of Milan; Istanbul cable-impresario Peter Callahan; Nazli Gönensay of 212 architecture; Bob Ivy, FAIA, of Architectural Record; Lenore Lucey, FAIA, of NCARB; Audrey Matlock, AIA; Kate Ottavino & Mary Delano (speaking about a High School Curriculum for the Preservation Arts); Perry Winston of PICCED (speaking about the Cypress Hills Community School in Brooklyn), and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, one of many on hand discussing post-tsunami disaster relief.

Istanbul, merging east and west, north and south, is the city that hasn't slept or slowed down for almost three millennia. The four-day UIA 22nd World Congress of Architecture, despite the students and stars, the colorful posters, street art, architectural energy and ubiquitous COLORISTANBUL bags ("Many Colors, One City"), was but the vapor of a ferry.

The UIA represents over one million architects throughout the world through national architectural associations that form the 92 UIA Member Sections. Mark your calendars now: the 23rd UIA Congress will be in 2008 in Turin, Italy.

The Red and the Green: U.N. Meets in China on Eco-Friendly Growth
by Bonnie A. Harken, AIA, President, Nautilus International Development Consulting, Inc.

With its smokestack industries and its rush to catch up in a modern industrial world, China may seem an odd choice for the U.N.'s Commission on Sustainable Development to hold a symposium. But for three days in May, more than 350 delegates from 35 countries gathered in Nanchang, the capital of rapidly developing Jiangxi Province, to tackle a difficult question: Can the U.N.'s environmental goals be implemented while also achieving economic and cultural sustainability?

The program opened with a presentation on Jiangxi Province's progress since the first U.N. Earth Summit in 1992. In that time, the province has attracted resource-efficient, high-tech industries, such as digital camera makers and software manufacturers, and embraced ecological agriculture, with farmers who have improved irrigation systems and moved away from chemical fertilizers. One of the area's major challenges is protecting Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater habitat for migrating birds in the world. Around the lake, entire villages were moved so original wetlands and waterways could be restored. Today, more than 300 species of birds, including the legendary white crane, migrate there.

For the next two days, government policy-makers, academics, businesspeople, representatives of NGOs, and researchers exchanged best practices. I spoke on "Reshaping Urban Waterfronts" and ways in which the development of such sites can enhance the sustainability of 21st century cities. I also had the honor of moderating a panel on "Planning Urban Development," which addressed such issues as how to integrate transportation systems, land uses, and urban infrastructure while promoting economic growth, social equity, and environmental health.

Other speakers covered a wide range of topics:

• vertical coordination between international, national, regional, and local programs;

• reducing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption;

• public/private partnerships and other financial instruments;

• decision-making under conditions of uncertainty;

• how science, industrial ecology, and technology can contribute.

Chinese speakers shed light on their environmental programs that often do not get reported in the U.S., such as Mountain-River-Lake, an "eco-economic" watershed program for five major rivers that was started in the early 1980s. We also learned about extensive Chinese reforestation programs, major wetland restorations to prevent flooding and protect biodiversity, innovative systems of sustainable agriculture, and the creation of new eco-industrial parks.

Before closing the symposium, Jiangxi made sure delegates visited a sustainable pig farm where the kitchen lights and stoves are run on methane gas produced from recycled wastes. We also enjoyed a banquet with officials from the People's Liberation Army (which was founded there), and toured lush Mt. Lushan, a UNESCO World Geological Park and World Heritage site – and home to more than 1,700 species of plants.

As Jiangxi's Vice Governor remarked, "We want gold mountains and silver mountains, but at the same time we want green mountains and clean waters more."

Courtesy Coalition for Father Duffy, TDF, Times Square Alliance

Walk This Way: Times Square Streetscape Improvement Studies
by Linda G. Miller

If it's not happening in Times Square proper, new construction is scraping the sky all around it. Currently under construction or on the boards and bound to bring thousands more to Times Square for work, entertainment, shopping, and even housing are: the new New York Times headquarters; the retrofitting of the old New York Times Building; One Bryant Park; Port Authority Tower; the Hearst Building; luxury condos at 1600 Broadway; a commercial development at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue – and the site that once was Howard Johnson's. Can "pedlock" in Times Square get any worse?

Not waiting until current problems such as crowded streets and sidewalks become exacerbated, the Times Square Alliance partnered with the Design Trust for Public Space in 2003 in a series of workshops with designers, urbanists, artists, traffic planners, property owners, and city agencies to focus on developing a vision to upgrade the streetscape and pedestrian experience while improving vehicular mobility.

To further address these issues, the AIA NY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Planning and Urban Design Committee invited Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance, Bruce Fowle, FAIA, Senior Principal, Fox & Fowle, and John Martin, Director of Capital Program Management at the Department of Transportation (DOT) to the Center for Architecture on July 15.

One idea that has been floating around is the use of a fluid divider that would separate pedestrian and vehicular traffic at different times of day. Movable bollards would define a curb lane for additional pedestrian traffic during low auto-traffic periods. The panel also touched upon the possibilities of eliminating the vehicular crossover, connecting the center islands, and designing street furniture exclusive to Times Square.

One improvement that is destined to become a reality is the rejuvenation of Father Duffy Square and the reconstruction of the TKTS booth, a civic project funded by public and private sectors. Times Square Alliance, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and the Coalition for Father Duffy are now working on securing all of the committed funds, and construction could begin as early as spring of 2006. Derived from a winning concept by the Australian firm Choi Ropiha, the ticket booth and steps by Perkins Eastman and the plaza designed by William Fellows Architects will serve as a red-hot anchor for the district. The centerpiece of the renovation will be the red amphitheatre-style seating structure, made entirely of glass and lit by LEDs, which will rise up and over a new pre-fab ticket booth – a place for the public to sit, relax, and people-watch.

Bruce Fowle, who participated in the original workshops, proposed a two-day workshop composed of public and private professionals – architects, landscape architects, artists, and even event planners – to explore ways to enliven the horizontal plane. Tim Tompkins added that the next steps include "thinking holistically" and holding "interdisciplinary discussions upfront."

A Work In Progress: Percent for Art Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Fresh Kills
by Annie Kurtin

"How does a place switch its meaning and become something else?" This question, asked during Mierle Laderman Ukeles' talk at the June 29 "City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program" evening event at the Center for Architecture, speaks to the spirit of her work at the Fresh Kills site. It is this active quality of transformation and exploration that Ukeles so seamlessly yet provocatively weaves into her work.

As a continuation of the report featured in the last e-Oculus, this piece will attempt to present the Fresh Kills project in its current state. At the June 29 program, Ukeles discussed three projects among a group of others proposed for the Fresh Kills Master Plan. These three projects were publicly shown for the first time just a week earlier at a public meeting about Fresh Kills at PS 58, Staten Island.

A Timeline of this Productive Landscape
The first project, titled "Morphing Timelines: Energy," will be constructed on the 305-acre East Mound, and will signify the grid of gas-extraction well heads rising up from the gas infrastructure beneath. As waste decomposes, it releases methane – a valuable alternative energy source which, once processed, can be used for household energy consumption. During the day, this grid of gas heads is signaled by small mirrors that follow the sun's passage overhead like high-tech sunflowers. At night, tiny "points of light" indicate where this energy is being produced beneath the surface. As waste decomposition decreases over time with the transformation of the site, so too will these soft and slowly "pulsing" lights.

Empowered to Launch Journeys
The second project Ukeles presented is titled, "Discovery Center and Four Discovery Outposts." Both the Center and the Outposts are designed to embody the spirit of the entire site by means of their physical locations and their interactive and dynamic programmatic qualities.

The Discovery Center functions as a visitors' welcome center, and is the point of entry upon arriving to the site. Among several other special spaces, the Center orients visitors to Fresh Kills through "Public Learning Labs" – hands-on explorations into the fields of science and ecology; alternative energies and sustainable technologies; and urban materials flow. They are dispersed in a "Playground for All," next to the "Barge Café", a retrofitted sanitation barge "sunk into the earth as if floating in the landscape."

In addition to this central hub, four Discovery Outposts, as well as Media Field Posts (miniature discovery centers) will be located throughout the site. These free-standing structures welcome and encourage the visitors to explore actual work-sites such as the Leachate Plant, the Gas Plant, and the various Soil Manufacturing Projects. The Media Field Posts resemble ordinary utility boxes that open to reveal video artworks by different artists, and other media works.

A Hand that Offers
The third and final project, titled "Public Offerings: Made By All, Redeemed By All," is perhaps the most compelling with a simple yet profound purpose:

"… this site cannot be transformed into something else – no matter how beautiful it becomes – unless many of us who made it actively and personally attempt to renew it by creating for the site personal objects of material that each person values. These acts must attain a similar scale as the original scale of material rejections. I propose a million." These material objects that can fit into someone's hand are to be voluntarily released and shared with the greater community. The Offerings are collected from "Citizen-Donors" all over New York City and embedded individually in glass blocks in workshops held at "Cultural Transfer Stations." Eventually these Offerings will be permanently installed throughout the Fresh Kills Parkland on paths and vertical surfaces. An essential design and information element is the "Barcode Receipt" for each that becomes the key for entry to a Web Archive and also for locating the Offering at assigned coordinates at the site, even decades later.

Through the act of offering tangible and valuable artifacts, individuals are given the opportunity to create personal connections to the Fresh Kills site – a site born of waste and rejections – and renewed through positive and meaningful interaction.

Before concluding her talk, Ukeles mentioned several other opportunities for art and culture to situate themselves within this evolving landscape: entrances, media art, and performance and studio spaces are all possible at Fresh Kills. As the site progresses and changes with time, more artistic interventions will surely be realized; these elements of conversion and revolution take the lead.

As the artist said, "Fresh Kills is an active symbol of Transformation. Over time, it will unfold and become something else, then something else again. I want to build the dynamic process of morphing right into my designs."

Center for Architecture Foundation News: Art, Art Everywhere

Public Art Institute
The Center for Architecture Foundation partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the School Construction Authority to offer a three-day Public Art Institute for K-12 teachers July 6-8. Amy Hitchcoff, Karen Rosner, and Michele Cohen led the Institute, along with a cadre of guest experts in the field to participate each day.
Day One included Cathy Behrend from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art program, who brought the teachers through the "City Art" exhibit at the Center for Architecture. The class was joined by Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art and Antiquities for the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, for a trip to Washington Square Park to explore its history and monuments, as well as conservation methods and processes.

Day Two brought the class to the UBS gallery for the "Arts for Transit" exhibit where they were joined by Lydia Bradshaw from Arts for Transit. The group was led down Broadway to the Father Duffy and George M. Cohan monuments and the 42nd Street Station at Times Square to take a look at Jacob Lawrence's last work, Roy Lichtenstein's "Times Square," and Tony Buonagurio and Jack Beal's "Return to Spring." The class shuttled over to Grand Central where the building is overflowing with examples of public art and the beautifully-restored Campbell Apartment.

Day Three featured a trip to Bayard Rustin High School in Chelsea to look at work done under the Works Progress Administration. Michele Cohen, Director of Public Art for Public Schools, hosted the teachers along with Greg Frux and conservators Luca Bonetti and Daniela Cocco. Participants were treated to the unveiling of a recently restored portion of a mural in the school's library.

Teachers came away from the Institute inspired to engage their own students in the art that surrounds them in the city's schools, parks, and subways. They also now have a host of ideas for connecting to the NYC Department of Education Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts.

Design for Living
The DreamYard A.C.T.I.O.N. (Art Community Teams In Our Neighborhood) project is an arts and community action program for Bronx teenagers. On Friday, July 22, 25 high school students involved in the program came to the Center for Architecture for a day of architectural design. Students used the "Policy and Design for Housing" and "City Art: New York's Percent for Art" exhibits as a launch pad to investigate the structure/design in which people/communities exist. Students were challenged to come up with housing solutions that reflect how they would like to live and what are necessary components/elements for living. They also explored how design/architecture can meet our needs for just, humane, comfortable, and inspiring places.

Richard Meier & Partners Knows the Way to San Jose – and San Diego

The California sun is shining on Richard Meier & Partners Architects. City employees are already moving in at the just-about-completed $192 million, 530,000-square-foot San Jose City Hall. The project includes an 18-story tower for city offices and a three-story council wing housing the Council Chambers, public meeting rooms, retail spaces, and additional departmental offices. What is expected to become the focal point of the seven-block redevelopment district is an eight-story glass-domed rotunda designed for public events that rises from a sweeping public plaza – a fitting image for the "capital of Silicon Valley." The City Hall will be declared officially open on October 15.

New York's New Gateway: HOK and James Carpenter Tapped to Complete Moynihan's Dream

At long last the dream of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to convert the James A. Farley Post Office (McKim, Mead & White, 1913) on Eighth Avenue at 34 Street into a world-class portal and destination is back on track. After long – and heated – competition, the developer team was selected last week, and the light finally turned green for Moynihan Station, an $818 million intermodal transit hub. The winning team is Vornado Realty Trust and The Related Companies, with the New York City office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, in collaboration with James Carpenter Design Associates, as the architect. The project involves 300,000 square feet of space for the train station, 850,000 square feet of commercial space, residential housing across the street on Eighth Avenue – and will link to the existing Penn Station. The Post Office will continue to occupy 250,000 square feet in the building. If all goes well, Moynihan Station will be ready to roll by 2011.

Further reading (and lots more images):
Penn Update: Moynihan Moves – The Slatin Report
Team Chosen for Project to Develop Transit Hub – The New York Times

Annie Kurtin

Storefront for Art and Architecture Honors Chin and Woods
by Annie Kurtin

In the sweltering heat of June 19, an eclectic mix of architects, including Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro, students, theorists, artists – and everything in between – gathered for the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Annual Benefit. This year, the event honored Susan Chin, FAIA, and Lebbeus Woods.

The festivities were hosted by Gina Alvarez and Stefan Boubil in their luminous loft apartment in the old McBurney YMCA (the oldest Y in New York City) directly across from the Chelsea Hotel. Storefront's president Belmont Freeman, AIA, and director Sarah Herda welcomed the elegant crowd and introduced David Burney, AIA, who conferred the award to Susan Chin, FAIA. Chin was recognized for her enduring commitment and contribution to the arts in community development through her work as President of the AIA NY Chapter and at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Next, Stephen Holl, AIA, paid tribute to Lebbeus Woods, noting his innovative explorations within the realm of architectural theory and the development of experimental architectural projects. Most recently, "Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture" was on view at Pittsburgh's Heinz Architectural Center.

A wonderful evening was had by all, despite the intense heat – the central air conditioning had broken down that morning, so the temperature inside was comparable to the weather outside! But, as Sarah Herda remarked, "It's the people that makes this event so meaningful."

Sighted: Michael Arad – WTC Memorial and a MINI Cooper, What More Could an Architect Wish For?

Not only did Michael Arad beat out 5,201 entries to win the World Trade Center Memorial competition in January, he recently won a cherry red MINI Cooper convertible at the AIA National Convention in Las Vegas in May (where there were over 24,000 architects)! Arad, in the driver's seat, poses in his new car with (clockwise, from bottom center) Susan Chin, FAIA, Rick Bell, FAIA, David Burney, AIA (former Cooper owner as well!), Audrey Matlock, AIA, Peter Schubert, AIA, and Angelo Monaco.

Through August 13, 2005
23rd Annual Art Commission Awards for Excellence in Design
Galleries: Lecture Hall and a sidewalk installation

Featuring Art Commission Design Award-winning projects from 2004. Established in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York 's mandate is to review works of art, architecture and landscape architecture on City-owned property for aesthetic merit.

Organized by:
Art Commission of the City of New York

Sponsored by:
Amir Ben-Zion
Unifrax

© George Cserna
Claremont Gardens 1974, Edelman and Salzman / Architects

Through September 10, 2005
Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968–1975
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery

Check out Public + Private Sector + Community = Housing, Thursday, 08/04/2005, 6:30–8:30pm

Organizational Contributors: AIA New York Chapter; The Architectural League; CCNY School of Architecture; The Graduate Center, CUNY; Pratt Graduate Center for Planning; Syracuse University School of Architecture; and New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Lead Sponsors:
Deutsche Bank
Related Apartment Preservation LLC

Additional Sponsorship provided by:
Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York; Community Preservation Corporation; GMAC Commercial Holding Capital Corp.; JPMorgan Chase; M&T Bank; The Moinian Group; The Vinmont Foundation; and Wachovia

Through August 13, 2005
Value Meal: Design and (over)Eating
Galleries: Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery

Curators: Aric Chen and Laetitia Wolff/futureflair

Exhibition Underwriter:

Additional Sponsorship Provided by:
ArcXchange
The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation
Designtex
Brayton International

"Crave Aid," IDEO, San Francisco, CA

photograph: David S. Allee
katul katul, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Queens Family Courthouse. Architects: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners/ Gruzen Samton

Through September 3, 2005
City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program
Galleries: Gerald D. Hines Gallery, Public Resource Center

Check out the City Art Technical Workshop for Artists on Tuesday, 07/26/2005, 6:30–8:30pm. For a full listing of City Art events, click here.

Underwritten by:

Sponsored by:
Fund for the City of New York
Furthermore: A Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Gruzen Samton LLP
Richard Dattner & Partners Architects

Courtesy Museum of the City of New York
Abbott: Vista from West Street, Nos. 115-118 between Dey and Cortlandt Streets, 1938

Courtesy Museum of the City of New York
Levere: Vista from West Street, Former World Trade Center Site, 2002

July 26 – November 27
New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott's New York

50 of Levere's photographs will be paired with 50 of Abbott's vintage prints

Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave.

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