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City to Select Developer Of Center on the Hudson
" The review panel endorsed as "clearly superior" a proposal in which platform space would be minimal and the buildings would seem to float like islets in the Hudson. "
Category: Architecture
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Jean McClintock Gardner
Jean McClintock Gardner is a longtime Parsons urban environment faculty member. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Jean McClintock Gardner, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Michael Kalil: An Introduction
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. “We dream faster than we can build and we build faster than we accept. We therefore invent the notion of the […]
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Giuseppe Zambonini: Loft Utopia
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. There’s nothing less utopian and avant-garde than the New York City loft. A symbol of gentrification in Manhattan and Brooklyn, teeming […]
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Indoor / Outdoor Space Engineer
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. “I had always seen architecture as landscaping.” – Michael Kalil, “Seed Vision” interview, 1990 Kalil’s archive offers up several interesting pieces […]
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65 5th Avenue
The address at 65 Fifth Avenue has a storied past. Back in 1881, when it was a four story brownstone, the building housed the headquarters of Thomas Edison’s “new” electrical company. It became the first building to be lit exclusively by electricity. In later years it was demolished and became Lane’s Department store in 1951, […]
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66 W. 12th Street: The Dance Studio
The ceiling is painted black, excepting the reflecting area in the center and around the walls which are white. To the level of the tops of the doors, the walls are painted in colors, one section being orange and the next yellow with blue next to that and so on. The floor is dark blue. […]
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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford studied at the New School for Social Research. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Lewis Mumford, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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The Orozco Room
“What could have been my feeling when Orozco, the greatest mural painter of our time, proposed to contribute a mural. All I could say was, ‘God bless you. Paint me the picture. Paint as you must. I assure you freedom.’” - Alvin Johnson When the building at 66 W. 12th St. was in construction, in […]