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TOUR UNIT FIVE
Skyscrapers, The World Trade Center and the Future of Lower Manhattan
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Topic
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Day 1 |
The New York Skyscraper
in-class slides
Skyscraper Timeline
finish posting in class |
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Day 2 |
Wall Street and the Skyscraper: Architecture of Commercial and Corporate
Capital
HA, 104-105
Willis, Form Follows Finance p. 19-47 (handout)
Robins, Top This One: The Continuing Saga of the Tallest Building in the World
(handout)
1) What problem does the skyscraper
solve, technically, economically, culturally? how does it solve these problems?
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Day 3 |
Form Follows Finance: Wall Street to 1916
Carol Willis, Form Follows Finance,pp. 67-90 (handout)
in-class slides
Skyscraper Timeline
1)How does form follow finance
in the case of the skyscaper? How is the skyscraper the product
of corporate capital? Real-estate speculation? Architectural trends?
Technological advances? What, in the end, really drives the invention
and evolution of the New York skyscraper?
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Day 4 |
The World Trade Center:
The Height of Ambition
Glanz and Lipton, "The
Height of Ambition," NYTimes Magazine, 9/8/2002 (handout)
Matthew Drennan, The Decline
and Rise of the New York Economy
The
Fall and Rise of NYC: Timeline/ Outline
1) How does the World Trade
Center fit into the history of the New York skyscraper and the
language of form, function and finance? How does the story of
the WTC's creation fit into that of New York's shift to a "service
economy," as discussed in the readings from Day 6 of the
last unit, The Fall and Rise of Harlem
2) In the article the authors
present the WTC towers as epically tragic. How do the towers fit
the definition of tragedy? How do they not?
3) How might New York's position
in the world have contirbuted to the events of September 11th?
How might the events of September 11th have changed New York?
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Day 5 |
Competing
for Ground Zero
discuss memorial project
make groups
Paul Goldberger, Skyline articles
from the New Yorker Magazine (handouts)
The
competing plans:
The
chosen design: Daniel Libeskind
The
Libeskind plan:
Gardens of the World
The THINK plan: World Cultural Center
Foster
and Partners: World Square
Meier,
Eisenman , Gwathmey Siegel, Steven Holl: Memorial Square
Peterson/Littenberg:
Urban Circle
Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill: Vertical City
United
Architects: Sky Memorial
Koolhaas, Delirious No More,
Wired 6/2003 (handout)
Lower
Manhattan Development Corporation
Of
interest: Birth of Central Park Holds Parallels to Ground Zero
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Day 6 |
Memory and Memorial
Articles on memorial projects
(handouts)
Gotham
Gazette- Rebuilding New York
Guidelines
for the official competition
Guidelines for Memorial
Project
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3-4
students per group
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3-4 36"x48"
panels, foam-core or oaktag, at least one of which is primarily
visual
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look
at competition guidelines using links below for inspiration,
but don't feel constrained by them
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8-minute
presentation (per group) to the class, to be held in the Stu-Fac
and to be followed by constructive discussion
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due
on Day 8 (6/3) in class. All sections will meet in the
St-Fac and pin up their work for group review. Ms. Neubauer's
Tuesday G-Band class and Mr. Meyers' Tuesday E band class
will meet together from 1-1:50pm in the Stu-Fac for a combined
pin-up. G-Band should have lunch from 12:15 to 12:55 and E-Band
should have lunch from 1:50 to 2:30.
Some questions to
consider:
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What
is the nature of memorial? What is the purpose
of public memory? Can you think of some examples
of effective public memorials? What is an appropriate
way to remember 9/11?
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What
kind of reaction do you want to evoke? Consider the range
of responses your memorial might/should engender.
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Who is the primary audience
for your memorial? Will this memorial speak across different
social, political, economic groups? Across different time
periods?
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How
does your memorial address the place in which it exists? How
does it address the specific needs of New York City? How does
your memorial fit into the spatial and historical fabric of
New York City?
We encourage you to think
broadly about different media (visual, literary, audio, etc.)
and to consider integrating themes and questions drawn from the
course.
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Day 7 |
Memorial Project
Joshua
Brustein, Figuring Out the Memorial, Gotham Gazette, 8/19/2002
Slideshow of NYC Memorials
Pentagon
Memorial Design
Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
Oklahoma
City Memorial
Pearl
Harbor Memorial
Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Park
Images
of the Boston Holocaust Memorial
Daniel
Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin |
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Day 8 |
Pin-up and Critiques
of Memorial Project |
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