An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street. In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became
Christian Volkmann’s Fall 2017 Advanced Studio, “Urban Glass House,” investigated conditions of transparency and set out to insert small glass pavilions in three very specific environments in New York City: Urban plazas with particular contexts and histories. These were interpreted by students and complemented with spaces of glass to unite material strategies with spatial experience.
Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, Volume 6 explores the theme of CLOUD. The content is developed by the second-year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue examine the ephemeral phenomenon of the CLOUD, a speculation on that mass
Professor Marta Gutman edited this special section of the Journal of Urban History and wrote the introduction. Photo: County Road, Winthrop, Washington, 2016. Courtesy Marta Gutman.
Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate
With the emergence of the new political climate and where it is more important than ever to speak and be heard, Informality is here as a monthly platform carrying out the voices of the student body–informed, empowered, and acting. For the month of February, we reached out to Spitzer School of Architecture’s student body and