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Hollis Frampton filmed his walk from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park in 1968, and it was recently posted by the New York Times. The "narration" is ... interesting and the story has developed all sorts of analysis and tangents. I am amazed how much trash, and vistors, there was in the park. And if you do not blink, you can see the Strand Bookstore, on Broadway amongts many other treats:
jm
Pratt Institute is celebrating it's 125th anniversary of its founding this year, and Channel 13 in New York just broadcast a segment on the school for the Treasures of New York series. It is pretty good!
Jim McAuliffe, AIA (Class of 1983)
Ten minutes away from the convention center in Washington DC is the former U.S. Patent Office that now houses the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The original building was designed by Robert Mills, the first american architect born and trained in this country. The interiors have been sensitively renovated for the display of art and artifacts:
But the real stunner is the courtyard. Here Foster and gang enclosed court with a freestanding, undulating, structure that is barely visible from the outside, and thrilling on the inside:
Preservation and modernism can lead to great spaces.
jm
