architecture

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/5/2020
  

  East Village Fire Damages 128-Year-Old Church

  Middle Collegiate Church was a beacon of inclusion and tolerance for its congregants and the surrounding community. The damaged building was 128 years old, but the congregation originated before the American Revolution. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/3/2020
  

  Artists Ask MoMA to Remove Philip Johnson’s Name, Citing Racist Views

  A group of more than 30 artists and academics have signed a letter asking institutions like the Museum of Modern Art to excise the influential architect’s name from their spaces.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  11/27/2020
  

  The Legacy Of Tunney Lee: Preserving The History Of Boston's Chinatown

  An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discusses the contributions of the late MIT urban studies professor Tunney Lee to historic preservation and the relationship of immigrant communities to urban environments.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

  Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  11/3/2020
  

  Trumpania, U.S.A.: Making Federal Buildings Fascist Again

  by Ed Simon

  Trump's obsession with establishing neoclassical architecture as the default style for federal buildings echoes the delusional plan of Adolf Hitler to rebuild bombed Berlin in a monumental style purged of "decadent" modernism. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/10/2020
  

  History and Gentrification Clash in a Gilded Age Resort

  A proposal to redevelop a section of Newport, Rhode Island far from the city's typical tourist destinations has generated an unlikely alliance of low-income residents who fear displacement and affluent historic preservation advocates. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  The Proud City: Patrick Abercrombie's Unfulfilled Plan for Rebuilding London

  by Simon Jenkins

  In 1942, the British government endorsed a plan that turned the Blitz into an opportunity for massive centrally-planned rebuilding of London. This was a break from the previous anarchic pattern of development, and, for better or worse, today's eclectic metropolis owes its form to the failure of the plan. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/17/2020
  

  Want to Flee the City for Suburbia? Think Again

  The 20th century offers object lessons in why fleeing cities for suburban and exurban settings can backfire — even if it seems like a good idea at first.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/25/2020
  

  New York Opens Traffic-Clogged Streets to People During Pandemic, the City’s Latest Redesign in Times of Dramatic Change

  by Amy D. Finstein

  The COVID-19 pandemic presents large cities with an opportunity to remake public space around different priorities, putting people before automobiles. 

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Cold War New and Old: Architectural Exchanges Beyond the West

  by Łukasz Stanek

  Until today, many urban landscapes in West Africa bear witness to how local authorities and professionals drew on Soviet prefabrication technology, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/16/20
  

  The battle for Notre Dame

  by Philip Kennicott and Aaron Steckelberg

  As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug of war over its transformation and history. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 31, 2019
  

  5 New York Buildings That Changed American History

  by Sam Roberts

  The inconspicuous landmarks where the Depression exploded, modern art bloomed, and the United Nations first assembled.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-1-17
  

  Vincent Scully, 97, Influential Architecture Historian, Dies

  “I think he probably did more than anyone else over the last 60 years to affect not just architecture but architecture culture as well,” one disciple said.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2-15-15
  

  Mount Vernon uses lasers to scan mansion down to the nail

  Architects and preservationists are at the estate building a computerized database of every piece of the mansion.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2-22-15
  

  Ray Bradbury home's demise has LA re-examining its history

  The Bradbury home's destruction came as a surprise in part because the guy who knocked it down was one of the city's most prominent architects.

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• SOURCE: Chicagoist
  2-3-15
  

  Watch A Piece Of Chicago's Architectural History Come Tumbling Down

  Whether you're on the side of "progress" or "preserving history," this video is powerful, regardless, and is a stark reminder that change is constant.

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• SOURCE: Curbed
  1-16-15
  

  Meet the Black Architect Who Designed Duke University 37 Years Before He Could Have Attended It

  by Rachel B. Doyle

  In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school's first-ever black graduate.

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• 9-21-14
  

  Shia and Sunni Have Been at Each Other’s Throats for a Thousand Years? Architecture Shows this Isn’t True.

  by Stephennie Mulder

  What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-3014
  

  Tears, and Anger, as Militants Destroy Iraq City’s Relics

  “We couldn’t believe that the history of Mosul has disappeared. I wanted to die.”

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• SOURCE: Art Daily
  6-19-14
  

  Amsterdam revolts against United States architect Daniel Libeskind Holocaust memorial

  Residents have complained that the monument will take up too much space in the popular park.