In a Crain’s New York article about growth patterns in Brooklyn over the past decade, Tom Angotti did not mince words, stating that “The development has been very uneven and unequal. Instead of the vibrant city that was more diverse, it’s becoming a city of separate enclaves.” Speaking in her official capacity as the chair of the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association’s planning committee, Meta Brunzema cheered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to tear down the Javits Center: “I hate to say it, but [Hudson River Park's] really inadequate around here and everyone knows it. The Javits Center is an obstacle to it really becoming a great park.” And Saskia Sassen, in an Artforum piece on the sociopolitical conditions that led up to OWS (pictured at left), writes that “The Occupy movements are emergent assemblages of fragments of various national (and global) territories. Their reclamation of public space is also a response to the increasingly palpable insufficiency of the logic of the nation-state.”
Quoth the Fellows: Angotti, Brunzema, & Sassen
Friday, January 27th, 2012Tags: Artforum, brooklyn, Crain's New York, Development, diversity, Governor Cuomo, Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association, Hudson River Park, Javits Center, manhattan, Meta Brunzema, New York City, occupation, Occupy Wall Street, public space, Saskia Sassen, segregation, Tom Angotti, waterfront
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Fellows in the News: Brunzema, Cathcart, Holl, Jerde, and Weisz
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Fellows in the News: Fellow Meta Brunzema’s La Marqueta Mile project in Harlem has been generating a lot of great buzz lately; work has started and a construction webcam has gone live at the site of the new Bushwick Inlet Park in Brooklyn, designed by Fellow Colin Cathcart’s firm Kiss + Cathcart; Patron Steven Holl was recently selected to design the new Long Island City branch of the Queens Library; Fellow Jon Jerde’s groundbreaking Horton Plaza shopping center in San Diego (pictured at left) just hit the quarter-century mark, an anniversary the mall’s owners are celebrating with architectural tours; and finally, Fellow Claire Wiesz has been very busy — work on her revamp of Transmitter Park, just a few blocks upriver form the aforementioned Bushwick Inlet Park, has just started, and this week saw the unveiling of WXY Architecture’s plans for the overhaul of Fordham Plaza in the Bronx.
Tags: Bronx, brooklyn, Bushwick Inlet Park, Claire Weisz, Colin Cathcart, Fordham Plaza, Harlem, Horton Plaza, Jon Jerde, Kiss + Cathcart, La Marqueta Mile, Long Island City, Meta Brunzema, New York City, Queens Library, San Diego, Steven Holl, Transmitter Park, WXY Architecture
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Fellows Form Housing Research Committee
Saturday, February 28th, 2009A group of Institute fellows, Viren Brahmbhatt, Peter Brassard, Meta Brunzema, Renee Kaufman, Linda Pollak, Lyn Rice, Thor Snilsberg, and Claire Weisz, have formed a fellows’ research ad hoc committee with the goal of assessing the state of housing in the US and proposing sustainable development strategies. We will keep you informed on the progress of this initiative. If you would like to learn more about this project and contribute your ideas and suggestions, please email us at info@ifud.org.
Tags: Claire Weisz, Housing, Linda Pollak, Lyn Rice, Meta Brunzema, Peter Brassard, Renee Kaufman, Reseach, Thor Snilsberg, United States, Viren Brahmbhatt
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