Throughout the semester I feel like I have drastically improved my research skills, and how to hone in on a specific paradox in a given area. Some of the most influential readings: Urbach, Henry “Exhibition as Atmosphere” Kimmelman, Michael “In Protest, the Power of Place” Rios, Michael “Whose Public Space” Elliott, Denielle, and Dara Culhane […]
Category: Integrative Seminar 1
Constructed Environments Seminar: Annotated Bibliography
Week 1: Kimmelman, Michael. “In Protest, the Power of Place.” The New York Times. October 15, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/sunday-review/wall-street-protest-shows-power-of-place.html. Massey, Doreen. “Space – time and the politics of Location,” Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture, and the Everyday. McClelland, Mac. “How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp.” The New York Times. February, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/how-to-build-a-perfect-refugee-camp.html. Rawlence, Ben. […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: Do’s and Dont’s List
In The New York Time’s, “Frames of Reference”, McPhee talks about vividness, and borrowed vividness. He explains how when writing you should not presume that the reader has the same interests and has seen the same content as you. You should not reference a particular character or individual when describing something as the reader could […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: “My Brooklyn” Documentary
“My Brooklyn” a documentary film done by , is a journalistic pice on Fulton Street Market or Mall. The once bustling street of street venders, thrift stores, and cheap wholesale goods is now overrun with designer stores and expensive restaurants today. This film brings insight to the community that once was, and how gentrification has […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: BRIDGE III – Crown Heights Report
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Constructed Environments Seminar BRIDGE 2: Visualizing Information About Your Neighborhood
While visiting my neighborhood of Crown Heights I learned very quickly of the racial tension that plays a deep roll in the history and creation of the Brooklyn Hub. Through the assigned videos, research, and first hand experiences with residents of the area, I learned about the fast development of Crown Heights in the early […]
Constructed Environments Seminar – Walk Again
For my more specific location I chose in Crown Heights I chose one of the main strips of the neighborhood where Nostrand Avenue turns into a short section called James E. Davis Avenue by Eastern Parkway. This strip is full of local restaurants, coffee shops, and stores for basic and more particular needs. The street […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: Strategies of Home Making
I accociated my strategy of bringing home with me, or determining what is home, through my record play and records. If i am anywhere long enough to bring my stereo setup that place becomes my home, and the music that I play brings me back to different times where it was a band seen at […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: Spaces of Freedom, Spaces of Joy – Press Review
Solidarity created by Abigail Meyer, Jamie Taylor, Myles Arkins, and Lucy Zeng, performs as a solution for any time and any place, bringing the necessity of public space in an articulated in political design. Bringing a grass filled park to the corner of this urban environment, the design uses a circular stepped path around the […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: The Walking assignment
Taking the downtown 4 train from Union Square I road 30 minutes to Crown Heights where I immediately started talking and walking with a man who was giving me directions the way he was walking. He quickly went on rants about the neighborhoods being taken over by Jewish real estate companies that buy rebuild and […]