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Education

Instantute’s Manhattan Studio, Fall 2009

by Tommy Manuel

Andrew Mac­Nair of the Instan­tute sent along the details of forth­com­ing Fall 2009 pro­gram for the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio. Hope to see you there!

Paint­ing by Andrew MacNair

Instan­tute announces the new Fall Man­hat­tan Stu­dio 2009 with two Stu­dio ses­sions: the first one runs from Sep­tem­ber 15 to Octo­ber 29; the sec­ond goes from Novem­ber 3 to December […]

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“What did you just say?” and Other Frustrations in Architecture Speak

by Tommy Manuel

On sec­ond thought, for­get it.  I was going to post some­thing here on the trou­bling phe­nom­e­non of lan­guage in archi­tec­ture, par­tic­u­larly acad­e­mia.  It’s down right ridicu­lous at times, which is most of the time, and it pisses me off. After a total of seven years study­ing archi­tec­ture, I can’t begin to tell you them amount […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Week 3, Session 6

by Andrew MacNair

OBRA Architects, Jennifer Lee and Pablo Cas­tro
Thurs­day, June 25, 2009. 315 Church Street
At 318 Church Street just a block below always honk­ing Canal Street and around the cor­ner from Pearl Paint, Jen­nifer Lee and Pablo Cas­tro of OBRA Archi­tects gave us a tour of their office and a pic­ture show of their recent Red+Housing  —  just built […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Week 3, Session 5

by Tommy Manuel

More news from Andrew Mac­Nair and the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio, fea­tur­ing George W. Sweeney, Archi­tect.
Tues­day, June 23, 2009
We met at the square round­table in George Sweeney’s 16th floor pent­house office with views over mid­town toward the Empire State Build­ing. Suzanne Frank dis­cussed a study she is doing of “The New City” a cat­a­logue and exhi­bi­tion orga­nized by […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Shanghai Cruise Ship Terminal

by Andrew MacNair

Frank Repas, Archi­tect: Week 2, Ses­sion 4  —  June 18, 2009

This project by Frank Repas is like the Grand Canyon. When you go from Man­hat­tan to the Grand Canyon, you drive for days, arrive in the end­less flats of the desert, ditch your car in the vast hot park­ing lot, wend your way through herds of ice cream […]

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Manhattan Studio News 1

by Andrew MacNair

Week 1: Ses­sion 1, Tuesday, June 9, 2009
George Sweeney Office: 16th Floor, 49 West 38th Street
The first ses­sion was an intro­duc­tion to the eight-week stu­dio. After some gen­eral remarks about the twenty-seven year his­tory and pur­pose of the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio, Andrew Mac­Nair showed a first stage of research project study­ing the two sides of Cen­tral Park West. […]

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UPDATE: Manhattan Studio Summer 2009

by Tommy Manuel

Andrew Mac­Nair sent along this updated sched­ule for the workshop/seminar he is orga­niz­ing this sum­mer.  It’s an exper­i­men­tal research and design stu­dio on “Top­i­cal Future of the City.” The course will run from June 9 to July 30, meet­ing Tues­days and Thurs­days, 7-9pm in Mid­town Cam­pus. Guest speak­ers are planned for the Thurs­day night ses­sions (see the sched­ule below). The […]

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