Metropolis Magazine’s inclusion of my 1985 partial renovation of Columbia University’s Schermerhorn Hall in its November 2014 Postmodern Watch list – spaces and buildings from the 1970s and 1980s proposed for landmarking –has prompted me to revisit the architectural discourse of that decade and my position within it. The variety of buildings and spaces selected […]
“You should be more careful,” Peter Eisenman warned me in 1970, referring to my criticism of certain practices at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, which he directed. “We prefer groupies to renegades around here.” I had been brought in, along with two of Peter’s former students, to analyze and organize […]
David Brenner, the comedian, interviewed me in the early 1980s regarding the renovation of a brownstone he had just purchased. He had read an article about my work in Avenue, a magazine delivered free of charge to residents of Park Avenue and other high-income New Yorkers. We met at his residence, filled with a plethora […]
Feminist ideologies favor working in collectives, embracing inclusiveness and developing a choral voice. During last century’s mid-1970s and early 80s I was actively involved in the creation of such structures with the aim of changing the dominant discourses in the art and architecture worlds. Although life-long friendships may be forged along the way, these collectives […]
Some architects develop their sense of form from buildings (Richard Meier), construction technologies (Renzo Piano), or program (Lina Bo Bardi), but most architects submit to the discipline’s stylistic tropes du jour, whether raised extruded volumes projected into space or classical pediments. This is inherent to a culture of precedents disseminated by the media. Original proposals […]
DWELLING AS MANIFESTO
06.08.2021