Moving photographs of families in matching Polo button-down, abstract post-modern sculptures painted in rust orange and caramel frappuccino beige, and sleek bookshelves with encyclopedias and New York Time’s best sellers line the glass walls. Yorkies bark at the housekeepers, who are ironing personally deigned suits and dresses that will likely not be warn again. The […]
Architecture tells a story of the elite. The skyscrapers in New York allude to flourishing business and trade. Versailles’ absurd grandeur indicates superfluous resources and wealth. A postmodern mosque in Iraq signifies the strength and power of a ruler. In the “Edifice Complex” Sudjic highlights the power of architecture: the immense power of the destruction […]
The Timescapes video at the Museum of the City of New York was a very dynamic and informative presentation of New York City history. The fast moving, varying images on each of the three panels successfully represented the rapid and changing development of New York City over the last few hundred years. While the video […]
Ilana Gelb IDC 4001H- Professor Maciuika 2/1/14 Destruction in Pursuit of Creation One must destroy in order to create. In a time of Modernization, when the world is constantly changing, it is difficult for individuals to find steady ground. The readings, “All That is Solid Melts into Air” by Marshal Berman, “What is Globalization” by […]
