Seminar 4: Shaping the Future of NYC Prof. Maciuika, Spring 2014

Seminar 4: Shaping the Future of NYC
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Test Podcast: Gold on the Ceiling

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12,000 Diamonds in the Rough

Jenna Hosier Maciuika IDC 4001H March 2nd 2014 Thousands of pages of historical records being thrown out of windows, lying amidst the rubble of fires, tattered and stained throughout hundreds of years, finally surface and become translated. This is without a doubt the most revealing new information and the driving purpose of Russell Shorto’s history […]

“Green the Ghetto!”
"Green the Ghetto!"

  I borrowed the phrase for my title from an environmental equality visionary named Majora Carter. Although I was not in class last Tuesday, reading through my fellow students reviews on the New York Restoration Project exhibit and the discussion from guest speaker Constance Haydock, I felt that if the exhibit and the speaker’s missions were to be […]

Sudjic’s Power Complex

Jenna Hosier / IDC 4001H Maciuika / February 17, 2014             Sudjic offers every possible answer to the main question of Chapter 1: “Why We Build”. Emotional and psychological purposes, ideological and practical reasons, to project power, and to give shape and form to political and religious impulses, all are the culprits in why buildings are structured. […]

Timescapes: True to its Purpose

Like many of my peers, I found some faults in Timescapes at the Museum of the City of New York. As I pulled back the curtain to the mini-theater on the 2nd floor of the museum, I found that the size of the room compared to the screens was problematic. Luckily, I found myself seated […]

Risky Business in the Mad Rush to the Top

Jenna Hosier – IDC 4001H – Prof. Maciuika – February 2nd, 2014 Risky Business in the Mad Rush to the Top The three readings seem to be connected by mankind’s perpetual need to move forward, and loss of control in the process, and the concept of globality. The very essence of Berman’s title All That […]