Posted: Sep 9th, 2008 | Comments: 41
Upcoming documentary The Bungalows of Rockaway, delves into the rich history of the bungalows on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, NY, over the past 100 years. Co-producers ...
Orientalism: The Roots of Modernism
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even ...
Posted: May 8th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Michelle Addington: The Architecture of the Unfamiliar
Michelle Addington, co-author of Smart Materials and Designs for Architecture and Design Professions (2004), has worked at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center designing spacecraft, at DuPont ...
Posted: Apr 17th, 2008 | Comments: 0
With the city’s real estate booming as never before, the challenge of housing 21st-century New Yorkers is daunting. The city estimates that we will need 265,000 more housing units by ...
Posted: Mar 11th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The city’s most affluent 19th century barons commissioned its most accomplished architects, designers, and craftspeople to build and embellish their homes. Professor Mosette Broderick, director of the Architecture ...
Posted: Jan 22nd, 2008 | Comments: 0
New York Brownstones: Icons of a Great City
Charles Lockwood, author of the indispensable Bricks and Brownstone was described by The New Yorker as the "consummate authority" on this iconic building type. His recent research has ...
Posted: Oct 16th, 2007 | Comments: 0
