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2003.12.01 / Project

Gardens, Walls, Mosaic
A serious look at what is there from Divine to State to Community / Social housing at Lower East Side, New York City
Michael Bell Studio / Columbia University GSAPP
Jon Kher Kaw, Eric Ng

 


"Three subjects; three gardens - a difficult synthesis and a memory of all spaces - the subject is the site; the gardens remain. No easy solution this project proposes instead a new perception of space and of history: distributed attributes of each history recombine to form a new "mosaic" but one that is fractal in organization: each part contains the whole but there is not easy reference back to the origin. A new subject is projected who is of all three gardens. Do spaces imply subjects spaces as common as school yards, church gardens? If so how much can one draw from the spaces to see the subjects they imply and then move forward with new subjects. How much value should we give to an architecture born of such tight constraints: does this project imply that we find architecture in close reading of subject/object relations: within codes of history, use and meaning? having refrained from easy interpretation or lyrical readings what do we make of "desperate" (highly scrutinized and considered) readings of form and space." - Michael Bell

 

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