MacCormac

 

MacCormac has written:”contrasts in finish……are intended to find a rhetoric for a material which has been misunderstood and undervalued in the past.” the reprodection of traditional architectural features in these new materials leads to some awkward details, such as when the rustcated concrete piers of the meeting rooms about directly into glazing cut to fit. Other “craft” materialsproduce some elegant features such as the lead-covered stainless-steel flashings that project from the cornice line of the towers.the difference between two generations of college architecture is , perhaps, the fact that where craft content was once robust, yet understated, it is now both fussy and obtrusive.

http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk

The journey: The Greek American Dream

A happy hymn to all things Hellenic, producer-derictor Maria Ilious’s The Journey is the loving told, meticulously reearched story of how the 400,000 Greek immigrants who flooded through Ellis Island from the 1890s to 1920s played a key role in making American great without losing sight of who they were and from whence they came. Fanning out from shoshine parlors and street vending in NY to Massachusettes, New Hampshire,Chicago,Detroit and beyond, the first wave of greeks who arrived in America had to pvercome prejudice from the U.S goverment, which innitially classified them as Orientials, to the ku Klux Klan, who saw them as not the quite white. Marrying dazzling archival footage to the  picaresque narration of a dozon or so Greek scholar,historians, politicians, and artists, The Journey is a celebration of Greece and a tribute to the success of Greek Americans.

http://www.thejourneygreekamericandream.org/index.htm

Rockville’s pike Community Design Sharrette

Starting on May31st Rockville will be conducting a community design charette, which is an intensive collaborATIVE PROCESS INVOLVING THE PUBLIC, CITY of Rockville staff and our consultants. Working together, we will develop a design plan for the future of Rockville’s Pike.