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This Weekend In The Times

Nicolai loves on Tschumi's Blue in the old neighborhood, and Eliasson gets his first major survey in the states.

Thinking Glacially, Acting Artfully [NY Times]
image by Olafur Eliasson
A Ragtag Neighborhood’s Big, Blue Newcomer [NY Times]

The Revisionist Take on Robert Moses

Michael Powell features Robert Caro in the NY Times and examines the 'revisionist' Robert Moses exhibits currently on display in New York City.

A Tale of Two Cities [NY Times]

Robert Moses & The Modern City

This afternoon we viewed one of the three exhibits on Robert Moses, this one at the Museum of the City of New York, titled Robert Moses and the Modern City: Remaking the Metropolis. Focusing on the physical transformation of New York City, the exhibit examines a range of works completed by Moses, ranging from roadways and parks, to developments such as the United Nations and Lincoln Center. The show also includes unrealized projects such as the Midtown Expressway, the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and the Brooklyn Battery Bridge - all presented in model form.

The exhibit strikes a balance between giving credit where credit is due and displaying projects where Moses was defeated by stiff opposition. The Expressways proposed for Manhattan and the Brooklyn Battery Bridge would have drastically changed the face of Manhattan as we know it, much the same way the landscape of the Bronx was altered with the Expressway Moses built there.

Megastructure Exhibition Kicks Off In Berlin

Via Archinect, MEGASTRUCTURE-RELOADED, a traveling exhibition launching in Berlin, will bring together the work of the megastructuralists of the 1960s and "focus on the connection between architecture and visual art, as well as on actual architectonic and urban-design issues."

Metropolis On Moses

The three-site exhibition featuring the work of Master Builder Rober Moses, gets a three-part write-up in Metropolis. On Tuesday March 20th, Karrie Jacobs will be speaking at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC, 6:30 p.m, discussing "Landscape by Moses."

Robert Moses Lives [Metropolis]
Rethinking Robert Moses [Metropolis]
Looking Back at Moses [Metropolis]
rendering of Lower Manhattan Expressway by Gero/Collection MTA Bridges and Tunnels Special Archive