New Public Works: Architecture, Planning, and Politics, edited by Mark Robbins - Princeton

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New City Books New City Books is a joint imprint of the Syracuse University School of Architecture and Princeton Architectural Press that explores architecture, landscape architecture, infrastructure, and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm. Topics range from the impact of federal sponsorship of design, to the study of weak market cities of the Rust Belt, to a survey of contemporary American housing, to the postindustrial city of Syracuse, New York, and the role of a research university as a resource and collaborator. The formative nature of innovative design is the constant and highlights the necessity for multiple strategies that trigger public and private support.

The New City Books series includes: From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures New Public Works: Architecture, Planning and Politics Modern American Housing High-Rise, Reuse, Infill American City “X�

Syracuse after the Master Plan

New Public Works Architecture, Planning, and Politics Edited by Rachel Somerstein With contributions by Rocco Landesman Cathleen McGuigan Mark Robbins

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Foreword Rocco Landesman

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Acknowledgments

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Design Futures Mark Robbins

The New City Books series is made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Additional funding is provided by the Syracuse University School of Architecture, Judith Greenberg Seinfeld, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and the Central New York Community Foundation.

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Chicago Public Schools Design Competition Chicago, Illinois

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Tucson Gateway Design Competition Tucson, Arizona

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Arroyo Parkway Street Enhancement Pasadena, California

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Brooklyn Public Library, Visual and Performing Arts Library Brooklyn, New York

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Expansion of the Carroll Robbins Elementary School Trenton, New Jersey

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Discovery Canyon Campus Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Fashion Institute of Technology New York, New York

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Washington Canal Park Washington, DC

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Sugar House Pedestrian Crossing Salt Lake City, Utah

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Queens Museum of Art Expansion Queens, New York

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Papago Salado Trail Design Competition Phoenix, Arizona

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San Jose State University Museum of Art and Design San Jose, California

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Menomonee River Valley Redevelopment Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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In the city of Big D, everything seems supersized, including enthusiasm for architecture and the arts. Dallas has a remarkable capacity to harness local largesse and raise private dollars for public culture. In the teeth of the recession, two ambitious performance venues opened in the Dallas arts district in 2009, the Winspear Opera House, by Foster + Partners, and the Wyly Theatre, by REX/OMA (Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus). Built at a total cost of $354 million, the new facilities joined the Dallas Museum of Art (by Edward Larrabee Barnes), the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (by I. M. Pei), and the Nasher Sculpture Center (by Renzo Piano), all in the district. It is now the largest arts center in the United States and the only one with buildings designed by four Pritzker Prize–winning architects.

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The national publicity surrounding the debut of the theater and opera house almost overshadowed the new design of their nearby neighbor, the historic Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The public magnet school had quietly reopened the year before, in 2008, after an extensive renovation and the construction of an 180,000-square-foot addition While the lavish Winspear and the seductive Wyly became glamorous fixtures of the neighborhood, the modest new Booker T. looked as tough and plain as a cowboy’s boots.

But the school’s carefully considered design, by the Portland, Oregon, firm Allied Works Architecture, led by Brad Cloepfil, is in many ways the more remarkable achievement.

The expansion was a saga of true grit: its heroes were a small group of private patrons determined to buck the usual process of public-school construction. Thanks to the catalyst of a grant from the New Public Works program, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the school’s benefactors were able to launch a national competition to find the best possible design, in keeping with the high standards of the district. They won a public relations battle over the controversial idea that a public school deserved superior architecture. And they managed to raise more than half of the $60 million cost privately at a time when Dallas was in the midst of competing capital campaigns for

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