East Village

2023 ACADEMIC Profs. Ivi Diamantopolu & Rami Abou-Khalil

As a part of context research for a studio project, this image was a synthesis of individual findings composited into a single “super-image” developed in a series of workshops with Audrey Haliman. Composition, lighting, materiality, and entourage were all intentionally considered in the curation of a hyperrealist image that narrates specific architectural moments and qualities of the East Village historic district. Most importantly, the image narrates the juxtaposition of historically signifcant places, those that are officially landmarked and those that are not, and ultimately suffer visually as a result of that. Among various tectonic, some of the most important obseved aspects in clude the highly visible hsitory of tenement housing in the village and unique conditisn that this produces at the street level.