2012S_Vertical_Ted Krueger
ARCH4240/50/60.02 | Ted Krueger, Associate Professor + Graduate Director
Vertical Arch Design Studio
Selected Student Work:
Andrea Goldstein
Andrew Pennacchia
Dorothy Underwood
John Wallace
Manhattan is a three-dimensional diagram of the cultural value placed on
the commodification of space. All this is clearly evident in the form of the city. Land values are our values. If we valued differently, the form of the city would change.
This studio was an investigation into the forms that a city might take if we valued the production of food in relation to health, economy and environment. Skeptical of industrialized mono-cultural methods of food production, we sought solutions that were complex sets of interrelations between the technical and the biological. We posited similarly complex relations between the proposed housing and the existing city.
The program called for housing ten thousand on a 90-acre site over the Hudson River north of Battery Park City; situated as a critique of both the traditional organization of the island and its revisionist landfill extension to the west. The program called for the integration of agriculture and aquaculture and human culture- a new vision of the metropolis looking towards rising seal levels not with dread but with the sense of opportunity.
John Baker
Andrea Goldstein
Andrew Pennacchia
Ariel Smith
Dorothy Underwood
John Wallace
