Archive for March, 2008

• Brownsville Public Housing Development

  In their book, refabricating ARCHITECTURE, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake discuss the implications of the prefabrication of modular components to architecture. They argue that through the realigning of the construction industry from an atomized state to a tiered organization similar to that of the aerospace and automobile industries architects will be able to design higher quality and greater scope buildings faster and cheaper. To build modular pieces of buildings one must move away from a purely systems approach and to a more integrated idea of building. A new spatial alignment of these systems is crucial.

  03.22.08 | no comments | Filed Under: Projects | Arthur McGoey

• Fulton Street Visitor and Transit Center

  A study in the ideas of qualitative performance as envisioned in William MacDonald of KOL/MAC Architects. The study was sited at the corner of Fulton St. and Broadway in New York City. This is the location of the for the Fulton Transit Center by Nicholas Grimshaw. The goal of the project from the MTA’s standpoint was to reconfigure the confusing labyrinth of subway stations going through lower Manhattan.

  03.20.08 | no comments | Filed Under: Projects | Arthur McGoey

• Welcome

  Welcome.

  This blog is intended to be a repository for my personal musings on Architecture.  That said, questions and comments are appreciated.  I hope you enjoy everything.

  03.16.08 | no comments | Filed Under: General | Arthur McGoey