Scribbled in marker on a postcard-size slip of paper in 1973, the anarchitect Gordon Matta-Clark wrote: “Making the right cut somewhere between the supports and collapse.” The tenor of this note is duly reflected in two recent New York building developments: the Whitney Independent Study Program space, now permanently housed at the newly renovated Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein former studio and home, and the multidisciplinary fabrication facility, Powerhouse Arts, located in a converted early-twentieth-century power plant in Brooklyn.
Rick Cook of COOKFOX Architects and Herzog & de Meuron’s Philip Schmerbeck presented a trio of ‘industrial strength’ adaptive reuse projects to a packed house at Brickworks Design Studio in Manhattan.