“The most courageous act of prediction
in Western civilization: the land it divides, unoccupied;
the population it describes, conjectural;
the buildings it locates, phantoms;
the activities it frames, nonexistent.”
Rem Koolhaas
"...The 1811 plan has demonstrated remarkable longevity as well as the flexibility to adapt to two centuries of unforeseeable change...”
Susan Henshaw Jones,
Ronay Menschel Museum Director
In a separate gallery from the main show,
another section to the exhibition focuses on the Call for Ideas organized around seven themes. Manhattan Grid as a Template for Words was among those chosen to exemplify the grid's capacity to serve as a conceptual framework for more theoretical art and architecture.
Shan Jayakumar (concept + text + schematic design)
Barbra Tolentino (graphic design)
"The invention of writing is a profound legacy of the first cities that sprang up in the fertile delta of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of ancient Mesopotamia . Little else is left of this ancient civilization, Sumer
Like the cuneiform grids of the tablets that recount the story of Gilgamesh, so too the Manhattan
Shan Jayakumar, Design Statement
Shan is currently co-project lead for Architecture for Humanity's
Under the BQE project to evolve a safety plan with the community
Shan is currently co-project lead for Architecture for Humanity's
Under the BQE project to evolve a safety plan with the community
Develop Audacity!
Saturday December 17 at 2pm
Creating the Grid-Family Workshop
is being held in conjunction with the exhibition
The Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10029
212-534-1672
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