Thursday, August 2
50 years ago today some of the brightest minds in the modern world (Norval White, Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson, Aline B Saarinen (wife of Euro), Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, and Phillip Johnson) staged a protest in attempts to save New York’s doomed Pennsylvania Station. This event (along with the demolition of the station) brought attention to historical preservation in America for the first time.
The station was lost, but I”ll bet many of this counties most important and influential structures still stand today because of Penn Stations ultimate demise. I call it…
Architectural martyrdom.
Friday, May 18
The first steps in attempting to rewrite one of the 20th c. greatest urban failures: the destruction of Pennsylvania Station-here is a peak at stage one.
(Time will tell… )
