Shaping a Revolutionary Space
25 November 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The new Museum of the American Revolution, to be built at Third and Chestnut, must be relevant to past, present, and future.
At the Foot of the Mountain
25 November 2011 | Hidden City Daily
Why “traditional architecture” isn’t necessary at the Museum of the American Revolution and how the new Acropolis Museum in Athens can point us in another direction
Fluid Vision
18 November 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Among the so-called starchitects - globetrotting designers who build high-profile projects - Hadid presents the most far-reaching and transformative vision for the human landscape. “She pushes the limit,” says Kathy Hiesinger, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s curator of post-1700 European decorative arts.
Imagination in the City
4 November 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
But to drink the Kool-Aid, as we’ve all done for so long, is to engage in a damning misreading of history that says only the colonial, or early Federal, period matters. This is why the brick - symbol of one historical moment, metaphor for a shrunken imagination - is so dangerous.
Play House Shines Spotlight on Potential of Philadelphia’s Vacant Land
21 October 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
When Marianne Bernstein was a little girl, her mother eschewed regular toys. Instead, she was given a simple wooden cube with a hinged door - a playhouse - and there had free rein to invent her world. She has been reinventing her playhouse in city lots ever since.