Newark Housing Activist Don Baldyga & David Harvey -- Red Lines exhibition @ Queens Museum of Art
Image by jann_on
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center:
2009 exhibition by Damon Rich of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, hosted by the Queens Museum of Art
Larissa Harris, Commissioning curator; Project Coordinator for Queens Museum Installation: Rana Amirtahmasebi
Museum Director: Tom Finkelpearl
"The Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project collected the foreclosure information. . . . The Regional Plan Association, an independent planning group, then crunched the numbers using the Geographic Information System — a mapping program — to create maps of every inch of the city indicating where there had been foreclosures of single- to four-family homes in 2008."
"Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center is funded by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Artists & Communities, a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, which is made possible by major funding from Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. A publication funded by The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts will be available during the exhibition. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts."
www.queensmuseum.org/2632/red-lines-housing-crisis-learni...
community.queensmuseum.org/lang/en/blog/corona-plaza/redl...
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/arts/design/08panorama.html?_r=0
www.cjr.org/the_audit/go_to_queens_museum_get_mad.php
www.flickr.com/photos/panoramaqueensmuseum/sets/721576210...
artforum.com/words/id=23001
www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=1510...
www.citylimits.org/news/articles/3789/on-exhibit-housing
video.foxbusiness.com/v/3894109/ny-panorama-highlights-fo...
video.corriere.it/?vxSiteId=404a0ad6-6216-4e10-abfe-f4f69... (in Italian)
This is a snapshot of a video projection of a two channel video by Damon Rich called Mortgage Stakeholders (2008).
"MORTGAGE STAKEHOLDERS, 2-CHANNEL VIDEO, 47 MIN., 2008
Mortgage Stakeholders stages a conversation between bankers, regulators, architects, investors, financial justice advocates and others about the United States system for financing private housing. This video was originally produced as part of Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, a mobile exhibition kit of models, photographs, videos, and drawings designed to immerse visitors in the financial landscape of architecture.
The American preference for traditional residential design masks a frightening reality: across the globe, individual buildings have been retrofitted to serve as interchangeable nodes in a vast abstract structure, held loosely together by legal and political restraints, made to allow the furious circulation of finance capital.
Who supplies the money to construct and buy buildings? What are the historical relationships between lenders and borrowers? How are ownership claims produced and circulated? As what has become known as the Subprime Meltdown continues to spread, pushing people out of homes, wasting neighborhoods, bankrupting institutions, and threatening global economic crisis, Red Lines aims to broaden and enrich the urgent conversation about how our society finances its living environments."
www.openspace-zkp.org/2010/en/projects.php?y=2011&p=37
www.clairebarliant.com/artwriting/adaptive-reuse/
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935691003625372
Don Baldyga:
Director of Episcopal Community Development in Newark
Possibly connected to a mortgage fraud case in Maine in 2005.
"In Rich’s video, we hear another perspective from Don Baldyga, of the Episcopal Community Development in Newark, who says: ‘These people were sold the American Dream. You wave that in front of them, and even if there’s a downside, they don’t hear it.’ But his main contention is that, even though these people may be guilty of not paying their mortgage, each additional foreclosure hurts the rest of the neighbourhood. ‘For every abandoned house on a block, that’s like a 15 per cent decrease on the value of neighbouring homes.’"
"With the help of federal funding, Baldyga, and ECD are doing their part to rebuild the neighborhood. They buy the foreclosed homes using grant money, fix them up, and sell them at reduced rates to qualified buyers.
Each buyer must agree to remain in the home for 15 years before selling or refinancing. To afford the mortgage payments on the larger homes, ECD cordons off affordable apartments within the residence to bring in rental income.
In some homes, the owners will live virtually payment free, assuming they keep tenants in the apartments above them."
twitter.com/ecdonline
ecdonline.org
mortgagefraud.squarespace.com/journal/2005/10/10/man-sent...
www.businessinsider.com/irvington-new-jersey-sub-prime-pr...
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/nyregion/new-jersey/17newarknj...
David Harvey:
Geographer, Marxist, CUNY Professor
One of the main proponents of the "Right to the City" movement and also influential in the shift towards criticism of not just capitalism per se but specifically neoliberalism.
davidharvey.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_(geographer)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_the_city
web.gc.cuny.edu/Anthropology/fac_harvey.html
newleftreview.org/II/53/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city
Queens Museum of Art:
Architect: Aymar Embury II
Opened: 1939
Renovated 1964 by Daniel Chait.
Renovated in 1994 by Rafael Viñoly.
Expansion scheduled in 2013, under the helm of Grimshaw Architects with Ammann & Whitney as engineers.
"Built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. . . . It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink. . . . From 1946 to 1950 . . . it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. . . . In 1972 the north side of the New York City Building was handed to the Queens Museum of Art (or as it was then known, the Queens Center for Art and Culture)."
The other half of the building was an ice-skating rink from 1939–2009.
www.queensmuseum.org
www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history
twitter.com/QueensMuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum_of_Art
www.facebook.com/QueensMuseum
vimeo.com/queensmuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymar_Embury_II
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann_%26_Whitney
grimshaw-architects.com
artsengaged.com/bcnasamples/chapter-fifteen-being-good-ne...
House of the Day #67: 5621 S. Blackstone
Image by reallyboring
This house on Blackstone in Hyde Park is a lovely Victorian from 1886, designed by the architectural firm of Flanders & Zimmerman. It is a private home now, but some quick research in the Tribune archives reveals an interesting past. While I didn't unearth much about the early days of the house, it was the residence of one Oliver F. Smith until his passing in 1940, at which time an estate auction was held in the house. It was home to the Holtzman family in the late 1940s; two sons of the family attended the University of Chicago in those days, when receiving a scholarship or earning a BA merited you a mention in the paper. By 1951, the house had become the Crossroads Student Center. Crossroads was a program of the Catholic Lay Auxilliary of Missions, specifically employing American and European social workers "to convey the meaning and hope of American democracy thru the plain and simple medium of kindness." Offering language classes, cultural enrichment, student groups, and informal support of various kinds, this little house served thousands of foreign college students each year, of all races and religions. It was bursting at the seams, and plans were announced in 1961 to build a new building. Nothing seems to have come from the plan, but Crossroads soldiered on in this house through at least 1972. After that, I can't figure out what happened, or how the home came back into use as a private residence. One can only imagine the fascinating and important people who passed through that distinctive recessed porch over the years.
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Pond House 162 Lower Clapton Road Planning Application Listed Buildings - Rear View
Image by sludgegulper
One the left, the surviving pair of a Georgian Terrace early 1800s or perhaps originally even 1760s according to a survey, of which the southen part was demolished in the 1880s(!) to make an access for the Baden Powell Estate. Grade II listed. On the right, Pond House, a rare for Hackney Grade II* listed building. The planning application 2008/3076 and 2008/3077 is to demolished the garages and rear brick extension of Pond House, and replace it with a modern block stepped up to the roof height of the Listed buildings. The new building is completely out of keeping (p.36 here) with the brick surroundings, both of these and the two storey brick terraces of Mildenhall Road and the listed buildings around the Conservation area of Clapton Pond (p. 24 here)
Pond House has been bought by a company registered in 2006 above a Laundrette in Stamford Hill
There is an implicit threat in the planning application that if the unsightly and overly massive development on the garages is not permitted the restoration of the Grade 2 star listed Pond House will not be possible. The scenario then is that Pond House will be left to rot, something not without precedent in the world of Hackney if this outrageous development in Mildenhall Road is not allowed, and one which would set an unpleasant precedent for development in the conservation area.
Comments on the above proposal may be submitted to Hackney Planning Department until 27 April
Write to hackneyplanning@hackney.gov.uk
Of Pond House, PEVSNER says..."restrained Stucco Villa of c 1800 on a generous scale with semi-circular Doric porch,a basement with lunettes and tri-partite ground floor windows. Flanking quadrant walls with former stables to the north. Interior with elegant curved staircase"
A recommendation of the Hackney Council planning document was
A6 Alterations to the Conservation Area boundary
The existing boundaries of the Conservation Area were carefully reviewed when the
survey work was carried out for this appraisal, and the following changes are
proposed:
• Add in the rear garden to Pond House, and land between it and Mildenhall Road.
This is external space is integral to the listed Pond House and its setting.
The current boundary of the conservation area does include all the grounds and garage site
see here
House Design Update
Image by Juan Galicia
Just an update on this project www.flickr.com/photos/38713682@N03/6159687038/in/photostream
As you can see I started the facade, I decided to go with a traditional facade.... of course that in here it doesn't look so traditional but thats how they do a lot forest cabins, and since this would be in a forest (in theory) It seemed appropriate.
Got a lot of work ahead of me... I even plan on making the furniture for it :p
PS: I know the photos suck.. dont worry its just a progress update.. i´ll make sure to do them right when i finish the whole thing :p
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