While the explicit aestheticization of modern architecture during MoMA's first decade of
exhibitions is well known, it is too often forgotten that this interpretation was countered from …

This paper explores the role of architecture as a catalyst for housing policy through analysis
of the Tenement House Exhibition held in New York City in 1900. Organized by the …

My classmates provided wonderful sounding boards and support structures, and I am
grateful to have shared my time at Columbia with them. Thank you to my parents for their …

This article explores the rehabilitation of a tenement block of Harlem's West 114th Street in
the late 1960s in order to examine the nature of housing rehabilitation as a common …

The beginning of the 20th century in America featured the rapid economic and infrastructural
development of New York City, recently dubbed the “second metropolis.” The technological …

This thesis argues that, catalysed by technological and architectural developments, as well
as by altering moral codes of conduct, by the early twentieth century, Manhattan had …