Short clip from Architecture – Is It Art?

December 16th, 2008 at 09:03am Josh

We’re really pleased to have partnerships with various non-profit organizations around the city, including High 5. If you don’t know, High 5 is an organization that provides $5 tickets to performances and events for high school students. They also run the TRaC program (Teens Reviewers and Critics): MAD hosts a group of about 25 high school students who learn to write critically about art. (We’re hoping to get them to start contributing to our cellphone tour and blog, but so far they’ve been a little shy about publishing their work).

Two weeks ago, High 5 produced an interesting program in our theater that brought together Nat Oppenheimer, Principal of Robert Silman Associates PC, Charles Renfro, Principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Kyle Lommen, Principal of Allied Works Architecture, Inc., Julie Iovine, Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper LLC and Vishaan Chakrabarti, Executive Vice President of Design & Plannin at Related Companies. Of course, at the end of the evening, there was a question to Kyle, who, as the head of the New York office of Allied Works has been on our building site pretty much every day for the past few years, about our decision to alter the structure that existed at 2 Columbus Circle to make the new museum. Kyle’s response is here: High 5 Presents: Architecture – Is It Art? (sorry for the poor quality – we’re still configuring the equipment in our new theater).

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