"Harlemworld" offers a multiplicity of voices, speaking in a broad range of media. In addition to conventional models, drawings and renderings, the architects use maps, videos, street signs, photographs, collages and above all written texts. Architecture is now a hybrid, mongrel medium.
This is perhaps the most important point the show has to make. Its expressive possibilities are limited only by the individual talents of those who choose to operate in the field. It's up to them to improvise the laws of architecture as they go along.
| Go back for the rest of Herbert Muschamp's New York Times review "Metaphors Rise in Harlem Sky," and view a few pictures
Also: "After all, we must acknowledge that what we make is not neutral" and "The Asmarino loves his city"
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