Welcome Home: Emily Hass's SIDES Berlin

A bicycle ride in the freezing rain in east Berlin brought artist Emily Hass to the featherbed factory her family owned there before the war. That address was the only concrete piece of information she had about her family's life in Berlin; her father, Gerald Hass, escaped Berlin in 1938 at age four, but never spoke openly about his experiences in Germany. Although the building that once housed the factory was still standing, it had been converted into a printing press. Nevertheless, Hass managed to gain access to it, and to explore its many rooms and meet its current occupants.
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WEEKLY EMAIL: JUNE 10, 2010
SIDES Berlin' align='left' style='padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;' /> FEATURED THIS WEEK : CAROLYN DEUSCHLE Welcome Home: Emily Hass's SIDES Berlin A bicycle ride in the freezing rain in east Berlin brought artist Emily Hass to the featherbed factory her family owned there before the war. That address was the only concrete piece of information she had about her family's life in Berlin; her father, Gerald Hass, escaped Berlin in 1938 at age four, but never spoke openly about his experiences in Germany. Although the building that once housed the factory was still standing, it had been converted into a printing press. Nevertheless, Hass managed to gain access to it, and to explore its many rooms and meet its current occupants. READ MORE
THOMAS DE MONCHAUX In Search of Sukkah City Sukkah City: NYC 2010 is a design/build architecture competition that will support and build a dozen experimental pavilions in Union Square Park in New York City this Fall. Here, co-organizer Thomas de Monchaux explores the very old questions that the sukkah seem to eternally inspire — as an idea, tradition, place, structure and festival. It's a perplexing design challenge, to say the least. READ MORE ERIC BAKER Today, 06.05.10 Here are Today's images. READ MORE JESSICA HELFAND Rome's MAXXI: Force Field as Field Space This past weekend marked the grand opening of Rome's MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, which is being billed as the first national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity thought as a great campus dedicated to culture, a laboratory of experiment, study and research. The museum itself was designed by the noted Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, whose design was chosen from more 272 entries allegedly because of her ability to integrate the space into the existing urban fabric. In Hadid's view, densities are distributed around an open campus, which is navigated on the basis of directional drifts. "This is indicative of the character of the center as a whole," notes the architect, "porous, immersive — a field space." READ MORE ERIC BAKER Today, 05.28.10 Here are Today's images. READ MORE		BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK \| FOLLOW US ON TWITTER OBSERVATORY ARCHIVE Glass Apartments Stephen Doyle On Velvet Touch Lettering POEM OF THE WEEK Negligent Worldicide Negligent Worldicide, a poem by Chase Twichell. READ MORE RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED British Design Hugh Aldersey-Williams Dot Dot Dot 19 Stuart Bailey, editor Dot Dot Dot 18 Stuart Bailey, editor
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