Tuesday 23 December 2014  


As the winter break approaches, The School of Architecture wishes you all a holiday season filled with love, gratitude, and good work. 

 
After a tremendous effort as part of an extremely ambitious Architectonics studio, the first-year students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture have succeeded in moving The Foundation Building. Working together in a profound display of collective energy and school pride they have hand-built a six-foot-high basswood scale model of the building's exterior (1/2"='1'-0"), mounted it on a rolling steel frame and taken it on a pilgrimage to the main branch of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street by pushing it through the streets of Manhattan. 

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