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"The Single Building as Urban Intervention  Adam Yarinsky traveled to England, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United States.   Adam Yarinsky Princeton University   View Final Report    The American Federation of Musicians Headquarters. © Adam Yarinsky.     The recent past has seen the fragmentation of the physical form of the city. One result of this fragmentation has been a loss of the perception of the city as a place representing the collective shared ideals of society. If we are to regain a richness of meaning in our built form that can make for a worthwhile existence, then there is a need to reestablish a clarity of development in our cities. One strategy for giving order to the city is to recognize the potential of the individual building to develop formal and social relationship that have significance on an urban level.  I propose to study the ways in which a single work of architecture has the capacity to reinforce, transform, or comment on its immediate surrounding and the city as a whole. Specifically, I am interested in the way that an independently sited institutional building may be seen as both an ideal form with its own internal logic and as a primary element of the entire city. The social role played by this kind of building necessitates that both of these aspects be considered as integral parts of its design. For example, on one level, the Palazzo Farnese is a private residence ordered around a central cortile. Simultaneously, it is a symbol of the power of the church in Renaissance Rome and it creates and dominates an open public space. Also, its internal sequence established a connection between the city and the gardens across the Tiber.  There are several critical factors that all the selected buildings have in common and that make them examples of intervention on an urban level:   Location : The buildings are associated with existing important streets or spaces, or through their site planning, create a place of importance.  Scale : The buildings may be objects that stand unattached, they may constitute an entire block and/or they may literally be larger than surrounding structures.  Architectural Expression : Through the formal elaboration of the program (plan, section, elevation), the buildings describe the nature of the institution that they represent and its relationship to the city.   The Paris Opera House, for example, encompasses all three of these factors. It is located at a major intersection of streets, it has a greater scale than the surrounding buildings, and its architectural expression relates the requirements of program to the orientation of the building in the city. The buildings that I wish to visit are important representative examples of the political, religious, and cultural institutions that were traditionally responsible for ordering the city. In particular, several are excellent architectural expressions of the emerging public institutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By considering only those buildings designed by architects, I mean to focus on the role deliberate intentions have played in the creation of a built work. This study will exclude such urban interventions as the medieval cathedral, which arose slowly over time and whose formal implications were often not realized within the lifetime of its builders. I have limited my exploration to nine examples that would form the core of a nine-month study. The travel will focus on European precedents because it is in Europe that one first finds buildings of this quality being made. This information, however, will be relevant to the situation that I will face as a designer in American cities, many of which have their formal and cultural origins in the cities of Europe. The final example, Grand Central Terminal, will give me the opportunity to relate my studies in the context of an American city.  Prior to and during my trip, I will gather information documenting site conditions as they existed before and after the architectural intervention was made. Early maps, drawings, and written accounts will be used to"
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