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May 31, 2010
I've often worked past construction sites and wondered at their skeletal structured and thought--that would make a good photo. But the hassle--getting permission, safety gear etc--- puts me off and I never do it. The firms don't really want you on site. So I respect those who do it.
Stanley Greenberg has focused on the infrastructure of buildings and New York city. Greenberg's earlier 2003 book Waterworks was about New York City’s water system. The infrastructure of buildings is explored in his Architecture under Construction:
Stanley Greenberg, Untitled,
A lot of buildings are more interesting when under construction than they are when complete. The finished piece of architecture by 'star architects' – eg.,Holl, Hadid, Gehry, Libeskind, Foster etc--look all shiny and smooth, often looks as seamlessly abstract as the computer rendering from whence it came. Greenberg's explores the avant-garde structures in the process of being built.
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