Archive for January, 2011

Overview: A Decade of Profit and Controversy0
/ January 31, 2011 6:56 pm

Overview: A Decade of Profit and Controversy

On a cold January morning in 2011, wind burst through the doors of the 66 W. 12 St. and scattered leaflets through the air and into the puddles of melted snow on the lobby floor. The water made the bold headline, “Kerrey’s Decade,” bleed into long fingers of purple and black ink, transforming it into something akin to a horror [...]

New School’s Empowerhouse Team Takes Project to D.C. CAL0
/ January 1, 2011 9:30 pm

New School’s Empowerhouse Team Takes Project to D.C. CAL

Carly Berger was happy to take a break. The Parsons architecture student had been standing in the mid-September D.C. heat for nearly five hours — an unpleasant experience, as anybody who has suffered through one of Washington’s notoriously swampy summers will tell you. But Berger stayed upbeat in spite of the conditions: she and several of her fellow New School [...]