WRITING:

NAVIGATION:

INTRODUCTION TO IVAN'S UNDERGRADUATE WRITING:

During Ivan's undergraduate studies, he developed an interest in twentieth-century modernist theories. Especially tower-in-the-park housing theories developed by Le Corbusier in the 1930s and 1940s that went on to influence buildings over the latter half of the century. This interest is reflected in the writing that Ivan did at that time. His undergraduate theses examined middle-class housing in New York City and the erosion of the dominance of the tower-in-the-park theory. Another lengthy paper examined and analyzed I. M. Pei's Silver Towers, a faculty and staff housing building built for New York University in the late 1960s. The last paper featured here is a paper Ivan wrote while studying abroad; a designer profile on Ernö Goldfinger, a Hungarian architect that practiced largely in London in the 1970s. View the full papers below.

The Tower in the Park, Urban Renewal, and the Middle Class in New York City: Examined through Stuyvesant Town, Kips Bay Plaza, and the West Village Houses

 

Silver Towers: Contextual Exception

 

Ernö Goldfinger's Sublime Towers