'He wasn't sure what the exhibition had to say to architects like him-that is, to architects who'd like to help change the way housing is built.'

摘要

Nearly 50 years ago, in 1968, the world's largest cooperative housing development opened its doors on a stretch of swampland in the north Bronx. With 35 towers, each between 24 and 33 stories tall, and seven townhouse clusters, Co-op City offered some 15,000 units at below market rates to middle- and working-class families. Critics hated it. Ada Louise Huxtable decried Co-op City's "uninspired architectural design" and "sterile site-planning" in The New York Times. The architect and critic Peter Blake called it "fairly hideous."