GET FIT: MORPHOSIS'S NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING FOR THE COOPER UNION

摘要

Almost the first thing I was told about Thom Mayne's New Academic Building for Cooper Union in New York was that it is about "space." Because that term has been so fraught in architectural discourse with the fraudulent Pascalian implication of inert emptiness, I will try to avoid it. Nevertheless, the building is indeed about space in a deeper, more accurate sense: The substance of the building fits into the substance of its urban, human, and ecological environment in a pleasurable demonstration that architecture is never an isolated act of creation but rather an ongoing orchestration of human and nonhuman activity.