By William Menking
1. Christine Boyer, See Chapter 8, Manhattan Montage in The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994). This appears in “South Street Seaport Plan,” from Advertising Supplement to the New York Times, 1984, pp. 421-478.
2. Peter Cook, The Living City (1963), p. 76, in A Guide to ARCHIGRAM, 196174, London: Academy Editions, 1994. A Guide to ARCHIGRAM was published on the occasion of the ARCHIGRAM exhibtion at the Vienna Kunsthalle in 1994.
3. Ibid., p. 74.
4. Ibid., p. 74.
5. 42nd Street Now, New York: The New York State Development Corporation and New York State Economic Development Corporation, 1993, p. 4.
6. Ibid., p. 4.
7. The New York Times, The New Times Square, October, 30, 1989.
8. Lawrence Alloway, The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty in The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, p.49
9. 42nd Street Now, p. 5.
10. David Dunlap, Rethinking 42nd St For the Next Decade, The New York Times, section 10, June 27, 1993, p. 6.
11. David Greene, Living Pod (1966), p. 182, in A Guide to ARCHIGRAM, 196174, London: Academy Editions, 1994.
12. Ibid., p.182.
13. See pertinent chapters in A Guide to ARCHIGRAM,196-174.
14. Cook, op. cit., p. 77.
15. Ibid., p. 77.
16. This quote is taken from an interview that I conducted with Christine Boyer for an article, “Museum-In-Progress,“ Wien Standard Newspaper, March 15, 1966, p. 3.
17. Ibid., p. 3
18. Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, London: Thames and Hudson, 1980, p. 281.
19. Ibid., p. 283.
20. Dan Graham, Art in Relation to Architecture/Architecture in Relation to Art, in Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects,1965-1990, Brian Wallis, ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, p. 230.
21. Ibid., p. 231.
22. Greil Marcus, Situationist International, in Lipstick Traces:
A Secret History of the 20th Century, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, p. 51.
23. Warren Chalk, Up the Down Ramp (1968), p. 258 in A Guide to ARCHIGRAM, 196174, London: Academy Editions, 1994.
24. Peter Cook, Our Belief in the City... (1963), p. 69 in A Guide to ARCHIGRAM, 196174, London: Academy Editions, 1994.
25. Liane Lefaivre, Dirty Realism in European Architecture Today, Design Book Review, Winter 1989, p. 17.
26Ibid., p. 17.