Topic – Hudson yards -New York city

Drawing on ideas from the readings, (in particular,
Yaneva and Jacobs et al), you will conduct your research to give an account of the different actors,
decisions, actions, events, etc. that shape your ‘building event’. Including the building’s archive of
design, approvals, public hearing minutes, media reports, social media posts, podcasts, etc. provides
a more nuanced understanding of how building ideas develop and solidify through consensus—or
reveals the seeds of their destruction. As Albena Yaneva writes, through this lens ‘we do not simply
learn what design is, we learn what design does.’ This framework is useful because it provides a way
to reflect on the relationship between theory and practice and gives architects the tools to understand
architectural and urban practices in the context of social, historical, political, and economic forces.

Paper brief :

Deliverables
Your final work will include a paper and a map of your case study. The paper and the map should
include the physical building, the key actors, location of important factors, such as sources of power
and discourse, temporal information, causal or correlating relationships.

PAPERS tudents will produce one paper of 2,500 words in length and one map of their project controversy. The analysis of the paper and
map should be integrated, i.e., the paper should refer to specific parts of the map and explain the
map. The paper should provide both a description of what took place as well as account for the
relationships between the different actors, events, ideas. Your paper can progress chronologically
or could use an organizational approach that emerges from your project analysis.

Use quotes sparingly and cite both direct quotes and ideas taken from sources that you have
paraphrased in your own words. Use endnote superscript for citation with Chicago Manual of Style
17th Edition for your notes and bibliography.

Part II: Research Methods

Write a description outlining the next steps of your research (200-400 words, paragraph form). List and
describe how/where you will find primary and secondary sources. Consider: newspapers, journals,
reports, essays, blogs, exhibitions, catalogs, public meeting minutes, etc. How do you expect them to
develop the story of your controversy?

PART III: Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources (books, articles, websites, etc.) with a short text about
each source or each group of sources. It is a useful step before drafting a research paper as it aids in
classifying, organizing, and evaluating a large list of sources. Provide a 1- to 2-sentence description
next to each source (or type of sources) that explains the following:

o Main focus or purpose of the source
o Usefulness or relevance to your research topic
o Background and credibility of the author(s). Who the author is in relationship to the
controversy

Potential Sources
o articles in scholarly journals
o scholarly books
o archives and manuscript material
o photographs, audio recordings, video
recordings, films
o newspapers and magazine archives
o government publications
o op-eds, blogs

o records of organizations, committees,
agencies
o autobiographies and memoirs
o printed ephemera
o research data
o social media posts/groups,
o newspaper comments sections
o city/municipal archives
o architectural reviews/criticism

Part IV: Controversy Diary

See the Yaneva text for a description of how to log a project evolution’s key events, decisions, actions,
announcements, include important figures, ideas, institutions, laws, announcements, materials.
Describe the significance of these decisions, actions, words, events. How does the project enter the
public consciousness? Who is the public? Are there multiple ‘publics’?