Harlem

Harlem: MART 125, features the Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architectural Fellowship with developer Jonathan Rose and Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson who set the students on the task to design a new building across from the Apollo Theater on 125th Street in Harlem. The students designed a sustainable mixed-use residential and cultural building, with housing for retired jazz musicians, restaurants, and media spaces on the last city-owned parcel on the major thoroughfare. The studio questioned issues of cultural representation versus the mutability of the site´s ethnic anchorings and issue of the viability for mixed-use. The book features interviews with the studio teaching team and those on the studio juries including Robert A. M. Stern, Alexander Garvin, and Vincent Chang. The book was edited by Nina Rappaport and Jenny Jim and designed by MGMT. Design.