Best Places to visit in New York City

We just got back from a wonderful week long field trip and architecture tour of New York City. 

A crazy schedule jam packed run from one building tour to another, all day with 50 other students.

Here are my favorite places in NYC:

 

The High Line Park
Sometimes when you walk through a building or space you think, they could have done this or that to make it better.  Not with the High Line!  It is perfection. 



Guggenheim - The Frank Lloyd Wright Building
From pictures on the Internet and in books, the building looks gigantic and almost too big.  However, I had the completely opposite experience when visiting the Guggenheim in person.  When walking down the street, from the moment I saw the exterior of the building, it was ideal companion to the neighborhood.  The inside architecture design was an inspiration from heaven and perfect balance of space and function kindling a wonderful feeling of comfort. 



Scotty's Diner
Absolutely "the best hamburger I have every tasted" one student said. 





 

Michael Rybin~۩~
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"The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century"

The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles

• "A survey of textbooks reveals that Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of the twentieth century, followed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The same evidence shows that the greatest architects alive today are Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano. Scholars have long been aware of the differing approaches of architects who have embraced geometry and those who have been inspired by nature, but they have never compared the life cycles of these two groups. The present study demonstrates that, as in other arts, conceptual architects have made their greatest innovations early in their careers, whereas experimental architects have done their most important work late in their lives. Remarkably, the experimentalists Le Corbusier and Frank Gehry designed their greatest buildings after the age of 60, and Frank Lloyd Wright designed his after 70".