MICA_FieldOperations_lecture

This past Wednesday, a small group of Maryland architecture
students made the long journey north to Baltimore to hear James Corner of Field Operations -popularly famous for their NYC High-Line winning competition entry- lecture at MICA. To call it a lecture is a bit of a stretch; a more accurate description would be a one-hour marketing event, on behalf of both FieldOperation's practice, as well as a major Baltimore development on a so-called fast-track in the Westport neighborhood wedged between highway and harbor, just out of arms reach of the Inner Harbor. The project, on its own merits, sounds conscientious and ambitious. The shock of puffy slickster developer-types sitting shoulder-to-seething-shoulder dominating the audience makeup was a bit nauseating. I should've taken pictures of these guys: extra puffy, extra slick, and extra seething. Instead, I took pictures of goofy architecture + sweet space.