Manifest ParaTours – Adventures in American Architecture

Manifest ParaTours –
Adventures in American Architecture

Saturday, October 3
Various Sites NY/NJ
9:00am– see http://soa.princeton.edu/paratours for full itinerary details
Transportation and dinner provided

This event is free with priority given to Princeton University ID holders. Seating is limited, registration is required. Please select your itinerary preference (A or B) on the event registration page - see full itinerary at http://soa.princeton.edu/paratours.


Cities and architectures develop through the stories we tell ourselves, and others, about them. These narratives redefine the city as a statistical entity or an ecological habitat, as personal fiction or as collective myth. Manifest, a Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism, has developed a series of real and para-fictional excursions around the New York-New Jersey metro area that expose the real – and fictional – motivations behind fragments of the built environment. These Para-tours use buildings as well as rooms and pieces of infrastructure to ignite critical conversations about American cities, their infrastructures and surrounding hinterlands.

Group A | NEW YORK CITY

10:00am /
Depart from Princeton

11:30am / Teak Outbreak
Cooper Hewitt Museum - Teak Room; Park Avenue Armory - Veterans Room
Dan Handel (Bezalel Academy)

12:30pm / Lunch

1:45pm / Something Borrowed
125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, Harlem NYC
Ang Li (SUNY Buffalo) and Jaffer Kolb (Princeton)

3:30pm /
Return to Princeton

7:00pm / Dinner
Dinner and debriefing session at Prospect House

Group B | NJ / LOWER MANHATTAN

9:00am /
Depart from Princeton

10:00am / The Leaning Tower
Green Brook NJ
Andrew Kovacs (UCLA)

11:30am / Launching Pad NJ
Summit Plaza - Jersey City NJ
Pedro Ignacio Alonso (Princeton-Mellon Initiative)

12:30pm / Lunch

2:00pm / Future not Found
New York Mercantile Exchange
Colleen Tuite and Ian Quate (GRNASFCK)

3:30pm /
Return to Princeton

7:00pm / Dinner
Dinner and debriefing session at Prospect House

Manifest ParaTours is organized by Anthony Acciavatti and Justin Fowler of Manifest, a Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism in collaboration with the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities and the Princeton University School of Architecture.