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To celebrate reaching 500k followers today, we’ll be posting our editors’ all-time favorite photos from Dwell over the years! The windows are strategically placed to maximize light and privacy. #architecture #exterior #dwell Photo by @adam_friedberg Architecture by Chaewon Kim + Beat Schenk Location : Cambridge, Massachusetts Originally Published in March 2007

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For the last 2 decades we’ve seen enormous change in lower Manhattan. The area around here has been so heavily and quickly developed it’s nearly unrecognizable from how it looked in the 80’s and early 90’s. Seeing this has sparked many of our projects including New Bowery (Architecture>New Bowery at adamfriedberg.com) and the Empty Lots.

The Single Story Project is a more recently started one, linked to the Empty Lots in many ways, and coming from the idea of air rights. How are these structures still here?

Not long ago there were very few tall buildings downtown, and especially on the Lower East Side where there were zoning laws with height restrictions preventing them from going up. Now they are everywhere. Yet there are a few oddballs holding out, buildings that were different even before the new towers. Single Story structures in Manhattan, the most vertical city in America. Let’s look at them.

Rite Aid, 81 1st Avenue, NYC

Rite Aid, 81 1st Avenue, NYC

Since 1999 we’ve been shooting empty lots in NYC, mostly around us in the East Village, as a personal interest documentary project. After the crash in 2008 the project slowed a bit but recently it’s been revived.

Most of the work we do is architectural in nature, shooting the built and constructed environment, a large portion of that is urban, so for various reasons the urban unbuilt and unconstructed became interesting. Additionally these lots are disappearing quickly. While 20 years ago they were commonplace downtown now it’s almost rare to see one with the current building boom. One day soon there will be none left and Manhattan will be saturated with buildings.

When this project started a conscious decision was made – to use the most to shoot the least. And so we shot and are still shooting these lots on 8×10 sheet film. It’s not easy, fast, or cheap, but it is fun. And satisfying.

Here’s a recent one from East 4th Street

Empty Lot on East 4th Street near the Bowery

Empty Lot on East 4th Street near the Bowery

Linked to an earlier ongoing project at AYSNYC (the video interviews mentioned in a previous post) we’ve been working on another yoga based project since the Fall of 2015, this one called the Samasthiti Project.

Samasthiti is the basic standing asana in Ashtanga. In Yoga Mala Sri K Pattabhi Jois describes the pose thusly: “To begin, join the legs together, with the heels and big toes touching, push the chest up, lower the head slightly, and stand straight, gazing at the tip of the nose; this is called Samasthiti, which means standing up in a straight line.” Sama means same or equal, sthiti means strong or steady.

Samasthiti is the first pose of Ashtanga, the start and end of each vinyasa, and in many ways the most telling of all the asana.

For the project we are photographing each student at AYSNYC in a series of 4 still photographs in Samasthiti (front, sides, and back). The students will be photographed once every 6 months over the coming years (as we are doing for the video interviews).

One of the purposes of this is for the students to have a record of themselves to look back on and document some of the changes they are all going through as their practice develops. Another is to show the public in general what “yoga bodies” and yogis actually look like, that all types of people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities are practicing Ashtanga.

We’ve decided to shoot this project entirely in black and white, on large format 5″x7″ sheet film. That’s exciting for us as we’re old fashioned large format film camera nerds, but also have found the students are very excited to see that we’re shooting film on these huge cameras.

Also the quality of the results is quite compelling.

So for now here are 2 images from the first round of shooting:

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Just out in the October 2015 Issue of Wallpaper* the story we did on the new gallery at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT

Just an hour and a half out of NYC it’s a beautiful, peaceful location. Wish we could have spent the week there (if not more)!

They do have artists residencies …

While not officially open to the public a phone call to introduce yourself will likely be all that’s needed to go and see. Highly recommended.

Wide view of the gallery

Wide view of the gallery

Bank of chairs

Bank of chairs

Fireplace

Fireplace

Stained Glass

Stained Glass

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Drawing by Albers, vase by Chikuho, Anni's weaving shuttles

Drawing by Albers, vase by Chikuho, Anni’s weaving shuttles

The new gallery in its woodsy setting

The new gallery in its woodsy setting

 

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Online now and in print September 12th, here are the pictures we did of Phillip Lim and his newly redone SOHO loft.

Words can only begin to describe how lovely the space is, it really is an expression of his exquisite and exacting taste and gentle nature.

The day we spent there was truly a pleasure.

Many thanks to the kind and generous Mr Lim and his people, and of course WSJ Magazine!

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Phillip Lim in his Soho loft

Phillip Lim in his Soho loft

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After a couple years of talks and a couple more months of planning we’re grateful to have the chance to direct and finally start shooting this video project with the students of Ashtanga Yoga Shala NYC .

We’re about 7 interviews into the first round of the ongoing series, have about 15 more lined up in the next few weeks, and what we’ve got so far is, to me, quite beautiful and provides a rare insight into what yoga practice really is for a wide variety of students and the transformations the students go through over time.

Ultimately the interviews* will be edited into a documentary on Yoga practice in general, and more specifically Ashtanga Yoga and the work that is done at the Shala, to show a more personal and intimate look at its effects on the students’ mind and body.

Stay tuned for updates …

 

*with permission