These short essays were written for Herbert Muschamp's classes. They were researched and written in two weeks,so the ideas are not as fully explored as some of the papers in the other categories.

Albert Speer was Hitler's favorite architect and served as his Minister of Armaments, a very controversial figure in the architecture world. The Ford Foundation is a modernist temple to bureaucracy in New York City. Hamilton Fish Park is beautifully renovated park on the Lower East Side, enjoying its third major overhaul in less than a century. Lloyd's of London is Richard Roger's high-tech London building that houses the world famous syndicate of underwriters. Red Square is a landmark of housing gentrification in the East Village that has appropriated the cachet of some of the most politically-correct artists and designers to offset any potential controversy.

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