Thomas Krens: The Manhattan Project

Thomas Krens, chairman of the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum and Director Emeritus of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, continues a series of talks focused on the importance of art and architecture in shaping the life of cities and changing societies.

While architecture tends to plays a central public role in these highly visible cultural development projects, Krens uses specific examples from major projects to discuss initial motivation; the essential links to a specific political agenda targeted at improving the quality of life; the stages of the planning process; the dialogue between form and content; the importance of architecture relative to specific sites; the importance of scale and platform to discursive relevance; the complexities of implementation and cultural sustainability; and the unanticipated impacts of black swan events.

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