Research Catalog

Title

The diamonds of American cities / Janet Marie Smith, Alan Plattus, and Andrei Harwell.

Author

Smith, Janet Marie

Publication

• New Haven, Connectictut : Yale School of Architecture, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Plattus, Alan
• Harwell, Andrei

Description

152 pages : color illustrations, plans; 24 cm

Summary

The Diamonds of American Cities presents the work of Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellow janet Marie Smith, vice president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Alan Plattus and Andrei Harwell, Yale faculty members, with students of the School of Architecture. The challenge was to analyze ballparks and their urban ramifications in a two-phased project, one each for a minor and major league team. The students formed four groups and developed proposals for the Pawtucket Red Sox on different New England sites. Critical analysis of the development opportunities for a large-scale sports facility and the consequences on a medium-size city drove the presentations to the Pawtucket team management and informed its move to Worcester, Massacheusetts. In the secondhalf of the semester the students designed a center-field addition to Dodger Stadium, in Los Angeles. The projects encapsulated large and small scales, investigating ideas such as circulation to and from the stadium and the types of concession placed within the structure. The students considered the future of baseball viewership, testing ideas ranging from AR/VR batters' eye walls to public dugouts. The book features an interview with Smith, an essay by Plattus, and a closing discussion between Stan Kasten, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Larry Lucchino, president emeritus of the Boston Red Sox. The book was edited by Nina Rappaport and Ron Ostezan and designed by MGMT. design.

Subject

• Baseball fields > Social aspects > United States
• Baseball fields > United States
• Baseball fields
• United States

Note

• "Yale School of Architecture, The Edward P. Bass Distinguised Visiting Architecture Fellowship."

Contents

Pregame Show -- A Conversation With Janet Marie Smith -- Minor League, Back to the Majors by Alan Plattus -- Batter Up -- A Studio in Two Parts -- Studio Brief -- Precedent Studies for Minor-League Ballparks -- Studio Travel -- First Pitch -- Pawtucket Red Sox -- Project Introduction -- Site Research -- Team One: The Real McCoy -- Team Two -- Crosstown -- Connections -- Team Three: Titanium: A Ballfield and a Sports Campus -- Team Four: Activating the Canal District -- Seventh-Inning Stretch -- Los Angeles Dodgers -- Project Introduction -- Site Research -- Team One: Designing the Dodger Experience -- Team Two: Dodger Stadium on the Sunset Ring -- Team Three: Blue Street at Dodger Stadium -- Extras -- A Discussion with Larry Lucchino and Stan Kasten -- Continued Student Work with the Pawtucket Red Sox -- Biographies -- Studio Participants -- Image Credits

ISBN

• 1948765349
• 9781948765343

OCLC

• on1111380864
• 1111380864
• SCSB-14080100

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library