http://www.siliconindia.com/profiles/Joel-Solkoff-C5W8MGcL.html Joel Solkoff Columnist www.e-architect.co.uk Prized Accomplishment(s): Following the details of Renzo Piano’s first New York City assignment The Morgan Museum and library. In my column and in YouTube style videos, I followed the project from creative vision through construction. The Journey So Far: I am a 66 year-old paraplegic who is a research assistant […]
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inspiring inaugural address
Inaugural Address of Mayor Bill de Blasio: “Progress for New York” January 1, 2014 Editorial notes: 1. Finally, out of the politics of despair and retrenchment, a new leader has emerged from the Democratic party unafraid to express the values in which I believe. In this, Bill de Blasio’s inaugural address, he states: “Fiorello […]
My You Tube “sound” video on the Morgan Library for e-architect U.K.
Readers are aware that I have an obsession with Renzo Piano’s Morgan Museum and Library in New York. Consider, for example, the percentage of my published e-architect articles on the subject. This is how Adrian Welch, my editor at e-architect UK, described this You Tube, which I produced for him: “Giorgio Bianchi, one of the […]
Driving to surgery
THE GOAL. Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital where I probably will be cured of kidney cancer on Thursday, August 8th first thing in the morning. The Hospital is located at 125 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065. ++++ ++++ [Readers: Start at the bottom and work your way […]
Art as cancer therapy
I guess this all starts at the Morgan Museum and Library, Renzo Piano‘s 2006 major expansion, his first commissioned work in New York City. This is a good time to refer you to: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/ published daily from Scotland by Adrian Welch and Isabelle Lomholt (who is a beauty). The site receives 960,000 hits a day–a lot more hits […]