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FLATIRON High and Low: Curated by Joan Ockman; Installation Design by Eunjeong Seong.

Van Alen Institute, in cooperation with the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, is pleased to present "Flatiron High and Low," an exhibition of photographs, architects' renderings, vintage views, and film footage spotlighting two centuries of building culture in the Flatiron district. The exhibition imaginatively explores the multiple meanings of high and low - from height and cost to technology and culture - and showcases the built juxtapositions, typological mixtures, and architectural inventions characteristic of this Manhattan neighborhood. The exhibition is curated by architectural historian Joan Ockman and designed by architect Eunjeong Seong.

Urban archivist Miriam Berman, author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks, is the exhibition consultant, and selections from her collection of vintage postcards will be on view in the show. Participants in the panel discussion will be architect Shohei Shigematsu, partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and director of OMA* AMO New York; Robert A.M. Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture; Carol Willis, architectural historian and founder of the Skyscraper Museum; and James Wines, artist, architect, and founder of SITE, the multidisciplinary architecture and environmental arts organization. The moderator will be Deborah Berke, principal of Deborah Berke and Partners Architects and professor of architectural design at Yale. Exhibition: October 28 - December 11, 2009 / Panel Discussion: November 3, 2009.