01.31.09 through 5.10.09
Building Brainstorm

Building Brainstorm is a building design and construction studio that presents special building challenges for children to research and solve. Through hands-on and inquiry-based activities, children investigate aspects of city planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and green design. Kids and adults will experiment with building materials, and engineering problems, as well as researching the effects of color, light, patterns, and texture through their in-depth explorations of the art and science of the built environment.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

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02.05.09 through 3.28.09
Out My Window

Gail Albert Halaban created this exhibition for her photo urbanism fellowship from the Design Trust for Public Space. Over the past year and a half, Albert Halaban has created a series of portraits in private homes across the five boroughs, focusing on the views that shape New Yorkers’ everyday lives. Incorporating photojournalism and its anthropological approach, Albert Halaban also finds precedence in the characters of Edward Hopper’s universe, using architecture to suggest the inner psychology of her subject and the subtle interactions of urban life.

Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue, NYC