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For more than a century the Lower East Side has been the intersectional/international urban stage to both the theater of struggle and the urge for self-organizing; the axial hinge where the survival need to counter or disrupt was paired with the anti-cynical creative will to give form. Counter Institution inclusively reveals the cultures of participation that cyclically pre-figured antidotes to our speculative syndrome of cognitive placeless-ness, and physical dis-placement; it also summons our abilities to still place and project the ghosts of our past to protect the interconnected meanings of the Lower East Side. -- Libertad O. Guerra, Director, The Loisaida Center, LES Offering a unique approach to graphically representing and critically analyzing the raggedy, hard-edged, and politically defiant universe of New York's historic Lower East Side, Bagchee delivers a sumptuously designed and exhilarating volume that transforms specific examples of the neighborhood's nonconformist architecture and acts of spatialized sedition into a complex and rewarding study of urban participatory democracy and cultural dissent. -- Dr. Gregory Sholette * Delirium and Resistance and Art as Social Action * Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side is an original and thought-provoking study of the intersection between architecture and urbanism and political systems at the fine-grained level, with a particular focus on questions of public and private agency and community participation. Going beyond the typical focus on streets and parks to address alternative and less visible sites, and using suggestive graphic methods drawn from architectural analysis, Bagchee fills a void in contemporary scholarship on public space. -- Dr. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Victoria University, Wellington

For more than a century the Lower East Side has been the intersectional/international urban stage to both the theater of struggle and the urge for self-organizing; the axial hinge where the survival need to counter or disrupt was paired with the anti-cynical creative will to give form. Counter Institution inclusively reveals the cultures of participation that cyclically pre-figured antidotes to our speculative syndrome of cognitive placeless-ness, and physical dis-placement; it also summons our abilities to still place and project the ghosts of our past to protect the interconnected meanings of the Lower East Side. -- Libertad O. Guerra, Director, The Loisaida Center, LES Offering a unique approach to graphically representing and critically analyzing the raggedy, hard-edged, and politically defiant universe of New York's historic Lower East Side, Bagchee delivers a sumptuously designed and exhilarating volume that transforms specific examples of the neighborhood's nonconformist architecture and acts of spatialized sedition into a complex and rewarding study of urban participatory democracy and cultural dissent.---Dr. Gregory Sholette, Delirium and Resistance and Art as Social Action Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side is an original and thought-provoking study of the intersection between architecture and urbanism and political systems at the fine-grained level, with a particular focus on questions of public and private agency and community participation. Going beyond the typical focus on streets and parks to address alternative and less visible sites, and using suggestive graphic methods drawn from architectural analysis, Bagchee fills a void in contemporary scholarship on public space. -- Dr. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Victoria University, Wellington

Offering a unique approach to graphically representing and critically analyzing the raggedy, hard-edged, and politically defiant universe of New York's historic Lower East Side, Bagchee delivers a sumptuously designed and exhilarating volume that transforms specific examples of the neighborhood's nonconformist architecture and acts of spatialized sedition into a complex and rewarding study of urban participatory democracy and cultural dissent. -- Dr. Gregory Sholette * Delirium and Resistance and Art as Social Action * For more than a century the Lower East Side has been the intersectional/international urban stage to both the theater of struggle and the urge for self-organizing; the axial hinge where the survival need to counter or disrupt was paired with the anti-cynical creative will to give form. Counter Institution inclusively reveals the cultures of participation that cyclically pre-figured antidotes to our speculative syndrome of cognitive placeless-ness, and physical dis-placement; it also summons our abilities to still place and project the ghosts of our past to protect the interconnected meanings of the Lower East Side. -- Libertad O. Guerra, Director, The Loisaida Center, LES Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side is an original and thought-provoking study of the intersection between architecture and urbanism and political systems at the fine-grained level, with a particular focus on questions of public and private agency and community participation. Going beyond the typical focus on streets and parks to address alternative and less visible sites, and using suggestive graphic methods drawn from architectural analysis, Bagchee fills a void in contemporary scholarship on public space. -- Dr. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Victoria University, Wellington

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Nandini Bagchee is an Associate Professor of Design and History at the Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY, CUNY and Principal of Bagchee Architects.

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