NEW YORK MODERN in 1920s…
Exploring a vision of the future that swept American culture in the 1920s. a skyscraper city of monumental towers, multilevel highways, aerial transport, and densely developed commercial districts. Principally the projections of New York architects and planners, this new type of hyper-concentrated urbanism was set forth in dazzling images, not only in professional circles and publications, but in newspapers, books, magazines, art galleries, department stores, and movies.
The inspiration and motivation for these prophecies was the city itself–its soaring buildings, teeming streets, and hurtling subways. In 1925, New York passed London to become the world's largest metropolis. With a population of nearly six million in the city proper, ten million in the region, New York continued to grow in all directions, but especially in Manhattan where the crowding business districts and lightning pace of the skyscraper boom seemed to promise that every block would soon be built anew. "From the New Museum of Contemporary Art article"

NEW YORK MODERN in reverse…
There once was a place of monumental towers that swept American culture…those people have been swept and consumed by the machines and buildings that once were built by those visionaries and is self- transforming or mutating into a fantastic Organic Mutant Architecture Metropolis, it draws them into the depths of this gigantic, fantastic, dark, strange and absurd morphed, hulking, grimy, variegated, skeletal organic living reptilian architectural creature, whether they are beautiful or grotesque, earthly or alien form, these transformations are often fascinating, yet always believable

©2008 "Organic Mutant Architecture" Project

Art, Architecture and photography of ©2008 J. F. Bautista

			NEW YORK MODERN in 1920s… Exploring a vision of the future that swept American culture in the 1920s. a skyscraper city of monumental towers, multilevel highways, aerial transport, and densely developed commercial districts. Principally the projections of New York architects and planners, this new type of hyper-concentrated urbanism was set forth in dazzling images, not only in professional circles and publications, but in newspapers, books, magazines, art galleries, department stores, and movies. The inspiration and motivation for these prophecies was the city itself–its soaring buildings, teeming streets, and hurtling subways. In 1925, New York passed London to become the world's largest metropolis. With a population of nearly six million in the city proper, ten million in the region, New York continued to grow in all directions, but especially in Manhattan where the crowding business districts and lightning pace of the skyscraper boom seemed to promise that every block would soon be built anew. "From the New Museum of Contemporary Art article"

			NEW YORK MODERN in reverse… There once was a place of monumental towers that swept American culture…those people have been swept and consumed by the machines and buildings that once were built by those visionaries and is self- transforming or mutating into a fantastic Organic Mutant Architecture Metropolis, it draws them into the depths of this gigantic, fantastic, dark, strange and absurd morphed, hulking, grimy, variegated, skeletal organic living reptilian architectural creature, whether they are beautiful or grotesque, earthly or alien form, these transformations are often fascinating, yet always believable

©2008 "Organic Mutant Architecture" Project
Art, Architecture and photography of ©2008 J. F. Bautista