SoiferI VtP Annotation: Reading Places
"The period of the unfolding of this new campus in Manhattanville should be a time in which we demonstrate that courage and confidence in ourselves to re-evaluate what we take to be important and the roles we should assume in the world" (President Bollinger on Manhattanville Expansion). Bollinger's quote portrays his view of both the new expanion's and Columbia's overall role in the world (transparent, tech-oriented, “clean,” postindustrial). The physical design of the building is intended to convey a sense of both transparency as well as a “look” into a tech-oriented future.