stephanieNY

I just bumped into a notice in the hall about a lecture that's happening here at school in a few weeks. I recognized an image on it that I had seen in a blog post, so it caught my eye. Remember this post that I wrote about abandoned mental hospitals? Well, this guy Christopher Payne, photographer and architect, is coming to Columbia through the Historic Preservation department on September 24th to lecture about "America's vanishing architecture and industrial landscape", namely old state mental institutions. I remember reading on the blog that he had lectured in New York in July and wishing I could have gone. No need, in a few weeks, he'll be in the next room over. Hehe.

He also documented the old substations of New York in this book. I want his job.