The developer Jonathan Rose, with New York-based architects Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson to challenge their Yale students to design a sustainable mixed-use residential and cultural building, with housing for retired jazz musicians, restaurants, and media spaces, on the last city-owned parcel on West 125th Street across from the Apollo Theatre. The studio questioned issues of cultural representation versus the mutability of the site's ethnic anchorings.The book features interviews with those on the studio juries including Robert A. M. Stern, Alexander Garvin, and Vincent Chang.
