Introduction

As soon as I conceived my first design concept to expand lower Manhattan in the mid nineties I wrote the White House. I never stopped until now. This Blog is to tell this story and to publish some of my letters to, and the responses I received from, the White House.
From the start, my idea to expand Lower Manhattan was a national project in its size, scope and purpose. Building on the water or land filling water will certainly need a government consent, partenership and approval, which make my project national laterally. While I have party preferences, my project does not, it is a national project, it doesn‘t matter Republican or Democrat.
When I contacted the White house after conceiving my first expansion-scheme in the mid-nineties; the resident of the white house then was President Clinton. After computer modeling my idea in 1995, I sent an E-mail with a 3D-image of my project as an attachment to the white house. This one of my earliest Lower Manhattan expansion schemes, I call this scheme my 95 scheme. I e-mailed a more colorful version of this image to the white house in mid-nineties.
At that time, I was just trying to deposit my idea to the conscience of the country; I never thought the white house would answer me. For my amazement, the White house answered my letters twice. Every answer from the white house carried a referral one for local planning official and one for Federal transportation officials. While the design concept of my project was always national the only thing that was intact, in my 95 scheme was its soul. Most of the details of the project had to be rethought. Which made my 95 scheme not quite presidential yet. During that time, what I really wanted was a chance to develop my design concept further. I needed computers, softwares, printers and big format printers to produce the designs. I also wanted few design-critics to critique my work as I develop it. With my next to zero budget it seemed impossible to fund all of these. In 1998 I was admitted to the Master of Architecture program at SUNY Buffalo. The school of architecture’s computer lab had all my computing needs to do the work and the school professors were the design critics. After graduation in 2000 I had couple realistic expansion schemes for Lower Manhattan and my project became truly “presidential“. The intact soul of my project had the choice of a couple of bodies to dwell in.

Few month after i graduated the resident of the most famous time-share in the planet -the White House- changed in 2001
(to be continued later)