NYC Pandemic Dining Architecture, 2020 - 2024
How We Ate is a labor of love. It’s a four year long project chronicling the outdoor dining shelters that first appeared in New York during the global pandemic.
Born of necessity, unconstrained by regulations, these structures not only changed how New Yorkers ate, but added a whole new layer to the urban fabric of the city.
Ten years, fifty years from now New Yorkers can look back on the pandemic years and outdoor dining shelters will be one of the things worth remembering.
As seen in
Presentation at Creative Mornings NYC, 8/2/2024
As this era of dining shelters ends, soon all that will be left are photographs and memories. These photographs, spanning the past four years, are worth archiving in a proper book. If you feel the same, and are a publisher—or know a publisher—please get in touch howweate@gmail.com