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Publications7.7.2015

Reweaving the Urban Fabric: Approaches to Infill Housing

Ghislaine Hermanuz, Marta Gutman

Affordable housing is a hot topic in New York City these days, especially as housing costs increase to the point of pricing out lower- and middle-income residents from Manhattan and parts of the other boroughs. All too often affordable housing this century is part of larger, market-rate developments rather than standalone projects. Yet 25 years

Publications7.6.2015

Designing Modern Childhoods

History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children

Marta Gutman

With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable;

Publications7.6.2015

Detroit Interrupted

Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development

Andrea Hansen, Toni Griffin

From Introduction: “…what is to become of a regional urban center that currently is too large for its local government to manage, has too much land to return to near term economic value, and is too spread out to maintain sustainable systems of infrastructure, service delivery, neighborhood and community? What must Detroit do over the

Publications7.6.2015

Campus

Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape

Peter Gisolfi

Peter Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect and educator whose substantial design practice extends over 20 years. Most of his work consists of carefully crafted buildings that relate to a larger setting. A variety of public and private projects completed throughout the United States are featured in this first monograph. The projects in this book

Publications7.6.2015

City for City

Achva Benzinberg Stein

City for City presents examples of the work of The City College Architectural Center over the past fifteen years. The projects selected are grouped under the categories of exhibitions, visioning exercises, planning and urban design studies, and also include a few examples of assignments for implementation. The work was developed at the request of the

Lectures7.1.2015

Michael Meredith

Jul 31, 2015

MOS, Recent Work

Michael Meredith is co-founder of MOS, along with Hilary Sample. Located in New York City, MOS is an architecture practice known to produce work that challenges the boundaries between architecture, art, and technology. MOS has received numerous awards, including a Holcim Award and 2013 AIA New York State Citation for Design for the Lali Gurans Orphanage