The JMBC newsletter is back! Pardon our absence over the last 18 months, but we’ve been quite busy launching our Legacy City Design website, publishing The Just City Essays, Volume 1, mentoring students of color interested architecture, and much more. We have had an exciting three semesters worth of projects since our last newsletter. We raised over
Talks are held 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the southeast bay of the Spitzer School second floor, with light refreshments provided. Hilary Brown (Professor and SSA Program Director of the M.S. Program in Sustainability) Ahu Aydogan Akseli (Assistant Professor, SSA, CCNY) Carey Clouse (Asst. Professor at UMass Amherst; Fulbright FLEX Fellow) Student Moderators: Damon Arrington (M.L.A.), Millie
Talks are held 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the southeast bay of the Spitzer School second floor, with light refreshments provided. Obiekwe Okolo, Former AIAS National Vice-President Panelists: Quilian Riano (2015 JMBC Senior Design Fellow), Michele Flournoy (SSA M.Arch. ’14) Student Moderators: Shereese Trumpet (B. Arch.), Christina Bien-Aimé (B. Arch.), Amanda Sarantos (B. Arch.), Baruch Tauber (M.L.A.)
Talks are held 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the southeast bay of the Spitzer School second floor, with light refreshments provided. Kelvin Campbell, Chair and Founder: Smart Urbanism (London) Panelists: Professor Michael Sorkin (Director of the SSA Graduate Urban Design Program) and Alanna Lauter (B. Arch. student) Moderator: Professor Toni L. Griffin (Director J. Max Bond Center)
Waterproofing New York gathers some of the most influential and thought provoking municipal leaders, engineers, planners, social scientists, and designers to explore the impact of past and future storms on New York City’s infrastructural systems: Water/Waste, Power/Data, Circulation/Fuel, Parks/Recreation, and Shelter. The essays use the operating systems of the city to open speculation on the
The J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City has appointed Quilian Riano as its first J. Max Bond Senior Fellow for the fall 2015 semester. Riano will work with JMBC leadership in the development of JMBC’s Design for the Just City Initiative. Riano is a designer, researcher, writer, and educator working out