The FiDi Arsenale opens Friday, February 28, in a 6,000-square-foot abandoned Irish pub just blocks from the World Trade Center. Presented by the curatorial projects Hot Air and Mery Gates, and curated by adjunct assistant professor Bika Rebek, the exhibition features 16 emerging artists and architects. The show highlights work that explores or develops clever
Adjunct Professor Jeffery J. Roberson was selected as one of 10 residents to attend the 2020 Art Omi: Architecture Residency. While in residency, he will be exploring the practical applications of the Nine-Square Grid configuration within architecture — a defining problem of the Brooklyn-based design practice OFFICE ONTIC (co-founded by Jeff Roberson and Jin Kim
Adjunct Associate Professor Suzan Wines is participating in a panel discussion about her recent book, Transient Spaces, with co-editor Loukia Tsafoulia and MoMA Associate Curator of Architecture and Design Sean Anderson. This event will take place at the DEC Forum at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The panel will examine transience as a force of
An article by Professor Hillary Brown, “Circular Economies for Rural Renewal: Revitalizing Towns and Their Bioregions,” was published this January in Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 238, The Sustainable City XIII, Wessex Institute Press. During winter break, Brown presented a paper at a small invited workshop with sustainability and complexity science academics in
Organized by the Danish research group Island Dynamics, a recent conference on culture in public space explored the intersection between social, ecological, and urban forms from within a global perspective. Contributors from more than 20 countries were brought together in Copenhagen to discuss the construction and formation of urban space through its relationship to culture.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Catherine Seavitt Nordenson reflects on who owns the Amazon and the question of sovereignty in the February 2020 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Her opinion piece, “Amazon Fire,” examines the legal battle between Amazon.com, Inc. and the eight South American countries that share the Amazon River’s vast watershed: Brazil, Ecuador,