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Publications9.28.2020

PLOT Volume 9: Top Down Bottom Up

Student editors from the class of 2021: Kayla Conroy, Brandon Loo, Catherine Priolet, and Jeffrey Schneider

PLOT is the annual landscape journal edited by the graduate landscape architecture students of the Spitzer School of Architecture. The ninth volume examines “Top Down Bottom Up” — terms used in a variety of fields to describe strategies of knowledge ordering and information processing. These expressions have shifted from conceptual use in scientific and humanistic

News9.28.2020

Prof. Rickenbacker to Speak at Climate Change Series

Shawn Rickenbacker, director of the J. Max Bond Center and associate professor, will speak on the CCNY panel “Pollution and Black America: The Struggle for Environmental Justice” on Thursday, October 1, at 12:30 pm. While Black communities are far more likely than other Americans to be exposed to the harmful impacts of pollution, they have

News9.28.2020

Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Everyday Ecologies

The future of the human species is bound up in how we design, plan, and live within emergent extremes in global ecosystems. Paralysis in the face of contentious issues, uncritical acceptance of traditional roles, sectors, and hierarchies, and unquestioned long-held truths inhibit development of new ideas and approaches to design effectively. To instigate new approaches,

News9.23.2020

Prof. Harkema Awarded Hudson Square Commission

Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Harkema is the founding member of a multi-designer team, WIP Collaborative, that has been awarded the commission for a public placemaking installation in Hudson Square. Urban Design Forum selected WIP Collaborative as the winner of Care for Hudson Square, a reopening initiative in partnership with Hudson Square Properties and the Hudson

News9.22.2020

Prof. Melendez Moderates Conference on Bio Data

Professor Frank Melendez moderated the conference track “Bio Data / Bio Tectonics for Architectural Design” at the 2020 eCAADe conference, “Anthropologic — Architecture and Fabrication in the Cognitive Age.” This session explored nature as a perpetual inspirational source in design thinking. The paper presentations in this track focused on contextualizing biological existence, behavior, and growth

News9.16.2020

What Motivates the New GPS Program Directors?

Read about the motivations and visions of the Graduate Program Spitzer’s new program directors. Jeremy Edmiston, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, and Nandini Bagchee were appointed by Dean Lesley Lokko soon after she joined Spitzer to run the Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Science in Architecture programs, respectively. Their mandate is