Professor Frank Melendez has been awarded a 2020 New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) Grant, through the sponsorship and support of the Van Alen Institute. He is one of five recipients in the 2020 NYSCA Architecture + Design, Independent Projects category, and the sole recipient sponsored by Van Alen. This funding will go
Dean Lokko is a 2020 Selector for Domus’ 50 Best Architecture Firms Worldwide Guide. Joining four other selectors, Rahul Mehrotra, Dean Sarah Harding, Luis Fernandez-Galiano and Wowo Ding, the team were asked to nominate up to 10 firms worldwide whom they felt we should be watching. Counterspace were nominated last year, but the four African practices that Dean Lokko
Fifth-year B Arch student Isabella Joseph was invited as a student juror on the Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge competition. She will join an interdisciplinary jury that includes leadership from the New York Landmarks Conservancy, SOM, and Transportation Alternatives. The New York City Council and Van Alen Institute are collaborating on this international design competition to rethink
Andrea Johnson MLA ’15 is one of six practitioners worldwide to be selected for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership. Using decentralized solar projects in NYC as a lens for analysis, her project will investigate the ways in which communities are building social power through energy generation and
Professor Marta Gutman, an award-winning author and historian, is accepting a new leadership role as the president-elect of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Her term as president will begin in 2021. The society is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the planning of cities and metropolitan regions over time,
We are delighted to announce that Professor Fabian Llonch‘s practice, Llonch+Vidalle Arquitectura (LLV), has been invited to showcase work at the Argentina Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2020. The project, which is sited in Las Grutas, Argentina, uses natural materials and local building techniques to provide a series of collective vacation homes for urban clients wishing to