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
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
In fall 2014, we welcomed two new junior, full-time faculty members: Prof. Ahu Aydogan Akseli and Prof. Frank Melendez. Prof. Aydogan Akseli’s research focuses on building systems. She holds a B.Arch. from Uludag University, an M.Arch. and M.S. in Engineering Management from the Izmir Institute of Technology as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in
In summer 2015, rising fifth-year B.Arch. student Matthew Addeo participated in the Three + Two Ghana Earth Building Workshop. Matthew helped build a single-family house in the Abetenim village, whose design was inspired by traditional courtyard houses of the Ashanti region.
Commencement Book 2015
On Friday 19 September, ten first-year MLA students participated in the 2014 Park(ing) Day festivities, a daylong, international “happening” in which people transform parking spaces into temporary public space. With support from the NY Chapter of the American Association of Landscape Architecture, the students converted two spaces in West Harlem, one focused on reflective power