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Publications5.30.2019

Drawing from the Model

Fundamentals of Digital Drawing, 3D Modeling, and Visual Programming in Architectural Design

Frank Melendez

Drawing from the Model: Fundamentals of Digital Drawing, 3D Modeling, and Visual Programming in Architectural Design presents architectural design students, educators, and professionals with a broad overview of traditional and contemporary architectural representation methods. The book offers insights into developments in computing in relation to architectural drawing and modeling, by addressing historical analog methods of

News3.25.2019

CCNY Spitzer School Annual Report

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Annual Report – PDF This two-year annual report compilation offers a view, through the lens of “building community,” of an extraordinary two-year period, a glimpse of several of our truly extraordinary students, faculty research, a hint of the transformations ahead, and a look at the support of alumni

Publications10.29.2018

City Works X: 2014-2017

I am pleased to present City Works X, the tenth volume of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s compilation of student work drawn from the Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Design, Master of Urban Design, and Master of Sustainability in the Urban Environment programs. For its tenth volume, City Works has been conceived of anew. The student work showcased

Publications7.18.2018

Counter Institution

Activist Estates of the Lower East Side

Nandini Bagchee

In the midst of current debates about the accessibility of public spaces, resurfacing as a result of highly visible demonstrations and occupations, this book illuminates an overlooked domain of civic participation: the office, workshop, or building where activist groups meet to organize and plan acts of political dissent and collective participation. Author Nandini Bagchee examines

Publications6.25.2018

PLOT Volume 7: Magic

Student Editors from the MLA Class of 2019: Nusrat Alam, Hana Georg, Alyssa Martori, Suko Presseau, Garrett Ray, Justin Robertson, and Anna Speidel

Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, PLOT Volume 7 explores the theme of MAGIC. The issue’s content is developed by the second-year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue reveal many rich interpretations of MAGIC, appearing along a non-binary trajectory from

Publications4.28.2018

What Goes Up

The Right and Wrongs to the City

Michael Sorkin

In What Goes Up, Michael Sorkin takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of his beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks not simply the forms and practices—from zoning and political deals to the finer points of architectural design—that