Professor Lance Jay Brown’s Design for Risk Seminar was hosted by NYC OEM’s Cynthia Barton who discussed the evolution of the Post-Disaster Transitional Housing Competition and toured the resulting built prototype. The seminar then had the chance to visit the LEED Certified OEM headquarters and the storm-activated Command Center. Students in the class include (from
Associate Professor Marta Gutman’s book A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 was published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2014. This new work of urban history focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place
Structures of Coastal Resilience is a four-university research effort, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation with support from the US Army Corps of Engineers, examining four vulnerable urban sites along the North Atlantic coast that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. Associate Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, the Principal Investigator for the CCNY team, is proposing a strategic
Physical spaces offer a unique and useful tool to grasp childhood as an ideal imagined by adults, as an arena shaped by social relationships, and as an experience of children. Since space is where childhood is lived, the material world offers a treasure trove of historical evidence of how children use, interpret, shape, and imagine their everyday lives. Physical spaces,
Professor Julio Salcedo-Fernandez’s firm Scalar Architecture has completed the Reggio Pre-School and Religious Center in West Hills, New York.
With compliments of the Dean’s Office, third-year B.Arch. student Chitra Mamidela attended the Beverly Willis Foundation Leadership Awards Gala on 26 February 2015. Speaking about the event, Chitra notes: “Beverly Willis continues to inspire emerging female professionals like myself to achieve the highest goals. Attending the gala provided a wonderful opportunity to meet important women