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URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2025-sciame-lecture-series-phili
 p-kennicott/
SUMMARY:Fall 2025 Sciame Lecture Series: Philip Kennicott
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP here to attend.\n\nThis in-person lecture is part o
 f the Fall 2025 Sciame Lecture Series\, "rePURPOSE."\n\nPhilip Kennicott i
 s the Pulitzer Prize-winning Senior Art and Architecture Critic of The Was
 hington Post. He is also a two-time Pulitzer finalist (for editorial writi
 ng in 2000 and criticism in 2012)\, an Emmy Award nominee\, a former contr
 ibuting editor to The New Republic\, and a regular contributor to Gramopho
 ne. His critically acclaimed memoir\, “Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach an
 d Mourning\,” was published by Norton in 2020. His 2015 essay\, “Smugg
 ler” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and anthologized in 
 that year’s volume of “Best American Essays.” He lives in Washington
 \, D.C.\n\n"Rome’s Spolia Churches: Reinventing Recycling": Architects t
 oday call it "deconstruction\," the purposeful design of new buildings to 
 ensure that almost all construction materials can be repurposed or recycle
 d. This is the cutting edge of architecture in an age that is newly consci
 ous of making buildings that don't contribute unnecessarily to the huge ca
 rbon costs of construction. But there is nothing new about repurposing the
  basic materials of architecture and design. The builders of Rome's "spoli
 a" churches were doing this more than 1500 years ago\, and their works rem
 ain some of the most intriguing buildings of late antiquity and the middle
  ages. If we can learn to see them not just as interesting\, but as beauti
 ful\, we might advance the contemporary project of deconstruction\, by mak
 ing it viscerally appealing not just to the environmentally conscious\, bu
 t to everyone who wants our built environment to delight the eyes and the 
 mind.\n\nSuggested Reading: Ahmed\, N. and Kennicott\, P. (2025\, April 2)
 . These old Roman buildings could unlock how to build in a warming world. 
 The Washington Post.\n\n"rePURPOSE" centers on the practice of adaptive re
 use in the built environment. Repurposing\, embedded in historical pattern
 s of city building and for the most part discarded in the modern movement\
 , is undergoing a remarkable renaissance. The lecture series invites archi
 tects\, planners\, developers\, advocates\, and engineers to present the t
 echnologies\, designs\, economic incentives\, and policy changes that are 
 needed to advance a substantively renewed and at-scale program of repurpos
 ing in New York and other global cities. The reuse of old structures is no
 t a new idea. After the fall of the Roman Empire\, for example\, the Colos
 seum was repurposed for housing and workshops during the medieval period. 
 Although reuse is understood as a convention that both requires and impose
 s minimal impact\, rePURPOSE shines light on how the methodology might not
  be entirely benign\, how it might in fact have real impact\, and the ways
  in which it challenges and would necessarily disrupt the very conventions
  with which we typically assume it is aligned.\n\nOf special\, although no
 t exclusive\, interest is unpacking the relationship of repurposing to the
  climate crisis. Might historic preservation sit at the center of technica
 l innovation? Are all older buildings valuable as climate mitigation asset
 s\, or will new uses\, such as data storage in old buildings\, undermine t
 he LCA embodied carbon savings achieved? What rules\, laws\, and incentive
 s are needed to sustain innovative approaches to meaningful reuse\, and to
  what extent will a complete reform of preservation regulations and zoning
  frameworks be required?\n\nThe Fall 2025 Sciame lecture series will addre
 ss the profound potential inherent in giving new life to old structures\; 
 employing adaptive reuse methodologies to impact environmental\, economic\
 , and cultural conditions by reducing waste and carbon emissions\, lowerin
 g costs and raising property values\, maintaining historical character\, a
 nd preserving local identity.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the publi
 c\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame
  Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests
 \, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series is made po
 ssible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank 
 Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.\n\n(Photograph ©Paul Raphaelso
 n)
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
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