IFE SALEMA VANABLE 1 PhD Candidate in Architectural History and Theory e: [email protected] i/van/able is Old Hand e: [email protected] | ivanableisoldhand.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Architectural History and Theory; Graduate School of Expected Candidate Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP); , NY Completion Tall Tales: State Looks, Black Desire(s), Housing Schemes 2023 • Tall Tales highlights entanglements and various incarnations of hybridity in the development of publicly funded and incentivized, though privately developed and managed, high-rise residential towers erected in New York under the 1955 Limited Profit Housing Companies Law, known as Mitchell-Lama in an effort to expand the scope and range of histories and theories of multi-family urban housing, and complicate narratives of public-private partnership for its development. The dissertation interrogates how modes of architectural production are operative parts of the same project that has historically, and continues to mutate, to produce varying ideas about racial difference. The dissertation works to discern how much of the state, stakeholders, and media’s desire to house hetero-normative familial structures in high-rise residential towers, is an outcome of ideology that regards the black familial order as dysfunctional, pathological improperly ordered, or poorly managed. Towards these ends, this work interrogates dwelling, taking into account the lives lived within these objects, attending to the politics, aesthetics, and materiality of the making of home. M.Phil Completion of General Examinations and Defense of Dissertation Prospectus; 2019-2021 Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; New York, NY • Major Field: The American City, “Race” and “Urban” Housing from the Civil War to the Reagan Era, c. 1849 - c. 1981 (Architecture, Law, and Public Policy) Advisors: Reinhold Martin and Stephen Gregory • Minor Field: The Trappings of Home: Philosophies and Economies of Domesticity, From the Victorian Era to the Present (c.1840s - 2019) Advisor: Mabel O. Wilson M.Arch II Post-Professional Master of Architecture, w/Distinction 2014 Princeton University School of Architecture (SoA); Princeton, Visiting Architectural Association School of Architecture [AA], w/Distinction; 2010 Scholar London, UK Visiting Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad; University of Dar es Salaam, College of 2005 Scholar Lands & Architectural Studies (now Ardhi University); Dar es Salaam, TZ B.Arch Professional Bachelor of Architecture; Cornell University; Ithaca, NY 2004 Visiting Cornell University Study Abroad in Rome; Rome, Italy 2003 Scholar

PUBLICATIONS Co-Editor Black Production and the Space of the University; Columbia University Books Forthcoming on Architecture and the City (CBAC); New York, NY 2021 Essay “The Urban Development Corporation and The Fallacy of Innovation”; Fall 2019 URBAN Magazine, Columbia University GSAPP; New York, NY Essay/Review “Working the Middle: Harlem River Park Towers and Waterside Plaza”; Avery 03/2018 Review 30; Link Undergraduate Dumb Dialectic: Bronx Casino & Welfare Center; Cornell University; Ithaca, 2010 Thesis; New York; Self Published; Designed and developed a critical Thesis Book Cornell outlining the theoretical position of the ‘Dumb Dialectic,’ including all University; research and design development that led to the design of a proposed Casino & Book Welfare Center located in the Northwest section of the Bronx (Community Board Number 5) along the elevated No. 4 train.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS Fellowship 2021 Buell Center Fellowship, facilitating primary PhD dissertation research; 2021 Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Grant Grant Program; HOUSINGS: UNAUTHORIZED EPISTEMOLOGIES w/Daisy 2021 Ames for Curriculum/Course Development Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA); New York, NY 2016 Fellowship Columbia University Provost’s Diversity Fellowship; New York, NY 2016 Grant New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); Independent Research Grant 2015 Prize History and Theory Prize, Princeton University School of Architecture 2014 Prize Premier Prix De L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts: Ecoles D’Art Americaines de 2013 Fontainebleau; Fontainebleau, France Archived Van Alen Institute Design Speed Dating; critical portfolio review by James 2011 Portfolio Biber, Susannah Drake, Lars Müller, and Frederieke Taylor; New York, NY IFE SALEMA VANABLE 2 PhD Candidate in Architectural History and Theory e: [email protected] i/van/able is Old Hand e: [email protected] | ivanableisoldhand.com

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Yale University School of Architecture (YSoA) Visiting Graduate Seminar, ARCH 3302 Tall Tales; New Haven, CT FA 2021 Scholar KPF Visiting Scholar for Academic Year 2021-2022 w/Visiting Scholar Lecture The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union Assist. Prof. ARCH 225 Advanced Topics, Elective Seminar, FA 2021 Adjunct Housings: Unauthorized Epistemologies w/Daisy Ames; New York, NY Visiting ARCH 121b Design II, 2nd Year Design Studio, w/Bryan Young and Benjamin SP 2021 Professor II Aranda; New York, NY & Virtual ARCH 133 Intro Urban History/Theory: Ways of Knowing Cities; New York, NY SP 2020 ARCH 131b Design III, 3rd Yr. Integrated Housing Studio, w/Stephen Rustow and Mersiha Veledar; New York & Virtual ARCH 151b Thesis Advisor; New York & Virtual ARCH 121a Design II, 2nd Year Design Studio, w/Nima Javidi, Stephanie Lin, FA 2019 and Julian Palacio; New York, NY Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) Researcher Departmental Research Assistant to Mabel O. Wilson; NY & Virtual Summer 2021 Preceptor, ADV IV Graduate Design Studio, w/Amanda Williams, guns and butter; NY Virtual SP 2021 Critic Grad Assist./ Insurgent Domesticities; Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) 2020-2021 Coordinator Working Group led by Anooradha Iyer Sidiqqi; New York, NY Teaching A4488-1 ARGUMENTS; Advanced Architectural Design (AAD; New York, NY SU’20, Canceled Fellow “TRANSSCALARITIES: Arenas of Design, The Contentious New York Project”; Summer 2019 Advanced Architectural Design (AAD); Post-Professional Program; NY “Questions in Architectural History II (QAH II)” (1914-2000); w/Professor SP 2019, 2018 Kenneth Frampton; 1st Year M.Arch History/Theory Seminar; New York, NY “Questions in Architectural History I (QAH I)” (1780-1914); w/Professor FA 2018, 2017 Reinhold Martin; Christopher Cowell; 1st Year M.Arch History/Theory Seminar “Metropolis Workshop”; Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) Writing Seminar; Summer 2018, Post-Professional Program; New York, NY 2017 Researcher Global Africa Lab (GAL), Co-Directed by Mario Gooden and Mabel O. Wilson; Spring 2018 African Mobilities Exhibition, Im/mobilities + The Afro-Imaginary, New York Exchange Masterclass; Columbia University; New York, NY 2/17/2018 Ecoles D’Art Americaines de Fontainebleau Assistant Assistant In Instruction [AI] and Fine Arts Coordinator; Paris, Summer 2014 Instructor Fontainebleau, Lille, France Princeton University Assistant Assistant In Instruction [AI] to Professor Imani Perry, AAS 362/WWS 386/POL Fall 2013 Instructor 338: Race and the American Legal Process; Princeton, NJ Lead Educator Liberty Partnerships Program; In coordination with Department 10/2006-6/2009 of Education (NYDOE); Brooklyn, New York

ACADEMIC (AND PROFESSIONAL) SERVICE

Chairperson BSA+GSAPP [Black Student Alliance at Columbia University Graduate School of 6/2019-Present Architecture, Planning & Preservation]; Founding Member; New York, NY Member Anti-Racist Task Force Faculty Member; The Cooper Union 7/2020-Present Cmte. Member Hist/Theory/Criticism Curriculum Sub-Committee; The Cooper Union 7/2020-9/2020 Faculty Graduate Design Research Studio II, “Microcosms and Schisms: How We Live Spring 2020 Advisor Together”; The Cooper Union; Venice, Italy; New York, NY Advisory New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Artist Advisory Committee Member in 2020-2021 Cmte. Member the filed of Architecture; New York Peer Review New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Architecture + Design Independent May-June 2019 Panelist Projects Grants; New York, NY PhD Rep. Columbia University Provost’s Office GSAPP Academic Review; New York, NY 12/2018 Council Graduate Student Diversity Council led by Associate Dean for Academics and 2013-2014 Member Diversity, Dr. Karen Jackson-Weaver; Princeton University, NJ IFE SALEMA VANABLE 3 PhD Candidate in Architectural History and Theory e: [email protected] i/van/able is Old Hand e: [email protected] | ivanableisoldhand.com

INVITED CRITIC (ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN STUDIO REVIEWS) (Sampling) Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Architecturee) Guest Critic ARCH-21ST-04: After Property Vol. 2; Emanuel Admassu; Virtual 4/2021 Yale University School of Architecture (SoA) (2019-Ongoing) Guest Critic ARCH 1012b: Architectural Design II; Critic: Sunil Bald, Miriam Peterson 3/2021 ARCH 1011a: Architectural Design I; Critic: Nikole Bouchard; Virtual 12/2020, 12/2019 Undergraduate Thesis Review; Adam Thompson; Virtual 5/2020 “CULTURAL DREAMING”; Walter Hood Advanced Studio; New Haven, CT & Virtual 3/2020, 4/2020 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union; New York, NY (2019-Ongoing) Guest Critic Post-Professional M.Arch Pro-Seminar; Diana Agrest; Virtual 3/2021 ARCH 125: History of Architecture III; Tamar Zinger; Virtual 12/2020 ARCH 141a: Design IV Option, Architecture Machine Visions; Farzin Lofti-Jam 12/2020 Spitzer School of Architecture (SSA), The City College of New York Guest Critic UNIT 24: practice_X [the instrumentality of architecture] (Thesis); Haferd 5/2021 “Towards an Archeology of the Future: The Pine Street African Burial Ground”; 5/11/2020 Advanced Studio; Jerome Haferd; New York, Virtual New York City College of Technology (NYIT); Brooklyn, New York Guest Critic ARCH 401 - Architectural Design V; Critic: Brad Engelsman; New York & Virtual 12/2020, 12/2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) Guest Critic “Cancel Architecture”; Preston Scott Cohen; Virtual 11/2020 Cornell University School of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) Guest Critic “Housing+Sociality: My Brother’s Keeper”; Critic: Peter Robinson; NYC Studio 9-12/2020 “Housing+Community: Made in Brownsville”; Critic: Peter Robinson; NYC Studio 12/16/2019 Columbia University GSAPP; New York, NY 2017-Ongoing Guest Critic Migrations: Bodies in Movement; Mario Gooden + Torkwase Dyson; NY & Virtual 4/2021 Parsons School of Constructed Environments; New York, NY 12/2017, 3/2020

SYMPOSIA, ROUND TABLES & WORKSHOPS

Organizer/ “Notes from Within”; BSA+GSAPP; Columbia University; Virtual 3/27/2021 Chair & HOME: “Critical Conversations/Exchanges” Series; BSA+GSAPP; Columbia Uni. 2020-2021 Respondent/ • HOUSE & HOME: w/Amanda Williams in conversation with Hansy Better Barraza 12/9/2020 Discussant “Black Reconstruction Collective: What is the architecture of Reparations?”; 10/5/2020 BSA+GSAPP & The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) “SURROUNDS: The City, The University, and Insurgency”; BSA+GSAPP w/ African 7/25/2020 Mobilities Curator, Dr. Mpho Matsipa HOME, Symposium; Keynote Amanda Williams in conversation with Hansy Better 4/4/2020; Barraza; BSA+GSAPP Columbia University; New York, NY Canceled “Black Production and the Space of the University,” Symposium; Keynote by 3/30/2019 Toni L. Griffin, Response by Mario Gooden; BSA+GSAPP Columbia University; NY “Dean Milton S. F. Curry: Architecture Race Theory;” Architectural History 3/28/2018 and Theory PhD Workshop Series; Columbia University, New York, NY Invited “...Up, Up to the Sky!: Municipal Zoning, Land, Air, and the Right to the 5/7-5/9 2020; Presentations Sky”; Spatial Inequalities and Segregation in the Urban Landscape, Garden & Canceled Landscape Studies Symposium; Dumbarton Oaks; Washington, D.C. “Lying in the Negro Sense and the Real Estate Hustle, a Response” 11/2017 To Selling Dreams by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine; Performa 17, “Making Room for Action” Symposium; New York, NY Workshop “Close to the Edge: Hip Hop Architecture Symposium;” in coordination with 10/2018 Facilitator BlackSpace New York; Center for Architecture, AIA New York; New York, NY

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition Biennale Architettura: How will we live together?; Schisms and Microcosms: 2021 (Group) DEEP SEGREGATION; The Cooper Union, New York, NY; Venice, Italy Research & “African Mobilities - This Is Not a Refugee Camp;” Architekturmuseum der TU 4/26-8/19 Exhibition München, Munich; Global Africa Lab [GAL]; Columbia GSAPP 2018 IFE SALEMA VANABLE 4 PhD Candidate in Architectural History and Theory e: [email protected] i/van/able is Old Hand e: [email protected] | ivanableisoldhand.com

INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Presentation Tall Tales: State Looks, Black Desire(s), Housing Schemes; Emeritus 2/24/2021 Professors in Columbia (EPIC); Virtual Lecture “Nothing Even Matters”; University of Maryland (UMD) School of Arch.; Virtual 9/23/2020 Lecture “Ritual: Movements, Use, Rites”; The Cooper Union; Virtual 10/8/2020 Presentation “Deep Segregation,” M.Arch Pro-Seminar, “Living Together: Housing” in 10/30/2019 & Speaker conversation with Mersiha Veledar; The Cooper Union; New York, NY Speaker “I wonder if dis is me? By golly, I is free as a frog;” at “The Diversity 3/1/2019 Environment;” in coordination with the Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP [BSA+GSAPP]; GSAPP Incubator at NEW INC; New York, NY Presentation “Deep Segregation,” Thesis Presentation; The Cooper Union; New York, NY 3/2017 Presentation Architetexx Women in Architecture; Columbia University GSAPP, NY 9/27/2016

ABBREVIATED PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE

i/van/able i/van/able is Old Hand; Founder & Leader; Bronx, New York 2007-Present HWKN Junior Associate, Designer & Project Manager; New York, NY 9/2014- CCS Bard Hessel Museum Renovation, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2/2016 (DD-CA); Crystal City Master Plan Framework, Arlington, VA (Master Plan/Pre- Design) HOK Designer, Facade Consultant in Rhino and Revit; New York, NY 2-7/2017 Atlantis Sanya Resort; Hainan, China JCJ Designer, Project Architect w/CAD, Rhino and Revit; New York, NY 12/2011- The Parkside School, New York, NY; World of Inquiry School No. 58, Rochester, 6/2012 NY; Empire City Racing & Casino Master Plan, Yonkers, NY Stonehill & Project Architect, Designer; New York, NY; Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA; Hyatt 5-12/2011 Taylor Regency Minneapolis, MN; Hilton New York, NY FXFOWLE Job Captain, Designer, Intermediate Architect; New York, NY 1/2008- Kind Abdullah Financial District, Saudi Arabia; Addis Ababa Hotel & 1/2010 Convention Center; NOIDA IT Park, New Delhi, India Rafael Viñoly Designer, Intermediate Architect; New York, NY 9/2006- Vdara Hotel & Spa MGM City Center, Las Vegas; University of Texas at San 1/2008 Antonio South Texas Research Facility; Stanford University Medical Center Goshow Intermediate Architect; New York, NY 9/2005- School Construction Authority (SCA) PS 147 Exterior Masonry and Roofing 9/2006 Upgrade; PS 345; PS 230 Theater Design; PS 293; SUNY School of Optometry; Gouverneur Gardens Zoning Study; New York, NY Cook+Fox Junior Architect; New York, NY; Henry Miller’s Theater; George Jackson 6/2004- Academy; Rhinecliff House; One Bryant Park; New York, NY 6/2005