NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies New York Area Calendar of Events April 2021 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 Fight or Flight? After Concrete: Navigating Redefining Roadmaps to Materials and Success Energy in the Anthropocene The Harlem and Pine Street Michael Young African Burial and Bryan Grounds Young: Sheets, Decks, Levels Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture Virtual Walk in Bay Ridge 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Reimagining The Future of Civic Holy Wisdom, Reconsidering Reconsidering Learning & Cultural Leadership Sacred Space: Raphael Online Raphael Online Research Centers: Alex Program Info Justinian’s Conference Conference Sarian, Arts Session Hagia Sophia Day 1 Day 2 Commons Antonin Smells in Virtual Tour: Wright and Raymond and Museum Architecture of New York: Friends Bryant Park America’s Kate Orff Architect Lecture Willow The Woolworth Lung-Amam Planning Penn Station Lecture Webinar 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Walking Tour of Virtual Tour of Race, Gender, Virtual Tour: Rotor: Reverse The Long Historic 19th Columbia and Power in Madison Architecture Island Estates Century Noho University’s Modernist Avenue, High that Inspired Morningside Design with Fashion and A Helluva Four The Great Heights and Kristina Wilson Historic Decades: Tom Gatsby Manhattanville Preservation Dyja and Meg Campuses Pivot to China: Wolitzer on NY How Jin Mao Life in Old New Justin Garrett Portended York Virtual Visualizing the Moore Lecture Future House Tour Human Costs Supertalls of the Climate Virtual NYC Crisis Subway Ultimate NYC Adventure Trivia Night Series 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Enclaves of The Future of Gary Huafan Bennerley The New York Modernism: Cultural He and Matt Viaduct: Crystal Palace: Houses from Centers: McNicholas: Building America’s First Chicago to Melanie Keen, Making Community World’s Fair New Canaan Wellcome Ornament Wellbeing Collection Through Restoration Chengdu Fairgrounds, Greenland: A Balkrishna Civic Centers, Non-Coplanar Doshi and and Citizenship Exoskeleton Barry Bergdoll Lecture Rockefeller Center: Art Sarah Lewis Deco City Lecture 25 26 27 28 29 30 Walking Tour of The Future of The Newport Historic 19th Cultural Architecture of Mansions of Century Noho Centers: an 1832 the Gilded Age: Gabriel Kogan Landmark Splendor by on SESC (Manhattan’s the Sea Pompeia First) Weaving Structure into Architecture: Design & Construction Challenges in Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg Events AIA Center for Architecture SEE ALL EVENTS→ Columbia GSAPP SEE ALL EVENTS→ New York Adventure Club SEE ALL TOURS→ Municipal Art Society of New York SEE ALL EVENTS→ Princeton University School of Architecture SEE ALL EVENTS→ Yale School of Architecture SEE ALL EVENTS→ Thurs 1 Fight or Flight? Navigating Roadmaps to Success AIA Center for Architecture “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a four-part series that will address how the urgency of climate change requires design professionals to rethink the built environment. Rising seas, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires are among the environmental stressors that will continue to affect communities throughout the United States and the world. We are now confronted with the urgent need of creating relocation strategies for individual households, communities, and cities. As architects, planners, landscape architects, and related professionals, it is our ethical responsibility to integrate thinking about relocation into our practices. The economic, social, and environmental impacts associated with climate migration and relocation will be a large part of this conversation, along with equity and environmental justice. We recognize that it is incumbent upon us to find appropriate pathways forward as swiftly as possible. The final session will recap the previous ones and will be a call to action to participants of the series. Speakers will discuss what relocation might look like in different settings, what happens to the newly empty land, and what happens to vacated buildings and installations. We will conclude with next steps: short-, medium-, and long-term actions that each of us can undertake as part of addressing and managing migration and relocation in our communities, cities, and countries. Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st from 6pm to 7:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general public $10, students free REGISTER An Archaeology of Architecture: The Harlem and Pine Street African Burial Grounds Jerome Haferd, adjunct professor, CCNY SSA and Columbia GSAPP Columbia GSAPP The talk will examine the history, advocacy, and futurity of two current efforts to re-claim and develop site of African enslaved burial in New York State. My work examines how the erased histories, violence, and the proposition of redevelopment of these sites trouble our disciplinary limits of Architecture, Archival practice, and Preservation. Jerome Haferd is an architect and educator based in Harlem, NY. He is co-founder of the design and research practice BRANDT : HAFERD. Jerome’s work focuses on how architecture establishes a dialogue between contemporary phenomena and non-hegemonic histories, users and spaces. His writing on archaeology, blackness, and speculation has recently been published in Log and Project journals. Jerome is currently an adjunct professor at CCNY SSA and Columbia GSAPP. He is also a core initiator of Dark Matter University, a BIPOC-led, para-institutional network dedicated to transforming pedagogy and the space of knowledge production. He is currently teaching the course ‘Fugitive Practice’, a trans institutional course between Yale University and Howard University, and Dark Matter University. Jerome received his Master’s in Architecture at Yale University and his Bachelor’s in Architecture from The Ohio State University. Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st at 6:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free REGISTER Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture Yale School of Architecture Visual Artist Olalekan Jeyifous OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS (b.1977) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work re-imagines social spaces that often examine the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment through a speculative, futurist lens. He has exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is an Architectural League “Emerging Voices” Fellow, a two-time New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, and has received grants from the New York State Council and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He recently completed artist residencies with the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and in addition to his extensive exhibition history, has spent over a decade creating large-scale installations for a variety of public spaces. Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free REGISTER Virtual Walk in Bay Ridge Greater Astoria Historical Society Webmaster of Forgotten NY Kevin Walsh Bay Ridge, Brooklyn was Forgotten New York’s Kevin Walsh’s home for 35 years, and he still returns now and then because his dentist’s office is there, but also because it’s a beautiful neighborhood home to the Brooklyn end of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, NYC’s only active military fort, historic sites associated with the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and beautiful mansions and panoramic views from its miles of shoreline. Let Kevin Walsh take you on a 90-minute tour, complete with anecdotes of his years in western Brooklyn. Event Type: Walk Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st from 8am to 5pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free REGISTER Fri 2 After Concrete: Redefining Materials and Energy in the Anthropocene Columbia GSAPP For over a hundred years, reinforced concrete has served as a paradigm of wondrous materiality: natural yet human-made, liquid yet permanent, technically specialized yet easy to use. But this myth is beginning to crack physically and conceptually. As part of a multi-year research project, co-directed by Lucia Allais (Columbia GSAPP) and Forrest Meggers (Princeton), this event asks participants to rethink concrete historically and technically. Scholars, engineers and designers are invited to move the conversation from material dynamics to system dynamics, and from materials to energy and environment, by offering insights into sometimes obscure system processes–such as the carbonation of concrete. The goal is to situate not only concrete but all architectural materials into variously-scaled processes that are inherent in climate change, resource extraction, infrastructural development, energy policy, state planning, and ecological science and advocacy. Event Type: Conference Date & Time: Friday, April 2nd at 9:30am Venue: Zoom Fee: Free REGISTER Michael Young & Bryan Young: Sheets, Decks, Levels Cooper Union Architects and Teachers Michael Young and Bryan Young Michael Young and Bryan Young are brothers and also architects, teachers, sons-of-teachers, music lovers, products of 1980s southern California suburbia, post-punk, rock collectors, of skateboards, of sometimes high-scores, or forts and other things that they will be discussing. Michael is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture. He is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. He currently teaches Thesis and Representation III. Bryan is an assistant professor adjunct at the School of Architecture. He is the founder of Young projects. He currently teaches Design II. Both Michael and Bryan’s studios received the Young Architects Prize from the Architectural League of New York (2014 and 2013). Event Type: Conversation Date & Time: Friday, April 2nd from