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; Columbia University Graduate School of Expected Candidate Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP); New York, 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, New Jersey 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 Cooper Union 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 Pratt Institute Lead Educator Liberty Partnerships Program; In coordination with New York City 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;