In the Media
After Architecture Believes Natural Waste Is the Future of Construction
Cultured: Cultured features a sustainable project by the firm of B.Arch. 2013 graduates Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann that is a critique of the standard practice of wood-beam construction, deforestation, and material waste.
Peter Gerakaris Completes AquaVerse Commission
Instagram: Fine art alum Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03) adds finishing touches to AquaVerse, a site-specific commission in collaboration with ZTCA Hamptons Architecture. Gerakaris plans upcoming projects at the Museum of Arts & Design and more.
How Can Blackness Construct America?
The New York Times: New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman writes about the new Black Reconstruction Collective of architects and artists including alumni Olalekan Jeyifous, Sekou Cooke, Amanda Williams, and Sean Anderson.
ArtForum: In a column for ArtForum, Assistant Professor Alexandro Segade, art, takes a look at Marvel's WandaVision and discusses queer identity and the role of popular media in shaping our shared social narratives.
100 Women to Watch in Architecture
Architizer: Architizer's list of 100 Women to Watch in Architecture include Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06); visiting critics Dasha Khapalova and Stella Betts among others.
Architectural Analysis Tool Evaluates Building Designs For Sustainability
Springwise: A team from AAP’s Environmental Systems Lab has created a new sustainability framework — Sustainability Evaluation for Early Design (SEED), providing design options ranked by aspects of sustainability.
Exhibit Columbus announces virtual 2021 Design Presentations lineup
The Architect's Newspaper: The Architect's Newspaper presents the lineup of the highly anticipated Exhibit Columbus 2021 design presentations this March, featuring Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '00) among others.
MoMA's Reconstructions Takes A Hard Look At Racism In The Built Environment
Culteredmag: In Cultured, co-curators Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. '96) and Mabel O. Wilson discuss MoMA's Reconstructions show that includes work by Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99), Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '00), and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97).
MoMA Receives Donation of 100 Photos by Women Artists Spanning a Century
Hyperallergic: A substantial gift of images from the early modernist period to today represents examples of women artists' pioneering work, among them Louise Lawler (B.F.A. '69) and Catherine Opie. In Hyperallergic.
Weiss/Manfredi and Reed Hilderbrand Release New Plans for Longwood Gardens
Architectural Record: Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, announced plans for transforming 17 acres of its botanical gardens, woodlands, and meadows, led by the firm of Michael Manfredi (M.Arch. '80). In Architectural Record.
10 Black Architects Making History Today
Architizer: Architizer's list of top Black architects includes upcoming architecture guest lecturer Sean Canty and alumni Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99); Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06); and Moody Nolan's Curtis Moody, led by CEO Jonathan Moody (B.Arch. '07).
PIN-UP 29—Reconstructions Fall Winter 2020/21
PIN-UP: PIN-UP features video portraits of Black Reconstruction Collective founders Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99), Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '00), and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) in a special issue on the Reconstructions show at MoMA.
Madame Architect's Julia Gamolina on Rejecting Misogyny in Architecture
Arch Daily: ArchDaily features Design and the City with Julia Gamolina (B.Arch. ’13), a podcast on community, collaboration, and media.
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Cole Norgaarden (B.S. URS '17), an organizer with Debt Collective in South Philadelphia, says full debt cancellation is the only equitable solution in this article from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board Gains Formal Recognition
Queens Daily Eagle : Wylie Goodman (M.R.P. '17), founder and chair of the New York City borough advisory board's organizing committee, says formal recognition of the board opens the door to more community participation. Reported by Queens Daily Eagle.
Envisioning Climate Resilience
Land Lines: In the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Land Lines, Assistant Professor Linda Shi, CRP, and other experts weigh in on promising land and water policy solutions.
Extra! Extra! Kim Hastreiter's Back With "The New Now"
The New Yorker: In The New Yorker, a New York City art mentor hoped alum Jill Magid (B.F.A. '95) would hand out pennies from her performance project Tender to help launch a new broadside publication.
AP Photos: NYC Parks Have Become 'People's Everything'
Associated Press: CRP's Thomas Campanella, NYC Parks historian-in-residence, tells the AP, "The 19th-century urban park was created largely as a public health measure."
Art Center Proposed for Waterloo's Moore's Furniture Building
Finger Lakes Times: A fall 2020 student team's proposal for a disused building along the historic Erie Canal in Waterloo, NY, is featured in a news story from Finger Lakes Times.
25 Creative Revolutionaries Lead the Way for Positive Change
CODAworx: CODAworx named Associate Professor Jenny Sabin and alumna Meredith Winner (B.F.A. '08) among a community of creative designers who inspire positive change.
