We would like to welcome everyone who has joined our mailing list after registering for last Thursday’s conversation, 'A CASE FOR PUBLIC DESIGN EDUCATION' featuring Lesley Lokko, Dr. Sharon Sutton, Shawn Rickenbacker, Lisa C. Henry, Sanjive Vaidya & Claire Weisz. This is our weekly newsletter, where we round up articles and events of interest, and solicit pitches from our readers. To see where that process can lead, check out Tyler Survant's piece about Dean Lokko's recent resignation, 'Noir Radical,' our most popular article on Substack to date.
Inspired by Thursday’s thought-provoking discussion, we are hoping to assemble a collection of essays around the topic of public design education. If you are interested in writing on the matter (especially if you attended the event), or would like to suggest someone else we should approach, let us know at: editor@nyra.nyc. Click here for the survey results from our registration form, and click here for the background on the event itself.
Or perhaps you’re looking to contribute a piece about something entirely different—either way, we encourage you to share your thoughts. The week ahead is teeming with noteworthy (online) events, from lectures and panels featuring Peter Eisenman, Deborah Berke, Neri & Hu, Grafton Architects, Jennifer Newsom, and more. Michael Stone-Richards delves into negation and disavowal in spatial politics, James Wines explores the capacity of architecture and public space to become sources of critical socio-political commentary, and Jorge Otero-Pailos ponders experimental modes of preservation. It’s a line-up ripe with ideas for further engagement.
-Alex Klimoski
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Articles of interest
Is it safe indoors? Olga Khazan at the Atlantic has some answers.
Oliver Wainwright talks to architects about how working from home has, in many cases, in fact allowed bosses to become much more abusive.
For a long read, Sara Steven’s digs into the psyche of developers, in her article on Aggregate, “Just-So Stories in Real Estate History, or, How the Apartment Tower Got Its Glass Skin.”
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Normally Major October Happenings of Interest
Archtober. Literally almost continuous virtual events. How is that going?
Open House New York. Was this weekend. The whole idea is to go into places that are not normally open - how did that work out?
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Events!
10/19 | MONDAY
The Architecture of Place: Florida, Atlanta, and Al Ain with Scott Merrill
1:00pm | ICAA
Building of the Day: Noguchi Museum Renovation
1:00 pm | AIA New York
Sciame Series: Alexia León
5:30 pm | Spitzer
Los Angeles LGBT Center by Leong Leong
6:00 pm | AIA New York
J. Phillip Thompson with Weiping Wu
6:00 pm | GSAPP
Lateness with Stan Allen, Deborah Berke, Peter Eisenman, Elisa Iturbe, Caroline Ann O'Donnell, Nicolai Ouroussoff, and Sarah Whiting
6:30 pm | YSoA
10/20 | TUESDAY
RIBA + VitrA Talk: Neri & Hu
2:15 pm | RIBA
Current Work: Grafton Architects
1:00 pm | Architectural League of New York
10/21 | WEDNESDAY
Lecture with Albert Pope
12:00 pm | UCLA
Bethune Lecture: Jennifer Newsom
6:00 pm | University of Buffalo
Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Politics with Michael Stone-Richards
6:00 pm | Rice
Alvar Aalto, Ernst Neufert, and the Politics of Standardization in Times of War
6:00 pm | NYIT
French Enlightenment to the Beginnings of Modernism
5:30 pm | ICAA
10/22 | THURSDAY
Rethinking Concrete: Material Conventions in the Anthropocene
9:00 am | Princeton
Moving Rooms: Reimagining Housing through the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) with De Peter Yi
12:00 pm | Rice
James Wines: Archi-Protest, the Role of Buildings in Social Change
5:15 pm | Cornell AAP
Black Material Culture in the Round with Charles David II
6:00 pm | MIT
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Nasser Rabbat, “History’s Currency: The Afterlife of al-Maqrizi’s Khitat”
6:30 pm | Harvard GSD
Experimental Preservation with Jorge Otero-Pailos
6:30 pm | GSAPP
10/23 | FRIDAY
Displacement and Zoning with Sam Stein
1:00 pm | GSAPP
+ MADE IT TO THE END BONUS: New York’s Department of Building’s 2017 elevator report. A classic.
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