Workshop: Revisioning Redhook

FACULTY

Borja Ferreter, Guest Professor Giovanni Santamaria

STUDENTS

Jay Patel Aleksandra Zatorska Sohui Noh Aditi Pancholi Gyeongok Noh Yuti Kothari Kaung Khant Younghoon Jeong Albert Monsanto Japheth Aleyakpo Matthew Garcia Carlos Matute Karen Guetat Himesh Patel Peggy Pena Harold Ramirez

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LECTURES & EXHIBITIONS

In 2019-2020, the School of Architecture and Design’s public program of lectures and events focused on a broad variety of critical issues and debates related to media, methods and making in architecture, interior design and urbanism. Prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, we hosted a series of inperson public lectures, roundtable panel discussions, book launches, and exhibitions featuring the work of SoAD faculty and students.

In September 2019, we kicked off our Fall Lecture Series with Billie Tsien’s lecture, Quieting the Noise, as the 2019-2020 Friends of the School of Architecture and Design Lecture, surveying the thoughtful and crafted work of her practice, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects. As a Book Launch for Urban Machines: Public Space in a Digital Culture, coedited by SoAD Associate Professor Marcella Del Signore and her co-editor, Gernot Riether, the SoAD hosted a panel discussion with guests Lance Jay Brown and Brian McGrath, and moderated by SoAD Professor Tom Verebes. This event focused on the role of information technology as a catalytic tool for expanding, augmenting and altering public and social interactions in public urban space. Borja Ferrater’s lecture, Between Materiality, Landscape and Light: Geometry, featured a series of diverse and globally distributed projects, by his office, Office of Architecture in Barcelona OAB. In a book launch for Buildings and Almost Buildings, Mimi Hoang’s lecture featured 28 built and unbuilt projects, across themes of ambiguity and incompleteness, and an understanding of architecture as armature. David Eugin Moon’s lecture highlighted the influence of the educational and cultural backgrounds of the partners in his practice, on the body of work of their office, NHDM. In the final lecture of the Fall semester, Jay Valgora presented projects by his office, Studio V Architecture, focusing on the transformation of post-industrial environments and abandoned industrial structures.

Spring Semester’s lecture series kicked off with Marc Fornes’ lecture, hosted at the Seversky Mansion on the Old Westbury campus, and focusing on THEVERYMANY’s pioneering work on polychromatic thin-shell pavilion structures. In his lecture, Foldable Structures and Materials, Joseph Choma explicated the mathematical and structural concepts and methods in his research and teaching. Prior to the transitioning of all activities in the SoAD to remote online modes as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, our final in-person lecturer in Spring 2020 was Rachel Armstrong, whose lecture presciently demonstrated how the invisible realm of a microbial lens of architecture can be the basis of an understanding of a metabolic architecture.

The first exhibition of the 2019-2020 academic year to have been mounted in the Education Hall Gallery was Automation in Design, curated by Pavlina Vardouli and Dustin White, which showcased students’ models and drawings from their co-taught course in Spring 2019, which was structured as a series of workshops exploring the potentials of automating design and production technologies. Charles Matz’ exhibition, Interior Futures, showcased his book of the same title, co-edited with Graeme Brooker, Harriet Harriss & Kevin Walker, as a survey of the frontiers of interior design, conceiving interiority as a temporal condition and the future as a destination. In Spring 2020, Professor Jon Michael Schwarting exhibited the archive of original large format hand drawings published in his important book, Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation. Prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, the final in-person exhibition in the Gallery was Four Short Stories About Hong Kong, by Professor Tom Verebes’ office, OCEAN CN, featuring photogrammetry models, photographic stills, and video, captured with drones in Hong Kong.

During the early weeks of the Covid-19 crisis, Dean Perbellini launched the Dean’s Discussion Series: Future Voices, organized and conceived together with Professor Tom Verebes, as a sequence of four online discussions between NYIT SoAD faculty and students. These impromptu events aimed to engage with the community of SoAD students on topics of immediate concern during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as to speculate upon the longer-term consequences of the pandemic upon disciplinary issues and professional practice.

Tom Verebes Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor Lectures and Events Committee Chair