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EXPERIENCE

2019 – present      Book author & editor, Actar, Axiomatic Editions, Cahiers d’Art, Goff Books, and Lars Müller Publishers

2009 – present       Journalist and critic, Abitare, Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Metropolis, Oculus

2012 – present       President, Amplifier Inc.

2011 – 2016          Founder & Executive Director, Flint Public Art Project

2003 & 2012         Lecturer, The New School, Parsons School of Design

2000 – 2008          Associate Editor, Writer, and Researcher, Metropolis

EDUCATION               

1997 – 1999          New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, Liberal Studies, Master of Arts

1995 – 1996          Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). Cours de Formation Phonétique et Pédagogique Pour Etrangers           

1990 – 1994          Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Bachelor of Arts, Honors 

SELECTED JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

“Gardener of the Megacity: At Lake Texcoco Ecological Park in Mexico City, Iñaki Echeverria tests large-scale solutions for stormwater mitigation and improving biodiversity using modest natural tools,” Architect's Newspaper, July/Aug. 2025.

“Passive House Public Schools: PS 456/KGIA,” Metals in Construction, Vol. 22, 2025.

“The Legend of Avant-Garde Architecture and the Rise of the Market-Fundamentalist City,” A + U, July 2025.

“Small Offices, Big Ideas: The small offices spotlighted here demonstrate that you don’t need a large staff to make a big impact,” Oculus, Summer 2025.

“These Students are Reclaiming Community Through Experimental Design: Future100 award–winning student projects reimagine what nurtures society—and what the traditional housing market neglects,” Metropolis, Jun. 11, 2025.

“These Architecture Students Explore the Healing Power of Water: Design projects centered on water promote wellness, celebrate infrastructure, and reconnect communities with their environment,” Metropolis, Jun. 6, 2015.

“The Foundation Is Also the Floor at This Shedlike $1.1M Hudson Valley Retreat: An energy-efficient home in an apple orchard with views of the Catskills,” Dwell, Feb. 14, 2025.

“A South Florida Park Gets a Raymond Jungles Makeover: The redesign of a Palm Beach park will spread the word on native plants,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Nov. 6, 2024.

“Living in the Moment,” Interviews with Ya-Ting Liu and Vishaan Chakrabarti, Oculus, Fall 2024.

“This Leafy Green Garden Dwelling in India Has an Endless Pool: Studio Dashline designs a lush home for a family in Gwalior,” Dwell, Aug. 19, 2024.

“Man on Fire: Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology at WhiteBox,” Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Aug. 8, 2024.

“Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our baskerville? With its tight environmental targets, redevelopment of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing for athletes, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city,” Metropolis, Jul. 24, 2024.

“Doubletalk on Double Site: Mary Miss has filed an injunction against the Des Moines Art Center to protect her work,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jul. 18, 2024.

“The Sponge Evangelist: With the biennial Oberlander Prize in hand, Turenscape’s Kongjian Yu wants to expand the global profile of landscape architecture,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Feb. 29, 2024.

“Before & After: In Mérida, a Blocky ’80s Home Turns Over a New Leaf: FMT Estudio gives a stark and dated dwelling a playful renovation that embraces the sunny climate,” Dwell, Jan. 10, 2024.

“Milwaukee’s WaterMarks Initiative Builds a Community Connection to Water,” Metropolis, Dec. 21, 2023.

“Geometries of Light: Studio Rex's Perelman Performing Arts Center has a set of theaters using cutting edge technology,” Abitare 629, Nov. 2023.

“Neo-Deco: The extension of Buffalo's art museum, the Gundlach Building designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematscu, is a brightly lit polyhedral pavilion inspired by the glass structures of the turn of the 19th century. Its attractive form conveys a sense of openness and inclusiveness,” Abitare 628, Oct. 2023.

“Community-Led Development,” The State of Housing Design 2023, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2023.

“Tom Lee Park Mixes It Up in Memphis: Located on the Mississippi River waterfront, the park is part of a plan to help different classes, communities, and histories commingle,” Metropolis, Oct. 18, 2023.

“A Designer and Her Filmmaker Boyfriend Make Their Brooklyn Loft Feel Like a Showroom: Kiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli evoke a southern European feel that reflects the couple’s roots,” Dwell, Sep. 12, 2023.

“Designing Schools, Building Communities: Building schools to meet New York City’s booming student population pushes the limits of project-delivery capabilities as construction costs continue to multiply. Amid logistical challenges, architects and officials still reach for the intangible, delivering spaces designed to last for years and provide a sense of community for children and neighbors,” Oculus, Summer 2023.

“Documenting Activist Design: Art Omi revisited urban interventions with a display of work from four architecture collaboratives,” The Architect's Newspaper, Jul. 20, 2023.

"Seeing the Daylight: Following 25 Years of Advocacy, New York City Will Uncover a Buried Stream in the Bronx," Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jun. 2023.

“Grand Junction Glow-Up: Land Collective and HWKN complete a park in Westfield, Indiana, that supports the lives of residents,” The Architect's Newspaper, Jun. 30, 2023.

“Reinventing Dealey Plaza: Mark Lamster, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, and MPdL Studio offer a new public terrain for downtown Dallas that addresses its violent past,” The Architect's Newspaper, Jun. 28, 2023.

“Manufacturing Home: At CCNY, Mass Support documented the work of SAR, led by John Habraken, and displayed alternate forms of housing,” The Architect's Newspaper, May 30, 2023.

“Before & After: Elegant Arches and Curves Shape Up a Fusty Paris Flat: The apartment had potential with windows looking over the city’s biggest green space, so a young couple traded out its old rugs, wallpaper, and tight floor plan,” Dwell, May 23, 2023.

“Sorkin’s Stacks: The Spitzer School of Architecture preserves the library of Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform Urban Research in the Sorkin Reading Room,” The Architect's Newspaper, May 22, 2023.

“Budget Breakdown: Hate Your Gable-Sided Home? Shield It: A strategic renovation with a striated facade helps a New Orleans homeowner meld his modern ambitions with his more historic home,” Dwell, May 9, 2023.

“A Resonant Retrofit: Beyer Blinder Belle builds a contemporary theater behind a historic facade for La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club,” The Architect's Newspaper, Apr. 4, 2023.

“A Ribbon of Red Seating Ties Together a Sublime Concrete Home in India: A Bangalore couple build a simple, sustainable getaway in the city’s relaxed, leafy south side so that they can spend weekends close to their parents,” Dwell, Apr. 3, 2023.

“Majora Carter and STUDIO V to transform a 1908 Cass Gilbert train station for Bronxlandia, an event and performance space,” The Architect's Newspaper, Feb. 24, 2023.

“Land of the Free Market: Zaha Hadid Architects is building a libertarian metaverse whose vision of the future looks remarkably similar to our current reality,” Outland, Feb. 24, 2023.

“Beyond Accommodation: Architects Are Learning that Physical Design Solutions Are Only Part of the Answer,” Oculus, Winter 2023.

“Investigation into the Future of Offices,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Jan. 2023.

“Eagle + West: OMA's New Zigzagging Towers in Brooklyn,” Abitare, Jan. 2023.

“On the Cosmological Implications of Early Galaxies for Architecture,” Domus, Jan. 2023.

“Montreal’s Darlington Corridor Grows, Gradually,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Dec. 2022.

“OPEN Architecture’s Li Hu speaks about the office’s recent cultural projects in China,” Architect's Newspaper, Dec. 21, 2022.

“A Pair of Shipping Container Homes Trace the Edges of a Nature Preserve in India,” Dwell, Oct. 31, 2022.

“A Park in Progress: Marsha P. Johnson was a hero in the Black trans community. Will the park designed in her honor earn the same admiration?” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Oct. 28, 2022.

“David Geffen Hall Fixes Decades of Architectural Missteps,” Metropolis, Oct. 11, 2022.

“The Rec Center Reimagined: How Cities are Designing for Wellness,” Metropolis, Oct. 10, 2022.

“DS+R Prior Performing Arts Center is designed as a public commons,” Wallpaper, Oct. 5, 2022.

“Lesley Lokko and the African Futures Institute, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui,” Sep. 2022.

“BDG Redesigns a Detroit Power Plant for the World’s Largest Ad Agency,” Metropolis, Aug. 15, 2022.

“This Azure ADU Is an L.A. Teen’s Home (Slightly) Away From Home,” Dwell, Jul. 25, 2022.

“Brotherhood Sister Sol: In West Harlem, Urban Architectural Initiatives makes architecture for social change,” Oculus, Summer 2022.

“The Pipeline: Are Employers' Needs Being Met by Architecture Schools?” Oculus, Summer 2022.

 “For the Birds, now on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, explores biodiversity through architect-designed follies,” The Architect's Newspaper, Jul. 11, 2022.

“Achille Boroli, Between the Mountains and the Sea,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui: 449, Jun. 2022.

“Steven Holl’s Architectural Archive Preserves His Firm’s Designs and the Landscape,” Metropolis, Jun. 22, 2022.

“The Adams administration promises it will make improvements in New York’s built environment—only it isn’t ready to talk about any of it,” The Architect's Newspaper, Jun. 2, 2022.

“A Streamlined Boathouse Perches Above the Water in the San Juan Islands,” Dwell, May 27, 2022.

“A Design-Savvy Couple Turn a Worn-Down Brownstone into a Minimalist Home,” Dwell, Apr. 18. 2022.

“Future100: These Students Channel Personal Narrative into Supportive Housing,” Metropolis, Apr. 8, 2022.

“A Creative Couple’s Long Island Beach House ‘Bubbles’ With Life,” Dwell, Apr. 7, 2022.

“New Affiliates Design Exhibitions that Expand the Imagination,” Metropolis, Mar. 25, 2022.

“A Sure Vet: How the technical review process holds design to a higher standard,” Oculus, Spring 2022.

“A Dilapidated Dublin Home Gets a Playful Addition With an Indoor Swing,” Dwell, Mar. 18, 2022.

"Remembering the expansive legacy of Srdjan Jovanović Weiss," The Architect's Newspaper, Mar. 11, 2022.

“Moscow’s Strelka Institute pauses operations, possibly permanently,” The Architect's Newspaper, Mar. 8, 2022.

“These Tiny Prefab Cabins Can Be Wheeled into Place to Create Entire Resorts,” Dwell, Feb. 1, 2022. 

“Before & After: A Design-Savvy Couple Turn a Worn-Down Brownstone into a Minimalist Home,” Dwell, Jan. 2022.

“Live/Work/Space, Artists’ Studios 2010–2021 at University of Massachusetts Amherst,” Design Building Gallery, Nov. 9–Dec. 10, 2021. 

“On Observing the Hyper-Local and Making Planetary Policy,” Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Nov. 2, 2021. 

“The Futures of Urban Planning: Interview with Efe Ogbeide from Helsinki-based urban planning office FEMMA Planning.,” Withstanding podcast, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Nov. 2, 2021. 

“Once Upon a Time in the Far Far West: Sears Mail-Order Homes in the U.S.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Sep. 2021. 

“Licensure on the Line: After years of political attacks, the design professions are uniting to protect against threats to professional licensure,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Sep. 2021. 

“IPAL: A More Equitable Journey to Licensing,” Oculus, Summer 2021. 

“Exhibit Columbus Opened This Week in Indiana,” Architectural Record, Aug. 27, 2021.

“World-Making: The reactionary, backward-looking narrowing of possibilities in America during the last four years–amplified beyond reason by the pandemic–clarified an urgency to rethink another planetary future. And it is being nourished largely by architects and designers living and working in the US who originate from everywhere else around the globe,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, July 2021.

“A 1960s Time Capsule in Spain Gets the Bachelor Pad Treatment,” Dwell, June 25, 2021.

“An Architect’s 1950s Barcelona Flat Pops with Geometric Color,” Dwell, June 10, 2021.

“An Architect’s Weekend Home Along the French Riviera Borrows Stones from Ancient Ruins,” Dwell, May 11, 2021. 

"Maggie's Centres in the UK since 1996," L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 441, February 2021. 

"A Hill with a House on the Top: MAD Architects Gardenhouse," Abitare, Jan. 3, 2021

"Beyond a Broken System: The closure of Rikers Island," Oculus, Winter 2021.

"Reform from the Inside: Bronx Community Solutions," Oculus, Winter 2021.

“Variations on a Scheme: A Pair of Musicians Interpret a Nebraska Architect’s Design to Build their New Zealand Home,” Dwell, Jan./Feb. 2021.

“Speculative Twists: Studio Gang's MIRA Tower in San Francisco,” Abitare, Dec. 2020.

“A Temple among the Clouds: Tadao Ando's Manhattan Penthouse,” Abitare, October 2020.

“What Historically Low Mortgage Rates Spell for Homebuyers in 2020 and Beyond,” Dwell, Sep. 22, 2020.

“Out of the Blue: An Eccentric Pop of Color Lends Personality to an Otherwise Understated House in Los Angeles,” Dwell, Sep./Oct. 2020

“An Abandoned Stone Quarry in Spain Becomes a Sublimely Minimalist Home,” Dwell, Sep. 10, 2020.

“How Blockbusting and Real Estate Profiteers Cash In on Racial Tension,” Dwell, Aug. 13, 2020.

“A Los Angeles Bungalow Opens to a Gorgeous Garden Oasis,” Dwell, Aug. 12, 2020.

“Public Transportation in Crisis,” Oculus, Summer 2020.

“21 Resources on Redlining’s Role in Cementing the American Wealth Gap,” Dwell, Jun. 4, 2020.

“A Polygonal Refuge Takes Root in the Hills of Los Angeles,” Dwell, May 11, 2020.

“An Architect’s Beach House Brings California Surfer Vibes to Chigasaki,” Japan, Dwell, Apr. 30, 2020.

“An Engineer Builds the Net-Zero Passive House of His Dreams in West Vancouver,” Dwell, Apr. 2, 2020.

“Countryside, unnatural nature: At the Guggenheim in New York, we are posed unsettling questions by the exhibition that Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal devoted to the countryside,” Abitare, Mar. 20, 2020. 

“With Just $7K, a Creative Duo Transform a Melbourne Warehouse into a Cheerful Home and Studio,” Dwell, Mar. 17, 2020. 

“Neri Oxman's Art and Matter,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 435, Mar. 2020.

“8 Black Designers Whose Socially Impactful Work Challenges the Status Quo,” Dwell, Feb. 18, 2020.

“The Oracular Visions of Agnes Denes are on Display at The Shed,” Architect's Newspaper, Feb. 7, 2020. 

“Accessibility by the Book: The Case of Hunters Point Library,” Oculus, Winter 2020. 

“Before & After: A Punchy Perforated Screen Fills This Vancouver Apartment With Light,” Dwell, Jan. 28, 2020.

“A Community of Eco-Friendly Cottages Pops Up in Massachusetts: Modeled after New England barns and surrounding a shared garden, these sustainable homes form a forward-thinking co-housing community,” Dwell, Jan. 17, 2020. 

“Budget Breakdown: A Gloomy Apartment in Israel Does a Full 180 for $115K,” Dwell, Jan. 4, 2020. 

“Long-Term Plans: Moving away from its exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.” Metropolis, Dec. 2019.

“Design for Aging in the Big Apple: No Picnic.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 434, Dec. 2019.

“A Social Sculpture: Designed by Steven Holl, Hunters Point Library is a work of sculpture as well as an example of great civic architecture.” Abitare, Dec., 2019.

“MoMA and PS1's Young Architects Program is going on hiatus.” Architect's Newspaper, Nov. 22, 2019.

“Rikers replacement process begins as New York issues RFPs.” Architect's Newspaper, Nov. 19, 2019.

“Extinction Rebellion sinks a house in Thames for climate protest.” Architect's Newspaper, Nov. 19, 2019.

“the_shed_is_a_shack pokes fun at Hudson Yards.” Architect's Newspaper, Nov. 18, 2019.

“City Council approves controversial East Side flood protection plan.” Architect's Newspaper, Nov. 15, 2019.

“Is Torkwase Dyson's abstract recount of racial violence a missed opportunity?” Architect's Newspaper, Oct. 21, 2019.

“Inclusivity and Economic Development Emerge as Top Themes at Detroit Month of Design.” Metropolismag.com, Sep. 30, 2019.

“Cultural capital: the ongoing regeneration of Algiers' Casbah.” Architectural Review, September, 2019. 

“Beyond the Croton Aqueduct: A Story of New York City Water.” Brownstoner.com, August 16, 2019.

“Design Cities 2019: Algiers, Algeria: Amid political turmoil both past and present, the Algerian capital is ready for a new start.” Metropolis, July 2019. 

“Phil Freelon: Architect for Social Equity, The renowned founder of eponymous studio left major legacy of built works, community engagement, and advocacy.” Metropolis, July 12, 2019. 

“This Year’s MoMA PS1 YAP Summer Pavilion Takes on Real Estate and the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Metropolismag.com, July 1, 2019.

“Housing, Not Including: 10 Policies to Make Rent Affordable for Low- to Middle-Income Households.” Oculus, Summer 2019. 

“A Shed for Everybody: Launched in April on the edge of the High Line, the huge facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro returns culture to a neighborhood where inflationary private property exploded in the past years.” Abitare, June 2019. 

“Woodland Skills: A pair of eco-minded architects build a house on a platform in the Catkills watershed.” Dwell, May/ June 2019. 

“Disrupting Anomie: Toward a cell phone etiquette for public space.” Roca Gallery, June 4, 2019.

“Design for Dignity: The true extent of the homeless crisis isn’t visible on the streets. Here’s how architects are working to address it.” Oculus, Winter 2019.

“Resilient New York: How the landscape is changing as its interface with the water is softened and it returns to some extent to its origins.” Abitare, January 2019.

“Other Voices, Other Worlds: Prompted by dire ecological effects, a number of artists and architects embrace a ‘posthuman’ worldview.” Art in America, Dec. 2018. 

“Waterfront Rising: In recent decades, New York's historically hardworking shoreline has transformed to redefine the city for the 21st century.” Oculus, Summer, 2018.

“Designing a Russian Public: The new Zaryadye Park, a brainchild of the nonprofit Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, represents a growing wave of public-private initiatives transforming Moscow’s current cityscape and urban planning goals.” Art in America, May, 2018.

“Warehouse Modernism: Brooklyn’s East River waterfront is defining itself in unexpected ways.” Architect's Newspaper, Apr. 30, 2018.

“Game of Spheres: Near Steven Holl’s holiday home is the guesthouse where the architect accommodates young artists in residency: a pavilion inspired by Peter Sloterdijk’s research into the metaphorical implications of spherical forms.” Abitare, April, 2018.

"Repairing the World Through Performance: Michael Rakowitz’s Radio Silence." Radio Silence: A Postcast and Radio Series Conceived by Michael Rakowitz, 2018.

“Soft Power in Moscow: An Expansive Park at the Foot of the Kremlin Helped Drive a Series of Revolutionary Improvements to the Russian Capital.” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Apr. 2018.

“A Loving Portrait of Fame, Fraud, and Disco at Studio 54: An infamous disco club brought down by excess redeemed by its embrace of diversity, sexual liberation, and sense of community.” Hyperallergic, Feb. 7, 2018.

“A Yayoi Kusama Documentary Tracks a Life in Polka Dots: Kusama–Infinity spotlights both the artist’s radically successful career and how art can be a method of healing.” Hyperallergic, Feb. 2, 2018.

“The Collective Imagination: Throughout Europe, youthful architecture and design collectives take DIY approach to challenges—not least, the refugee crisis.” Art in America, Dec. 2017.

“A Tower Like a Toy: The new luxury residential tower block designed by Herzog & de Meuron in New York’s TriBeCa district, which has something vaguely reminiscent of a children’s game about it, skilfully satisfies complex system of rules governing the city’s property market. Abitare, Dec. 2017.

“New York Values: NYCHA’s new guidelines for rehabilitation of public housing push for sustainability and preservation.” Architect's Newspaper, May 26, 2017.

“An Open Letter to AIA Executive Director Robert Ivy.” Common Edge, Jan. 20, 2017.

“Sink or Swim? Climate change displacement is becoming the new gentrification—here’s how to stop it." Architect's Newspaper, Dec. 6, 2016.

"Can Oakland’s underground spaces survive a rising real-estate tide?" Mic, Sep. 16, 2016.

"Give Me Liberty: Liberty Park successfully fills a critical role in the World Trade Center site." Architect's Newspaper, Aug. 24, 2016.

"Mountain Men: A group of artists and architects revisit the famed Black Mountain College." Architect's Newspaper, Sep. 27, 2016.

"Floating an Idea: Kickstarter campaign for a floating bridge from Brooklyn’s Red Hook to Governors." Architect's Newspaper, Apr. 26, 2016.

"Chinatown Revolt." Architect's Newspaper, Mar. 4, 2016.

“How to See Other People.” Infinite Mile: A Journal of Art + Culture(s) in Detroit, Feb. 2016.

“Flint Architects Find Water Crisis and Infrastructure Issues Create More Questions.” Curbed, Feb. 5, 2016.

 “Digging into Detroit’s Future: Ecological designers use agriculture and landscape to reclaim their city.” Architect’s Newspaper, October, 27, 2015.

“Where Can We Be? The Occupation of 123 Delancey Street.” Places Journal, August 2015.

“Poking at Power: New Parsons Exhibit Ridicules Power.” Architect’s Newspaper, Mar. 3, 2015.

“A Conspiracy of German Luxury Cars and Urbanism.” Architect’s Newspaper, Nov. 9, 2011.

Review: Industrial Strength: Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World by Catherine Tumber, Architect’s Newspaper, Sep. 29, 2011.

“Détournement, or the Misguided Oppositional Ideology of the College-Educated Urban Elite.” TARP Architecture Manual, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Spring, 2011.

“Government: Leadership Council: Five leading mayors talk about the challenges they face, the strengths of their cities, and their visions for the future.” Metropolis, Jan. 2011.

“Urban Intervention: The Syracuse Center of Excellence helps lay the foundation for the revitalization of a struggling Rust Belt city.” Metropolis, Nov. 2010.

 “Affordable Housing Complex: In New York City, a new model has emerged: privately developed mixed-income projects by prominent architects reach back into the sky.” Metropolis, Oct. 2008.

Review: Creative Time: The Book, Anne Pasternak and Ruth Peltason. Metropolis, Jun. 2007.

“A Pilgrimage Through the Balkans, Looking for Dots to Connect.” New York baskerville, Aug. 29, 2006.

“Near No Man's Land, a Quest for Unity and Peace.” New York baskerville, Jul. 23, 2005.

 “Lay of the Land: A new map of the West Bank reveals a troubling phenomenon—urban sprawl as human rights abuse.” Metropolis, Feb. 2003.

SELECTED PANELS, PRESENTATIONS & JURIES

Emily Harvey Foundation, ABC No Rio 45, A Fire in the Forest of Possibilities. Is ‘What If’ Now ‘What Was’? A Walk through the Utopian Loisaida Past and Present, “L.E.S. Ecosocialist Utopias,” Apr. 19. 2025. 

Center for Architecture, The Other 41: Mid-Rise Housing for a High-Rise City, Dec. 5, 2024.

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Joint Center for Housing Studies, The State of Housing Design 2023, Nov. 17, 2023.

White Box, Taller Boricua: From Art Workers Coalition through the Present, May 24, 2023.

PS122 Gallery, Summer School, Post-American World: Toward Planetary Governance, Aug. 5–7, 2022.

Hekler, Infrastructures of Care Symposium, “World-Making: Imagining a Well Cared for Planet,” presentation, Oct. 14, 2021. 

California College of the Arts, Design Futures Lab, “Designing an Infrastructure for a Non-Dystopian Future,” presenter, Jan. 28, 2021. 

Center for Architecture, AIA-NY, “Residential Architecture Now: Brooklyn,” moderator, Jan. 15, 2020.

Columbia GSAPP, “Accelerating the SDGs in Cities: Urban Thinkers Campus,” panelist, Nov. 13, 2019.

Museum of Modern Art, Algiers, “La Rencontre D'Alger (Meeting in Algiers): Towards a Disruptive (New) Urbanism,” panelist, Jan. 26, 2019.

University of Birmingham School of Languages, Cultures, Art History & Music, “Art, Architecture, and Capital Flows in the Ruins of New York,” presentation, May 30, 2018.

Venice Architecture Biennale, U.S. Pavilion: Dimensions of Citizenship. “Robot Citizens: Architecture and Social Responsibility Now,” moderator, May 27, 2018.

Columbia GSAPP, Speculative City Seminar, David Eugin Moon, “Art, Architecture, and Capital Flows in the Ruins of New York,” lecture, Apr. 20, 2018.

Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Design, "Public Agendas: How and Why Does Art Seize Agency in the Public Realm?" moderator, Apr. 2017.

Technical University Berlin, “Urban Narratives: Urban Heritage Activism,” presentation, Mar. 2017.

Storefront for Art and Architecture, “Armatures of Practice, Politics of Action,” panelist, Nov. 17, 2015.

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, “The Other Global University: Against Educational Apartheids: Forum on the Past, Present, and Future,” panelist, Nov. 6–7, 2015.

Mural Arts Program MuraLAB, Philadelphia, “Curating Creative Placemaking,” panelist, Apr. 13, 2015.

Wasan Island, “Civic Assets Project/ Reimagining the Civic Commons,” presentation, Aug. 13, 2014.

University of California San Diego, Kyong Park studio, presentation, spring, 2014.

Cornell University, “A Beautiful Ruin: The Generation that Transformed New York,” lecture, Spring, 2014.

NY State Council on the Arts, Architecture, Planning & Design, panelist, 2011–13.

CCNY School of Architecture, Denise Hofmann-Brandt studio, lecture, Oct. 20, 2011.

Columbia GSAPP, Studio X, "Not a Wasted Region," presentation, Oct. 11, 2011.

University of Michigan College of Architecture, “The Corporation, Architecture, & the City,” lecture, Oct. 2011.

BOOKS AND PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

A Beautiful Ruin: The Birth of Cultural Capital in Late-20th Century New York City (forthcoming)

Adventure, Boredom, and the Serious by Vladimir Jankélévitch, English translation from French [1963] (forthcoming).

Michael Bell and Eungeong Seung, 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds: Housing After Banking & Encrypting the Sun, ed. Stephen Zacks, Actar, Spring 2025.

G.H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse, ORO Editions, Spring 2022. 

 “The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema.” Black Camera 12, no. 2, Spring 2021. "Applied Urban Criticism: The Use of Influence for Advocacy and Production." ARPA Journal, Jan. 2018.

"Introduction: Real Estate Show," in Changes on the Fly, ed. Matthias Mayer, Catalog to the exhibition series, Spor Klübü, Berlin, 2017.

“Factory Town: Reports of the death of manufacturing in New York have been greatly exaggerated.” The New York 2030 Notebook, ed. Jeff Byles and Olympia Kazi. New York: Institute for Urban Design, 2008.

“Contested Territories: Interview with Eyal Weizman.” Else/ Where: Mapping, ed. Janet Abrams and Peter Hall. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

“The Art of Democracy.” Urban Art and Global Cities: An Experiment in Context, ed. Gerardo Mosquera and Adrienne Samos. Amsterdam: Kitt Publishers, 2004.

“La Haine, or Culture Wars in Paris and the Banlieues.” African Images: Recent Studies and Text in Cinema. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000.

“A Problematic Sign of African Difference in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Reassemblage.” African Cinema: Post-Colonial and Feminist Readings. Trenton, NY: Africa World Press, 1999.

“The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema.” African Cinema: Post-Colonial and Feminist Readings. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1999.

AWARDS

MacDowell Fellow, Dec. 2016

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Amplifier/ Flint Public Art Project, 2015–17

National Endowment for the Arts, Amplifier/ Flint Public Art Project, 2015–17

MacDowell Fellow, Dec. 2012

ArtPlace Creative Placemaking Grant, Flint Public Art Project, 2012 - 2013

Creative Capital |Warhol Foundation, Arts Writers Grant, 2012

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Production Grant, 2011

NY State Council on the Arts, Independent Projects Grant, Architecture, Planning and Design, 2010