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EXPERIENCE
2009 – present Journalist and critic, Abitare,
Architect’s Newspaper, Brownstoner, 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
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
An Engineer Builds the Net-Zero Passive House of His Dreams in West Vancouver, Dwell, April 2, 2020.
Countryside, unnatural nature: At the Guggenheim in New York, we are posed some unsettling questions by the exhibition that Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal have devoted to the countryside, Abitare, March 20, 2020.
Neri Oxman's Art and Matter, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 435, March 2020.
8 Black Designers Whose Socially Impactful Work Challenges the Status Quo, Dwell, February 18, 2020.
The oracular visions of Agnes Denes are on display at The Shed, Architect's Newspaper, February 7, 2020.
Accessibility by the Book: The Case of Hunters Point Library, Oculus, Winter 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, January 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 Times, Aug. 29,
2006.
“Near No Man's Land, a Quest for Unity and Peace.” New York Times, 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
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
I Won’t Go Back:
Art, Architecture, and Capital Flows in the Ruins of New York, 1956–1989. (forthcoming)
"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.
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
