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Get It Together
A virtual lecture from Anda French and Jenny French
Co-founders, French 2D
Thursday, October 8th 6:00pm on Facebook Live   Anda French (@andafrench) and Jenny French (@jennyfrancais) are co-founders of French 2D (@french2d), an award-winning practice deeply engaged with local issues of collectivity, housing, public space, history, and identity. Anda and Jenny’s interest in hybrid models that exist between practice and academia has been the catalyst for their practice-based research and advocacy.  French 2D’s work on housing and mixed-use projects combines ideas of domesticity with more radical organizations and typologies. French 2D works on civic installations, interactive exhibitions, and objects that bring people together around familiar rituals with unfamiliar rules of engagement. These projects include dinner party happenings, curious tea sets, building-scale drawings, and super-graphic dresses.  French 2D was named as an Architectural Record Design Vanguard winner (2019) and received a 2020 P/A Award from Architect Magazine for Bay State Commons Cohousing. The firm has been featured in numerous publications, including Domus, Metropolis, and The Architect’s Newspaper, and as Architect Magazine's Next Progressives. The firm was a MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program finalist, and has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Jenny is an Assistant Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Anda is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture. She serves on the Board of the Boston Society for Architecture (AIA Boston), and has co-chaired the BSA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force since 2018.       Lecture made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund. The School of Architecture, Princeton University, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria. Members of the AIA can log credits for this event by completing the form on the SoA website. Photo: @johnahorner.

The School of Architecture at Princeton University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in the area of the history and theory of architecture. For more information and to apply, visit our website at soa.princeton.edu. Application deadline is October 23, 2020. Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is subject to the University's background check policy. [Photo by @paul_warchol].

TONIGHT, 9/21 The Kassler Lecture On Solitude A virtual lecture from Darell Wayne Fields 6:00pm on Facebook Live   Darell Fields is an accomplished teacher, designer, scholar, author, and inventor. He has taught design, urbanism and theory at several universities, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, California College of the Arts (San Francisco), and the University of California Berkeley. His design/artistic work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture (Pittsburgh), CentralTrak (Dallas), and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has lectured at symposia sponsored by the CCA/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (co-sponsored), Yale University, and the Carpenter Center of Visual Arts at Harvard University. His book, Architecture in Black, is described by the philosopher, Cornel West, as “... the first theoretical treatment of race in architectural discourse.” He has edited traditional monographs on architects (e.g. Carlos Jimenez and Tadao Ando), served as editor of Harvard GSD’s Studio Works catalogue, and is a founding editor of Appendx: Culture, Theory, Praxis, an avant-garde publication featuring architectural theory, Afro-American Studies, feminism, and literary theory. As an inventor Fields launched an innovative research and development company (Superbia) using cutting edge digital production and rapid prototyping techniques to design, manufacture, and test sustainable building technologies. Fields’s professional work includes the 18,000 sf. conceptualization and design of the W.E.B. Du Bois institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Most recently, the Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon (w/ ABC, Portland) explores Field’s Black aesthetic principles in built form. The 3,500 sf. project opened in fall 2019.    Lecture made possible by the Kenneth Kassler Memorial Lecture Fund. The School of Architecture, Princeton University, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria.

Participant / Observer A virtual lecture from Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore Principals and Co-founders, Interboro Thursday, September 17th, 6:30pm Stream on: Facebook Live   @interboropartners is a Brooklyn and Detroit-based firm known for developing inventive and inclusive architecture, urban design and planning projects. The foundation of Interboro’s work is good listening, keen observation, and productive engagement. Interboro’s projects range from short-term activation tactics to long-term neighborhood, city, and regional plans. The firm has won many national and international awards, including the Architectural League’s League Prize and Emerging Voices Award, MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Prize, and most recently a 2020 AIA Award for Regional and Urban Design. In 2014, Interboro led one of the winning teams in the Federal Rebuild By Design competition. Interboro’s book The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion was published in 2017, and will be out in second edition later this year.   Lecture made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund. The School of Architecture, Princeton University, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria. Members of the AIA can log credits for this event by emailing courtney.coffman@princeton.edu.   The lecture recording will be available on the SoA Vimeo channel following the event.

“American Architecture" as a Settler Colonial Project A virtual lecture from Charles Davis Thursday, September 10th, 6:00pm Zoom registration on website. Charles L. Davis II (@cldavis_ii) is an assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His book manuscript, Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (University of Pittsburgh, 2019) traces the historical integrations of race and style theory in paradigms of “architectural organicism,” or movements that modeled design on the generative principles of nature. He is co-editor of Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment (University of Pittsburgh Press). His current book project, tentatively entitled “Black By Design: An Interdisciplinary History of Making in Modern America” recovers the contributions of black artists in shaping the built environment from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter. He has published articles and essays in multiple venues, including Architectural Research Quarterly, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Harvard Design Magazine, Log, and Aggregate. This research has been supported by grants from the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina. Lecture made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund. The School of Architecture, Princeton University, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria. Members of the AIA can log credits for this event by emailing courtney.coffman@princeton.edu. Zoom attendance is limited to 300 participants. The lecture recording will be available on the SoA Vimeo channel following the event.

Following the dean's recent statement in support of radically rethinking licensure, @Archinect recently connected with Ponce de León to discuss the significant barriers to access created by licensure as currently designed, her efforts to bring diversity to the faculty and student populations at Princeton School of Architecture, and how licensure might change moving forward. Please click the link in bio to read the interview.

Hearing the Call for Structural Change https://soa.princeton.edu/content/Hearing-the-Call-for-Structural-Change

Cakes for Sale (@_cakesforsale_) Esra Durukan (@esradrkan) Advisors: Michael Meredith (@mmmosarchitects) + Sylvia Lavin (@exhibitionmodels) Hi! Welcome to CakeTV. CakeTV is a cooking show for cakes of architecture. It is also a place for conversations, learning from cakes and from each other. You can bake anything that looks like a monument from Victor Emmanuel II to a John Hejduk structure. Please check out our drawing sets, bake one and send it to us. Don't forget to subscribe, give us a like and share. From the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition, UnBuilding Building (unbuildingbuilding.princeton.edu). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Follow @just________v    @imadethat_ @superarchitects @Princeton

The (other) Shed Kyle Weeks (@weeks9798) Advisor: Monica Ponce de Leon (@mpdlstudio) The (other) Shed is a project about the role of specificity in architecture when designing for public space with a shifting identity and purpose. Rather than being about temporality and changeability, this project strives to create permanence and stability while leaving room for an evolution of program and activity to occur; a condition best described as fixed, but flexible. From the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition, UnBuilding Building (unbuildingbuilding.princeton.edu). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Follow @just________v    @imadethat_ @superarchitects @Princeton

Theatrical Urbanism Olga Zakharova (@olyaayloz) Advisor: Cameron Wu Seeing the city through the lens of theater and time is an effective way of comprehending an urban setting. This project is centered on a proposal for an open air heritage center located on the waterfront area in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. The design is an example of outdoor theatrical urbanism that conceptually extends and bifurcates Metropolitan Avenue, which visually connects Brooklyn to Manhattan and draws the viewer’s attention to the area’s industrialized past. From the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition, UnBuilding Building (unbuildingbuilding.princeton.edu). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Follow @just________v @imadethat_ @superarchitects @Princeton

Seam Houses Sarah Etaat (@sarah_etaat) Advisor: Stan Allen Seam Houses looks at the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) in Los Angeles, and proposes to adapt existing detached garages into homes through a series of parts. By foregrounding that buildings are an assembly of parts, this project uses the logic of seams to explore the condition of adding something new to something old. From the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition, UnBuilding Building (unbuildingbuilding.princeton.edu). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Follow @just________v @imadethat_ @superarchitects @Princeton

A Porous Poche Catherine Ahn (@aanaanse) Advisor: Paul Lewis (@ltlarchitects) This thesis investigates forms of excess, heaviness, and porous thickness, made possible by the current surplus of low-quality concrete and brick rubble. Sited along the edge of a decommissioned landfill in Jamaica Bay, Queens, the project proposes an expansive field of pixelated rubble structures, which reclaim an abandoned waterfront for community activities and formalize the unconscious act of dumping for the creation of habitable spaces. From the 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition, UnBuilding Building (unbuildingbuilding.princeton.edu). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Follow @just________v @imadethat @superarchitects @Princeton