What if energy performance is as political as it is technical?
What if energy performance is as political as it is technical?
In a climate crisis, shouldn’t every option be on the table? In an emergency, shouldn’t we be ready to overhaul laws, economies and the built environment? What kind of city and what kind of public could this create?
Erik Carver is an architectural designer and artist based in New York City. He has worked individually on residential and institutional design, co-founded collaborative groups—Advanced Architecture, common room, and Seru. He teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Erik received a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree from University of California San Diego.
www.ecarver.comJanette Kim is an architectural designer and educator based in New York City. She is principal of All of the Above, an architectural research and design practice, and teaches at Barnard College and Columbia University GSAPP, where she is director of the Urban Landscape Lab. Kim holds a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. contact
www.urbanlandscapelab.orgLeah Meisterlin is a founding partner of Pre-Office, and an adjunct associate research scholar at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. She is a map designer and geographic information systems specialist. Leah received her M.ARCH. in 2009 and her M.S. in urban planning in 2006 from Columbia University, where she received the William Kinne Travelling Fellowship and the Charles Abrams Urban Planning Thesis Prize.
http://www.leahmeisterlin.com/Momo Araki is a Master of Architecture candidate at Columbia University GSAPP. Momo worked on Underdome research in the winter of 2010. He is also actively involved in the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University GSAPP.
Kyle is an M. Arch. Candidate at Columbia in his second year. His previous work includes strategic planning for large healthcare systems, and designing unexpected opportunities to expose science to the public. He has worked as an architect with NBBJ, and as a researcher with Studio-X. He is interested in reactive, feedback-driven architecture, and delivering unconventional education to the public.
Standish will be receiving her BA from the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of architecture with a minor in History and Society. She has worked for Openshop Studio, Aniphase, Acconci Studio, and as a research assistant for Harvard University. She enjoys time in the kitchen, getting produce from the Co-op, fixing bicycles, and tending to her night blooming cereus plant.
Jake Matatyaou is a Master of Architecture candidate at Columbia University’s GSAPP. In 2008 he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Motivated by exchanges across the disciplines of philosophy, politics, art, and architecture, Jake’s theoretical interests and political concerns converge toward questions of artistic production and reception.
George Valdes is in his second year as an M.Arch Candidate at Columbia University GSAPP and has a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University. He has worked for ArquitectonicaGeo on various projects including Herzog and De Meuron's design for the new Miami Art Museum. He has also collaborated on various projects with Monad Architects and is currently working with PIEstudio on a new exhibition space in the Miami Science Museum. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA and at the 5th European Biennal of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona. His on going interest on the historical production of desire focuses on the feedback loops that exist between culture, technology and the built environment.
Benjamin Weinryb Grohsgal is currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a Fulbright Fellow researching housing and aid initiatives. He has spent the past couple of years in New York City, India, and Hawaii pursuing related interests including contributing research to the Underdome project. He graduated with a B.A in Architecture from Columbia University in 2008.
The Van Alen Institute is an independent nonprofit architectural organization whose mission is to promote inquiry into the processes that shape the design of the public realm. Underdome is supported by the Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship 2010.
www.vanalen.orgStudio-X New York is an extension of The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University located in downtown Manhattan and dedicated to collaborative research, exhibitions, publications and public programming. All Studio-X events are free and open to the public.
www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/An inter-disciplinary applied research group at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation focused on the role of design in urban ecosystems.
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