BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:809@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261105T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261105T153000 DTSTAMP:20260817T172159Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/colloquium-why-housin g-matters/ SUMMARY:Colloquium: Why Housing Matters DESCRIPTION:Registration is forthcoming. \nThis in-person colloquium is pa rt of the exhibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Ce ntre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Publ ic Space\, "Design Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space".\nWhat defines “secure” housing today? Who has access to it\, and who is left out? H ow do policies and markets shape these conditions? What role can design pl ay in addressing displacement and affordability? And how might housing re spond to climate realities while remaining equitable? What would it mean t o treat housing as a right rather than a privilege? How can we imagine new models of living that support both individual dignity and collective well -being?\nIntroduction: Prof. Kaja Kuehl\n\nModerator: Prof. Laura Wainer\n \nPanelists (15-minute presentations):\n\nMimi Hoang\, Architect and Princ ipal\, nARCHITECTS\, New York\n\nJing Liu\, Architect and Principal\, SO-I L\, New York\n\nCassim Shepard\, Distinguished Lecturer\, Spitzer School o f Architecture\n\n\n\nProf. Kaja Kuehl (she/her) is Founding Principal at youarethecity\, a research and design practice based in Brooklyn\, NY.  K aja has extensive architecture\, urban design\, and planning experience fr om large-scale urban systems and policies to civic engagement and circular material practices. Her current research and design work on designing wit h biobased materials has been published and exhibited widely and is subjec t to many of her courses. Kaja received a Diploma in Architecture from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\, Germany and a M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University. She teaches seminars and design studios at Colum bia University and the City College of New York in addition to frequent wo rkshops in non-institutional settings.\n\nSuggested Reading: Kuehl\, Kaja\ , and Julie Behrens. “Spaces of Migration.” Architectural Design 88\, no. 2 (2018): 86–93 and Kuehl\, Kaja. “Housing as Carbon Storage.” I n Atlas for Regenerative Construction in the American Northeast\, 72–99. [New York]: youarethecity\, 2025.\n\nProf. Laura Wainer (she/her) studies how housing policy and design shape social and political life. An Argenti ne architect and urban planner\, she is Assistant Professor of Architectur e and Urbanism at the Bernard &\; Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, CCNY. In her forthcoming book she argues that housing is where democracy is made material: in who gets to own\, to stay\, to decide. More than twen ty years of applied design practice and collaborations with institutions s uch as the International Growth Centre at Oxford\, Habitat for Humanity\, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy taught her to translate in both d irections: to bring field evidence into scholarship\, and to make research legible to the people who actually build and govern cities. A Fulbright s cholar\, she holds a PhD from MIT.\n\nSuggested Reading: Adler\, Vanessa\, and Tatiana Vera\, eds. Housing: What's Next? From Thinking the Unit to B uilding the City. Washington\, DC: Inter-American Development Bank\, 2018 and Wainer\, Laura Sara\, Valeska Abarca\, Lorraine Colbert\, and Juan Jim enez Giraldo. Pathways to Home: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Ho using. New York: The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, The City College of New York\, 2025 and Wainer\, Laura Sara\, and Billy Ndeng eyingoma. Incremental Housing\, and Other Design Principles for Low-Cost H ousing. Project Report. London: International Growth Centre (IGC)\, Novemb er 2016 and Buckley\, Robert M.\, Achilles Kallergis\, and Laura Wainer. " The Emergence of Large-Scale Housing Programs: Beyond a Public Finance Per spective." Habitat International 54 (May 2016): 199–209.\n\nMimi Hoang\, FAIA\, NOMA (she/her)\, co-founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a bel ief in architecture as an agent of positive change that connects people an d environments in unexpected ways. Her work across civic and private realm s fosters engagement and is guided by an ambition to respond to changes in contemporary life – be it climate\, housing\, or affordability crises. Born in the tropics of Vietnam\, she brings a global outlook and an obsess ion with greening buildings to the firm’s ethos. Mimi received her M.Arc h from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her B.Sc. from M.I.T.  A rchitectural Record recently recognized her with a Women in Architecture D esign Leadership Award. nARCHITECTS received a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and an American Academy of Art s and Letters in Architecture Award.\n\nSuggested Reading: Canales\, Ferna nda. My House\, Your City: Privacy in a Shared World. Barcelona: Puente Ed itores\, 2024.\n\nJing Liu (she/her) has been practicing for more than 15 years\, working on a wide range of projects both in the US and abroad. Thr ough building practice and interdisciplinary research projects\, Liu has l ed SO–IL in the engagement with the socio-political issues of contempora ry cities — in projects like the Artists Loft North Omaha and the Martin Luther King\, Jr. Library in Cleveland. Her projects range from artistic collaborations with contemporary choreographers and visual artists to mast er plan and major public realm design in cities like Melbourne and Indiana polis. Liu brings an intellectually open\, globally aware\, and locally se nsitive perspective to architecture. Her curiosity and artistic imaginatio n allow her to bring a nuanced cultural perspective to the table. Her keen skills in combining digital technology with traditional craft and firm be lief in design’s ability to re-engage people with the physical world aro und them allow the buildings she designs to become places of exchange that welcome interpretation and transformation.\n\nSuggested Reading: SO–IL. In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today. New York: SO–IL\, 2024.\n\nAll col loquia are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Sp itzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu . 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