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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2024-sciame-lect
 ure-series-jon-michael-schwarting-frances-campani/
SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: Jon Michael Schwarting & Frances C
 ampani
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 2024 Sci
 ame Lecture Series\, titled "Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisite
 d."\n\nJon Michael Schwarting (right) and Frances Campani (left) live and 
 practice architecture in Port Jefferson\, New York. They established Campa
 ni and Schwarting Architects in 2000. They have completed many types and s
 cales of work including urban design. Their work is known for its aestheti
 c distinction\, attention to context\, and for its innovative use of mater
 ials. Campani is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Schwarting is 
 Professor Emeritus at New York Institute of Technology where the rescue of
  the Aluminaire House began. They established the Aluminaire House Foundat
 ion to save and protect the House\, finally giving it to the Palm Springs 
 Art Museum.\n\n"The 1931 Aluminaire House and Housing": The Aluminaire Hou
 se\, by the architects A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey\, was built in N
 ew York City as an exhibition of modern materials at the Architectural Lea
 gue and Allied Arts and Industries biannual exhibition in 1931. This prese
 ntation is about its 93-year history and our 36 years of involvement with 
 it\, including rescuing it from demolition in 1987 and rebuilding it with 
 New York Institute of Technology architecture students until its final reb
 uilding at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2024. As in the just-published b
 ook\, The Aluminaire House\, the talk will locate the house in relation to
  the polemics of modern architecture and issues of housing in particular.\
 n\nSuggested Reading: Mumford\, Lewis. “Mass Production and the Modern H
 ouse.” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD\, January 1930.\n\n"Design Matters: The Hous
 ing Question Revisited" examines innovative solutions to the global housin
 g crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments m
 ade by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolutionary text\
 , The Housing Question\, Engels argued that the dearth of adequate shelter
  was an inevitable consequence of the Industrial Revolution. As a result o
 f working-class exploitation endemic to capitalist modernity\, the housing
  crisis was resolvable only by a revolutionary reconstruction of workers
 ’ power that would result in the collective ownership of land and the me
 ans of production. “Design Matters” inverts Engels’s argument\, putt
 ing design\, architecture\, and planning first. It expands his geographic\
 , cultural\, and temporal frame to include cities outside of Western Europ
 e\, and it probes places damaged by the devastating consequences of war\, 
 the climate emergency\, and other catastrophes. A bevy of on-the-ground ex
 amples\, conceived at multiple scales and aimed at reconstruction\, are ch
 anging policy\, politics\, practice\, and design. In the face of extraordi
 nary challenges\, architects\, planners\, and providers are collaborating 
 to produce humane affordable solutions to the housing crisis\, and suggest
 ing that architecture is needed to provoke political change.\n\nAll lectur
 es are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitze
 r School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL inte
 rpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu.\n\
 nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and
  the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\
 , 10031\, United States
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