BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:731@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T133000 DTSTAMP:20250829T155603Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2025-sciame-lect ure-series-philip-schmerbeck/ SUMMARY:Fall 2025 Sciame Lecture Series: Philip Schmerbeck DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP here to attend.\n\nThis in-person lecture and tour is part of the Fall 2025 Sciame Lecture Series\, "rePURPOSE." Please note this event will be held at\n\nPowerhouse Arts\n322 3rd Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11215\n\nPhilip Schmerbeck (he/him) is the Studio Director overseeing the operations of Herzog &\; de Meuron’s studios in the USA. He began hi s collaboration with Herzog &\; de Meuron in Basel in 2007 and was the project director of 56 Leonard Street in Tribeca - his first project with the firm. After relocating to the New York office in 2008\, he became proj ect manager in charge of Parrish Art Museum through its completion in 2012 \; since this time he has maintained oversight of a diverse range of US pr ojects including The Public Hotel\, Leroy Street Residences and The Park A venue Armory in New York City. He oversees the Powerhouse Arts project\, a contemporary arts fabrication center recently completed in Brooklyn\, the Memphis Art Museum\, currently under construction on the banks of the Mis sissippi River\, and the ongoing renovation of the landmarked Breuer Build ing for Sotheby’s Global Headquarters in New York. Through his diverse e xperience\, he has gained specific knowledge working on a wide range of re sidential\, cultural\, and adaptive re-use projects.\n\n"Building on the B uilt: Project Insights and Tour of Powerhouse Arts": Join us for an in-dep th tour and talk on Powerhouse Arts\, Herzog &\; de Meuron’s latest c ompleted project in New York\, and a striking example of the firm’s ongo ing exploration of adaptive re-use—joining iconic works like Tate Modern (London)\, CaixaForum (Madrid)\, and Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg). Powerhous e Arts transformed a derelict\, 115-year-old derelict power plant along Br ooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into a 170\,000-square-foot state-of-the-art manu facturing hub for artists and fabricators. Built atop a remediated Superfu nd site\, the project preserves the site's industrial identity while ancho ring a rapidly changing neighborhood with a bold civic presence. The tour will explore how the design retains and reinterprets the original Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power Station\, stabilizing the historic Turbine Hall while reinterpreting its long-lost Boiler House. The completed ensemble harmoni ously merges old and new—juxtaposing graffiti-covered brick and concrete vaults with new structural and high-performance systems infrastructure. V isitors will gain insight into the building’s vertical organization\, wh ich accommodates diverse stacked fabrication disciplines in metal\, wood\, textile\, ceramic\, and print-making while integrating best practices in industrial hygiene and long-term resilience. This tour reveals how adaptiv e re-use can extend the life of post-industrial structures\, support creat ive economies\, and bridge past and future through a sensitive\, context-d riven design process.\n\nSuggested Reading: Mogilevich\, M.\, Alvarez\, L. G.\, &\; Hoplamazian\, L. (2023\, January 18). Cleaning Up? Remediatio n as Industrial Succession: Powerhouse Arts. Urban Omnibus.\n\n"rePURPOSE" centers on the practice of adaptive reuse in the built environment. Repur posing\, embedded in historical patterns of city building and for the most part discarded in the modern movement\, is undergoing a remarkable renais sance. The lecture series invites architects\, planners\, developers\, adv ocates\, and engineers to present the technologies\, designs\, economic in centives\, and policy changes that are needed to advance a substantively r enewed and at-scale program of repurposing in New York and other global ci ties. The reuse of old structures is not a new idea. After the fall of the Roman Empire\, for example\, the Colosseum was repurposed for housing and workshops during the medieval period. Although reuse is understood as a c onvention that both requires and imposes minimal impact\, rePURPOSE shines light on how the methodology might not be entirely benign\, how it might in fact have real impact\, and the ways in which it challenges and would n ecessarily disrupt the very conventions with which we typically assume it is aligned.\n\nOf special\, although not exclusive\, interest is unpacking the relationship of repurposing to the climate crisis. Might historic pre servation sit at the center of technical innovation? Are all older buildin gs valuable as climate mitigation assets\, or will new uses\, such as data storage in old buildings\, undermine the LCA embodied carbon savings achi eved? What rules\, laws\, and incentives are needed to sustain innovative approaches to meaningful reuse\, and to what extent will a complete reform of preservation regulations and zoning frameworks be required?\n\nThe Fal l 2025 Sciame lecture series will address the profound potential inherent in giving new life to old structures\; employing adaptive reuse methodolog ies to impact environmental\, economic\, and cultural conditions by reduci ng waste and carbon emissions\, lowering costs and raising property values \, maintaining historical character\, and preserving local identity.\n\nAl l lectures are free and open to the public. 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.\ n\n(Photograph ©Paul Raphaelson) CATEGORIES:Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Powerhouse Arts\, 322 3rd Ave\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11215\, Unit ed States GEO:40.676407;-73.988391 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=322 3rd Ave\, Brooklyn\, Ne w York\, 11215\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Powerhouse Arts: geo:40.676407,-73.988391 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR