The Housing Question

Earlier this year Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream opened at MoMA in New York. The exhibition quickly became controversial, with some decrying it as elitist and paternalistic, others defending it as powerful and ambitious. Here Reinhold Martin, co-organizer of Foreclosed, and Raphael Sperry and Amit Price Patel, of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, continue the debate — in a virtual roundtable — along with IDEO.org fellow Liz Ogbu and urban planner Tom Angotti of Hunter College.
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A New Belle-Lettrism and the Future of Criticism

How will the accelerating transition from print to digital publishing affect the practice of architecture criticism? Naomi Stead surveys the scene and is optimistic about the possibilities. "Despite predictions of the death of criticism, it seems to me that a radical rethinking of critical practice might be prompted by the potentials of writing for online media — and that this rethinking might result in a new belle-lettrism."
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Rolling to a Stop

Blacktop lots, congested streets, CO2 pollution — for a century now the city has been struggling to accommodate the automobile and its nonnegotiable needs for space and speed. Ian Baldwin reviews the recent literature on parking and automobility, including ReThinking a Lot and Reinventing the Automobile, and argues that most of our current strategies work better for cars than cities.
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HENK WILDSCHUT & AARON ROTHMAN

Shelter

In the middle of the last decade, photographer Henk Wildschut began to document a "crisis hidden in plain sight" — the extensive networks of transient camps set up all across Europe —from Calais and Dunkirk to Malta and southern Spain — by undocumented workers from Africa and Asia, especially Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria. As Aaron Rothman notes, Wildschut is here exploring how to portray humanitarian crises — "how to show not only suffering but also dignity and resilience."
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WEEKLY EMAIL: JUNE 27, 2012
FEATURED THIS WEEK : REINHOLD MARTIN, RAPHAEL SPERRY, AMIT C. PRICE PATEL, LIZ OGBU & TOM ANGOTTI The Housing Question Earlier this year Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream opened at MoMA in New York. The exhibition quickly became controversial, with some decrying it as elitist and paternalistic, others defending it as powerful and ambitious. Here Reinhold Martin, co-organizer of Foreclosed, and Raphael Sperry and Amit Price Patel, of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, continue the debate — in a virtual roundtable — along with IDEO.org fellow Liz Ogbu and urban planner Tom Angotti of Hunter College. READ MORE
NAOMI STEAD A New Belle-Lettrism and the Future of Criticism How will the accelerating transition from print to digital publishing affect the practice of architecture criticism? Naomi Stead surveys the scene and is optimistic about the possibilities. "Despite predictions of the death of criticism, it seems to me that a radical rethinking of critical practice might be prompted by the potentials of writing for online media — and that this rethinking might result in a new belle-lettrism." READ MORE IAN BALDWIN Rolling to a Stop Blacktop lots, congested streets, CO2 pollution — for a century now the city has been struggling to accommodate the automobile and its nonnegotiable needs for space and speed. Ian Baldwin reviews the recent literature on parking and automobility, including ReThinking a Lot and Reinventing the Automobile, and argues that most of our current strategies work better for cars than cities. READ MORE NEWS FROM DESIGN OBSERVER GROUP SPONSORS Enter the Sappi Ideas that Matter competition - an annual, innovative grant program that provides monetary support to produce the creative ideas of designers working for social good. Sappi established the Ideas that Matter grant program to recognize and support designers who donate their time and talent to create communications materials for a wide range of charitable activities. More about Ideas that Matter >> Watch Doug Hebert an inspiration junkie >> Find out more about Sappi here >> Learn to be a design critic through SVA's D-Crit program. Design as subject matter, criticism as a literary genre and the range of tools with which to practice design criticism. Watch videos of presentations by the Class of 2011 >> The D-Crit Program >> SVA Website >> HENK WILDSCHUT & AARON ROTHMAN Shelter In the middle of the last decade, photographer Henk Wildschut began to document a "crisis hidden in plain sight" — the extensive networks of transient camps set up all across Europe —from Calais and Dunkirk to Malta and southern Spain — by undocumented workers from Africa and Asia, especially Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria. As Aaron Rothman notes, Wildschut is here exploring how to portray humanitarian crises — "how to show not only suffering but also dignity and resilience." READ MORE		JOIN PLACES ON FACEBOOK \| TWITTER JOIN DESIGN OBSERVER GROUP ON FACEBOOK \| TWITTER Meaningful work is creating impact. A positive future is taking shape. Submit your proposal >> D-Crit: Design as subject matter. Criticism as literary genre. Learn at SVA >> A quarterly magazine of art and culture Read more >> Designers and leaders talk innovation in healthcare. Join us >> PLACES ARCHIVE: WINTER 2007 The Lost Public Art of Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark infiltrated the worlds of art and architecture, revealing deep complacencies in each. READ MORE PARTNER SCHOOL University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture The University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture is the first faculty in Canada to offer four post-graduate, built-environment professional degree programs: Architecture, City Planning, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design. All of these are based on a comprehensive non-professional Environmental Design undergraduate program that results in a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree. The Faculty of Architecture also offers a Ph.D. Program. The Ph.D. in Design and Planning in the Faculty of Architecture focuses on research in the following areas: Planning and Design Theory; Sustainable Planning and Design; Planning and Design Education; Planning and Design Practice; and Design and Planning Technologies. Through its focus upon design excellence, teaching and research, the faculty demonstrates its commitment to improving the quality of the built environment and associated ecological, economic, physical and social well-being of the global community.
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