troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
design critics: Chris PERRY & Andrew SAUNDERS with Fleet HOWER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Huanyu GUO, Bhawya JOSHI, & Sisi QIAN: Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.

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troy NEW YORK

Geofutures
Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
Rensselaer School of Architecture
program director: Chris PERRY

Geofutures endeavors to convert crisis into opportunity by harnessing both the pressures of a planet at risk and the promise of emerging environmental technologies to generate a broad spectrum of possible, if not probable, urban and architectural futures for the twenty-first century.

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new york NEW YORK

Studio-X NYC hosts the New York City book launch and discussion for [bracket] goes soft. Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of InfranetLab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series “examines the use and implications of soft today —from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.”

book launch: [bracket] goes soft
w/ Neeraj BHATIA, Fionn BYRNE, Michael CHEN, Leigha DENNIS, Sergio LÓPEZ-PIÑEIRO, Geoff MANAUGH, & Chris PERRY
Friday, 02/08
6.30 pm / Studio-X NYC
180 Varick St.
New York, NY 10014

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new york NEW YORK

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
critic: chris PERRY

sP: Describe your project.

kieran MARTIN: Detroit is the quintessential car city. The lack of public transportation has gained exposure recently and there is currently funding and a design in place for an elevated rail line along Woodward Ave. bigNATURE re-envisions the Woodward corridor through the lens of 1960’s Megastructuralists, challenging popular notions of Ecological Urbanism with drastic urban translations of exotic natural environments.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute will present a symposium titled “Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now,” a panel discussion for the exhibition “Designs for North American Cities Now” (on view at the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery). The panel discussion will be moderated by Dagmar Richter and will feature Michael Chen, Toni Griffin, Jason Lee, Thom Mayne, Chris Perry, and Laurie Hawkinson.

Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now
Thursday, 11/08
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

new haven CONNECTICUT

chris PERRY, kahn visiting assistant professor
“networks and environments”
thursday, january 28
6:30pm, Paul Rudolph Hall