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Letters From Home is informality’s second issue. We wrote letters... about spaces... and about places... with people... with feelings... with memories... with ourselves... with questions... for the TIMES we have departed from the ROUTINE and have returned HOME
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Informality's first interest meeting will be on Tuesday, September 19th! Join us by the cafe at 6:30pm.
Forgot to post this earlier, but a collection of work from this year.
annual publication, SPR 2017.
Join us for an open interest meeting at the cafe tomorrow, Wednesday, at 5:30!
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Informality Magazine is soliciting reactions, responses, fears, needs, desires, impulses, acts of...
A recent email outlining calls to action in the architecture community from Architecture 2030
"Students: Demand a design and planning education that prepares students intellectually and practically for the future of a carbon-neutral built environment and the challenges posed by rapid urbanization and projected climate disruption.
Be creative, informed, and inclusive. Solving climate change through the built environment is about visionary planning and design, active engagement in social issues, and a working understanding of policy and building technologies."
Full Reprint of a recent email sent by Architecture 2030 regarding the election of Trump: The election of Donald Trump, and a hastily composed (and later retracted) post-election statement by the...
The Second Year M.Arch Students at the Spitzer School of Architecture have signed and released a letter denouncing the positions held by president-elect Trump, declaring the SSA a safe space for all students in our community. We want thank and to give our full support to the Architecture Students Against the Presidency. We will uphold the declarations of their letter.
The Second Year M.Arch Students at the Spitzer School of Architecture have signed and released a letter denouncing the positions held by president-elect Trump, declaring the SSA a safe space for all...
The faculty members of the California College of the Arts' School of Architecture have written an open letter pledging against the rhetoric of Trump - see the letter here!
Statement of CCA Architecture Division Faculty on the Election of Donald Trump As Architecture faculty at CCA, we reject Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, and xenophobic policies as we pledge to respect, defend, and celebrate the rights of all members of our diverse community. The California Coll...
Our first respondent! What are your thoughts?
The pencil towers of 57th Street are despicable. But they’re going to be designed by someone eventually. You can mute your conscience, take on the project, and design a landmark in a new urban...
Governor Cuomo launched a toll-free hotline to report incidents of bias and discrimination across the state.
Dear Spitzer School of Architecture Students, Faculty, Alumni, and associated individuals:
Informality is looking to hear your reactions and responses to the recent election results and the conciliatory remarks of Robert Ivy on behalf of AIA national membership.
Submissions can be digital or physical!
Find some prompt questions and submit digitally at: informalitymagazine.tumblr.com
LEAK: Digital copy of Informality 8: Industrious to be released shortly!
SMALL INTERVENTIONS BIG VISION.
Join JMBC this Monday evening, October 5, 2015 at 6:30pm, to kick off JMBC Talks for the 2015-2016 academic year.
This semester's set of JMBC Talks focuses on tactics designers are taking to "Design Differently". This Monday, join London-based group Massive SMALL (http://www.massivesmall.com) and our very own Professor Michael Sorkin as they discuss visions and design vehicles in the development our cities.
This discussion will be moderated by JMBC Director and Professor, Toni L. Griffin. The event will take place inside the J. Max Bond Center in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. Concourse Level.
Evolving a sourcebook of ideas, tools and tactics for citizen groups, civic leaders and urban professionals. It will show how to plan, design and deliver viable urban neighbourhoods, quarters and centres in our increasingly complex world. We call this the Massive Small Compendium.
TONIGHT! 6:30PM
The first talk "Massive Small" with the The J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City and our very own Michael Sorkin and Toni Griffin.
SMALL INTERVENTIONS BIG VISION. Join JMBC this Monday evening, October 5, 2015 at 6:30pm, to kick off JMBC Talks for the 2015-2016 academic year. This semester's set of JMBC Talks focuses on tactics designers are taking to "Design Differently". This Monday, join London-based group Massive SMALL (http://www.massivesmall.com) and our very own Professor Michael Sorkin as they discuss visions and design vehicles in the development our cities. This discussion will be moderated by JMBC Director and Professor, Toni L. Griffin. The event will take place inside the J. Max Bond Center in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. Concourse Level.
For those joining us from the public, please RSVP for event (preferred, but not required): Register for your free tickets at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-2015-jmbc-talks-kickoff-massive-small-with-kelvin-campbell-tickets-18609583766
Make sure to check out this year's Architecture and Design Film Festival!
This year’s festival will have 33 films from 17 countries, shown in 15 unique programs. Each program is shown twice during the festival. For a complete listing of the films and descriptions, go to adfilmfest.com. Tickets go on sale September 14th!
architecture and design film festival
BanG studio (www.b-an-g.com) recently won a competition to build a pavilion on Governor’s Island this summer as part of the FIGMENT arts festival. The Billion Oyster Pavilion is not only a cool art space, but it will ultimately help restore New York City’s waterways by restoring oyster habitat.
The thing is: we need help to make it happen; we’re looking for a few good architecture students willing to give us a few hours of time. We’re building this thing in our LIC studio starting now and continuing all of May.
Help us pour concrete and assemble the canopy. You’ll get to meet other architecture students from the NYC area. You’ll see what it’s like inside a small architecture, design, and fabrication studio. You will earn IDP credit. Best of all – you’ll get your hands dirty and make something real that over 250,000 people will visit this summer on Governor’s Island.
We’re building in our LIC studio starting now and continuing all May. You can volunteer for as many or as few sessions as you like. We’ll be happy to have you!
More info on the project can be found at: www.oysterpavilion.org
Use this google form to volunteer now!
https://docs.google.com/…/1BJhAyYIV2Qg7ssCqS9g8yVR…/viewform
CCNY asked for a yearbook photo.... we think this is a better fit for Informality. Thanks to Marta Gutman, all our board members, and everyone at the SSA for helping make the 2015 publication!
We're still accepting submissions - get them in before May 1st!
HEY SSA!
Guess what you forgot to do during the break? Submit to Informality! We've got some good promises that came our way - so please send 'em in before the finals crunch really hits!
If you still don't think you have something to submit, start with the things you've done for elective classes! Arch related or not! (maybe even especially not!). Photos, essays, poems and sketches from your sketchbooks, travel experiences.
Trust us, it's probably cool even if you don't think it is.
And if you're still unsure.... ask us! or submit ANONYMOUSLY! or check out the archive of past issues here: http://www.informalityssa.com/informalityarchive/
Art, Social Change, and the Urban Sphere: A Symposium at The City College of New York.
Art, Social Change, and the Urban Sphere: A Symposium at The City College of New York.
Held in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery’s exhibition, The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940, this symposium will bring together contemporary artists, curators, and writers to discuss socially engaged artistic interventions in the urban sphere and ask panelists to respond to the question posed by the exhibition, “what could a revolutionary art be today?”
Panel speakers:
Dread Scott (artist, activist)
Johanna Fateman (musician, writer, cultural critic)
Carlos Motta (multi-disciplinary artist)
Moderated by:
Eva Franch i Gilabert (Executive Director and Chief Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture)
Architecture: A topic even in cartooning.
Tesla Building towering over the Chrysler Building in an episode of The Simpsons. Photos via FOX Frank Gehry crumples up a piece of paper, tosses it to the ground, and...
CALL FOR CONTENT!! Due March 31st!
email us at: [email protected]
Check out these brilliantly designed informal structures and homes. Raw materials, beautiful details!
Fifteen projects able to find a compromise between agricultural landscapes, ancient traditions and contemporary architecture.
Hello Everyone! Welcome back to Spring Semester! Don't forget to come to the first lecture TOMORROW at 6:30PM. This year's lecture series is featuring recently tenured faculty and guest critics.
For more information about this semester's lecture series:
http://ssa1.ccny.cuny.edu/people/lecture-series.html
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Informality is super excited to announce it's first publication of the school year! Follow the link below to the first release of Informality Talks, a collection of interviews from the SSA.
This issue features:
Helen Levin, former student and Informality Magazine editor
Jeremey Edmiston, thesis professor
Adam Hayes, style guru and professor
& Joseph Gomez Serrano, guest lecturer and Gaudi expert
We hope you enjoy and look forward to future issues!
www.informalityssa.com/talks
Want to know a good way to be involved in the conversation around Architectural Education? Check out the annual Dean's Roundtable discussion at the Center of Architecture TOMORROW NIGHT.
If you can't make it to the event the Center of Architecture will be doing a live stream broadcast starting at 6pm!
Events, lectures, and public programs at the Center for Architecture
We are so proud of our advisor Dr. Marta Gutman for putting out her new book last month "A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950"!
To hear more about the work that Profess Gutman has put out check out: "Presidential Conversations" A series debuting on November 13.
Architectural historian Dr. Marta Gutman will be the inaugural speaker in the new year-long series, "Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement," debuting Thursday, November 13, at 4 p.m. in Shepard 95. The forum features a City College faculty member in conversation with President Coico. Dr. Gutman will talk about her book, "A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950."
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the m…
What everyone has been waiting for — We are officially accepting submissions for the 8th issues of Informality: Spitzer School Architectural Magazine! All students, undergraduate and graduate alike are invited to submit content.
Open to ALL ideas and inquires!
Submissions are encouraged in all mediums including essays, renderings, photographs, drawings, poetry, painting, sketches, multimedia, sculpture and more!
Priority deadline for submissions will be December 12th.
Please submit content at:
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