+Housing Symposium

Saturday, 10/11/2008, 11:00am–5:00pm

In the coming decades, New York will confront the challenge of housing another million people in a built-up city with limited area for new construction. Aging infrastructure and environmental concerns pose additional impediments to growth. Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC addresses the need for housing, and targets eight other quality-of-life issues including open space, air and water quality, and contaminated sites. Public and private developers have also begun responding to, and even anticipating, these concerns with mixed-use, hybrid designs. +Housing focuses on eight current examples which illustrate this phenomenon: public uses combined with, and often financed by housing. The essential urban institutions – parks, schools, places of worship, museums, and hospitals – are being combined with residential developments, fusing diverse typologies and increasing density. This observation creates the rubric, [fill in the blank] + Housing. The phenomenon is observable at multiple scales, from infill Hybrid Buildings with condos sitting on top of a public space, to Transformed Blocks rebuilt and rearranged into places for living, performing and gathering, to New Neighborhoods that attempt to remediate and improve old sites, shaping parks, creating spaces for culture and childcare, adding new density.

+Housing helps keep the city affordable, accessible, sustainable, and architecturally ambitious. Projects that include cultural institutions, new schools, improved infrastructure, and green roofs are often built faster and more efficiently. That said, all pluses have their minuses, and this exhibition looks beyond the benefits of the +Housing formula, examining its potential impact on the look, economy and public life of New York City.

Panel 1: Cultural Spaces

Moderator: Susan Szenasy, Editor in chief, Metropolis Magazine

Speakers: Derek Denckla, Propeller Group, Greenbelt; Dan Kaplan, FXFOWLE, Archstone Clinton; Alex Harrow, Freyer Collaborative Architects, Young Israel Synaagogue / 225 East Broadway Condominiums

Panel 2: Public Spaces

Moderator: Jeff Byles, Associate Editor, The Architect's Newspaper

Speakers: Laurel Blatchford, General Growth Properties, The Seaport; Jonathan Marvel, Rogers Marvel, Gowanus Green; Jay Valgora, Studio V, Anable Basin

Speakers: Welcome by James McCullar, FAIA, 2008 AIA New York Chapter President; Introduction by Alexandra Lange, Curator, +Housing, 2008 AIA New York Designs for Living Exhibition; Panel 1: Cultural Spaces: Derek Denckla, Propeller Group, Greenbelt; Dan Kaplan, FXFOWLE, Archstone Clinton; Alex Harrow, Freyer Collaborative Architects, Young Israel Synagogue / 225 East Broadway Condominiums; Moderated by Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine; Panel 2: Public Spaces: Laurel Blatchford, General Growth Properties, South Street Seaport; Shuji Suzumori, Rogers Marvel Architects, Gowanus Green; Jay Valgora, Studio V, Anable Basin; Moderated by Jeff Byles, The Architect's Newspaper
Organized by: Center for Architecture
Sponsored by:

Champion: Studio Daniel Libeskind

Supporters: HumanScale Corporation; James McCullar & Associates; Gensler

Friends:
Benjamin Moore & Company
Costas Kondylis & Partners
Forest City Ratner Companies
Frank Williams & Associates
Hugo S. Subotovsky Architects
Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Carroll & Bertolotti
Magnusson Architecture & Planning
Mancini Duffy
Rawlings Architects
Ricci Greene Associates
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Syska & Hennessy
Trespa North America
Universal Contracting

Contributors:
Anchin, Block & Anchin
Calvin Tsao
Consolidated Brick & Building Supplies
Cosentini Associates
Cross Construction Company
DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects
Domenech Hicks Krockmalnic Architects
FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
Helpern Architects
IBEX BUILDING CORPORATION
Levien & Company
Michael Zenreich, AIA Architect
Monadnock/Capsys
Myron Henry Goldfinger, FAIA
New York Building Congress
Perkins Eastman
Plaza Construction
Porter & Yee Associates
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Roberta Washington, Architect
Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee
Shen Milsom & Wilke
Skanska USA Building
Strategic Development & Construction
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Theo. David, Architects
Thornton Tomasetti
Weidlinger Associates

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: Free
CES LUs: 4.5, CES HSW: 4.5

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