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Honored to work with Ladi’Sasha Jones and Amy Campos on this project, led by the indefatigable & fabulous Liz Teston. Liz's work on how perception is an integral characteristic of interior public spaces (whether or not those would be recognized as interior conditions) has been ground-breaking, and has influenced my own thinking profoundly. This book... Continue Reading →
Delighted to (finally) publish some of the foundational research that informs my work with New York City's POPS (privately-owned public spaces) & INT POPS (interior POPS). Thank you to editor Gregory Marinic for pulling together such a wealth of information and scholarship on this critical topic.from the publisher's website:The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our... Continue Reading →
The integration of artificial intelligence in design education presents both opportunities and challenges for preparing students for an evolving professional landscape. In the Fall 2024 semester, our section of INT401 (undergraduate senior options studio) explored AI's potential through a semester-long investigation of New York City's Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS). Twenty-two (22) case studies emerged... Continue Reading →
image by Ryan Swallow (spring 2019) Special Issue: "Thinking the Body-Inside" edited by Ronn Daniel & Lynn ChalmersAbstract:Public spaces do not exist without the presence of bodies. Mediation repositions bodies in space in relation to one another. Existing scholarship has focused on these effects in spaces of civic action, but everyday publics are less understood.... Continue Reading →
New York City’s incentive zoning program (1961-2000) created dozens of interior privately-owned-public-spaces (POPS). These represent variable degrees of publicness, spaces of appearance or performance dependent on those spaces’ access, configuration and features. This article uses the scholarship of Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler & Pierre Bourdieu to analyze these urban public interiors, demonstrating that obstacles to... Continue Reading →
590 Madison Ave (IBM Building) Building: Edward Larrabee Barnes (1984) Atrium (landscape consultant): Zion & Breen Atrium (special consultant): William Whyte Photo: apops.mas.org 2018 ACSA/COAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE / JUNE 14-16, 2018 / MADRID, SPAIN Moderators: Frédéric Bonnet, Obras & Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow Terrain Vague and Public Space This paper and presentation proposes an analysis... Continue Reading →
Analysis of INT POPS: 590 Madison Ave (IBM Building). Top: own photos (02.09.17)/ Bottom: site plans from apops.mas.org (accessed 03.02.19) Presentation delivered at Interior Design Education Council (IDEC) National Convention. Chicago, Ill. Spring 17. At first glance, the terms “public” and “interior” suggest an essential opposition. Any bounded space must have a set of conditions... Continue Reading →