Community Architecture
Explores the design and planning of public and civic institutions—such as schools, libraries, health centers, and community hubs—as spaces of inclusion and care.
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Mapping Memories: Un-Erased Architectures and Invisible Geographies in India
Architectural history in India has long been shaped by a selective cartography—one that privileges monumental, imperial, and easily legible structures while marginalizing sites that resist dominant historical narratives. Beyond the canon of Mughal mausolea, Rajput forts, and colonial civic buildings exists a dense substratum of architectural production that remains physically present yet culturally obscured. These Continue reading
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Method as World-Making: Architecture Between Disciplines, Intuition, and Systems
This symposium is positioned within pedagogy, and rightly so. But pedagogy does not exist apart from practice. The methods we teach become the defaults of professional action. What is rehearsed in the studio is what later shapes decisions, exclusions, and responsibilities in the world. To question architectural method pedagogically is already to intervene in practice. Continue reading
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Ruins, Power, and the Architectural Imagination: Toward a Critical Theory of Preservation
Ruins have long served as generative objects for intellectual reflection. As architectural remnants that mark temporal rupture, they exist in an ambiguous interval between persistence and disappearance. Their material incompleteness has historically encouraged meditations on theology, on the rise and fall of political orders, and on aesthetic theories of fragmentation, entropy, and the sublime. Yet Continue reading
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Housing Justice
Affordability, Evictions, and Displacement in New York City New York City faces a deepening housing crisis characterized by rising eviction filings, severe overcrowding, and escalating rent burdens. Despite being a city renowned for its density and diversity, access to affordable and secure housing remains elusive for a growing share of its population. This article examines Continue reading
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Selling the Commons. The Systematic Erasure of Section 9 Housing
In a deal cloaked in the language of “revitalization” and “affordability,” the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has once again put public land on the auction block. This time, it’s the Manhattanville Houses in West Harlem — a public housing campus home to thousands of New Yorkers who have, for decades, weathered systemic neglect, Continue reading