The studio worked tirelessly to pull through for the final review! By the end of the semester, each group found ways to illustrate and convey their unique proposals for an intervention on the site of CetraRuddy's One Madison tower. Whether the catalyst was to inspire a change in social dialogue, a response to zoning restrictions, or to adapt to changing environmental conditions, the hall was flooded with quarter-scale models and well-constructed boards that evoked meaningful conversation among our esteemed panel: Lawrence Blough, Eva Perez de Vega, Theodossis Issaias, Frederic Levrat, Cesare Birignani, Sadie Dempsey, Foteinos Soulos, John Cetra, Nancy Ruddy, Theresa M. Genovese, and Brad Horn. (see more about the jury at end of post)
Symbiocity: Valmira Gashi, Julia Sokolova
Responsive network to future inundation of New York City
Interactive Air: Tiana Howell, Arezoo Issapour, Nicholas Marcinek
Reassigning sold air rights to form a live, work, play environment
Community: Ignacio Lopez, Jared Passen, Thomas Piscina
Dissecting street level circulation and expanding community involvement
Porosity and Possibility: Pauline Dang, Kari Kleinmann
Reorienting horizontal neighborhoods vertically, in a porous volunteer driven microeconomy
Transiency and Impermanence: Dovber Blasberg, Alex Checa
A system of modules adapting to existing structure to accommodate for transient residents
A huge thank you to all the jury members for participating in the review! Special thanks to CetraRuddy founding principals John Cetra and Nancy Ruddy, and principal Theresa Genovese.
Check out our drawings on the Works page.
About the guests:
Lawrence Blough: principal GRAFTWORKS Design Research, Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Eva Perez de Vega: principal e+I studio, visiting professor at Pratt
Theodossis Issaias: currently finalizing his PhD from Yale’s School of Architecture with researching the history of architecture and planning and their intersection with humanitarian interventions. Recently contributed at the MOMA exhibition and publication Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980.
Frederic Levrat: principal Levrat design, faculty at Columbia, professor at Pratt and City Tech.
Cesare Birignani: Professor at CCNY SSA and historian
https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/blog/people/cesare-birignani/
Sadie Dempsey: graduate M. ARCH program Columbia
Foteinos Soulos: associate at Shop Architects
John Cetra: founding principal CetraRuddy
Nancy J. Ruddy, founding principal CetraRuddy
Theresa M. Genovese, principal CetraRuddy
Brad Horn: Director of Graduate Architecture Program at SSA.
Partner, Berman Horn Studio.