With Supawut Boonmahathanakorn (Jai Baan Studio, Community Architects Network), Alejandro Echeverri (URBAM/TEC Monterrey), Allyson Martinez (Brooklyn Level Up), and Chelina Odbert (Kounkuey Design Initiative)

Interventions by Erica Avrami (GSAPP), Joseph Zeal Henry (GSAPP, Sound Advice), and Kaja Kühl (GSAPP, youarethecity).

This summit will bring together four speakers who extensively work with existing communities in realizing their projects, and will discuss the methodologies and specific knowledge they bring to their work. Supawut Boonmahathanakorn is active in South East Asia through his work with Jai Baan Studio the Community Architects Network, a regional network of community architects and planners. With Brooklyn Level Up, Allyson Martinez started a community land trust in Flatbush that aims to radically improve economic development for long-term residents, and Chelina Odbert, with the Kounkuey Design initiative, establishes community-driven projects across the globe that allow for resident-led transformations of civic space. Alejandro Echeverri, through his past work as Director of EDU in Medellín, has been instrumental in the transformation of neighborhoods such as Santo Domingo Savio.

The ACTIONING SUMMITS are an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures.

The ACTIONING SUMMITS are curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery.

• New exhibition, Evolution: Architecture and the Space We Share is organized by New York Latin Amer­i­can Art Tri­en­ni­al and curat­ed by faculty Oscar M. Caballero ‘20 MSAAD. On view through September 29, this exhibition explores the per­spec­tive of archi­tects and artists work­ing with archi­tec­tur­al ideas in or from Latin Amer­i­ca with inno­v­a­tive projects that address con­tem­po­rary chal­lenges like sus­tain­abil­i­ty, urban den­si­fi­ca­tion, and the preser­va­tion of cul­tur­al heritage. The exhibition showcases “The Vertical Vessel” made by GSAPP’s Natural Materials Lab from clay-rich earthen soils from NYC construction enriched with wheat straw, an agricultural byproduct with complex cultivation histories across Latin American territories. September 6-29, Nolan Park, Building 18, Governor’s Island.
  
• Faculty Mario Gooden will deliver lecture “Black Holes Ain’t So Black” for Princeton University School of Architecture Fall 2024 Lecture Series. Thursday, September 12, 6 PM.

• Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, directed by Iñaki Echeverría ‘98 MSAUD, is twice the size of Manhattan and designed from the foundations of Mexico City’s canceled airport. featured in Bloomberg’s CityLab
• Arch Daily features Dean Andrés Jaque’s interview with the Louisiana Channel on his foundational interest in architecture and his perspective on its role in shaping society.