February 12, 6:30 PM Wood Auditorium

Anne Holtrop studied architecture in Amsterdam and established his own practice in 2009. Since 2014, his primary studio has been based in Muharraq, Bahrain, where he resides. The studio’s work and research centers around the relationship between matter and space under the influence of environmental conditions, such as our climate. Currently, Holtrop holds the position of titular professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland.

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City celebrates the launch of Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction by V. Mitch McEwen.

Tammy Lewis is a professor of environmental sociology at the City University of New York (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center). Her research examines urban sustainability and alternatives to development. Her recent books include Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice (Routledge, co-authored with Kenneth A. Gould), Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters (MIT Press), and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, 4th edition (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Gould).

The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS) is co-organized by the MSUP Program and second-year PhD students in Urban Planning.

• Faculty Hiba Bou Akar publishes “The Making of a Split City: Planning, Urban Renewal, and Resistance in the Spatial Production of Morningside Heights, New York City” in the Sage Journals. Read the paper here.

• Faculty Ada Tolla and Faculty Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK, pictured) deliver a workshop on this is not design, this is design / caring for the things we make and the ones we dismiss at Pratt Institute. February 5, 6:15 – 8:00 PM. Register here.

• Yara Saqfalhait, Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture at GSAPP, publishes a peer-reviewed article on “On Universals: Building the Late Ottoman Body Politic” in the Grey Room Journal. Read the paper here.