Cornell AAP NYC is excited to host Design Activism: Spaces of Conflict, a special lecture by Malkit Soshan, the director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) and 2024 Harvard GSD Senior Loeb Scholar. Malkit Shoshan is a designer, researcher, educator, writer, and the founding director of the architecture think-tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory.
This exhibition presents the work of Arthur Ovaska (1951–2018), who served on the faculty in AAP's Department of Architecture for more than three decades and had an impact on generations of architecture students. The works on view are selected from his archive, which consists of more than 1,000 ink/pencil drawings, prints, maps, and posters, found
L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture Dan Kaplan (B.Arch. '84) is a senior partner at FXCollaborative. He serves in a design and leadership capacity for many of the firm's complex, award-winning urban buildings, and plays an instrumental role in a variety of projects spanning the office, residential, mixed-use, and healthcare sectors. Adept at creating large-scale, high-performance buildings
The second Friday afternoon session will continue to explore new narratives on nineteenth-century New York. Speakers will focus on lesser-studied typologies of commercial architecture, hotels and lofts, and on the extraordinary importance of Broadway as a high-value corridor, made visible by the Ten & Taller survey. Introductions by Carol Willis Hotels: Big and Tall Tom
