The suburbs are all the rage, lately! On April 23rd, Fellow John Hartmann participated in Welcome to Future Suburbia: Open House 2011, a tour of retrofitted houses in Long Island proto-burb Levittown. The event, organized by Droog and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, featured ten stops–one of which featured Bright Dawn Farm (pictured at left), a home that Hartmann’s firm Freecell transformed into a “greenhouse-like environment.” Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, MoMA announced the launch of Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, a 14-month project in which five collaborative design teams will work to address mass foreclosures in “megaregions” around the US. The selection committee for the teams included Fellow June Williamson, author of the book Retrofitting Suburbia.
Fellows Envision the Future of Suburbia
Monday, May 9th, 2011Fellows In the News: Arad, Williamson, and Safdie
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
IfUD Fellows have been popping up all over the place lately, it seems! New Fellow Michael Arad’s rooftop farming project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was recently covered in The Architect’s Newspaper; Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin cited Fellow June Williamson’s book Retrofitting Suburbia in a column about mall re-use in suburban Chicago; and the Daily Mail featured a glamorous photo spread of Fellow Moshe Safdie’s newly-opened Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore, pictured at left.
June Williamson Featured in GOOD Magazine
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Institute Fellow June Williamson, Associate Professor of Urban Design at the City College of New York, was recently featured in GOOD Magazine’s Neighborhoods Issue. The article, “Agriculture is the New Golf: Rethinking Suburban Communities” by Allison Arieff, cites Williamson’s expertise in suburban development patterns. Williamson has worked extensively in the field and co-authored the book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburb with Ellen Dunham-Jones.
Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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Institute fellow June Williamson will deliver the Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning on “Retrofitting Suburbia” at the Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy on Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 pm.
Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Wiley Press released Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs by acclaimed architects Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, Institute fellow and contributor to The New York 2030 Notebook. More
