Today and tomorrow Syracuse University’s School of Architecture will be hosting Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Urban Futures.
A two-day conference on the benefits of creating urbanity in weak-market cities gathers twenty-one international experts in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning, policy, finance, economics, and real estate development. Participants share strategies for cities whose urban character has devolved radically due to economic, demographic, and physical changecities that are now considered “formerly urban.” “Formerly Urban” is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, with additional support provided by the Central New York Community Foundation. The symposium is free and open to the public. Pre-registration not required.
Crisis City, a thesis collaborative here at Syracuse University will be closely attending the conference and writing various posts related to the various conference sessions and the crises and opportunities in America’s Rust Belt cities.
The Wednesday October 13th Session Participants include:
Session One: Approaches to Practice, 1:30-3:15
Moderator: Anne Munly, Professor, Syracuse Architecture; Partner, Munly Brown Studio
Darren Petrucci, Professor and Director, Herberger Institute School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University; Principal and Founder, A-I-R[Architecture-Infrastructure-Research] Inc.
Jane Wolff, Associate Professor and Director, Master of Landscape Architecture Program, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the University of Toronto
McLain Clutter, Assistant Professor, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Mark Robbins, Professor and Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture
Session Two: Shaping Neighborhoods and Regions, 3:30-5:15
Moderator: Brian Lonsway, Associate Professor, Syracuse Architecture
Hunter Morrison, Director, Office of Campus Planning and Community Partnerships, Youngstown State University
Damon Rich, Urban Designer, City of Newark; Founder, Center for Urban Pedagogy
Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
Toni L. Griffin, Founder, Urban Planning & Design for the American City; Adjunct Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Keynote Address, 5:30-6:30
Adriaan Geuze: Dutch landscape architect and co-founder of West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
The Thursday October 14th Session Participants include:
Session Three: Urbanity without Density, 9:00-10:50
Moderator: Mark Linder, Associate Professor, Syracuse Architecture; Principal, CLEAR
Roger Sherman, Principal and Founder, Roger Sherman Architecture + Urban Design; Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-Director at cityLAB, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Jonathan Marvel, Principal and Co-Founder, Rogers Marvel Architects
Edward Mitchell, Principal, Edward Mitchell Architects; Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Architecture
Andrew Zago, Founder and Principal, Zago Architecture; Design Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Session 4: The Potentials of Landscape, 11:00-12:45
Moderator: Theodore Brown, Professor, Syracuse Architecture, Partner, Munly Brown Studio
Charles Waldheim, Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Eelco Hooftman, President and Founder, Common Ground Eelco Hooftman, Partner and Co-Founder, GROSS. MAX. landscape architects
Sébastien Marot, PhD, Professor of History and Theory, École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires
Julia Czerniak, Associate Professor and Director, UPSTATE: at Syracuse Architecture; Founding Principal, CLEAR
Session 5: Financing Innovative Design in Weak Markets, 1:45-3:00
Moderator: James F. Lima, Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc.
Marc Norman, Vice President, Deutsche Bank Community Development Finance Group
Rosanne Haggerty, President and Founder, Common Ground
Mark Willis, Resident Research Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University
*A book based on the “Formerly Urban” conference will be published in spring 2012 through a collaboration of Syracuse Architecture and Princeton Architectural Press , funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation. The “Formerly Urban” conference is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Deutsche Bank Foundation, with additional support provided by the Central New York Community Foundation. The conference is free and open to the public.
