On February 26th, 2020 Frederick Biehle was invited by the University of Dundee student lecture series to present. He spoke about three interrelated affordable housing issues: 1) an examination as to how public housing in NYC came to be characterized by the “tower in the park” paradigm, 2) whether its alternative- the first project constructed by the NYCHA designed by Frederick Ackerman might still be viable today and 3) his design studio work that proposes “completing” the NYCHA superblocks to reintegrate them with the surrounding city.
New York City
Frederick Biehle’s400 level options studio from the Pratt UG Architecture program, called the Reinvention of Public Housing, has work included in an exhibition organized by Mattias Altwicker and Nicolas Bloom of NYIT entitled “Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City.” Hunter College East Harlem Gallery at Silberman School of Social Work.
The exhibit is coordinated with the release of their book of the same name, and will be at Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery, in the Silberman School of Social Work on East 119th Street and Third Avenue.
Michael Rosen and Yuli Huang Project for the Ingersol/Whitman Houses
