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Frederick Biehle’s article, Fast Forward into the Past: Frederick Ackerman’s Radical Banality and the Affordable Housing Future That Could Have Been was included in the Routledge Press publication and is now available online
On November 21st, 2020 Frederick Biehle was invited to present his paper Reinventing Public Housing: Design Strategies for Completing What Modernism Left Unfinished at the 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) at the University of Nottingham, England.
On September 4th, 2020 HERE+NOW: A House for the 21st Century: 2020 Student Design Competition awarded 1st Prize to Joseph Leaming, sponsored by Frederick Biehle.
On July 2nd, 2020 viaARCHITECTURE participated in the San Francisco Affordable Housing Competition hosted by Beebreeders.
While it is perhaps appropriate to put forth the challenge of an ideas competition dedicated to AFFORDABLE HOUSING for the purpose of keeping the subject of affordable housing before the public eye. we propose that AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS NO LONGER A DESIGN ISSUE. Affordable housing is a political issue. Modern housing prototypes have been produced for over one hundred years. We merely need to select one of these prototypes and build it. What needs to be designed is public policy, choosing how a community will prioritize its resources. Housing, along with access to affordable health care and quality education should be available to every citizen as of right. The absence of affordable housing is not the result of a reciprocal absence of advocacy, of economics, or design, but simply the lack of political will. The methods are available. The means and the incentives to achieve it are not.
On May 7th, 2020 Frederick Biehle hosted the Rome Program Honors Review via the Pratt Institute ZOOM platform from New York.
Click here to watch Rome Program Honors Review Live recording
On April 24th, 2020 Frederick Biehle participated in TEACHING ARCHITECTURE ONLINE Tools and Strategies: Simulating Space and Time with Google Earth at the International Synchronous Online Seminar at the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden via ZOOM platform.
http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/drum/2020/04/20/321/
On November 21st, 2019 Frederick Biehle was invited to present his paper FAST FORWARD INTO THE PAST: Frederick Ackerman’s Radical Banality and the Future That Could Have Been at the 16th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) at the University of Dundee, Scotland.
Frederick Biehle presented his Academic Research at the first Pratt School of Architecture Faculty Research Presentations on his 400 level design studios, ranging in programmatic topics while also addressing inner perspectives on architecture- foregrounding issues of narrative, cross-disciplinary methodologies, or ethical underpinnings, as well as coordination of the Undergraduate Rome Program, whose pedagogy engages the continuity of architecture and its history.
Frederick Biehle participated in a discussion following the presentation of a thesis and project proposal by Eunjeong Seong that proposed converting the single family house into an energy producing solar asset as a way of redirecting the current debt structure that controls the housing market.
Pratt School of Architecture (@prattsoa) on Instagram: "Monday, 04.08 Higgins Hall 111 @ 6 PM . HOUSING AFTER BANKING UA DOMESTIC FRONTIERS 2 TALK SERIES ...."
April 8th, 2019
Frederick Biehle will be making a presentation, the Re-Invention of Public Housing, to the New York City Housing Authority directors and staff. It will include the work of his last three fall semester studios from Pratt Institute dedicated to the transformation of the superblock housing concept, so universally excepted and implemented in post-war America and now universally acknowledged as an urban failure.
Anna Dwyer and Siman Huang
