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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 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.
Erika Hinrichs presented her pedagogy of practice at viaARCHITECTURE in Pratt Institute’s second School of Architecture Faculty Practice Presentations. She focused on several publicized projects and recent competition entries.
“Our work can be characterized by a material curiosity, a quality of being crafted, and a thoroughness with its spatial resolution. It is a practice that has generated an interlocking set of stories and relationships in the pursuit of three conditions:
Porosity Interiority MaterialityIt is in the craft of making that a distinction is made between inhabiting and dwelling. Through all of these investigations, we take the opportunity to reconsider the nature of utility. To make something more of it. First by finding additional paths of movement as a means of empowering those who engage the spaces— either for the body or the eye, then to the actual figuring of the space itself.”
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
