From CLOG. In many countries, architects assume that designing to meet the local building code assures that their buildings are safe for the public. But what if a building’s harm is not in the risk of the building falling down, but in the building performing as intended? If designed for the wrong purpose, can a building be a human rights violation, and if so, what should an architect do about it?
Coinciding with the release of CLOG : PRISONS, the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City and the Masters of Urban Design Program at the Spitzer School of Architecture are hosting a lecture and panel response organized by CLOG that will critically examine the architecture of incarceration.
Lecture:
Raphael Sperry
President of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility
Response Panel:
Jeff Goodale
Global Justice Director, HOK
Amir Varick Amma
Formerly Incarcerated; Social Activist; Member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and Co-founder of P.A.P.A II
Dr. Divine Pryor
Executive Director of the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
Moderators:
Jacob Reidel
Editor, CLOG
Michael Sorkin
Director of Graduate Urban Design Program, CCNY
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CLOG : PRISONS Launch Event at Spitzer School of ArchitectureWebsite
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May 05, 2014 06:30 PMUntil
May 05, 2014 08:30 PMVenue
Spitzer School of ArchitectureAddress
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, NY 10027, USA