Michael Maltzan: Housing
Wednesday, Mar 29, 20176 PM - 8 PMEDT
| CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE AIA NY/ 536 La Guardia Place
New York, NY, USRelated
The phrases "public housing" or "low-income housing" do not immediately speak to architectural innovation. Often, low income housing projects appear to have been built as cheaply as possible and address only the problem of shelter. As several recent housing developments by Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles prove, social housing does not need to be reductive. Instead, these projects force us to ask: What if low-income housing was perceived as a vanguard of innovative, responsive architecture?
Join the AIANY Housing Committee for a discussion about innovative social housing with Michael Maltzan, FAIA.
Speaker: Michael Maltzan, FAIA, Design Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture
Introduction: Fernando Villa, AIA, LEED AP BD +C, Design Principal MAP Architects, Co-Chair Housing Committee AIANY
Organized by: AIANY Housing Committee
Price: Free for AIA members and students with valid ID; $10 for general public
Michael Maltzan founded Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. in 1995. Through a deep belief in architecture’s role in our cities and landscapes, he has succeeded in creating new formal, cultural, and social connections across a range of scales and programs. Michael received an M.Arch from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and BFA and B.Arch degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design. His award-winning projects have been published and exhibited internationally. Michael is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal Honoree.
Located just south of Los Angeles’ fast-growing downtown and immediately adjacent to the I-10 freeway, Skid Row Housing Trust’s New Carver Apartments explores how architecture can create both new possibilities for its highly vulnerable, dramatically under-served residents as well as for the city at large. The project aims to construct not only a new optimism for public housing in Los Angeles, but to form an armature for change through architecture.
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