How can we connect research on urbanism to urban design practice? Why should we?

Susanne Schindler will reflect on three recent projects—the CHPC/Architectural League's Making Room initiative (2011–13), the Buell Center's House Housing series (2013–16), and ongoing work on Model Cities (2015–18)—to make the case for why we need to understand how we got here if we want to change where we're going.

Susanne Schindler is an architect and urbanist focused on the intersection of policy and design in housing. She is currently completing a PhD at ETH Zurich titled “The Housing that Model Cities Built: Context, Community, and Capital in New York, 1966–76.“ From 2013 to 2016, she was lead researcher and co-curator of House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate at Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and co-author of The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate—A Provisional Report. Susanne has taught at Parsons, Columbia, and Hunter and writes regularly for various journals, including Urban Omnibus, the online publication of The Architectural League.