“Case Study Tokyo 2020” by the Gabelli School of Business is now Available!
I am pleased to announce to you the completion of a project that is very dear to me. Clocking in at 438 pages with over 4500 images, Case Study Tokyo 2020 by the Gabelli School of Business is finally here!
Take one part working methodology from the influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for ten days in Japan and what do you get? You get direct acquisition of knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a hardback research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.
Hearty congratulations to the intrepid researchers: Madison Burkart, Branden Cheung, Kaia Corthell, Alexa Cucchiara, Shauna Fortier, Alexander Gardner, Sekai Kaminski, Fionna Lui, Declan McCabe, Sraboni Paul, Anja Pelkola, Raimundo Sanchez, Amanda Scacalossi, Samantha Schwartz, Joseph Sellmeyer, Polina Yafizova, Kevin Zhang, Yiyun Zheng.
Preview the entirety of the book HERE. As well, you can order in softcover or two different hardcover formats. Enjoy!
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: AN ARCHIVE OF COVID19
Call for Submissions
Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of CoVid19
The Visual Arts Program has initiated a partnership between Fordham University and Arizona State University (as well as other schools across the country) to contribute to a remarkable public archive of materials related to how the CoVid19 pandemic is affecting our lives on a local level. You can submit images, text, videos, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram or Snapchat memes, screenshots of the news, emails — anything that speaks to the moment. Here is a link to a fuller description of the project. Here is a link to the archive’s submissions page.
In the “Your name, as the contributor” field, add Fordham University after your name. This will allow us to search for your submission on the back end of the website and publish it more quickly. At some point in the not-too-distant future, there will be a Fordham Featured Collection that contains all Fordham submissions in one place.
In the “Description” field, add #FordhamUniversity.
Important: At the end of the form, check “Publish my contribution on the web.” If you don’t check this box, your submission will remain private and not appear on the website.
To see what other Fordham students have submitted so far, search “Fordham University” in the search bar at the top of the home page. Please contact Artist in Residence Casey Ruble at caseyruble@gmail.com if you have any questions or need help making your submission.
167 Days Until Graduation: Highlights from the Senior Seminar
JUNIOR REVIEW
Sous les paves, the Beach! an Urbanism Classroom “Fordham Square”
Sous les paves, the Beach!
an Urbanism Classroom
“Fordham Square”
Nov 4th – Dec 3rd
The Lipani Gallery
Fordham College Lincoln Center
113 W 60th Street, NYC NY 10023
Presented in this exhibition is work by students and faculty over the last few years in the fields of urban, architectural, landscape, and interior design. Projects include:
A Seminar Room of black, chrome & glass furnishings: collections of FU TDAR & Grinker Cathcart
Koreatown Mini-Hotel: the senior project of Sean Rowden, BA AIAS (FCRH’14 Urban Studies; Sean was the 2nd president of FuAIAS).
Fordham Square, UWS NYC, Alex Truica AIAS MArch (Pratt exp’17), Liz Davis AIAS, Bala Strivistava AIAS, Julie Norris, Claire Mardian AIAS BA FCLC’16 (Claire was the 4th secretary of FuAIAS), Shay xxx AIAS, Ari AIAS, etc.
Solar II at Stuyvesant Cove, Manhattan (2001- 2017) by Colin Murray Cathcart AIA et al;
Tower models designed and made by students of VART 2050 – Architectural Design
Urban comparisons and observations by URST 5040 – Urbanism. Spring of 2017 Fordham Lincoln Center.
Waterfront Post Sandy (2009 – 2015) Prof. Denisha Williams, her students and colleagues.
Women Urbanists: gallery labels by students of VART 2070 – Architectural Design, including one by Brianna Providence AIAS, BA (exp May 2017. Brianna was the 4th president of FuAIAS).
Prof. Colin Cathcart’s Bushwick Graffiti Tour
On March 23, 2017, Colin Cathcart, associate professor of architecture, led a group of a dozen students through a two-hour long jaunt here that touched on graffiti and street art, an active freight line, the oldest standing Dutch Colonial stone home just across the border in Queens, and finally, a tortilla factory-turned restaurant serving some of the best tacos in the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDWZx2XdF4g
The 2017 Senior Exhibition Series is here!
