On February 26th, 2020 Frederick Biehle was invited by the University of Dundee student lecture series to present. He spoke about three interrelated affordable housing issues: 1) an examination as to how public housing in NYC came to be characterized by the “tower in the park” paradigm, 2) whether its alternative- the first project constructed by the NYCHA designed by Frederick Ackerman might still be viable today and 3) his design studio work that proposes “completing” the NYCHA superblocks to reintegrate them with the surrounding city.
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