Pedagogy of Practice

Erika Hinrichs presented her pedagogy of practice at viaARCHITECTURE in Pratt Institute’s second School of Architecture Faculty Practice Presentations. She focused on several publicized projects and recent competition entries.

“Our work can be characterized by a material curiosity, a quality of being crafted, and a thoroughness with its spatial resolution. It is a practice that has generated an interlocking set of stories and relationships in the pursuit of three conditions:

Porosity Interiority Materiality

It is in the craft of making that a distinction is made between inhabiting and dwelling. Through all of these investigations, we take the opportunity to reconsider the nature of utility. To make something more of it. First by finding additional paths of movement as a means of empowering those who engage the spaces— either for the body or the eye, then to the actual figuring of the space itself.”

Housing After Banking

Frederick Biehle participated in a discussion following the presentation of a thesis and project proposal by Eunjeong Seong that proposed converting the single family house into an energy producing solar asset as a way of redirecting the current debt structure that controls the housing market.

Pratt School of Architecture (@prattsoa) on Instagram: "Monday, 04.08 Higgins Hall 111 @ 6 PM . HOUSING AFTER BANKING UA DOMESTIC FRONTIERS 2 TALK SERIES ...."

April 8th, 2019

New York City

Frederick Biehle will be making a presentation, the Re-Invention of Public Housing, to the New York City Housing Authority directors and staff. It will include the work of his last three fall semester studios from Pratt Institute dedicated to the transformation of the superblock housing concept, so universally excepted and implemented in post-war America and now universally acknowledged as an urban failure.

Anna Dwyer and Siman Huang

Santiago, Chile

Frederick Biehle presented his paper on the Reinvention of Public Housing studio work in the Cities/Urban Tactics: Politics of Control Session at the Cross Americas- Probing Dis Global Networks Program

Re-Inventing Public Housing

Brooklyn, NY

Frederick Biehle will be introducing and moderarting a panel at the symposium In Search of African-American Space to be presented at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, Higgins Hall Auditorium.

The Symposium is being coordinated with the summer studio he is offering called Museum of Conscience: Locating the Underground Railroad.

New York City

Frederick Biehle’s400 level options studio from the Pratt UG Architecture program, called the Reinvention of Public Housing, has work included in an exhibition organized by Mattias Altwicker and Nicolas Bloom of NYIT entitled “Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City.” Hunter College East Harlem Gallery at Silberman School of Social Work.

The exhibit is coordinated with the release of their book of the same name, and will be at Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery, in the Silberman School of Social Work on East 119th Street and Third Avenue. 

Michael Rosen and Yuli Huang Project for the Ingersol/Whitman Houses

Rosario, Argentina

Erika Hinrichs, Chair of Undergraduate Architecture at Pratt Institute, accompanied the travel studio headed by Guilermo Banchini to Argentina. While there she was invited to lecture at theNational University of Rosario, School of Architecture, Planning and Design. She spoke about  PEDAGOGY AND PRATT INSTITUTE. 

Rosario, Argentina