The publication, ROME REDUX, was presented and released on Saturday, April 15th at the MAXXI Museum auditorium before an audience of Pratt Institute dignitaries that included the President, two Vice Presidents, the SOA Dean, and UA Chair, retiring and incoming Rome Program directors and graduates of the program from nearly every one of its 50 years.
Rome Redux
UA ROME PROGRAM APPROACHES ITS 50TH YEAR
Frederick Biehle has curated an exhibition opening in the Robert Seigal Gallery at Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall that presents the pedagogy and recent work of the Rome Program for which he is the longstanding academic coordinator. The exhibit is open from September 20th to 30th on which date there will be a closing ceremony.
Forma Civitas
Frederick Biehle’s article, The Actual and Its Double was included in the International Journal of Urban and Territorial Morphological Studies published by Grunberg Verlag, Weimar and Rostock. The journal was edited by Alessandro Camiz, Giorgio Verdiani, and Martin Ebert. It is also available at GREEN OPEN ACCESS: J123-2020-FC; ISSN 2748-2812 (print); ISSN 2748-3134 (online); ISBN: 9783933713681.
Society of Archeology, Art, and Architecture of Rome (ISAR)
On July 19th, 2021 Frederick Biehle was invited to present his Lecture “Ariadne’s Thread: Getting Lost in History” as a keynote to the International Summer School in Abruzzo, Italy organized by ISAR
International Making Cities Livable (IMCL)
On May 20th, 2022 Frederick Biehle presented his paper Reinventing Public Housing: Restoring the Infrastructure of Community that Modernism Left Out as part of a 15 Minute Cities Session at the 38th gathering of the conference in Le Plessis-Robinson, France
NYC Housing
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.
Research Practice & Activism About Racial Justice
On November 11th, Frederick Biehle presented his Studio based research into the Reinventing the NYCHA superblock as part of the first Pratt School of Architecture Racial Justice Flashtalks series
Cities in Evolution
On April 29, 2021 Frederick Biehle was invited to present his paper The Actual and Its Double at the 8th Annual International Symposium of the Architecture, Archaeology, and Contemporary City Planning (AACCP) at Ozyegin University, Istanbul Turkey.
Architecture & Culture
Architecture and Collective Life Vol 8_issue 3+4
Frederick Biehle’s article, Fast Forward into the Past: Frederick Ackerman’s Radical Banality and the Affordable Housing Future That Could Have Been was included in the Routledge Press publication and is now available online
Housing and the City
On November 21st, 2020 Frederick Biehle was invited to present his paper Reinventing Public Housing: Design Strategies for Completing What Modernism Left Unfinished at the 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) at the University of Nottingham, England.
