Ecosystems in architecture
The school’s new Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (CEA) held its first conference at the New Lab in Brooklyn on May 14. The conference, Transforming the DNA of the Built Environment, examined the roles of materials, building systems, resource management, and design in creating sustainable emergency housing; a follow-up event will be held in New Haven this fall. The conference also served as the launch for Futurizing Technology and the Environment, one of the school’s two new summer programs. The other, an urban design workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden, will examine contemporary architecture in the context of historical urban form. Both of the new programs complement the existing Robert A. M. Stern Rome Seminar.
Departing administrators
This summer, two icons of the school are stepping down from administrative roles. John Jacobson ’70MArch is leaving the position of associate dean after 22 years to return to teaching next spring. School registrar Marilyn Weiss is retiring after more than 14 years in that role.
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