Category: Design
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Building the Resilient Campus
The University of Buffalo held an international design competition challenging architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate…
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A Review of “A Rage In Harlem”
For the Summer Issue of Oculus, a publication of the the New York AIA, Marc Norman reviews, “A Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture” by Nikil Saval, with introduction by Sarah M. Whiting; produced by Ken Stewart, Paige K. Johnston, and Kat Chavez Co-published by the Harvard University Graduate…
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2024 Spring & Summer Independent Project Residency at the Block House
The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA) offers Spring and Summer Independent Projects Residencies based at the historic Block House on Governors Island. Emerging and mid-career architects, urbanists, landscape architects, designers, and those committed to the public realm in all disciplines are invited to apply. Marc Norman along with other independent selection…
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Housing Affordability Summit
Centering the interconnectedness of community, equity, and the built environment, the National Building Museum convenes diverse thought leaders including Marc Norman for critical conversations on the current challenges and opportunities in the affordable housing crisis. The summit explores how collaborative action can reimagine and build a collective, thriving future. Recognizing that…
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Initiative 99, a global architecture competition
Begin your application today! Join Initiative 99, a global architecture competition aimed at designing accessible, beautiful and dignified 3D-printed homes that can be built for under $99,000. The multi-phase competition offers a total prize purse of $1 million (USD). A selection of winning designs will be built by ICON and showcased…
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How Does Design for Social Impact Create Value in the Built Environment?
Environmental, Social and Governance “ESG” has become an important consideration for global real estate and especially in the fast-growing economy and development of New York City. Increasingly, governments, public and private funds, developers and investors are adhering to guidelines, benchmarking and reporting frameworks, supporting the idea that ESG will increasingly…
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Housing Justice Futures – Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change
Philadelphia is the “poorest” large city in the United States, and more than one third of renters are paying over half their income on housing. It also remains at risk to climate change, most notably extreme heat and inland and coastal flooding. This forum examined the historical inequities that precipitated…
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Mansion Global Luxe x NYU Metaverse
Marc Norman along with Noah Gaynor of Parcel and Michael Gord of GDA Capital had great exchange of insights on how the future digital real estate in the metaverse may take shape. The NYU School of Professional Studies has recently launched a Emerging Technologies Collaborative where industry partners and students…
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Urban innovation at WRLDCTY 2023
Charting the future of our cities requires great creativity … and is more art than science. Shaping cities for a resilient, thriving future takes a global brain trust of inventive, visionary city-makers. At this event imaginative leaders flipped the script and explored new approaches to urban innovation through labs, talks, roundtables,…
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“Where is the Architecture? Finding Design and Community Amidst Constraints”
A discussion with Jill Crawford, a partner at Type A Projects LLC, former Loeb Fellow Marc Norman, LF ’15, Associate Dean of NYU’s Shack Institute of Real Estate and Andrew Bernheimer. Daniel D’Oca, MUP ’02, an Associate Professor in the Practice of Urban Planning at GSD, moderated the conversation. Video link here and more…