Wasted x Van Alen
Tuesday, April 7, 6–8 pm
303 Bond Street, Brooklyn
Each year, Pratt Institute hosts a public conversation about the status of waste in architecture. This year will focus on the idea of reuse with a maximum economy of means. How can waste be re-thought as architecture with the very least amount of expenditure in terms of energy, labor, and capital? Is there even a zero-degree waste-to-architecture conversion, where the transition from one state to another is almost purely a mental reframing?
Students will exhibit recent work on material re-use at Pratt, including a series of stools used for event seating.
Event Schedule
6 pm: Doors open
6:15 pm: Introduction by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
6:30 pm: Presentations by Xavi Aguirre, Stock-a-Studio; Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, New Affiliates; and Michael Ortiz Jiménez and Paula Stoddard Sotomayor, Estudio [PM].
7:15 pm: Panel discussion moderated by Pratt Associate Professor Stephanie Bayard