By presenting a particular set of works by the Office of Adrian Phiffer, this lecture aims to provoke a condition of optimism about urbanism while asking: What does urbanism still mean for the contemporary city? It will argue that from its collapse under the weight of scale, complexity, ideology, environment, and smartness, a residue remains: an urbanism without guarantees, without unanimity, without a single public, but not without use—perhaps something it has always been after all: a practice of thinking and acting as a question of relationality.

This event is being held in conjunction with The Edge of the Practice, an exhibition in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery. 
 
*Image Credits: Office of Adrian Phiffer in collaboration with Ben Chang, Angela Cho, David Verbeek, and Transsolar KlimaEngineering New York.

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This event is open to the general public will be conducted in-person in The Foundation Building, room 315F.