People and Buildings Lecture: Atelier Bow-Wow and Martha Cooper, April 24
From the The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) (www.anothercupdevelopment.org )
Practice of Lively Space
an evening with Atelier Bow-Wow and Martha Cooper
Tuesday, April 24, 7 pm
Maysles Institute
343 Lenox Avenue (between 127th and 128th Street)
New York, NY
2/3 to 125th Street
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
CUP is pleased to present the next installment of People and Buildings, our monthly series of public programs: an evening about the vernacular (and not-so-vernacular) architecture of dense urban places from New York to Tokyo. The event will feature a lecture by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, principal and founder of Japanese architecture
firm Atelier Bow-Wow, and a slide presentation by documentary photographer Martha Cooper. Daniel D’Oca, an urban planner and principal of Interboro, will moderate.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto founded Tokyo-based architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. Tsukamoto is an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and currently a Design Critic at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is an author of several books including Bow-Wow From Post Bubble City, Contemporary House Studies, Pet Architecture Guide Book, and Made in Tokyo.
In the late 1970’s, Martha Cooper began to shoot graffiti and break dancing, subjects which led to her extensive coverage of early Hip Hop as it emerged from the Bronx. Her first book, Subway Art, is considered “the Bible” of graffiti art. Her project, Manhattan Vernacular, illustrates New Yorkers’ enterprising use of space and their expression of identity through the appropriation of the forms, symbols, and materials of architecture.
People & Buildings is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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