Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of any candidate. Mr. Edwards and Mr. Reynoso were the candidates who responded for an interview. As summer approaches, thoughts about the last election start to fade and the thoughts of the next election creep closer. On June 22nd, the primary for the Brooklyn borough president will take place. Once the borough president is elected, the candidate will have to take on many tasks to fulfill their position. Some include advising the Mayor of New York City, appointing officials and community board members, and focusing on borough needs while working with the annual budget (which reaches just above $100 million).  As of now, 13 candidates have opened campaigns and joined the race for the “by far … [Read more...]

Matthias Hollwich is a German-born architect who lives in New York and is the creator of the thought perspective “New Aging”. New Aging focuses on how people determine what ‘old’ means and looks like, and how being old is represented and needs to change. The passing of his grandmother transformed him “into an unlikely, passionate advocate of architecture and planning for the aging” and inspired him for New Aging, which Hollwich has written a book about. At 48 years old, he has conducted workshops on this project at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in Germany, and the University of Pennsylvania (where he works on occasion) and is the co-founder of the architectural social networking site Architizer. Matthias Hollwich’s book “New Aging” has … [Read more...]

On Friday the 11th, I attended a Google Meet filled with peers, teachers, members of the Walter B. Melvin architecture firm, and others. The meeting had over 40 people, but the vast majority of the crowd who joined were fellow students, of all grades and ages. The presentation in the meeting by Megan Rispoli-Kim and Stephen Martin from the Walter B. Melvin firm introducing their firm’s project. The aim of the project is to reconstruct/preserve the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. In the presentation, multiple issues of the project and the construction were discussed. Ms. Rispoli-Kim controlled the presentation for quite some time, skimming through slides filled with pictures of the old Smallpox hospital, current-day images of it, … [Read more...]