Housing + Building: Residential Architectures in New London and Connecticut
This event is part of "We Live Here New London," an exhibit examining the history and present-day realities of the housing crisis in America, presented by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut.
Speakers
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Andrei Harwell Executive Director
Yale Urban Design Workshop
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Anna Vallye Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
Connecticut College
Andrei Harwell, Executive Director, Yale Urban Design Workshop
Andrei Harwell, AIA is an architect, urban designer, and Senior Critic at the Yale School of Architecture, whose practice and teaching emphasize the strategic value of architecture in responding to contemporary challenges facing American and world cities, towns and regions.
Andrei has contributed to award-winning projects ranging from the design of individual buildings and public spaces to neighborhood, downtown and regional plans. Prior to arriving at Yale, Andrei practiced in the New York office of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. He currently maintains an independent architectural practice. He holds an M.Arch from Yale and a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University.
Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College
Anna Vallye is a scholar of modern architecture and urban planning. She is especially interested in how twentieth-century regimes of political administration and governance in Europe and America influenced the professional identities of architects and planners, their work, and the organization of the urban environment. Vallye is currently at work on a book titled Model Territories: German Architects and the Shaping of America’s Welfare State, about the American careers of émigré architects Walter Gropius, Martin Wagner, and Ludwig Hilberseimer, and their contributions to urban planning.
Hosted in partnership with
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Connecticut College
Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society. The College promotes an understanding of local, regional, national, and international peoples, groups, cultures, and issues, and encourages students to take a life-long interest in them.
