Vertical Urban Factory by Nina Rappaport
21/10/2015.
Charnley-Persky House [Chicago] USA. 22.10.2015
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO.
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO.
Nina Rappaport will talk about her project Vertical Urban Factory on the 22 of October as part of the series of talks for this Fall 2015 by MAS Context, at the Charnley-Persky House, headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Fiat Lingotto Factory, Giacomo Matte-Trucco, Turin, Italy, 1913-26. Photograph courtesy of the Fiat Archives, Turin, via MAS Context. Click above to see larger image.
Ford Factory Highland Park, Albert Kahn Architect, Detroit, 1909. Photograph courtesy of Albert Kahn Architects, via MAS Context.
Ford Factory Highland Park, Albert Kahn Architect, Detroit, 1909. Photograph courtesy of Albert Kahn Architects, via MAS Context.
Model for Vertical Cotton Mill concept, Buckminster Fuller and students from North Carolina State College, 1952. Photograph courtesy of Stanford University Archives, Buckminster Fuller Archive, via MAS Context.
Vertical Urban Factory, process flow by Nina rappaport, via MAS Context. Click above to see larger image.
Vertical Urban Factory is a traveling exhibition organized by Nina Rappaport held for the first time in 2011 in New York. Since then it has gone through Detroit, Toronto and London and will be the subject of the next conference organized by MAS Context.
How can we provide spaces for urban manufacturing so that they encourage industries to take root in our cities and thrive? What is the factory of the future? How do the socio-economic-political aspects of manufacturing influence the design of industrial buildings and thus cities?
These are some of the questions adressed by Vertical Urban Factory, which focuses on the production spaces of cities, both modernist and contemporary, and incorporates the architectural, technological and economic factors that shape their design, function and social impact. Nina Rappaport refers to the history of urban factory, focusing on its vertical type, generating new concepts for the future of urban manufacturing and paying attention to the need of creating new paradigms for sustainable, hybrid, and transparent urban industries that also take into account the worker in the city and the new economy.
Venue.- Charnley-Persky House, SSociety of Architectural Historians. 1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Date.- 22nd of October, 2015
Hour.- 18.30h
Inscription.- Here.
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NINA RAPPAPORT
Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, curator, historian, and educator. For eighteen years she has been publications director at Yale School of Architecture, for which she edits the bi-annual magazine Constructs, exhibition catalogs, and the school’s book series. She directs the project Vertical Urban Factory, which includes a traveling exhibition (Detroit, New York, Toronto, London, Lausanne), public programs, and a book published in 2015 by Actar. She curated exhibitions on Ezra Stoller in Washington, D.C., The Swiss Section at the Van Alen Institute, and Saving Corporate Modernism, at Yale. She authored the book Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (Monacelli Press, 2007) and co-edited the books Ezra Stoller: Photographer (Yale University Press, 2012) and Long Island City: Connecting the Arts (Design Trust for Public Space and Episode Books, 2008). She has taught at Parsons School of Design, Syracuse School of Architecture in New York, and Barnard College, among others. Her projects have received grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. She has written numerous essays on structural design, architecture, and global industrial landscapes. She is a founding board member of Docomomo US and NY/Tri-State.
