Louise Harpman_Scholarship Portfolio

LOUISE HARPMAN Professional Work / Academic Projects

PORTFOLIO TIMELINE CURRICULUM VITAE

PRACTICE-BASED SCHOLARSHIP zeromicro Beach Haven Casa Xixim Cliff House Barker DZP River Bend House Weleda North America Manhattan Micro Loft Stirratt Residence West Lake Residence prairieHouse Doyle Hall San Jacinto Beast Everything Must Go ! zeroHouse Meltzer Ames Residence St. Edward’s Marketing Modern Barn Oasis Number Seventeen OXO Concrete Media Prada / MTV Coffee Lids Collection

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UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP Coffee Lids Book Waste_World Pecha Kucha Furious Human Heliostat Times Square Electronic Garden Pecha Kucha Envision Climate Action NYU New York Ideas Global Design Book Cities and Citizenship Global Design NYU_London Global Design NYU_New York Mapping Whiteness Big Walk Alley Flat Initiative Wooldridge Square Blanco Library Design Build Texas Professional Residency Program

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CONTACT Louise Harpman Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University 1 Washington Place, Room 607 New York, NY 10003 E louise.harpman@nyu.edu W www.louiseharpman.com

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LOUISE HARPMAN TIMELINE Louise Harpman__PROJECTS  2016 Founding Principal, New York City

New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study Associate Professor

New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study Associate Professor of Practice

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2014

2010

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Associate Professor Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Fellowship Professional Residence Program Director Humanities Institute Fellow

2008

1994 University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Architecture Design Critic 1995 Specht Harpman | Architecture and Design Founding Principal, New York City 1996 Yale School of Architecture Design Critic 1997 Yale School of Architecture

Design Critic

Studio Coordinator 1998 University of Pennsylvania

Graduate School of Architecture

Visiting Assistant Professor

2003

1999

Yale School of Architecture Design Critic Studio Coordinator Senior Projects Coordinator

2001

Yale School of Architecture Design Critic Studio Coordinator Admissions Committee Chair

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Associate Professor Associate Dean Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Fellowship Professional Residence Program Director

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE Education Yale University. Master of Architecture, 1993.

AIA Henry Adams Certificate. Janet Cain Sielaff Prize.

Cambridge University. St. John’s College. Master of Philosophy in Social Anthropology, 1988.

Harvard University. A.B. cum laude in East Asian Studies, 1987.

Harvard College Scholarship. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award. Reischauer Institute Fellowship.

University Professorships, Teaching, and Research New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Associate Professor with tenure of Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainability, 2015 to present.

Associate Professor of Practice of Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainability, 2010-2015.

Co-Director and Founder, Global Design NYU (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), 2010 to present.

University Service and Leadership Member, Office of the Provost, Select Working Group on Sustainability, 2017 to present.

Member, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research, Select Committee on Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 2017 to present Faculty Advisory Committee, Marron Institute, 2014 to present.

Architectural Adviser to the University Leadership and SSAC (Coles Site), 2014 to present.

Member, ICES Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2012-13.

Gallatin School Senior Leadership Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2011-13, 2015-17.

Member, Art and Society Search Committee, 2014-15.

Member, Business and Economics Search Committee, 2012-13.

Member, Business and Fashion Search Committee, 2011-13.

Chair, Civic Engagement Search Committee, 2011-12.

Member, Administrative and Policy Committee, 2010-11.

Gallatin School Service Member, Awards Committee, 2018 to present.

Member, Graduate Program Committee, 2016 to present.

Faculty Adviser, Gallatin Design Collective, 2010 to present.

Member, Distinguished Faculty Lecture Committee, 2015-16.

Member, Arts Committee, 2010-15.

Member, Community Learning Initiative, 2010-15.

Gallatin School New Initiatives Co-Founder, Co-Director, Global Design NYU, 2010 to present.

Founding Member, Global Design Working Group, 2010 to present.

Founding Director, BIG WALK, 2010 to present.

Gallatin Graduate Students Masters’s Theses supervised (Fran Glasenberg, 2013; Stephanie Hodges, 2011) Master’s Thesis Evaluation (Ariel Fischman, 2013)

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The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture.

Associate Professor of Architecture, 2003-10.

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, 2003-08.

Fellow of the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professorship, 2003-10.

Director, Professional Residency Program, 2004-10.

University of Texas at Austin, Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Finalist, 2008, 2009.

School of Architecture, Scholarship Award, 2005.

University Service and Leadership Member, Office of the President, Undergraduate Curriculum Reform Committee, 2006-07.

Member, Office of the Provost, Dean’s Evaluation Committee, School of Architecture, 2007.

Member, Office of the Provost, Dean Search Committee, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 2004-05.

Faculty Liaison, Office of the Provost, Maymester Program, 2003-08.

Faculty Liaison, Office of the Provost, Connexus, 2004-08.

School of Architecture Service and Leadership Founding Director, Design.Build.Texas, 2003-10.

Chair, Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2003-08.

Co-director, NAAB Accreditation Visit Preparation (with Kevin Alter), 2005.

Co-director, CIDA Accreditation Visit Preparation (with Nancy Kwallek, Carl Mathews), 2004, 2007.

Chair, Awards Committee, 2003, 2004, 2006.

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, 2003-08.

Member, Dean’s Coordinating Committee, 2003-08.

Member, Architecture and Interior Design Curriculum Committee, 2003-08.

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 2003-08.

Member, Architecture and Technology Faculty Search Committee, 2004-05; 2006-07.

Member, Interior Design Faculty Search Committee, 2003-04.

Yale University, School of Architecture.

Critic in Architectural Design, 1996-2003.

Chair, Graduate School Admissions Committee, 2002-03.

Member, Graduate School Admissions Committee, 1996-2002.

Director, First Year Graduate Studio, 1997-2003.

The University of Pennsylvania, GSFA, Department of Architecture.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1998-2000. Lecturer, 1994-98.

Member, Awards Committee, 1994-2000.

National AIA Award for Teaching Excellence, 1997.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE Architectural Design, Urban Design, Design Research, Sustainability Louise Harpman__PROJECTS. New York, NY. Principal, 2016 to present.

Louise Harpman is the founder and principal of Louise Harpman__PROJECTS whose work includes architectural design, design research, and urban design. PROJECTS forms interdisciplinary teams of professionals for applied research projects and has several focus areas, including micro housing, net zero building practices, and building management systems. PROJECTS also provides consulting services to private corporations, municipal authorities, and community organizations.

For more information, see www.louiseharpman.com PROJECTS is the home of the zeromicro™ Applied Research Consortium, which is directed by Louise Harpman and is affiliated with NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Tandon School of Engineering, and Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Harpman holds four registered trademarks from the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to the zeromicro™ project.

For more information, see www.zeromicro.us.

Specht Harpman. New York, NY. Founding Principal, 1995-2016.

Before founding PROJECTS, Louise Harpman was, for 20 years, a founder and principal in the architecture and design firm Specht Harpman. Specht Harpman’s work received international and national recognition, in professional as well as general interest publications. For its built work, the firm received multiple Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and was named Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York. Specht Harpman won additional professional awards from the Texas Society of Architects, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Interior Design, Architizer, Professional Builder, Residential Architect, Custom Home, among others. In the nonprofessional arena, Specht Harpman won recognition in Wallpaper* magazine’s annual Architects’ Directory as one of the “top 50 up and coming architectural practices from around the world.” Specht Harpman was named “Tastemakers” by House and Garden magazine and was frequently listed as one of New York City’s “Top 100” architects by New York magazine. The firm’s designs were featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Municipal Art Society, the Van Alen Institute, and in gallery shows in the US and UK. In addition to its client-based work, Specht Harpman pursued in-house design research and prototyping.

The most visible of these research projects yielded the zeroHouse™, a high-performance, off-thegrid prototype for micro dwelling which is an internationally-recognized “case study” for sustainable building practices. Specht Harpman also designed the Manhattan Micro Loft, one of New York City’s first micro apartments. Both projects established Specht and Harpman as international design leaders in the micro dwelling movement.

Specht Harpman’s design work was published in every major professional journal in the United States, including Architectural Record, Architecture, Architect, Interior Design, Residential Architect, Professional Builder, Texas Architect, and Oculus. The firm’s work was also published by many leading general interest publications, such as Architectural Digest, AD, ID, Metropolis, Domus, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Dwell, Wired, and Fast Company.

Over two decades, Specht Harpman gained significant recognition, won major industry awards, and was published on every continent except Antarctica. The client-based practice continues as Specht Architects, while the research arm of the firm is Louise Harpman__PROJECTS. A compendium of Harpman’s Practice-based Scholarship for the period under review is included in this portfolio.

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Major Design Awards The bulk of Louise Harpman’s design work took place while she was a Principal of Specht Harpman.

During this period, the firm won six (6) major AIA design awards for residential, commercial, and institutional work as well as design research. The AIA award-winning projects included Manhattan Micro Loft (New York, NY) New Canaan Residence (New Canaan, CT) Oasis Advertising (New York, NY) zeroHouse™ (Austin, TX) Doyle Hall (Austin, TX) Concrete Media (New York, NY) In addition, Specht Harpman won thirteen (13) other industry awards from sources including Professional Builder, Architizer, ICFF NYCxDESIGN, Interior Design, Custom Home, Thornburg Foundation, HGTV, and Moffly A-List.

2017 Professional Builder, Gold Award, Green Architecture. Casa Xixim.

2017 Thornburg Foundation, University of New Mexico, Jeff Harner Award. Sundial House.

2016 Ocean Home. Top 50 Coastal Architects. Casa Xixim.

2016 ICFF Interior Design NYCxDESIGN Award. Manhattan Micro Loft.

2016 HGTV Fresh Faces of Design Awards Program, Casa Xixim, D’Arcy Residence.

2016 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2015 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2015 Design Trust for Public Space, 20/20 Award for Urban Visionaries. Louise Harpman.

2014 American Institute of Architects, Austin, TX, Homes Tour—Cliff House.

2014 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2013 American Institute of Architects, Honor Award—Manhattan Micro Loft.

2013 American Institute of Architects, Honor Award—New Canaan Residence.

2013 Moffly A-List Award—Best Modern Architecture, Stirratt Residence.

2013 Moffly A-List Award—Best Pool House, Stirratt Residence.

2013 Interior Design—Manhattan Micro Loft.

2013 Custom Home, Grand Award—Manhattan Micro Loft.

2013 Residential Architect, Merit Award—Manhattan Micro Loft.

2013 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2012 Architizer+, Popular Choice Winner—Manhattan Micro Loft.

2012 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2011 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2010 American Institute of Architects, Honor Award—Doyle Hall.

2010 New York Magazine, The Top 100 Architects and Designers.

2009 American Institute of Architects, Honor Award—Oasis Advertising.

2008 Top 50 Young Architects, Design Directory. Wallpaper* Magazine.

2007 Texas Society of Architects, Design Award—zeroHouse™.

2007 New Tastemakers. House & Garden magazine.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE Major Publications A complete list of publications for the period under review (2003-2018) follows on subsequent pages.

In general, the publications can be grouped as follows: 1) books and articles authored or co-authored by Louise Harpman 2) books and articles featuring the work of Louise Harpman Louise Harpman__PROJECTS published the zeromicro™ project for the first time in 2017. Harpman was invited to launch zeromicro™ in Europe as part of the annual European Utility Week conference (Amsterdam, 2017). As a keynote speaker in the Intelligent Buildings hub, Harpman previewed designs for zeromicro™ residential buildings and introduced the zeromicro™ Applied Research Consortium.

Conference proceedings are currently in publication.

Specht Harpman’s design work is included in many anthologies of design, including Thirty Years of Emerging Voices: Ideas, Form, Resonance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015); Global Design (Prestel, 2014); Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Routledge, 2013); Prefab Houses, Maisons Prefabriques, Fertighauser, Prefab Huizen (Booqs, 2011); Re-Crafted (Monacelli, 2010); New Prefab Architecture (Barcelona, 2008); Coney Island: the Parachute Pavilion Competition (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007); New York 2000 (Monacelli, 2006); PRAXIS (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2005); AD Architectural Design (Wiley);The 21st Century Office (Laurence King, 2003).

The zeroHouse™ itself was published in over 50 international books and magazines, including the cover of The New York Times (Home Section), in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and on Bloomberg News television. Harpman and Specht gave a TED talk about micro dwellings and the zeroHouse™. The Manhattan Micro Loft is often cited as one of the first micro-unit dwellings to be constructed in New York City. Both the zeroHouse™ and Manhattan Micro Loft continue to win notice for innovation, design excellence, and ecological design.

BOOKS written by LOUISE HARPMAN 2018 Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018). Print.

2014 Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned by Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, Mitchell Joachim (London, Munich, New York: Prestel, 2014).

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS written by LOUISE HARPMAN 2018 “Modest Modern Marvels,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 9-16. Print.

2018 “Peel,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 35-89. Print.

2018 “Pinch,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 91-97. Print.

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2018 “Pucker,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 99-198. Print.

2018 “Puncture,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp.199-212. Print.

2018 “Good Design is Hiding in Plain Sight,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 213-232. Print.

2018 “Phylogeny and its Discontents,” in Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), pp. 233-248. Print.

2018 “Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture,” in Design Observer. 16 Mar. 2018. Web. 2017 “Coffee Lids” in Algera and vander Hoeven, eds., Finders Keepers: The Life of Things, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL. Print.

2017 “Waste__World,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Labowitz Theatre, May 2017.

2017 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 20 Oct. 2017.

2017 “Size Does Matter: Micro Dwellings and the Quantified Home” in Intelligent Buildings, Conference Proceedings, European Utility Week, Amsterdam, NL. 2017.

2016 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct. 2016.

2015 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct. 2015.

2015 “There is No Planet B,” (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim). EnviroSociety. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.

2015 “Evolution of the Coffee Lid,” Mmuseumm, New York, NY. Print.

2015 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct. 2015.

2014 “Elsewhere Envisioned,” (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), Global Design (London, Munich, New York: Prestel, 2014), pp. 8-11. Print.

2014 “Notes from the Conference,” (with Karly Krakow, Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim) in Bottger and Fitz, eds., Weltstadt-Who Creates the City?, (New York: Goethe Institut, 2014), p. 3. Print.

2014 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct. 2014.

2013 “Inventory / Peel, Pucker, Pinch, Puncture” by Louise Harpman and Scott Specht, reprinted in

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE Sina Najafi et. al. eds., Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine (Brooklyn, NY: Immaterial Incorporated, 2013), pp. 103-107.

2013 “Good Design,” introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct. 2013.

2012 “Elsewhere Envisioned,” Introduction for Global Design NYU gallery show (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), hosted by New London Architecture at the Building Centre, London.

September—October, 2012.

2012 “Mapping,” Introduction for gallery show, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five. 01 Oct 2012.

2012 “Mapping as a Spatial, Political and Environmental Practice,” interview with Cassim Shepard, Urban Omnibus 22 Feb. 2012. Web. 17 Jul. 2015.

2006 “Design.Build.Texas” in Platform (Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture), pp. 20-21. Print.

2005 “Inventory / Peel, Pucker, Pinch, Puncture,” (with Scott Specht) in Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture (Brooklyn, NY: Immaterial Incorporated, Fall 2005), Issue 19, pp. 10-13. Print.

2004 “On teaching your teacher,” in Constructs (New Haven, CT: Yale School of Architecture, Fall 2004). Print.

BOOKS featuring the work of LOUISE HARPMAN 2015 “Specht Harpman” in Thirty Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015), pp. 193-4. Print.

2014 “Specht Harpman” in Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, Mitchell Joachim, Global Design (London, Munich, New York: Prestel, 2014), pp. 86-91. Print.

2014 “The Design Integration of Renewable Energies (Korean Translation),” by Franca Trubiano and Russell Gentry in Franca Trubiana, ed., Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Seoul: Korea Research Institute of Eco-Environmental Architecture, 2014), pp. 107-125. Print.

2012 “The Design Integration of Renewable Energies,” by Franca Trubiano and Russell Gentry in Franca Trubiana, ed., in Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp.

107-125.

2011 “zeroHouse,” in Prefab Houses, Maisons Prefabriqueés, Fertighäuser, Prefab Huizen (Antwerp: BooQs Publishers BVBA, 2011), pp. 420-7. Also featured on the cover of the book.

2010 “Oasis Advertising” in Re:Crafted, Interpretations of Craft in Contemporary Architecture and Interiors by Marc Kristal (New York: Monacelli Press, 2010), pp. 182-9.

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2009 “If These Walls Could Talk,” PS1/Museum of Modern Art (New York: PS1/Museum of Modern Art, Summer 2009), pp. 4-5.

2008 “zeroHouse™” in New Prefab Architecture (Barcelona: Loft Publications, 2008), edited by Sergio Costa Duran, pp. 98-101.

2007 “Psychoplex,” in Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition (New York: Princeton Architectural Press/Van Alen Institute, 2007), p. 86.

2006 “Specht Harpman” (various projects) by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, Jacob Tilove in New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium (New York: Monacelli Press, 2006) 2005 “Young Architects,” by Terry Riley in PRAXIS: Untitled Number Seven (Cambridge, MA: Praxis, Inc., 2005), pp.41-43.

2005 “Oasis Advertising,” in 100% Office: Architecture + Design (Moscow: Ova-Press, March 2005), pp. 132-3.

2003 “Concrete, New York City, USA,” by Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross in The 21st Century Office (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003), pp. 158-161.

2003 “Hypertexture,” by Ben Gilmartin in PRAXIS: Architecture After Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: Praxis, Inc., 2003), pp.32-35.

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS featuring the work of LOUISE HARPMAN 2018 “Two Design Geeks Crazed for Coffee Cup Lids,” by Anna Russell, The New Yorker (19 March 2018), pp. 44-45. Print.

2018 “Decoding the Design History of Your Coffee Cup Lid,” by Anika Burgess in Atlas Obscura, 13 March 2018. Web. 2018 “Coffee Lids: a Visual History of Everyday Design,” by Mark Sinclair in Creative Review (UK), 09 March 2018. Web. 2018 “Two Architects Write a Field Guide for Coffee Lids,” by Athena Waligore in Interior Design, 05 March 2018. Web. 2018 “The Secret World of Coffee Cup Lid Design,” by Katharine Schwab in Fast Company Co.Design, 02 February 2018. Web. 2018 “Lid Chic,” by Steven Heller in Print Magazine, 24 January 2018. Web. 2017 “Leben im Kreislauf der Natur,” by Ulrike Losmann-Hartl in Haus Inside (Austria), 23 Oct. 2017, pp. 62-71. Print.

2017 “Casa Xixim: Gold Award,” by Peter Fabris in Professional Builder, 23 August 2017. Web.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE 2017 “Casa Xixim: Festung der Morgenrote,” by Ulrike Losmann-Hartl in Haus Inside (Austria), 13 August 2017, pp. 36-47. Print.

2017 “Glass Houses with a Clear Sense of Style,” by Hannah Martin in Architectural Digest, 23 February 2017. Web. 2017 “How to Survive on your Own: The Shortcut Shack,” featuring zeroHouse (unsigned) in Popular Mechanics, February 2017, p. 62. Print.

2017 “Jersey Strong,” by Andrew Conway in Ocean Home, June-July 2017, pp. 22-30. Print.

2016 “After a Disaster, Families Build an Even Better House,” by Nancy Keates in the Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2017. Print.

2016 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Winter 2016, pp. 178-9. Print.

2016 “Casa en Tulum” in Casa Viva Mexico. July/August/September, pp. 18-29. (Also on cover). Print.

2016 “Our Top 50 Coastal Architects” in Ocean Home, October/November 2016. Print.

2016 “This Texas Home is Neatly Tucked Away in the Side of a Cliff,” Contemporist, 04 May 2016.

Web. 2015 “Homenaje al Paisaje Natural,” by Miguel Sada in Architectural Digest (Mexico), 13 July 2015.

Web. 2015 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Winter 2015, p. 167. Print.

2016 “Architects Turn a Tiny 425-square-foot Loft into a Dream Home,” by Alyson Penn in Business Insider, 12 Sep 2016. Web. 13 Mar 2018.

2015 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Fall 2015. Print.

2014 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Summer 2015. Print.

2014 “Lid Pro Quo” by Erin Wylie in NYU Alumni Magazine, Winter 2014, p. 8. Print.

2014 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Fall 2014. Print.

2014 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Summer 2014. Print.

2014 “Weston House,” in Architectural Record, Featured Houses, September 2014, online.

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2013 “A Spirited Game of Musical Rooms“, by Marc Kristal in the New York Times, January 17, 2013, p. D1 (cover), D6.

2013 “Modern Translation,” by Mayer Rus in Architectural Digest (February 2013), pp. 126-133.

2013 “prairieHouse and windCatcher,” in Texas Architect (January/February 2013), p. 19.

2012 “The World’s Largest Collection of Coffee Cup Lids,” by K. Annabelle Smith in Smithsonian. com, 15 November 2012. Web. 2012 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Fall 2012.

Print.

2012 “Into the Woods,” by Mitchell Alan Parker in Austin Home, Summer 2012, pp. 88-97. Print.

2012 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Summer 2012, p. 218. Print.

2012 “Texas State project makes creative use of tiles, by Jeanne-Claire van Ryzin, in the Austin American-Statesman, August 18, 2012.

2012 “West Lake Residence,” by Jonathan Bell, as featured in Wallpaper* Magazine, Architecture, Interactive Floor Plan feature, July 26, 2012.

2012 “Modern Home Tour shows Best of Style, Made Livable,” by Nicole Villalpando in the Austin American-Statesman, February 1, 2012.

2011 “Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Fall 2011.

Print.

2011 “Global Reach: Gallatin NYU Launches New Program on Visionary Architecture,” by Julie V. Iovine in Architect’s Newspaper, June 22, 2011, p. 08. Print.

2011 “The Rise of the Plastic Disposable Coffee Cup Lid,” by Nicola Twilley in The Atlantic, 09 May 2011. Web. 2011 “Double Dribble,” by Jason Kirby in Macleans, (Canada 124/8, March 7, 2011), pp. 40-1.

2010 “The Top 100 Architects,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine, Fall 2010. Print.

2010 “Barn Raising,” in Wilton Magazine by Carolyn Rundle Field (Wilton, CT: Publisher), May/June 2010.

2010 “Think Green” by Arden Ward in Austin Monthly Home, Spring 2010, p. 40. Print.

2010 “Hidden Potential,” by Marc Kristal in Metropolis, March 2010, pp. 34-6.

2010 “More Than the Sum of its Parts: With Prototype, Pair’s Vision of Self-sufficient Net-zero Dwelling Nears Reality,” by Shonda Novak in the Austin American-Statesman, January 17, 2010. Print.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE 2010 “The zeroHouse is the greenest of them all,” by Shonda Novak, in the Austin American Statesman, January 16, 2010.

2009 “Specht Harpman” in Residential Architect, November, December 2009, p. 41. Print.

2009 “Oasis Advertising,” by Rick Price in Texas Architect, July/August 2009, p. 79. Print.

2009 “Bouwen Voor de Toekomst,” in Green.2 (Holland: February/March 2009), p. 98.

2009 “Sweet Nothing,” by Sarah Rich in Dwell (February 2009), pp. 52-6.

2008 “Une Maison Prefabrique,” in Le Petit Quotidien (Paris: November 14, 2008), p. 2.

2008 “Habitat Ecologique,” in Architecture a Vivre/Maisons No. 44 (Paris: September/October 2008), p. 83.

2008 “The Eco-Friendly House To-Go,” in DFW Greenzine (September 2008), pp. 24-5.

2008 “Specht Harpman,” in Wallpaper* Magazine Design Directory 2008 featuring “the world’s 50 most inspiring young architecture practices,” (UK and US: August 2008), pp.102-104.

2008 “High Performance Prefabs,” by Sheri Koones in Smart Homeowner (July/August 2008), pp.

38-42.

2008 “Lo Mas Eco del Mercado,” by Soledad Garcia-Huidobro in +Decoracion Especial Sustenable (Chile: May 2008), pp. 88-89.

2008 “The Eco Prefab Revolution,” by Jeff Herlitz in Urban Land (May 2008), pp.64-68. Also featured on the cover of the magazine.

2008 “Go Green,” in Home Review (India: March/April 2008), p. 38 2008 “zeroHouse” in China Times (Taiwan: March 2008), p. 16.

2008 “La Casa in Tasca,” in Blu & Rosso (Milan: March 2008), p. 40-3.

2008 “Carbon-zero ZeroHouse™: Mini-luxury home steps lightly on the earth,” by Heather Livingston, AIA Architect, Volume 15, March 21, 2008.

2008 “Gelecegin evinde tek yon doga,” by Mimar Sedef Oran in Yer, Yasam ve mekan Kulturu Dergisi (Turkey: January 2008), pp. 12-13.

2007 “zeroHouse” in PanDaa (Hong Kong: December 2007), p. 14.

2007 “zeroHouse” in Digital World (China: December 2007), p. 22.

2007 “zeroHouse” in Ketchup Magazine (Hong Kong: November 2007), p.40.

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2007 “Rigorous Inquiry,” by Stephen Sharpe in Texas Architect (September/October 2007), p. 7.

2007 zeroHouse™ Studio Award Winner in Texas Architect (September/October 2007), pp.84-85.

Also featured on the cover of the magazine.

2007 “The Adapters,” by Carol Flake Chapman in House & Garden (New York: Conde Nast Publications, June 2007), p. 174.

2006 “zeroHouse” in 100% Architecture Now (Russia: October 2006), p. 86.

2006 “Hitting the Books,” by Jayne Merkel in Architectural Record: Special Supplement, University Buildings (New York: McGraw-Hill, October 2006), pp. 7-14.

2006 “TSA Studio Awards, DesignBuildTexas” by Stephen Sharpe in Texas Architect, September/ October 2006, p. 79. Print.

2006 “Modern Barn,” by Jane Kolleeny in Architectural Record (New York: McGraw-Hill, July 2006), pp. 174-178.

2005 “Labworks,” in Interior Design (New York: Reed Business Information, March 2005), p. 132.

2005 “Inside Arts,” by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin in the Austin American-Statesman (Section XLENT, p.

30), February 3, 2005.

2005 “Cool Heating,” in WIRED (New York: Conde Nast Publications, January 2005), p.116 2004 “Custom Furniture,” by Ann Sample in Elements of Living (New York: Elements Media, November 2004), pp. 90-91.

2004 “Dross; on the onset of a post-production era,” by Lydia Kallipoliti in PART, Journal of the CUNY PhD Program in Art History, Spring 2004.

2003 “Prize Possessions,” by Jane Margolies in Interior Design (New York, NY: Cahners, October 2003) pp. 226-229.

2003 “All in the Family,” by Jane Margolies in Interior Design (New York, NY: Cahners, October 2003) pp. 115-117.

2003 “The Top 100 Architects and Designers,” by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine (New York, NY: Fall 2003). Print.

Specht Harpman’s work has been featured on many professional and popular design websites such as Architectural Record, Architecture, ArchDaily, Architizer, Dwell, Wallpaper*, How Stuff Works,Treehugger, Digg, BoingBoing, Behance, DuPont Design Innovations, Remodelista, Apartment Therapy, Interior Design, Houzz, Behance, among others.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE VIDEOS featuring the work of Louise Harpman 2017 NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Louise Harpman: Pecha Kucha at NYU Gallatin.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 30 January 2018. Web. 16 March 2018. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=t6PNY1eTBP4 2017 NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Waste_World.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 29 September 2017. Web. 10 March 2018. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=IXYWp5cXwEU 2016 NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Human Heliostat.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 5 December 2016. Web. 10 March 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=agN4trw8BKQ 2016 TEDxAMHERST, Veena Rao. “TEDx: Living Small and Loving It.” Online video clip. Vimeo. Vimeo, 25 April 2015. Web. 11 March 2018. https://vimeo.com/147804859 2016 NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Times Square Electronic Garden.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 1 June 2016. Web. 11 March 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0EnYRM3RyPE 2015 NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. “Climate Action Deal Now.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 7 December 2015. Web. 11 March 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBOvMHc8-Mo 2015 NYU Stories. “Peel, Pucker, Pinch or Puncture. Coffee lids, explored.”

Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 16 January 2015. Web. 17 July 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Uz1aRBmLVrY 2014 Bloomberg News, aking Stock with Pimm Fox.. “Manhattan Micro Loft.”

Online video clip., YouTube. YouTube, 19 June 2014. Web. 10 March 2018.

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Grants 2018 Principal Investigator, GDNYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study ($25,000).

2017 Principal Investigator, zeromicro™ Applied Research Consortium, NYU, Senior Vice Provost for Research ($3,000).

2016 Faculty Research Scholarship, NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study ($4,000).

2015 Teaching with Technology, NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study ($3,500).

2013 Consultant, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, Multi-family Retrofit ($1,000).

2012 Principal Investigator (GDNYU), NYU, Provost’s Office for Global Affairs ($15,000).

2011 Principal Investigator (GDNYU), NYU, Provost’s Office for Global Affairs ($15,000).

2008 Principal Investigator, RGK Center for Public Affairs and Community Service ($2,500).

2007 Principal Investigator, RGK Center for Public Affairs and Community Service ($6,800).

2007 Principal Investigator, Downtown Austin Alliance ($2,500).

2006 Principal Investigator, Blanco Library Research/Design Studio ($25,000).

2004 Faculty Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, Vice President for Research ($6,000).

2003 Principal Investigator, Design.Build.Texas ($285,000).

2003 Design.Build.Texas Advisory Council ($2,500).

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Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations 2018 New York University, Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Symposium, Office of the Provost.

“Good Design.” New York, NY. 2018 New York University, Center for the Humanities, Urban Digital Humanities. “Micro Dwellings: Where the Quanitified Self meets the Quantified Home.” New York, NY. 2018 HET Nieuwe Institute, Keynote Speaker, Finders Keepers Exhibit. “Wretched Excess.” Rotterdam, NL. 2017 CIAM XI to XX: The Future of the Future of Architecture. “Multiscalarity.” Athens, GR. 2017 European Utility Week, Intelligent Buildings Europe, Building an Ecosystem for the Future.

“Live smaller. Live better. Introducing zeromicro™ and the Future of the Quantified Home.”

Amsterdam, NL. 2017 “The Quantified Self meets the Quantified Home.” New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Climate Action Conference. New York, NY. 2017 Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium. “Climate Registers.” Paris, FR. 2016 University of Toronto, School of Architecture. Toronto, Canada.

2016 Yale University, Yale School of Architecture. “Big Talk, Small Houses: How Micro Housing Might Just Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis.” New Haven, CT. 2016 Design Trust for Public Space. “The Once and Future Public Library.” New York, NY. 2016 New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Alumni College. “What Makes Good Design Good?” New York, NY. 2016 University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.“Size Does Matter.” Sheffield, UK. 2016 New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Pecha Kucha. “Small is Beautiful.”

New York, NY. 2016 New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, “Democratizing the Green City.”

Prepared introduction of keynote speakers Roger Keil and Julie Sze. New York, NY. 2015 New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Writing Program Symposium. New York, NY. 2015 TEDxAMHERST, “Size Matters,” Featured speaker (with Scott Specht). Amherst, MA. 2015 “Material Archive,” Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium. Paper included in symposium reader.

Florence, IT. 2014 Morgan Library, “Accumulated Wisdom: Collector as Inventor.” Featured speaker. New York, NY. 2014 New York University, Parsons The New School, Goethe Institut, Cities and Citizenship conference.

Co-organizer and moderator, New York, NY. 2013 Rubin Museum of Art, Radical Terrain lecture series. “This Friday at Marienbad.” New York, NY. 2012 New York University, Bedford Square, Elsewhere Envisioned symposium. “Testing Testing.”

London, UK. 2012 Yale School of Architecture, Women in Architecture. “Pecha Kucha.” New Haven, CT. 2012 Yale School of Architecture, Women in Architecture. “Build Your Bench.” New Haven, CT. 2012 American Institute of Architects. “Change in the Middle East,” moderator. New York, NY. 2011 Festival of Ideas for the New City, World Café, New Museum, moderator. New York, NY. 2011 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. “The New and the Now.” Cambridge, MA. 2011 The Economist, Intelligent Infrastructure.“The Architecture of Progress.” Blogger. New York, NY. 2011 New York University, College of Arts and Science. “Current Work.” New York, NY.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE 2011 New York University, Rudin Center for Transportation. “Current Work.” New York, NY. 2010 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. “Current Work.” Austin, TX. 2009 University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Policy. “Current Work.” Austin, TX. 2008 New York Institute of Technology. “Current Work.” New York, NY. 2008 Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. “Current Work.” Denver, CO. 2007 Architectural League of New York. “Found.” New York, NY. 2007 Umlauf Sculpture Center (with Scott Specht). “Found.” Austin, TX. 2007 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture (with Scott Specht), “Everything Must Go!”

Austin, TX. 2007 Pecha Kucha (with Scott Specht). “Specht Harpman,” Austin, TX. 2006 Town Hall, “Information, Technology and the Public Library,” Blanco, TX. 2006 ACSA National Conference. Featured Presenter, “Design Build Texas,” Salt Lake City, UT. 2005 Philbrook Museum of Art. “Architecture in the Garden,” Tulsa, OK. 2005 University of Houston School of Architecture. “Found,” Houston, TX. 2004 Washington University, School of Architecture and Planning (with Scott Specht). “Local.” St. Louis, MO. 2004 University of Toronto, School of Architecture. “Local.” Toronto, CA.

Conferences Convened 2017 Pecha Kucha: Furious, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Lead organizer (with Millery Polyne), session moderator. New York, NY. 2016 Pecha Kucha: Envision, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Lead organizer (with Lulu Nolte), session moderator. New York, NY. 2014 Cities and Citizenship, New York University, Parsons The New School, Goethe Institut. Conference co-organizer (with Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), session moderator.

New York, NY. 2014 Goethe Institut, Weldstadt, New York and Berlin. Who makes the city? Conference co-organizer (with Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim). New York, NY. 2012 Elsewhere Envisioned, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Lead organizer (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), session moderator. London, UK. 2011 Elsewhere Envisioned, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Conferenceco-organizer (with Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim), session moderator. New York, NY.

Design Exhibitions 2017/8 HET Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL. “Finders Keepers.” Coffee Lid Collection.

2016 Mmuseumm, New York, NY. Coffee Lid Collection.

2015 Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT. “Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architectural Education at Yale.” Drawings by Louise Harpman.

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2015 Creek Show, Austin, TX. Public art installation.

2015 Mmuseumm, New York, NY. Coffee Lid Collection.

2014 AIA Modern Homes, Austin, TX. Cliff House.

2012 Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History, Washington, DC.

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2012 American Institute of Architects, New York, NY. New York Now. zeroHouse™, prairieHouse™, windCatcher™.

2012 Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT. “Women in Architecture.”

2012 Building Centre, New London Architecture, London, UK. Global Design NYU. zeroHouse™, prairieHouse™.

2012 AIA Modern Homes, Austin, TX. D’Arcy Residence.

2011 New York University, Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY. Global Design NYU. zeroHouse™, prairieHouse™, windCatcher™.

2011 Modern Homes. Stirratt Residence, New Canaan, CT. 2009 East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX. 2009 Open Architecture, Austin, TX. 2009 Austin Children’s Museum, Austin, TX. “MegaModel.”

2007 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Mebane Gallery, Austin, TX. “Specht Harpman: Everything Must Go!” 2006 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Mebane Gallery, Austin, TX. “Capsule Summary.”

2006 Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Cabinet 19: Coffee Lid Collection.

2005 Van Alen Institute, New York, NY. Parachute Pavilion Competition winners.

Design Award Juries and Peer Reviews 2017 Juror, APA Annual Studio Showcase, Pratt Institute, New York, NY. 2016 Peer Reviewer, TAD, The Journal of Technology, Architecture, Design 2015 Juror, New York University, Coles Reconstruction, New York, NY. 2015 Juror, Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York, New York, NY. 2013 Juror, ONE PRIZE, Stormproof Competition, Brooklyn, NY. 2012 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Emerging New York Architects, New York, NY. 2010 Juror, Residential Architect Design Awards, Washington, DC. 2009 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Building Awards, Chicago, IL. 2009 Juror, Art Alliance Austin, TOGS2, Austin, TX. 2008 Juror, Art Alliance Austin, Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space, Austin, TX. 2006 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards, Ft. Worth, TX. 2005 Juror, Philbrook Museum of Art, LANDed Competition, Tulsa, OK. 2004 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards, Charlotte, NC. 2003 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards, Memphis, TN. 2003 Juror, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards, Western Colorado.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE Teaching Awards and Fellowships 2010 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Semi-Finalist, University of Texas at Austin.

2009 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Finalist, University of Texas at Austin.

2008 Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin.

2007 Junior Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

2006 Texas Society of Architects. Honor Award, Studio Category, Design.Build.Texas.

2006 National Council of Architecture Registration Board, NCARB Prize for the Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy. Honorable Mention, Design.Build.Texas.

2006 United States Green Building Council. Greenbuild, Featured Project, Design.Build.Texas, 2006 Faculty Fellow, LBJ School of Public Policy, University of Texas at Austin.

2005 Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin.

2005 Citation, Services for Students with Disabilities, University of Texas at Austin.

2004 Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin.

Awards and Prizes won by Louise Harpman’s students Dean’s Award for Graduating Seniors. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Kyle Richard, 2017.

Dean’s Conference Fund. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Jason Gabaee, Gui Marcos, Lila Rimalovski, Arielle Ross, 2017.

Dean’s Award for Summer Research. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Louisa Nolte, 2016.

Horn Family Environmental Studies Resources Fund. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Louisa Nolte, William Kammler, 2016.

Dean’s Award for Summer Research. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Brendan Ward, 2015.

President’s Service Award. New York University.

Michael Ryan, 2014.

Gallatin Koppenaal Award. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Michael Ryan, 2014.

Gallatin Student Resources Fund. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Michael Ryan, 2012.

Swiss Prize, Swiss Society of New York. Administered by NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Stephanie Hodges, 2012.

Dean’s Prize for Innovation. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Miriam Brafman, 2011.

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Horn Family Environmental Studies Resources Fund. NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Sam Galison, Laura Seach, Ariel Dubov, Jana Kalnina, 2011.

American Institute of Architects. Austin, TX. Brett Wolfe for the Blanco Library project, 2011.

George H Mitchell Award for Academic Excellence | University of Texas at Austin Brett Wolfe for the Blanco Library project (2nd Prize 2007—$5,000).

Oglesby Prize | University of Texas at Austin | School of Architecture Brett Wolfe (1st Prize 2007—$5,000). David Bench (1st Prize 2006—$8,000).

Undergraduate Research Fellowship Winners | University of Texas at Austin Drew Finke (2010). Charleen Chae (2010). Brett Wolfe (2006).

Excellence in Design Award Winners | University of Texas at Austin | School of Architecture Eddie Kopelson for the studioPLAY project (2008).

Shengning Zhang for the Austin Fire Station project (2007).

Brett Wolfe for the Blanco Library project (2006).

Scott Vandever for the Blanco Library project (2006).

All students for the Design.Build.Texas project (2005).

Frank Farkash for the Children’s Community Center project (2003).

Jenny Wu for the Children’s Community Center project (2003).

Distinction in Design | University of Texas at Austin | School of Architecture Shengning Zhang for the Austin Fire Station project (2007).

Publications featuring the work of Louise Harpman’s students 2017 “Waste__World,” in Confluence, Fall 2017. Online.

2017 “The White T-Shirt,” in Confluence, Spring 2017. Online.

2017 “Good Design,” by Louise Harpman in emPOWERed, Spring 2017. Print.

2016 “Good Design,” by Louise Harpman in Techstyles, Spring 2016. Print.

2015 “Whiteness” (featuring the work of students Jack Richards, Lily Wolens), by Allyson Paty in Confluence, Fall 2015. Web. 2012 “Mapping as a Spatial, Political and Environmental Practice,” by Cassim Shepard, Urban Omnibus 22 February 2012 Web. 17 July 2015.

2007 “Wooldridge Square Park: the Study,” by Katherine Gregor in the Austin Chronicle, August 3, 2007, p. 22. Print.

2006 “Design.Build.Texas,” by Jonathan Bell in The 21st Century House (Laurence King: London, 2006), pp. 180-183. Print.

2005 “Design.Build.Texas,” by Louise Harpman in Platform (Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, 2005), pp. 20-21. Print.

2005 “Field Education,” by Ingrid Spencer in Texas Architect (Austin, TX: Texas Society of Architects, May/June 2005), pp. 18-21. Print.

2005 “From Paper to Prairie,” by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin in the Austin American-Statesman, January 27, 2005, pp. E1, E7. Print.

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LOUISE HARPMAN CURRICULUM VITAE 2005 “Design.Build.Texas,” by Louise Harpman (with Russell Krepart) in ISSUE: 01 (Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture), pp. 8-11. Print.

2004 “Work: Students Build from the Ground Up,” by Ingrid Whitehead in Architectural Record (New York: McGraw-Hill, June 2004), p. 52. Print.

2004 “UT Students Design Eco-Friendly Homes,” by Brandon McElvey in The Daily Texan, April 12, 2004, p. 6. Print.

2004 “Students Construct House,” by Alejandro Martinez in The Daily Texan, March 12, 2004, p. 9.

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ISSUE: University of Texas at Austin | School of Architecture Annual Publication Issue: 001 featuring the work of the 16 students in Design.Build.Texas studio (2005). Print.

Issue: 003 featuring the work of Scott Vandever for the Blanco Library project (2006). Print.

Issue: 003 featuring the work of Brett Wolfe for the Blanco Library project (2006). Print.

Issue: 004 featuring the work of Shengning Zhang for Austin Fire Station (2007). Print.

Issue: 005 featuring the work of Trevor Messinger for studioPLAY (2008). Print.

Exhibitions featuring the work of Louise Harpman’s students Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre and Gallatin Galleries | New York, NY “Waste_World” featured in the annual NYCxDESIGN festival. May, 2017.

Times Square, | New York, NY “Times Square Electronic Garden” featured in the annual NYCxDESIGN festival. May, 2016.

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre and Gallatin Galleries | New York, NY Student designs featured in annual fashion show, emPOWERed, March 2017.

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre and Gallatin Galleries | New York, NY Student designs featured in annual fashion show, Techstyles, March 2016.

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre and Gallatin Galleries | New York, NY Student design work featured in gallery show entitled, “New York, I love you, but…”

Curated by Keith Miller, November 2015.

NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five | New York, NY “Good Design,” student design projects, October—December, 2015.

New York IDEAS 2015 | New York, NY Student design work featured at national urban design and innovation conference hosted by The Atlantic and Aspen Institute, May 2015.

NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five | New York, NY “Good Design,” student design projects, October—December, 2014.

NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five | New York, NY “Good Design,” student design projects, October—December, 2013.

NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five | New York, NY “Mapping,” student design projects, April—October, 2012.

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NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Gallery Five | New York, NY “OK40.” Student show running concurrently with Global Design NYU, May 2011.

Austin Children’s Museum | Austin, Texas Exhibit of student design work (models, drawings, research compendium) designed and installed by studioPLAY students to showcase their work in the ACM Community Gallery, May—December 2008.

Austin Children’s Museum | Austin, Texas Hands-on exhibit designed by studioPLAY students to engage young children through the Science Sundays program to demonstrate basic science principles, June 2008.

Maplewood Elementary School | Austin, Texas Hands-on teaching/learning session with elementary school children; studioPLAY made customdesigned toys to demonstrate basic science principles, January 2008.

Blanco Library | Blanco, Texas Exhibit of student design work (models, drawings, and research summary) designed and installed by students for display in library exhibition space, May—September 2006.

Gem of the Hills Community Center | Blanco, Texas Student work showcased in “town hall” format at local community center; students presented their work in public lecture and then fielded questions throughout the exhibit opening, May 2006.

Battle Hall Library | University of Texas at Austin Student design work for new Blanco Library (models and drawings) displayed in University arts library, September 2006—May 2007.

State of Texas | Capitol Building Rotunda | Exhibit of Undergraduate Research Excellence Brett Wolfe’s original research and design project for the Blanco Library project, May 2006.

Public Service and Consulting Open House New York. Board of Directors, 2014 to present.

Austin Foundation for Architecture. Founding Member, 2005-10. Directed new organization to raise awareness and support young practitioners in Austin.

Downtown Austin Alliance. Architectural Adviser, Wooldridge Square, 2008.

Art Alliance Austin. Competition Adviser, 2007-10. Assisting Board of Directors in developing, publicizing and managing jury process for international design competition.

Austin Children’s Museum. Architectural Adviser. 2007-08. Assisted Board of Directors with RFQ for new museum; advised architect selection process. Commission awarded to Koning Eizenberg.

St. Edward’s University. Architectural Adviser. 2004. Assisted University Facilities Committee with RFQ for new chapel and residence hall. Commissions awarded to Rick Joy (chapel) and Alejandro Aravena (hall).

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LOUISE HARPMAN PUBLICATIONS Blanco Library. Architectural Adviser. 2004-06. Assisted Board of Directors and Woman’s Club in site selection, site and architectural design for new library; advised architect selection.

DIFFA Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Architectural Adviser. 2002. Provided pro-bono services.

Design Trust for Public Space, Inc. Board of Directors, 1997-2004.

Design Trust for Public Space, Inc. Senior Fellow. 1996. Researched and wrote comprehensive design guidelines for the Brooklyn Public Library system, including renovation and new construction guidelines.

Memberships Associate, American Institute of Architects.

Member, Architectural League of New York.

Member, Municipal Art Society.

Senior Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space.

Member, New York Academy of Sciences.

Member, The Athenaeum, London.

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ZEROMICRO

Louise Harpman__PROJECTS leads or partners with interdisciplinary teams for applied research initiatives and has several focus areas, including micro housing, net zero energy building practices, and building management systems. PROJECTS is the home of the zeromicro™ Applied Research Consortium.

A zeromicro™ building is a net zero energy building comprised of micro-unit dwellings. The zeromicro™ Super Smart Meter is an integrated utility metering and monitoring system that allows residents and building owners to track utility usage at a granular level.

Harpman developed zeromicro™ as an independent research venture that was later supported by the University. Harpman holds four registered trademarks from the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to the zeromicro™ project. For more information, please see www.zeromicro.us.

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BEACH HAVEN

This narrow house positions itself to take advantage of open views to the ocean, while maintaining privacy within a densely populated beachfront community on the Jersey Shore. Using design principles that one might find in an 19th century urban neighborhood, this “townhouse on the beach� offers large windows and balconies on the seaside and entry facades, while screening the side elevations.

Specht Harpman designed this house with all habitable spaces well above the ground plane, to comply with post-Sandy storm surge regulations.

The house and its generous shaded patios provide a relaxed flow between the precinct of the house and the beach. Storage for kayaks, bicycles, and other recreational equipment is easily accommodated here, and custom hammocks attached to the supersized structural columns. The interior features a sculptural stair that connects the family living areas, which include a combined kitchen/dining room/living room, four bedrooms and three bathrooms. awards

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CASA XIXIM

This residence, on a narrow lot fronting a protected bay in Tulum, Mexico, was designed by Specht Harpman to be fully self-sufficient, and to immerse the occupants in the range of environments that the site offers.

A narrow path brings visitors through dense vegetation to a large living / dining / kitchen space that is fully open to the beach beyond. Four bedrooms, above and adjacent to this central gathering space, can be fully opened to the exterior. The transparency of the house allows prevailing winds to flow through and provide cooling while maximizing views of the ocean and the forest. Â The house is powered by a photovoltaic canopy that shades a large rooftop terrace. This terrace also collects rainwater that is filtered and stored for use. Other roof areas are planted with native species that provide insulation and screening. All waste is processed through a digester and artificial wetlands system. Casa Xixim is an ecoluxe, gridtied, predominantly net-neutral house that works in harmony with its surroundings. awards

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CLIFF HOUSE

The Cliff House is perched along Austin’s historic Scenic Drive, bolted into a limestone cliff, overlooking the Lower Colorado River. The house’s three levels are barely visible from the road, and the interior spaces reveal themselves only after entering the precinct.

The house’s entry is marked by a minimal forecourt and lighted pavilion, which gives onto a lush planted roof garden. The entry portal houses a suspended staircase and elevator. Social spaces cluster at the bottom of the main stair, while private rooms are accessed through intermediate landings and feature views of the water and the stone cliff.

Specht Harpman designed this house so that light and air animate all the spaces, to support year-round indoor and outdoor living. Reclaimed materials and the Owners’ many artifacts are incorporated throughout the interior and exterior of this family home.

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BARKER DZP

Already a well-established advertising agency with previous offices in a dark SoHo factory building, Barker DZP came to Specht Harpman to help them envision what their new integrated advertising and branding agency would look like. Lower Manhattan— also known as FiDi—offered unique opportunities and Barker was able to occupy two penthouse levels of the historic Continental Bank Building.

Promoting a culture of creativity and connectedness, the open plan office provides flexible workstations as well as “team rooms” and a variety of social spaces.

Morning and evening light from New York harbor animates the lively interior environment.

The material palette recalls the history of the former rugged and functional working harbor. Polished concrete floors, painted steel tubestock railings, and interior glass partitions create a clean “shell.” Certain walls features magnetic surfaces so that displays can change frequently; similarly, other walls are painted with chalkboard paint so that “inspiration” can be shared.

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RIVER BEND HOUSE

This house on the Saugatuck River engages the landscape in a way that purposefully blurs the distinction between built and natural forms. The house is approached from a road that begins high on a cliff above, so that the roofscape—or fifth façade— becomes a critical element of the design. Specht Harpman designed this house to blend into the hillside and to engage the river’s edge.

Terraces are planted with year-round, region-specific succulents so that visitors and occupants feel like they are fully immersed in the landscape. Like other modern glass houses, the view becomes the primary interior decoration, animating the spaces with light and transparency during the day and reflectivity at night.

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WELEDA NORTH AMERICA

Weleda’s North American headquarters are housed within the shell of a 19th century factory along the Hudson River. One primary design intention was to expose and highlight the raw beauty of the original heavy timber structure, its brick walls, and large windows facing the river. The design interventions respect the character of the original building, while clearly registering a new use.

Adaptive reuse made perfect sense for this company that is a world leader in promoting personal health and environmental stewardship. Specht Harpman designed desks, workstations, display shelving, and wall cladding from wood that was recycled from nearby factory buildings. Several woodworkers were part of a local job-training program.

Plant-growing areas were built into the space, allowing staff and visitors direct interaction with the materials from which Weleda’s products are made. A licensed pharmacy is included within the office, as is a testing and sample area. Specially selected seasonal plants provide health-promoting aromas all year-round.

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MANHATTAN MICRO LOFT

Located at the top of a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, this tiny apartment measures only 425 square feet.

Specht Harpman was hired to “think through” the options for such an unusual space and to see if it was livable for two adults. Our solution created four separate “living platforms” that provide room for all the essentials while still allowing the apartment to feel open and light-filled. The lowest level is an entry and kitchen space, and a few steps up is the main living area. Above the living area is a cantilevered bed that projects out into the main space, supported on steel beams. Another stair leads up to a roof garden. All the spaces flow into one another, and the idea of distinct “rooms” is dissolved.

Most spaces perform double duty. Stairs are used for circulation, but also feature built-in storage.

The bathroom is tucked under the landing above the primary staircase. The kitchen features fully concealed appliances, flip up doors on high storage units, and a countertop that wraps into the main living space, becoming a virtual “hearth” with a builtin entertainment system.

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STIRRATT RESIDENCE

The Stirratt Residence is nestled into a lush hilltop in New Canaan, CT. The house engages the landscape and immerses the occupants in the full range of environments that the site offers.

Specht Harpman designed the house to welcome its owners and their visitors into what feels like a floating pavilion in the tree canopy. A winding drive brings visitors through the forest to arrive at a low and gracious landscaped court that frames the glass entry pavilion. From this court, the transparency of the house is evident: twelve-foot-high floor-to-ceiling glass allows views through the house, incorporating the landscape into the body of the house. The tree canopy becomes a part of the architecture and creates a visual perimeter that changes with the seasons.

The lower level of the house, carved into the earth, features a media room, library, and offices. These spaces open out onto the forest floor beyond, and link to a series of “outdoor rooms” that feature a fireplace and seating areas. The grounded, cozy nature of the lower level provides an experiential contrast to the expansive and light-filled level above. The swimming pool and separate cabana emphasize the project’s strong lines and classically modern roots.

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WEST LAKE RESIDENCE

Specht Harpman undertook a “surgical” renovation of an existing 1970s wood frame house in Austin, Texas. The original structure was retained in very few areas, and was re-shaped for the needs of a growing young family. The densely wooded site required an architectural and landscape strategy that would “thread “ the new structure around the existing trees, while opening up views to the stunning canyon vistas.

Visitors enter by a limestone pathway, leading through the trees into a generous entrance hall and living room, where glazed walls and a centrally-located fireplace create an airy and spacious welcome. The ground floor of the house is arranged on several different levels, extending out into the surrounding landscape through a series of masonry walls. An infinity-edge swimming pool creates a sharp distinction between the cultivated and natural landscape. The house also features several green roofs.

The ground floor is given over to family activities and the plan promotes an easy flow between outdoor and indoor spaces. The upper floor houses three children’s bedrooms, a children’s play area, the master suite, and a green roof deck. Built-in shelves are located at key points of the house to display the clients’ collections of books, ceramics, and other art objects.

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PRAIRIE HOUSE

The prairieHouse appropriates the infrastructure of petroleum dependency and creates a site of active resistance. Within the American landscape, the gas station and its canopy have become potent symbols of “freedom” and “mobility,” both of which form integral parts of the nation’s identity. The prairie is seen as the breadbasket of the world, a place of abundance, fertility, and productivity. Frank Lloyd Wright’s canonical prairie houses are tributes to this myopic American view of itself.

Our prairieHouse is not based on a romantic vision of the American landscape, but rather on the shortsighted dependence on cheap oil and the reality of the landscape we have littered. We see the gas station canopy as a ruin, and we are happy to hasten its demise. Our prairieHouse is retrofitted for inhabitation, with living spaces tucked up safely under the broad shading roof, electric vehicle charging areas below the house, and a tall-grass prairie on top.

Twin towers promote passive convective ventilation through the house.

Re-use and re-purposing of this ubiquitous, nearly invisible, and potentially outmoded structure is a most basic form of recycling, and one that could have greater impact than any, more active “greening” strategy.

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DOYLE HALL

St. Edward’s University invited Specht Harpman to renovate an existing 1950’s-era building on the University’s main campus in South Austin. During the Programming phase, the University realized that they needed more space than the existing building offered. Specht Harpman took the opportunity to design an addition that bridged between two existing buildings, activating an under used courtyard with a centuries-old Live Oak tree at its center.

Doyle Hall houses classrooms, faculty offices, and a café, and is now linked to the larger campus by a new “outdoor room” that features seating, tables, and other amenities to promote student and faculty interaction and a sense of community.

The new addition is respectful of the existing adjacent structures, following the pattern of its slender concrete columns and large windows, while introducing new elements. The new aluminum louver sunshade system lowers energy costs, increases comfort within the west-facing portion of the building, and creates a broad “sitting porch” adjacent to the courtyard.

New surface materials are also deployed to create a varied yet complementary grouping of buildings.

Textured concrete panels and a glass curtain wall mesh the existing and the new, and make the entire complex flow into a single, strong composition. Along selected interior corridors, custom three-dimensional “wallpaper” highlights the patterns found in concrete block buildings throughout the campus.

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SAN JACINTO

Specht Harpman adapted this early 1900’s era warehouse in downtown Austin to become an active mixed-use building in the historic core. The original three-level building was little more than a concrete shell, without fire stairs, elevators, or code-compliant utilities. The owner desired to upgrade the building for a variety of uses, including three new restaurant spaces on the ground floor, a private club in the basement, and office spaces at the upper level. Our challenge was to weave these uses together, to upgrade the building to meet current code and accessibility requirements, to retain the character of the original building, while creating a dramatic new entry for the office spaces.

Rather than carving out a large portion of the building’s interior for the necessary upgrades, we created a new “service structure” adjacent to the building.

This not only allowed the floor area to remain intact, but also allowed us to create an expressive pavilion to mark a new entry to the building. The addition complements the raw, muscular functionalism of the original building while not attempting to replicate its details. It features open stairs, an expressed steel frame, and clerestory windows that let light into the bathrooms and lobbies at the upper level.

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BEAST

Working in a hundred-year-old drygoods store in Austin’s historic core, Specht Harpman renovated the Central Homegoods Building to become new offices for Beast Productions, a leading-edge digital editing studio.

After removing layers of sheetrock, Specht Harpman revealed the existing “Austin common” brick walls, and created a new beamed ceiling to incorporate the necessary heating, air conditioning, and lighting. The perimeter lighting scheme is subtle and washes the irregular brick walls with light, creating a warm glow throughout the day and night.

The private interior studio spaces feature custom steel and glass partitions, reclaimed barn siding, and cementitious panels. The barn siding is installed in continuous lines around the space, while the cementitious panels are designed in a large-format running bond pattern, referencing and giving a “shout out” to the historic brick walls. Large social spaces feature custom furniture, also designed by Specht Harpman.

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EVERYTHING MUST GO !

Specht Harpman was invited to show its work in the 2x2 exhibition series at the Mebane Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin ‘s School of Architecture.

For this installation in Goldsmith Hall, Specht Harpman designed a lounge space as part of the exhibition, featuring a series of full-scale fabrications using Coca-Cola crates, Dell styrofoam packaging, and Starbucks coffee carriers. This event foregrounded the firm’s interest in using ready-made “stuff” to expand the more formal and traditional architectural design vocabulary.

Intricately-crafted scale models of selected projects, including the zeroHouse and New Canaan Residence, were featured on a custom linear pedestal in the center of the space.

As part of this unique gallery event, Specht Harpman Leisure Industries also showcased two of its projects, the MegaModel and the Parachute Pavilion.

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ZEROHOUSE

The zeroHouse™ is a small, prefabricated house that can be easily shipped and quickly erected. It has amenities that include a full kitchen, bath, living room, outdoor decks and all elements necessary to comfortably support four adults.

The zeroHouse™ operates independently, without the need for any external utility or waste disposal connections. It is completely solar-powered, collects its own water and processes its own waste. Its operational optimum zone ranges from 25 degrees north latitude to 25 degrees south.

The zeroHouse™ can be used in many applications, including residential uses in remote or ecologically sensitive locations, as ecotourism resort units, or as living or office modules for remote employment such as mining, construction, or relief agency uses.

The zeroHouse™ originated and was developed in the offices of Specht Harpman, with additional support from Bear Ventures, DuPont Corporation, and the University of Texas at Austin.

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MELTZER AMES RESIDENCE This loft in a former printing house in Lower Manhattan was designed for a young family with a growing art collection. Specht Harpman designed the social spaces to be large and open, creating space for art as well as tricycle races.

The Tribeca building was in a state of collapse when Specht Harpman was hired to create this full-floor residence. The walls, floors, and ceiling are acoustically isolated and reinforced for art installations. The wall “wrapping” the main living/ dining space also features sliding panels that conceal audiovisual and entertainment equipment, and a wet bar. The working fireplace creates a focal point within the living room zone. Throughout the space, rolling ladders enable access to built-in overhead storage.

The surfaces and lighting are clean and unobtrusive, supporting the owners’ desire to “live with” their art.

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ST. EDWARD’S

Set within the historic main building, the Marketing Department is the authority on St. Edward’s University’s overall aesthetic and its public persona.

The group creates all the University’s printed and online materials, from fund-raising brochures to course catalogs to advertisements.

Designed to facilitate open communication, the new offices include custom workstations, private offices, display walls for publications, a meeting room, and an inviting waiting area.

As a special feature, Specht Harpman fabricated interior walls made of no. 2 pencils to symbolize the creative processes that the writers and designers share. This feature wall has became a “talking point” throughout the campus and is now a key part of the group’s identity.

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MODERN BARN

Specht Harpman was commissioned to reconstruct this historic gambrel hay barn which had been partially destroyed in a catastrophic fire, and to rethink the interior to become a new home for an older couple and their two Labrador retrievers. The barn is one of several buildings which were once part of a 10-acre dairy farm.

While the volumes of the barn and grain silo remain contextual with the other buildings on the site, Specht Harpman radically restructured the interior, removing the entire second floor to create a free volume.

What was formerly the lower level of the barn, used primarily for storage, is now the main social space of the house. Both public and private areas participate in material and spatial connections to one another, and also connect visually through a wall of glass doors to the garden and fields beyond.

The main floor includes the kitchen, the breakfast room, dining/living room, a private office, a separate suite for the live-in maid, as well as an integral seedstarting garden room. The upper floor includes the master bedroom, the master bathroom, a library, a private office, wardrobes, and access to the gardens and swimming pool at the north end of the site.

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OASIS

Oasis Advertising occupies the top floor of an industrial loft building in New York’s garment district.

The clients shared Specht Harpman’s love for the urban vernacular—an appreciation for the basic elements of the urban fabric, which take on a different reading when seen in a new context. ln the garment district, air-conditioning louvers commonly replace glass sash windows and signal the presence of clothing factories. In this project, Specht Harpman used louvers to create custom, raked lighting at the reception area and operable privacy screens at the executive workstations.

Custom pendant lights were made from air filters commonly found on large delivery trucks, and in this installation are used to delineate the main circulation routes and conference areas. Open workstations hug the perimeter and maintain a low datum to ensure unobstructed views to the Hudson River.

Oasis supported Specht Harpman’s interest in using ordinary materials in unexpected ways. We worked with local fabricators to transform individual ice cube trays into large fiberglass panels. The luminous blue panels provide a highly textured and colored entry and also create pleasing linear elements throughout the office.

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NUMBER SEVENTEEN

The design principle guiding the renovation of this interdisciplinary design studio in lower Manhattan was “undo, don’t overdo.” Opening up the ceiling in this top floor loft space revealed a generous skylight, which animates the space at all times of the year. The group work area is located in the center of the big room, while private offices and conference rooms cluster around the perimeter. A linear, orange upholstered bench provides a welcome jolt of color at the entry, and divides the open spaces from the more private offices and meeting rooms.

The custom modular steel frame units serve as spatial dividers. These open partitions also display large collections of the owners’ graphic design ephemera, and incorporate custom light boxes to create a glowing nightscape for this 24/7 design company.

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OXO

The design for the headquarters of OXO International was inspired by the durability and functionality of the company’s signature products. The company expanded four times during its tenancy in this former Nabisco factory and Specht Harpman worked with OXO for each of the renovations in New York City’s meatpacking district.

Part showroom, part laboratory, part working kitchen, the offices for the OXO embrace their ethos of “good design.”

Specht Harpman exposed and restored the existing columns, scalloped ceiling, and hardwood floors of the existing factory building. Custom cabinetry, furniture, and light fixtures animate the common spaces. New finishes include raw cork, cement board, finished maple, and sheet steel. In addition to open workstations and private offices, the space features a large communal lunchroom and a commercial kitchen where products are tested and used daily by employees. The “glove wall” features lost gloves collected by employees from all over the world.

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CONCRETE MEDIA

The design for the new offices of digital design leader, Concrete Media, takes its cues from the original concrete structure and steel window walls of the landmarked Starrett-Lehigh building.

Specht Harpman was the first architectural team to work in this 200,000 sf space after it was “decommissioned” as a storage depot. To maintain the sweeping views of the Hudson River, the design strategy places all the enclosed spaces, such as meeting rooms, technical centers, and service areas, along an articulated interior wall. The workstations and social areas are deployed in an open field to leave the continuous, curving window wall completely free of obstructions. The arrangement of the workstations follows the layout of the heavy equipment and machinery that marked the floors for so many years.

Specht Harpman worked within a palette of durable, industrial materials for the design of this new space.

The office features a resurfaced concrete floor, steel and glass partition walls at the primary conference rooms, protective steel cladding at certain social areas, custom steel and Douglas fir workstations throughout the office, and translucent cast resin “tanks” at the smaller meeting rooms. The tank rooms recall the “crown” of water towers on the building’s roof and have come to be called the office’s “think tanks.”

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PRADA/MTV CONCEPTS

As part of the wholesale overhaul of its store designs, Prada looked to a group of young architects from around the world to create a “brain trust” for testing new ideas. Specht Harpman was hired for its innovative use of “hypertextured” surfaces to complement the couture clothing and accessories. Prada executives, including Miuccia Prada and Holly Brubach, directed the project which was produced in Milan.

Specht Harpman’s design for the new MTV store in Times Square features ordinary, everyday items in a novelty retail setting. Specialty walls and surfaces are custom-made from ice cube trays, pencil erasers, and LED night lights. Sleek MTV products are displayed in, on, and next to these arrays of common, highly textured objects. Specht Harpman created an entire “sales wall” from re-purposed Japanese vending machines.

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COFFEE LID COLLECTION Louise Harpman is the co-owner of the world’s largest collection of independently-patented, disposable, drink-through hot beverage covers, conveniently known as coffee lids.

Harpman lectures frequently about the collection and has given radio, television, and magazine interviews about the design intelligence that goes into making these everyday objects.

Invited by IDEO to lead a seminar on design innovation with one of its clients (Boston Beer), Harpman has also provided consulting services to the Rubbermaid Corporation and reviews pending patent applications.

In 2017-18, the coffee lid collection was on display at the HET Nieuwe Instituut, the national design museum of The Netherlands, as part of the Finders Keepers exhibit. The lids have been included in several shows at Mmuseumm in New York City. In 2012, The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, displayed the coffee lids as part of its exhibit on Food in the Twentieth Century.

In conjuction with the exhibit, The Smithsonian accessioned over fifty (50) of the lids for its permanent collection.

To see two project videos, please visit http://bit.ly/2DBeUV9 and http://bit.ly/2FKg0nG publications

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New York University 2014 Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Associate Professor Co-founder and Co-Director, GLOBAL Design NYU

New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Associate Professor of Practice Co-founder and Co-Director, GLOBAL Design NYU

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COFFEE LIDS BOOK

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Louise Harpman was awarded a Humanities Institute fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin to study collections and collecting, after which she developed a new course on the topic for the Museum Studies graduate program.

Harpman participates frequently in symposia dedicated to collecting, most recently at the HET Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2018), where she was a keynote speaker at the Finders Keepers exhibition. She has also lectured about collectors and collecting at New York University (2017), Mmuseumm (2015, 2016), Villa la Pietra in Florence (2015), the Morgan Library (2015), and the University of Texas at Austin (2009).

Harpman served as the lead author of Coffee Lids. She wrote seven of the eight essays in the book; acted as primary liaison with the editors, publisher, and graphic designer; provided the bulk of the patent registry research; secured interviews with the designers; and created the catalogue for the collection.

Harpman received a faculty research grant from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study to supervise and mentor an undergraduate research assistant, Honor Bishop.

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WASTE_WORLD

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Undergraduates in NYU professor Louise Harpman’s Architecture and Urban Design LAB course created Waste_World, a green-frastructure made entirely of compostable paper and plastic coffee cups.

To make Waste_World, students collected used coffee cups every day for a month. The 1,500 cups in Waste_World are merely delayed on their journey to a composting facility. But composting is the exception, not the rule. Over 1,500,000 non-compostable paper and plastic cups go directly to landfills every day in this country. Through direct artistic activism, Gallatin students educated themselves and others about composting, recycling, and waste.

Waste_World orbited the Gallatin Galleries as part of the annual NYCxDESIGN festival. Waste_World was reinstalled as a feature at Gallatin’s conference on Climate Change. Several orbs are on permanent view in the Office of the Provost. Students dissassembled all remaining globes and returned the cups to Think Coffee for industrial composting.

Waste_World was a sponsored project of Global Design NYU. All the project credits are at the end of the video.

To see the project video, please visit http://bit.ly/2HGEISe

Arielle Ross

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Kyle Richard in the Gallatin Galleries

Honor Bishop and classmates create cup globes

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2017

PECHA KUCHA FURIOUS

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Louise Harpman

GDNYU hosted this Pecha Kucha event, entitled FURIOUS, as a way to bring faculty and students together after the dramatic change in the country’s political landscape in 2016. Faculty were invited to create short presentations to showcase their work, especially in relation to political, social, economic, and social justice issues.

During this event, 12 faculty members presented work ranging from immigration and activism (Judith Sloan), media manipulation (Andy Romig), radical ecologies (Mitchell Joachim), and the politicized history of fossil fuel wealth in Norway (Peder Anker). Dancer Kathryn Posin promoted the body and the theater as sites of resistance, while visual artist Nina Katchadourian offered a counternarrative to Furious that she called Curious.

Louise Harpman presented current work and also served as lead faculty coordinator with Associate Dean Millery PolynĂŠ and the Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.

Andy Romig

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2016

HUMAN HELIOSTAT

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Mitchell Joachim, Louise Harpman, Peder Anker, Keith Miller

Hallie Franks aims one mirror of the heliostat at President Hamilton’s office

This non-permitted, super-stealth urban demonstration took place in Washington Square Park and included more than 50 students, faculty, and staff from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Neighborhood students and local residents also joined in the occupation and demonstration. Louise Harpman served as lead faculty member for the conception, design, and production this civic action and related video entitled Human Heliostat. With this action, we created a direct call to University President Andrew Hamilton to realize three sustainable design goals: 1. commit to renewable energy and net zero energy buildings for all NYU campuses; 2. introduce “climate education” as a core academic requirement; and 3. divest NYU’s endowment from fossil fuel companies.

Human Heliostat was a sponsored project of Global Design NYU. Gallatin faculty member Keith Miller served as film director and producer. Actor Priya Patel donated her services as the first person narrator. DJ Spooky contributed the music. All the project credits are at the end of the video.

To see the project video, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_SftDgimJY

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Students build the pavilion at night in the heart of Times Square

Grassy orbs are linked electronically and create music when touuched

On Tuesday morning, May 10th, 2016 the Times Square Electronic Garden sprouted in the heart of Times Square, the most public plaza in the whole of North America. Conceived and directed by NYU Gallatin professors Mitchell Joachim and Louise Harpman, together with historian of science Peder Anker, faculty and students built this fantastical garden overnight as part of the NYCxDESIGN festival.

The Times Square Electronic Garden initiated conversations about climate change, energy use, and the need for green urban spaces. This temporary pavilion featured leafy plants wired to speakers and live sensors that created intimate relationships between people and plants. This installation began to “renature� Times Square.

The Times Square Electronic Garden was visited by over 250,00 people during the course of a 24-hour period. Visitors were invited to experience soothing living vegetative surfaces as a respite from the hyperelectrified, over-commodified surroundings. The central spheroid created a place of refuge and relative quiet, where passersby encountered a dense microcosm of hanging gardens. All the project credits are at the end of the video.

To see the project video, please visit http://bit.ly/2cnziyG

The garden pavilion offers a green oasis in the center of Times Square

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PECHA KUCHA ENVISION

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GDNYU hosted its first Pecha Kucha event to bring together scholars and advanced students whose work focused on Design and the Environment. During this half-day event, Pecha Kucha offered three separate panels including 16 faculty members and 4 students with work ranging from climate science (Matt Stanley), social justice (Piper Anderson), exclusionary immigration quotas (Jack Tchen) and access to scarce resources in war zones (Carly Krakow).

Louise Harpman directed the event and was the lead faculty coordinator. Students from the Gallatin Design Collective served as research assistants. This popular event proved to be an effective way to showcase work in progress and is now an annual event co-sponsored

by GDNYU and the Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.

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2015

CLIMATE ACTION NYU

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Five Gallatin professors, led by Louise Harpman, staged this one-day art action in the heart of Washington Square to support the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris.

Working with a group of dedicated students, the hazmatrobed team “occupied� the Square as they spelled out the statement, Climate Change Deal Now, using melt water from industrial-sized ice blocks. Working without permits, students learned firsthand how to succeed in carrying out a large-scale public space takeover.

Faculty and students were also committed to the Divest NYU campaign and created a second meltwater statement that read, Divest Now. Acclaimed filmmaker Keith Miller directed the video, while climate activist Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) provided the music. All the project credits are at the end of the videos.

Both videos attracted significant media attention and can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/1Kc3zYO

Louise Harpman preps all the team members

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Keith Miller directs Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, MItchell Joachim, Stephen Duncombe and students from the roof of the Kimmel Center

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Jack Richards

Maggie Chandler

Louise Harpman was invited to curate a show of student design work at the Atlantic and Aspen Institute’s fourth annual New York Ideas Conference. This event highlights people, ideas and trends that are predicted to change the future of the city. NYU’s Gallatin School was the first New York City college invited to this prestigious conference.

Students were selected from the Architecture and Urban Design LAB courses. All the featured projects sought to identify system-based urban design problems, and to propose design solutions to address them.

Featured projects include: 911, Please Hold by Katherine O’Kelly—a proposal to improve emergency service response time for life threatening conditions.

Tangerine Airport NYC by Jack Richards—a proposed new airport in New York Harbor accessed primarily by ferry.

HoopHouse by Maggie Chandler—a proposal to make the city’s outdoor basketball courts useable year round.

Common Underground by Jiachen Xu—a new type of community space for unsheltered homeless people.

NYC Soundscape by Max Theony—a set of proposals to dampen excessive noise and promote positive soundscapes.

Macrosea Academy by Rayne Holm, Timothe Husson, Sage Youngblood—a proposal for a new high school within a large maker space.

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Katherine O’Kelly

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Peder Anker with students

Louise Harpman, Jack Richards, Maggie Chandler, Max Thoeny, Katherine O’Kelly, Jiachen Xu

Jack Richards – Tangerine Airport NYC

Katherine O’Kelly – 911, Please Hold

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2014

GLOBAL DESIGN BOOK

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Global Design—co-authored by Louise Harpman, Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim—was published by Prestel, an imprint of Random House, in early 2015.

The book includes design work that was shown in two large-scale exhibitions in New York and London and an introductory essay by the authors. The book also includes an essay by design editors Ellie Stathaki and Jonathan Bell, and a scholarly essay by Hashim Sarkis. Commentary by the authors in the form of a trialogue accompanies each project.

Global warming and its effects pose enormous challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies or behavior modifications. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. Global Design asks how designers can ensure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments. Global Design places human emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of its environmental concerns.

The authors accept that the term “global” is problematic and, at this point in the 21st century, obscures more than it reveals. And yet we purposely employ this term to try to find a dynamic equilibrium between the global and the local, believing that it is vital to uphold a sense of nearness to places, identity, and culture irrespective of actual distance. The projects and practices featured in this book show a bridging and breaking of disciplinary boundaries, where solving design problems demands great fluidity, and, in some cases, a new type of emergent practice.

Global Design foregrounds a number of designers who see their work as informed by local and global concerns and whose projects expand traditional definitions of practice. As the design disciplines expand to embrace other areas of knowledge, it is our hope that the work featured in our book, as well as the design process itself—which promotes research, innovation, experimentation—will bring its rigor and methodology to a wider audience.

Global Design authors with Susanne Wofford, Dean of the Gallatin School

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CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP

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Andreas Kalyvas (New School), Miodrag Mitrasinovic (New School), Gianpaolo Baiocch

Cities and Citizenship was convened to address the absence of decisive political action on climate change, despite a rich trove of knowledge about its potentially dangerous consequences since at least the 1970s.

Along with the scientific aspects of ecological design, this conference was initiated to explore the current “state of the state� or, the intersection between urban design, public policy, and the social sciences.

Guiding questions included, Where can urban design and environmentalism join forces to yield the most positive results? What is the relationship between citymaking and citizenship? Can design provide new and richer tools for strengthening citizenship and advancing human rights and responsibilities? How can we test or evaluate our individual actions on the built environment while becoming active participants, rather than passive consumers of the city? Can cities be redesigned or modified or to address equity as well as sustainability?

This conference was a collaboration among NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Global Design NYU, the Goethe-Institut, and the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons the New School for Design.

hi (NYU), Mariana Mogilevich (NYU), Eric Klinenberg (NYU), Stephen Duncombe (NYU)

Lynnette Widder (Columbia University), Tyler Volk (NYU)

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Eric Sanderson (Columbia University)

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Mitchell Joachim (NYU), Susannah Drake (dLand Studio, City College)

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Miodrag Mitrasinovic (New School), Gianpaolo Baiocchi (NYU), Mariana Mogilevich (NYU), Eric Klinenberg (NYU)

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2012

GLOBAL DESIGN EXHIBIT LONDON

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Gary Slapper, Director of NYU Bedford Square Academic Centre

Hosted by New London Architecture at The Building Centre, GLOBAL Design NYU installed its second exhibit in central London in fall 2012. Featuring the work of more than 30 European architecture and design teams, the exhibit and full-day symposium highlighted both speculative and built work that addresses global climate concerns and resource management.

In their review of the show, Wallpaper* editors Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki wrote, “Spanning architecture, urbanism and design, this lecture and exhibition series has been created to explore what it means to be experimental today, how architects utilitize research and conceptual design and, above all, how these approaches shape our response to the city that surrounds us… Never before has there been such a strong sense of a global architecture community.

Whereas the connections and cross-pollinations that shaped the common threads in International Modernism over half a century ago were driven by the physical movement of architects around the world, today’s debate is instant and universal. The digital realm has brought architecture to a wider audience, and it has brought a hitherto unprecedented amount of data and feedback into the architectural process. GDNYU is about this process and methodology, translating the virtual into the real. Issues are shared, as are responses, and the potential for collaboration and conversation is vastly increased.”

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Mitchell Joachim, Karen Hornick, Louise Harpman, Associate Dean Lisa Goldfarb, Peder Anker, Patrick McCreery, Fred Smoller

Magnus Larsson and Louise Harpman

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GLOBAL DESIGN EXHIBIT NEW YORK

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GDNYU directors Louise Harpman, Peder Anker, Mitchell Joachim

GLOBAL Design NYU is a multi-year project conceived, designed, and directed by faculty members at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Initiated by Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim, GLOBAL Design NYU showcases innovative design practices from around the world as they relate to visionary architecture, urbanism, and ecological planning. The exhibition and speaker series is entitled Elsewhere Envisioned and brings together leading architects, designers, urbanists, historians, and scientists to address global climate concerns.

The first exhibits and symposia took place in New York (2011), London (2012), and New York (2014). Louise Harpman served as the Principal Investigator for the project, securing over $30,000 in research funds from the Provost’s office. Harpman co-designed both the New York and London exhibits, managed the budgets for both shows, co-directed the student curatorial assistants in New York and London, and identified the media partners in New York and London. Harpman served as lead partner for the London exhibit and speaker series, collaborated closely with NYU’s Academic Centre in Bedford Square, secured sponsorship from New London Architecture and the Building Centre, and arranged acceptance into the London Design Festival and the Bloomsbury Festival.

www.gdnyu.com

Gallatin Galleries and Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts

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This new course, offered jointly by the Gallatin School and the Department of Environmental Studies, looks at the practice of mapping as a cultural project with its attendant socio-political and environmental implications. Why are maps made? How do we interpret digital and analog information presented as maps? Do maps supplement or supplant text? Do they convey authority? To what degree do maps depend on observation and quantification? What is included?

Who is excluded? What political, historical, and environmental decisions are linked to various types of maps?

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Students in this course learn how to “read” as well as make maps. Through a series of projects of increasing complexity, students are asked to engage critically with visual documentation and information display, focusing on how our understanding of the environment is shaped by different maps and map-making protocols.

While one generation might be most familiar with static directional maps, another is schooled in alternative and multivalent readings of interactive and digital maps.

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Kristen Fujii – 100 Years of California Air Quality Standards

Sylvia Callegari – 100 Years of Fracking and Earthquake Incidents

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THE BANANA REPUBLIC

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY’S DOMINANCE IN THE UNITED STATES & LATIN AMERICA 1900-2000

30 LBS 15 LBS

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were given bananas to eat.

1904: United Fruit Company published A Short History of the Banana and a Few Recipes for Its Use with the intention to teach the public new recipes to expand the banana’s use and consumption.

1913: The Senate Finance committee included the banana as one of the potential goods to be taxed under the proposed Underwood-Simmons Tariff.

Lobbyists for the fruit and journalists described the tariff as an effort that would tax the “fruit of the poor man”.

1927: The Fruit Dispatch Co., a subsidary of the United Fruit Co., published a book that enumerated the health benefits of bananas for working-class Americans. It provided scientific evidence that bananas contained more vitamins, calories, and protein than other fruits, at a much lower price.

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1905: A contract signed in London gives United Fruit Co. control of all railroad facilities for a 99-year term lease in Costa Rica. This lease is not approved by the government of Costa Rica.

1941: The United Fruit Co. stops all ship to the US because of the presence of in the Caribbean Sea.

1923: The song “Yes, We Have No Bananas” by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn sold 25,000 copies a day.

1917: Guatemala and Honduras teeter on the edge of war over a disputed territory along the Montagua river. Behind the conflict are the United Fruit Co., and their rival, Cuyamel Fruit Co. Later in 1928, Guatemala and Honduras go to war, a conflict that is encouraged by the two companies.

1935: The Works Progress Administration is authorized, and between 1935 and 1943, the WPA builds over 650,000 miles of roads and highways. This road system allows for new markets for bananas to open in rural places where railroads had not reached years earlier.

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1928: United Fruit banana workers demonstrating in Cienaga, Colombia for greater stability and formal contracts with United Fruit Co. are killed by the Colombian Army.

After WWII, technological innovations 1944: Dik Browne is hired by the Unite better of fruit. During create preservation the cartoon character “Miss thC per capita processed Three yearsconsumption later, Miss ofChiquita Bana while freshincluding fruit fell.Ch severalconsumption technicoloroffillms time, the banana lost its nonseasonal the Cannibal, in which Miss Chiquita Baa supermarket. on how to properly eat bananas rathe

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By 1930, the United Fruit Co. had amounted $277,066 in unpaid taxes on railroad properties owned or controlled in Costa Rica. In an Executive Order of the same year, the company’s fines were stricken from the books, an act considered by many to be unconstitutional in that only the Congress has the authority to release such payments.

1932: Labor unrest breaks out in Honduras following the United Fruit Co.’s decision to fire 800 banana workers.

1954: presid 1947:Democratically-elected The Guatemalan government Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown code under the isnew president,byJuaa force response to an agarian whichinaims to improve workingref co expropriating lands of theUniU Guatemalans, unused especially within Arbenz implemented in 1953.

Also in plantations.

The company accuses Justice filed an and antitrust suit again “Communistic” threatens to le result, in 1956, the company is forc in1949: the International of Cen Labor issues inRailways Guatemala, Co addition to all lands Rica decrease Unitedin Guatemala, Fruit Co.’s prw ininterrupt 1972. shipments.

Kaitlyn Curran – 100 Years of Banana Production and Export Walvis Bay, a crucial entry point to Southern Africa given its natural deepwater harbor is ideal for ships traveling the sea route around the tip of the continent, is transferred by the Union of South Africa to South-West Africa.

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The Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire, is formed through the unification of two British colonies - Cape Colony and Colony of Natal - and two Boer republics - the Orange Free State and the South African Republic.

League of Nations mandates become United Nations Trust Territories, but South Africa refuses to relinquish administrative control of South-West Africa to the UN Trusteeship Council.

The League of Nations gave the Union of South Africa a Class C Mandate to administer and legislate over South-West Africa.

The Soviet Union is established. ....

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World War two begins after Germany invades Poland. . . . .

World War two ends, and the United Nations replaces the League of Nations. ....

1910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 World War One begins with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. ....

The League of Nations is founded. ....

World War One ends.

The Union of South Africa occupies and annexes the German colony of South-West Africa. ...zzzzzzz....

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Sarah Zapiler – 100 Years of South African History

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The United Kingdom passes the Statute of Westminster, granting self-governing dominions of the British Empire - including the Union of South Africa - legislative equality with the UK, giving them legislative independence. ....

The Bantu Authorities Act is passed and allows for the creation of tribal territorial regions to which blacks are forcibly deported and to which self governance is promised. Over the next forty-three years, six territories were granted nominal autonomy and four territories, while not recognized as such within the international community, were treated as .nominally independent states by the government of South Africa.

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South Africa The Union of South Africa declares independence from British rule and becomes the Republic of South Africa.

Anticipating the need to cede South-West Africa, the Union of South Africa strategically reasserted Walvis Bay as territory of Cape Province.

UN Resolution 2372 (XXII) changes the name of South-West Africa to Namibia.

The United Nations revokes the mandate over South-West Africa but the Republic of South Africa refuses to recognize the revocation and continues to rule over South-West Africa.

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison. ....

Walvis Bay is transferred back to an independent

Namibia becomes the Republic of Namibia and gains official independence.

The Republic of South Africa agrees to relinquish control of Namibia.

The Soviet Union ends.

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Nelson Mandela steps down as president and is replaced by Thabo Mbeki. . . . .

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The Bantustans are abolished and nine provinces are established allowing for an interracial election in which Nelson Mandela is elected president .

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POPS

74 Trinity Place Owner: Trinity Wall Street Church Trinity Episcopal Church is one of the l argest land owners in NYC. Rev Simons recently issued this statement about their open door policy concerning the Occupy movement, “we are confident in our role: listening and keeping our doors wide open in the middle of the whole mess of humanity.”

Privately owned public spaces & the brands who control them

75 Wall Street

The POPS program was created in 1961 to add

Owner: Barclays Bank

create a public space on your property, and earn the ability to extend the building 20 % higher.

Barclays is raising up to £7.3bn, mainly from Middle East investors, who could end up owning nearly a third of the UK’s second largest bank. Barclays relies on the taxpayer to bail it out if the going gets rough but which has offered Middle Eastern investors a much better deal than the banks are offering to the British taxpayer.

OPS public protesting. In lieu of the recent Occupy Wall St. protests, it is especially important to investigate the corporate interests behind lower Manhattan’s POPS.

1 Wall Street

1 Liberty Street

Zuccotti Park: Home of Occupy Wall St. Owner: Brookfield Office Properties Owned by: Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) Brookfield Renewable Power Granite Reliable Wind Farm BPO Properties Brookfield LePage Broookfield Residential Carma Developers

Owner: Bank of New York Mellon Board: Comcast US Steel Corp.

Liberty Mutual Motorola Abbot Laboratories Hartford Financial Services

85 Broad Street

Owner: Goldman Sachs Board: Exxon Mobil Pepsi Co Kraft Foods DuPont Bank of New York Mellon is currently Wal-Mart being sued by state and federal prosecutors Cisco Systems for allegedly defrauding institutional clients out of $2 billion by misrepresenting foreign Texas Instruments exchange rates on transactions it executed State Street Corp. for big pension funds.

Goldman Sachs (Fortune 500) Target

wasted.

1 Chase Manhattan & 60 Wall Street

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Owner: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Board: Con Ed Dell Inc Pfizer Johnson&Johnson Brooking Institution Yum Brands Berkshire Hathaway Deere Prudential Financial

Owner: Savanna Real Estate Portfolio: 2 Rector St. 415 Eighth Ave 100 John St. 125 N 10th St. 141 Fifth Ave 21 Penn Plaza 1375 Broadway 31 Penn Plaza 80 Broad St.

JP Morgan paid in July to settle charges that it defrauded local governments.

Savanna is a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm. It has been the most active buyer of Manhattan office properties over the past two years.

The Bank is accused of forging foreclosure documents.

The Obama administration has approved Chase has been accused in Federal court of a $168.9 Million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable Windand Farm air, project. accused by the Securities “Water the two essential fluids on which allislife depends, have become global garbageconnections cans.” to the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

The Obama administration endorses the and Exchange Commission of Though the Bank was bailed out for 25 Million, protests. defrauding investors in a com- -Jacques Yves Costeau it continues to offer top employees bonuses plex pool of mortgage securities 100x average annual salary of Americans. known as Abacus.

Privately owned public space (POPS)

City owned public space

Public information

Real estate developers

News coverage

Banks

Eva Jaeger – Mapping Privately Owned Public Spaces

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Sam Freeman – Mapping Waste Production

Personal total extrapolated from one week of solid waste generation. Calculations and sources can be found on Blackboard. Totals rounded whole, other data to tenth decimal. Statistics taken from EPA MSW report 2009. “Them” percentages reflect national totals, lbs/year based on average individual totals.

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Eva Jaeger — Mapping Waste Water Potential

Camilla Herrmann – 100 Years of Jewish Migration and Food Culture

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WHITENESS

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Jacob Ford

This new undergraduate course called Good Design exposes students to a range of design issues through an intensive and integrated seminar that includes reading, writing, and making.

As a stand-alone project, this exercise titled “Whiteness” asks each student to allow his or her own body and its covering to become a site of investigation. For this short project, each student is asked to select a plain white t-shirt and transform it, using highly circumscribed means and methods, to exemplify a particular design principle. At the same time, students probe the cultural constructs surrounding “whiteness” through discussions and response papers incorporating required readings, film clips, media images, and music. Students wear their shirts as part of the final presentation, and also show digital images of their work, discussing the distance between the “thing itself“ and its representation.

Featured projects include “Distortion” by Jacob Ford “Asymmetry” by Jack Richards “Symmetry” by Cori Huang

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Cori Huang

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ONGOING

BIG WALK

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Louise Harpman launched the BIG WALK at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2011.

During this annual event students, faculty, staff, alums, and other urban enthusiasts embark on an all-day walking tour down notable New York City streets.

Harpman gives short talks on items of architectural and social interest to punctuate the journeys. Special “guest lectures” have been offered by Karen Hornick on Andree Aciman, Stacy Pies on the poetry of the city, Nicholas Dungan on Albert Gallatin, Michael Dinwiddie on the Harlem Renaissance, Myisha Priest on red-tailed hawks’ nesting sites, Kim DaCosta on luxury branding and race, Mary Rowe on Jane Jacobs, Michael Ryan on “sliver towers” and Andy Romig on medieval antecedents of the Plaza Hotel. Curators from the Dyckman Farmhouse, the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the New York Public Library Firyal Map Room, and the Museum of the City of New York have offered private tours of their collections to our group.

The inaugural BIG WALK traveled the entire length of Broadway. The second BIG WALK charted the full course of Fifth Avenue. The third BIG WALK navigated the complete perimeter of Roosevelt Island. The fourth BIG WALK traversed the Hudson waterfront from the George Washington Bridge to Chelsea Piers. The fifth BIG WALK went river-to-river across 59th Street and returned along 42nd Street. The sixth BIG WALK traveled from Washington Square to Red Hook.

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BIG WALKers in Upper Manhattan at oldest surviving fire watch tower

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Professor Greg Erickson and his Abbey Road moment

Mary Rowe from Municipal Art Society discusses Greenwich Village and Jane Jacobs

Professor Kim DaCosta discusses luxury retail stores and racial exclusion

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University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Associate Professor Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Fellowship Professional Residency Program Director

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University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Associate Professor Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Fellowship Professional Residency Program Director Humanities Institute Fellow

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University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Associate Professor Associate Dean Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Fellowship Professional Residency Program Director

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ALLEY FLAT INITIATIVE

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Alley Flat Initiative students and faculty with Clarksville Community Development Corporation members.

The Alley Flat Initiative is a collaboration between the University of Texas School of Architecture’s Center for Sustainable Development (UTCSD) with the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC), the Clarksviille Community Development Corporation (CCDC), and the Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC). The Alley Flat Initiative, which was formed in 2005, proposes a new sustainable, affordable housing alternative for Austin. “Alley Flats” are small, detached residential units—accessed from Austin’s extensive network of underutilized alleyways— which can provide income for established homeowners in the rapidly-gentrifying city center.

Working with many University colleagues and local stakeholders, Louise Harpman directed the design studio in 2010 as the initiative grew to include two distinct Austin neighborhoods. Fifteen students worked to design, budget, and prepare full sets of construction drawings for alley flats to be built by the local neighborhood corporations or by individual homeowners. Students developed their work in close consultation with faculty, contractors, neighborhood representatives, and with full review by City of Austin department of buildings staff. Students presented their work to the architecture community and local community associations; the studio also participated in a city-wide show of the Alley Flat Initiative at City Hall.

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Architect Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, visits the Alley Flat Initiative studio

Student Everett Hollander presents his Alley Flat design to Mark Rogers, Executive Director of Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation

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Each student team prepared full CD sets, approved by the City of Austin

Student propsal for new Clarksville Alley Flat

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2007

WOOLDRIDGE SQUARE

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publications

Austin’s elected officials and civic leaders engage the University for many projects. The School of Architecture was asked to research the conditions of downtown park Wooldridge Square and make recommendations for its improvement. Architecture professor Louise Harpman directed the study and worked closely with landscape architecture professor Jason Sowell and graduate research assistant Brett Koenig. In partnership with the Downtown Austin Alliance Parks Committee, the team examined the role of the historic downtown parks and the specific opportunities offered at Wooldridge Square. The study documented and affirmed the park’s history as a premiere performance and political venue, acknowledged the various constituencies using the park (Juneteenth celebrations, Cinco de Mayo parades, Giant Chess, political rallies, music performances, homeless persons), and made a series of recommendations for enhancing the square and its programming.

The Wooldridge Square Site Study was presented to city leaders in a public forum and includes 1) history and usage patterns, 2) ownership and operation, 3) systems and infrastructure, 4) programming, 5) precedents, and 6) recommendations. The full report can be found on the Downtown Austin Alliance website.

Brett Koenig (graduate research assistant), Kent Collins, The Honorable Kirk Watson, professor Louise Harpman with landscape architecture professor Jason Sowell

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Diagrams by Jason Sowell

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2006

BLANCO LIBRARY publications

exhibits Blanco Library Battle Hall Texas State Capitol

awards University of Texas SOA George Mitchell Award for Undergraduate Research Austin Graduates Directory

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This upper-level design studio, initiated and directed

by Louise Harpman, was the first of its kind at the University of Texas at Austin and became a model for public/private partnerships. The Blanco Library provided funding for this research/design studio, the bulk of which was used for travel so the studio could visit the Seattle and Phoenix public libraries.

The Blanco Library Board of Trustees, the Blanco Library Woman’s Club, and the District Library boards served as advisers and collaborators on the project.

The public library as a building type remains an important place for individual learning, discovery, reference, and refuge. New public libraries, all constructed within the past ten years, in places as diverse as Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Vancouver, Madrid, Basel, and Kansai, contain a significant number of special-purpose spaces to support new or expanding community-oriented programming, including films, musical performances, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and meetings. The new public library extends the traditional notion of public space and creates an important vehicle for civic engagement and exchange.

All students contributed to an interactive research document after which each student developed designs for a new library on a designated site in Blanco, Texas. The research portfolio and individual architectural designs were presented for review and comment to the architectural community as well as Blanco Library representatives throughout the semester. A key priority for this studio was to engage with the various constituencies that support architecture, including local users, community activists, landscape architects, planners, and politicians.

At the end of the semester, final student projects were presented to architectural juries within the School of Architecture but also to the residents of Blanco County in two town-hall community meetings. The work of the studio was exhibited at the Blanco Library, at the historic Battle Hall library at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the rotunda gallery at the State Capitol. One member of the studio, Brett Wolfe, won the statewide AIA student award for Excellence in Design and the unversity’s George Mitchell Award for Undergraduate Research.

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Brett Wolfe, Louise Harpman with AIA Student Award

Louise Harpman, Brett Wolfe, Jeanne Crawford with George Mitchell Award

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2004

DESIGN BUILD TEXAS publications

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United States Green Building Council

Texas Society of Architects

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21ST CENTURY HOUSE

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Texas Society of Architects

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

Louise Harpman joined the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 as a tenured faculty member and Associate Dean. Soon after arriving, she initiated a design/build studio for upper-level architecture students. This course was developed as an educational prototype as well as a prototype for the design and construction of an environmentally-responsible house.

DESIGN.BUILD.TEXAS offered students a unique educational opportunity to conceive and test their ideas in real time and space. Sixteen students— eight undergraduates and eight graduate students, evenly split between women and men—spent the spring semester engaged in integrated research, which included studies of climate, land-use, formal precedents, as well as emerging and established building technologies. The students worked with landscape ecologists, structural engineers, soil specialists, septic engineers, and rainwater collection experts to design this sustainable house prototype.

The students then spent the summer working on site to build the house. Adjunct faculty member Russell Krepart directed the student workers for three months during the summer, while undergraduate Dale Buehler directed crews to complete the house in the following spring.

DESIGN.BUILD.TEXAS offered educators a replicable, real-time model for how to start such a program at their own schools and, as a byproduct, created a “how to” manual. As Principal Investigator, Harpman assisted in attracting a donation of $350,000 from a member of the school’s Advisory Council, gained insurance and regulatory approvals, and also secured consent of the necessary School and University administrators.

The project attracted significant financial support and in-kind donations from the building industry.

The project won design awards from University, State, and National organizations and was published in many formats, including a television show. The project was initiated in Spring 2004 and completed in Spring 2005.

Finish carpentry and custom millwork were constructed by Dale Buehler. Custom steel elements were fabricated and installed by faculty members Russell Krepart and Ernesto Cragnolino.

For a complete list of project credits, please see http://louiseharpman.com/academic/designbuild-texas/.

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Student construction team with faculty member and field coordinator, Russell Krepart

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PROFESSIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM

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The Professional Residency Program at the University of Texas at Austin is an upper-level honors program for professional architecture students, through which they secure placement at architecture offices and receive course credit. The Program has been a hallmark of the architecture school since 1974 and during the six years of my Directorship, we expanded our network to include over 180 offices in 21 different countries.

Our students joined leading offices such as Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paris and Genoa), Norman Foster & Associates (London), Behnisch Architekten (Stuttgart), Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin), SANAA (Tokyo), Toyo Ito (Tokyo), Arup (London and Shanghai), SOM (New York and Chicago), KPF (New York and London), David Chipperfield (London and Berlin), Richard Meier (New York), Tod Williams Billie Tsien (New York), Allied Works (Portland), Massimiliano Fuksas (Rome), Agence Patrick Jouin (Paris), OMA (Rotterdam), BIG (Copenhagen), Snohetta (Oslo), Claesson Koivisto Rune (Stockholm), Elemental Chile (Providencia), among many others.

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CONTACT Louise Harpman Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University 1 Washington Place, Room 607 New York, NY 10003 E louise.harpman@nyu.edu W www.louiseharpman.com

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