Jerome W Haferd
Spitzer School of Architecture | City College of New York
"An Other Spatial Imaginary : recent work in intersectional territories"
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
6 pm - 7:30 pm
Hayes Hall 403
This lecture will share recent work of Jerome Haferd's expanded and collaborative practice(s), highlighting work in the public and pedagogical realm which deals with intersectional questions of queerness, Blackness, and otherness as they reorient our space-making and space-taking vocabulary for both architecture and urban design.
AIA and AICP learning units for professional continuing education are not available for this lecture.
Biography
Jerome W Haferd is an architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NY and the Hudson Valley. He is principal of Jerome Haferd, RA and co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD Architecture with K Brandt Knapp. Haferd is an assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture and an affiliated faculty at Columbia and Yale University. Haferd’s expanded practice critically engages with historically marginalized subjects, built environments, and non-hegemonic histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture. He is one of the core initiators of Dark Matter University, a BIPOC led trans-disciplinary network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and knowledge production. His recent projects include BLK BOX, an experimental arts and performance venue and Beautiful Browns, awarded second prize in the 2021 OnOlive emerging Black architect housing competition. Haferd co-led the Dark Matter University “Constellation'' exhibit now on view at the 2022 Lisbon Trienale : Terra.
BRANDT : HAFERD, the award-winning collaborative studio, has grown out of civic engagement, producing public-oriented projects and collaborations with artists in New York City and nationwide. The studio is a 2020 New Practices New York winner. The practice was awarded the grand prize for the 2019 Cleveland ZeroThreshold Housing competition with a multi-abled, intergenerational housing and urban plaza prototype, and were finalists with WXY for the Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion. Other recent projects include the 2020-21 Harlem Renaissance Pavilion and historic West Harlem office and archive for the National Black Theatre.
Jerome W Haferd, assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture and an affiliated faculty at Columbia and Yale University.
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