Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. The Museum of Modern Art, February 15 to July 30, 2012. Michael Bell discusses the Bell/ Seong project Simultaneous City for the Museum of Modern Art and the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream. Michael Bell Interview on Reuters Financial.
Simultaneous City: Temple Terrace, Florida: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
Simultaneous City: Temple Terrace, Florida: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
Simultaneous City: Temple Terrace, Florida: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
Gefter Press House, Hudson Valley, New York
Glass House @ 2 Degrees: Fifth Ward CRC, Houston, Texas
Gefter Press House, Hudson Valley, New York
Double Dihedral House: La Cienega, New Mexico
Arverne by the Sea: New York Department of Housing, Preservation and Development, New York City
Michael Bell is Professor of Architecture at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he
is Director of the Master of Architecture Program Core Design Studios and Chair
of the Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering, and Materials. He is
the founder of Michael Bell Architecture, based in New York City. His design
work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Venice Biennale;
Yale University School of Architecture; the University Art Museum, University
of California, Berkeley; and Archi Lab, France. Bell has received four
Progressive Architecture Awards, and his work is included in the collection of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Books by Michael Bell include "Solid States: Concrete
in Transition" (2009), "Engineered Transparency: The Technical,
Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass" (2008), "16 Houses: Designing
the Public's Private House" (2004), "Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us:
Essays and Projects on the City" (2004), and "Slow Space"
(1998). He is a founding editor, along with Yung Ho Chang and Steven Holl, of
the journal "32." Michael Bell has taught at the University of
California, Berkeley; Rice University; The University of Michigan (Eliel
Saarinen Visiting Professor); and the Harvard University Graduate School of
Design. In 2000-02 Bell led a team of architects to provide research, planning,
and design for 2100 units of housing on a 100 acre parcel of oceanfront land
owned by the City of New York. The work was funded to assist in the future
planning and development goals. Bell also founded "16 Houses,"
a low-income housing design program in Houston. The Bell designed Binocular
House is included in "American Masterworks: Houses of the 20th and 21st
Centuries" by Kenneth Frampton (2008).
Visible Weather is led by Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell.
Seong offers extensive experience in commercial, institutional, housing and
residential design, both in the United States and in Korea. Prior to forming
Visible Weather Seong was the founding director of a New York office for
Yamasaki Associates where she was the lead designer for a new tower in Doha,
Qatar. Seong also was a project designer at SHoP Architects in New York. Seong is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and Pratt Institute. Seong has also taught at the Rhode
Island School of Design and the Parsons School of Design. Seong is designer for
Joan Ockman's upcoming exhibition at the Van Alen Institute titled "Flat
Iron District: High and Low" opening in the fall of 2009 in New York.
Eunjeong Seong's professional and academic work is also visible at: EuneongSeong.com
Recent Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions
New
York, February 14, 2012: The Museum of Modern Art. Opening Reception. "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream."
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong present a proposal for Tampa and Temple Terrace, Florida as one of five architectural practices commissioned by MoMA to propose new housing and transportation infrastructures for the American suburban landscape. SEE: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1230
New
York: Art Works / The National Endowment for the Arts. "Arts and the Quality of Place," by Paulette Beete. U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Shaun Donovan discussing proposal by Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong with Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA. Open Studios, MoMA/PS1 September, 2011. SEE: http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?tag=nea-and-hud
New York, April 25, 2011: Michael Bell will lead a team with Eunjeong Seong for a study of American cities and suburbs as part the exibition, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream. The initiative will examine new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the context of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. Organized by Barry Bergdoll, the MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture, with Reinhold Martin, Director of the Columbia University Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream will enlist five interdisciplinary teams of architects to envision a rethinking of housing and related infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in U.S. suburbs. SEE: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York and NYC AIA: Homeless Housing - LA and NY: Panel Discussion: Small Scale, Big Change, November 12, 2010. SEE: Musuem of Modern Art,
New Orleans: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture: The Public's Private House, March 6, 2010. See: 2010 ACSA Conference
New York, February 2, 2010: Michael Bell collaborates with Steven Holl: Steven Holl Architects has been awarded first prize in the design competition to redevelop the site of the oxygen and boiler plants in Hangzhou, China. The project includes a gallery pavilion designed by Michael Bell. Steven Holl Architects' design won first place, Herzog & de Meuron won 2nd place, and David Chipperfield Architects was selected as 3rd place winner by a nine-member international jury consisting of Thom Mayne, Wolf D. Prix, Ralph Lerner, Terence Riley, Adolf Krischanitz, Rusio Barbara, Zheng Shiling, Pan Gongkai and Wang Jianguo.
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture: Columbia University, Conference: Public Housing: A New Conversation, October 5, 2010
New York, October 28, 2009: Flatiron: High and low curated by Joan Ockman; Installation Design by Eunjeong Seong. Van Alen Institute, in cooperation with the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, is pleased to present "Flatiron High and Low," an exhibition of photographs, architects' renderings, vintage views, and film footage spotlighting two centuries of building culture in the Flatiron district. SEE: FLATIRON High and Low
Michael Bell served as a jury member for Princeton Architectural Press Pamphlet Architecture Series, August, 2009. SEE: Pamphlet Architecture Jury
The Architect's Retreat: New Canaan, July 8, 2009. Michael Bell lectured at the Johnson Glass House. SEE: Philip Johnson Glass House
Jersey City Museum, Main Galleries, March 19 to August 22, 2009. Brian Loughlin and Michael Bell curated an exhibition of work by GSAPP students at the Jersey City Museum. SEE: (Re)Centering: New Visions for Journal Square
Los Angeles, February 25, 2009.Michael Bell lectured at SCI ARC. SEE: SCI ARC
Ann Arbor, November 24, 2008. Michael Bell lectured at the University of Michigan. SEE: The University of Michigan
The University of California, Los Angeles, November 13, 2008
The Rhode Island School of Design, October 28, 2008
Eunjeong Seong, Installation Design: The Van Alen Institute, New York. "Flatiron: High and Low" / Curated by Joan Ockman
Events: Columbia University
The Columbia
Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials. Michael Bell, Conference Chair
A five year collaboration and series of conferences /books and films examining the state of materials in architecture and engineering.
Convened by: The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and the Fu Foundation School of
Engineering and Applied Science,Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University.
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering.
The Fourth Columbia
Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials. March 30 - April 1, 2011. Michael Bell, Conference Chair
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Solid States: Concrete in Transition, by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Engineered Transparency: The Technical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass; Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim. Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us: Essays and Projects on the City. The Monacelli Press, 2004.
16 Houses: Designing the Public's Private House by Michael Bell. The Monacelli Press, 2004
Slow Space, Edited by Michael Bell and Sze Tsung Leong. Monacelli Press 1998.
Stanley Saitowitz: Architecture at Rice, 33. Edited and with an introduction by Michael Bell. Princeton Architectural Press
Selected Publications: Design
Casabella, Volume 777. "Una casa sull' Hudson," By Joan Ockman. Gefter-Press House
included with Double Dihedral House and Glass House at 2 Degrees. Milan, Italy.
Photography by
Richard Barnes and Bilyana Dimitrova.
American Masterworks: Houses of the Twentieth & Twenty-first
Centuries by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin. Gefter-Press House
included in collection. Rizzoli, New York
Photography by
Richard Barnes.
Currents | Books: 11 More Great Homes by Elaine Louie, The New York Times, January 7, 2009
New York: 2000, Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove The anthology and analysis of New York City presents Stateless Housing and urban design and planning for the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development.
How We Live: Free and Clear By Karrie Jacobs. Gefter-Press House with RU 128 by Werner Sobek and Philip Johnson Glass House.
The Gefter-Press House is featured in Metropolis, January 2008 and online at Metroplis. Article by Stephen Zacks. Photography by Bilyana Dimirova.
The Glass House MoleskineSketchbook produced for Philip Johnson Glass House in 2008. Includes Gefter-Press House drawing.
Michael Bell interview by Andrew Benjamin; BOMB, New York; Summer 2004
Design Review: "Drop-Dead Beauty and Luxe, With an Intimate Index of Change" By Roberta Smith. Published: July 2, 1999
"It should be pointed out that there are exceptions to the general spare-no-expense atmosphere. Michael Bell's 900-square-foot ''Glass House @ 2degrees'' may resemble Philip Johnson's glass house, but it was designed to conform to the strict requirements of a Federal housing program for the Fifth Ward of Houston." "They are beautiful esthetic objects, but with the exception of Mr. Bell's glass house and possibly Mr. Denari's metal one, none could be a prototype for a larger community."
Glass House @ 2 Degrees, The Un-Private House, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
32 - Beijing / New York. Issue 1-7: founding editors Michael Bell, Steven Holl, Yung Ho Chang. Princeton Architectural Press.
The Houston Press: Not Your Standard Issue: Architects design one-of-a-kind houses for the Fifth Ward, trying to prove that even lower-end houses don't have to be a cookie-cutter box. By Lisa Gray. Published: November 9, 2000
