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Philadelphia: Michael Bell participated in "Under Pressure" -- Penn Design conference on urban housing. Bell presented new housing + mobility research by Bell-Seong. October 2016. 


 

Pebble Beach, CA.: Michael Bell will speak at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Policy Advisory Board Meeting, Fall 2016.


 

Palo Alto: Michael Bell is Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Center for Design Research (CDR), Fall, 2016. 


 

San Diego: Michael Bell will lecture at Woodbury University, San Diego Campus, on February 19, 2016. 


 

New York: Eunjeong Seong is visiting professor at Cornell University in the fall of 2015. Seong will lead a studio at the School of Architecture. The design studio will focus on new potentials for Public Housing and the future development of New York City Housing Authority property.  Michael Bell will join Seong in providing lectures on the history and state of Public Housing.  


 

Shanghai, China: Michael Bell will offer two lectures at Tongji University in November 2015. The lectures continue on research presented in the fall of 2014 at Tongji. Yung Ho Chang, Professor, Tongji, will moderate the lectures. 


 

Woodbury University San Diego for Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana. Michael Bell joined Rene Peralta, Ted Smith, Larry Herzog and photographer Laura Migliorino in a panel discussion on Migliorino's new documentary photographs of Tijuana housing. November. 


 

Palo Alto, California: Center for Design Research, Stanford University. Larry Leifer, Founder, Center for Design Research (CDR), Chris Ford, CDR, Michael Bell, Columbia University, Yung Ho Chang, Tongji University and MIT, Harrison Fraker, The University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Pilliod, Tesla Motors will host a daylong conference on future design for hybrid architecture and infrastructure. Faculty and students from Columbia, Stanford and Tongji Universities will discuss new modes of hybridizing architecture and infrastructure as well as new means of financing and engineering infrastructure. The workshop and conference is hosted by the Center for Design Research in collaboration with the CDR's “Design-X Resilience" program. The conference is organized by Bell, Ford and Chang. October, 2015. Bell, Fraker and Ford will join Chang at Tongji in November for a follow up conference held at Tongji. for a follow up conference held at Tongji. 


 

Fremont, California: Tesla Motors: Michael Bell was invited to speak at Tesla Motors and delivered a lecture on innovation in architectural engineering and crossovers where automotive and building technologies could create new urban development. July, 2015.


 

London: Michael Bell has contributed an essay titled "Standardizing Heterogeneity: Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect" to Architectural Design: Mass Customized Cities. Edited by Tom Verebes, the volume appears in the fall 2015. Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell also publish "Simultaneous City: Temple Terrace, Florida" in this volume of AD  


 

Berkeley, California: Michael Bell is serving as Friedman Professor at the University of California, Berkeley during the spring semester of 2015. Bell will lead a design studio exploring Bay Area Housing and Urbanism with a focus on Silicon Valley. 


 

Scottsdale, Arizona: A new residence by Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong designed for a site in Lost Canyon. The four-acre property is set against the MacDowell Mountains and the edge of the Scottdale desert. 


 

Shanghai, China: Westbund Galleries, Shanghai, China. One of twelve new galleries that comprise an extended museum and the first West Bund Biennale.  The twelve new buildings are sited along the Huangpu River adjacent to the new DreamWorks animation campus. Bell and Seong were commissioned along with Wang Shu, Anton Abril, Yung Ho Chang, Atelier Bow Wow, Li Hu, and Mark Lee / JohnstonMarkLee.


 

Conference

Columbia University and the New York Chapter of the AIA

Oculus Book Talk: Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

Edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley

July 1, 2014


 

Lecture

Hong Kong University

Michael Bell lecture at HKU

June 13, 2014


 

Lecture

Yonsei University School of Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea

Michael Bell lecture at HKU

June 9, 2014


 

Building

Shanghai, China

Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong have been commissioned to build a new gallery building in Shanghia, China. The project will open in the winter of 2013/14 as one of twelve new buildings that comprise an extended museum and the first West Bund Biennale.  The twelve new buildings are sited along the Huangpu River adjacent to the new DreamWorks animation campus. Bell and Seong were commissioned along with Wang Shu, Anton Abril, Yung Ho Chang, Atelier Bow Wow, Li Hu, and Mark Lee/JohnstonMarkLee . 

March 2013


 

Conference

The Museum of Modern Art

Revisiting Henri Labrouste in the Digital Age: A Symposium

March 28, 2013


 

Exhibition + Publication

Comments on Foreclosed

“A record of what was said about

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at

The Buell Center and the Museum of Modern Art

In New York, from April 2011 to August 2012.”


 

Conference

Glasstec, Engneered Transparency

Duesseldorf, Germany

Keynote lecture by Michael Bell

October 25, 2012


 

Conference

Harvard University

The Joint Center for Housing Studies

Incentive, Innovation: Affordable Housing and Design

(Housing, Property and Housing Policy)

Eric Belsky, Michael Bell, Catherine Ingraham, Sanford Kwinter

October 3, 2012

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Television

Up With Chris Hayes

Michael Bell guest on MSNBC

August 25, 2012

June 17, 2012_part one

June 17, 2012_ part two

February 25, 2012


 

Conference

The Museum of Modern Art

Public Dreams and Private Needs

Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong with Eric Belsky, Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies.

February 15 to July 30, 2012


 

Lecture

Keynote lecture by Michael Bell on housing design and policy in the United States.

Sponsored by Lafarge Group, Paris

Belleville, Paris, France, January 19
Ion Mincu University, Bucharest, Romania, : January 23 
Sir J.J. College, Mumbai, India, March 15


 

Publication

Metropolis

America: Karrie Jacobs

"Pretty Little Pictures" 

May 2012

Link


 

Publication

Metropolis: Point of View

Article by Leah Meisterlin

"Foreclosed”

March 2012

Link


 

Publication

Abitare

"Foreclosed: Five Regional Proposals for Resettling the American Dream" 

Article by Giovanna Borasi. 

Link: Abitare, Index

Link: Abitare, Article


 

Television

Reuters Financial News

Felix Salmon interview with Michael Bell

Link


 

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art / PS1

Open House

September 19, 2011

Link


 

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art / PS1

Open House

June 18, 2011


 

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art / PS1

Open House

June 18, 2011

Link


 

Exhibition

MoMA /PS1 Studio Visit

Ross Dackow produced and directed Team Video

August 2011

Link


 

Publication

Tampa Bay Business News

Reimagining Temple Terrace’s Look and Financial Future in  a Post-Housing Bubble Economy

Article by Robert Triqgaux.

March 13, 2012


 

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art

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.

February 15, 2012 (Opening Reception) 

Link


 

Publication

Arch Daily

"Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MoMA”

February 15, 2012

Link


 

Publication

Arch Daily

Arch Daily News: "Update: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream." 

The Museum of Modern Art previews work for January 2012 exhibition at MoMA.

September 19, 2011

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Publication

Art Works: The National Endowment for the Arts

Arts and the Quality of Place

Article by Paulette Beete.

United States 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.

Link


 

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art

Michael Bell will lead a team with Eunjeong Seong for a study of American cities and suburbs as part the exhibition, 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.

April 25, 2011

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Conference

The Museum of Modern Art and the NYC AIA

Homeless Housing - LA and NY: Panel Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Small Scale, Big Change

November 12, 2010


 

Conference

New Orleans: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

The Public's Private House

March 6, 2010

Link 


 

Lecture

Steven Holl and Michael Bell

The Cooper Union, Great Hall

February, 20, 2010

Link 


 

Conference

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture: Columbia University, Conference

Public Housing: A New Conversation

October 5, 2010


 

Exhibition

The Van Alen Institute

Flatiron: High and Low

Curated by Joan Ockman

Exhibition Design: Eunjeong Seong

October 28, 2009


 

Publication

Pamphlet Architecture

Michael Bell served as a jury member for Princeton Architectural Press Pamphlet Architecture Series.

August, 2009

Link 


 

Lecture

Philip Johnson Glass House

The Architect’s Retreat

Michael Bell lecture at Johnson Glass House and Painting Gallery

July 8, 2009

Link


 

Exhibition

(Re)Centering: New Visions for Journal Square

Jersey City Museum

Brian Loughlin and Michael Bell curate an exhibition of work by the

Columbia University Housing Studio

March 19 to August 22, 2009


 

Lecture

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Michael Bell lectured at SCI ARC.

February 25, 2009


 

Lecture

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Michael Bell lecture

November 24, 2008


 

Lecture

The University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Bell lecture

November 13, 2008

Link


 

Lecture

The Rhode Island School of Design

Michael Bell lecture

October 28, 2008


 

Publication

Architectural Record

Arverne by the Sea

September