Wasted x Van Alen – with Pratt Institute

​Each year, Pratt Institute hosts a public conversation about the status of waste in architecture. This year will focus on the idea of reuse with a maximum economy of means. How can waste be re-thought as architecture with the very least amount of expenditure in terms of energy, labor, and capital? Is there even a zero-degree waste-to-architecture conversion, where the transition from one state to another is almost purely a mental reframing?

​Students will exhibit recent work on material re-use at Pratt, including a series of stools used for event seating.

​Event Schedule

​6 pm: Doors open

​6:15 pm: Introduction by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design, Pratt Institute School of Architecture

​6:30 pm: Presentations by Xavi Aguirre, Stock-a-Studio; Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, New Affiliates; and Michael Ortiz Jiménez and Paula Stoddard Sotomayor, Estudio [PM].

​​NOTICE OF ACCESS, FILMING, AND PHOTOGRAPHY

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