Community and Curation: Gallery tour with Mónica Ponce de Leon and Akima Brackeen

​Please join us for a special guided gallery tour of The House Transformed with curator Mónica Ponce de Leon and Rome Prize-winner Akima Brackeen.

​Akima's practice is focused on justice in the built environment, and housing is a key part of what makes cities and communities livable and vibrant. Akima and Monica will introduce visitors to the nearly 50 models through this lens, specifically geared toward our local Brooklyn community.

​Coffee and tea will be served.

​Event Schedule

​2 pm: Doors open
2:30 pm: Guided gallery tour
3 pm: Discussion

​​About the Exhibition

​​The House Transformed
On view through May 22, 2026
303 Bond Street, Brooklyn

​​Exhibition hours:
Mondays–Thursdays, 10 am–6 pm
Fridays–Saturdays, 12–6 pm

​​Following its debut at the Princeton University School of Architecture, The House Transformed presents new ideas for domestic architecture. Featuring participants from local and global contexts, the exhibition rejects conventional notions of nuclear family and a “one-size-fits-all” approach to the house. These models and drawings explore alternative concepts for collective living, multigenerational households, and caregiving.

​Curated by Mónica Ponce de León, Princeton School of Architecture, with Shoshana Torn and Massimo Giannone.

​​Learn more: https://www.vanalen.org/project/exhibition-the-house-transformed/

​NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

​When you attend this event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to such recording media and its release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction.