Oculus

Oculus magazine, AIA New York’s quarterly print publication, is an important means of asserting the identity and advocacy of architects in New York.
Oculus Fall 2022 issue cover
Fall 2022: Housing is a Verb

A Publication of the AIA New York Chapter, Vol. 84, Number 4

On the Cover: At Sol on Park, a 200-unit affordable housing development for seniors in the Bronx, Magnusson Architecture and Planning focused on creating thoughtful unit floorplans that maximize usable space and light. A variety of gathering spaces on multiple floors will allow residents to have choice in where and how they socialize. The project is expected to be completed in 2027. Image: Courtesy of Magnusson Architecture & Planning with nightnurse images.

Table of Contents
News & Articles
Letter from the President
NYC Housing Crisis: Let Us Work Towards Solutions
by Andrea Lamberti, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, 2022 AIANY President
Letter from the Editor
Evolution of a City–and a Magazine
by Molly Heintz
Contributors to This Issue
Cameron Wu, Circumvolute 00, 2021. Aluminum fastened to plywood substructure, 18x36x18 inches.
Beyond the Center
Model Behavior
by Roshita Thomas
GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center, 2015, MASS Design Group.
Beyond the Center
Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics
by Roshita Thomas
At the Center
Fairy Tale Architecture
by Roshita Thomas
A concept rendering by new residential brand FLX LIVE incorporates a novel apartment typology that can support residents at all stages of life.
Street Level
Expanding Opportunities for Living
by Jennifer Krichels
The Atrium, designed by Studio Libeskind, is a new 100% affordable senior housing building that will be built on vacant land on the NYCHA Sumner Houses campus.
Street Level
NYCHA's Seniors First
by Brian Loughlin
In Print
Lit Review: Key sources for this issue.
by The Editors
AIANY RED BKGRND 2500x1667
OP-ED
Redefining Luxury: Living with Nature
by Drew Lang, AIA
Last Word
Fall at its Fullest
by Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA
Features
Karakusevic Carson Architects’ Dujardin Mews in the London Borough of Enfield capitalizes on a narrow plot of brownfield land, creating 38 homes and relinking pedestrian connections in the area.
Introduction
Housing Is a Verb
by Brian Loughlin
A Department of Housing Preservation & Development affordable housing RFP submission by Think! Architecture & Design in Mott Haven, the Bronx.
Let’s Just Call It Housing
Architects experienced in residential design bridle at the stigmatization of “affordable housing.” Is it time to rethink and retire a term with troublesome implications?
by Bill Millard
Michael Kimmelman gives the keynote at NYC's Housing Crisis conference.
Thinking Bigger about Housing
Keynote address to NYC’s Housing Crisis conference
by Michael Kimmelman
An Operation Breakthrough spun fiberglass proposal by Spuntech Housing Corporation. The program combined a competition to identify promising approaches to industrialized building with a federal effort to aggregate a market for these new models of housing.
Operation Breakthrough’s Forgotten Prototype Communities
The most ambitious federal housing program you’ve never heard of
by Kristin Szylvian
Oculus at US Modernist Library
 
View a digital archive of back issues from Oculus, and other publications

BROWSER UPGRADE RECOMMENDED

Our website has detected that you are using a browser that will prevent you from accessing certain features. An upgrade is recommended to experience. Use the links below to upgrade your exisiting browser.
If you feel you have reached this page in error, click here to continue to the site.