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.
The cover of the Fall 2023 issue of Oculus Magazine
Fall 2023: The Materials Issue

A publication of AIA New York, Volume 85, Issue 4.

On the Cover: After Architecture’s Sylvan Scrapple repurposed bricks from the 130-year-old Irwin Block building, which burned down in 2022, for an installation at this year’s Exhibit Columbus in Columbus, IN. The architects transformed the bricks into keepsakes and collected them in metal gabion cages that doubled as urban furniture and walls. Photo: Hadley Fruits.

Table of Contents
News & Articles
Portrait of Matthew Bremer walking two dogs on the sidewalk in front of a bright mural
Letter from the President
Our Common Bonds
by Matthew Bremer, AIA, AIANY President
Headshot of Jennifer Krichels wearing glasses and a burgundy blazer against a white background
Letter from the Editor
Tracing the Source
by Jennifer Krichels, Editor in Chief, Oculus
At the Center
Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture
Beyond the Center
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes at Cooper Hewitt; From Field to Form: Hemp at the Architectural League; Book Talk: Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures at The Cooper Union Library Atrium; Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism at MoMA; A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken's Visual Variations on Noguchi
Three covers of Oculus Maazine overlapping one another
Call for Winter 2024 Op-Eds
Diverse Perspectives
by the Editors
Exterior of a micro home at Wally Farms
Street Level
At Home with Hemp: Climate-Positive Micro Homes at Wally Farms
by Cornelia Smith
Lit Review
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture
by Gideon Fink Shapiro
Lit Review
by The Editors
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Op-Ed
The Forest and the Trees: On Leadership
by Peter MacKeith, Assoc. AIA
Headshot of Jesse Lazar
20 Years and Still Growing
“The opportunity for public outreach is great.”’ That was what 2003 AIA...
by Jesse Lazar, Executive Director, AIA New York | Center for Architecture
Features
3D-printed earth-fiber bricks from Columbia GSAPP’s Natural Materials Lab.
Introduction
The Materials Issue
by The Editors
The Raw Earth Sgraffito installation at Columbia’s Reid Hall in Paris, created by the university’s Natural Materials Lab in collaboration with Lynnette Widder.
Trust the Process
When it comes to today’s new building products, some of the most compelling innovation is happening through startup and academic organizations working outside traditional approaches.
by Rita Catinella Orrell
The 2022 Serpentine Pavilion by Theaster Gates
Building Responsibility
Three years into a new movement to eliminate forced labor from the built environment and its supply chains, how are industry leaders putting their goals into effect?
by Beth Broome
Interior of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland
Circularity: Design for Deconstruction, Not Demolition
Replacing rubble with reuse calls for creativity in redeploying materials, organized approaches to material information, and realistic incentives. Circular thinking and the patient practice of deconstruction can bring the built environment closer to nature’s zero-waste condition.
by Bill Millard
Oculus at US Modernist Library
 
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