In this video, architects, scholars, and organization leaders reflect on the history and future of The Architectural League, and its call for mutual education 150 years later, in the space where it began.
Speakers
Suzanne Stephens is the former deputy editor of Architectural Record, and has been a writer, editor, and critic in the field of architecture for several decades. Stephens teaches a seminar in the history of architectural criticism in the architecture program of Barnard and Columbia colleges.
Gregory Wessner is the executive director of the National Academy of Design. Previously, Wessner served as the executive director of Open House New York. He has held various positions at The Architectural League throughout his career, including exhibitions director. Wessner received the Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects New York in 2020.
Gabrielle Esperdy is the dean of the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is editor of SAH Archipedia and the Buildings of the United States book series, and has published widely on topics related to modernism and consumerism in metropolitan landscapes, and to architectural practice.
Bryony Roberts is the founder of Bryony Roberts Studio, an interdisciplinary design and research practice based in New York. Roberts has been awarded the Architectural League Prize in 2018, Miller Prize of 2018, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for 2015-2016, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Architecture for Summer 2018, and was a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard GSD in 2020.
The discussion is moderated by Cassim Shepard, a distinguished lecturer at The Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. In 2020, he was named a MacDowell Fellow in Architecture and received the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Shepherd is the founding editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus.
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