Eunjeong Seong
Linkedin: Eunjeong Seong
Eunjeong Seong is the co-author of 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds: Housing After Banking, Encrypting the Sun published by Actar, Barcelona / New York, 2025.
Seong is a member of faculty at Pratt Institute where she is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, CCE. Seong teaches advanced design studios and seminars focused on housing, energy, housing policy/law and economics, and architectural tectonics. She has previously taught at Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Seong is a registered architect in New York and co-founder of Bell-Seong Architecture and of Visible Weather, a research and design collaboration founded to work with partners in advanced manufacturing, materials, energy, engineering, and housing finance/economics.
Seong’s architectural and urban design work has been commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, the Westbund Biennale, Shanghai, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation / Studio X, Beijing. Seong’s writing and design has been published by the Museum of Modern Art, Architectural Design (AD, London), Technology, Architecture, Design (TAD) and Log. Her firm’s work has also been featured on MSNBC, Fox Business News and Reuters.
Seong has extensive experience in housing design in the United States and Korea and prior to forming Visible Weather, includes design roles at SHoP and Dean/Wolf Architects and director a New York City satellite office for Yamasaki Associates where she led a team to develop design work for the firm with New York based engineers and consultants. Seong was a designer at SPACE GROUP in Seoul, Korea and New York contributing editor and writer for the firm’s long running journal SPACE.
Seong holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. While at Columbia, she received the Matthew W. Del Gaudio Memorial Award from the New York Society of Architects, the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize, and a post-graduate William Kinne Fellowship for travel and research. She earned her undergraduate degree in Architectural Engineering from Inha University in Incheon, Korea, graduating with top thesis honor.
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Michael Bell
Linkedin: Michael Bell
Michael Bell is Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Bell is founding Chair of the Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials, a multi-year research program hosted at GSAPP in coordination with Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart. Bell served as Director, Master of Architecture, Core Design Studios, (2000-14) and the Coordinator of the GSAPP Housing Design Studios (2000-11).
Bell’s architectural design has been commissioned and exhibited by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Venice Biennale; the Architectural League of New York; the University Art Museum, Berkeley and has been shown in museums and galleries in Europe, Mexico and China. Architectural design by Bell is included in the Permanent Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His Gefter Press / Binocular House is included in American Masterwork Houses of the 20th and 21st Century by Kenneth Frampton. Bell has received four Progressive Architecture Awards.
Books by Michael Bell include 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds: Housing After Banking, Encrypting the Sun; Engineered Transparency: The Technical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass; Solid States: Concrete in Transition; Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering; Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering; 16 Houses: Designing the Public’s Private House; Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us: Essays and Projects on the City; and Slow Space. Bell is the editor of a monograph on the architecture of Stanley Saitowitz.
Bell taught at the University of California at Berkeley (1987-94) and Rice University (1994-99) and held visiting professorships at the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Cornell University, School of Architecture; the University of Michigan, Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture; and Berkeley, the Howard A. Friedman Professor of Practice in Architecture. Bell is a former Fellow of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University (2011-13). During 2016/17 Bell was Visiting Professor at the Stanford University, School of Engineering, where he collaborated with the Center for Design Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Bell is also a member of Stanford’s Urban Futures initiative.
Michael Bell received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He established his practice while teaching at Berkeley. Today the practice also includes Eunjeong Seong and is based in New York City and the Berkeley, California.
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Articles and Book Chapters (2025) (Peer Reviewed)
Bell, M., Ford, C. (2025). Design Studio for Active Learning. In: Svabo, C., Shanks, M., Zhou, C., Carleton, T. (eds) Creative Pragmatics for Active Learning in STEM Education. Contributions from Science Education Research, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78720-1_10
Authored book chapter focused on design education as a model for STEM education with Chris Ford, PhD., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. Collaboration with editors Michael Shanks, Professor of Classics and Archeology, Stanford University and Connie Svabo, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark.
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Curator. Is Housing Still Housing, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. March 3 – April 11, 2025. Curated by Michael Bell with Eunjeong Seong, Gail Borden. Funded by the University of Houston. Is Housing Still Housing revisits an exhibition, book and building project founded by Michael Bell in Houston in 1998. Participants include: Yung Ho Chang, Neil Denari, Rene Peralta, Carlos Jimenez, Lindy Roy and Sanford Kwinter. As well as Christina Sanders, Columbia Climate School; Jesse Keenan, Tulane University and Stephen Fox, Rice University, historian.
Contributor. Is Housing Still Housing, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. March 3 – April 11. Project: 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds. Prototypes and architecture from the book 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds by Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong.
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Symposiums and Conferences (2024/2025)
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Actioning Summit 4: How to scale up (to make carbon sequestration impactful). Respondent.
https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3559-actioning-summit-4-how-to-scale-up-to-make-carbon-sequestration-impactful
Symposium Moderator. Is Housing Still Housing, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. April 9.
Symposium Moderator and Contributor. Is Housing Still Housing, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. March 26.
Symposium Contributor. The Kenneth Frampton endowed symposium: Housing and Domesticity, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. April 21, 2025.
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2019 - New York: Michael Bell will speak at the AIA New York on November 19. The event will be a round-table discussion and launch for Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form, a guest-edited issue that reevaluates architecture’s role in climate change. The discussion will be moderated by Cynthia Davidson, editor of Log, and will include Elisa Iturbe, guest-editor, Daniel Barber, Associate Professor at UPenn, and Michael Bell, Principal at Bell-Seong Architecture and Professor at Columbia University. Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell contributed the essay “Encrypting the Sun: Housing after Banking” to Log 47. LINK
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New York: Eunjeong Seong will offer a lecture on our forthcoming book, Housing After Banking: Encrypting the Sun, at Pratt Institute on April 8, 2019.
The lecture is followed by a panel discussion with professors Frederick Biehle, Lawrence Blough, and John Szot.
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New York: Pratt Sessions #14: Michael Bell + Greg Lynn, at Pratt Institute School of Architecture, March 7, 2019.
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New York: Michael Bell will speak at the "Acts of Design: New Housing Paradigms in North America" at Columbia University, GSAPP. November 16, 2018.
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Ann Arbor: Michael Bell speaks at the "Shaping Future Cities" at the University of Michigan. November 9, 2018.
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Scottsdale, Arizona: Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong will join the Taliesin West Lecture Forum. January 30, 2018.
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Hudson Valley, New York: The Binocular House landscaping has been expanded and completed with design by Field Operations.
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San Francisco: Michael Bell presented research at the California College of Arts conference "Designing Material Innovation". October 26/27, 2018. The conference accompanied an exhibition of the same name curated at CCA by Jonathan Massey.
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Detroit: Michael Bell presented new housing + mobility research by Bell-Seong at the Stanford University, Center for Design Research and Royal Dutch Shell "Futures Forum" at the North American International Auto Show. 2017
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San Francisco: Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong offered a lecture titled "Engineering after Risk" at CCA. February 2017.
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Philadelphia: Michael Bell participated in "Under Pressure" -- Penn Design conference on urban housing. Bell presented new housing + mobility research by Bell-Seong. October 2016.
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Pebble Beach, CA.: Michael Bell will speak at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Policy Advisory Board Meeting, Fall 2016.
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Palo Alto: Michael Bell is Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Center for Design Research (CDR), Fall, 2016.
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San Diego: Michael Bell will lecture at Woodbury University, San Diego Campus. February 19, 2016.
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New York: Eunjeong Seong is visiting professor at Cornell University in the fall of 2015. Seong will lead a studio at the School of Architecture. The design studio will focus on new potentials for Public Housing and the future development of New York City Housing Authority property. Michael Bell will join Seong in providing lectures on the history and state of Public Housing.
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Shanghai, China: Michael Bell will offer two lectures at Tongji University in November 2015. The lectures continue on research presented in the fall of 2014 at Tongji. Yung Ho Chang, Professor, Tongji, will moderate the lectures.
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Woodbury University San Diego for Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana. Michael Bell joined Rene Peralta, Ted Smith, Larry Herzog and photographer Laura Migliorino in a panel discussion on Migliorino's new documentary photographs of Tijuana housing. November.
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2016. Palo Alto, California: Center for Design Research, Stanford University. Larry Leifer, Founder, Center for Design Research (CDR), Chris Ford, CDR, Michael Bell, Columbia University, Yung Ho Chang, Tongji University and MIT, Harrison Fraker, The University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Pilliod, Tesla Motors will host a daylong conference on future design for hybrid architecture and infrastructure. Faculty and students from Columbia, Stanford and Tongji Universities will discuss new modes of hybridizing architecture and infrastructure as well as new means of financing and engineering infrastructure. The workshop and conference is hosted by the Center for Design Research in collaboration with the CDR's “Design-X Resilience" program. The conference is organized by Bell, Ford and Chang. October, 2015. Bell, Fraker and Ford will join Chang at Tongji in November for a follow up conference held at Tongji. for a follow up conference held at Tongji.
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Fremont, California: Tesla Motors: Michael Bell was invited to speak at Tesla Motors and delivered a lecture on innovation in architectural engineering and crossovers where automotive and building technologies could create new urban development. July, 2015.
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London: Michael Bell has contributed an essay titled "Standardizing Heterogeneity: Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect" to Architectural Design: Mass Customized Cities. Edited by Tom Verebes, the volume appears in the fall 2015. Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell also publish "Simultaneous City: Temple Terrace, Florida" in this volume of AD
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2015. Berkeley, California: Michael Bell is serving as Friedman Professor at the University of California, Berkeley during the spring semester of 2015. Bell will lead a design studio exploring Bay Area Housing and Urbanism with a focus on Silicon Valley.
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Scottsdale, Arizona: A new residence by Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong designed for a site in Lost Canyon. The four-acre property is set against the MacDowell Mountains and the edge of the Scottdale desert.
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Shanghai, China: Westbund Galleries, Shanghai, China. One of twelve new galleries that comprise an extended museum and the first West Bund Biennale. The twelve new buildings are sited along the Huangpu River adjacent to the new DreamWorks animation campus. Bell and Seong were commissioned along with Wang Shu, Anton Abril, Yung Ho Chang, Atelier Bow Wow, Li Hu, and Mark Lee / JohnstonMarkLee.
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Lecture
Hong Kong University
Michael Bell lecture at HKU
June 13, 2014
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Lecture
Yonsei University School of Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea
Michael Bell lecture at HKU
June 9, 2014
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Building
Shanghai, China
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong have been commissioned to build a new gallery building in Shanghia, China. The project will open in the winter of 2013/14 as one of twelve new buildings that comprise an extended museum and the first West Bund Biennale. The twelve new buildings are sited along the Huangpu River adjacent to the new DreamWorks animation campus. Bell and Seong were commissioned along with Wang Shu, Anton Abril, Yung Ho Chang, Atelier Bow Wow, Li Hu, and Mark Lee/JohnstonMarkLee .
March 2013
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Conference
The Museum of Modern Art
Revisiting Henri Labrouste in the Digital Age: A Symposium
March 28, 2013
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Exhibition + Publication
Comments on Foreclosed
“A record of what was said about
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at
The Buell Center and the Museum of Modern Art
In New York, from April 2011 to August 2012.”
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The Museum of Modern Art, "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream".
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan discussing Bell-Seong / Visible Weather's proposal with Michael Bell at the September 17th Open Studios at MoMA PS1. Photograph by Brett W. Messenger. © 2011 The Museum of Modern Art
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Conference
Glasstec, Engneered Transparency
Duesseldorf, Germany
Keynote lecture by Michael Bell
October 25, 2012
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Conference
Harvard University
The Joint Center for Housing Studies
Incentive, Innovation: Affordable Housing and Design
(Housing, Property and Housing Policy)
Eric Belsky, Michael Bell, Catherine Ingraham, Sanford Kwinter
October 3, 2012
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TELEVISION AND BROADCAST NEWS
2012 Up with Chris Hayes, MSNBC
Michael Bell televised interviews with Chris Hayes:
–February 25, 2012. Focus: Bell-Seong architectural, engineering and MoMA design, development and energy proposal for
South Florida’s future suburbs.
–June 17, 2012. Chris Hayes interviewed Ta–Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic and Michael Bell, Columbia University.
–August 26, 2012. Focus: the future of the American suburb and Bell-Seong design work at MoMA.
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Conference
The Museum of Modern Art
Public Dreams and Private Needs
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong with Eric Belsky, Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies.
February 15 to July 30, 2012
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Lecture
Keynote lecture by Michael Bell on housing design and policy in the United States.
Sponsored by Lafarge Group, Paris
Belleville, Paris, France, January 19
Ion Mincu University, Bucharest, Romania, : January 23
Sir J.J. College, Mumbai, India, March 15
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Publication
Metropolis
America: Karrie Jacobs
"Pretty Little Pictures"
May 2012
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Publication
Metropolis: Point of View
Article by Leah Meisterlin
"Foreclosed”
March 2012
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Publication
Abitare
"Foreclosed: Five Regional Proposals for Resettling the American Dream"
Article by Giovanna Borasi.
Link: Abitare, Index
Link: Abitare, Article
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Television
Reuters Financial News
Felix Salmon interview with Michael Bell
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Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art / PS1
Open House
September 19, 2011
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Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art / PS1
Open House
June 18, 2011
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Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art / PS1
Open House
June 18, 2011
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Exhibition
MoMA /PS1 Studio Visit
Ross Dackow produced and directed Team Video
August 2011
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Publication
Tampa Bay Business News
Reimagining Temple Terrace’s Look and Financial Future in a Post-Housing Bubble Economy
Article by Robert Triqgaux.
March 13, 2012
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Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong present a proposal for Tampa and Temple Terrace, Florida as one of five architectural practices commissioned by MoMA to propose new housing and transportation infrastructures for the American suburban landscape.
February 15, 2012 (Opening Reception)
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Publication
Arch Daily
"Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MoMA”
February 15, 2012
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Publication
Arch Daily
Arch Daily News: "Update: Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream."
The Museum of Modern Art previews work for January 2012 exhibition at MoMA.
September 19, 2011
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Publication
Art Works: The National Endowment for the Arts
Arts and the Quality of Place
Article by Paulette Beete.
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Shaun Donovan discussing proposal by Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong with Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design.
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Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
Michael Bell will lead a team with Eunjeong Seong for a study of American cities and suburbs as part the exhibition, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream. The initiative will examine new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the context of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. Organized by Barry Bergdoll, the MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture, with Reinhold Martin, Director of the Columbia University Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream will enlist five interdisciplinary teams of architects to envision a rethinking of housing and related infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in U.S. suburbs.
April 25, 2011
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Conference
The Museum of Modern Art and the NYC AIA
Homeless Housing - LA and NY: Panel Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Small Scale, Big Change
November 12, 2010
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Conference
New Orleans: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
The Public's Private House
March 6, 2010
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Lecture
Steven Holl and Michael Bell
The Cooper Union, Great Hall
February, 20, 2010
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Conference
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture: Columbia University, Conference
Public Housing: A New Conversation
October 5, 2010
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Exhibition
The Van Alen Institute
Flatiron: High and Low
Curated by Joan Ockman
Exhibition Design: Eunjeong Seong
October 28, 2009
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Publication
Pamphlet Architecture
Michael Bell served as a jury member for Princeton Architectural Press Pamphlet Architecture Series.
August, 2009
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Lecture
Philip Johnson Glass House
The Architect’s Retreat
Michael Bell lecture at Johnson Glass House and Painting Gallery
July 8, 2009
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Exhibition
(Re)Centering: New Visions for Journal Square
Jersey City Museum
Brian Loughlin and Michael Bell curate an exhibition of work by the
Columbia University Housing Studio
March 19 to August 22, 2009
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Lecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Michael Bell lectured at SCI ARC.
February 25, 2009
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Lecture
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michael Bell lecture
November 24, 2008
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Lecture
The University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Bell lecture
November 13, 2008
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Lecture
The Rhode Island School of Design
Michael Bell lecture
October 28, 2008
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Publication
Architectural Record
Arverne by the Sea
September
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