Wasted x Van Alen

Each year, Pratt hosts a public conversation about the status of waste in architecture. This year will focus on on the idea of reuse with a maximum economy of means. How can waste be re-thought as architecture with the very least amount of expenditure in terms of energy, labor, and capital? Is there even a zero-degree waste-to-architecture conversion, where the transition from one state to another is almost purely a mental reframing?

Please join us for an evening of presentations on the architecture of re-use, featuring short talks by New Affiliates (Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb), Stock-a-Studio (Xavi Aguirre), and Estudio [PM] (Paula Stoddard Sotomayor and Michael Ortiz Jiménez), a moderated panel discussion with Pratt Associate Professor Stephanie Bayard, and an introduction by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design. Students will exhibit recent work on material re-use at Pratt, including a series of stools that will be used for event seating.