PlaNYC, the Mayor’s long-term visioning statement for the city’s future, projects that New York will add one million more residents by the year 2030. This publication documents the evolution of a new stage in the development, design, and construction of one of the most important services of the city of New York: affordable housing. The New Housing New York Legacy Project brings together progressive approaches to affordable housing in the fields of design, architecture, planning, and public policy. The collaborative nature of the New Housing New York Legacy Project reflects the need for communication and exchange across the public and private sectors. The publication discusses the lessons of two international competitions and complementary revisions to procurement and implementation processes. As America’s urban population grows, its cities will be called upon to draw inspiration from one another’s successes. This document is an important step in promoting such dialogue. The New Housing New York Legacy Project brings together progressive approaches to affordable housing in the fields of design, architecture, planning, and public policy. The collaborative nature of the New Housing New York Legacy Project reflects the need for communication and exchange across the public and private sectors. The publication discusses the lessons of two international competitions and complementary revisions to procurement and implementation processes. As America's urban population grows, its cities will be called upon to draw inspiration from one another's successes. This document is an important step in promoting such dialogue. A collaboration between the City College of New York. Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers

• Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
• Text by Lance Jay Brown, FAIA; Mark Ginsberg, FAIA; Tara Siegel
• Preface by Lance Jay Brown, FAIA
• Contributions by Karen Kubey and Michael Kimmelman
• Epilogue by Shaun Donovan
• Edited by Nathan Jerry Maltz, AIA; Oscar Riera Ojeda

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Contributors Biographies

Lance Jay Brown was educated at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and holds two Masters degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is an ACSA Distinguished Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Institute for Urban Design. In 2007 he was awarded the highest honor given for an architectural educator in the United States, the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion. He was a founding member of the New Housing New York Steering Committee and his recently co-authored book, Urban Design for an Urban Century, was released in 2009.

Tara Siegel received a Master of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (2004) and a BA in Architectural Studies from the University of Washington (1995). Siegel works at the intersection of design, development, and public policy, with a particular focus on providing quality affordable housing and child care facilities in low income communities. She is the author of Quality Environments for Children: A Design and Development Guide for Child Care and Early Education Facilities. She was the co-chair of the New Housing New York Steering Committee and served as a Rose Architectural Fellow from 2004 to 2007.

Mark Ginsberg AIA, LEEDAP, received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He has been designing housing for over twenty-five years. He established Curtis + Ginsberg Architects in 1990, where the practice has developed a focus on affordable housing. The firm is the recipient of the 2007 Andrew J. Thomas Pioneer in Housing award. A native New Yorker, Mark currently serves as president of the Citizen’s Housing and Planning Council. He was president of the AIA New York Chapter in 2004 and was co-chair of the New York New Visions Executive Committee, the Architecture and Planning community’s response to 9/11. Mark was an organizer of both the New Housing New York Ideas Competition and the Legacy Project.

Michael Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. He attended Johns Hopkins University, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1981 he began a small start-up company called Bloomberg LP. Today, Bloomberg LP has over 275,000 subscribers to its financial news and information service. His election as mayor came just two months after the tragic attacks of 9/11 and under Mayor Bloomberg’s determined, forward-looking leadership, New York rebounded faster and stronger than anyone expected. In December 2006, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled plaNYC 2030 targeting ten goals, ideally achievable by the year 2030, to allow for the growth and sustenance of New York City’s industry, population, environment, and infrastructure.

Shaun Donovan, American architect and urban planner who led New York City’s department of housing preservation and development (2004–09) before serving as U.S. secretary of housing and urban development (HUD; 2009–14) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama. Donovan attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. in engineering (1987) and master’s degrees in architecture (1995) and public administration (1995). After graduating, he worked as an architect in New York and Italy before joining a community-based nonprofit group that developed affordable housing in New York City. He entered public service as a special assistant at HUD in 1998. In 2000 he was named deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing, a role that involved the management of a federal housing subsidy program that assisted nearly two million people. During the transition between the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Donovan remained at HUD as acting commissioner of federal housing. After leaving HUD in 2001, Donovan became a consultant to the Congressional Millennial Housing Commission and researched federally assisted housing as a visiting scholar at New York University. In 2002 he returned to the private sector, working as director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Co.’s federal lending and affordable-housing division. In 2004 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Donovan to lead the city’s housing department. While there, Donovan created an affordable-housing plan that preserved some 165,000 homes and apartments. He closed loopholes in zoning ordinances and created a public-private partnership that rewarded developers who provided low-cost, sustainable housing. In 2008 Donovan was nominated secretary of HUD by Obama, and he was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009. In 2014 he was nominated by Obama to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed by the Senate in July. Later that month he stepped down as secretary of HUD and was succeeded by Julián Castro.

Karen Kubey. As executive director of the IPA, Karen Kubey pursues the organization¹s mission, to promote socially engaged architecture, through urban research projects and a residency program for design practitioners. Kubey is a New York-based architectural designer and educator, specializing in housing design and research. Trained as an architect at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University, she began her career working in affordable housing design. Kubey co-founded both the Architecture for Humanity New York chapter and New Housing New York, the city¹s first design competition for sustainable and affordable housing. She is a recipient of the Independent Projects Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and was the 2012 Wilder Green Fellow at The MacDowell Colony.

Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. While his critiques are certainly an assessment of art, they also seek to help everyday people understand the relationship between art and life. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kimmelman is the author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Times and The Washington Post. His most recent book, The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, which Time magazine described as “transcendent,” was a New York Times bestseller and a Times Notable Book of the Year. The Accidental Masterpiece discusses the notion that art is more than a painting hanging in a gallery – it is the myriad aesthetic experiences we have everyday, a concept that can also be seen in Kimmelman’s critiques. Kimmelman is the critic and the critiqued. A concert pianist who has performed around the country, Kimmelman himself has first-hand experience of being critiqued, allowing him to share an artist’s susceptibility.