City Works 7 is the seventh annual book which documents the exciting work of students from The City College of New York, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The City College of New York has a long and important tradition of producing internationally recognized scholarship, research, and design while maintaining its promise of an accessible public education in the city of New York. Our Bachelor of Architecture Program and four graduate level programs including Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Design, and Master of Sustainability in the Urban Environment work together across disciplinary boundaries with the shared goal of making New York and the world a better place through smart and responsible design. The heterogeneous nature of the student work displayed here represents an individual approach to problem solving, which seeks to rise above stylistic or instrumental debates within the profession and toward integrative solutions to some of today’s most pressing design challenges. A collaboration between The City College of New York. Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers

• Foreword by George Ranalli
• Edited by Nandini Bagchee and Bradley Horn

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Contributors Biographies

Brad Horn is co-founder and principal of Berman/Horn Studio, a firm specializing in residential and hospitality projects in the United States. The firm incorporates the design of lighting and furniture into an interdisciplinary practice that combines an interest in architecture with interior design. Horn’s writing and work have been published internationally in journals and books including Architectural Record, 3: Lux Letters, The Architect’s Newspaper, the AN Blog, Taschen’s New York, Frieze Magazine, Journal of Architecture and Computation Culture and Autogenic Structures from Taylor and Francis Press. He has taught design at The Cooper Union, Harvard University, the Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. Horn has been awarded numerous grants including those from the Graham, LEF, and Solow Foundations for research conducted at The City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture, where he is currently Director of the Master of Architecture Program.

George Ranalli, FAIA is an American architect based in New York. A graduate of Pratt Institute (’72 B.Arch.) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (’74 M.Arch.), Mr. Ranalli is known for his innovative design practice, and coherent, elegant work, at every scale, attuned to history and surroundings. Since 1977, George Ranalli Architect has set the standard of care for the practice and profession of architecture. For 40-years, Mr. Ranalli has created a diverse body of work, ranging from civic masterplans and cultural projects to private residences and product design. Mr. Ranalli is recognized in hundreds of publications, gallery and museum exhibitions, and collections, around the world, and he has received dozens of awards for excellence. A rigorous scholar, Mr. Ranalli has advanced the profession through systematic teaching, research, and practice; this month, issuing his fifth book, In Situ, Oscar Riera Ojeda Publications. An academic leader, Mr. Ranalli taught for 25-years at fine schools, most notably, a professor of architecture and college fellow at Yale University. After educating thousands of students, Mr. Ranalli took on the Deanship at City College; presiding for the past 16-years over a renaissance of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. According to the renowned historian of architecture William J.R. Curtis, Mr. Ranalli has “set in place a value system for teaching the art of architecture.”