ARCH @ 60: Bridging Past Visions and Current Reality

Architects' Renewal Committee of Harlem (ARCH) @ 60: Bridge Past Visions and Current Reality

2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Architects’ Renewal Committee of Harlem which was started to serve the planning and urban design needs of Harlem residents. It was formed by planners and architects to ensure residents were the ones shaping their community's future and was once led by J Max Bond, former dean of the architecture school at City College. ARCH at Sixty will use several of ARCH’s projects - ARCH itself as a model for community design centers everywhere, its advocacy and organizing work on housing and tenant's rights, and visions for 125th Street that countered the plan for the State Office Building - as starting points for conversations about Harlem’s transformation physically and demographically amidst ongoing development, including the need for more affordable housing, and the fight for neighborhood autonomy.

Please join us for the symposium keynote on Friday, November 15th, at 5:30 pm. The keynote is co-sponsored by New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba|NOMA); AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is this year's AIANY J Max Bond, Jr. Lecture.

Host or Publisher J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at City College