Indoor Urbanism | Presentation and Q+A with Phu Hoang

Through design projects, drawings, essays, and conversations, the concept of 'indoor urbanism' has informed MODU's work. They call for a shift in environmental thinking, designing for exchanges between architecture and the city that are both outside-in and inside-out.

Using their book, Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism (Hatje Cantz, 2023), as a framework for the conversation, Phu Hoang will focus on examples of installation and public art projects and how they inform MODU’s architectural and design practice. Hoang will also speak about MODU’s affordable housing work and what it means to densify building stock to slow down gentrification.

By recontextualizing the notion of urbanism in their practice, MODU raises an essential, and in Miami's context, existential question: In the face of the climate crisis, what is architecture’s capacity to change?

This conversation is a continuation of a series presented in partnership with UM School of Architecture and coincides with the completion of the first phase of Bakehouse’s building renovation and future campus expansion.

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About the speaker

is a Founding Director of the interdisciplinary architecture and design practice MODU. He has led numerous projects, including the Exhale art park and the Promenade mixed-use center. Along with Rachely Rotem, he was awarded the Founders Rome Prize in Architecture (2017), a prestigious prize recognizing 'the highest standards of excellence in the arts and humanities'. He has also received the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York (2019) and the US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2018). He previously served as Head of Architecture at Ohio State University and has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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