Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem (2017 Fellows) discuss their recent book, Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism, with the landscape architect Kristi Cheramie (2017 Fellow).

Hoang and Rotem will explore their concept that intersects architecture, urbanism, and interiors. The conversation will span three global cities—New York, Rome, and Tokyo—exploring forms of indoor urbanism in each city and highlighting a more open relationship between architecture and the environment. They will discuss design projects and environmental research, which will raise the essential question: in the face of the climate crisis, what is architecture’s capacity to change?

Hoang and Rotem are the founding directors of the interdisciplinary architecture and design practice MODU. The studio designs cultural projects, public spaces, commercial buildings, and urban homes while working at the intersection of design, ecology, and data. They were awarded AAR’s 2017 Founders Rome Prize in Architecture and have also been awarded 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). Hoang is the head of architecture for the Knowlton School at Ohio State University. Rotem is an associate professor of practice at the Knowlton School and teaches in the graduate program at Columbia University.

Kristi Cheramie is professor and head of landscape architecture at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School. Her research explores the many ways we use building to respond to and cope with environmental fluctuation. In particular, Cheramie is interested in efforts aimed at mitigating or eliminating change. To track patterns of adaptability and transformation in the landscape, she moves between fieldwork, ethnography, archival research, and data visualization. Her first book, Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome, uses a combination of text and data-rich mappings to examine the systems, scales, and cycles that contribute to the making and unmaking of the city.

This event, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public.