Event
Watershed Management
November 4, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
Faculty Topical Lecture
Frances CAMPANI
Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Associate Professor Frances Campani is an architect, painter and associate professor. She has a B.A. in Art History and History from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook and a M.Arch from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.
More About FrancesShe has taught at Columbia/Barnard College and Columbia University GSAPP and is presently an Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design. She teaches architectural design, drawing and history of art and architecture.
She worked in the office of Conrad Levenson and Associates in New York City. She has had her own practice of Frances Campani Architect 1985-2000 and has since been partner in Campani and Schwarting Architects.
As a painter she has had numerous exhibitions of her work in the United States and in France. Her research includes work, with Michael Schwarting, on the history, restoration and relocation of the Aluminaire House (Kocher and Frey, 1931). A text on the House is due for publication on completion of the reconstruction at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA.
Jon Michael SCHWARTING
Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Professor Michael Schwarting is an architect, urban designer and professor. He has a B.Arch. and M.Arch in Urban Design from Cornell University and received a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome.
More About Jon MichaelHe is a Professor of Architecture and former Director of the graduate program in Urban and Regional Design at New York Institute of Technology. He has taught at Columbia, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Cooper Union, Syracuse and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. He also taught courses at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. He has lectured on his work and on architectural, history, theory and issues at numerous institutions.
He was an Associate in Richard Meier and Associates and has had a Practice; Jon Michael Schwarting Architect and been a Partner in several practices and presently Campani and Schwarting Architects. Work has been exhibited and published internationally in journals and books. Projects have received a PA Citation and LI AIA ARCHI awards. He has been recognized and placed in several competitions. He has directed the restoration of the 1931 Aluminaire House since 1987.
He has published a book,’ Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation’, and articles on architecture and architectural theory in Domus, Harvard Review, VIA, Modulus, Precis and ACSA. He has received private and public grants from the Graham Foundation, NEA, NYSCA and NYS P&HP. He has served on the Board of the Architectural League of NYC, Van Alan Institute and is Trustee Emeritus of the American Academy in Rome.
About this Faculty Research Lecture
Introduction & Respondent: Farzana GANDHI, Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Design, New York Institute of Technology
Campani and Schwarting Architects produced an urban/landscape plan for the Port Jefferson harbor waterfront that was funded by NYS Department of State Coastal Division – Environmental Protection Fund and approved by the Village in 2014, and was included in the Port Jefferson 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update. The Plan proposed to replace existing parking on the harbor front with a public park, designed to complete a sequence of parks along the harbor. The concept was to create a better relationship of the Village to the waterfront with park and civic space connecting them. This plan will be presented by Professor Michael Schwarting.
Campani and Schwarting were commissioned by the Village of Port Jefferson in 2019 to study the watershed of the Village; a bowl-shaped topography of up to 150’ above sea level and sloping down to the harbor. The study also included storm surge and rising tide conditions coming from Long Island Sound and the Port Jefferson Harbor that increasingly contribute to flooding in Village. Specific short term and long range projects are proposed for publicly owned properties in the business district of Port Jefferson. This study will be utilized to update the waterfront park plan as a means to mitigate storm surges and rising tides as well as the storm water runoff from the watershed area, This study will be presented by Assoc. Professor Frances Campani.
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