Skip to main content
Power

Infrastructure in
America

is a project at Columbia University's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture connecting infrastructure, politics, and life.

  • Essays
  • Events
  • Initiatives
  • Resources
  • About

Initiatives

Featured

Public Service Announcements

Green Reconstruction, which recognizes that climate justice is unthinkable without racial justice, requires a public sphere where economic redistribution is openly discussed. Media networks, and the stories told there, are among the most important tools for rebuilding our collective imagination to conceive of justice in this way.
 

Image

"

#GreenStimulus and Beyond: A Resource

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to deepening global economic crisis and calls for a #GreenStimulus in response. To assist scholars, students, and activists in tracking these discussions, the Buell Center is compiling a working resource here.

Image

A tan building with shuttered windows and "Rite Aid" in blue letters above an open door sits behind an empty parking lot.

Rite Aid, Scituate, Rhode Island (JJBers, Flickr)

Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture announces, together with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the recipients of the Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

Image

ACSA, "Architecture Climate Change and Society" GIF with thermal map graphics

Public Service Announcements

2020 - 2021

Green Reconstruction

2020 - 2021

#GreenStimulus and Beyond: A Resource

2020 - 2020

Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

2019 - 2021

Public Works for a Green New Deal

2019 - 2019

Powerlines

2019 - 2020

Reimagining Rust Belt Infrastructure

2019 - 2021

Local Course Development

2019 - 2020

Liquid Utility

2019 - 2019

Green New Deal

2019 - 2020

Everyday Emergencies

2019 - 2020

The A&E System

2018 - 2021

The Right to Infrastructure

2018 - 2021

Architecture against Democracy

2018 - 2021

Paris Prize

2017 - 2021

Power

is part of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, organized by and with many contributors.
© 2019 Columbia University

Buell Center Logo