Esther Yang to present on "The Politics of Housing People"

Friday, April 11, 2014

A free lecture and discussion at OSU

Esther Yang, the deputy director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City in the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, will present a lecture and discussion on “The Politics of Housing People”, Friday, April 18, at 10:30 a.m. in 126 ITLE at Oklahoma State University. The free, public program is hosted by the College of Human Sciences’ Design, Housing and Merchandising department and Sustainability Think Tank.

Yang received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Virginia.  She has been a faculty member of the University of Arkansas’ architecture department. After finishing a Rose Fellowship at the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation in the Bronx, she assumed the role of deputy director at the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City within the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Yang is an expert in the Public Interest Design field, having recently published in Bridging the Gap: Architectural Internships in Public Service and won a 2012 ASLA collaborative design award with Robin Key Landscape Architects.

The J. Max Bond Center at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York believes that design can have a positive impact on urban reform in our nation’s cities. Founded in 2011, the Bond Center is dedicated to the advancement of design practice, education, research and advocacy in ways that build and sustain resilient and just communities, cities, and regions.

The lecture is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the Chris Salmon Endowed Professorship in collaboration with the Sustainability Think Tank in the College of Human Sciences.

For more information on this event contact Ted Drab by phone at (405) 744-4299 or by email at theo.drab@okstate.edu.