Bard Faculty Member Receives 2024 Project Grant from the Architectural League of New York and NYSCA
L–R: Jesse McCormick, former visiting lecturer in Architecture at Bard College; Betsy Clifton, lecturer in Architecture at Bard College.
Betsy Clifton, lecturer in Architecture at Bard College, and Jesse McCormick, former visiting lecturer in Architecture at Bard, have received a 2024 Independent Project Grant from the Architectural League of New York and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in support of their project, Toxic Assets, Seeing Like a Land Bank. Through an exhibition hosted in collaboration with the architecture collective Citygroup, Toxic Assets will synthesize and translate the history, activity, politics, and potential futures of land banks to an architecture-allied audience. By interrogating the role of land banks in urban development, the project illuminates how these institutions shape the built environment and contribute to larger conversations about equity, policy, and spatial justice. This research and exhibition process has also provided an opportunity for two Bard undergraduate students, Anderson Fletcher ’26 and Noah Protas ’26, to engage with the project as an independent study.
Post Date: 03-11-2025
Post Date: 03-11-2025