CUDC Fall Lecture Series - Jerome Haferd, Brandt : Haferd
5 November 2021 from noon-1pm
Virtual lecture - Register here for remote access / Zoom link
“Dark Matter is not the opposite of matter, but matter that behaves differently.”
Working within erased or marginalized histories, neighborhoods, or sites that fall outside the ‘mainstream’ challenges us to question both the how and the what of architecture. Haferd, an Akron native, will chart a geography of his Harlem-based design practice, drawing connections between projects in the larger Hudson Valley, recent housing prototypes for Cleveland, St. Louis, and beyond.
Jerome Haferd is an architect and educator based in Harlem, NY. He is co-founder of the award winning design and research practice BRANDT : HAFERD. Jerome’s work focuses on how architecture establishes a dialogue between contemporary culture, non-hegemonic histories, users and spaces. Haferd has recently led community design efforts with the Harlem and Pine Street African Burial Ground Task Force groups, the Van Alen Gowanus fellows, and others. Jerome is currently on the architecture and urban design faculty at CCNY SSA, Columbia GSAPP, and Yale. He is a core initiator of Dark Matter University, a BIPOC-led network dedicated to transforming pedagogy and the space of knowledge production. Jerome received his Master’s in Architecture at Yale University and his Bachelor’s in Architecture from The Ohio State University. He has worked in the offices of OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi Architects.
BRANDT : HAFERD, Architecture, D.P.C, co-founded by Jerome W Haferd and K Brandt Knapp is a Harlem-based practice dedicated to public architecture at many scales. They were winners of the first annual 2012 Folly competition held by The Architectural League of NY. The practice was awarded the grand prize for the 2019 Cleveland ZeroThreshold competition with a multi-abled, intergenerational housing prototype. The studio is one of the 2020 winners of the AIA New Practices New York award and has been exhibited widely, including AIA New York and The Storefront for Art and Architecture. Recent projects include the 2020-21 Harlem Renaissance Pavilion with WXY and Beautiful Browns, awarded second prize in the 2021 OnOlive emerging black architect housing competition.
The Fall Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University.
For more information, please call 216.357.3434 or email cudc@kent.edu.
