On Nov. 15th and 16th, 2024, the J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures hosted ARCH @ 60: Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities, a symposium that brought together practitioners, advocates, and academics to reflect of the legacy of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH)

Currently, most air rights transfers are used to create a distinctly financial style of building, the super-tall. This project proposes a smaller scale approach, unlocking air rights above existing residential development, adding 2-4 stories to create a higher, yet still contextually relevant, density.

The lasting effects of gentrification, rezoning, historic red-lining and economic and health disparities have rendered a built landscape — and its attending processes — fraught to navigate.