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This Design Dialogue celebrates two Brooklyn architects elevated to the AIA College of Fellows within the past two years. In 30-minute lectures, each will share the ethos behind their practice, research, and teaching, illustrated through completed projects at a range of scales. A moderated conversation follows on the Fellowship process: why they applied, how distilling their careers into a 35-word capsule statement sharpened their understanding of their own work, what has changed since their elevation, and how Brooklyn shapes the way they practice.

Georgeen Theodore, FAIA, co-founder of Interboro Partners and professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, will present her participatory approach to urban design: looking closely at what already exists and finding pragmatic, surprising ways to reuse and transform it. Moving from early temporary public spaces built through borrowing, bartering, and “precycling” to neighborhood planning in Detroit, the reimagining of vacant schools, and community-driven climate adaptation in New York and Athens, she will discuss how listening and co-design with underserved communities can shape both places and public policy, and how she carries that approach into the classroom.

Bryan Young, FAIA, founder of Young Projects, will present how hands-on material experimentation drives his studio’s design process. Through work ranging from furniture and interiors to houses and a retreat in the Dominican Republic, he will trace how studio experiments such as hand-pulled plaster and palm-formed concrete become built architecture, and how embracing ambiguity, and letting go of control at the right moments, produces spaces that are surprising and bespoke. He will also discuss how this research informs his teaching.

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