Maria r.Perbellini
Co-Founder Pongratz Perbellini Architects
Dean and Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
NYC, USA
Geographical scope:
NYC, USA, Global
Climate Action:
Maria Perbellini is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) at the New York Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder of Pongratz Perbellini Architects, an award-winning firm internationally recognized and widely published.Under her leadership, SoAD has been at the forefront of public interest and community design, working on multi-scalar projects and climate-responsive proposals to engage marginalized communities and vulnerable environments affected by natural disasters, social and economic inequities.
Examples include: The Italian Virtual Pavilion; the R-Cubed, Best Practices for Community-based and Multidisciplinary, Comprehensive Disaster Response; Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers; Modular Infrastructure Construction in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Building Resilient Communities in Harlem, NY; Emergency Cores post-hurricane recovery, Puerto Rico; Refugee Housing in Germany; and Hurricane Sandy Displaced Housing in NYC, among other initiatives. She has focused on collaborations and partnerships: Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Bari, IUAV, PUC Rio, UIC Barcelona, Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York, Consulate General of Denmark in New York, Institute for Future Human Habitat-Tsinghua Shenzhen IGS (in progress), ENEL, Peccioli Research Center, New York City, AIANY Planning and Urban Design, among others). https://blogs.nyit.edu/spotlight_on_urban_design
View all Fall 2020 lectures & events.
(https://www.nyit.edu/files/architecture/SOAD_2021_SpringLecturesAndEvents.pdf).
Innovation:
Global issues of environmental awareness, climate change, sustainable solutions, diversity, inclusion e social responsibility are infusing curricula, lecture series, events and initiatives (https://www.nyit.edu/files/architecture/SOAD_2021_SpringLecturesAndEvents.pdf), have become part of design studio projects and specialized master’s, have infused virtual conversations and stimulated symposia and panels (The Future of Cities: Urban Regeneration in a Time of Crisis; Design Innovation: Resilient Cities Learning For Science; Critical Density: Health, Ecology, Economy & Equity; among others).
5 Women at the forefront of Shifts in Architecture Education
https://interiordesign.net/designwire/5-women-at-the-forefront-of-shifts-in-architecture-education/
Emerging technologies
https://www.nyit.edu/box/features/school_of_architecture_and_design_celebrates_the_opening_of_the_fab_lab
Impacts:
Maria Perbellini is a member of the NYC Architecture Biennial Advisory Board. The 2022 NYCAB theme, “Interdependen-city, …”will examine how architecture, design and urbanism activate structural transformation in a globalized world”. https://www.nycarchitecturebiennial.org/
She is also an invited member of the Italian Pavilion Advisory Board at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2021, and one of the Creative Directors of the Virtual Italian Pavilion. 17th International Architecture Venice Biennale 2021; https://www.comunitaresilienti.com/
City Changer's Videos:
Sustainability: from cost to profit. Forum
Informality through Sustainability – 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italian Pavilion
https://www.facebook.com/ItalianPavilion2021/videos/180642987269851/
Opening Event: NYIT School of Architecture and Design at the Venice Biennale 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWgUiUVBJQA
The Future of Cities: Designing Circularity
https://vimeo.com/546045067/d5d3b8e47f
The Future of Cities: Urban Regeneration in a Time of Crisis
https://vimeo.com/458695709/f02de43b4b
Inclusive Design Trajectories. The female voices in Architecture and Design
Learn more:
NYC Architecture BiennialAdvisory Board member
https://www.nycarchitecturebiennial.org/our-team
17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
Advisory Board member, Italian Pavilion https://www.comunitaresilienti.com/
Creative Director, Virtual Italian Pavilion https://cityxvenice.org/cd
https://www.nyit.edu/box/features/architecture_students_and_faculty_make_a_grand_showing
The Future of Cities
The Future of Cities - Designing Circularity. https://www.nyit.edu/events/the_future_of_cities_designing_circularity
The Future of Cities: Urban Regeneration in a Time of Crisis
The Future of Cities: Urban Regeneration in a Time of Crisis. https://www.nyit.edu/events/the_future_of_cities
https://www.nyit.edu/box/features/school_of_architecture_and_design_co_hosts_future_of_cities
Scali Urbani
Maria Perbellini was an invited speaker at Diversità Equità Inclusione - Strumenti di Resilienza Urbana
https://www.facebook.com/scaliurbani/posts/944851315925600
Forum on Sustainability
Maria Perbellini was an invited speaker at a Forum on Sustainability on 10.21.2021, promoted by the Embassy of Italy in the United States. Organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York and La Voce di New York on the occasion of the 5th Edition of the Sustainable Development Festival promoted by Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (ASviS) and in view of COP26. https://festivalsvilupposostenibile.it/2021/cal/421/colloquio-internazionale-sustainability-from-cost-to-profit#.YYmI5L1Kh27
2021 UN Climate Change Summit, COP26
https://www.floornature.com/architecture-and-adaptation-resilient-communities-biennale-d-16637/ “Adapting to the changing climate: knowledge innovation for environmental design”- Panel organized by THE PLAN magazine.
Women at the forefront of Shifts in Architecture Education
https://interiordesign.net/designwire/5-women-at-the-forefront-of-shifts-in-architecture-education/