Point Line Projects

We interrupt your scroll to share good news from some of the curators, authors, artists, and designers we’ve worked with at Point Line Projects. 🥂 2025 milestones include:
1. Beginning work on a book based on Now What?! Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in American Architecture since 1968
2. Editing New York 2020 by Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove
3. Editing the book Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection
4. Working with multidisciplinary artist Njaimie Njie on her book Flight Plans, launching soon !
5. Installing the 2025 x-change exhibition at
6. Only one copy left for sale (anywhere) of Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens by —it’s on our site!
7. made moves at
8. translated the Harvard GSD’s public programs poster into 34 languages spoken by GSD students
9. We also paid respects to the singular career and life of Arthur Lubetz (1940–2025).
Thank you for another year of meaningful projects about architecture, art, and design! Wishing all our clients, colleagues, and collaborators a creatively fulfilling 2026! Sincerely, Sarah Rafson, Jedd Hakimi, and Mak O’Connor

“To have such a biography, on this scale and with this ambition, of the physical form of the greatest city on earth is little short of a miracle.” – Ric Burns, Filmmaker

Pick up your own copy of New York 2020, the much-anticipated final volume in architect Robert A.M. Stern’s critically acclaimed New York series, which traces the evolution of the city from the Civil War to present day. New York 2020 tells the story of a remarkable period of urban development, architectural experiment, and seismic cultural shifts.

Congratulations to Robert A. M. Stern and writers David Fishman and . Shout-out to PLP’s Jedd Hakimi for adeptly editing the more-than-900,000-word manuscript. Thanks to Jenna Sher for the graphic design, Elizabeth White and for managing the process. What a team, what a lift! 🙌

Now available worldwide from .

Join us in honoring the memory of the inimitable architect and intellect Art Lubetz (1940-2025). The evening of October 7, an exhibition in the Great Hall of honors Art’s singular creative work, teaching, and life. Here are some highlights from his drawings in the CMU Architecture Archives. Art was a partner at , an educator for over 30 years , and a constant voice pushing for better in our buildings and cities. We’re linking to his obituary in our bio. Please feel free to share a favorite memory or quote from Art in the comments. 🙏

Intermission + Closing Reception for
Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture
Thursday, January 16 | 6-10pm
Don't miss your FINAL opportunity to see this extraordinary exhibition!

This month, Intermission features the closing reception of Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Culture.

Join us for:

An 8pm tour and gallery talk with exhibition curator Big Phill joined by special guests including collectors, authors, and artists featured in the exhibition.

A special appearance of live-action comic characters from Pittsburgh’s own Heroineburgh (presented by our partner and Intermission host Comicsburgh).

A raffle and chance to win a premier collector’s set of Heroineburgh comic books and trading cards. (Note: You must attend Intermission to enter and win.)

Live music featuring Soul singer and New Kensington native Cam Chambers.

21 and over + City Stylish Attire | Cash Bar and food for purchase

Admission is FREE.
Registration is required for the 8pm gallery tour with Big Phill.

Link: https://aacc-awc.prospect2.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GDJJ3GgDH.r_QxMVxVz13VWjN~2jMUwjXjGVqLN5pF_-0y.zeV02I2nk_M~j_Y2XnTG

ATTEND // Nancy Goldring is exhibiting at Gallery a83 in Soho!

Nancy Goldring: Distillations
January 9 - February 9, 2025
Opening Thursday January 9, 6-8PM
83 Grand Street, New York

For more information, contact [email protected] or visit https://www.a83.site/goldring-distillations

“Distillations” is a selection of works by Nancy Goldring, a founding director and member of SITE. The solo exhibition is comprised of drawings, models, and photographs.

Nancy Goldring’s interdisciplinary practice spans mediums of drawing, photography, and projection, exploring themes of memory, place, and the layers of human experience.
In her new exhibition, Goldring’s work continues to reveal the connections between geography, perception, and personal history. The exhibition brings together a diverse body of work, each piece an invitation into the artist’s world of shifting landscapes and fractured memories. Goldring’s approach to art-making is driven by an impulse to capture the elusive and the infinite-the fluid relationship between the present moment and the historical or emotional contexts that shape our understanding of place.

Image by Gallery a83.

✨New Year’s Party-in-an-Email✨

The new year is a chance to reflect on our mission to uplift our colleagues’ work through meaningful books, exhibitions, and communications. Join us in celebrating these client milestones from 2024 and sharing what we’re looking forward to in 2025.

Sincerely,
Mak, Sarah, and Jedd

•— Link to newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/56dd69fcf539/point-line-projects-fall-update-17988439

APPLY // Call for Proposals: The 2025 Deborah J. Norden Fund

The Deborah J. Norden Fund, a program of The Architectural League of New York, was established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden. The competition awards travel grants to students and recent graduates committed to the study of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies.

In 2025, the Norden Fund will award a grant of up to $7,500 to one individual or team. Applicants must submit a proposal of up to three pages which succinctly describes the objectives of the grant request and how it will contribute to the applicant’s intellectual and creative development.

COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Monday, February 24, 2025, 11:59pm ET

Learn more and apply at https://archleague.org/competition/2025-deborah-norden-fund-call-for-proposals/?utm_source=League+%2B+UO+Master+List&utm_campaign=7355a7d9a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_07_02_44_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3472ac9ece-345519134&mc_cid=7355a7d9a6&mc_eid=9c0c70e768

ON VIEW // 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘳: 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴
Gallery and bookshop hours: Wed–Sat, 12–5 p.m.
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, Illinois 60610

The Graham Foundation presents Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines, a concise yet rich examination of Frederick Kiesler’s (1890–1965) experimental design practice through the activities of his Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. The output of Kiesler’s Laboratory included research, design studies, and drawings that probed the possibilities of his theory of biotechnique, while reflecting on the relation between design, energy, and the human body (its posture, respiration rates, and image consciousness). The exhibition highlights two of Kiesler’s most essential and ambitious projects developed at the Laboratory: the Mobile Home Library and the Vision Machine. Together these projects illustrate the fantastical scope and applications of Kiesler’s correalism: a design approach he conceived to “express the dynamics of continual interaction between man and his natural and technological environments.”

Image 1: Photographer unknown, "Frederick Kiesler’s Mobile Home Library hinge," 1938. Photograph, 7.97 x 5.07 in (20.2 x 12.9 cm). Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (www.grahamfoundation.org)

Image 2: Frederick Kiesler, "Mobile Home Library as represented in the 'Correalism Manifesto,'" 1947. Copyright Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (www.grahamfoundation.org)

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) recently announced its fall 2024 schedule of public programs and exhibitions, many of which offer interdisciplinary perspectives on conflict, power, and design as a means of communication. All events are live streamed on the GSD website and open to the public.

Programs began on September 3, with the opening of Farshid Moussavi’s exhibition, “Architecture As an Instruction-Based Art,” now on view at the Druker Design Gallery.

Some highlights fo the series include: Democracy and Urban Form (October 9–10), in which Michael Sandel, Richard Sennett, and Diane Davis discuss how the design of our cities can empower citizens and facilitate modes of discourse essential to democratic societies. Senior Loeb Scholar Malkit Shoshan hosts “Reconstruction and Redestruction” (October 24), a discussion about the complexities of postwar reconstruction with Andrew Herscher and Daniel Serwer. In “Building with Care” (September 24), Shoshan develops similar ideas, speaking with Tatiana Bilbao and Elke Krasny about how a powerful shift in worldview can follow from displacing the use of the word “war.” Look for PLP founder Sarah Rafson giving the occasional opening remarks or wildly flagging speakers (from offstage, hopefully…!).

Image one: Pantheon II, 2023, Germane Barnes, winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize, who lectures on October 7. Courtesy the artist and Nina Johnson. Photography by Greg Carideo. © Germane Barnes. Image two: Construction coordination drawing of the National Taichung Theater, Toyo Ito.

•— Link to Harvard GSD public programs and exhibitions, https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2024/08/gsd-announces-fall-2024-public-programs-and-exhibitions/

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is announcing the launch of its annual showcase of student work, EX-CHANGE. This year’s book and exhibition, titled 2024–1905, was designed and edited by Phillip Denny. Every year the EX-CHANGE book and exhibition shine new light on the school’s research and pedagogy; this edition is about encountering the past.

It’s our eighth EX-CHANGE: we love working with the team at Carnegie Mellon Architecture and the talented alumni designers to edit the book and provide installation support for the exhibition. The 2024 book will be available by request, free of charge, while copies last.

Join Carnegie Mellon Architecture for a launch event on Friday, September 13, 2024. The welcome back celebration will feature remarks by the design team and a chance to pick up a copy of the book.

EX-CHANGE will be on view August 26–September 15, 2024 at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, Suite 201 from Monday–Friday 8am–5pm.

•— Exhibition link below
https://www.architecture.cmu.edu/events/2024-ex-change-opening-welcome-back-celebration

“My film and exhibition are here to change that narrative and ensure that these incredible contributions are not only recognized but celebrated.” – Phillip Thompson aka DJ Big Phil

Collections in Black: A Celebration of Black Comic Book Cultures opens July 26 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center! This exhibition and film delves into the African American experience within comic book culture and sheds light on an often-overlooked history. For far too long, the rich history and significant impact of African Americans in shaping the comic book industry have been overshadowed.

We worked with AWAACC Curator & Exhibitions Manager, Kimberly Jacobs, and filmmaker and avid comic book collector Phillip Thompson to design the exhibition identity, marketing, and graphics. We also helped license images of rare and iconic works.

Please join us in celebrating the opening of Collections in Black at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center on Friday, July 26 a 5:30 pm. A screening of Collections in Black by filmmaker and collector Phillip Thompson will begin at 6:15 pm with an opening party with special guests The Union DJs at 8:15 pm. The reception, film screening, and party are open to the public and free to attend. See you there!

PLP, meet Cambridge, Massachusetts! After three years as Curator of Public Programs and five years directing the annual showcase of student work at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, PLP Founder Sarah Rafson is on to a new adventure as the Associate Director of Public Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Congratulations, Sarah! We’re excited for the new opportunities that await you.

Speaking of new adventures—PLP Design and Communications Coordinator Makenzie O’Connor just launched their new project in partnership with Chas Wagner. Paper + Dirt is a bookshop, reading room, and community classroom located at 7105 Reynolds St. Stop in Thursdays & Fridays noon-6pm to peruse their collection of architecture and new literary magazines and to plan your dream public programming.