One June 3, 2015, the Fitch Foundation gathered with friends and colleagues to welcome its 2015 class of fellows, and to hear exciting project updates from two-time Foundation award recipients SLO Architecture (Blinder 2010-2011 and Blinder 2014).
MEET THE FELLOWS
ANGEL AYÓN
2015 James Marston Fitch Mid-Carer FellowRe-Glazing Modernism: The American and European Experience To Date
Modern architecture has reached an age of maturity, and efforts to preserve it have come to inhabit a new branch of knowledge within the field of heritage conservation. The need to assess Modern buildings — and particularly the glazed assemblies that conform them — has become paramount. Mr. Ayón’s critical assessment aims to explore a range of approaches available to intervene on modern steel-frame glazed assemblies.
Mr. Ayon is pictured, second from left, with family and friends, as well as with Fitch Foundation Chairman Fred Bland, far right.
TIM FRANK
2015 Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellow
Simulating our First-Principles Predecessors: Thermal Zoning in Domestic Structures from Antiquity to the 19th Century
Mr. Frank’s research merges historic preservation discovery and analysis with contemporary technologies, demonstrating the necessity for continued scholarly investigation of preservation themes derived from European precedents. Through investigation of vernacular American architecture, Mr. Frank will consider construction strategies as means by which humans have intensively shaped their living environments.
Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi, the duo behind SLO Architecture, presented the latest updates in their ongoing work to reactivate the Bronx’s Westchester Avenue station. Mr. Levi is pictured below, as he explains the history of the Cass Gilbert-designed structure.
