Superscript’s Next Chapter

By: molly
24-04-2012
Uncategorized

We’re happy to report that, due to demand, Superscript is taking it to the next level!

As Superscript LLC we’ll continue to participate in editorial and content development projects, but now with Superscript founding partner Molly Heintz in the role of Managing Director.  Founding partners Aileen Kwun, Avinash Rajagopal, and Vera Sacchetti continue as key collaborators, and we’ll also be bringing together some of the best researchers, thinkers, and writers from our network to join us for specific projects.

And, stay tuned for the springtime and summer editions of ADBC, the Architecture and Design Book Club we launched in 2011.

For more information on Superscript or ADBC, please email molly@superscript.co

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Join us for the second meeting of the ADBC, with Paola Antonelli

By: admin
23-11-2011
ADBC

Superscript invites you to the second meeting of ADBC, the Architecture and Design Book Club, with our special guest — Paola Antonelli.

On December 7, join Superscript and MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design Paola Antonelli as we delve into the world of Philip K. Dick’s classic text, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  Most famously the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner (and the vast majority of science fiction imagery from the last thirty years), this 1968 novel popularized the idea of the cyborg and has had a lasting effect on dreams and fears concerning technology in the public sphere.

Superscript will be hosting the second edition of ADBC in a venue fittingly celebratory of this post-apocalyptic narrative, and invites you to drop by and revisit this science fiction classic. We’ll have copies of the text available, but feel free to B.Y.O.Book!

Guest: Paola Antonelli

Text: Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Venue: 15 Union Square West

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Time:
7pm Introduction
7:15-8:15pm Discussion, Q&A

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ADBC #1 — Public space, William H. Whyte and the High Line

By: admin
19-08-2011
ADBC

Yesterday’s late afternoon thunder and lighting provided a very dramatic backdrop for the first installment of the Architecture and Design Book Club (ADBC), in which our special guest architecture critic Alexandra Lange led discussion on William H. Whyte’s the Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.

Superscript’s Molly Heintz kicked off the event, welcoming Alexandra who contextualized and introduced Whyte’s work. The lively Q&A that followed touched upon zoning, politics, public space, parks in NYC and the “special” status of the High Line. We had a great turnout, and guests included the Van Alen Institute’s Olympia Kazi, D-Crit’s Alice Twemlow, writer Mimi Zeiger, and Curry Stone design prize curator Chee Pearlman. Thanks to everyone who showed up — discussion was fantastic, and the High Line 23rd Street bleachers a perfect setting. Check out Paul Needham’s coverage of the event in the Huffington Post.

Stay tuned for details on ADBC#2 very soon… and some more pictures after the jump!

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Join us for the first Architecture and Design Book Club, with Alexandra Lange

By: admin
05-07-2011
ADBC

Superscript invites you to the first meeting of a new Architecture and Design Book Club, with our special guest architecture critic Alexandra Lange. Rain or shine!*

Join Superscript and architecture critic Alexandra Lange as we discuss the first selection of the Architecture and Design Book Club, William Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. A seminal study of architecture and urban design, Whyte’s book offered New Yorkers and urban citizens everywhere new tools for looking at public space. His conclusions laid the foundation for legislation that turned this new understanding into common practice.

Superscript will be hosting the first edition of ADBC in a public venue fittingly celebratory of Whyte’s findings—The High Line. We invite you to just drop by—we will have portions of the text for you to refer to—and see today’s cityscape through Whyte’s eyes.

Guest: Alexandra Lange

Text: William Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
(we will provide photocopies of selections from the text)

Venue: 23rd Street Lawn, The High Line, Section Two
*Rain location: The Lot, under the High Line at 30th Street 

Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011

Time:
6:30pm Introduction
6:45-7:45pm Discussion, Q&A

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