ALEC ROVENSKY


ARCHITECTURE

    Terra Dispositions︎︎︎
    Conservatory
    Le Murate
    Zeebrugge Sea Terminal︎
    Water Facility
    Water Damage︎
    Makoko Floating School︎
    Types & Rites︎︎

︎PUBLICATION
︎RESEARCH
︎EXHIBITED



EXHIBITION

    Urban Soils Institute︎
    Dissimulating Matter︎ ︎
    Navajo Water Project︎︎
    Art Auction︎
    Migration Museum︎
    What is Home? Workshop︎
    Climates of Resistance︎︎
    Remembrance︎ ︎
    Spazio︎

︎ ORGANIZER
︎EXHIBITOR
︎VIRTUAL SHOW


MEDIA

    Geology︎
    Posit︎
    Slipcasting︎

    Wheel︎
    Built︎
    Freshwater︎
    Saltwater︎
    Videos︎

︎CERAMIC
︎PHOTOGRAPHY
︎VIDEO

 
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Alec is a Residency Director at the Institute for Public Architecture, overseeing a new residency program at the Block House on Governors Island. He has previously worked as an Architectural Designer at Jenny Peysin Architecture and an engineering aide at the Port Authority. He holds a B.Arch Degree from the Syracuse University School of Architecture.


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Mark

Le Murate

 























TK / 2019
From Florence Abroad Semester with Elyse Killkelley & Cathy Wu

            The library typology is rapidly mutating in reaction to the instant and ubiquitous availability of digital media. At the same time, developing concerns over the lack of rigorous verification protocols for information published on the internet has placed even more importance on the role of the library as not only a neutral depository of information, but an institution which validates knowledge before disseminating it.
            As the University of Florence plans to relocate its dedicated architecture library, the Le Murate complex, occupying the eastern edge of the historic center of Florence, presents itself as the site for this proposal. Literally meaning "the walled", Le Murate began as a convent of "walled" nuns. In the 19th century the convent was disbanded, and the buildings turned into a prison with a notable panoptic condition. In the 1980s the prison was abandoned until the adjacent convent was redeveloped into a mixed-used congregation of multiple programs including an art gallery, cafe and low-income housing. The proposal seeks to adaptively reuse the abandoned prison buildings, by extending and weaving "ribbons" into the urban fabric. The design centers around three rituals adapted from the precedent exercise of "sorting" books, people and knowledge.

Mark