ADPSR's Newsletter 

Spring, 2007

Spring, 2006

Press Releases

 

May 9, 2007 [Read]
"ADPSR President Wins Young Architect Award"

December 1, 2006 [Read]
"ADPSR Announces Honorees of the 2006 Lewis Mumford Awards"

June 5, 2006 [Read]
"National Architects Group Censors Prison Critics: AIA rejects slide of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo facilities in panel on ethics of prison design"

May 4, 2006 [Read]
"ADPSR Opposes Bomb Test: Proposed nuclear cloud would threaten Native Americans and a peaceful solution to relations with Iran "

March 27,2006
New Books from New Village press announced:
Beginner's guide to Community-Based Arts [press release]
Ecological Design and Building Schools: Green Guide to Educational Opportunities in the United States and Canada [press release]
Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities [press release]

January 26, 2006 [Read]
"Prison Design Boycott reaches 500 signers, receives $5,000 grant, on front cover of magazine"

December 12, 2005 [Read]
ADPSR's statements on clemency for death-row prisoner Stanley "Tookie" Williams

July 10, 2005 [Read]
"Prison Boycott Poster Design Competition Call for Entries"

June 4, 2005 [Read]
"ADPSR Announces Honorees of the 2005 Lewis Mumford Awards"

November 19, 2004 [Read]
"Designer Quits over Prison Work, National Prison Design Boycott Gains Momentum"

September 22, 2004 [Read]
"Architects Say 'NO' to Prisons, Group Launches National Prison Design Boycott"

Recent Articles

October, 2006 [link]
"Comment" by  Tim Culvahouse, FAIA objects to AIA's censorship of ADPSR at the AIA convention, reprinted from arcCA (Architecture California), the quarterly journal of the AIA California Council, vol. 06, no. 3, "Preserving Modernism."

June 9, 2006 [link]
"ADPSR President claims AIA censored prisons presentation" in Building Design & Construction online

June, 2006 [link]
"Is this Justice?"  ADPSR President Raphael Sperry's letter on Richard Rogers's renunciation of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine 

March, 2006 [Read]
"Higher Expectations"-- ADPSR's comments on Environmental Building New's feature article on Walmart, in Environmental Building News, March 2006] [Original article] [letter, pdf version] links courtesy of Environmental Building News

September, 2005 [Read]
"A Recovery Plan for Lower Manhattan" by ADPSR Board Member Paul Broches, in DESIGNER/builder magazine, Sept-Oct 2005

July 25, 2005 [Read]
"Green architect Raphael Sperry answers Grist's questions" in Grist magazine, environmental news and commentary

May 6, 2005 [Read]
"Prison Boycott Responses" in ArchVoices newsletter

May 3, 2005 [Read]
"Just say no to prison jobs, architect urges colleagues; He says ethics demand jail-design boycott" in the San Francisco Chronicle

May 2, 2005 [Read]
"San Francisco Group Staging Prison Design Boycott" in Architectural Record

May/June 2005 [Read]
"Home Security: Architects say building houses, not jails, is the way to cut crime" in Utne Magazine

April 22, 2005 [Read]
"Prison Design Boycott" in ArchVoices newsletter

April 25, 2005 [Read]
"De:constructing Recidivism" in Archinect

January/February 2005 [Read] or [PDF]
Letter by Raphael Sperry from Environmental Design & Construction

December 2004 [PDF]
"Opposing Prisons: Education versus Incarceration" in arcCA (Architecture California)

November/December 2004 [PDF]
Article in DESIGNER/Builder magazine

October 13, 2004 [Read]
"Boycotting Prison Design" in Archinect

October 12, 2004 [Read]
"Prison Design Boycott: The Second Superpower--Cooperation, Politics, & Activism"

September 14, 2004 [Read]
"Activist Architect Group Calls for Prison Design Boycott" in Architecture magazine

 Events 

March 25, 2006
"Structures for [Ex]clusion: The Prison Design Boycott, Architecture and Social Justice"
Presentation by ADPSR President Raphael Sperry
Structures for Inclusion 6 conference [link]
San Francisco, CA

April 6, 2006
Presenting A Beginner's Guide to Community Based Arts, published by ADPSR - New Village Press
San Francisco, CA [Location and Schedule]

April 8, 2006
"It is Time to Stop Building Prisons"
Presentation by ADPSR President Raphael Sperry
SOULutionaries Social Series [link]
Alameda, CA

June 4, 2006
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison-Industrial Complex [link]
Poster exhibition (ongoing) and closing conference
Panel Presentation by ADPSR President Raphael Sperry
Los Angeles, CA

June 5-7, 2006
Association for Community Design Conference [link]
Panel Presentation by ADPSR President Raphael Sperry
Los Angeles, CA

June 8, 2006
"Exploring Prisons as a Design, Ethical, and Social Policy Issue" [link]
Panel Presentation at the AIA National Convention with ADPSR President Raphael Sperry, Jail Architect Frank Greene, AIA, and Jeanne Woodford, Acting Director of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Hosted by AIA Academy for Architecture and Justice
Los Angeles, CA

June 9, 2006
"Architectural Leadership in Ethical and Social Issues" [link]
Panel Presentation at the AIA National Convention with ADPSR President Raphael Sperry, Lisa Findley, California College of the Arts; Stephen Goldsmith, Enterprise Community Partners; and Victoria Beach, Professor of Architectural Ethics
Hosted by ADPSR
Los Angeles, CA

June 12, 2006
"Bridging over Troubled Waters"
Panel discussion of how to include social justice in responses to Hurricane Katrina
Matthew Smith, ADPSR Katrina Task Force chair
Center for Architecture, New York, NY

July 2006
Annual Mumford Award Ceremony
time and place to be announced, please check back later
For more information contact Raphael Sperry, ADPSR President by email at president (at) adpsr.org