Indigenous Society of Architecture Planning and Design at Yale - ISAPD Yale

01/28/2022

As part of our residency with during the summer of 2021, we began the Student Chapter Kit. The kit provides an organizational framework for student members and chapters to leverage ISAPD resources and lessons learned as a foundation to initiate, create, and determine their own identity as student chapters. Download it for free on ISAPD's website!

01/18/2022

Hope you all are well and excited to begin the spring semester! The last few months we have been working on a new initiative we are excited to share. We have launched the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design - our new parent organization. ISAPD Yale is now a student chapter of ISAPD. Check it out! Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design

11/18/2021

Thank you Constructs for featuring our work with lab this summer! Catch it in the Fall 2021 edition alongside the feature of .med and our collaborative event with Dr.Greg Cajete of Santa Clara Pueblo.

09/02/2021

Check out the latest issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine with a feature by Jonathan Lerner on Anjelica S. Gallegos' research and work on the 1913 National American Indian Memorial on Staten Island. The work was furthered during the Center for Architecture (AIANY) Lab Residency.

https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/current-issue/

https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/digital-exhibitions/article/center-for-architecture-lab-indigenous-scholars-of-architecture-planning-and-design-isapd/national-american-indian-memorial-1913/

SEPTEMBER 2021 10 Inside 12 Land Matters 16 Letters FOREGROUND 22 Now A memorial to a founding father confronts his past; Boston City Hall’s plaza, redesigned for the people; a sculpture takes shap…

08/14/2021

Thank you everyone for participating! Posted • This week the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design (), the inaugural Center for Architecture Lab participants, revealed the winners of their Indigenous Futurism Model-Making Competition! ISAPD and competition guest juror Phillip Benitez Gallegos, Jr., awarded five projects, with the winners are separated into two categories, Handmade and Mechanical, plus an overall competition honorable mention.

HANDMADE MODEL CATEGORY
Winner: Rigid Flexibility by Anne Chen
Honorable Mention: 3 by Ying Chang

MECHANICAL MODEL CATEGORY
Winner: APUTI by Sangeetha Othayoth and Sindhu Sriram
Honorable Mention: Mirage by Mo Wang

OVERALL COMPETITION HONORABLE MENTION
R. KOA.XYZ by Violeta Ayala

More details at centerforarchitecture.org/lab.

07/19/2021

Posted • Join the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design () and guest speakers as they plug into the AR/VR world and explore how these tools can preserve and teach traditional lifeways and imagine the future!

🗓️ Wed 7/21
⏰ 6-7 PM ET
✅ calendar.aiany.org

A series of projects will be presented that dive into contemporary Indigenous housing, the history of site, and how imagined environments of the future inform how communities are built today.

Speakers:
Skawennati, Co-Founder, Centre d’art daphne
Summer Sutton, Co-Founder, Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design

More speakers to be announced.

07/19/2021

Posted • We are thrilled to have the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD) create a City Story which features select Indigenous place names in New York, making visible the ongoing connection between historical territories and Indigenous placemaking. ISAPD guides viewers through a series of built and unbuilt projects involving Indigenous communities, including the unbuilt early-twentieth-century American Indian Memorial at Fort Wadsworth. ISAPD members’ studio projects propose a new approach to Fort Wadsworth as a national park, while another project in Inwood incorporates themes of Indigeneity, ecology, technology, and urban public interaction.⠀⠀
Check out the full story in our bio! ☝🏽⠀⠀
The first photo shows Native American chiefs with Rodman Wanamaker at the 1913 groundbreaking ceremony for the National American Indian Memorial (unrealized) at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. (left to right) Cheyenne Chief Wooden Leg, Cheyenne Chief Two Moons, Rodman Wanamaker, Crow Chief Plenty Coups, Crow Chief Medicine Crow, Crow Indian White Man Runs Him, and Oglala Sioux Chief Jack Red Cloud.⠀⠀
The second image is the conceptualization drawing by Thomas Hastings of the National American Indian Memorial at Fort Wadsworth.⠀⠀
📸: George Grantham Bain Collection, 1913, ⠀
📸: Detail of drawing from cover of the groundbreaking ceremony's program, public domain⠀

07/18/2021

Posted • As part of their Center for Architecture Lab residency, conducted an interview with Regis Pecos, Co-Director, Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian School (), focusing on issues of U.S. Indian policy and its impact on tribal architecture and lifeways. Read it all at centerforarchitecture.org/lab!

Regis Pecos, a citizen of Cochiti Pueblo, has served as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and as Tribal Councilmen of Cochiti Pueblo for over 30 years. Pecos made history as the first Native American trustee in the Ivy League when he was appointed a Princeton Trustee in 1997. For 16 years, he served as the Executive Director of the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs. Pecos was the former Chief of Staff to the speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives and former Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for the Office of the Majority Floor Leader. Over 20 years ago, Pecos founded, and is currently the Co-Director of, the Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian School, a think tank for Native youth unique for its culturally-sensitive and community-based approaches that consider and transform the impacts of externally-developed policy on tribal community institutions.

07/06/2021

Posted • What is Indigenous Futurism? Catch up on what's been happening with the first Center for Architecture Lab, which features the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (). Centerforarchitecture.org/lab

Established in September 2018 at the Yale School of Architecture, the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD) is a collective student group focused on increasing the knowledge, consciousness and appreciation of indigenous architecture, planning, and design at the Yale School of Architecture and throughout the Yale community at large. ISAPD projects have taken many forms, including the adoption of the inaugural tribal land acknowledgment for the Jim Vlock Building Project, curating and designing an exhibition, proposing curriculum and resource additions, and increasing indigenous representation.

ISAPD was founded by Summer Sutton (Lumbee), Architecture PhD ’21; Anjelica Gallegos (Santa Ana Pueblo/Jicarilla Apache), MArch I ’21; and Charelle Brown (Kewa Pueblo), BA in Architecture Studies ’20.

07/05/2021

Read the interview with Regis Pecos as part of our Natural Resources and Government Policy newsletter!

Regis Pecos, a citizen of Cochiti Pueblo, has served as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and as Tribal Councilmen of Cochiti Pueblo for over 30 years. Pecos made history as the first Native American trustee in the Ivy League when he was appointed a Princeton Trustee in 1997. For 16 years, he served as the Executive Director of the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs. Pecos was the former Chief of Staff to the speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives and former Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for the Office of the Majority Floor Leader. Over 20 years ago, Pecos founded, and is currently the Co-Director of, the Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian School, a think tank for Native youth unique for its culturally-sensitive and community-based approaches that consider and transform the impacts of externally-developed policy on tribal community institutions.

07/03/2021

Posted • 🔉 INTERVIEW 🔉 (link in bio): Summer Sutton, Co-founder of the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (), speaks with Joe Baker, Co-founder and Executive Director of the , about 's design of a future building for the Lenape community in Inwood Park (shown here) as well as the firm's popular renovation of Tammany Hall in New York and how it draws on Lenape symbolism.

Part of the first Center for Architecture Lab, a residency program featuring the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design.