Student Lecture Series | Mariana Mogilevich: Another Story for Another City

Image Credit: “Bronx River House,” courtesy of Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez.

How do the stories we tell about the city we live in determine the city we can imagine in the future? A talk about Urban Omnibus’ reporting from a New York City that doesn’t exist yet, and the Cross Bronx Expressway as a front in the fight for a just and joyful urban realm.

Mariana Mogilevich is editor in chief of Urban Omnibus, The Architectural League of New York's publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city. Over almost a decade at Urban Omnibus, she has commissioned and edited hundreds of editorial features from artists, designers, scholars, writers for an interdisciplinary, multivocal portrait of the making of New York City's built environment. She has created special series on criminal justice and environmental remediation, as well as the exhibition Cross Bronx / Living Legend, a collaboration with NYC's Department of City Planning, reconsidering one of New York City’s most contested infrastructures through a focus on the experiences of the people and places touched by it. A writer and historian of architecture and urbanism, she is the author of The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York, which received a John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. Mogilevich has taught urban studies at NYU, Princeton, Pratt, and Cornell, and since 2021 directs the New City Critics fellowship, a joint project of The Architectural League and Urban Design Forum to support new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and build our cities. She received a BA in literature from Yale University and a PhD in the history of architecture and urbanism from Harvard University.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Helena Uceda.

The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series is endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.