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Juliette Spertus

Juliette Spertus is an architect and curator. Her work focuses on the relationship between architecture and infrastructure and the possibilities for public space. In 2010, she organized the exhibit Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities, archived at fasttrash.org. Currently, she is co-project manager with CUNY’s University Transportation Research Center of two New York State Energy Research Development Authority-funded feasibility studies exploring the costs and benefits of retrofitting existing neighborhoods with underground waste handling systems—studies which grew out of the Fast Trash exhibit. She has a B.A. in art history from Williams College and an architecture degree (DPLG) from l’Ecole d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires à Marne-la-vallée, near Paris.

Super Strategies

Three supers of three very different buildings get into the nitty gritty of their work, helping us understand what it might take to make the city's ambitious Zero Waste vision a reality.

Environment, Housing, Policy
Juliette Spertus and Valeria Mogilevich • Mar 29, 2017

Pneumatic Tubes for One New York’s Trash

Juliette Spertus and Benjamin Miller lay out their ambitious proposal for a pneumatic waste system affixed beneath the High Line and articulate how this expansion of infrastructural repurposing could fundamentally reshape what we do with our garbage.
Infrastructure
Juliette Spertus and Benjamin Miller • Aug 26, 2015

The Landscape of Housing: Twin Parks Northwest 40 Years On

Susanne Schindler and Juliette Spertus revisit Twin Parks with its original designers, 40 years after its construction, to pose some complex questions about the role of design in defining the success of low-income housing.

Housing
Juliette Spertus and Susanne Schindler • Nov 06, 2013

A Few Days in the Bronx: From Co-op City to Twin Parks

Susanne Schindler and Juliette Spertus examine two very different large-scale, high-density housing developments in the Bronx and consider how their histories can inform future innovation in affordable housing.

Architecture, Housing
Susanne Schindler and Juliette Spertus • Jul 25, 2012