The KPF Principal joined other architectural leaders in the first-ever Storefront Roundtable, an annual convention dedicated to critical exchange on pressing issues facing design and the built environment today.
The event, held from on January 31, brought together architects, artists, critics, curators, and writers at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York to share experiences and debate ideas around fragile ecologies and their political, cultural, and material entanglements. The event examined how instability—ecological, social, and institutional—has become a persistent condition within which design, culture, and public life now operate. Hana participated in the first session, “On Public Space and Civic Infrastructure,” chaired by Michael Manfredi and moderated by Christopher Hawthorne, alongside distinguished panelists including Elizabeth Diller, Annabelle Selldorf, and Damon Rich, with respondents Andrés Jaque and Mark Wigley.
Hana’s contributions to the discussion drew from her own experience creating architecture that resonates with individuals’ and communities’ sense of belonging while addressing environmental and cultural sustainability. Her work on projects such as the NYCHA Red Hook Houses post-superstorm Sandy—where she and her team engaged residents to develop resilient community infrastructure—and the University of Michigan Center for Innovation—a typology-defying academic facility designed to increase accessibility to STEM programs for the wider community of Detroit—exemplifies her commitment to resilient, human-focused design.
