Andy Bruno and John Vogt Named 2020 Institute for Public Architecture Fellows

Pre/Post BQE Project Description

We propose a study of pre-BQE Brooklyn to understand how best to fill the void left by a removed BQE, which will draw upon historical documents such as maps, contemporary accounts, oral histories, archival photographs, and films. This process will inform an imagined Brooklyn and Queens without a BQE, where neighborhoods are stitched back together using a selectively developed green ribbon and with an eye towards creating new connections for a 21st-century New York City. We intend to engage with the portions of the BQE which pass through Brooklyn Community District 7 and Queens Community District 2 as a starting point for a broader study of the BQE as a whole.

Andrew Bruno 
Andrew Bruno is a registered architect and educator based in Brooklyn. His interests lie in large scale urban interventions, as well as the relationship between the city and the suburbs. He teaches representation, construction, and design courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

John Vogt 
John Vogt is a designer working towards his architecture license. He studied Visual Arts at Fordham University and architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, and received his Master of Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He lives in Queens, New York.

Andy and John are both Class of 2016 graduates of the M ARCH program.