Open House Lecture: Nikil Saval, “A Rage in Harlem”

This talk will consider the moment when June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller attempted to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots, considered against a larger context of experiments in social housing, environmental planning, urban rebellion, and Afro-futurism. 

Nikil Saval is an editor, writer, and community organizer. He was co-editor of n+1 and a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and is a frequent writer for the New York Times, covering architecture, urbanism, and design. He is the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Doubleday, 2014), and he is currently working on a book titled Everything is Architecture, a study of the politics of industrial design. He co-founded Reclaim Philadelphia, a progressive organization, and is the Democratic nominee for State Senate in the First Senate District in Pennsylvania. He has a B.A. from Columbia University, and a PhD from Stanford University, both in English Literature.