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Res No 102-17-14903RESOLUTION NO. 102-17-14903 A Resolution re-appointing David Rifkind to serve on the Parks and Recreation Board for a two-year term ending May 15,2019. WHEREAS, the Mayor and Commission recognize the important contributions made by those who serve on the various City boards and committees and wish to appoint a full complement to each of the active boards and committees; and WHEREAS, the City Commission desires to re-appoint David Rifkind to serve for a two-year term on the Parks and Recreation Board. This appointment(s) shall expire May 15, 2019 or until a successor is duly appointed and qualified. WHEREAS, commencing with appointments made after January 1, 2009, Sec. 2-22 "Term Limits" of the Code of Ordinances provides that, appointees are limited to two (2) consecutive two-year terms of membership on a specific commission, board, or committee. After serving a maximum of two (2) consecutive year terms, an appointee shall not be reappointed to the same commission, board or committee unless at least one year has elapsed between the term limited position and the effective date of commencement of the proposed appointment for a new term. WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 2-22 "Term Limits" of the Code of Ordinances, this will be Mr. Rifkind's second, two-year term. Mr. Rifkind has been serving on the Parks and Recreation Board since March 4, 2014. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA, THAT: Section 1. The City Commission hereby appoints David Rifkind to the Parks and Recreation Board. Section 2. The expiration date of this appointment(s) shall be May 15, 2019 or until a successor is duly appointed and qualified after the end of the term, or unless removed earlier. Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1 6tl1iay of-----'M"""a"'-.ly~-_, 2017. READ AND A LANGUA E~et;I(OOM1'. COMMISSION VOTE: 5-0 Mayor Stoddard: Yea Vice Mayor Welsh: Yea Commissioner Liebman: Yea Commissioner Harris: Yea Commissioner Edmond: Yea SoutJ" 1\11 'nUll F 1 00 ,. J 11 u ~. ~iqrunl'ma:[, 2001 Referred by: Douqlas Thompson CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI BOARD/COMMITTEE APPLICA TION 6130 Sunset Drive South Miami, FL 33143 Phone No. 305-663-6340 Fax No. 305-6p3-6348 1. I am interested in serving on the following board(s)/committee(s): Parks and Recreation Advise First choice Third choice 2. Name: David Rifkind (P lease prin t) Secnnd choice Fourth choice 3. Home Address: 6387 SW 69 Street, South Miami 4. Business Address: -'-_______________________ _ 5. Home Phone No. 973.801.7793 ..:...:..:.~=-=----Business Phone No. _______ _ Fax No. 6. E-mail Address:...;:d::.::a::..:v..-.id::..: . .:...:ri.:..:.fk.:;.;inc.:.d=-@~f.:..:;iu;:..:..e.::..d=-u=-_______________ _ 7. Education/Degree Earned: PhD, 2007 Columbia University Pertinent Experience: trained and practiced as an architect, built sustainable hOl Field Expertise: installed xeriscape native habitat and food forest as part of susl 8. Community Service: active in,professional societies, have organized numerous public symposia, C( 9. Attached Resume: 0 (Optional) 10. Are you a registered voter? II. Are you a resident of the City? 12. Do you have a business in the City'? SignatureDavid Rilkind Applicant Revised 5120 J 0 Yes X No Yes X No Yes NoL Date 22 February 2014 DAVID RIFKIND EDUCATION 6387 SW 69 Street, South Miami, FL 33143 USA 973.801.7793 david.rifkind@fiu.edu 2007 Columbia University Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: «Quadrante)) and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy (Professor Mary McLeod, advisor) Master of Philosophy, 2001. 1997 McGill University Master of Architecture (History and Theory). Thesis: The All-but Architecture of Richard Serra (Professor Alberto Perez-G6mez, advisor) 1992 Boston Architectural Center Bachelor of Architecture TEACHING 2007-present Florida International University Associate Professor (promoted from Assistant Professor in 2013) Tenure-track appointment teaching architectural history and theory in the Col/ege of Architecture + the Arts. Courses include the undergraduate lectures History of Design from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and History of Design in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, the Pedagogy and Historiography graduate seminars, and undergraduate & graduate seminars, including Modern Architecture: Projects and Polemics. Organized the 2008 and 2009 Paul L. Cejas Eminent Schofar Seminar courses with Bernard Tschumi and Jeffrey Kipnis, respectively. Co-taught Studies in Visual and Material Culture with Dennis Doarden, 2010. Awarded tenure in June 2013. 2005·2007 University of Virginia Lecturer in Architectural History Two-year apPointment in the department of architectural history. Courses inclUded the undergraduate lectures A Survey of Modern Architecture (fall 2005 and fa!/ 2006j and Architecture: Renaissance to Modern (spring 2006 and spring 2007), and the graduate seminars Architecture and Design in Modern Italy (fall 2005), The Cultural Production of /l.rchitecture (spring 2006) and Architecture and Landscape Treatises in the Age of Enlightenment (spring 2007). I supeNised two MA theses and served on the committees of six other architecture MA theses, two PhD dissertations, and one art history MA thesis. 2005 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Instructor: Designing Modern Italy His/ory seminar on 20th -century {talian design (with special emphaSis on furniture and industrial design) for graduate design history students. 2002·2005 Parsons School of Design Instructor: Theory of Architectural Form (three semesters) Introductory theory seminar for graduate architecture students. Instructor: The Cultural Production of Architecture (one semester) Advanced history and theory seminar for graduate architecture students. 1997-2004 Columbia University Teaching Fellow Art Humanities -Maste,pleces of Western Art (five semesters) Undergraduate core curriculum class introducing students 10 the critical study of art. Instructor: Modern Architecture in Itaiy (two serneste,s, wittl Lucy Mauisby) DAVID RIFKIND 2 Graduate seminar on italian architecture and culture from 1902-1943 .. Assistant Studio Instructor: Yehuda Safran studio (one semester) Studio design critic for 3rd-year gradUate students. Preceptor: Architectural History I &·11 (six semesters), American Architecture (two semesters) Taught sections and graded student papers in Columbia's histor; sequence for graduate students in architecture. . 2000 New York Institute of Technology Professor: Survey II -Architectural History, 1400-2000 Undergraduate survey of western architectural history from the Renaissance through the present. 1999,2000 Barnard College Instructor: The City Takes Shape: Modern Architecture and New York Taught high-school stUdents in Barnard's summer Pre-College Program on reading New York, and other world cities, as a palimpsest of texts in which cultural histories are written as architecture. 1991-4 Boston Architectural Center Instructor: AS):lects of the Contemporary City (one semester, with Santiago Perez) Design studio for 3rd-, 4th-& 5th-year undergraduate students. Teaching Assistant: Thesis Seminar (three semesters) Reviewed and critiqued students' thesis proposals, counseied students individually and helped modify the thesis program to better support independent research. Critic: Thesis Invited critic for six thesis students over two years. i994-present Florida International Ul"!iversity, University of Miami, Southern Polytechnic, University of Virginia, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, University of Michigan, Carelton University, City University of New York, New York Institute of Technology Invited guest critic for graduate and undergraduate architectural design studios. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS 2012 The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicizatlon of Architectural . Discourse in Fascist Italy Centro Internazionale di Archilettura di Andrea Palladia and Marsilio Editori, 2012. Manuscript was awarded the 2011 Premia James Ackerman by the CISA Palladio. 2013 A Critical History of Cont~mporary Architecture, 1960-2010 Co-edited an anthology of writings on contemporary architecture with Elie Haddad (Lebanese American UniverSity). Ashgate, 2014. in progress Architecture's Many Modernisms Edited volume of revised papers presented ·in the semi-annual hie. Workshop (see below) at FlU, along with lectures by such prominent architects as Bernard Tschumi, David Adjaye, Peter Rich and Fasil Giorghis. Under consideration by Routledge. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS 2014 The Radical Politics of Marble in Fascist Italy chapter in Radical Marble, Nick Napoli and Bill Tr.onzo, eds. Ashgate, 2014 (forthcoming) 2013 ClAM, Corporative Urbanism and Italy chapter in The Rationalist Reader Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-194011960-1990, Andrew PeckhaM and Torsten Schmiedeknechl. eos., DAVID RIFKIND 3 Routledge, 2013. excerpted from "'Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state': Corporativist Urbanism and Rationalist Architecture in Fascist Italy" (see below) 2013 "Urbanistica corporativa": Ernesto Nathan Rogers, 88PR and Quadrante chapter in Ernesto Nathan Rogers 1909-1969, Chiara Baglione. ed., Franco Angeli, 2013. 2013 Principles of Italian Colonial Urbanism Am contributing a chapter on Italian cOlonial urbanism to an anthology, From Africa to the Balkans, edited by Jennie Hirsch and Lidia Santarelli. currently under review by Ashgate. PUBLICATIONS: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 2013 Consuming Empire Dumbarton Oaks Papers, v.66 (2014, forthcoming). 2012 Piani regolatori in Etiopia Bollettino della Societa di studi fiorentini, n.20-21: «Firenze, Primitiyismo e Italian ita. I Problemi delio "Stile Nazionale" tra lIalia e Oltremare (1861-1961») (May 2012). 2012 'Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state': Corporativist Urbanism and Rationalist ArchitectiJre in Fascist Italy Planning Perspectives, v.27 n.1 (January 2012),51-80. 2011 Misprision of Precedent: Design as Creative Misreading Journal of Architectural Education, v.64 n.2 (March 2011),66-75. 2011-2012 Journal of Architectural Education. Best Scholarship of Design Article Award 2011 Gondar. Architecture and Urbanism for Italy's Fascist Empire Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 2011), 492-511. 2012 Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award for best article by an emerging scholar in the previous two years. 2008 Asmara Pin-up n.5 (Winter 2008/09), 3-6. 2007 Architecture and Revolution on the Street of Empire Scapes n.6 (Fall 2007), 26-40. ' 2006 Furnishing the Fascist Interior: Giuseppe Terragni, Marlo Radice and the Casa del Fascio arq -architectural research quarterly v.i0, n.2 (June 2006),157-170. 1996 Dialectical Furniture for Highway Interchanges Catalogue of the History and Theory Graduate Studio v.5 (1996), unpaginated. PUBLICATiONS: REVIEWS 2013 review of Jonathan Alfred Noble, African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks, and Rebecca Ginsburg, At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg Journal of the Society of ArclJitectural Historians, v.72 n.3 (September 2013), 412- 414. 2013 review of Diane Ghirardo, Italy: Modern Architectures in History Journal of Architectural Education, Y.67 11.2 (Septembe~ 2013), J08· 309 2011 review of Speed Limits (exhibition) DAVID RIFKIND 4 Design Issues, v.27 n.3 (Summer 2011),98-102. 2009 review of Mark Gillem, America Town JAE, v.63 n.1 (August 2009), 150-151. 2009 ·review of Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream Cite, n.78 (spring 2009),36-37. 2009 review of Mia Fuller, Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism The Journal of Modern History (March 2010), v.82, n.1, 216-218. [solicited by the editors] PUBLICATIONS: WEB AND OTHER MEDIA 1998 Frank Lloyd Wright (www.pbs.org/flw) Wrote descriptions of ten Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for a PBS-developed web site, which ran parallel to the November broadcast of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary. 1998 The Grid in the American Landscape PAPERS PRESENTED Researched and wrote two chapters on the development of the American landscape for a book by Professor Hamid Shirvani of Queens College. 2013 Colonial Cities at the Crossroads Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning il1 Africa Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. 2013 Pietro Maria Bardi, Quadrante, and the Architecture of Fascist Italy Invited lecture, The Ital:ans in the Centers of South-American Moderr.ism conference, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2013 Less Rupture than Amplification: Ethiopian Cities and Italian Colonialism Invited lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 2013 The Endurance of the Archaic in Contemporary Architecture The 8th Savannah Symposium, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. 2012 The Battle for Modernism Invited lecture, Universita degli Studi, Milan. Italy. 2012 Principles of Italian Colonial Architecture Invited lecture, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy. 2012 The Battle for Modernism Invited lecture, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy. 2012 International Modernism in a Decolonized World East-West Symposium, University of Miami. 2012 Consuming Empire Invited lecture, Food and the City Conference, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. 2012 Address to First Year Architecture Students Invited lecture, Department of Architecture. University of Gondar, Ethiopia. 2012 Interrupted Cities: Reconstruction and Invention in Urban Strategies Invited roundtable participant at University of Miami School of Architecture. Other speakers were Stanislaus von Moos (Yaie Un.iversityl. Luca Orte!!i (EPFL Lausanne) and Roberto Behar (lJn;ve,sity of Miam~). DAVID RIFKIND 5 2012 Urgency, Uncertainty, Purpose and Paradox Keynote speaker in the What Would You Say? annual lecture, organized by the FlU Student Programming Council and selected through university-wide voting. 2011 On Teaching African Architecture Invited lecture, African Perspectives Conference, Casablanca, Morocco. 2011 Principles of Italian Colonial Architecture Invited lecture, University of Bologna, Cesena. 2011 Misprision of Precedent: Design as Creative Misreading Association of Coliegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting. Montreal. 2009 Urbanistica corporative: Ernesto Nathan Rogers, BBPR and Quadrante "Esperienza dell'ArchitetluraOErnesto Nathan Rogers," Politecnico di MilanoOand Casabel/a magazine, Milan, Italy. 2009 Prefabricating Empire: Industrialized Architecture in Italian-occupied Ethiopia Invited lecture, Northeastern University School of Architecture, Boston. 2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar Invited lecture, "From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives in Italian Fascist History and Materia! Culture," Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America~ Columbia University, New York. 2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar EAUH Conference, Lyon, France. 2008,2010,2012 Principles of Italian Colonial Urbanism and Architecture Invited lecture, University of Florida School of Architecture and African Stud:es Department. 2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Meeting. Houston. 2008 Economical, Sustainable, Portable, Imperial: Prefabricated Building in Italian- occupied Ethiopia, 1936-1941 Society of ArChitectural Histonans Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH 2007 Modernity and Continuity in Ethiopian Architecture and Urb~nism: the Case of Gondar African Architecture Today Conference, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Techn~ogy, Kuma~.Ghana. 2006 De Firmitatis: the Importance of Impermanence. Faculty Research Symposium IV, UniverSity of Virginia School of Architecture. Charlottesville. 2004 Furnishing the Fascist Interior: Giuseppe Terragni, Mario Radice and the Casa del Fascio Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting. Providence, RI. 2002 Architecture, Art of the State: P. M. Bardi and the Political Discourse of Italian Rationalism. Society of Architectural Histonans Annua! Meeting. Richmond, VA. 2001 1933: One or Several Rationalisms Association of Co!legiate Schools of Architecture International Meeting 'stanbui. Turkey. DAVID RIFKIND 6 2000 HOTS de la cuisine: Avant-gardes and Kitchen Design, 1926-1929, Barnard Feminist Art ar.d Art History Conference. New York. 1998,1999 Herbert Bayer and the Dilemma of Architectural Historiography Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1999 International Meeting. Rome, Italy. 1999 National Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. 1998 Southeast Regional Meeting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1998 Mnemosene and Her Daughters: On Analogy and Autobiography, Memory and Imagination in Le Corbusier's Poeme del'angle droit Association of Collegiate Schools of ArchiteclureWest Central Regional Meeting. St. Louis. 1998 The All-but Architecture of Richard Serra Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Northeast Regional Meeting. CONFERENCES AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED 2011 hte.Workshop 5 The fifth workshop featured a keynote lecture by Ola Uduku (Edinburgh College of Art), presentations by Mabel Wilson and Peter Tolkin (Columbia University), Vandana Baweja (University of Florida), Robert Gonza!ez (Florida International University), Prita Meier (Wayne State University) and Robert Cowherd (Wentworth institute), and was moderated by Vladimir Kulie (F!orida Atlantic Ur.iversity). 2010 hte.Workshop 4 The fourth workshop featured a keynote lecture by Ken Oshima (University of Washington), presentations by Kai Gutschow (Carnegie Mellon University), June Komisar (Ryerson University) and Kimberly Zarecor (Iowa State University). and was moderated by Flaminia Gennari (Vizcaya Museum). 2009 Transnational Exchange in African Architectures and Urbanisms Organized and moderated a session on architecture and urbanism in Africa at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Speakers were Adekunbi Oni (CUNY), Joseph Heathcotl (The New School), Luee Beeckmans (Groningen University) and Aziza Chaouni (University of Toronto). 2009 htc.Workshop 3 The third workshop featured a keynote lecture by Peter Lang (Texas A & fV1 University), presentations by Tallnn Grigor (Brandeis University), Frances Hsu (Georgia Tech) and Ernestina Osorio (UCLA), and was moderated by Jean-Franc;:ois Lejeune (University of Miami) 2009 hte.Workshop 2 The second workshop featured a keynote lecture by Fasil Giorghis (Addis Ababa University), presentations byColette Apelian (Berkeley City College), Vladimir Kulic (Florida Atlantic University) and Itohan Osayimwese (University cif Washington), and was moderated by Marianne Lamonaca (The Wolfsonian-FIU). 2008 hte.Workshop 1 Initiated and orgamzed an ongoi'1g series of symposia at FlU in which emerging scholars discuss current resea,ch with peers and senior schoiars. These grant- funded events focus on scholarship of modern architecture and design in Latin America. Africa and Asia. The first workshop featured presentations by Esra Akcan (University of Illinois at Chicago). ,A.dnan Morshed (Catholic University) and Sarah Teasley (Northweste~n Unlverslly), and was moderated by Kathenne Wheeler (University of Miami). 2007 Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism Under Fascism Co-organized a ccr:fe,ence on interwar I:aiian urbanism with Lt.;cy Maulsby (Northeastern University) and Ar.drew Manson (Columbia University), co·hosted by DAVID RiFKIND 7 EXHIBITIONS Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Department of Art History, and Italian Academy. 2007 Architecture's Ephemeral Practices Co-organized a session on architecture and temporality with loanna Theocharoupoulou (Parsons School of Design) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 2002 Partial Visions Co-organized and moderated symposium with SiJch speakers as Yolande Daniels, Katherine Dean, Jerri Dodds, Catherine Ingraham, Silvia Kolbowski, Brian Brace Taylor, and Bernard Tschumi. 1999 Last Things Before the Last? Co-organized and moderated conference whose speakers included Ackbar Abbas, Denise Scott Brown, Richard Ingersoll, Daniel Monk, Ben Nicholson, Joan Ockman, Vincent Pecora, Aiberto Perez-G6mez and Anthony Vidler. 2012 Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy Curaled an exhibition of material related to Italian colonization and domestic development projects in the Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at the Frost Art Museum, FlU. 2011 Salon de Bureau E.A.S. T. Co-curated an exhibition of work in Morocco by Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima in the BEA International Gallery, FlU. 2010 Trace(s) 12358 Co-curaled an exhibition of graphic work by Charleston-based architect Gordon Nicholson in the BEA International Gallery, FlU. 2009 Resource: Design in East Africa Co-curated an exhibition of work in Kenya· and Rwanda by Gainesville-based architects Donna Cohen and Claude Armstrong in the BEA International Gallery, FlU. PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES 2003-6 Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter Co-edited the Society's Newsletter, with Jeannie Kim. 1996 Catalogue of the History and Theory Studio Co-edited and published the catalogue of studio work for the graduate program in History and Theory, SchOOl of Architecture, McGill University. 1992-94 «Theory!Praxis» Co-founded and edited t.he Boston Architectural Center's journal of studio design work, built projects, and scholarly writing by students, faculty and alumni. 1987-92 Noumenon Edited and published the BAC's student publication, a combination newsletter, student review and critical journal. AWARDS AND GRANTS 2012 FlU Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities 20,2 What Would You Say? Annual Keynote Lecture, hosted by the FlU Student Programming Council and selected through university-wide student voting DAVID RIFKIND 8 2011-2012 Journal of Architectural Education, Best Scholarship of Design Article Award 2012 Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award for best article by an emerging scholar in the previous two years 2011 James Ackerman Prize for Architectural History, CISA Andrea Palladio 2011 Applicant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend (I was one of two faculty members selected to represent FlU through a university-wide competition process) 2011 Graham Foundation Educational Grant (to fund research in Ethiopia) 2011 American Academy in Rome Wolfsonian Affiliated Fellowship 2008 Graham Foundation Institutional Grant (htc.Workshop) 2008 Cejas Strategic Initiative Grant 2008 Wolfsonian-FIU Research Fellowship 2006 University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant 2003 AIAlAAF Fellowship for Advanced Research in Architecture 2003 Columbia University Kinne Graduate Award for Research-Related Travel 2003 Parsons Faculty Research Fellowship, Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design 2002 Library Research Grant, Getty Research Institute 2001 Graham Foundation Educational Grant 2001 Honorable Mention, Carter Manny Dissertation Grant, Graham Foundation 2001-2003 Art Humanities Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University 1997-2002 Departmental Fellowship, Columbia University PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2001-present Four Square Production, Inc. South Orange, NJ, and South Miami, FL Principal with design and construction coordination responsibiiities for residential renovation and addition projects in New York City, suburban New Jersey and Miami. Completed projects include a steel-framed house in South Miami, which may achieve LEED Platinum certification, aCi apartment renovation in Brooklyn, a loft renovation in Manhattan and three two-story addition/renovation projects in New Jersey. All work deSigned in close collaboration with Holly Zickier. 1991·5 Buck, Smith & McAvoy Architects Boston, MA Project Manager for accessibility upgrades to seven branch !ibranes for the City of Boston. Project Designer and Job Captain for addition of 15 units of accessible housing at two sites for the Brookiine Housing Authority. Project DeSigner for a new community building (meeting space and administrative facilities) at an existing Cambridge HOUSing Authority project 1990 Ian Hodgson, Architect London, England Designer DAVID RIFKIND 9 .Inspected aging buildings throughout England and Wales, diagnosed areas requiring reo<;>vation and repair, and directed the production of necessary contract documents. 1966-90,1991 Keith Moskow, Architect Boston, MA Designer Designed single-family residences, retail store locations and a golf-course community. I I I