The Urban Assembly, Founding Partner
Founded by Richard Kahan, The Urban Assembly is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating small, public, college-preparatory high schools that provide high quality education to students who would otherwise attend large, factory style, under-performing schools.
Over the past eight years, the Urban Assembly, in partnership with the New York City Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools, has opened eight small public high schools in addition to UASDC: The Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, The Academy for Careers in Sports, The Bronx Academy of Letters, The New York Harbor School, The Urban Assembly School for History and Citizenship, The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice, The Urban Assembly Media High School, and the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science. In the fall of 2005, the Urban Assembly will open five more small schools throughout New York City. www.urbanassembly.org
Examples of Partner Involvement:
• The Department of City Planning, Hudson River Park Trust, the Skyscraper Museum, Turner Construction, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Kohn Pederson Fox all hosted advisory classes to introduce them to the projects in Lower Manhattan and the West Side.
• Parsons School of Design, our college partner, led information sessions for parents and students, offered tours of the design studios, and selected five students to participate in their summer pre-college academy (providing full scholarships to four of them).
• Sam Schwartz, LLC, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Daniel Frankfurt, LP welcomed students to their offices and amazed them with technological presentations and sandwiches.
• The Center for Architecture Foundation established the first annual design intensive for twelve students on subway entrance design; invited us to a Students Day @ The Center at no charge; and assisted us in integrating the themes of architecture into the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Richard Tomasetti facilitated introductions to a number of our current partners and connected us to major projects and events around the city.
• Richard Anderson and the New York Building Congress included ten of our students at a breakfast reception on the NYC 2012 Olympic Bid with Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts and Daniel Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor of New York.
• The American Council of Engineering Companies - New York promoted UASDC and our mission in a member mailing, by writing an article in the New York Real Estate Journal, and by announcing the school and the partnership at the annual Holiday Luncheon for Members.
• Architects and engineers from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hardesty & Hanover, Fox & Fowle, Urban Engineers, The Thornton Tomasetti Group, Turner Construction, Department of City Planning, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen and the ACE Mentor Program advised students at our Career Day and spent two hours critiquing our studentsí first models at our Bridge Presentations.
• Architects from STV, Inc., HAKS Engineers and Daniel Frankfurt, LP joined in the Center for Architecture Design Intensive, supporting students as they wrestled with scale and glue guns, and preparing them for the critiques.
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, led by partner Tony Vacchione, treated students to a Model Studio Tour at the SOM offices in New York.
Lead Partners
American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York)
American Institute of Architects - New York Chapter (AIANY)
Center for Architecture Foundation
Daniel Frankfurt PC
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Hardesty & Hanover
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
New York City Department of City Planning
New York City Department of Design and Construction
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons School of Design
Sam Schwartz, LLC
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
STV, Inc.
The Thornton Tomasetti Group
Tishman Construction
Turner Construction
Collaborating Partners
ACE Mentor Program
Architectural League of New York
Building Construction Trades Council
David Childs, architect
Alex Cooper, architect
Fox and Fowle Architects
Alex Gorlin, architect
HAKS Engineers
Hugh Hardy, architect
Hudson River Park Trust
Eugene Kohn, architect
New York Building Congress
Professional Women in Construction
The Salvadori Center
Ronald Shiffman, professor
The Skyscraper Museum
TDX Construction
To learn how to become involved with the school, please go here.
Parent Association
Our Parent Association is led by Brynne Ferguson. If you would like to reach her, please contact the school at (212) 586-0981.
This website was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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