A new exhibition featuring the works of New York architect Herman Jessor, who designed more than 40,000 units of cooperative housing around New York City, including the co-ops along Grand Street is opening tomorrow, March 19th, from 6p-8p, at the architecture collective Citygroup (104b Forsyth St.) and runs through March 23, 2026.
The array of complexes constitute some of the largest cooperatively owned developments in the world today.
The show is curated by photographer Zara Pfeifer, architecture journalist Daniel Jonas Roche, and architect Brad Isnard. They write:
“These buildings embody the full spectrum of the modern movement, but also a forlorn approach to housing, when homes weren’t considered commodities, but rather a universal human right.”
Since 2023, Zara Pfeifer has been documenting various housing structures designed by Jessor throughout New York. Together with architecture journalist Dan Roche and architect Brad Isnard, she curated the exhibition Thank you, Herman Jessor at The Cooper Union in New York. Interview by The Architect’s Newspaper. Review by Samuel Stein in the New York Review of Architecture. The project is ongoing.
