{"id":31570,"date":"2020-09-21T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=31570"},"modified":"2020-09-21T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:00:56","slug":"professor-builds-his-dream-house-on-an-organic-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2020\/09\/21\/professor-builds-his-dream-house-on-an-organic-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Builds His Dream House on Organic Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you read recently about Professor Eugene Kwak in <em>The New York Times<\/em>. No, the article isn&#8217;t about an award or academic achievement. It&#8217;s about a house Kwak designed and built on a 16-acre property in Crawford, in the Hudson Valley, as a getaway from the Manhattan apartment he shares with his wife, Claire Ko.<\/p>\n<p>Kwak, an architect and member of the Architecture and Construction Management Department, didn&#8217;t just build a house, though. He built a two-family he shares with a farming family, with a unit for Kwak, and loft for the tenants. The house and farm even have a name: Togather.<\/p>\n<p>You could say Kwak&#8217;s dream began at Union Square Greenmarket in his Manhattan neighborhood, where he acquired both a taste for, and fascination with, fruits and vegetables grown on upstate organic farms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we gained in-depth knowledge of the local farms,&#8221; Kwak says, &#8220;we felt the need to have a more empirical understanding, which led us to volunteer at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture [Tarrytown], participate in many farm-related events, and network with a wide range of organizations.\u00a0 This fruitful experience solidified our vision to support local farmers, while providing a place for us to have a farm-to-table living experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an architect, I wanted to use my skill set to create an innovative model that combines farming, beautiful and environmentally responsible design, the solutions to fight climate change, and provide better food system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that people have an innate desire for a bucolic lifestyle, and our project can serve as a scalable model, viable precedent for urbanites, and a creative way to empower local farming communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3bAH5pU\">Read the Times article here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo of house by Jeff Cate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you read recently about Professor Eugene Kwak in The New York Times. No, the article isn&#8217;t about an award or academic achievement. It&#8217;s about a house Kwak designed and built on a 16-acre property in Crawford, in the Hudson Valley, as a getaway from the Manhattan apartment he shares with his wife, Claire Ko. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":31683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31570"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions\/31697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}