2024-11-23T21:12:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150312335/one-architect-s-passion-for-multifaith-spaces-will-continue-through-the-work-of-djds Josh Niland 2022-06-06T15:30:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/eb/ebbb98651c7f15a9a5f527721aa6c2bf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The memory of one up-and-coming New York architect is being honored through a donation drive benefitting one of the firms he most admired, Oakland-based <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/150078043/designing-justice-designing-spaces-djds" target="_blank">Designing Justice + Designing Spaces</a>&nbsp;(DJDS).&nbsp;</p> <p>Eric Salitsky was killed in Brooklyn on May 5th after being <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-brooklyn-bicyclist-killed-by-private-carting-truck-identified-20220507-gltkl6nmvreddk7urwfgzl4g7i-story.html" target="_blank">struck by a sanitation vehicle</a>&nbsp;while on his bicycle. A native of Massachusetts, Salitsky studied for his master&rsquo;s at the <a href="https://archinect.com/pratt" target="_blank">Pratt Institute</a> before joining <a href="https://archinect.com/eskw" target="_blank">ESKW/Architects</a>, where he continued to make a name for himself in the design and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sacred_architecture/" target="_blank">documentation</a>&nbsp;of multifaith community spaces he pursued in the years following his graduation. Salitsky&rsquo;s work eventually earned him an AIA Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant and <a href="https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/digital-exhibitions/article/the-global-phenomenon-of-multifaith-worship-spaces/what-is-a-multifaith-worship-space/" target="_blank">curated exhibition</a> in 2019, and he was scheduled to deliver a presentation on the subject at the <a href="http://www.acsforum.org/" target="_blank">Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum</a> (ASCF) on June 4th.</p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfBa8_GBoqV/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> View this post on Instagram </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfBa8_GBoqV/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Eric Salitsky (@esalitsky)</a><br><p>His noted penchant for equity and shared personal drive to foster a mor...</p>