Institute fellow Daniel Williams hosted a book signing for Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning at the Institute spring 2007 fellows’ symposium Affordable Housing: Development & Design.
Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning by Daniel Williams
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Affordable Housing: Development and Design, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Thursday, May 17th, 2007This was the last event organized for the Institute by our founding director Ann Ferebee and was chaired by Professor David Chapin of the Environmental Psychology Program at CUNY. The symposium panelists were: David Dixon, Goody Clancy ; Christine Madigan, Enterprise Homes, Inc., Baltimore, MD; Rose Gray, Asociation de Puertorriquenos en Marcha, Inc., Philadelphia; Brian Phillips, Interface Studio Architects, Philadelphia; Paul Freitag, Jonathan Rose Companies, NY; Richard Dattner, Dattner Architects; Frederic Schwartz, Frederic Schwartz Architects; and Mark Strauss, FXFOWLE Architects.
Olympia Kazi Appointed Executive Director
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Olympia Kazi was appointed executive director of the Institute for Urban Design on vote of the Institute board of directors Suzanne Clarke, Ann Ferebee, Cathy Lang Ho, Michael Sorkin. Kazi is an architecture critic and curator and was educated as an architect at the University of Florence, Italy. She served as junior curator at the Triennale di Milano in 2003-04 and was an artistic producer for the Gala of Gymnastics in the Athens 2004 Olympics. Since 2005, Olympia has lived and worked in New York, and in 2006, she co-curated the traveling exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines” with a team of Princeton University scholars. From 2006 to 2007, she was Fellow of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a member of the Exhibition Committee of the Architectural League of New York and a frequent contributor to the Architect’s Newspaper.