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Institute fellow Philip Enquist led SOM Chicago and SOM China in winning an international design competition to expand the Beijing Central Business District. Seven teams of the world’s leading urban planners, urban designers and architects were invited to participate. More information.
Institute fellow Jack Nyman, Director of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, will host Sustainability 2.0: Envisioning Business and the Urban Environment on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 from 8:30 am to 2 pm. Click for more information and to register.
Fabrizio Zanni, Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy presents Urban Hybridization, exploring theories, methodologies, and application case studies of urban design in contemporary forms of sprawled cities and metropolitan landscapes. In its call for papers, the event is looking for “research papers and viewpoints that focus on the major themes of Urban Hybridization that are directly related to the urban and architectural design.”
Abstract Deadline: November 30, 2009. More information.
Institute board member and Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union Anthony Vidler invites you to Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009 at the The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, on view from October 23rd to December 4th, 2009. The opening reception is Friday, 23 October, from 6-8 PM;Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009 traces the successive transformations of Cooper Union’s architecture, beginning with its landmarked, 19th century brownstone Foundation Building designed by Frederick Petersen — to its new academic building at 41 Cooper Square designed by Thom Mayne, Institute board member.
For more information: 212-353-4220, architecture@cooper.edu
Institute fellow Tom Angotti will speak at a meeting of Auto-Free New York on Tuesday, October 27th at 6pm. The event, hosted by the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, will take place at the NYPD Downtown Center Conference Room (104 Washington St. at Rector St.).
For more information, call 212.475.3394 or visit http://auto-free.org/
We have some exciting news to share with you:
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that our project Urban Design Week, an annual open-air festival to celebrate the year’s innovations in architecture and urban design, has been awarded an important grant as part of the New York City Cultural Innovation Fund. Download the official press release or visit the Urban Design Week page for more information.
The Institute for Urban Design was one of 18 recipients of the 2009 NYC Cultural Innovation Fund.
Institute fellow Jack Nyman, Director of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, will host two conferences: Liquid Assets: Capitalizing on the Water & Energy Nexus on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009; and Transformational Infrastructure on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Click on a conference name for more info and to register.
Institute fellow Miquela Craytor, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, invites you to How To Green Your Construction Projects: Crews, Systems & Materials on Thursday, October 22 from 8:30am to 11:00am. Register at rsvp@ssbx.org.
Institute fellow June Williamson will be speaking at The Diverse Suburb conference at Hofstra University, from October 22 to 24. The event will consider the challenging and emergent phenomenon of suburban diversity. What are the implications of this growing diversity? To what extent is this apparent growth simply a rediscovery of differences long written out of suburban history? How might the changing suburbs present new opportunities for creating a more just and equitable society?
Safari 7 Reading Room, a project by Institute fellow Kate Orff of Urban Landscape Lab and MTWTF, is an exhibition at Columbia University’s Studio-X that will run from October 15 to December 31, 2009.
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