Institute fellows Jonathan Rose and Richard Dattner are working together to restore the first black-owned property in New York. The apartment buildings, in North Harlem, will be remade as affordable, sustainable housing. [http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/5393]
Rose and Dattner Restore Property in North Harlem
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009New York For Sale Receives Paul Davidoff Book Award
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Institute fellow Tom Angotti’s book, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press), received the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
6th Breakfast Club
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Artist Jorge Colombo responds to a question from fellow presenters.
Institute fellows gathered at the Center for Architecture on December 15th for the Sixth Fellows Breakfast Club. Presenters Jake Barton (Local Projects), Jorge Colombo (artist), Katie Dixon (Downtown Brooklyn Partnership), and Steve Connor (Creative Concern) discussed the intersection of communication and urban design, and how the new accessibility of information is changing the way we experience our cities. Be sure to check our Facebook page for photos of the event.
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Radical Urbanism Conference
Monday, December 7th, 2009
The Radical Urbanism Conference will take place on Thursday, December 10th and Friday, December 11th and will feature Institute fellow Miqueyla Craytor. The conference hopes to “illuminate both the problems and the possible ways forward to construct an alternative form of urbanization, more socially just, environmentally sustainable and both economically and physically secure.” A documentary screening will take place on Thursday evening followed by a full day of discussion on Friday.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
6.30 PM, Christiania, You Have My Heart (Documentary Screening)
Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Friday, December 11, 2009
10 AM – 6 PM, Reception to follow
Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City
Building Security: Protective Design for High Rise Buildings
Friday, December 4th, 2009
New York New Visions, AIANY Planning & Urban Design Committee, and ASLANY present
Building Security: Protective Design for High Rise Buildings on Wednesday, December 9th at the Center for Architecture.
Panelists Richard Falkenrath (NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism) and Michael Udvardy (Houston Dawson PE, Weidlinger Associates) will address the practical implications of the guidelines and discuss strategies for implementation.
Panel respondents include Institute fellows Bruce Fowle FAIA, FXFOWLE, Mark Ginsberg FAIA, Curtis + Ginsberg LLC, and moderator Ernest Hutton FAICP Assoc AIA.
8:30-10:30am, Wednesday December 9 2009
Center for Architecture Tafel Hall
CEU credits 1.5 LU 1.5 HSW
Entangled Activisms: Emergence, Betrayal and the Possibility of Rethinking the Possible
Friday, December 4th, 2009
On Tuesday, December 8th at 6:30pm, Parsons The New School for Design will host a presentation by Iain Kerr, artist, theorist and founding member of the research collective spurse, which will be followed by discussion with respondents: Institute fellow Brian McGrath, architect, writer and Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design; Petia Morozov, architect, writer, educator and urban explorer; and Nato Thompson, writer and Chief Curator of Creative Time.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free
Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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Institute fellow June Williamson will deliver the Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning on “Retrofitting Suburbia” at the Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy on Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 pm.