Institute Fellow June Williamson, Associate Professor of Urban Design at the City College of New York, was recently featured in GOOD Magazine’s Neighborhoods Issue. The article, “Agriculture is the New Golf: Rethinking Suburban Communities” by Allison Arieff, cites Williamson’s expertise in suburban development patterns. Williamson has worked extensively in the field and co-authored the book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburb with Ellen Dunham-Jones.
We’ve launched a website for the Haiti symposium at www.ifud.org/haiti, where you’ll find an ever-growing host of information, including recommended reading, relevant articles, and a list of our participants and collaborators.
Institute fellow Theo David will be guest critic at Coup de Dés 2010 where he will present a housing development in Nicosia, Cyprus as it relates to Modernism and the revitalization of historic cities. More information here.
Congratulations to Institute fellow Claire Weisz and WXY Architecture for winning the International Competition for the Xinjin Landscape Bridge in collaboration with Weidlinger Associates.
Michael Sorkin, Chair of the Institute’s Board of Directors and author of Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, moderated a panel discussion at Scandinavia House on the future of New York City’s streets. The panel, Are New York’s Streets Out of (Design) Control, was hosted by the Municipal Arts Society as part of its tour series, New York’s Changing Streetscapes.
Build a Better Burb, sponsored by the Long Island Index, is seeking proposals for “retrofitting underutilized asphalt in suburban downtowns into innovative and surprising new uses, forms and urbanisms.” The competition seeks to “widen the debate about building a better – more sustainable and equitable – future for our burbs.” Register before June 21st. Guaranteed first prize of $10,000, $10,000 in additional prizes.
Institute Patron Denise Scott Brown was recently featured in The New York Review of Books in an excellent article by Martin Filler entitled “The World’s Foremost Female Architect.” Filler reevaluates Scott Brown’s career in light of the recent publication of her collected writings, Having Words, and an exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles, “Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.”
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