It’s not every day that architecture takes center stage in the theater world, but a play written by Fellow Moshe Safdie’s son Oren, The Bilbao Effect, which takes a tragicomic look at the psychological effects of statement buildings and so-called “starchitecture,” opened last Wednesday at the Center for Architecture. The show will run through June 5th, 2010.
Board member Thom Mayne will serve as one of the judges for the recently-launched Sukkah City competition, which will be staged a stone’s throw from IfUD HQ here in New York, at Union Square, from September 19-21, 2010. To learn more about the competition, and to register, visit www.sukkahcity.com.
We’d like to start this week off by welcoming three new fellows: Jaime Hand, the Director of Programs and Development at the Van Alen Institute in New York; Elisabetta Terragni of the City College of New York; and, from the great white north, Khaldoon Ahmad, an Urban Designer with the Heritage and Urban Design Section of the City of Hamilton Planning and Economic Development Department. It’s great to have them on board!
Institute fellows gathered at the Center for Architecture in New York this morning for the eighth Breakfast Club, which brought together representatives of all five of the design teams from MoMA’s Rising Currents and members of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The USACE opened with a discussion of the political realities of getting things done on the ground, and Guy Nordenson of Guy Nordenson & Associates gave a brief presentation on the proposals generated by the design teams. A lively conversation between both sides and Institute fellows followed. Take a look at our Facebook page for photos of the event.
Finally, a big thanks goes out to all of the presenters: Ben Abelman (SCAPE), Matthew Baird (Matthew Baird Architects), Stephen Cassell (ARO), Steve Couch (USACE), Donald Cresitello (USACE), Susannah Drake (dLand Studio), Dr. Thomas J. Hodson (USACE), Noah Levy (nARCHITECTS), Guy Nordenson (Guy Nordenson & Associates), and Gena Wirth (SCAPE).
Institute fellows Thomas Balsley and Charles McKinney will take part in an Architectural League-sponsored panel discussion on Design Excellence at the Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Parks and Recreation. The event will take place on Monday, May 17th, at 7:00pm in the Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street).
On Thursday, May 6th, fellow Ken Greenberg will take part in the Fast Trash Symposium: Garbage Collection and the Future of Cities. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) and Envac, and will start at 6:00pm at the Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue (Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor).
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