The next Breakfast Club for Fellows and their guests will be held at the Center for Architecture, at 536 LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village, at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, July 28. We’ll be discussing the land-use elements in New York City’s ongoing Charter Revision process, and what the ramifications for development and design will be if there are changes in the ULURP and approvals process. For those of you who’d like to brush up on the topic, take a look at Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s excellent report for the Charter Revision Commission (PDF available for download here), or read IfUD Fellow Tom Agnotti’s recent article on the process in the Gotham Gazette. For more information on upcoming Commission meetings (the next is set for Monday, July 12), see the city’s web site. In the meantime, mark the 28th on your calendar, and send an email to info@ifud.org to RSVP if you know you’ll be able to attend. See you soon!
Next Breakfast Club Date Set: 7/28/10
Friday, July 9th, 2010Columbia’s GSAPP Stages Summer Lectures
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation’s summer lecture series will feature two Institute-relevant events in July: those of you who enjoyed our May 6th Breakfast Club on MoMA’s Rising Currents show may be interested to know that Columbia faculty from three of the design teams (nARCHITECTS, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, and SCAPE) will discuss their participation in the show at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, July 21; and at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, July 28, IfUD Fellow Kate Orff will take part in a discussion with artist Mary Miss on the City as a Living Laboratory.
Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti Video is Live
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
If you were unable to make it to the Institute’s Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti symposium at the Cooper Union last month, we encourage you to visit the newly-added video page, where you’ll be able to watch the event in its entirety. The four hours of footage have been broken out into a dozen videos to allow you to watch individual presentations, audience Q&A sessions, and panel discussions at your leisure. We’ve also included timestamps to show where in the videos different questions are asked, and issues addressed. We hope that you’ll take a look and join in the conversation!
