Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Our next Breakfast Club will take place a week from today at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) in New York from 8:30-10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 6th. Some of the most interesting new public spaces in New York are being carved out of city streets by the Department of Transportation to calm traffic. They raise a number of really interesting urban design questions, and we’ll be discussing those and the idea of shared spaces in an urban environment. DOT Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability Andy Wiley-Schwartz and New York-based artist Mary Miss will join Fellows Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture and William Kelley of the Union Square Partnership to help kick off the conversation. Breakfast Clubs are limited to Fellows and their guests. Please email to RSVP.
Tags: Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Breakfast Club, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, Department of Transportation, mary miss, New York City, public space, traffic calming, Union Square Partnership, William Kelley, WXY Architecture
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Patron Steven Holl has been announced as the winner of the 2010 Jencks Award, which is given annually to an individual that has recently made a major contribution simultaneously to the theory and practice of architecture internationally. The award will be presented at the RIBA on November 30, 2010, followed by a public lecture by Holl, chaired by Charles Jencks.
Tags: Architecture, Jencks Award, london, RIBA, Steven Holl
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Next Friday, October 1st, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and IfUD Board Member Saskia Sassen will present Cities and Eco-Crises, a conference that will bring together a diverse group of scholars — urbanists, biologists, nanotechnologists, and sustainable cities activists — to address the relationship between cities and the environment. The event will take place in Avery Hall’s Wood Auditorium on the Columbia campus in New York from 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Registration is encouraged.
Tags: Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Ecology, environment, New York City, recovery, Saskia Sassen
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Jane Thompson will give a lecture at D-Crit in New York, entitled Rediscovering Design Research, on 9/22; Rosemary Wakeman will discuss her book, The Heroic City: Paris 1945-58, at NYU’s La Maison Française, also on 9/22; Richard Dattner will join a panel about the Lindsay administration’s adventure playgrounds at the Museum of the City of New York on 9/27; Craig Dykers will participate on the panel Universities as City Builders, to be moderated by Ken Greenberg, in Toronto on 9/29; the exhibition Interior Urbanism/Portman Space, featuring the work of John Portman, will be on view at the University of Technology Sydney through 10/1; a pavilion designed by Daniel Libeskind will serve as one of the centerpieces of the Seoul Design Fair 2010, which will run through 10/7; and Elisabetta Terragni’s adaptive reuse of the Trento Tunnels will be on view at the Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21.
Tags: adventure playground, Central Park, Craig Dykers, d-crit, daniel libeskind, Design Research, Elisabetta Terragni, Jane Thompson, john portman, Ken Greenberg, Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NYU, Paris, Richard Dattner, Rosemary Wakeman, seoul, Sydney, The Heroic City, Toronto, Trento Tunnels, venice biennale
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Winning proposals from the Sukkah City competition, which were selected by a panel of judges that included Michael Arad, Rick Bell, and Board Member Thom Mayne, go on view from September 19-20 in New York’s Union Square; Matt Berman’s (pictured at left) firm workshop/apd was recently named [PDF] a “Generation Next” firm in Departures Magazine’s September style issue; Wanda Bubriski has been invited to join the board of the Society of Architectural Historians; the most recent issue of Next American City magazine features an interview with Board Member Toni Griffin on her work in Detroit; Steven Handel has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Restoration, a quarterly published by the University of Wisconsin Press; and both Mattias Sauerbruch (who was recently awarded the commission for the M9 Museum in Venice) and Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as judges at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
Tags: barcelona, competition, Detroit, Ecological Restoraition, Enrique Norten, M9 Museum, matthew berman, Mattias Sauerbruch, michael arad, New York City, next american city, Rick Bell, Society of Architectural Historians, Steven Handel, sukkah city, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, union square, Venice, wanda bubriski, workshop/apd, World Architecture Festival
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Last month, Fellow John di Domenico’s firm di Domenico + Partners LLP, along with the clients LIRR and MTA Arts for Transit, received the Building Brooklyn Award for the LIRR Entry Pavilion at Atlantic Terminal. The Build Brooklyn Award Program is sponsored by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to recognize recently completed projects that enrich Brooklyn’s neighborhoods and economy.
Tags: Arts for Transit, Atlantic Terminal, brooklyn, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Building Brooklyn Awards, di Domenico + Partners, John di Domenico, LIRR, Metropolitan Transit Authority
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
A group of innovative multifamily infill housing developments produced by Carmi Bee’s firm RKT&B was covered recently (photo at left); Omar Blaik’s firm U3 Ventures produced a report of their own on an exciting strategy for recovery in Detroit’s Midtown district (subscription required); David Dixon led a team that produced a 25-page report challenging the current plans for the massive Charity Hospital reconstruction project in New Orleans; Douglas Durst was recently profiled for his leadership of the Durst Organization; Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta was just profiled in the Wall Street Journal; and don’t miss Boston.com’s look back on the storied careers of Jane Thompson and her husband Ben, who founded Design Research in 1953.
Tags: Boston, Carmi Bee, Charity Hospital, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Design Research, Detroit, Douglas Durst, Durst Organization, Goody Clancy, Jane Thompson, New Orleans, New York City, Omar Blaik, RKT&B, Snohetta, U3 Ventures
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Theo David will be featured in the film Encounters as part of Cyprus’ participation in the 2010 Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21/10; concept designs and models for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new Exhibition Road building from eight firms, including Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta, are on display at the London museum now through 9/19/10; the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will be on view in Ottawa from 10/6/10 through 1/9/11; and an exhibit on Matthias Sauerbruch’s design for the Brandhorst Museum is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London now through 11/7/10.
Tags: Brandhorst Museum, Craig Dykers, exhibition road, london, Matthias Sauerbruch, moshe safdie, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Royal Academy of Arts, Snohetta, Theo David, venice biennale, victoria and albert museum
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