Monday, April 25th, 2011
At a design charrette focused on envisioning the future of the Drexel University campus, David Dixon asserted that “There has never been a more important time to think about the future of American universities”; the Empire State Tribune featured a great profile of Ronnette Riley, that’s full of fun quotes. Our favorite: “The great thing about architecture is that you don’t know you’re a failure until the end of your life”; Architectural Record has video of Robert AM Stern discussing 15 Central Park West (pictured at left) as it relates to the history of the New York City apartment house. Says Stern, of this very specific building typology: “When people talk about units, they’re in trouble. We talk about apartments“; and Rosemary Wakeman urged attendees at the Fordham-hosted Forum on Analytics to use data for social change, asking of the division between different schools of learning: “Can we get away from this hard/soft designation of where we are?”
Tags: 15 Central Park West, analytics, apartments, Architectural Record, Architecture, campus, career, charrette, data, David Dixon, design school, Drexel University, Fordham University, Goody Clancy, New York City, residential, Robert AM Stern, Ronnette Riley, Rosemary Wakeman, smart cities, universities
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The New York Times went shopping for coffee tables with Deborah Berke; AECOM Chief Innovation Officer Joseph Brown commented on his firm’s new partnership with IBM’s Smarter Planet Initiative; the Shanghai flagship of retailer Ports 1961, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, has just opened; Toronto’s Ryerson University revealed renderings of an eye-catching new building by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta (pictured at left); William Fain served on the jury of this year’s AIA Pennsylvania Design Excellence Awards, which were presented this past week; Patron Steven Holl’s athletic center for Columbia in Inwood was recently approved by the city; Apartment Therapy Boston featured Deborah Grossberg Katz’s “A Cabin in a Loft” project; the Lynn University Performing Arts Center, designed by Herbert Newman, is featured in the March 2011 issue of American School & University Magazine [PDF]; Linda Pollak reviewed NYC’s new High Performance Landscape Guidelines in Topos 74 [PDF]; construction has begun on John Portman’s newest hotel in Shenzhen; Richard Sennett was announced as one of the jurors for the Watermill Center’s International Residency Program; and John Wong’s SWA Group will be designing a new park around an historic schoolhouse in Milpitas, CA.
Tags: AECOM, AIA Pennsylvania, Archi-Tectonics, artists, awards, Boston, Cabin in a Loft, California, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, Deborah Berke, deborah grossberg katz, Design Excellence, Development, furniture, Herbert Newman, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, IBM, innovation, interior design, Inwood, john portman, John Wong, Joseph Brown, jury, Katz Chiao, landscape architecture, Linda Pollak, Lynn University, manhattan, Milpitas, New York City, New York Times, Newman Architects, Ports 1961, retail, Richard Sennett, Ryerson University, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Smarter Planet Initiative, Snohetta, Steven Holl, SWA Group, Toronto, university, Watermill Center, William Fain, Winka Dubbeldam
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Board Member Thom Mayne was elected to SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees last week; up in Canada, Larry Wayne Richards (pictured at left), who recently served as a juror for the biannual 20 + Change architectural design competition, was awarded Professor Emeritus status at the University of Toronto. Congratulations to both!
Tags: 20 + change, academia, board of trustees, competition, jury, larry wayne richards, Los Angeles, Morphosis, professor emeritus, sci-arc, Thom Mayne, Toronto, university of toronto
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Both Linda Pollak and Andy Bernheimer will serve as judges for the Architectural League’s Sketch 120: Greenpoint Edition tomorrow afternoon (4/16); Craig Dykers and Board Member Maxine Griffith (pictured at left) will both speak at Colubmbia University’s GSAPP Alumni Weekend (4/16-17); Denise Hoffman Brandt will give a lecture on her City Sink project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 4/18; Anthony Flint will speak at TEDxTampaBay on 4/19; Bernheimer will speak on 4/20 at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture; Jeff Byles will participate in a panel discussion at the Ineffably Urban symposium in Buffalo on 4/30; and the newly-launched Studio-X Rio de Janeiro has opened with an exhibit featuring work by Galia Solomonoff.
Tags: Andrew Bernheimer, Anthony Flint, Architectural League, brooklyn, Buffalo, City Sink, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, Denise Hoffman Brandt, exhibit, Galia Solomonoff, Greenpoint, GSAPP, Jeff Byles, jury, Knowlton School of Architecture, lecture, Linda Pollak, Maxine Griffith, Ohio State University, Rio De Janeiro, Sketch 120, Studio-X, symposium, Tampa Bay, TED, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
In a recent profile, Moshe Safdie (whose design for a waterfront tower in Toronto made a big splash last week) explained the genesis of his career thusly: “I proposed a habitat – a sort of a fairy tale – and it got approved and built. That was the beginning of my professional practice”; in a Times article on the Met’s new Moroccan coutryard, architect Achva Benzinberg Stein explained that “This is like the culmination of a life’s work for me. To me it means the possibility of so many things, of peace”; and in the Architect’s Newspaper’s profile of WXY Architecture, Claire Weisz described the firm’s dynamic style in no uncertain terms: “We do believe in a certain amount of excess…Sometimes ‘too much’ is good.”
Tags: Achva Benzinberg Stein, architectural practice, Claire Weisz, excess, Habitat 67, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montreal, Moroccan, moshe safdie, New York Times, quotes, Toronto, waterfront, WXY Architects
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
Today marks the public launch of By the City, For the City, a new ideas competition that will provide the foundation for September’s Urban Design Week festival in New York City. From April 11-30, we’re inviting everyone to share their ideas for how to improve the city’s urban fabric. Then, in May, we’ll launch an international design competition, enlisting top architects, planners, and urbanists from around the world to create proposals that address the issues that the public is most interested in. To share your idea, visit the BtCFtC website. We can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
Tags: BtCFtC, By the City For the City, design competition, New York City, Urban Design Week, Urbanism
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Michael Sorkin, President of the IfUD’s Board of Directors, was recently selected to serve on the “super-jury” for the 2011 World Architecture Festival, which will take place in Barcelona this November 2-4. Michael will join UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel, Jo Noero of Noero Wolff Architects, Odile Decq of ODBC, and Kongjian Yu from Turenscape in presiding over this international gathering of more than 5,000 architects and urbanists.
Tags: barcelona, Ben van Berkel, Jo Noero, Kongjian Yu, Michael Sorkin, Noero Wolff, ODBC, Odile Decq, Spain, Turenscape, UNStudio, World Architecture Festival
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
We’re happy to announce Andrew Bernheimer, of Brooklyn-based Della Valle Bernheimer as the Institute’s newest Fellow. If you’ll be in Columbus on April 20, you can see Andrew speak at OSU’s Knowlton School of Architecture; for those of you not planning a trip to Ohio, you can check out DVB’s über-efficient R-House prototype, which was recently featured over at Jetson Green.
Tags: Andrew Bernheimer, Columbus, Della Valle Bernheimer, green buildings, Jetson Green, Knowlton School of Architecture, new fellows, Ohio, OSU, R-House, Syracuse
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