Monday, October 31st, 2011
We’re happy to be back on track with our monthly Breakfast Club series: on Tuesday, November 22nd, we’ll meet at the Center for Architecture to discuss the Institute’s plans for the US Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture from 8:30-10:00 AM. This will be an opportunity for Fellows to learn more about the subject of the exhibition and how they can get involved. We’ll provide coffee and light refreshments. Please RSVP if you plan to attend so that we can get an accurate head-count. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon!
Tags: Breakfast Club, Center for Architecture, Events, New York City, Spontaneous Interventions, venice biennale
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Speaking about SOM’s work on a bi-national economic and environmental plan for the Great Lakes, Phil Enquist asserted that “This isn’t a collection of lakes that divides two countries. This is a collection of lakes that should unite two countries.” And in announcing that he will retire from his post as the Executive Director of Sacramento’s Captiol Area Development Authority at the end of this year, Paul Schmidt explained that “I consider public service a vocation…It’s now time to turn the opportunities and responsibilities [of this position] over to the next generation and let them realize their aspirations.”
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The City College of New York honored Achva Benzinberg Stein (pictured at left), whose Moroccan Courtyard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is nearing completion, with the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2011-12; and Bevery Willis has been chosen by the National Association of Professional Women in Construction to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tags: Achva Benzinberg Stein, Beverly Willis, City College of New York, Lifetime Achievement Award, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moroccan Courtyard, National Association of Professional Women in Construction, Outstanding Teaching award
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The NY Times spoke to Rick Bell about the planned expansion of the Center for Architecture, designed by Rob Rogers; the jury for a competition to re-design the Capitol Mall in Sacramento (pictured at left) included EE&K’s Peter David Cavaluzzi; the new book Beyond Shelter, published by Metropolis Books, features work by Jim Dart and Deborah Gans; the Architect’s Newspaper visited the newly-opened TASHAN restaurant in Philadelphia, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam; ArchDaily recently posted a great video interview with Patron Steven Holl; today marks the start of construction on Board Member Enrique Norten’s new Rutgers Business School Building in Livingston, New Jersey; construction work on a new half-billion-dollar mixed-use complex designed by John Portman at the former site of the Shanghai Expo is just beginning in China’s largest city; IBM’s SmartPlanet.com took an in-depth look at the intricate facade of Matthias Sauerbruch’s KfW Westarkade in Frankfurt; Robert AM Stern’s George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas recently had its topping-out ceremony; and Beverly Willis reviewed critic Paul Goldberger’s book Why Architecture Matters for the Associates of the Art Commission.
Tags: AIANY, Architect's Newspaper, Associates of the Art Commission, Beverly Willis, Beyond Shelter, California, Capitol Mall, Center for Architecture, China, construction, Dallas, Deborah Gans, design competition, Enrique Norten, Frankfurt, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Germany, Housing, IBM, interview, Jim Dart, john portman, jury, KfW Westarkade, landscape architecture, Livingston, manhattan, Matthias Sauerbruch, mixed-use, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, Paul Goldberger, Peter David Cavaluzzi, Philadelphia, redevelopment, review, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, Robert AM Stern, Rogers Marvel, Rutgers University, Sacramento, Shanghai, Steven Holl, TASHAN, TEN Arquitectos, Texas, Why Architecture Matters, Winka Dubbeldam, World Expo
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15; Barbara Wilks will give a talk at the New York Botanical Garden’s Midtown Education Center on 10/24; Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at the Pratt Institute on 10/24 in conjunction with the new exhibit Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture; Richard Sennett will join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s discussion of the new publication Living in the Endless City in New York on 10/25; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the symposium The Waterfront: A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change on 10/26; Deborah Berke will talk about Development, Design and Financing Strategies for Urban Revitalization Using Hospitality and the Arts at the ULI Fall Conference on 10/26; Board Member Toni Griffin will visit Notre Dame University on 10/26 to deliver the lecture Can Planning Save the City: Facing the Challenges of Urban America; Olympia Kazi will host Board Member Thom Mayne at Van Alen Books on 10/28 for a presentation on his new book, Combinatory Urbanism; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam is on the Host Committee for the Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party on 10/29; and Tom Angotti will participate in the panel Where is New York? Apparitions at Willets Point at the Columbia GSAPP on 10/31.
Tags: Architecture, Barbara Wilks, Baruch College, Breaking Borders, brooklyn, Columbia University, Combinatory Urbanism, conference, Critical Halloween, Development, Enrique Norten, GSAPP, Injured Cities, Institute for Public Knowledge, Jack Nyman, Living in the Endless City, manhattan, Midtown, New York Botanical Garden, New York City, Notre Dame, NYU, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, party, Pratt Institute Latin America, preservation, Queens, Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Urbanism, Van Alen Books, waterfront, Willets Point, Winka Dubbeldam
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
The annual Open House New York will take place this weekend (10/15-16), with a kick-off party tonight in Midtown. Buildings by many Fellows (Sara Caples, Linda Pollak, Claire Weisz, et al) will be open to visitors. Meanwhile, the Chicago Architecture Foundation will launch its own annual Open House series this weekend as well, featuring tours of buildings by Phil Enquist, Helmut Jahn, and many others.
Tags: Chicago, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Claire Weisz, Helmut Jahn, Linda Pollak, New York City, Open House, Philip Enquist, Sara Caples
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
In criticizing the methodology behind the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC sustainability plan, Tom Angotti explained his chief concern thusly: “It’s an accountants’ approach to the city, not a planners’ approach.” At the public debut of Snøhetta’s re-design of Times Square (pictured at left), Craig Dykers stated that his much-anticipated plan was “not taking its cues from some pretty little things in Europe or something. Our design has a film noir feel to it; it’s more muscular.” Speaking to the Globe and Mail in advance of his keynote address at IIDEX/NeoCon event in Toronto last week, ‘crusader for color’ Matthias Sauerbruch noted that color “is slowly, slowly coming back, as a way of tuning buildings, almost like you would tune an instrument–slightly shifting their appearance, their identity, their atmospheric quality.”
Tags: Architecture, color, Craig Dykers, Europe, Globe and Mail, IIDEX/NeoCon, manhattan, Matthias Sauerbruch, methodology, New York City, noir, PlaNYC, public space, quotes, Snohetta, streetscape, times square, Tom Angotti, urban planning
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The Kentucky Society of Architects presented Deborah Berke with one of their 2011 Honor Awards for the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville; “Mega + Micro: Canada, Invention at the Extremes,” by Trevor Boddy, has been shortlisted for the best architectural criticism published worldwide in the past three years for the 2011 CICA Awards; Theo. David’s Gladstonos 22 housing development (pictured at left) has been shortlisted in the housing category of the 2011 World Architecture Festival; Board Member Saskia Sassen was named as the first Visiting Fellow of Indiana University’s Framing the Global project; and John Wong’s SWA Group was announced as the winner of a competition to re-design the downtown lakefront in the rapidly-developing city of Suzhou, China.
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Architecture, Canada, China, CICA Awards, criticism, Deborah Berke, design competition, Framing the Global, Gladstonos 22, Housing, Indiana University, John Wong, Kentucky Society of Architects, landscape architecture, Louisville, master plan, Mega + Micro, Saskia Sassen, Suzhou, SWA Group, Theo David, Trevor Boddy, waterfront, World Architecture Festival
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
Director Ben Loeterman’s feature-length film about the life and work of John Portman, A Life of Building, will have its film festival premiere at the Architecture Film Festival in Rotterdam next week before making its way to New York for the Architecture and Design Film Festival later this month. PBS will broadcast Chicago affiliate WTTW’s documentary on Robert AM Stern (pictured at left) nationally on October 9th and 10th. Online, you can catch Board President Michael Sorkin discussing the World Trade Center rebuilding process in a Telegraph video feature, and a TalkingScience clip featuring Ernie Hutton on sustainability in New York City.
Tags: A Life of Building, Architecture and Design Film Festival, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Ben Loeterman, Chicago, Ernest Hutton, film screening, Geoffrey Baer, john portman, manhattan, Michael Sorkin, Netherlands, New York City, PBS, Robert AM Stern, Rotterdam, sustainability, TalkingScience, Telegraph, video, world trade center, WTTW
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The firm of Thomas Balsley was named as one of six finalists in a competition to re-design the waterfront of Corpus Christi, Texas; David Cooper was interviewed about the importance of maintenance at LEED-certified buildings; TASHAN, a new restaurant designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, has just opened in Philadelphia (pictured at left); Philip Enquist participated in Milwaukee’s fifth annual Water Summit; Board Member Toni Griffin has been named as the first Director of the new J. Max Bond Center at the Spitzer School of Architecture of the City College of New York; John Hartmann’s +Farm project made its first appearance in Perrysburg, New York; Mary Margaret Jones is working on the re-design of Richmond’s James Riverfront; North Jersey’s The Record calls the hiring of John Palmieri to helm the state’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority “a smart bet”; and Larry Wayne Richards served on the jury for Twenty + Change 03, the exhibit of which opens in Toronto today.
Tags: +FARM, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, City College of New York, Corpus Christi, David Cooper, design competition, downtown, exhibit, green buildings, J. Max Bond Center, James River, John Hartmann, John Palmieri, landscape architecture, larry wayne richards, LEED, maintenance, manhattan, Mary Margaret Jones, Milwaukee, New Jersey, New York City, Perrysberg, Philadelphia, Philip Enquist, Richmond, Spitzer School of Architecture, TASHAN, Texas, Thomas Balsley, Toni Griffin, Toronto, Twenty + Change, Virginia, Water Summit, waterfront, Winka Dubbeldam
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We’re happy to be back on track with our monthly Breakfast Club series: on Tuesday, November 22nd, we’ll meet at the Center for Architecture to discuss the Institute’s plans for the US Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture from 8:30-10:00 AM. This will be an opportunity for Fellows to learn more about the subject of the exhibition and how they can get involved. We’ll provide coffee and light refreshments. Please RSVP if you plan to attend so that we can get an accurate head-count. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon!
