Thursday, February 16th, 2012
An Architect Drawing, the first of two exhibits of Theo. David’s work to be staged at the Pratt Institute this spring, opens on 2/17; that same day, Lance Jay Brown will moderate, and David Dixon will participate in, the Center for Architecture panel Climate Change: Inevitable Challenges and Potential Opportunities; there are just a few days left to see Toronto’s STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward exhibit (pictured at left), curated by Larry Wayne Richards, before it closes on 2/18; the documentary John Portman: A Life of Building will be shown on 2/22 as part of the Palm Springs Modernism Week festival; Laurie Kerr will moderate the opening panel at the second annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, hosted by NYU’s Schack Institute, on 2/23; and also in New York on the 23rd, Executive Director Anne Guiney will moderate a panel at Megacities and Meta-Cities, a day-long symposium at Studio-X organized by David Grahame Shane. Also, looking forward to two events in April: early-bird registration for the 2012 Banff Session in Alberta, featuring a keynote by Craig Dykers, ends tomorrow; and tickets for AIANY’s 2012 Honors & Awards Luncheon, which will take place at Cipriani Wall Street, have just gone on sale–Rick Bell and David Ziskind are both on the planning committee for this year’s ceremony.
Tags: A Life of Building, AIANY, AIANY Honors & Awards Luncheon, Alberta, An Architect Drawing, Anne Guiney, Banff Session, brooklyn, Canada, Center for Architecture, Cipriani Wall Street, climate change, Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, Craig Dykers, D. Grahame Shane, David Dixon, David Miles Ziskind, documentary, drawing, exhibit, john portman, Lance Jay Brown, larry wayne richards, Laurie Kerr, megacities, Modernism Week, New York City, nyu schack institute of real estate, Palm Springs, Pratt Institute, real estate, Rick Bell, Stitches, Studio-X, sustainability, Theo David, Toronto
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at St. Louis’ Washington University announced its spring lecture series, with Craig Dykers set to speak tonight (2/1), and visits from Gregg Pasquarelli and Richard Sennett scheduled for later this semester; Rob Rogers will speak about Rogers Marvel’s recent work (including President’s Park South, pictured at left) at the National Building Museum in Washington on 2/2; Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin have organized a panel, Defining Cultural Landscapes, at CCNY on 2/3 (with opening remarks by Olympia Kazi); the Center for Architecture will host the panel Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux on 2/4, with Thomas Balsley, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Susan Chin all participating (Brown will be back at the Center, with David Dixon, for a discussion about Climate Change on 2/17); Bruce Fowle will speak at the Center’s Active Design 201 on 2/7; Board Member Claire Weisz will speak in New York, also on 2/7, at the Studio-X panel Trash Tubes of the Future; Board Member Enrique Norten will give a talk at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach on 2/9; that same day, in New York, Ernie Hutton will moderate a discussion on the Miami21 zoning initiative; and a new exhibit at the National Academy, featuring work by Robert A.M. Stern, has just opened and will remain on view in New York through 4/29.
Tags: active design, Bruce Fowle, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, climate change, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Defining Cultural Landscapes, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Enrique Norten, Ernest Hutton, Florida, form-based code, Freedom of Assembly, Gregg Pasquarelli, historic preservation, Lance Jay Brown, manhattan, Miami, Miami21, National Academy Museum, national building museum, New York City, occupation, Olympia Kazi, pneumatic tubes, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, President's Park South, public space, Richard Sennett, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, robert a.m. stern, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Studio-X, Susan Chin, Thomas Balsley, Toni Griffin, washington dc, Washington University, zoning
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
On 1/17, the Storefront for Art and Architecture will host an opening reception for artist Allard van Hoorn’s 007 Urban Songline, which will transform the iconic facade designed by Patron Steven Holl and Vito Acconci (pictured at left) into a musical instrument; also on 1/17, Rick Bell’s Center for Architecture will hold a “Breakthrough” party to mark the connection of the existing and new gallery spaces; Ken Greenberg will open a conference on the future of Montreal’s Griffintown neighborhood on 1/20; Rosemary Wakeman’s Urban Studies Program at Forham will host the panel Urban Dialogues II: Making Cities Work on 1/23; and that same day, Gregg Pasquarelli and Board Member Thom Mayne will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s symposium Where is More Manhattan?
Tags: 007 Urban Songline, Allard van Hoorn, Breakthrough, Center for Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Fordham University, Gregg Pasquarelli, Griffintown, installation, Ken Greenberg, manhattan, Montreal, reception, Rick Bell, Rosemary Wakeman, Steven Holl, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Urban Dialogues II: Making Cities Work, urban studies, Vito Acconci
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Today (12/15), Ken Greenberg will be in Edmonton (pictured at left) to speak about urban design at the Downtown X-posed symposium; Lance Jay Brown will introduce, and Rick Bell & Board President Michael Sorkin will speak at, the Center for Architecture’s Freedom of Assembly panel on 12/17; Michael Arad will go gastronomical to serve as a juror for Edible Brooklyn’s 3rd Annual Latke Festival on 12/19; and the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Steven Holl and Denise Scott Brown is on view at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture through 2/18/12.
Tags: Architecture, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, brooklyn, Center for Architecture, China, Denise Scott Brown, Downtown X-posed, Edible Brooklyn, Edmonton, Freedom of Assembly, Hong Kong, Ken Greenberg, Lance Jay Brown, Latke Festival, michael arad, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, symposium, Urbanism
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
MAXXI’s exhibit RE-CYCLE, which features work by Elisabetta Terragni and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, opens today (12/1); Frederick Steiner will speak at the University of Texas at Austin’s fall convocation ceremonies on 12/3; Rick Bell will deliver the closing remarks at AIANY’s 2012 Board Inaugural at the Center for Architecture on 12/6; and the show STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward, co-curated by Larry Wayne Richards, will be on view in Toronto through 2/18/12.
Tags: AIANY, Austin, Center for Architecture, convocation, Denise Scott Brown, Elisabetta Terragni, exhibit, Frederick Steiner, larry wayne richards, MAXXI, Re-Cycle, Rick Bell, Robert Venturi, Rome, Stitches, Toronto, University of Texas at Austin
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
On 11/17, D. Grahame Shane will lead the League-hosted panel Urban Design Since 1945 – A Global Perspective in New York; also on 11/17, Donald Stastny will lead a public forum on the master plan that he has been developing for St. Louis’ Grand Center arts and entertainment district; and Bruce Fowle will join the panel discussion Benchmarking in Action: Retrofitting New York at the Center for Architecture on 11/30.
Tags: Architectural League, benchmarking, Bruce Fowle, Center for Architecture, D. Grahame Shane, Donald Stastny, Grand Center, History, master plan, New York City, panel discussion, post-war, public forum, Saint Louis, Urban Design
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The World Architecture Festival, for which Board President Michael Sorkin chaired the Grand Jury, kicks off tomorrow (11/2) in Barcelona; Steven Handel will deliver the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on 11/4; that same day, Board Member Thom Mayne will speak at Architectural Record‘s 2011 Innovation Conference; also on 11/4, Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at Yale’s Catastrophe and Consequence symposium; on 11/5, Colin Cathcart will participate in the Center for Architecture symposium Buildings = Energy; on 11/7, Deborah Gans, Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss will all participate in the Architectural League’s Making Room symposium; Craig Dykers will speak at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, on 11/11; Board Member Saskia Sassen is co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought’s Ecogram IV: China event on 11/11; Stuart Pertz will join a discussion on Planning the Future of Coney Island’s Amusement District, also on 11/11; the Reconsidering Postmodernism conference, to be held in New York from 11/11-12, will feature Robert A.M. Stern, as well as a session focusing on the work of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Board Member Tami Hausman is a co-organizer of the 11/14 CfA panel What’s Your Story?; and on 11/15, Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the Zoning the City conference in New York, featuring Rick Bell, Stern, and Board Members Mayne and Toni Griffin.
Tags: Architectural League, Architectural Record, Architecture, barcelona, Buildings = Energy, Catastrophe and Consequence, Center for Architecture, China, Colin Cathcart, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Coney Island, Craig Dykers, Deborah Gans, Denise Scott Brown, Ecogram IV, Enrique Norten, Events, festival, Grand Jury, innovation, Innovation Conference, Jack S. Nyman, La Ciudad de las Ideas, lecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, marketing, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Puebla, Reconsidering Postmodernism, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Steven N. Handel, stuart pertz, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, University of Virgnia, urban planning, World Architecture Festival, Yale University, zoning, Zoning the City
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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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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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An Architect Drawing, the first of two exhibits of Theo. David’s work to be staged at the Pratt Institute this spring, opens on 2/17; that same day, Lance Jay Brown will moderate, and David Dixon will participate in, the Center for Architecture panel Climate Change: Inevitable Challenges and Potential Opportunities; there are just a few days left to see Toronto’s STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward exhibit (pictured at left), curated by Larry Wayne Richards, before it closes on 2/18; the documentary John Portman: A Life of Building will be shown on 2/22 as part of the Palm Springs Modernism Week festival; Laurie Kerr will moderate the opening panel at the second annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, hosted by NYU’s Schack Institute, on 2/23; and also in New York on the 23rd, Executive Director Anne Guiney will moderate a panel at Megacities and Meta-Cities, a day-long symposium at Studio-X organized by David Grahame Shane. Also, looking forward to two events in April: early-bird registration for the 2012 Banff Session in Alberta, featuring a keynote by Craig Dykers, ends tomorrow; and tickets for AIANY’s 2012 Honors & Awards Luncheon, which will take place at Cipriani Wall Street, have just gone on sale–Rick Bell and David Ziskind are both on the planning committee for this year’s ceremony.
