Institute Fellow June Williamson, Associate Professor of Urban Design at the City College of New York, was recently featured in GOOD Magazine’s Neighborhoods Issue. The article, “Agriculture is the New Golf: Rethinking Suburban Communities” by Allison Arieff, cites Williamson’s expertise in suburban development patterns. Williamson has worked extensively in the field and co-authored the book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburb with Ellen Dunham-Jones.
June Williamson Featured in GOOD Magazine
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010New Webpage for Upcoming Symposium
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
We’ve launched a website for the Haiti symposium at www.ifud.org/haiti, where you’ll find an ever-growing host of information, including recommended reading, relevant articles, and a list of our participants and collaborators.
Denise Scott Brown Featured in The New York Review of Books
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Institute Patron Denise Scott Brown was recently featured in The New York Review of Books in an excellent article by Martin Filler entitled “The World’s Foremost Female Architect.” Filler reevaluates Scott Brown’s career in light of the recent publication of her collected writings, Having Words, and an exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles, “Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.”
New Fellows
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010We’d like to introduce four new fellows: John Hartmann, partner at Freecell, William Kelley, Director of Economic Development at Union Square Partnership, Anthony Flint, of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Denise Hoffman Brandt, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York School of Architecture.
Institute Board Member Toni Griffin to Take On New Role in Detroit
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Institute board member and urban planner Toni Griffin was recently featured in Time for her new assignment to “downsize Detroit,” with the backing of Mayor Dave Bing, the Kresge Foundation and the Brookings Institution. Time notes that her assignment “might be the most ambitious urban makeover in American history,” citing that Detroit is built for a population twice its current size.
7th Breakfast Club
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Institute fellow Rosemary Wakeman (center, in black) discusses the need to re-define public space in the context of Urban Design Week.
Fellows met at the Center for Architecture for a special discussion on Urban Design Week, for which the Institute received part of the 2009 Cultural Innovation Fund from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Urban Design Week is a week-long festival, scheduled for May 2011 in New York City, designed to engage citizens in the complex processes behind the making of a city, and to harness New York’s cultural vitality and celebrate its exceptional urbanity. With programs that include public performances, film screenings, presentations of projects, public debates, and installations, UDW seeks to celebrate the fact that cities are made by collective effort and that each participant can be an important part of that endeavor. We’re developing partnerships in the coming months, so please get in touch if you’re interested in getting involved.
Steven Holl Joins IFUD Patron’s Circle
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
We’re happy to announce Steven Holl as the newest member of our Patron’s Circle. With his firm, Holl recently won first prize for the International Tourism Complex Competition in Hangzhou, China as well as the commission for the new art studio facility for the University of Iowa Arts Campus.
Charles McKinney Takes On New Role at NYC Parks Dept.
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Institute Fellow Charles McKinney recently accepted a new position at NYC Parks Department, that of Principal Urban Designer, where he will be addressing 21st century social and recreational preferences of communities, and the ideals of sustainability. McKinney was formerly Chief of Design.
New Institute Board Members
Monday, February 15th, 2010
We’d like to welcome three new members to the Institute’s Board of Directors: Winka Dubbeldam, Toni Griffin, and Byron Stigge. We look forward to their contributions to our community and our programs.
Anne Guiney Appointed Executive Director
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Institute for Urban Design announced today that it has appointed Anne Guiney as new Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Design. Guiney, a veteran architecture and design editor and journalist, succeeds Olympia Kazi, who has held the post since 2007 and is departing to become the Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute.
Most recently, Guiney was the editor of the New York edition of The Architect’s Newspaper, and was part of the original team that launched the newspaper in 2003. Prior, she was an editor at Architecture magazine and Metropolis, and has written widely on architecture and design for other publications, including Architect, MARK, ID, and Details. She has also worked as a consultant organizing high-profile architecture competitions (working with Jones | Kroloff), including the commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Portland Aerial Tramway. (more…)