Thursday, January 17th, 2013
“I think my approach works for a changing field. I’m not dogmatic or doctrinaire. I stay open-minded. If you’re rigid, you can’t be a good critic. I wouldn’t be in it if I didn’t feel optimistic. I’m still full of wonder, I still love it. I like seeing what’s going on with vernacular architecture now, for example. And the arguments over 2 Columbus Circle show that the preservation movement is upside down right now. When they compare its loss to that of Penn Station—I’ve got smoke coming out of my ears! It’s not being lost, it’s being transformed. I live and believe in the present. I don’t live in the past and you can’t live in the future. That’s why I’m basically a modernist.”
In 2005, Board member Cathy Lang Ho interviewed Ada Louise Huxtable for an issue of The Architect’s Newspaper devoted to criticism. Read the full interview here.
Tags: 2 Columbus Circle, Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture criticism, Cathy Lang Ho
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
e-Oculus recapped the Center for Architecture event “Practice in the Middle East,” whose participants included Rick Bell, Sudhir Jambhekar, and Board Member Byron Stigge; John di Domenico, John Hartmann, and Blake Middleton are on the jury for Moleskine’s Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook competition; David Dixon presented Good Clancy’s plans for Central Square in Cambridge to city officials; Craig Dykers created and served as jury chair for the Sam Fox School’s 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design; Dykers’ Snøhetta is also on the cover of the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper for their renovation of Times Square (pictured above); Galia Solomonoff has an essay featured in the new Princeton Architecture Press book Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering; Solomonoff also has a house featured in New York Magazine’s new Design Hunting issue; MAS’ MASterworks award winners were announced, with Suzanne Stephens and Board Member Claire Weisz on the jury.
Tags: Blake Middleton, Byron Stigge, Cambridge, Center for Architecture, Central Square, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Design Hunting, e-Oculus, Galia Solomonoff, Goody Clancy, John di Domenico, John Hartmann, MAS MASterworks, Moleskine's Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook, New York magazine, Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, Practice in the Middle East, Princeton Architecture Press, Rick Bell, Sam Fox School, Snohetta, Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design, Sudhir Jambhekar, Suzanne Stephens, The Architect's Newspaper, times square, Washington University
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Friday, June 1st, 2012
Upon the release of a new study entitled “Auckland, Connected” by the AECOM Global Cities Institute, Joseph Brown speculated, “By 2040, [Auckland] will have made the changes necessary in its pursuit to become the world’s most liveable city, or it will have let the status quo prevail.” NYC Parks’ principal urban designer Charles McKinney spoke to The Riverdale Press at a public meeting held to discuss the future of Van Cortlandt Park (pictured at left), asserting “It’s easier to listen to people first than to convince them later.” Speaking at a Stockholm event concerned with migrants’ rights, Board Member Saskia Sassen described the privatization of detention-deportation procedure as “cancer when it enters the kinds of domains that have to do with the governing of people.”
Tags: AECOM, AECOM Global Cities Institute, Auckland, Auckland Connected, Charles McKinney, Joseph Brown, migrants rights, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, privatization, Saskia Sassen, Stockholm, The Riverdale Press, Van Cortlandt Park
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Rick Bell appeared on NBC New York’s Nonstop to discuss the Center for Architecture’s exhibits about Middle Eastern architecture; Bell also traveled to Albany with Susan Chin for Architects in Albany Lobby Day at the state capital; Bauwelt magazine featured an article about Richard Dattner and Andrew Whalley’s Via Verde affordable housing project; David Dixon presented more details about Goody Clancy’s master plan for the redevelopment of downtown Sandy Spring, GA to 200 local residents and stakeholders; in an article on the Atlantic Cities, Anthony Flint questioned the longevity of the new urbanism movement; Julie Iovine wrote about Board Member Toni Griffin’s new J. Max Bond Center in Architect’s Newspaper; Vitamin Green, a new book out from Phaidon about ‘eco-inventions,’ features work by Patron Steven Holl; Kaja Kuhl’s Phytoremediation project (pictured below) was featured in Urban Omnibus; John Palmieri spoke to the Washington Post about his Casino Reinvestment Development Authority’s plans for Atlantic City.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Albany, Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect's Newspaper, Architects in Albany Lobby Day, Atlantic Cities, Atlantic City, Bauwelt, Casion Reinvestment Development Authority, Center for Architecture, CNU, Congress for New Urbanism, Dattner Architecture, David Dixon, Design Trust for Public Space, Frederic Bell, Georgia, Goody Clancy, Grimshaw Architects, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, John Palmieri, Julie Iovine, Kaja Kuhl, Max Bond Center, NBC New York, Nonstop, Phaidon, phytoremediation, Richard Dattner, Rick Bell, Sandy Springs, Steven Holl, Susan Chin, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Via Verde, Vitamin Green, Washington Post, youarethecity
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
Weighing in on the Loci Architecture blog about the contentious debate regarding NYU’s expansion in Greenwich Village, David Briggs questions if new buildings could strike a balance with the existing community; in the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper, Jeff Byles profiles Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Susan Chin wrote an op-ed for the New York Observer about the Design Trust for Public Space’s collaboration on the “Taxi of Tomorrow”; also in Design Trust news, the organization’s “Made in Midtown” project is featured in the newly released book, Designing for Social Change; an HOK team led by Ken Drucker is a finalist to design the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at SUNY-Buffalo; work done for Marc Jacobs by Mark Gardner and Stephan Jaklitsch’s firm is profiled in Interior Design (pictured above); Laurie Kerr discussed cutting building energy use for an article by the Urban Land Institute; Lebbeus Woods published an extensive transcript of his conversation with Board Member Thom Mayne; Mercedes House, a new residential building by Board Member Enrique Norten, was profiled in The Real Deal; Grahame Shane wrote an article in Bauwelt magazine about restoring the urban dream through affordable housing; Don Stastny oversaw a competition to redesign Austin’s downtown Waller Creek, with Robert Rogers’ firm coming in as a finalist.
Tags: Austin, Bauwelt magazine, David Briggs, Design Trust for Public Space, Designing for Social Change, Don Stastny, Enrique Norten, Erie Canal, Grahame Shane, Greenwich Village, HOK, Hudson Valley, interior design, Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects, Jeff Byles, Ken Drucker, Laurie Kerr, Lebbeus Woods, Loci Architecture, Made in Midtown, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs, Mark Gardner, Mercedes House, Meta Brunzema, Morphosis, New York Observer, NYU 2031, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Stephan Jaklitsch, SUNY Buffalo, Susan Chin, Taxi of Tomorrow, TEN Arquitectos, Texas, The Architect's Newspaper, The Real Deal, Thom Mayne, University at Buffalo, Urban Land Institute, Waller Creek
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Our book, By the City/For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York is almost sold out on Amazon. Published in conjunction with Urban Design Week 2011, By the City/For the City is a 352-page compendium of the schemes and dreams of hundreds of New Yorkers and designers for how to improve the city’s public realm.
Planetizen named it one of the Top 10 Books of 2012, commenting “The Institute for Urban Design has done a wonderful job of presenting these out-of-the-box ideas in a way that can inspire tactical urbanists and professional planners to think differently.”
Get your copy here.
Tags: amazon, atlas of possibility, By the City For the City, Planetizen, Urban Design Week
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Our book, By the City/For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York is now available on Amazon. Published in conjunction with Urban Design Week 2011, By the City/For the City is a 352-page compendium of the schemes and dreams of hundreds of New Yorkers and designers for how to improve the city’s public realm.
Planetizen named it one of the Top 10 Books of 2012, commenting “The Institute for Urban Design has done a wonderful job of presenting these out-of-the-box ideas in a way that can inspire tactical urbanists and professional planners to think differently.”
We’re quickly running out – get your copy today!
Tags: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, By the City/For the City, Planetizen, Urban Design Week
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
There are two new titles out from Tom Angotti, including Service-Learning in Design and Planning, co-edited with Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths, Angotti’s first collection of short stories; Richard Sennett’s Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Collaboration was excerpted in Salon, reviewed by the New Scientist, and called “a whirlwind of big ideas” by the Washington Post; Frederick Steiner’s latest, Urban Ecological Design, is now available at a bookstore near you; and Barbara Wilks‘ West Harlem Piers Park is featured in John Hill’s new Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture (Update: Hill’s guide also includes several recent works by Thomas Balsley!)
Tags: Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths, Architecture, Barbara Wilks, books, Cheryl Doble, Frederick Steiner, Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture, John Hill, manhattan, New Scientist, New York City, Paula Horrigan, Richard Sennett, Salon, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, short stories, sociology, Thomas Balsley, Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Collaboration, Tom Angotti, Urban Ecological Design, urban planning, West Harlem Piers Park
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
If you’re looking for some ideas for what to give to design-minded friends, family, or colleagues, we’d recommend browsing through the list of our Fellows’ publications over the past year: Tom Angotti’s New York For Sale came out in paperback; Andy Bernheimer and Board Member Claire Weisz both had projects included in Michael Crosbie’s New York Dozen; Jim Dart and Deborah Gans‘ work in New Orleans was featured in Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity; Founder Ann Ferebee released a new edition of A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, updated to include recent years; critic Justin Davidson included Alexander Gorlin’s Tomorrow’s Houses on his round-up of the most Notable Design Books of 2011; Ken Greenberg’s Walking Home was published to great acclaim; Jamie Hand, Olympia Kazi, and Kate Orff co-edited Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which features work by Barbara Wilks; Horizontal Skyscraper, Patron Steven Holl’s latest publication, is just hitting bookstore shelves now; Board Member Thom Mayne rolled out a new manifesto called Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; Board President Michael Sorkin’s most recent collection of essays, All Over the Map, has been building buzz; and Frederick Steiner released Design for a Vulnerable Planet this past spring.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Alexander Gorlin, All Over the Map, Andrew Bernheimer, Ann Ferebee, Barbara Wilks, Beyond Shelter, books, Claire Weisz, Combinatory Urbanism, Deborah Gans, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Designers & Books, Frederick Steiner, Gateway Visions for an Urban National Park, horizontal skyscraper, James Dart, Jamie Hand, Justin Davidson, Kate Orff, Ken Greenberg, Michael Crosbie, Michael Sorkin, New Orleans, New York Dozen, New York For Sale, Olympia Kazi, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Tomorrow's Houses, Walking Home
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