On 3/2, Patron Steven Holl will deliver the First Annual Raimund Abraham Memorial Lecture in Los Angeles; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will celebrate the completion of her new book Archi-Tectonics (pictured at left) with a launch party in NYC on 3/4; that same day, Anthony Flint will speak at Connecticut College’s Smart Growth Conference; also on 3/4, Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in Housing Conference 2011 in Istanbul; the exhibit Nordic Models + Common Ground, curated by Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta at New York’s Scandanavia House, will close on 3/9; Michael Manfredi will deliver the lecture Surface/Subsurface at URI Kingston on 3/10; Dykers will speak at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts on 3/14; Jack Nyman will host the conference Banking on the Future: A New Paradigm for Rebuilding Our Nation’s Infrastructure in New York on 3/14; and a new exhibit of work by Daniel Libeskind, Architecture as a Language, has just opened at the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture in Poland, and will be on view through 5/16.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: March 1-15, 2011
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Twenty Minutes in Manhattan Noted in the New Yorker
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Institute board chair Michael Sorkin’s most recent book, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, was named one of the “Ten Most Positive Architectural Events of 2009” by Paul Goldberger in the New Yorker.
New York For Sale Receives Paul Davidoff Book Award
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Institute fellow Tom Angotti‘s book, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press), received the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Harlem vs. Columbia: A New Book
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Join C-SPAN Book TV and the Brecht Forum as they launch the publication of Stefan M. Bradley’s new book Harlem vs. Columbia University. Bradley examines the 1969 student takeover of Columbia University, solidarity between community members and white and Black students and the development of Black Power movements. Launch party is Monday, November 16th from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets), New York.
Denise Scott Brown: New Book, Talk, Discussion
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Following a talk about her new book, Having Words, Institute patron Denise Scott Brown will be joined by architects Sarah Whiting and Hilary Sample for a panel discussion moderated by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA on Thursday, November 12th at 6:30pm at Urban Center Books. The event is free but reservations are required.
Rosemary Wakeman Publishes New Book
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Institute fellow Rosemary Wakeman has just published her latest book The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958, published by the University of Chicago Press. Wakeman analyzes the public life of the city from a variety of perspectives.
The New York 2030 Notebook Translated into Russian
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The New York 2030 Notebook continues to see wide success and is now being translated into Russian by the C:CA / Center of Contemporary Architecture in Russia, further expanding our international reach.
The Architect’s Newspaper and AIA Launch Exchange Point
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The Architect’s Newspaper and the AIA NY and Los Angeles Chapters have launched Exchange Point, an architect’s Craigslist where one may find “temporary design staffing, available desk space, sharing back-office equipment sales, remote office space, collaboration opportunities or looking for hard-to-locate resources and services.”
Dattner Architects Publish New Monograph
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Dattner Architects (fellows Richard Dattner and Beth Greenberg) have just published a monograph of their recent work, with an introduction by Kent Barwick. You may buy the book online.
Institute Publications Index Now Available
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Institute for Urban Design program poster listing upcoming events for 1980 to 1981.
Our Publications page now has an index augmented with PDFs, contributors’ names, and other relevant information. Consider this your gateway to the origins of the Institute and of the contemporary practice of urban design itself.
