Michael Sorkin was announced as the winner of a 2013 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The category he won is Design Mind, which is “given in recognition of a visionary, such as an educator, author, critic, curator, or designer, who has had a profound impact on design theory, practice, or public awareness.”

For more on Michael’s work—at Michael Sorkin Studio, Terreform, The Nation, Architectural Record, City College of New York, and of course the Institute for urban Design, click here.

The legendary Marshall Berman is delivering the Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at City College on May 2, 6:30.  p.m. It will be held in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, Convent Avenue at 168th Street. Attendance is free and open to the public. 

Brooklyn-based studio Interboro, winner of last year’s MoMA PS1‘s Young Architects Program, has designed an “outdoor living room” that will serve as the pavilion’s hangout and workshop space. Built with simple, everyday materials found around Venice, Commonplace is conceived to serve as a quiet background to the colorful installations and programs of Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good. Once Commonplace is deinstalled in the fall, its components will be donated to Venice, where they will become part of the everyday life of the city.
We need your support! Help us get this great installation to Venice by sponsoring Commonplace’s components: Passerelle and sgabelli. The Institute for Urban Design is a 501c-3 not-for-profit organization, and your donations are fully tax-deductible.

http://spontaneousinterventions.com/donate/commonplace

This Thursday, April 5, NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn will give the 8th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at City College’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. This event is free and open to the public. More details below.