Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
The State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations shortlisted Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta and Board Member Thom Mayne’s Morphosis to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City; RPA Fellow Alex Marshall reviewed Institute Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles’ recent book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint reported on the annual TED conference and Prize winner, ‘The City 2.0′; Board Chair Michael Sorkin’s New York City Steady State plan (pictured at left) was profiled on the green design blog, inhabitat; and for the blog of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, June Williamson wrote about ‘Retrofitting for Fecundity’ and her speculative retrofit of a big-box center in L.A.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Alex Marshall, Ann Ferebee, Anthony Flint, big box store, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Craig Dykers, Inhabitat, Jeff Byles, June Williamson, Mexico, Mexico City, Michael Sorkin, Morphosis, New Embassy Compound, New York City Steady State, Regional Plan Association, retrofitting, Snohetta, TED, TED Prize, terreform, The City 2.0, Thom Mayne, US Department of State
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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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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Archtober kicks off today with the opening of three new exhibitions at the Center for Architecture in New York, including Buildings = Energy, for which Colin Cathcart, Bruce Fowle, and Laurie Kerr all served on the Advisory Committee. The IfUD is hosting a book talk on the High Line with Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles next Friday (10/7) from 12:00-1:00 PM, and we hope to see you there! Many Fellows will be participating in other events during the month-long festival: Kerr and Richard Dattner will both speak at the symposium When Green is not an Option but the Law! on 10/3; Deborah Gans will speak on, and Lance Jay Brown will moderate, the panel VisioNYC 2080: Towards a Risk-Resilient City on 10/6; and Cathcart will give a presentation on “Furry Buildings” at the conference High-Performance Landscapes: People, Places, Plants on 10/21. For more, check out the full schedule of events. Congratulations to Rick Bell and everyone at AIANY for putting together such an impressive month!
Tags: A History of Modern Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, AIANY, Ann Ferebee, Architecture, Archtober, book talk, Bruce Fowle, Buildings = Energy, Center for Architecture, Colin Cathcart, Deborah Gans, energy, Exhibitions, furry buildings, green buildings, High Line, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, Jeff Byles, Lance Jay Brown, Laurie Kerr, New York City, Richard Dattner, Rick Bell, risk, VisioNYC 2080
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
On 8/24, IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles will speak about their book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan branch; another previous IfUD Director, Olympia Kazi, recently launched the Van Alen Institute’s Parks for the People student design competition, with a deadline of 11/1; and Glimpses 2040, an exhibit featuring work (pictured at left) by Barbara Wilks, and recently reviewed in the Times and The L Magazine, will remain on view at the Center for Architecture through 9/10.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Ann Ferebee, Barbara Wilks, Center for Architecture, design competition, Events, Glimpses 2040, Jeff Byles, landscape architecture, manhattan, Midtown, National Parks, New York Public Library, New York Times, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, The L Magazine, Van Alen Institute
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Tom Angotti criticized Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC for not focusing enough on providing affordable housing in the Gotham Gazette; The Epoch Times interviewed Rick Bell about how the economic recovery will affect the architectural profession; Inhabitat interviewed Matt Berman about workshop/apd’s GreeNOLA project; land-use advocacy organization The Fayette Alliance has launched a campaign to bring Omar Blaik to Lexington to help develop a plan for enhancing the relationship between that city and its anchor institutions; the New York Times plugged IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee’s new book, A History of Design form the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint wrote for The Angle about how bike-sharing could improve traffic in Boston; John Hartmann spoke to Brian Lehrer about his map for WNYC’s “New Littles” feature (pictured at left), popped up in an Architect profile of the non-profit SUPERFRONT, and launched a new Kickstarter fundraising initiative for his +FARM project; a+t released a new book on mixed use hybrid buildings with a preface written by Patron Steven Holl; Gregg Pasquarelli talked to Architect about the launch of SHoP Construction, while Paul Goldberger reviewed the firm’s newly-opened East River Esplanade in the New Yorker; Christopher Hawthorne reviewed Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel’s winning proposal for the redesign of Washington DC’s Ellipse; and Moshe Safdie was announced as the architect for Bishan Central, a planned 540-unit residential skyscraper in Singapore.
Tags: +FARM, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, a+t, Affordable Housing, AIANY, anchor institutions, Ann Ferebee, Anthony Flint, Architect, Architecture, bike sharing, Bishan Central, books, Boston, Brian Lehrer, construction, demographics, design competition, Ellipse, Freecell, gotham gazette, GreeNOLA, Gregg Pasquarelli, hybrid buildings, Inhabitat, interview, John Hartmann, Kentucky, Kickstarter, land use, Lexington, map, master plan, matthew berman, Mayor Bloomberg, mixed-use, moshe safdie, New Littles, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, Omar Blaik, Paul Goldberger, PlaNYC, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, SHoP Architects, singapore, skyscraper, Steven Holl, SUPERFRONT, The Fayette Alliance, Tom Angotti, traffic, washington dc, workshop/apd
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles will speak about their new book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, at the Skyscraper Museum on 8/2; AIANY is organizing a tour of Michael Manfredi’s Diana Center at Barnard (pictured at left) on 8/4; and Board Member Saskia Sassen will speak on the notions of comfort and “cityness” at the BMW Guggenheim Lab in New York on 8/12.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, AIANY, Ann Ferebee, Barnard College, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Design, Diana Center, Jeff Byles, Michael Manfredi, New York City, Saskia Sassen, Skyscraper Museum, Weiss/Manfredi
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Fellow Jeff Byles spoke recently at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y about their new revised version of Ferebee’s book, A History of Design From the Victorian Era to the Present, which can be purchased now at WW Norton’s website. They’ll be speaking again, downtown this time, at the Skyscraper Museum on August 2nd. This one’s not to be missed!
Tags: 92nd Street Y, Ann Ferebee, book talk, books, Jeff Byles, manhattan, New York City, Skyscraper Museum
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
We’re very pleased to announce that IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee, who led the organization for its first three decades, is preparing to release a newly-updated edition of her book, A History of Design From the Victorian Era to the Present. This compendium of design history, which was originally published in 1970, will be released in July. We’re eagerly awaiting our copy! Order yours today at W.W. Norton’s website.
Tags: Ann Ferebee, book launch, books, Design, History, Victorian, WW Norton
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A new and expanded Institute board of directors was appointed, comprising media artist Maria Antelman, urban planner Maxine Griffith, attorney Craig Kaplan, writer Cathy Lang Ho, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and the architects Thom Mayne, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, and Michael Sorkin (chair). Institute founding director Ann Ferebee took an emerita role.
Tags: Ann Ferebee, Board of Directors, Cathy Lang Ho, Craig Kaplan, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, Maria Antelman, Maxine Griffith, Michael Sorkin, Saskia Sassen, Thom Mayne
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
In preparation for the New York 2030 symposium, Institute fellows hosted a dinner and informal discussion with some of the symposium’s speakers. This was an occasion to exchange ideas on the future of the Institute in view of its 30th anniversary in October 2008. A special surprise tribute was given to Ann Ferebee by two longstanding fellows, Jane Thompson and Lance Brown. Leaving the Institute after thirty years, Ann would focus on writing a design history book for which she was awarded a Fellows Grant from the Institute. She would also have a visiting research fellowship at the Canadian Center for Architecture.
Tags: Ann Ferebee, Fellows Dinner, Jane Thompson, Lance Brown, New York 2030, New York City
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The State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations shortlisted Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta and Board Member Thom Mayne’s Morphosis to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City; RPA Fellow Alex Marshall reviewed Institute Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles’ recent book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint reported on the annual TED conference and Prize winner, ‘The City 2.0′; Board Chair Michael Sorkin’s New York City Steady State plan (pictured at left) was profiled on the green design blog, inhabitat; and for the blog of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, June Williamson wrote about ‘Retrofitting for Fecundity’ and her speculative retrofit of a big-box center in L.A.
