Monday, June 11th, 2012
At the AIA National Convention, Susan Chin was elected to the national AIA Vice Presidency, Patron Steven Holl won the AIA Gold Medal, and the firms of Board Member Thom Mayne and Robert Rogers won Honor Awards; the New York chapter of ASLA announced their Design Awards, with Thomas Balsley’s firm taking home four awards, and the firms of Michael Manfredi, Barbara Wilks, and Henry White each receiving one; the Graham Foundation announced their 2012 Grants to Individuals, with Nina Rappaport and June Williamson both receiving awards to support their respective publications about photographer Ezra Stoller and designing suburban futures; Phil Enquist will be honored with Openlands’ 2012 Conservation Leadership Award at a luncheon in October; Matthew Berman’s workshop/apd won a Building Brooklyn award for their BLDG 92 at the Navy Yard (pictured at left); the Society for Marketing Professional Services awarded Board Member Claire Weisz’s studio with an Industry Award for their Battery SeaGlass Carousel.
Tags: AIA, AIA National Convention, ASLA NY, ASLA NY Design Awards, Barbara Wilks, Battery SeaGlass Carousel, BLDG at the Navy Yard, City College of New York, Claire Weisz, Ezra Stoller, Henry White, HM White, June Williamson, matthew berman, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, Nina Rappaport, Openlands, Phil Enquist, Robert Rogers, Society for Marketing Professional Services, SOM, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, Susan Chin, the Graham Foundation, Thom Mayne, Thomas Balsley, Thomas Balsley Associates, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Weiss/Manfredi, WXY
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
David Briggs’ Loci Architecture was selected to design a new home for Brooklyn Prospect Charter School; an HOK team led by Kenneth Drucker won the competition to design a new medical school at the University at Buffalo; an art gallery by Patron Steven Holl’s firm recently opened outside of Seoul (pictured at left); Daniel Libeskind is delving into product design, and unveiled his collaboration with an Italian door manufacturer; the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has selected Barbara Wilks to redevelop St. Patrick’s Island on the Bow River.
Tags: Barbara Wilks, Bow River, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, Buffalo, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Daeyang Gallery, daniel libeskind, David Briggs, HOK, Kenneth Drucker, Loci Architecture, New York City, seoul, St. Patrick's Island, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, University at Buffalo
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
James Crispino’s firm, Francis Cauffman, has completed extensive renovations on the new Wilmington offices of Delaware law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor; David Manfredi’s firm, Elkus Manfredi, will design The Galleria at Sowwah Square, a new luxury retail destination in Abu Dhabi; Michael Manfredi’s new Visitor Center opens this week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (pictured above); along with Robert Rogers and Peter Walker, Weiss/Manfredi was also selected to redesign sites along the National Mall in Washington, DC (in a competition overseen by Don Stastny); Board Member Thom Mayne will design the first academic building for Cornell’s engineering campus on Roosevelt Island, as covered in the New York Times and New York; the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation named Barbara Wilks to draw up redevelopment plans for an island on the Bow River.
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Alberta, Barbara Wilks, Bow River, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Calgary, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Cornell University, David Manfredi, Delaware, Don Stastny, Elkus Manfredi, Francis Cauffman, James Crispino, Justin Davidson, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, National Mall, New York magazine, New York Times, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Landscape Architecture, Peter Walker Partners, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Roosevelt Island, The Galleria at Sowwah Square, Thom Mayne, Trust for the National Mall, Visitor Center, W Architecture, washington dc, Weiss Manfredi, Wilmington, Young Conaway Stargatt Taylor
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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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Monday, December 5th, 2011
Cleveland’s ParkWorks cut the ribbon on Perk Park, a new green space designed by Thomas Balsley; in a post reflecting on what Jeanne Gang’s recent MacArthur win means for women in architecture, Flavorpill noted the accomplishments of Deborah Berke, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, and Galia Solomonoff in this historically-male-dominated field; Omar Blaik has been hired by the University of Kentucky to help better integrate several universities into downtown Lexington; the New York Times interviewed David Cooper as he celebrated his 30th year with WSP Flack + Kurtz; Craig Dykers had a big November: the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University became Snøhetta’s first building completed in the US, while the firm also unveiled new, detailed renderings of the SFMOMA expansion and won a competition to design the subway entrances for the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián (pictured at left); Kenneth K. Fisher interviewed former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green for this month’s episode of Citywide; Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman’s latest column, on re-thinking housing for contemporary New York, included a nod to Deborah Gans‘ work for the Architectural League’s recent Making Room symposium; Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP (which was recently profiled in New York Magazine) released much-anticipated renderings of the modular residential towers planned for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards site; the Hartford Business Journal talked to Jonathan Schrag about the effectiveness of Cap & Trade programs; Paul Schmidt reaffirmed CADA’s committment to the organization’s R Street warehouse project in the Sacramento Bee; and Barbara Wilks‘ new The Edge Park along the Williamsburg’s rapidly-changing waterfront was a featured project on Landezine.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Architectural League, atlantic yards, Barbara Wilks, Basque, Bowling Green State University, brooklyn, CADA, cap & trade, CityWide, Cleveland, Craig Dykers, CUNY-TV, David Cooper, Deborah Berke, Deborah Gans, design competition, Donostia-San Sebastián, downtown, Galia Solomonoff, Gregg Pasquarelli, Jeanne Gang, jonathan schrag, Kenneth K. Fisher, Landezine, landscape architecture, Lexington, MacArthur, Making Room, Mark Green, Michael Kimmelman, modular, New York City, New York magazine, New York Times, Ohio, Omar Blaik, ParkWorks, Paul Schmidt, Perk Park, R Street warehouse, renderings, Sacramento, sfmoma, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, subway, The Edge Park, Thomas Balsley, universities, University of Kentucky, waterfront, Williamsburg, Winka Dubbeldam, Wolfe Center for the Arts, women architects, WSP Flack + Kurtz
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Finalists for the National Mall design competition in Washington, DC, were announced recently, and the IfUD is well-represented: Michael Arad, Craig Dykers, Rob Rogers, Peter Walker, Barbara Wilks, and Board Member Enrique Norten will all move forward. Donald Stastny is managing the high-profile competition, while Board Member Thom Mayne is one of the jurors. And speaking of juries, Arad and Joseph Brown both spent some time on that side of the competition process recently–the former for this year’s NYC iteration of CANstruction, and the latter for the Urban Land Institute’s Global Awards for Excellence. Coming up: June Williamson will judge entries for the CNU Charter Awards (entries due by January 25th!)
Tags: Barbara Wilks, Canstruction, CNU Charter Awards, Congress for New Urbanism, Craig Dykers, design competition, Donald Stastny, Enrique Norten, Global Awards for Excellence, Joseph Brown, June Williamson, jury, michael arad, National Mall, New York City, Peter Walker, Rob Rogers, Thom Mayne, Urban Land Institute, washington dc
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Board President Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map was just reviewed by Archidose’s John Hill; Frederick Steiner recently sat down to chat with The Daily Texan about his new book Design for a Vulnerable Planet; and an award-winning proposal by Barbara Wilks is featured in the new book Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which was edited by Jamie Hand and Kate Orff, and released by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute.
Tags: All Over the Map, Archidose, Barbara Wilks, books, criticism, Design, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Frederick Steiner, Gateway Visions for an Urban National Park, Jamie Hand, John Hill, Kate Orff, landscape architecture, Michael Sorkin, Ollympia Kazi, The Daily Texan, Van Alen Institute
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15; Barbara Wilks will give a talk at the New York Botanical Garden’s Midtown Education Center on 10/24; Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at the Pratt Institute on 10/24 in conjunction with the new exhibit Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture; Richard Sennett will join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s discussion of the new publication Living in the Endless City in New York on 10/25; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the symposium The Waterfront: A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change on 10/26; Deborah Berke will talk about Development, Design and Financing Strategies for Urban Revitalization Using Hospitality and the Arts at the ULI Fall Conference on 10/26; Board Member Toni Griffin will visit Notre Dame University on 10/26 to deliver the lecture Can Planning Save the City: Facing the Challenges of Urban America; Olympia Kazi will host Board Member Thom Mayne at Van Alen Books on 10/28 for a presentation on his new book, Combinatory Urbanism; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam is on the Host Committee for the Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party on 10/29; and Tom Angotti will participate in the panel Where is New York? Apparitions at Willets Point at the Columbia GSAPP on 10/31.
Tags: Architecture, Barbara Wilks, Baruch College, Breaking Borders, brooklyn, Columbia University, Combinatory Urbanism, conference, Critical Halloween, Development, Enrique Norten, GSAPP, Injured Cities, Institute for Public Knowledge, Jack Nyman, Living in the Endless City, manhattan, Midtown, New York Botanical Garden, New York City, Notre Dame, NYU, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, party, Pratt Institute Latin America, preservation, Queens, Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Urbanism, Van Alen Books, waterfront, Willets Point, Winka Dubbeldam
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
PMc Mag called Matt Blesso “New York’s Host with the Most”; Susan Chin was announced [PDF] as the new Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space; the launch of an effort to find an architect for the re-vamp of Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier (pictured at left) led to rumblings that both Phil Enquist and Helmut Jahn are considering throwing their respective hats in the ring; Bruce Fowle served on the jury for the AIA’s National Healthcare Design Awards; Architectural Record profiled Alex Gorlin’s contemporary take on the rowhouse in East Brooklyn; CCGSAPP’s new blog features an interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Denise Hoffman Brandt on their new co-edited issue of SLUM Lab, which debuted during Urban Design Week; Daniel Libeskind was announced as the architect for a new wing at his iconic Jewish Museum in Berlin; FastCo Design has a great story on the collaboration, in Villahermosa, Mexico, between Board Member Enrique Norten and Barbara Wilks on a new museum and park; Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center just opened in Kansas City; Jonathan Schrag was appointed to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Energy in the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; and Board President Michael Sorkin’s new book, All Over the Map, has been receiving rave reviews from the likes of the Guardian and the Telegraph.
Tags: AIA, Alexander Gorlin, Alfredo Brillembourg, All Over the Map, Architectural Record, Barbara Wilks, Berlin, book launch, brooklyn, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, design competition, Design Trust for Public Space, Enrique Norten, Fast Company, Germany, GSAPP, Healthcare Design Awards, Helmut Jahn, jewish museum, jonathan schrag, jury, Kansas City, Kauffman Center, landscape architecture, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, moshe safdie, museums, Navy Pier, New York City, Philip Enquist, rowhouse, SLUM Lab, Susan Chin, Urban Design Week, Villahermosa
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At the AIA National Convention, Susan Chin was elected to the national AIA Vice Presidency, Patron Steven Holl won the AIA Gold Medal, and the firms of Board Member Thom Mayne and Robert Rogers won Honor Awards; the New York chapter of ASLA announced their Design Awards, with Thomas Balsley’s firm taking home four awards, and the firms of Michael Manfredi, Barbara Wilks, and Henry White each receiving one; the Graham Foundation announced their 2012 Grants to Individuals, with Nina Rappaport and June Williamson both receiving awards to support their respective publications about photographer Ezra Stoller and designing suburban futures; Phil Enquist will be honored with Openlands’ 2012 Conservation Leadership Award at a luncheon in October; Matthew Berman’s workshop/apd won a Building Brooklyn award for their BLDG 92 at the Navy Yard (pictured at left); the Society for Marketing Professional Services awarded Board Member Claire Weisz’s studio with an Industry Award for their Battery SeaGlass Carousel.
