The National Academy Museum and School (above) elected Patron Steven Holl and Gregg Pasquarelli as Academicians; ASLA elevated Henry White to its Council of Fellows; the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis and currently led by Wanda Bubriski, received an NEA Art Works grant to support their “Making A Place for Women in 20th-Century American Architecture” project.
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s Executive Director Wanda Bubriski and founder Beverly Willis invite you to “A View from the Future,”a morning symposium hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center on 6/5 about future trends and innovation in the architecture/engineering/construction industry. The event will feature a keynote by Futurist Edie Weiner, followed by a panel discussion of experts debating new opportunities in the AEC field. Board Members Claire Weisz and Tami Hausman serve on the BWAF Board and Advisory Council respectively.
Panelists include: Jane Chmielinski (AECOM), Michael De Chiara (Zetlin & De Chiara LLP), MaryAnne Gilmartin (Forest City Ratner Companies), Jurij Paraszczak (IBM Research), and Ana Bertuna (Related Companies).
Get your tickets here.
Society of Marketing Professional Services honored Richard Dattner’s firm and Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects for their green, affordable Via Verde; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta won an Honor Award from the Toledo chapter of the AIA for the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University (pictured at left); tomorrow (5/3), Beverly Willis will be named a Leader for the 21st Century at the Women’s eNews gala in New York.
Cosentini Associates has just appointed Gretchen Bank as their Director of Business Development and Marketing; Andrew Bernheimer has been announced as the new director for Parsons’ Master in Architecture program; Ken Fisher interviewed Camille Rivera, a leader In the Working Families Party in New York, for his CityWide talk show on 2/15; as part of their AEC Knowledge series, the AIANY released “Sustainable High Density Affordable Housing,” a new digital course presented by Mark Ginsberg; Chris Hardwicke’s Ravine City concept is featured in the new book Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture (pictured at left); Patron Steven Holl and Board Member Thom Mayne are finalists to design the first academic building on Cornell’s new Roosevelt Island campus (Holl’s Zaituny Bay project was also recently profiled in the New York Times); David Manfredi recently presented
Meta Brunzema will discuss her contribution to the new book “Feminist Practices” at Van Alen Books tonight (3/1) and at Bluestockings Bookstore tomorrow (3/2); also this evening, Tom Angotti will give a lecture at Parsons, as part of the new “In the Urban Crisis” series; Theo David will lecture at Pratt tonight, in advance of the opening of his exhibit, “Built Ideas: A Life of Teaching, Learning, and Action,” at the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery in Brooklyn; Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute will hold its next Open House Brunch and Design Speed Dating event on 3/3; on the same day, “Los Límites de la Forma”, a new exhibit of work by Board Member Enrique Norten, will open at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico; on 3/8, Board Member Claire Weisz will be at the National Building Museum in D.C. to participate in a panel entitled “Architecture and the Great Recession” organized by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (lead by Wanda Bubriski); the next day on 3/9, Weisz will be at The Cooper Union in New York to introduce the latest “Emerging Voices” lecture; an exhibit of work by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta is currently on display at the Reykjavík Art Museum and will close on 4/3; and back at the National Building Museum, the exhibit “Unbuilt Washington” features work by Board Member Thom Mayne (picture at left) and is on view through 5/28.
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis (pictured at left) and is now led by Wanda Bubriski, has launched a Call for Entries to the Collection of Women in 20th Century Architecture, an online database in which 40 of the 50 US states are currently represented. The BWAF’s summer mission is to find enough entries to fill out the map! If you know of a historical or active practitioner in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, or New Hampshire, please contribute today!
Wanda Bubriski jumped into the public debate surrounding Architect Barbie at BWAF’s new blog; a recent CNN feature on urban agriculture included two projects by Colin Cathcart; Anthony Flint (whose Wrestling With Moses has been garnering fresh attention lately) wrote an article for Boston.com on Ben and Jane Thompson’s storied Design Research store in Cambridge, calling Jane’s new book on DR’s history “wonderful”; a developer announced plans for a floating marina complex (pictured at left), designed by Carlo Frugiuele, on the Jersey City waterfront; Ken Greenberg is working on a plan for the pedestrianization of part of Toronto’s famed Yonge Street; Board Member Toni Griffin and Fellow June Williamson both contributed to a Times Room for Debate feature on “the Incredible Shrinking City”; John Hoal is leading a six-team visioning process for St. Louis’ Ackert Walkway; Stephen Holl talked to the Scotland Herald about his Glasgow School of Art project, which was unanimously approved by the city; Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute has been busy, announcing the mid-April opening of its design bookstore in Manhattan and launching the Life at the Speed of Rail design competition, the jury for which will include IfUD Board Member Thom Mayne; Treehugger talked to Laurie Kerr about NYC’s pioneering Local Law 84; the Architect’s Newspaper posted video of Gregg Pasquarelli discussing SHoP’s design for the Botswana Innovation Hub; Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel will handle restoration work on Manhattan’s Pier A, which will become a retail and event space; and Metropolis visited Andrew Whalley at Grimshaw Industrial Design’s new Chelsea office.
It is our pleasure to announce two new IfUD Fellows: Jonathan Schrag, the Executive Director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; and Wanda Bubriski, the Executive Director of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. We look forward to their contributions!
Fellow Beverly Willis, FAIA, recently screened and spoke about the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s film “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. A number of New York organizations also screened the film, including the 5th Annual NY Women in Real Estate Gala, where Willis gave a keynote address, the New York Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network, the New York AIA chapter Women-in-Architecture, and The School of Visual Arts.
On Thursday, January 14th at 5:00pm, AECOM New York will host “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”, a film screening and discussion led by Institute fellow Beverly Willis (Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation). Light refreshments. RSVP to tara.fenyak@aecom.com.
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