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.
As the Congress for the New Urbanism announced its Charter Awards, David Dixon’s firm, Goody Clancy received an honorable mention for a project in Dublin, Ohio; William Fain won the Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design; Kenneth Fisher was appointed to the Grand Central Terminal Centennial Committee; the Second Annual Zocalo Book Prize went to Richard Sennett’s new Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (pictured at left); Women’s eNews has named Beverly Willis one of their ’21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ and will honor her at a gala in May.
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.
Deborah Gans‘ new rose window for the Museum at Eldridge Street, designed in collaboration with artist Kiki Smith (and pictured at left), received a 2011 Faith & Form award from the IFRAA Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture; the Land Art Generator Initiative design competition announced its kickoff, with Executive Director Anne Guiney on the jury (deadline: 7/1/12); recipients of the 2012 AIA Honor Awards were announced–among the winners are Rob Rogers and Board Members Toni Griffin, Thom Mayne, and Enrique Norten; Rosemary Wakeman was awarded a EURIAS Senior Fellowship, and will spend the next academic year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement; Womens’ E-News will honor Beverly Willis as one of their 21 Leaders for the 21st Century at a gala reception this May.
The City College of New York honored Achva Benzinberg Stein (pictured at left), whose Moroccan Courtyard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is nearing completion, with the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2011-12; and Bevery Willis has been chosen by the National Association of Professional Women in Construction to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award.
The NY Times spoke to Rick Bell about the planned expansion of the Center for Architecture, designed by Rob Rogers; the jury for a competition to re-design the Capitol Mall in Sacramento (pictured at left) included EE&K’s Peter David Cavaluzzi; the new book Beyond Shelter, published by Metropolis Books, features work by Jim Dart and Deborah Gans; the Architect’s Newspaper visited the newly-opened TASHAN restaurant in Philadelphia, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam; ArchDaily recently posted a great video interview with Patron Steven Holl; today marks the start of construction on Board Member Enrique Norten’s new Rutgers Business School Building in Livingston, New Jersey; construction work on a new half-billion-dollar mixed-use complex designed by John Portman at the former site of the Shanghai Expo is just beginning in China’s largest city; IBM’s SmartPlanet.com took an in-depth look at the intricate facade of Matthias Sauerbruch’s KfW Westarkade in Frankfurt; Robert AM Stern’s George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas recently had its topping-out ceremony; and Beverly Willis reviewed critic Paul Goldberger’s book Why Architecture Matters for the Associates of the Art Commission.
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!
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