The Municipal Arts Society of New York will host a day-long conference Land Use & Local Voices: Is the City’s Land Use Process in Need of Reform?, from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM next Wedesday, July 21. The event’s panels will explore various perspectives on New York City’s land use process and consider proposals to improve it. As the IfUD’s next Breakfast Club, scheduled for the following Wednesday, July 28, will cover the city’s ongoing charter revision process as it pertains to land use and project approvals, Fellows may want to attend the MAS event to bone up on their land use knowledge in advance!
MAS Schedules Land Use Conference
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Next Breakfast Club Date Set: 7/28/10
Friday, July 9th, 2010
The next Breakfast Club for Fellows and their guests will be held at the Center for Architecture, at 536 LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village, at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, July 28. We’ll be discussing the land-use elements in New York City’s ongoing Charter Revision process, and what the ramifications for development and design will be if there are changes in the ULURP and approvals process. For those of you who’d like to brush up on the topic, take a look at Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s excellent report for the Charter Revision Commission (PDF available for download here), or read IfUD Fellow Tom Agnotti’s recent article on the process in the Gotham Gazette. For more information on upcoming Commission meetings (the next is set for Monday, July 12), see the city’s web site. In the meantime, mark the 28th on your calendar, and send an email to info@ifud.org to RSVP if you know you’ll be able to attend. See you soon!
Next Breakfast Club: June 24, 2010
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Mark your calendar: the Institute’s next Breakfast Club will take place on Thursday, June 24, at the Architectural League of New York’s The City We Imagined, The City We Made exhibition at 250 Hudson Street. We’ll be meeting there in the exhibition gallery at 8:30 AM to discuss the show with its creators. We’re very excited to be working with the League on this event, and we hope that you’ll join us for what promises to be a lively and enlightening look at the past decade of development in New York.
8th Breakfast Club
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Institute fellows gathered at the Center for Architecture in New York this morning for the eighth Breakfast Club, which brought together representatives of all five of the design teams from MoMA’s Rising Currents and members of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The USACE opened with a discussion of the political realities of getting things done on the ground, and Guy Nordenson of Guy Nordenson & Associates gave a brief presentation on the proposals generated by the design teams. A lively conversation between both sides and Institute fellows followed. Take a look at our Facebook page for photos of the event.
Finally, a big thanks goes out to all of the presenters: Ben Abelman (SCAPE), Matthew Baird (Matthew Baird Architects), Stephen Cassell (ARO), Steve Couch (USACE), Donald Cresitello (USACE), Susannah Drake (dLand Studio), Dr. Thomas J. Hodson (USACE), Noah Levy (nARCHITECTS), Guy Nordenson (Guy Nordenson & Associates), and Gena Wirth (SCAPE).
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7th Breakfast Club
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Institute fellow Rosemary Wakeman (center, in black) discusses the need to re-define public space in the context of Urban Design Week.
Fellows met at the Center for Architecture for a special discussion on Urban Design Week, for which the Institute received part of the 2009 Cultural Innovation Fund from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Urban Design Week is a week-long festival, scheduled for May 2011 in New York City, designed to engage citizens in the complex processes behind the making of a city, and to harness New York’s cultural vitality and celebrate its exceptional urbanity. With programs that include public performances, film screenings, presentations of projects, public debates, and installations, UDW seeks to celebrate the fact that cities are made by collective effort and that each participant can be an important part of that endeavor. We’re developing partnerships in the coming months, so please get in touch if you’re interested in getting involved.
6th Breakfast Club
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Artist Jorge Colombo responds to a question from fellow presenters.
Institute fellows gathered at the Center for Architecture on December 15th for the Sixth Fellows Breakfast Club. Presenters Jake Barton (Local Projects), Jorge Colombo (artist), Katie Dixon (Downtown Brooklyn Partnership), and Steve Connor (Creative Concern) discussed the intersection of communication and urban design, and how the new accessibility of information is changing the way we experience our cities. Be sure to check our Facebook page for photos of the event.
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5th Breakfast Club
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
(L to R) Olympia Kazi, Inga Saffron, Becky Quintal, Whasoon Lisa Lee, Jim Ballard
Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, chaired the fifth Breakfast Club discussion at the New York Center for Architecture. Check our Facebook page for pictures, and become a fan while you’re at it!
As per request, the following is a list of sites Ms. Saffron referenced in her presentation on Philadelphia:
Piazza at Schmidts, Erdy McHenry Architecture; American Lofts, Winka Dubbledam; The Murano, Solomon Cordwell Buenz; 10 Rittenhouse, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; 1706 Rittenhouse, Cope Linder; Symphony House, BLT Architects; Rag Flats, Thin Flats, Tim McDonald of Onion Flats Architects; Sheridan Street housing, Brian Phillips and Interface Studio Architects; New Martin Luther King houses, Torti Galllas; The $100K house, Interface Studio; 108 Arch Street, SHoP; Waterfront Square, WRT; Dockside, BLT; Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Handel Associates; Ayer Condos, Wesley Wei; Union Trust Steakhouse, Frank Furness, Paul Philipe Cret (original) and DAS Design; Domus; Radian, Erdy McHenry; The Hub; Drexel’s Millenium Tower, Erdy McHenry; Cira Centre, Pelli, et al.; Comcast tower, Robert A.M. Stern; Kimmel Center, Rafael Vinoly; Independence Mall, National Constitution Center, Henry Cobb
4th Breakfast Club, New York
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Roxanne Warren flips through the Street Design Manual during the discussion.
Margaret Newman, chief of staff of the New York City DOT, led Institute fellows in a discussion on the recently released Street Design Manual at the New York Center for Architecture for the fourth fellows’ Breakfast Club. Check out our new Facebook page for pictures, and become a fan while you’re at it!
3rd Breakfast Club, New York
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Laurie Kerr leads the round-table discussion.
Institute fellows gathered at the New York Center for Architecture for the third fellows’ Breakfast Club, chaired by Institute fellow Laurie Kerr, Senior Policy Advisor at NYC Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, who led the discussion on the “greening” of New York City’s building code.
2nd Breakfast Club, New York
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Institute fellows gathered at the New York Center for Architecture for the April fellows’ Breakfast Club, chaired by Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times.