Urban Omnibus will host a benefit party tonight in New York, including an auction featuring work by Linda Pollak (pictured at left); on 2/17, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Jack Nyman will participate in the conference Greening Modernism at Baruch College in Manhattan; Laurie Kerr will speak at the Center for Architecture’s Building Intelligence Project: Think Tank New York on 2/18; and if you missed Gregg Pasquarelli’s recent lecture on SHoP’s current work, the Architectural League has posted a podcast of the talk.
Fellows’ Recent Awards & Honors: Caples, Chin, Coen, & Fowle
Friday, December 10th, 2010
The extension of the Queens Theatre-in-the-Park (pictured at left), designed by Sara Caples’ firm Caples Jefferson, was recently selected [pdf] as New York Construction‘s Cultural Project of the Year; Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture recently honored Fellow Susan Chin with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for her work as the Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Shane Coen’s Warroad Border Station was chosen by the 2010 GSA Design Awards jury for a Citation in Landscape Architecture, Honor Awards for Architecture and Engineering, and another Citation for Interior Design; and Bruce Fowle was presented with a trophy acknowledging FXFOWLE’s 15 years of involvement in the Canstruction NYC contest.
International Architecture Award Winners Announced
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Institute’s membership is well-represented in the list of recipients for the 2010 International Architecture Awards. Honorees include Patron Steven Holl for the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and the Knut Hamsun Center; Board Member Thom Mayne for the Cooper Union’s 41 Cooper Square building; Fellow Michael Manfredi’s Weiss/Manfredi Architects for the Wandering Ecologies project in Toronto (pictured at left); Fellow Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet; and Fellow Bruce Fowle’s firm FXFOWLE for the Nordhaven City Regeneration project and SAP North America complex. The awards are administered annually by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
FXFOWLE’s Concept Named Best Urban Design Project (Unbuilt)
Monday, February 1st, 2010
World Architecture News selected FXFOWLE’s concept design for Nordhavnen: City Regenerative as the Best Urban Design Project (Unbuilt). The firm’s Institute fellows include Bruce Fowle, Mark Strauss, and Sudhir Jambhekar.
Building Security: Protective Design for High Rise Buildings
Friday, December 4th, 2009
New York New Visions, AIANY Planning & Urban Design Committee, and ASLANY present
Building Security: Protective Design for High Rise Buildings on Wednesday, December 9th at the Center for Architecture.
Panelists Richard Falkenrath (NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism) and Michael Udvardy (Houston Dawson PE, Weidlinger Associates) will address the practical implications of the guidelines and discuss strategies for implementation.
Panel respondents include Institute fellows Bruce Fowle FAIA, FXFOWLE, Mark Ginsberg FAIA, Curtis + Ginsberg LLC, and moderator Ernest Hutton FAICP Assoc AIA.
8:30-10:30am, Wednesday December 9 2009
Center for Architecture Tafel Hall
CEU credits 1.5 LU 1.5 HSW
Skyscraper Museum Presents: Shanghai Skyline
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
On Tuesday, October 13, the Skyscraper Museum will host their fall kick-off lecture and reception, Shanghai Skyline.
Architectural Record Editor-in-Chief, Robert Ivy, will moderate a panel including Paul Katz, Institute fellow Bruce Fowle, Jack Portman, David Scott, and Timur Galen, who will recall how they snagged Shanghai commissions in the 1980s and ’90s, illustrate recent projects, and reflect on the relevance of the past recession for today’s downturn.
Green Buildings New York
Monday, June 15th, 2009As part of the GreenBuildingsNY fair on June 16th, Institute fellow Bruce Fowle gave a tour of the Javits Center, where he discussed the greening and retrofitting of the center.
AIA Award Announcements
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Honors were given at the San Francisco 2009 AIA Convention to the projects and firms of the following Institute fellows: Philip Enquist (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) received the 2009 AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for Southworks Lakeside Chicago Development, Chicago / Bruce Fowle (FXFowle Architects) received the 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture with Renzo Piano Building Workshop for The New York Times Building / Professor Steven N. Handel (Rutgers University) and board member Enrique Norten (TEN Arquitectos) received the 2009 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for the Orange County Great Park master plan, in California. This project also won the 2009 APA National Planning Excellence Award for Innovation in Regional Planning / Lyn Rice(Lyn Rice Architects) won the 2009 AIA Honor Awards for Interior Architecture for the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York City / Donald J. Stastny, FAIA, FAICP (StastnyBrun Architects) was the recipient of the 2009 AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture / Andrew Whalley (Grimshaw Architects) received the 2009 AIA Honor Awards for Architecture for Horno3: Museo del Acero, Monterey, Mexico
