Monday, April 30th, 2012
Please join us tomorrow, May 1, 2012, 6-8pm at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York to celebrate the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City.
There will be a brief program at 6:30pm including remarks from Chancellor of CCNY Matthew Goldstein, President of CCNY Lisa S. Coico, and Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture George Ranalli. Meet the Director of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Professor and Institute Board Member Toni L. Griffin and find out about the Center’s mission and programs.
This event is free and open to the public.
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street New York NY 10031
Tags: Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, City College of New York, George Ranalli, J. Max Bond Center, Lisa S. Coico, Matthew Goldstein, Spitzer School of Architecture, Toni Griffin
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
Please join us Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6-8pm at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York to celebrate the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City.
There will be a brief program at 6:30pm including remarks from Chancellor of CCNY Matthew Goldstein, President of CCNY Lisa S. Coico, and Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture George Ranalli. Meet the Director of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Professor and Institute Board Member Toni L. Griffin and find out about the Center’s mission and programs.
This event is free and open to the public.
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street New York NY 10031
Tags: Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, City College of New York, George Ranalli, J. Max Bond Center, Lisa S. Coico, Matthew Goldstein, Spitzer School of Architecture, Toni Griffin
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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 Elkus Manfredi’s proposed “Ink Block” mixed-use development to a public forum in Boston; The Architect’s Newspaper profiled the Queens Plaza revamp designed by Linda Pollak’s firm; the March issue of Dwell features the ‘Ghost Houses’ project by Ted Shelton; Ethel Sheffer has been selected to join the AICP College of Fellows and will be inducted at the National Planning Conference in April; finally, congratulations to Beverly Willis, whose Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary on 2/21.
Tags: AEC Knowledge, AIA NY, Andrew Bernheimer, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Boston, Camille Rivera, Carrot City, CCNY, Chris Hardwicke, CityWide, Cornell, Cosentini Associates, David Manfredi, Dwell, Elkus Manfredi, Ethel Sheffer, FAICP, Ghost Houses, Gretchen Bank, Ink Block, Ken Fisher, Linda Pollack, Mark Ginsberg, Master in Architecture, mixed-use, National Planning Conference, New York Times, Parsons, Queens Plaza, Ravine City, Roosevelt Island, Steven Holl, Sustainable High Density Affordable Housing, Ted Shelton, The Architect's Newspaper, The New School, Thom Mayne, Working Families Party, Zaituny Bay
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at St. Louis’ Washington University announced its spring lecture series, with Craig Dykers set to speak tonight (2/1), and visits from Gregg Pasquarelli and Richard Sennett scheduled for later this semester; Rob Rogers will speak about Rogers Marvel’s recent work (including President’s Park South, pictured at left) at the National Building Museum in Washington on 2/2; Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin have organized a panel, Defining Cultural Landscapes, at CCNY on 2/3 (with opening remarks by Olympia Kazi); the Center for Architecture will host the panel Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux on 2/4, with Thomas Balsley, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Susan Chin all participating (Brown will be back at the Center, with David Dixon, for a discussion about Climate Change on 2/17); Bruce Fowle will speak at the Center’s Active Design 201 on 2/7; Board Member Claire Weisz will speak in New York, also on 2/7, at the Studio-X panel Trash Tubes of the Future; Board Member Enrique Norten will give a talk at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach on 2/9; that same day, in New York, Ernie Hutton will moderate a discussion on the Miami21 zoning initiative; and a new exhibit at the National Academy, featuring work by Robert A.M. Stern, has just opened and will remain on view in New York through 4/29.
Tags: active design, Bruce Fowle, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, climate change, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Defining Cultural Landscapes, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Enrique Norten, Ernest Hutton, Florida, form-based code, Freedom of Assembly, Gregg Pasquarelli, historic preservation, Lance Jay Brown, manhattan, Miami, Miami21, National Academy Museum, national building museum, New York City, occupation, Olympia Kazi, pneumatic tubes, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, President's Park South, public space, Richard Sennett, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, robert a.m. stern, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Studio-X, Susan Chin, Thomas Balsley, Toni Griffin, washington dc, Washington University, zoning
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Lance Jay Brown will serve as a juror for the AIANY State 2012 Honors Awards, to be presented this coming April; the teams proceeding to the third and final round of the National Mall Design Competition, managed by Donald Stastny, were announced, with Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Rob Rogers, and Peter Walker all still in the mix; Dykers was also just announced as the chair of the jury for the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition; Ron Harwick’s Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans (pictured at left) had a banner year, taking home multiple honors–click here to download a full list of awards and more information on the project; Patron Steven Holl’s Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, won the sole award in the Play category in Architect magazine’s 2011 Annual Design Review; critic Lee Bey cited the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library on his list of the best Chicago architecture of the past year (echoing Blair Kamin’s list from earlier in the month); the Parks for the People competition, organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute and with Steven Handel sitting on the jury, just announced the selection of nine teams to move on to the second round–one of which is led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin; Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter project in Las Vegas won Gold and Sustainable Design Awards in the ICSC’s annual US Design & Development Awards; Urban Omnibus announced an essay competition to complement the Architectural League’s exhibit The Unfinished Grid, with our own Board President Michael Sorkin on the jury (deadline: 2/1/12); and Rosemary Wakeman has received a EURIAS Senior Fellowship to spend the next year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement.
Tags: AIANY, Architect Magazine, Architectural League, Biarritz, book, CCNY, Chicago, Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, Columbia Parc, Craig Dykers, Crystals at CityCenter, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, design competition, Design Review, Donald Stastny, EURIAS Fellowship, Helmut Jahn, ICSC Design & Development Awards, International Council of Shopping Centers, jury, Lance Jay Brown, Las Vegas, Lee Bey, Mansueto Library, Michael Manfredi, Michael Sorkin, National Mall Design Competition, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Orleans, New Town Movement, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, Peter Walker, play, Robert Rogers, Ron Harwick, Rosemary Wakeman, Steedman Fellowship, Steven Handel, Steven Holl, The Unfinished Grid, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Van Alen Institute, washington dc
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Board Member Byron Stigge will speak at the Out of Water conference in Toronto, from 4/1-2; Denise Hoffman Brandt will speak at the Next Eco-City symposium in Seattle on 4/7-8; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will speak at the Progressive Architecture Symposium in Mexico City, also on 4/7-8; Deborah Gans will discuss her work on the new stained glass window at Manhattan’s Eldridge Street Synagogue on 4/8; Mark Strauss will participate in a panel on the 3 Rs of the New Economy at the APA National Conference in Boston on 4/10; Richard Sennett (pictured at left) will deliver the 7th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at CCNY on 4/11; the AIA Design Awards Luncheon, which will honor IfUD Patron Steven Holl, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Claire Weisz, and Board Member Thom Mayne, will take place at Cipriani Wall Street on 4/12; and the new exhibit Façade: Through a Glass Darkly, featuring two buildings by Matthias Sauerbruch, will be on view at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK, now through 7/10.
Tags: AIA Design Awards, American Planning Association, Architecture, Boston, Bruce Fowle, Byron Stigge, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Cipriani Wall Street, Claire Weisz, Deborah Gans, Denise Hoffman Brandt, eco-cities, economy, Eldridge Street Synagogue, facade, FXFOWLE, glass, Lewis Mumford Lecture, manhattan, Mark Strauss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Mexico City, Morphosis, New York City, progressive, Richard Sennett, Seattle, Steven Holl, Sunderland, Thom Mayne, Toronto, UK, water, Winka Dubbeldam
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Leslie Voltaire, the UN’s Special Envoy to Haiti and lead planner for the Haitian Government’s reconstruction plans, as well as the Institute for Urban Design’s guest at the June 4, 2010 symposium Rebuilding a Sustainable Haiti, will return to New York today, July 12, to speak at the launch of the ARCHIVE Institute’s Kay e Sante nan Ayiti (Housing and Health in Haiti) design competition. The competition will recognize the six-month anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti earlier this year by calling on architects, engineers, health specialists, and the general public to pool together their knowledge and submit housing designs which can mitigate transmission of airborne diseases like tuberculosis (TB). The event, which will also feature Housing Works CEO Charles King, will take place from 6:00-8:00 PM at CCNY’s Manhattan Campus in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium (160 Convent Avenue). If you plan to attend, please RSVP to mf@archiveinstitute.org.
Tags: archive institute, CCNY, Haiti, health, Housing, leslie voltaire, New York City, tuberculosis, united nations
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
We’d like to introduce four new fellows: John Hartmann, partner at Freecell, William Kelley, Director of Economic Development at Union Square Partnership, Anthony Flint, of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Denise Hoffman Brandt, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York School of Architecture.
Tags: Anthony Flint, CCNY, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Freecell, John Hartmann, Lincoln Insitute of Land Policy, new fellows, New York City, Union Square Partnership, William Kelley
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Institute fellow Sara Caples, Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, gave the opening lecture in the school’s fall Design Excellence series on Thursday, September 24th in the Sciame Auditorium. Institute board member Thom Mayne will lecture on November 5th.
Tags: CCNY, City College of New York, Design Excellence, New York City, Sara Caples, School of Architecture, Thom Mayne
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