Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Speaking at the Center for Architecture, Susan Chin (left) encouraged women to recognize skill sets within others, urging “It is important to look beyond oneself. People always ask, ‘what does the AIA do for me’? But it’s not about you; it’s about driving business to architects.” In a Toronto Star article about neighborhood improvement methods, Ken Greenberg cautioned, “It makes no sense to be building extremely high density where you don’t have transit, or a real plan to get transit. Saying that you’re just going to put the density there and transit may or may not appear someday is not good enough.” Coming off of the Rio+20 Conference, Board Member Saskia Sassen wrote an article for Newsroom Panama about the power of cities – as opposed to the nation state – to make environmental change. “Unlike nation states, city mayors from diverse countries are able to have productive discussions about environmental sustainability without being bogged down by national interests…In part, that’s because it is in cities that many of the global environmental challenges become tangible and urgent.”
Tags: Center for Architecture, Ken Greenberg, Newsroom Panama, Rio+20, Saskia Sassen, Susan Chin, Toronto Star
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
Next Monday, Gretchen Bank and Board Member Tami Hausman will advise about marketing, communications, and business development at the Center for Architecture; on both 7/23 and 7/27, Ernest Hutton talks “Active Design 101: An Introduction to NYC’s Active Design Guidelines,” also at the Center for Architecture; Rick Bell will moderate “Hyper-Public: Olympic City – Present Past Future” on 7/27; an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area at SFMOMA, featuring work by Board Member Thom Mayne, closes on 7/29; the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC is currently showing “Daniel Libeskind: Architecture for the Angel of History” (Libeskind’s Jewish Museum pictured above) through the end of August.
Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, daniel libeskind, Ernest Hutton, Goethe Institut, Gretchen Bank, Rick Bell, San Francisco, sfmoma, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
e-Oculus recapped the Center for Architecture event “Practice in the Middle East,” whose participants included Rick Bell, Sudhir Jambhekar, and Board Member Byron Stigge; John di Domenico, John Hartmann, and Blake Middleton are on the jury for Moleskine’s Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook competition; David Dixon presented Good Clancy’s plans for Central Square in Cambridge to city officials; Craig Dykers created and served as jury chair for the Sam Fox School’s 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design; Dykers’ Snøhetta is also on the cover of the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper for their renovation of Times Square (pictured above); Galia Solomonoff has an essay featured in the new Princeton Architecture Press book Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering; Solomonoff also has a house featured in New York Magazine’s new Design Hunting issue; MAS’ MASterworks award winners were announced, with Suzanne Stephens and Board Member Claire Weisz on the jury.
Tags: Blake Middleton, Byron Stigge, Cambridge, Center for Architecture, Central Square, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Design Hunting, e-Oculus, Galia Solomonoff, Goody Clancy, John di Domenico, John Hartmann, MAS MASterworks, Moleskine's Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook, New York magazine, Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, Practice in the Middle East, Princeton Architecture Press, Rick Bell, Sam Fox School, Snohetta, Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design, Sudhir Jambhekar, Suzanne Stephens, The Architect's Newspaper, times square, Washington University
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Last Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Achva Stein gave a tour of the new Moroccan Court, followed by cocktails on the roof; also on 6/15, Rick Bell’s Center for Architecture hosted the AIA New York Chapter’s 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is the 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect; last Saturday in Shanghai, Board Member Thom Mayne spoke at the XXL Supertall Buildings conference co-hosted by Tonji University and USC; while 6/16 in the South Bronx, Kaja Kuhl hosted a workshop about her phytoremediation project; Laurie Kerr was at the Center for Architecture on 6/18 for a talk about “NYC’s Net Zero School”; Architecture for Humanity is having an online auction, running from 6/19 through 6/29, featuring work by Patron Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, and Moshe Safdie; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute is hosting the day-long Advanced Energy Performance: Real Estate’s New Energy Asset Management Paradigm conference (pictured above) on 6/21, where both he and Laurie Kerr will speak.
Tags: 145th Annual Meeting, Achva Stein, Advanced Energy Performance, AIA NY, Architecture for Humanity, Center for Architecture, daniel libeskind, Jack Nyman, Kaja Kuhl, Lance Jay Brown, Laurie Kerr, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moroccan Court, Morphosis, moshe safdie, NYC's Net Zero School, phytoremediation, Real Estate's New Energy Asset Management Paradigm, Rick Bell, Shanghai, South Bronx, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Thom Mayne, Tonji University, USC, XXL Supertall Buildings, youarethecity
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Rick Bell appeared on NBC New York’s Nonstop to discuss the Center for Architecture’s exhibits about Middle Eastern architecture; Bell also traveled to Albany with Susan Chin for Architects in Albany Lobby Day at the state capital; Bauwelt magazine featured an article about Richard Dattner and Andrew Whalley’s Via Verde affordable housing project; David Dixon presented more details about Goody Clancy’s master plan for the redevelopment of downtown Sandy Spring, GA to 200 local residents and stakeholders; in an article on the Atlantic Cities, Anthony Flint questioned the longevity of the new urbanism movement; Julie Iovine wrote about Board Member Toni Griffin’s new J. Max Bond Center in Architect’s Newspaper; Vitamin Green, a new book out from Phaidon about ‘eco-inventions,’ features work by Patron Steven Holl; Kaja Kuhl’s Phytoremediation project (pictured below) was featured in Urban Omnibus; John Palmieri spoke to the Washington Post about his Casino Reinvestment Development Authority’s plans for Atlantic City.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Albany, Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect's Newspaper, Architects in Albany Lobby Day, Atlantic Cities, Atlantic City, Bauwelt, Casion Reinvestment Development Authority, Center for Architecture, CNU, Congress for New Urbanism, Dattner Architecture, David Dixon, Design Trust for Public Space, Frederic Bell, Georgia, Goody Clancy, Grimshaw Architects, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, John Palmieri, Julie Iovine, Kaja Kuhl, Max Bond Center, NBC New York, Nonstop, Phaidon, phytoremediation, Richard Dattner, Rick Bell, Sandy Springs, Steven Holl, Susan Chin, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Via Verde, Vitamin Green, Washington Post, youarethecity
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
On Sunday, “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” opened at Socrates Sculpture Park with work by Mary Miss; this Friday, 5/18, Nina Rappaport’s “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit both closes at NYU and opens at MOCAD in Detroit; Ronnette Riley and Richard Rogers will participate in the “Guess-a-Sketch” competition and benefit at the Center for Architecture on 5/22; also on 5/22, Tom Angotti will be at the AIA San Francisco to discuss his new book, Service Learning in Design and Planning; Linda Pollak speaks about Marpillero Pollak’s new Dutch Kills Green park at a “Public Space Potluck” in Long Island City on 5/23 (pictured above); Craig Dykers will be in Prague on 5/26 to give a keynote at the reSITE Festival; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a day-long symposium entitled “Battery Park City: Coming of Age” on 5/31; that evening, June Williamson will be at Van Alen Books to discuss the design and culture of parking; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work at the Meulensteen Gallery closes on 6/2.
Tags: AIA New York, AIA San Francisco, AIANY, Baruch College, Battery Park City, Battery Park City Coming of Age, Center for Architecture, Civic Action A Vision for Long Island City, Craig Dykers, Detroit, Dutch Kills Green, Forking Time, Guess-a-Sketch, Jack Nyman, June Williamson, Linda Pollak, Long Island City, Marpillero Pollak, mary miss, Meulensteen Gallery, MOCAD, Nina Rappaport, Noguchi Museum, NYU, Prague, Public Space Potluck, reSITE Festival, Richard Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Ronnette Riley, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, Snohetta, Socrates Sculpture Park, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Tom Angotti, Van Alen Books, Vertical Urban Factory
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
During the month of April, Larry Wayne Richards was a Visiting Professor at the National Cheng Kung University Department of Architecture in Tainan (Taiwan), where he also presented a lecture, “Is Everything the Same Now?”; Patron Denise Scott Brown will be at the Center for Architecture on Friday (5/4) for a conversation about the National Mosque of Baghdad competition; the final tours of David van der Leer’s stillspotting nyc exhibit will take place on 5/5 and 5/6 in Jackson Heights, Queens; Board Member Saskia Sassen will be at the Frieze Art Fair on 5/6 for a panel about land occupation; on 5/8, Rick Bell will introduce a moderated discussion about “Practice in the Middle East” at his Center for Architecture; the next day in D.C., Lance Jay Brown will be at the National Building Museum to present on public space in the nation’s capital; Sassen will also be at the Megaprojects symposium hosted by Columbia’s GSAPP and CURE on 5/11, and will then participate in the New Cities Summit in Paris (5/14-16), along with Daniel Libeskind; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work is now on view at the Meulensteen Gallery through 6/2; also on now through 7/29 is an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller at SFMoMA (image from exhibit pictured at right) that includes work by Board Member Thom Mayne.
Tags: AIA New York, Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, CURE, daniel libeskind, David van der Leer, Denise Scott Brown, Frieze Art Fair, GSAPP, Jackson Heights, Lance Jay Brown, land occupation, larry wayne richards, megaprojects, Meulensteen Gallery, Morphosis, national building museum, National Cheng Kung University, National Mosque of Baghdad, New Cities Summit, Paris, Practice in the Middle East, public space, Queens, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, sfmoma, Steven Holl, stillspotting nyc, Tainan, Taiwan, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Eight Fellows and Board Members, including Carmi Bee and Winka Dubbeldam, participated in the Design for the Rising Tide charrette at New York’s Center for Architecture (3/23); tonight in New York, Sudhir Jambhekar will speak on a panel about ‘Building in the Middle East’; Patron Steven Holl will engage in “Discussions in Architecture” tomorrow at Harvard’s GSD; on 4/4, Tom Angotti will be a special guest for Studio-X’s design charrette about gentrification; also on Wednesday, Sara Caples will lecture about “Social Justice-Aesthetic Judgments” at the University of Maryland; Board Member Claire Weisz (pictured at left) will discuss “Urban Planning for Community Building” at the Noguchi Museum (4/8); the week after, she’ll be with Lyn Rice at the Center for Architecture to examine “The Civic Action Planning Model” (4/12); Board Member Toni Griffin invites you to celebrate the launch of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City on 5/1 at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture.
Tags: AIA New York, Building in the Middle East, Caples Jefferson, Carmi Bee, Center for Architecture, City College, Civic Action, Claire Weisz, Design for the Rising Tide, gentrification, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, J. Max Bond Center, Lyn Rice, Noguchi Museum, Rice + Lipka, Sara Caples, Spitzer School of Architecture, Steven Holl, Studio-X NYC, Sudhir Jambhekar, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, University of Maryland, Winka Dubbeldam
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
On 3/6, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam celebrated the German launch of her recent book, Archi-Tectonics, with a party at the Berlin branch of Soho House; last Wednesday, 3/7, Board Member Enrique Norten gave a lecture at the Center for Architecture in New York entitled “This Will Kill That,” asking ‘What has happened to physical space in the age of mass media?’; today, Robert A.M. Stern participated in the commemoration ceremony for the Edward Durell Stone House on New York’s Upper East Side; Board Member Toni Griffin will speak on a panel about architecture, gender and space at the Brooklyn Museum (3/17); on 3/19 at UPenn, Michael Manfredi will present the evolution of the Diana Center at Barnard (pictured at left); a documentary about John Portman, entitled John Portman: A Life of Building, will screen at the Atlanta Film Festival on 3/26; Gregg Pasquarelli will deliver the Graduate Architecture Open House Lecture at the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis (3/30).
Tags: Archi-Tectonics, Atlanta Film Festival, Barnard College, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Center for Architecture, Diana Center, Edward Durell Stone House, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, john portman, Michael Manfredi, Robert AM Stern, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, SHoP Architects, Soho House, St. Louis, This Will Kill That, Toni Griffin, UPenn, Upper East Side, Washington University, Winka Dubbeldam
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
An Architect Drawing, the first of two exhibits of Theo. David’s work to be staged at the Pratt Institute this spring, opens on 2/17; that same day, Lance Jay Brown will moderate, and David Dixon will participate in, the Center for Architecture panel Climate Change: Inevitable Challenges and Potential Opportunities; there are just a few days left to see Toronto’s STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward exhibit (pictured at left), curated by Larry Wayne Richards, before it closes on 2/18; the documentary John Portman: A Life of Building will be shown on 2/22 as part of the Palm Springs Modernism Week festival; Laurie Kerr will moderate the opening panel at the second annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, hosted by NYU’s Schack Institute, on 2/23; and also in New York on the 23rd, Executive Director Anne Guiney will moderate a panel at Megacities and Meta-Cities, a day-long symposium at Studio-X organized by David Grahame Shane. Also, looking forward to two events in April: early-bird registration for the 2012 Banff Session in Alberta, featuring a keynote by Craig Dykers, ends tomorrow; and tickets for AIANY’s 2012 Honors & Awards Luncheon, which will take place at Cipriani Wall Street, have just gone on sale–Rick Bell and David Ziskind are both on the planning committee for this year’s ceremony.
Tags: A Life of Building, AIANY, AIANY Honors & Awards Luncheon, Alberta, An Architect Drawing, Anne Guiney, Banff Session, brooklyn, Canada, Center for Architecture, Cipriani Wall Street, climate change, Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, Craig Dykers, D. Grahame Shane, David Dixon, David Miles Ziskind, documentary, drawing, exhibit, john portman, Lance Jay Brown, larry wayne richards, Laurie Kerr, megacities, Modernism Week, New York City, nyu schack institute of real estate, Palm Springs, Pratt Institute, real estate, Rick Bell, Stitches, Studio-X, sustainability, Theo David, Toronto
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Speaking at the Center for Architecture, Susan Chin (left) encouraged women to recognize skill sets within others, urging “It is important to look beyond oneself. People always ask, ‘what does the AIA do for me’? But it’s not about you; it’s about driving business to architects.” In a Toronto Star article about neighborhood improvement methods, Ken Greenberg cautioned, “It makes no sense to be building extremely high density where you don’t have transit, or a real plan to get transit. Saying that you’re just going to put the density there and transit may or may not appear someday is not good enough.” Coming off of the Rio+20 Conference, Board Member Saskia Sassen wrote an article for Newsroom Panama about the power of cities – as opposed to the nation state – to make environmental change. “Unlike nation states, city mayors from diverse countries are able to have productive discussions about environmental sustainability without being bogged down by national interests…In part, that’s because it is in cities that many of the global environmental challenges become tangible and urgent.”
