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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Friday, June 15th, 2012
At a community meeting focused on the redevelopment of Sandy Springs, GA, David Dixon affirmed, “You picked the right time if you want to create a downtown. This is probably [the best] time since the Great Depression.” In Metropolis, Nina Rappaport discussed the inspiration behind her “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit (pictured above), explaining “Industry can now also be ecological–an urban industrial symbiosis where one company’s waste become the others energy source; where one company’s scrap metal is repurposed by another. This symbiosis has not been tried in cities, so opportunities abound.” Moshe Safdie spoke to Vanity Fair about ‘starchitecture’ and opined, “I don’t think I have a signature style that announces, ‘This is a Safdie.’ But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. You know?”
Tags: David Dixon, Georgia, Metropolis, moshe safdie, Nina Rappaport, NYU, Sandy Springs, Vanity Fair, Vertical Urban Factory
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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, April 13th, 2012
Revisiting Death and Life (pictured at left) in last week’s City Builder
Book Club, David Dixon discussed how today’s approach to urban poverty “offer[s] a sort of post-Jane Jacobs “laissez faire” approach to unslumming.” In an Atlantic Cities article, Anthony Flint declared that “my confidence in mankind’s ability to plan for growth was restored” by MCNY’s “The Greatest Grid” exhibit. In conversation with Architectural Record, Deborah Gans spoke of the architectural profession as “still split between form-givers and the social pundits–a false dialectic.” She explained, “After overreaching our limits as modernist social planners, architects now struggled to renegotiate our discipline as one of both form and participation.”
Tags: Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Atlantic Cities, City Builder Book Club, David Dixon, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Deborah Gans, Goody Clancy, Jane Jacobs, MCNY, The Greatest Grid, unslumming
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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.
Tags: 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Beverly Willis, Charter Awards, College of Environmental Design, Congress for New Urbanism, David Dixon, Distinguished Alumni Award, dublin, Goody Clancy, Grand Central, Grand Central Terminal Centennial Committee, Kenneth Fisher, Ohio, Richard Sennett, Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Collaboration, UC Berkeley, William Fain, Women's eNews, Zocalo Book Prize
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
In Sandy Springs, GA, David Dixon’s firm, Goody Clancy, will develop a downtown master plan focused on improving commuting conditions; last week, a team from SOM lead by Phil Enquist presented new details about their Lakeside development project of a former US Steel plant on the South Side of Chicago; Eric Galipo was on the team from H3 whose campus master plan was recently approved by the Board of Trustees at Adelphi University; John Palmieri’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has released a new master plan for Atlantic City designed by Jon Jerde’s Jerde Partnership; Mary Margaret Jones and her firm, Hargreaves Associates, presented their design concepts for Destination Bayfront to a 250-person audience in Corpus Christi, TX; Emerson College broke ground on their new L.A. campus building designed by Board Member Thom Mayne; last Thursday, Gregg Pasquarelli presented SHoP’s vision for Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport to Community Board 1 (pictured at left).
Tags: Adelphi University, Atlantic City, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Chicago, Community Board 1, Corpus Christi, David Dixon, Destination Bayfront, Emerson College, Eric Galipo, Georgia, Goody Clancy, Gregg Pasquarelli, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, Hargreaves Associates, Jerde Partnership, John Palmieri, Jon Jerde, Lakeside, Los Angeles, Lower Manhattan, Mary Margaret Jones, Morphosis, New Jersey, Phil Enquist, Pier 17, Sandy Springs, SHoP, SOM, South Side, South Street Seaport, Texas, Thom Mayne, US Steel
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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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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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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Steve Rosenbaum spoke with Michael Arad about the 9/11 Memorial and his role in the reconstruction of Ground Zero (of which the Daily Mail released some fantastic construction photos); Susan Chin appears in a video from a recent University of Chicago panel on the role of architecture in building cultural vitality; Richard Dattner’s PlayCubes (pictured at left) were revisited by the Playscapes blog; David Dixon is developing a comprehensive 20-year master plan for tornado-ravaged Birmingham, Alabama; Architectural Record looks at how Bruce Fowle turned his firm’s office into a veritable art gallery; Ken Greenberg released a study with recommendations for the future of a busy stretch of Toronto’s Yonge Street; Lebbeus Woods wrote an enthusiastic piece on Patron Steven Holl’s Vanke Center in Shenzhen; Chicago Magazine‘s Whet Moser called Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library a “[serious] reading room for the digital age”; Elle named Kate Orff as one of their Inspirational Women of 2011; and Domus featured archi-horoscopes by Dan Graham, including one on Cancerian IfUD Patron Robert Venturi.
Tags: 9/11 Memorial, adventure playground, Alabama, Architectural Record, Architecture, art, Birmingham, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, China, construction, criticism, culture, Dan Graham, David Dixon, Domus, FXFOWLE, Ground Zero, Helmut Jahn, horoscope, Kate Orff, Ken Greeberg, Lebbeus Woods, library, manhattan, Mansueto Library, master plan, michael arad, New York City, pedestrianization, playcubes, Richard Dattner, Robert Venturi, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, Steven Rosenbaum, Susan Chin, Toronto, University of Chicago, Vanke Center, Whet Moser, women architects, Yonge Street
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
In a post on bird-safe windows, Inhabitat dug up a great quote from Hillary Brown in a 2008 issue of Audubon magazine. Said Brown: “That’s really what good, sustainable, integrated design is–solving multiple problems with a single solution.” Contrasting showpiece City Beautiful-era public spaces like Indianapolis’ Monument Circle (pictured at left) with more dynamic contemporary spaces, David Dixon argued that “Public spaces have a new purpose, to bring a sense of shared community and destiny. The space needs to engage people rather than just offering somewhere to go.” And Moshe Safdie, speaking about his involvement in an ongoing design competition for a new terminal in Incheon, South Korean, said of airport design: “There is something beyond functionality and convenience. [An airport terminal] needs to give a sense that you are entering the great gate of the country.”
Tags: airport, Architecture, Audubon, birds, City Beautiful, community, competition, David Dixon, Design, Hillary Brown, Incheon, Indianapolis, Monument Circle, moshe safdie, public space, South Korea, sustainability
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