Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
In an Abitare article, Justin Allen wrote about David van der Leer’s Stillspotting exhibit (pictured at left); Rick Bell talked to Metropolis about the building boom in the Middle East; Blouin ArtInfo profiled Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Sara Caples served on the jury that determined the AIA 2012 Housing Awards; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta endowed a scholarship for undergraduates at the UT Austin School of Architecture; for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show, Ken Fisher interviewed former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer; Daniel Libeskind discussed ‘healing’ architecture in Metropolis; John Palmieri contemplated the future of Atlantic City in the Washington Post; Urban Omnibus recapped their Public Space Potluck with Linda Pollak at Dutch Kills Green.
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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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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
The past few weeks have seen four new Fellows join our ranks: Naseem Alizadeh, founder of the Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism; Casey Jones (pictured at left), who serves as Director of Design Excellence at both the U.S. General Services Administration and the US Department of State’s Overseas Buildings Operations; Dennis Pieprz, a principal at Sasaki Associates who leads their international studio; and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Guggenheim, and co-curator of our own “Spontaneous Interventions” pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Tags: BMW Guggenheim Lab, Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism, Casey Jones, David van der Leer, Dennis Pieprz, Director of Design Excellence, Guggenheim, Naseem Alizadeh, Sasaki Associates, Spontaneous Interventions, US General Services Administration, venice biennale
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