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
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
In an article looking at the politics of New York’s MTA subway construction in The Indypendent, Tom Angotti commented, “from a long-term planning perspective, the only rationale is real estate development.” The most recent issue of MAS Context features an essay by Patron Denise Scott Brown, who writes that “America is far more different from Europe than most visiting Europeans realise. This is in part due to the emigrants’ search for a new world, which they defined as the counterform to the unsatisfactory old world.” As the New York Times examined the strange bedfellows of starchitecture and the recession, Board Member Enrique Norten opined, “Developers were not just looking for architecture brand, they were looking for any brand. Of course I love Mick Jagger, but does that make a good apartment?” In a Times op-ed exploring architectural writing, Board Chair Michael Sorkin’s 1985 description of the Whitney Museum (pictured at left) – “to which are affixed the winning ‘eyebrow’ windows, apt symbols of museum going” – is lauded as an exemplary piece of criticism.
Tags: Alexandra Lange, criticism, Denise Scott Brown, Enrique Norten, Las Vegas, MAS Context, Michael Sorkin, Mick Jagger, MTA, New York, New York Times, recession, starchitecture, The Indypendent, Tom Angotti, Village Voice, Whitney Museum
Posted in Institute News | Comments Off
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC‘s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Tags: 7-line extension, 8 Washington, 9/11 Memorial, Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Architecture, Artforum, Atlantic City, Beth Greenberg, Boston, Callie Crosby Show, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, CityWide, construction, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Diana Lind, Dresden, Filene's Basement site, Fulton Street Transit Center, Gothamist, Gregory J. Haley, Hugh Pearman, John Palmieri, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, Manahttan, Manhattan Media, mass transit, michael arad, Military History Museum, minimalism, MTA, New England, New York City, next american city, NYC mayoral race, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Philadelphia, Postmodernism, public engagement, recession, redevelopment, reflecting absence, residential, Revitalize Atlantic City, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, San Francisco, Storefront for Urban Innovation, subway, Tom Allon, Tourism District Master Plan, Urban Design, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute, victoria and albert museum, wall street journal, waterfront
Posted in Institute News | Comments Off
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Today (12/15), Ken Greenberg will be in Edmonton (pictured at left) to speak about urban design at the Downtown X-posed symposium; Lance Jay Brown will introduce, and Rick Bell & Board President Michael Sorkin will speak at, the Center for Architecture’s Freedom of Assembly panel on 12/17; Michael Arad will go gastronomical to serve as a juror for Edible Brooklyn’s 3rd Annual Latke Festival on 12/19; and the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Steven Holl and Denise Scott Brown is on view at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture through 2/18/12.
Tags: Architecture, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, brooklyn, Center for Architecture, China, Denise Scott Brown, Downtown X-posed, Edible Brooklyn, Edmonton, Freedom of Assembly, Hong Kong, Ken Greenberg, Lance Jay Brown, Latke Festival, michael arad, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, symposium, Urbanism
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
MAXXI’s exhibit RE-CYCLE, which features work by Elisabetta Terragni and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, opens today (12/1); Frederick Steiner will speak at the University of Texas at Austin’s fall convocation ceremonies on 12/3; Rick Bell will deliver the closing remarks at AIANY’s 2012 Board Inaugural at the Center for Architecture on 12/6; and the show STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward, co-curated by Larry Wayne Richards, will be on view in Toronto through 2/18/12.
Tags: AIANY, Austin, Center for Architecture, convocation, Denise Scott Brown, Elisabetta Terragni, exhibit, Frederick Steiner, larry wayne richards, MAXXI, Re-Cycle, Rick Bell, Robert Venturi, Rome, Stitches, Toronto, University of Texas at Austin
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The World Architecture Festival, for which Board President Michael Sorkin chaired the Grand Jury, kicks off tomorrow (11/2) in Barcelona; Steven Handel will deliver the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on 11/4; that same day, Board Member Thom Mayne will speak at Architectural Record‘s 2011 Innovation Conference; also on 11/4, Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at Yale’s Catastrophe and Consequence symposium; on 11/5, Colin Cathcart will participate in the Center for Architecture symposium Buildings = Energy; on 11/7, Deborah Gans, Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss will all participate in the Architectural League’s Making Room symposium; Craig Dykers will speak at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, on 11/11; Board Member Saskia Sassen is co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought’s Ecogram IV: China event on 11/11; Stuart Pertz will join a discussion on Planning the Future of Coney Island’s Amusement District, also on 11/11; the Reconsidering Postmodernism conference, to be held in New York from 11/11-12, will feature Robert A.M. Stern, as well as a session focusing on the work of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Board Member Tami Hausman is a co-organizer of the 11/14 CfA panel What’s Your Story?; and on 11/15, Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the Zoning the City conference in New York, featuring Rick Bell, Stern, and Board Members Mayne and Toni Griffin.
Tags: Architectural League, Architectural Record, Architecture, barcelona, Buildings = Energy, Catastrophe and Consequence, Center for Architecture, China, Colin Cathcart, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Coney Island, Craig Dykers, Deborah Gans, Denise Scott Brown, Ecogram IV, Enrique Norten, Events, festival, Grand Jury, innovation, Innovation Conference, Jack S. Nyman, La Ciudad de las Ideas, lecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, marketing, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Puebla, Reconsidering Postmodernism, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Steven N. Handel, stuart pertz, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, University of Virgnia, urban planning, World Architecture Festival, Yale University, zoning, Zoning the City
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Patron Denise Scott Brown will participate in a discussion with Basurama at the BMW Guggenheim Lab on 9/3, and Board Member Saskia Sassen will be represent the Institute abroad: she’ll give an introductory speech at the AUDI Urban Future Summit in Frankfurt on 9/12 before heading over to Amsterdam to speak at the PICNIC design festival on 9/15. And don’t forget: Urban Design Week will kick off with a party at the BWM Guggenheim Lab on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on 9/15!
Tags: Amsterdam, Basurama, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Denise Scott Brown, Frankfurt, manhattan, New York, PICNIC Design Festival, Saskia Sassen. Audi Urban Future Summit, Urban Design Week
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Looking ahead and preparing your summer reading list? Ken Greenberg’s new book Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder was just released last week, and you can visit the Random House website to purchase a copy; Board Member Thom Mayne has just self-published the book Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; meanwhile, the latest issue of Texas Monthly features an excerpt from the introduction to Fred Steiner’s Design for a Vulnerable Planet, which was published last month. If that’s not enough to keep you busy, check out Designers and Books, a website that features the reading lists of many great architects, planners, and urbanists—including Patrons Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Holl, Fellow Daniel Libeskind, and Board President Michael Sorkin.
Tags: books, Combinatory Urbanism, daniel libeskind, Denise Scott Brown, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Designers and Books, Fred Steiner, Ken Greenberg, Michael Sorkin, Random House, Robert Venturi, Steven Holl, Texas Monthly, Thom Mayne, urban planning, Urbanism, Walking Home
Posted in Publications | Comments Off
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Jack Nyman will moderate the panel Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development at Baruch College on 1/19; Olympia Kazi will moderate the panel Plywood, Concrete, Paint 2! at New York’s Center for Architecture on 1/20; Jim Venturi, son of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, will screen his new documentary Bob and Denise at the Las Vegas Market on 1/25; Gregg Pasquarelli will present SHoP’s recent work (pictured at left) at an Architectural League lecture on 1/26; Peter Walker will present conceptual landscape plans for the Point Wells development in Snohomish, WA, on 1/27; and Craig Dykers and Claire Weisz will take part in the discussion Reimagining Times Square Through Design on 1/27.
Tags: Architectural League, Baruch College, Bob and Denise, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Denise Scott Brown, film screening, Gregg Pasquarelli, Jack Nyman, Jim Venturi, landscape architecture, Las Vegas, New York City, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Robert Venturi, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, Snohomish, Sustainable Design, times square, WXY Architecture
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Line of Fire, an exhibit of menorahs designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened recently at the Jewish Museum in New York, where it will remain on view through 1/30/11; the Architectural League of New York announced the jury for their competition It’s Different, which will include Michael Manfredi and Board Member Thom Mayne; speaking of Mr. Mayne, Thom is in the midst of a cross-continental lecture tour in Australia, speaking this evening (12/15/10) in Melbourne and tomorrow (12/16/10) in Perth; and finally, a reminder that Las Vegas Studio, an exhibit of photos from the archives of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is on view in Chicago through 2/19/11. If you’re considering going, don’t miss Sam Jacobs’ review of the show over at Strange Harvest.
Tags: Architectural League, Chicago, competition, daniel libeskind, Denise Scott Brown, jewish museum, Learning from Las Vegas, lecture, Melbourne, Michael Manfredi, New York City, Perth, Robert Venturi, Strange Harvest, Thom Mayne
Posted in Events, Exhibitions | Comments Off
