Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (pictured at left) will be presented with the Ed Bacon Memorial Prize at a Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture dinner on 12/7; Kate Orff will speak at TEDWomen in Washington, DC, on 12/8; and the Jack Nyman-led Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host a conference on Greening Modernism on 12/9.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: December 6-12, 2010
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Omar Blaik and Board Member Toni Griffin will both participate in CEOs for Cities’ Urban Leaders Summit 2010 in Detroit on 11/8/10 (and while we’re on the subject, don’t miss this excellent profile of Griffin’s work in Detroit in Architect); Kate Orff will speak about Living Cities at the NY Botanical Garden on 11/8/10; Michael Manfredi will join an Architectural League-organized panel in New York about Muju, Korea’s planned Taekwondo Park on 11/9/10; Barbara Wilks will join another League panel discussing Hudson River Park on 11/13/10; Las Vegas Studio, an exhibition of images from the archives of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (pictured at left), opened at Chicago’s Graham Foundation on 10/28/10 and will run through 2/19/11; and Chris Hardwicke’s Ravine City is featured in the urban-ag exhibition Carrot City at Parsons in New York now through 12/15/10.
(Image provided courtesy of Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, Inc.)
Fellows in the News: Berke, Gans, Ho, Stern, Venturi & Scott Brown
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
The commission for the renovation and expansion of the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia was awarded to Deborah Berke (pictured at left); the Architecture + Design Film Festival (October 14–17) announced Robert A.M. Stern as a member of its advisory board; Deborah Gans took an in-depth look at the use of permaculture in Haiti in DesignObserver; Board Member Cathy Lang Ho reviewed Dominique Perrault’s French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for Architect magazine; Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown will be presented with the Society of American Registered Architects’ International Award in October.
Denise Scott Brown Featured in The New York Review of Books
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Institute Patron Denise Scott Brown was recently featured in The New York Review of Books in an excellent article by Martin Filler entitled “The World’s Foremost Female Architect.” Filler reevaluates Scott Brown’s career in light of the recent publication of her collected writings, Having Words, and an exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles, “Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.”
Denise Scott Brown: New Book, Talk, Discussion
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Following a talk about her new book, Having Words, Institute patron Denise Scott Brown will be joined by architects Sarah Whiting and Hilary Sample for a panel discussion moderated by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA on Thursday, November 12th at 6:30pm at Urban Center Books. The event is free but reservations are required.
