Friday, January 27th, 2012
In a Crain’s New York article about growth patterns in Brooklyn over the past decade, Tom Angotti did not mince words, stating that “The development has been very uneven and unequal. Instead of the vibrant city that was more diverse, it’s becoming a city of separate enclaves.” Speaking in her official capacity as the chair of the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association’s planning committee, Meta Brunzema cheered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to tear down the Javits Center: “I hate to say it, but [Hudson River Park's] really inadequate around here and everyone knows it. The Javits Center is an obstacle to it really becoming a great park.” And Saskia Sassen, in an Artforum piece on the sociopolitical conditions that led up to OWS (pictured at left), writes that “The Occupy movements are emergent assemblages of fragments of various national (and global) territories. Their reclamation of public space is also a response to the increasingly palpable insufficiency of the logic of the nation-state.”
Tags: Artforum, brooklyn, Crain's New York, Development, diversity, Governor Cuomo, Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association, Hudson River Park, Javits Center, manhattan, Meta Brunzema, New York City, occupation, Occupy Wall Street, public space, Saskia Sassen, segregation, Tom Angotti, waterfront
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15; Barbara Wilks will give a talk at the New York Botanical Garden’s Midtown Education Center on 10/24; Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at the Pratt Institute on 10/24 in conjunction with the new exhibit Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture; Richard Sennett will join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s discussion of the new publication Living in the Endless City in New York on 10/25; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the symposium The Waterfront: A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change on 10/26; Deborah Berke will talk about Development, Design and Financing Strategies for Urban Revitalization Using Hospitality and the Arts at the ULI Fall Conference on 10/26; Board Member Toni Griffin will visit Notre Dame University on 10/26 to deliver the lecture Can Planning Save the City: Facing the Challenges of Urban America; Olympia Kazi will host Board Member Thom Mayne at Van Alen Books on 10/28 for a presentation on his new book, Combinatory Urbanism; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam is on the Host Committee for the Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party on 10/29; and Tom Angotti will participate in the panel Where is New York? Apparitions at Willets Point at the Columbia GSAPP on 10/31.
Tags: Architecture, Barbara Wilks, Baruch College, Breaking Borders, brooklyn, Columbia University, Combinatory Urbanism, conference, Critical Halloween, Development, Enrique Norten, GSAPP, Injured Cities, Institute for Public Knowledge, Jack Nyman, Living in the Endless City, manhattan, Midtown, New York Botanical Garden, New York City, Notre Dame, NYU, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, party, Pratt Institute Latin America, preservation, Queens, Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Urbanism, Van Alen Books, waterfront, Willets Point, Winka Dubbeldam
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Thomas Balsley will design the landscapes for the new Gotham West development in Hell’s Kitchen; Houzz visited a stunning Nantucket cottage designed by Matthew Berman; The Lee, a green supportive housing center designed by Colin Cathcart, opened on Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Elle Decor chatted with Board Member Winka Dubbeldam about her 12 “must-haves”; Ron Harwick’s JHP participated in the Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA charrette in Atlanta, re-imagining the area around a subway station in the southern metropolis as a Transit Oriented Development; Green Source featured a case study of Patron Steven Holl’s Vanke Center (aka the Horizontal Skyscraper) in Shenzhen; William Kelley introduced his agenda as the new Director of the Village Alliance BID in New York with an article in The Villager; Board Member Enrique Norten (whose Guggenheim Guadalajara—pictured at left—was recently called one of the best museums never built) unveiled designs for not one, but two sleek new buildings in DC’s West End; Donald Stastny was selected to lead a design competition re-imagining Waller Creek area in Austin; and Michael Stepner cheered the development of a long-term regional plan for San Diego in the Union-Tribune.
Tags: Architecture, Atlanta, Austin, California, Candler Park, charrette, Colin Cathcart, competition, Development, Donald Stastny, Edgewood, Elle Decor, Enrique Norten, Gotham West, green buildings, Greenwich Village, Guadalajara, Guggenheim, Hell's Kitchen, Hells, horizontal skyscraper, Housing, landscape architecture, lower east side, manhattan, MARTA, matthew berman, Mexico, Michael Stepner, museum, must-haves, Nantucket, New York City, regional plan, Ron Harwick, San Diego, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, TEN Arquitectos, Texas, Thomas Balsley, Transit Oriented Development, Vanke Center, Village Alliance, Waller Creek, washington dc, West End, William Kelley, Winka Dubbeldam
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Olympia Kazi will participate in a panel discussion at the 2011 D-Crit Conference on 5/4; Ethel Sheffer will participate in the panel Riverside Center: Did the Public Process Work? at the Center for Architecture on 5/9; then, on 5/12, you can return to the Center to see Deborah Gans moderate the panel Housing Innovation New York; Winka Dubbeldam will join a panel on design at WANTED: Design in New York on 5/14; and Art & Architecture, an exhibit of the work of architect-developer John Portman (a la Detroit’s Renaissance Center, pictured at left), is on view at Beijing’s Capital Museum from now through June 12th.
Tags: art, Beijing, Capital Museum, Center for Architecture, d-crit, Deborah Gans, Detroit, Development, Ethel Sheffer, Housing, New York City, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, public process, Riverside Center, Winka Dubbeldam
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The New York Times went shopping for coffee tables with Deborah Berke; AECOM Chief Innovation Officer Joseph Brown commented on his firm’s new partnership with IBM’s Smarter Planet Initiative; the Shanghai flagship of retailer Ports 1961, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, has just opened; Toronto’s Ryerson University revealed renderings of an eye-catching new building by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta (pictured at left); William Fain served on the jury of this year’s AIA Pennsylvania Design Excellence Awards, which were presented this past week; Patron Steven Holl’s athletic center for Columbia in Inwood was recently approved by the city; Apartment Therapy Boston featured Deborah Grossberg Katz’s “A Cabin in a Loft” project; the Lynn University Performing Arts Center, designed by Herbert Newman, is featured in the March 2011 issue of American School & University Magazine [PDF]; Linda Pollak reviewed NYC’s new High Performance Landscape Guidelines in Topos 74 [PDF]; construction has begun on John Portman’s newest hotel in Shenzhen; Richard Sennett was announced as one of the jurors for the Watermill Center’s International Residency Program; and John Wong’s SWA Group will be designing a new park around an historic schoolhouse in Milpitas, CA.
Tags: AECOM, AIA Pennsylvania, Archi-Tectonics, artists, awards, Boston, Cabin in a Loft, California, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, Deborah Berke, deborah grossberg katz, Design Excellence, Development, furniture, Herbert Newman, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, IBM, innovation, interior design, Inwood, john portman, John Wong, Joseph Brown, jury, Katz Chiao, landscape architecture, Linda Pollak, Lynn University, manhattan, Milpitas, New York City, New York Times, Newman Architects, Ports 1961, retail, Richard Sennett, Ryerson University, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Smarter Planet Initiative, Snohetta, Steven Holl, SWA Group, Toronto, university, Watermill Center, William Fain, Winka Dubbeldam
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
IfUD board chair Michael Sorkin will join designer Alex Garvin and Architectural League of New York executive director Rosalie Genevro today, June 17, at 7:00 PM for the first of a series of conversations based on The City We Imagined, The City We Made exhibit. The discussion will take place in the Rose Auditorium at the Cooper Union. Tickets will cost $10 per person, and can be purchased here until 3:00 PM this afternoon.
Tags: alex garvin, Architectural League, Cooper Union, Development, Michael Sorkin, rosalie genevro
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Mark your calendar: the Institute’s next Breakfast Club will take place on Thursday, June 24, at the Architectural League of New York’s The City We Imagined, The City We Made exhibition at 250 Hudson Street. We’ll be meeting there in the exhibition gallery at 8:30 AM to discuss the show with its creators. We’re very excited to be working with the League on this event, and we hope that you’ll join us for what promises to be a lively and enlightening look at the past decade of development in New York.
Tags: Architectural League, Breakfast Club, Development, exhibition, New York City
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
This was the last event organized for the Institute by our founding director Ann Ferebee and was chaired by Professor David Chapin of the Environmental Psychology Program at CUNY. The symposium panelists were: David Dixon, Goody Clancy ; Christine Madigan, Enterprise Homes, Inc., Baltimore, MD; Rose Gray, Asociation de Puertorriquenos en Marcha, Inc., Philadelphia; Brian Phillips, Interface Studio Architects, Philadelphia; Paul Freitag, Jonathan Rose Companies, NY; Richard Dattner, Dattner Architects; Frederic Schwartz, Frederic Schwartz Architects; and Mark Strauss, FXFOWLE Architects.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Ann Ferebee, Brian Phillips, Christine Madigan, CUNY, David Chapin, David Dixon, Design, Development, Frederic Schwartz, Mark Strauss, New York City, Paul Freitag, Richard Dattner, Rose Gray
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