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Fellows in the News: Arad, Chin, Dattner, Dixon, Fowle, Greenberg, Holl, Jahn, Orff, & Venturi

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:13:22 +0000

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.

Quoth the Fellows: Angotti, Brown, & Jambhekar

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Speaking at a meeting about the UNITY 4 plan concerning Forest City Ratner’s development of the Atlantic Yards site in central Brooklyn, Tom Angotti did not mince words, stating that “If they are going to call it transit-oriented development, then there has to be a plan to improve transit.” Down in New Zealand, AECOM CIO Joseph Brown explained his Global Cities Institute’s selection of Auckland as the subject of a planned study on livability, noting that the city’s “scale and impressive assets and ambitions provide a useful case study for many other cities hoping to combine growth with improved livability.” And Sudhir Jambhekar offered an intriguing description of the facade on FXFOWLE’s Museum of the Built Environment in Riyadh (pictured at left), explaining that a series of prisms will “create an amazing textural quality that resembles fish scales.”

Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: April 1-14, 2011

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:43:55 +0000

Board Member Byron Stigge will speak at the Out of Water conference in Toronto, from 4/1-2; Denise Hoffman Brandt will speak at the Next Eco-City symposium in Seattle on 4/7-8; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will speak at the Progressive Architecture Symposium in Mexico City, also on 4/7-8; Deborah Gans will discuss her work on the new stained glass window at Manhattan’s Eldridge Street Synagogue on 4/8; Mark Strauss will participate in a panel on the 3 Rs of the New Economy at the APA National Conference in Boston on 4/10; Richard Sennett (pictured at left) will deliver the 7th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at CCNY on 4/11; the AIA Design Awards Luncheon, which will honor IfUD Patron Steven Holl, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Claire Weisz, and Board Member Thom Mayne, will take place at Cipriani Wall Street on 4/12; and the new exhibit Façade: Through a Glass Darkly, featuring two buildings by Matthias Sauerbruch, will be on view at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK, now through 7/10.

Four Fellows Win AIA Design Awards

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:40:00 +0000

The Institute is well-represented on the list of winners of this year’s AIANY Design Awards: Patron Steven Holl received an Honor Award in Architecture for the Horizontal Skyscraper project in Shenzhen; Board Member Thom Mayne’s Phare Tower design in Paris (pictured at left) was recognized in the Unbuilt Work category; Fellow Bruce Fowle’s FXFOWLE scored two awards, both in New York with partners Diller Scofidio + Renfro (in Architecture for the Hypar Pavilion and in Urban Design for the Lincoln Center Public Spaces); and Claire Weisz for the NYC Information Center in Times Square. All honorees will be recognized at an award luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street on April 12th, 2011.

Fellows’ Recent Awards & Honors: Caples, Chin, Coen, & Fowle

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:51:10 +0000

The extension of the Queens Theatre-in-the-Park (pictured at left), designed by Sara Caples’ firm Caples Jefferson, was recently selected [pdf] as New York Construction’s Cultural Project of the Year; Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture recently honored Fellow Susan Chin with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for her work as the Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Shane Coen’s Warroad Border Station was chosen by the 2010 GSA Design Awards jury for a Citation in Landscape Architecture, Honor Awards for Architecture and Engineering, and another Citation for Interior Design; and Bruce Fowle was presented with a trophy acknowledging FXFOWLE’s 15 years of involvement in the Canstruction NYC contest.

International Architecture Award Winners Announced

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:50:00 +0000

The Institute’s membership is well-represented in the list of recipients for the 2010 International Architecture Awards. Honorees include Patron Steven Holl for the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and the Knut Hamsun Center; Board Member Thom Mayne for the Cooper Union’s 41 Cooper Square building; Fellow Michael Manfredi’s Weiss/Manfredi Architects for the Wandering Ecologies project in Toronto (pictured at left); Fellow Craig Dykers’ firm Snøhetta for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet; and Fellow Bruce Fowle’s firm FXFOWLE for the Nordhaven City Regeneration project and SAP North America complex. The awards are administered annually by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.

FXFOWLE’s Concept Named Best Urban Design Project (Unbuilt)

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:45:45 +0000

World Architecture News selected FXFOWLE’s concept design for Nordhavnen: City Regenerative as the Best Urban Design Project (Unbuilt). The firm’s Institute fellows include Bruce Fowle, Mark Strauss, and Sudhir Jambhekar.