Tom Angotti recently took a peek behind the curtain at NYC’s powerful Economic Development Corp. in the Gotham Gazette; Hillary Brown explored the future of post-industrial public infrastructure projects in a recent Design Observer piece; green megablog Inhabitat interviewed Patron Steven Holl about sustainable architecture; Board Member Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square (pictured at left) was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification; John Portman’s firm was announced by the Georgia DOT as one of five finalists competing to develop a new transit hub in downtown Atlanta; Tablet Magazine profiled Moshe Safdie, dubbing the architect a Master Builder; Board Member Saskia Sassen responded to the Foreign Policy’s 2010 Global Cities Index with some hard-hitting questions; and Claire Weisz’s firm WXY Architecture was profiled [pdf] in the Architect’s Newspaper.
Fellows in the News: Angotti, Brown, Holl, Mayne, Portman, Safdie, Sassen, Weisz
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Global Cities With Saskia Sassen
Friday, November 6th, 2009“The Global Power City Index: Toward an Urban Geopolitics?”, organized by the Committee on Global Thought and Institute board member Saskia Sassen at Columbia University, will be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3pm in the Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall.
Speakers include:
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Member,
Committee on Global Thought
Hiroo Ishikawa, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Meiji University
Takayuki Kubo, Institute of Urban Studies, The Mori Memorial Foundation
Heizoo Takenaka, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Japan
