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Anne Guiney Appointed Executive Director
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Institute for Urban Design announced today that it has appointed Anne Guiney as new Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Design. Guiney, a veteran architecture and design editor and journalist, succeeds Olympia Kazi, who has held the post since 2007 and is departing to become the Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute.
Most recently, Guiney was the editor of the New York edition of The Architect’s Newspaper, and was part of the original team that launched the newspaper in 2003. Prior, she was an editor at Architecture magazine and Metropolis, and has written widely on architecture and design for other publications, including Architect, MARK, ID, and Details. She has also worked as a consultant organizing high-profile architecture competitions (working with Jones | Kroloff), including the commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Portland Aerial Tramway. (more…)
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
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Olympia Kazi Appointed Executive Director
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Olympia Kazi was appointed executive director of the Institute for Urban Design on vote of the Institute board of directors Suzanne Clarke, Ann Ferebee, Cathy Lang Ho, Michael Sorkin. Kazi is an architecture critic and curator and was educated as an architect at the University of Florence, Italy. She served as junior curator at the Triennale di Milano in 2003-04 and was an artistic producer for the Gala of Gymnastics in the Athens 2004 Olympics. Since 2005, Olympia has lived and worked in New York, and in 2006, she co-curated the traveling exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines” with a team of Princeton University scholars. From 2006 to 2007, she was Fellow of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a member of the Exhibition Committee of the Architectural League of New York and a frequent contributor to the Architect’s Newspaper.
