Monday, May 7th, 2012
Weighing in on the Loci Architecture blog about the contentious debate regarding NYU’s expansion in Greenwich Village, David Briggs questions if new buildings could strike a balance with the existing community; in the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper, Jeff Byles profiles Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Susan Chin wrote an op-ed for the New York Observer about the Design Trust for Public Space’s collaboration on the “Taxi of Tomorrow”; also in Design Trust news, the organization’s “Made in Midtown” project is featured in the newly released book, Designing for Social Change; an HOK team led by Ken Drucker is a finalist to design the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at SUNY-Buffalo; work done for Marc Jacobs by Mark Gardner and Stephan Jaklitsch’s firm is profiled in Interior Design (pictured above); Laurie Kerr discussed cutting building energy use for an article by the Urban Land Institute; Lebbeus Woods published an extensive transcript of his conversation with Board Member Thom Mayne; Mercedes House, a new residential building by Board Member Enrique Norten, was profiled in The Real Deal; Grahame Shane wrote an article in Bauwelt magazine about restoring the urban dream through affordable housing; Don Stastny oversaw a competition to redesign Austin’s downtown Waller Creek, with Robert Rogers’ firm coming in as a finalist.
Tags: Austin, Bauwelt magazine, David Briggs, Design Trust for Public Space, Designing for Social Change, Don Stastny, Enrique Norten, Erie Canal, Grahame Shane, Greenwich Village, HOK, Hudson Valley, interior design, Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects, Jeff Byles, Ken Drucker, Laurie Kerr, Lebbeus Woods, Loci Architecture, Made in Midtown, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs, Mark Gardner, Mercedes House, Meta Brunzema, Morphosis, New York Observer, NYU 2031, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Stephan Jaklitsch, SUNY Buffalo, Susan Chin, Taxi of Tomorrow, TEN Arquitectos, Texas, The Architect's Newspaper, The Real Deal, Thom Mayne, University at Buffalo, Urban Land Institute, Waller Creek
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
The State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations shortlisted Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta and Board Member Thom Mayne’s Morphosis to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City; RPA Fellow Alex Marshall reviewed Institute Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles’ recent book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present; Anthony Flint reported on the annual TED conference and Prize winner, ‘The City 2.0′; Board Chair Michael Sorkin’s New York City Steady State plan (pictured at left) was profiled on the green design blog, inhabitat; and for the blog of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, June Williamson wrote about ‘Retrofitting for Fecundity’ and her speculative retrofit of a big-box center in L.A.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Alex Marshall, Ann Ferebee, Anthony Flint, big box store, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, Craig Dykers, Inhabitat, Jeff Byles, June Williamson, Mexico, Mexico City, Michael Sorkin, Morphosis, New Embassy Compound, New York City Steady State, Regional Plan Association, retrofitting, Snohetta, TED, TED Prize, terreform, The City 2.0, Thom Mayne, US Department of State
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Archtober kicks off today with the opening of three new exhibitions at the Center for Architecture in New York, including Buildings = Energy, for which Colin Cathcart, Bruce Fowle, and Laurie Kerr all served on the Advisory Committee. The IfUD is hosting a book talk on the High Line with Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles next Friday (10/7) from 12:00-1:00 PM, and we hope to see you there! Many Fellows will be participating in other events during the month-long festival: Kerr and Richard Dattner will both speak at the symposium When Green is not an Option but the Law! on 10/3; Deborah Gans will speak on, and Lance Jay Brown will moderate, the panel VisioNYC 2080: Towards a Risk-Resilient City on 10/6; and Cathcart will give a presentation on “Furry Buildings” at the conference High-Performance Landscapes: People, Places, Plants on 10/21. For more, check out the full schedule of events. Congratulations to Rick Bell and everyone at AIANY for putting together such an impressive month!
Tags: A History of Modern Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, AIANY, Ann Ferebee, Architecture, Archtober, book talk, Bruce Fowle, Buildings = Energy, Center for Architecture, Colin Cathcart, Deborah Gans, energy, Exhibitions, furry buildings, green buildings, High Line, High Performance Landscape Guidelines, Jeff Byles, Lance Jay Brown, Laurie Kerr, New York City, Richard Dattner, Rick Bell, risk, VisioNYC 2080
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
On 8/24, IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles will speak about their book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan branch; another previous IfUD Director, Olympia Kazi, recently launched the Van Alen Institute’s Parks for the People student design competition, with a deadline of 11/1; and Glimpses 2040, an exhibit featuring work (pictured at left) by Barbara Wilks, and recently reviewed in the Times and The L Magazine, will remain on view at the Center for Architecture through 9/10.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Ann Ferebee, Barbara Wilks, Center for Architecture, design competition, Events, Glimpses 2040, Jeff Byles, landscape architecture, manhattan, Midtown, National Parks, New York Public Library, New York Times, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, The L Magazine, Van Alen Institute
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles will speak about their new book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, at the Skyscraper Museum on 8/2; AIANY is organizing a tour of Michael Manfredi’s Diana Center at Barnard (pictured at left) on 8/4; and Board Member Saskia Sassen will speak on the notions of comfort and “cityness” at the BMW Guggenheim Lab in New York on 8/12.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, AIANY, Ann Ferebee, Barnard College, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Design, Diana Center, Jeff Byles, Michael Manfredi, New York City, Saskia Sassen, Skyscraper Museum, Weiss/Manfredi
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Fellow Jeff Byles spoke recently at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y about their new revised version of Ferebee’s book, A History of Design From the Victorian Era to the Present, which can be purchased now at WW Norton’s website. They’ll be speaking again, downtown this time, at the Skyscraper Museum on August 2nd. This one’s not to be missed!
Tags: 92nd Street Y, Ann Ferebee, book talk, books, Jeff Byles, manhattan, New York City, Skyscraper Museum
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Both Linda Pollak and Andy Bernheimer will serve as judges for the Architectural League’s Sketch 120: Greenpoint Edition tomorrow afternoon (4/16); Craig Dykers and Board Member Maxine Griffith (pictured at left) will both speak at Colubmbia University’s GSAPP Alumni Weekend (4/16-17); Denise Hoffman Brandt will give a lecture on her City Sink project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 4/18; Anthony Flint will speak at TEDxTampaBay on 4/19; Bernheimer will speak on 4/20 at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture; Jeff Byles will participate in a panel discussion at the Ineffably Urban symposium in Buffalo on 4/30; and the newly-launched Studio-X Rio de Janeiro has opened with an exhibit featuring work by Galia Solomonoff.
Tags: Andrew Bernheimer, Anthony Flint, Architectural League, brooklyn, Buffalo, City Sink, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, Denise Hoffman Brandt, exhibit, Galia Solomonoff, Greenpoint, GSAPP, Jeff Byles, jury, Knowlton School of Architecture, lecture, Linda Pollak, Maxine Griffith, Ohio State University, Rio De Janeiro, Sketch 120, Studio-X, symposium, Tampa Bay, TED, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Peter Walker will be in Corona Del Mar, CA, on 2/1 to give a public lecture on the landscape elements of plans for the Newport Beach Civic Project; Sheena Wright will be a special guest lecturer at the Town of Hempstead, NYs African American History Month celebration on 2/8; Fellow Jeff Byles will discuss “unbuilding” with IfUD Board President Michael Sorkin in the Woolworth Building (pictured at left) on 2/9 as part of the LMCC’s Access Restricted series; Richard Sennett will give a talk about his new book at Schauspiel Frankfurt on 2/9; and John Hartmann’s “Light Hearted” will be unveiled in Times Square on 2/10.
Tags: African American History Month, California, Corona Del Mar, Frankfurt, Hempstead, Jeff Byles, John Hartmann, landscape architecture, lecture, Light Hearted, LMCC, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Newport Beach, Peter Walker, Richard Sennett, Sheena Wright, times square, unbuilding, Woolworth Building
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Friends and fellows gather to toast the Institute.
Fellows, friends, and supporters of the Institute for Urban Design gathered at the New York studio of mOrphosis Architects to celebrate the new board of directors and chart an expansive next phase of critical urban engagement. Generously hosted by board member Thom Mayne, the event marked one year of transition, building upon the legacy of the Institute’s past while looking toward the future. More
Tags: Ada Tola, Alayne Kaethler, Anthony Vidler, Astrid Lipka, Barry Bergdoll, Billie Cohen, Bissera Antikarov, Brian Kenet, Carlo Enzo Frugiuele, Cassim Shepard, Cesare Birignani, Charles McKinney, Christa Blatchford, Christopher Steinon, Craig Kaplan, Denise McLee, Donna Walcavage, Galia Solomonoff, Giuseppe Lignano, Gwendolyn Wright, Jeff Byles, June Williamson, Kick-off Party, Koray Tokdemir, Linda Pollak, Lyn Rice, Maria Elosua, Matthew Blesso, Miquela Craytor, mOrphosis Architects, New York City, Nicole Kotsis, Olympia Kazi, Patrick Head, Renee Kaufman, Richard Sennett, Sara Caples, Sara Stracey, Saskia Sassen, Steven Holl, Susan Chin, Theo David, Thor Snilsberg, Ung-Joo Scott Lee, Vaidila Kungys, Whasoon Lisa Lee, William Ryall, Winka Dubbeldam
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