Deadlines are fast approaching for two competitions involving Fellows: there are still two and a half weeks to enter the Waller Creek design competition in Austin, managed by Donald Stastny (Deadline: 12/16/11), and Michael Arad will head up the jury for a competition to design an AIDS Memorial Park in Manhattan (Deadline: 1/21/12). Gregory J. Haley and Andrew Whalley are on one of the six teams selected as finalists in the competition to revamp Los Angeles’ Union Station, while Thomas Balsley’s Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa (pictured at left) was named one of the best new urban parks in America by The Atlantic CITIES. Meanwhile, Moshe Safdie is in a competition of a different sort: his iconic Habitat 67 is currently in the lead in a public online poll to see which building will be the next reproduced in Lego’s architecture series. There’s still time to cast votes for your favorites…
Fellows’ Awards & Competitions: Arad, Balsley, Haley, Safdie, Stastny, & Whalley
Friday, December 9th, 2011Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: July 1-14, 2011
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will deliver the keynote address at Lift France 11 in Marseille on 7/7; Board Member Tami Hausman will participate in the Center for Architecture panel discussion The Pitch: A Hands-On Workshop on Attracting a Client in Two Minutes or Less on 7/11; Board Member Thom Mayne will participate in the Van Alen Institute’s Los Angeles panel [PDF] for their Life at the Speed of Rail program on 7/12; and you can see BOB, a public art installation (pictured at left) designed by a team led by Galia Solomonoff, at Columbia University in Manhattan through 7/25.
Two Fellows Honored in Academia
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Board Member Thom Mayne was elected to SCI-Arc’s Board of Trustees last week; up in Canada, Larry Wayne Richards (pictured at left), who recently served as a juror for the biannual 20 + Change architectural design competition, was awarded Professor Emeritus status at the University of Toronto. Congratulations to both!
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: March 1-15, 2011
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
On 3/2, Patron Steven Holl will deliver the First Annual Raimund Abraham Memorial Lecture in Los Angeles; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam will celebrate the completion of her new book Archi-Tectonics (pictured at left) with a launch party in NYC on 3/4; that same day, Anthony Flint will speak at Connecticut College’s Smart Growth Conference; also on 3/4, Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in Housing Conference 2011 in Istanbul; the exhibit Nordic Models + Common Ground, curated by Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta at New York’s Scandanavia House, will close on 3/9; Michael Manfredi will deliver the lecture Surface/Subsurface at URI Kingston on 3/10; Dykers will speak at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts on 3/14; Jack Nyman will host the conference Banking on the Future: A New Paradigm for Rebuilding Our Nation’s Infrastructure in New York on 3/14; and a new exhibit of work by Daniel Libeskind, Architecture as a Language, has just opened at the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture in Poland, and will be on view through 5/16.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: January 1-15
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Cynthia Barton and Lance Jay Brown will participate on a panel in New York on 1/8 as part of the AIANY’s Haiti-Habitat competition; Joe Brown will speak at the 2011 VantageForum in Los Angeles on 1/11; Tom Angotti will speak at a special City Council meeting to discuss the potential impacts of allowing Wal-Mart to open stores in New York on 1/12; Claire Weisz will take part in a discussion about the 1999 Van Alen Institute competition TKTS2K on 1/12; and Manhattan’s PS/IS 276 (pictured at left), designed by Richard Dattner’s Dattner Architects, is featured in the AIANY’s Design for Decades exhibit, on view at the Center for Architecture now through 1/22.
Los Angeles Film Festival
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Institute board member Thom Mayne was one of the Artists in Residence for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, where he hosted a discussion and screening with cinematographer Frederick Elmes about architecture and cinema.
2nd Breakfast Club, New York
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Institute fellows gathered at the New York Center for Architecture for the April fellows’ Breakfast Club, chaired by Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times.
