Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
stillspotting nyc, organized by David van der Leer and the Guggenheim, was offered last Saturday and Sunday in Staten Island; the “Civic Action” installation at Socrates Sculpture Park, including work by Mary Miss (pictured above), closed on Sunday; Kaja Kuhl hosts the last of this season’s workshops at her Phytoremediation Lab in the South Bronx on 8/11; an exhibit organized by Phil Enquist is on now through 8/31 at the Chicago River Museum, showcasing proposals for waterfront improvements along the river’s south branch.
Tags: Chicago, Chicago River Museum, David ven der Leer, Guggenheim, Kaja Kuhl, mary miss, New York, Phil Enquist, Socraates Sculpture Park, Staten Island, stillspotting nyc
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
Tags: AIA, ASLA, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Dattner Architects, Helmut Jahn, Innovative Architecture and Design Awards, Knoxville, mary miss, New York, Peter Walker, Princton University, Richard Dattner, Sweden, Ted Shelton
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
Tonight in Los Angeles, Board Member Thom Mayne will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss Culture Now, a new research organization designed to connect academic work to real-world practice; in New York, Mary Miss urges everyone to attend a Hunter College panel discussion with art critics about her Broadway: 1000 Steps project (pictured at left); in Bern, Matthias Sauerbruch will give a lecture at the Architektur Forum; on Wednesday, OHNY hosts their 10th Annual Benefit at Claremont Stables, with Stephan Jaklitsch serving as event co-chair; Susan Chin will discuss women in leadership at the Center for Architecture on 6/8; Meta Brunzema will serve as featured guide as the AIA NY “Around Manhattan” architectural boat tour series continues on 6/10; the Fine Arts Federation of New York, for which Olympia Kazi serves on the Board, holds their Annual Meeting at Van Alen on 6/12 with Carol Coletta as a featured speaker; on 6/13, the AIA NY will hold their 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is slated as 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect.
Tags: AIA, AIA NY, Architektur Forum, Around Manhattan, Bern, Broadway 1000 Steps, Carol Coletta, Claremont Stables, Culture Now, Design Trust for Public Space, Fine Arts Federation of New York, Hammer Museum, Hunter College, Jaklitsch Gardner, Lance Jay Brown, Lost Angeles, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Meta Brunzema, Morphosis, New York City, OHNY, Olympia Kazi, Sauerbruch Hutton, Stephan Jaklitsch, Susan Chin, Switzerland, Thom Mayne, Van Alen Institute
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
On Sunday, “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” opened at Socrates Sculpture Park with work by Mary Miss; this Friday, 5/18, Nina Rappaport’s “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit both closes at NYU and opens at MOCAD in Detroit; Ronnette Riley and Richard Rogers will participate in the “Guess-a-Sketch” competition and benefit at the Center for Architecture on 5/22; also on 5/22, Tom Angotti will be at the AIA San Francisco to discuss his new book, Service Learning in Design and Planning; Linda Pollak speaks about Marpillero Pollak’s new Dutch Kills Green park at a “Public Space Potluck” in Long Island City on 5/23 (pictured above); Craig Dykers will be in Prague on 5/26 to give a keynote at the reSITE Festival; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a day-long symposium entitled “Battery Park City: Coming of Age” on 5/31; that evening, June Williamson will be at Van Alen Books to discuss the design and culture of parking; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work at the Meulensteen Gallery closes on 6/2.
Tags: AIA New York, AIA San Francisco, AIANY, Baruch College, Battery Park City, Battery Park City Coming of Age, Center for Architecture, Civic Action A Vision for Long Island City, Craig Dykers, Detroit, Dutch Kills Green, Forking Time, Guess-a-Sketch, Jack Nyman, June Williamson, Linda Pollak, Long Island City, Marpillero Pollak, mary miss, Meulensteen Gallery, MOCAD, Nina Rappaport, Noguchi Museum, NYU, Prague, Public Space Potluck, reSITE Festival, Richard Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Ronnette Riley, Service-Learning in Design and Planning, Snohetta, Socrates Sculpture Park, Steven Holl, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Tom Angotti, Van Alen Books, Vertical Urban Factory
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
The latest issue of Architect magazine includes a feature on Sara Caples’ modernization of the Queens Theatre in Flushing, NY (pictured at left); New York’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” was unveiled two weeks ago, a project on which Susan Chin’s Design Trust for Public Space collaborated extensively over the past seven years; Ken Fisher interviewed New York State Assemblyman Keith Wright of Harlem for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show; as Fenway Park turns 100, Anthony Flint writes about historic preservation in The Atlantic Cities; in an op-ed in the Toronto Star, Ken Greenberg contemplates the future of the city’s waterfront; work by Mary Miss is included in the new book, The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency; the Observer profiles Board Member Claire Weisz‘s renovation of the Drawing Center; Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects have been chosen as finalists to design a new medical school at SUNY Buffalo.
Tags: Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect Magazine, Assemblyman Keith Wright, Caples Jefferson, CityWide, Claire Weisz, Design Trust for Public Space, Drawing Center, Fenway Park, Grimshaw Architects, Ken Fisher, Ken Greenberg, mary miss, Queens Theatre, Sara Caples, SUNY Buffalo, Susan Chin, Taxi of Tomorrow, The Atlantic CITIES, The New Earthwork, The New York Observer, Toronto, Toronto Star
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
On Wednesday, Richard Sennett will speak at the Sam Fox School in St. Louis; the next day, on 4/19, Trevor Boddy will be at the Museum of Vancouver to discuss recent development projects in the city, while Elisabetta Terragni will be at Van Alen Books to talk about her contribution to Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City, and Planet; on 4/22, the “Civic Action” exhibit (pictured at left) featuring work by Mary Miss closes at the Noguchi Museum; on 4/27, Rosemary Wakeman hosts a lunch at Lincoln Center to discuss the state of the East River; the same day, the RPA will hold their Regional Assembly, a project for which Jeff Ferzoco has been hard at work; on 4/28, Craig Dykers gives the keynote address at the Banff Session 2012; an exhibit of the 23 best buildings in Germany at the DAM Frankfurt includes work by Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm and closes on 4/29; finally, please mark your calendars for the evening of 5/1, as Board Member Toni Griffin launches the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College.
Tags: and Planet, Banff Session, city, City College of New York, Civic Action, Craig Dykers, DAM Frankfurt, East River, Elisabetta Terragni, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Jeff Ferzoco, Lincoln Center, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Museum of Vancouver, Noguchi Museum, Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, Regional Assembly, Richard Sennett, Rosemary Wakeman, RPA, Sam Fox School, Sauerbruch Hutton, Snohetta, Spitzer School of Architecture, St. Louis, Toni Griffin, Trevor Boddy, Van Alen Books
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
The AIA New York Design Awards 2012 were announced last week, and we’re pleased to report that five of our fellows are among the winners: Michael Arad and Peter Walker received the Architecture Honor Award for the National September 11 Memorial; Andrew Bernheimer was awarded an Un-Built Work Merit prize; Mary Miss won an Urban Design Honor Award for work in Santa Fe; and Bill Ryall’s firm received an Interior Merit Award for a Greenwich Village townhouse redesign. In other awards news, the firms of Patron Steven Holl and Craig Dykers both won ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Awards 2011 for their respective Museum of Ocean and Surf, and Tverrfjellhytta projects (pictured at left); and David Grahame Shane’s recent book, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, was shortlisted for a Publishers Award by the UK-based Urban Design Group.
Tags: AIA New York Design Awards 2012, AIA NY, Andrew Bernheimer, ArchDaily, Bill Ryall, Building of the Year Awards 2011, Craig Dykers, David Graham Shane, Greenwich Village, mary miss, michael arad, Museum of Ocean and Surt, National September 11 Memorial, New Mexico, Peter Walker, Santa Fe, Snohetta, Steven Holl, Tverrfjellhytta, Urban Design Group, Urban Design Since 1945
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of five new Fellows to the Institute: David Briggs, a Principal at Loci Architecture and a co-founder of Gowanus by Design; Jeff Ferzoco, Creative and Technical Director at the Regional Plan Association; artist Mary Miss (pictured at left) of Mary Miss Studio; Armando Ramos, Director of FR-EE; and Bill Schacht of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute at Baruch College.
Tags: Armando Ramos, Baruch College, David Briggs, FR-EE, Gowanus by Design, Jeff Ferzoco, Loci Architecture, mary miss, Mary Miss Studio, Regional Plan Association, RPA, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, William Schacht
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
It was wonderful to see so many Fellows this past Tuesday night at Double Crown restaurant for the 2010 Fall Fellows’ Dinner, The Social Life of (Very) Small Urban Spaces! Thanks again to all of our presenters, including NYC DOT plaza program director Andy Wiley-Schwartz, architect and Fellow Claire Weisz, artist Mary Miss, and Snøhetta Times Square team members Maura Rockcastle and Claire Fellman. It was a wonderful evening, and a truly provocative discussion. Make sure to check out our photo album on Facebook if you were unable to attend, and stay tuned for information on our next Breakfast Club — we hope to see you there.
Tags: Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Claire Fellman, Claire Weisz, Department of Transportation, Double Crown, Facebook, Fellows Dinner, mary miss, Maura Rockcastle, New York City, plaza program, Snohetta, WXY Architects
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Our next Breakfast Club will take place a week from today at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) in New York from 8:30-10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 6th. Some of the most interesting new public spaces in New York are being carved out of city streets by the Department of Transportation to calm traffic. They raise a number of really interesting urban design questions, and we’ll be discussing those and the idea of shared spaces in an urban environment. DOT Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability Andy Wiley-Schwartz and New York-based artist Mary Miss will join Fellows Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture and William Kelley of the Union Square Partnership to help kick off the conversation. Breakfast Clubs are limited to Fellows and their guests. Please email to RSVP.
Tags: Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Breakfast Club, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, Department of Transportation, mary miss, New York City, public space, traffic calming, Union Square Partnership, William Kelley, WXY Architecture
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