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.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: April 15-30
Friday, April 15th, 2011Fellows In The News: Caples, Cathcart, Dykers, Flint, Griffith, Jambhekar, Safdie, Stigge, & Weisz
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center, designed by Sara Caples and her partner Everardo Jefferson, was recently featured on the FastCo Design blog; the Architect’s Newspaper recently looked at several innovative proposals for the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, including a green canopy by Colin Cathcart; Snøhetta, the Oslo-based firm led by Craig Dykers, was announced [pdf] last week as the winner of a design competition for the new Museum of Environmental Sciences in Guadalajara; Anthony Flint explored the world of PILOT programs in a piece at Crosscut; the Columbia Daily Spectator’s blog The Eye recently took a long hard look at the University’s plans for a new campus in Manhattanville, and Board member Maxine Griffith had plenty to say on the matter; ConstructionWeek recently spoke with Sudhir Jambhekar about his design for the KAFD Mosque in Riyadh (pictured at left); Moshe Safdie was selected to design a rather astoundingly-shaped apartment complex in Quinhuangdao, China; in case you missed the announcement in the Times this past weekend, Board Member Byron Stigge recently married Catherine Gaul at a ceremony in Manhattan; and Claire Weisz spoke to the FastCo Design team about her firm’s re-design of the Times Square Visitor Center in Manhattan.
Board of Directors Expands
Thursday, May 15th, 2008A new and expanded Institute board of directors was appointed, comprising media artist Maria Antelman, urban planner Maxine Griffith, attorney Craig Kaplan, writer Cathy Lang Ho, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and the architects Thom Mayne, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, and Michael Sorkin (chair). Institute founding director Ann Ferebee took an emerita role.
