Monday, July 9th, 2012
Wendy Feuer spoke to DNAinfo.com New York about NYC DOT’s public art projects (one pictured above); Board Member Tami Hausman wrote about the future of the AEC industry in Design Intelligence; a Hargreaves Associates team led by Mary Margaret Jones unveiled the final draft of its riverfront plan for Richmond, VA; Interior Design interviewed Daniel Libeskind about his foray into door design; Nina Rappaport spoke to Nate Berg of Atlantic Cities about her Vertical Urban Factory exhibit on now at MOCAD in Detroit.
Tags: Atlantic Cities, daniel libeskind, Design Intelligence, Detroit, DNAinfo.com, Hargreaves Associates, interior design, Mary Magaret Jones, MOCAD, Nate Berg, New York, Nina Rappaport, NYC DOT, Richmond, tami hausman, Vertical Urban Factory, Wendy Feuer
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
At a community meeting focused on the redevelopment of Sandy Springs, GA, David Dixon affirmed, “You picked the right time if you want to create a downtown. This is probably [the best] time since the Great Depression.” In Metropolis, Nina Rappaport discussed the inspiration behind her “Vertical Urban Factory” exhibit (pictured above), explaining “Industry can now also be ecological–an urban industrial symbiosis where one company’s waste become the others energy source; where one company’s scrap metal is repurposed by another. This symbiosis has not been tried in cities, so opportunities abound.” Moshe Safdie spoke to Vanity Fair about ‘starchitecture’ and opined, “I don’t think I have a signature style that announces, ‘This is a Safdie.’ But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. You know?”
Tags: David Dixon, Georgia, Metropolis, moshe safdie, Nina Rappaport, NYU, Sandy Springs, Vanity Fair, Vertical Urban Factory
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
At the AIA National Convention, Susan Chin was elected to the national AIA Vice Presidency, Patron Steven Holl won the AIA Gold Medal, and the firms of Board Member Thom Mayne and Robert Rogers won Honor Awards; the New York chapter of ASLA announced their Design Awards, with Thomas Balsley’s firm taking home four awards, and the firms of Michael Manfredi, Barbara Wilks, and Henry White each receiving one; the Graham Foundation announced their 2012 Grants to Individuals, with Nina Rappaport and June Williamson both receiving awards to support their respective publications about photographer Ezra Stoller and designing suburban futures; Phil Enquist will be honored with Openlands’ 2012 Conservation Leadership Award at a luncheon in October; Matthew Berman’s workshop/apd won a Building Brooklyn award for their BLDG 92 at the Navy Yard (pictured at left); the Society for Marketing Professional Services awarded Board Member Claire Weisz’s studio with an Industry Award for their Battery SeaGlass Carousel.
Tags: AIA, AIA National Convention, ASLA NY, ASLA NY Design Awards, Barbara Wilks, Battery SeaGlass Carousel, BLDG at the Navy Yard, City College of New York, Claire Weisz, Ezra Stoller, Henry White, HM White, June Williamson, matthew berman, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, Nina Rappaport, Openlands, Phil Enquist, Robert Rogers, Society for Marketing Professional Services, SOM, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, Susan Chin, the Graham Foundation, Thom Mayne, Thomas Balsley, Thomas Balsley Associates, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Weiss/Manfredi, WXY
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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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Monday, May 14th, 2012
In a speech to the Burlington Performing Arts Center in Burlington, Ontario, Ken Greenberg said, “The car is a wonderful piece of technology, but like many great elements of technology we tend to abuse them, we test them to failure.” In a New York Times article about the preservation of ‘unloved buildings,’ Nina Rappaport argues, “It’s like saying, ‘I don’t like Pollock because he splattered paint.’ Does that mean we shouldn’t put it in a museum? No, it means we teach people about these things” (image from the article pictured above). Board Member Saskia Sassen commented in the Financial Times about the erosion of the “civic” quality of communities favored by the super-rich buying their fourth or even fifth house. Sassen cautions “It can feel less like a neighbourhood and more like a corporate district in the low density of street life.”
Tags: Burlington, Burlington Performing Arts Center, Financial Times, historic preservation, Ken Greenberg, New York Times, Nina Rappaport, Ontario, Saskia Sassen, unloved buildings
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Please join us in welcoming five new additions to our urbanist community: Mark Fiedler, co-founder of New York’s Fiedler Marciano Architecture; Kaja Kühl, founder of youarethecity, a research, design, and planning practice in Brooklyn; Yale-based architecture critic Nina Rappaport (image from her book Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation pictured at right); Glenn Smith, a principal at Smith + Murray Studios in Washington, DC; and Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor at Architectural Record.
Tags: Architectural Record, architecture critic, brooklyn, Deputy Editor, Fiedler Marciano Architecture, Glenn Smith, Kaja Kuhl, Mark Fiedler, Nina Rappaport, Smith + Murray Studios, Suzanne Stephens, washington dc, Yale, youarethecity
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about the humble art of pencil sketching lately. After sharing a fascinating Huffington Post article on the subject (which included a quip from Fellow Ken Drucker) on the Institute’s Twitter page, a lively debate took place amongst our followers that pitted pencils against pixels. And tomorrow, Board Chair Michael Sorkin will join a panel, Architecture and the Dea[r]th of Drawing, at the Center for Architecture on February 22, at which he will discuss the place of drawing in contemporary architectural practice with Peter Macalpa, Lebbeus Woods, Nina Rappaport, and artist Steven Talasnik.
Tags: Center for Architecture, drawing, Huffington Post, Kenneth Drucker, Lebbeus Woods, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Nina Rappaport, panel, pencil, Peter Macalpa, pixels, sketch, Steven Talasnik, Twitter
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