The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at St. Louis’ Washington University announced its spring lecture series, with Craig Dykers set to speak tonight (2/1), and visits from Gregg Pasquarelli and Richard Sennett scheduled for later this semester; Rob Rogers will speak about Rogers Marvel’s recent work (including President’s Park South, pictured at left) at the National Building Museum in Washington on 2/2; Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin have organized a panel, Defining Cultural Landscapes, at CCNY on 2/3 (with opening remarks by Olympia Kazi); the Center for Architecture will host the panel Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux on 2/4, with Thomas Balsley, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Susan Chin all participating (Brown will be back at the Center, with David Dixon, for a discussion about Climate Change on 2/17); Bruce Fowle will speak at the Center’s Active Design 201 on 2/7; Board Member Claire Weisz will speak in New York, also on 2/7, at the Studio-X panel Trash Tubes of the Future; Board Member Enrique Norten will give a talk at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach on 2/9; that same day, in New York, Ernie Hutton will moderate a discussion on the Miami21 zoning initiative; and a new exhibit at the National Academy, featuring work by Robert A.M. Stern, has just opened and will remain on view in New York through 4/29.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibits: February 1-15, 2012
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012Fellows in the News: Arad, Berke, Fisher, Flint, Greenberg, Haley, Kazi, Libeskind, Palmieri, Scott Brown, Stern, Venturi, & Walker
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC’s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Fellows’ Awards & Competitions: Brown, Dykers, Griffin, Handel, Harwick, Hoffman Brandt, Holl, Jahn, Kazi, Libeskind, Manfredi, Rogers, Sorkin, Stastny, Wakeman, & Walker
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Lance Jay Brown will serve as a juror for the AIANY State 2012 Honors Awards, to be presented this coming April; the teams proceeding to the third and final round of the National Mall Design Competition, managed by Donald Stastny, were announced, with Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Rob Rogers, and Peter Walker all still in the mix; Dykers was also just announced as the chair of the jury for the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition; Ron Harwick’s Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans (pictured at left) had a banner year, taking home multiple honors–click here to download a full list of awards and more information on the project; Patron Steven Holl’s Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, won the sole award in the Play category in Architect magazine’s 2011 Annual Design Review; critic Lee Bey cited the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library on his list of the best Chicago architecture of the past year (echoing Blair Kamin’s list from earlier in the month); the Parks for the People competition, organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute and with Steven Handel sitting on the jury, just announced the selection of nine teams to move on to the second round–one of which is led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin; Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter project in Las Vegas won Gold and Sustainable Design Awards in the ICSC’s annual US Design & Development Awards; Urban Omnibus announced an essay competition to complement the Architectural League’s exhibit The Unfinished Grid, with our own Board President Michael Sorkin on the jury (deadline: 2/1/12); and Rosemary Wakeman has received a EURIAS Senior Fellowship to spend the next year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement.
The Official IfUD Holiday Gift Guide
Friday, December 16th, 2011
If you’re looking for some ideas for what to give to design-minded friends, family, or colleagues, we’d recommend browsing through the list of our Fellows’ publications over the past year: Tom Angotti’s New York For Sale came out in paperback; Andy Bernheimer and Board Member Claire Weisz both had projects included in Michael Crosbie’s New York Dozen; Jim Dart and Deborah Gans‘ work in New Orleans was featured in Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity; Founder Ann Ferebee released a new edition of A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, updated to include recent years; critic Justin Davidson included Alexander Gorlin’s Tomorrow’s Houses on his round-up of the most Notable Design Books of 2011; Ken Greenberg’s Walking Home was published to great acclaim; Jamie Hand, Olympia Kazi, and Kate Orff co-edited Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which features work by Barbara Wilks; Horizontal Skyscraper, Patron Steven Holl’s latest publication, is just hitting bookstore shelves now; Board Member Thom Mayne rolled out a new manifesto called Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form; Board President Michael Sorkin’s most recent collection of essays, All Over the Map, has been building buzz; and Frederick Steiner released Design for a Vulnerable Planet this past spring.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibits: October 15-31, 2011
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP’s Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15; Barbara Wilks will give a talk at the New York Botanical Garden’s Midtown Education Center on 10/24; Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at the Pratt Institute on 10/24 in conjunction with the new exhibit Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture; Richard Sennett will join the Institute for Public Knowledge’s discussion of the new publication Living in the Endless City in New York on 10/25; Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the symposium The Waterfront: A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change on 10/26; Deborah Berke will talk about Development, Design and Financing Strategies for Urban Revitalization Using Hospitality and the Arts at the ULI Fall Conference on 10/26; Board Member Toni Griffin will visit Notre Dame University on 10/26 to deliver the lecture Can Planning Save the City: Facing the Challenges of Urban America; Olympia Kazi will host Board Member Thom Mayne at Van Alen Books on 10/28 for a presentation on his new book, Combinatory Urbanism; Board Member Winka Dubbeldam is on the Host Committee for the Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party on 10/29; and Tom Angotti will participate in the panel Where is New York? Apparitions at Willets Point at the Columbia GSAPP on 10/31.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibits: August 15-31, 2011
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.
Fellows’ Awards & Honors: Hartmann & Rogers
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Quoth the Fellows: Kazi, Sassen, & Safdie
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
In a chat with the Wall Street Journal about the Van Alen Institute’s new bookstore on 22nd Street, Olympia Kazi said of architects: “They’re books junkies, no matter how many Nooks and iPads. They still love their print, the hard copy.” In an article in the latest Americas Quarterly, Board Member Saskia Sassen detailed the ways that networked cities and citizens are changing the way business is done, stating in no uncertain terms that “There is no such entity as the global economy.” Moshe Safdie, meanwhile, reflected on the international atmosphere at the construction site for his Marina Bay Sands project in Singapore (pictured at left) at a press conference, noting that “One tower was built by Chinese workers, and another tower was built by a Bangladeshi team. It looked like the Tower of Babel.”
Fellows’ Events & Exhibits: June 1-15, 2011
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Gretchen Bank will join the Architects’ Fast-Track Leadership Series wrap-up panel on 6/6; the exhibit Glimpses of New York & Amsterdam in 2040, featuring work by Barbara Wilks’ W Landscape Architecture, opens at New York’s Center for Architecture on 6/8; Board Chair Michael Sorkin will speak at the New York New Belfast summit at Fordham University on 6/8-9; two Fellows will lead discussions at the CfA on 6/10—Lance Jay Brown will guide the discussion Rising Water & the City: A New Design Challenge? from 12-3 PM, with Olympia Kazi moderating a panel on the 2011 Archiprix International from 4-8 PM; Wilks & Hillary Brown will both speak at the CfA’s symposium on the Glimpses show on 6/11; and Deborah Berke will speak at Ghost Lab 13 on 6/13.
Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: May 1-15
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Olympia Kazi will participate in a panel discussion at the 2011 D-Crit Conference on 5/4; Ethel Sheffer will participate in the panel Riverside Center: Did the Public Process Work? at the Center for Architecture on 5/9; then, on 5/12, you can return to the Center to see Deborah Gans moderate the panel Housing Innovation New York; Winka Dubbeldam will join a panel on design at WANTED: Design in New York on 5/14; and Art & Architecture, an exhibit of the work of architect-developer John Portman (a la Detroit’s Renaissance Center, pictured at left), is on view at Beijing’s Capital Museum from now through June 12th.
