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More on Drawing…

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:11:22 +0000

Hopefully, you were able to make it out to the Center for Architecture last week for the panel discussion Architecture and the Dea[r]th of Drawing, which featured Board Chair Michael Sorkin; kudos to Fellow Rick Bell for hosting such an envigorating discussion of the current state of drawing in architecture! Recently, we learned that Fellow Theo. David is this Spring’s visiting professor at the Pratt in Rome architecture program, where the students are required to develop and present their design studio projects through drawing. We’re considering organizing a Breakfast Club to further the discussion, so if you are interested, please get in touch.

Fellows’ Work on View: Dykers, Gans, Holl, Kerr, Pasquarelli, & Rice

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:47:36 +0000

The show Innovate : Integrate, featuring Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP’s design for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn (pictured at left), opened at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan on 10/6; Made In New York, AIANY’s 2010 Subway Exhibition, will open on 10/8 in the West 4th Street station in New York’s Greenwich Village, and will include the work of Lyn Rice; the Pratt Institute School of Architecture will host the symposium Voyage through Le Corbusier, with panelist Deborah Gans, on 10/11; the Municipal Arts Society’s Conference on Preservation and Climate Change in New York City, which includes a panel featuring Laurie Kerr, starts on 10/15; competing proposals by Patron Steven Holl and Fellow Craig Dykers (among others) for the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Dundee outpost are on view now through 11/4 in the show V&A Dundee – Making it Happen.

Theoharis David Featured in Post-It City

admin — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:00:11 +0000

Institute fellow Theoharis David, professor of architecture at Pratt Institute, was featured in the exhibition Post-It City. Occasional Urbanities which ran until May 25th at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). The exhibition focused on the crossover between planning, architecture, and art, particularly in underused or temporary spaces. More