Fellows’ Events & Exhibits: February 16-29, 2012

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

An Architect Drawing, the first of two exhibits of Theo. David’s work to be staged at the Pratt Institute this spring, opens on 2/17; that same day, Lance Jay Brown will moderate, and David Dixon will participate in, the Center for Architecture panel Climate Change: Inevitable Challenges and Potential Opportunities; there are just a few days left to see Toronto’s STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward exhibit (pictured at left), curated by Larry Wayne Richards, before it closes on 2/18; the documentary John Portman: A Life of Building will be shown on 2/22 as part of the Palm Springs Modernism Week festival; Laurie Kerr will moderate the opening panel at the second annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, hosted by NYU’s Schack Institute, on 2/23; and also in New York on  the 23rd, Executive Director Anne Guiney will moderate a panel at Megacities and Meta-Cities, a day-long symposium at Studio-X organized by David Grahame Shane. Also, looking forward to two events in April: early-bird registration for the 2012 Banff Session in Alberta, featuring a keynote by Craig Dykers, ends tomorrow; and tickets for AIANY’s 2012 Honors & Awards Luncheon, which will take place at Cipriani Wall Street, have just gone on sale–Rick Bell and David Ziskind are both on the planning committee for this year’s ceremony.

New York For Sale…Goes On Sale

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Fellow Tom Angotti’s new book New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, will be published by the MIT Press in April 2011. Angotti’s 323-page tome can be pre-ordered now online. Says Harvard’s Susan Fainstein: “[Angotti's] acute observations of the threat to community residents underlying the drive for ‘global competitiveness’ and his analysis of the tactics available to progressive community planners constitute essential reading for everyone concerned with using planning as a means to obtaining a more just and democratic city.”

Fellow Beverly Willis Takes Her Show on the Road

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Fellow Beverly Willis, FAIA, recently screened and spoke about the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s film “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. A number of New York organizations also screened the film, including the 5th Annual NY Women in Real Estate Gala, where Willis gave a keynote address, the New York Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network, the New York AIA chapter Women-in-Architecture, and The School of Visual Arts.

Upcoming: APA Panel on Public-Private Mega-Projects

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

The APA NY Metro Chapter’s Economic Development Committee, in collaboration with the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, will present a panel discussion on Public-Private Mega-Projects Shaping the Region on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM. The event will take place at the NYU-SCPS Midtown Center @ 11 West 42nd Street, Room 421.

Panelists will include Lynn Kelly, President of the Coney Island Development Corp., Paul Januszewski, President of the Queens West Development Corp., Bronson Fox, Vice President of the Moynihan Station Development Corp., and Andrew Manshel, Executive Vice President of the Greater Jamaica Development Corp.

The event is being organized by IfUD Fellow Bissera Antikarov along with her APA NY MCEDC co-chair Tom Jost, and will be moderated by James P. Stuckey, Divisional Dean, Clinical Professor, Klara and Larry Silverstein Chair. 2.0 AICP CM Credits will be offered. RSVP by Friday, June 25, 2010 to Jason Kaye, JKaye@seedco.org