Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Speaking at the Center for Architecture, Susan Chin (left) encouraged women to recognize skill sets within others, urging “It is important to look beyond oneself. People always ask, ‘what does the AIA do for me’? But it’s not about you; it’s about driving business to architects.” In a Toronto Star article about neighborhood improvement methods, Ken Greenberg cautioned, “It makes no sense to be building extremely high density where you don’t have transit, or a real plan to get transit. Saying that you’re just going to put the density there and transit may or may not appear someday is not good enough.” Coming off of the Rio+20 Conference, Board Member Saskia Sassen wrote an article for Newsroom Panama about the power of cities – as opposed to the nation state – to make environmental change. “Unlike nation states, city mayors from diverse countries are able to have productive discussions about environmental sustainability without being bogged down by national interests…In part, that’s because it is in cities that many of the global environmental challenges become tangible and urgent.”
Tags: Center for Architecture, Ken Greenberg, Newsroom Panama, Rio+20, Saskia Sassen, Susan Chin, Toronto Star
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Friday, June 1st, 2012
Upon the release of a new study entitled “Auckland, Connected” by the AECOM Global Cities Institute, Joseph Brown speculated, “By 2040, [Auckland] will have made the changes necessary in its pursuit to become the world’s most liveable city, or it will have let the status quo prevail.” NYC Parks’ principal urban designer Charles McKinney spoke to The Riverdale Press at a public meeting held to discuss the future of Van Cortlandt Park (pictured at left), asserting “It’s easier to listen to people first than to convince them later.” Speaking at a Stockholm event concerned with migrants’ rights, Board Member Saskia Sassen described the privatization of detention-deportation procedure as “cancer when it enters the kinds of domains that have to do with the governing of people.”
Tags: AECOM, AECOM Global Cities Institute, Auckland, Auckland Connected, Charles McKinney, Joseph Brown, migrants rights, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, privatization, Saskia Sassen, Stockholm, The Riverdale Press, Van Cortlandt Park
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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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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
During the month of April, Larry Wayne Richards was a Visiting Professor at the National Cheng Kung University Department of Architecture in Tainan (Taiwan), where he also presented a lecture, “Is Everything the Same Now?”; Patron Denise Scott Brown will be at the Center for Architecture on Friday (5/4) for a conversation about the National Mosque of Baghdad competition; the final tours of David van der Leer’s stillspotting nyc exhibit will take place on 5/5 and 5/6 in Jackson Heights, Queens; Board Member Saskia Sassen will be at the Frieze Art Fair on 5/6 for a panel about land occupation; on 5/8, Rick Bell will introduce a moderated discussion about “Practice in the Middle East” at his Center for Architecture; the next day in D.C., Lance Jay Brown will be at the National Building Museum to present on public space in the nation’s capital; Sassen will also be at the Megaprojects symposium hosted by Columbia’s GSAPP and CURE on 5/11, and will then participate in the New Cities Summit in Paris (5/14-16), along with Daniel Libeskind; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work is now on view at the Meulensteen Gallery through 6/2; also on now through 7/29 is an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller at SFMoMA (image from exhibit pictured at right) that includes work by Board Member Thom Mayne.
Tags: AIA New York, Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, CURE, daniel libeskind, David van der Leer, Denise Scott Brown, Frieze Art Fair, GSAPP, Jackson Heights, Lance Jay Brown, land occupation, larry wayne richards, megaprojects, Meulensteen Gallery, Morphosis, national building museum, National Cheng Kung University, National Mosque of Baghdad, New Cities Summit, Paris, Practice in the Middle East, public space, Queens, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, sfmoma, Steven Holl, stillspotting nyc, Tainan, Taiwan, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
In a Crain’s New York article about growth patterns in Brooklyn over the past decade, Tom Angotti did not mince words, stating that “The development has been very uneven and unequal. Instead of the vibrant city that was more diverse, it’s becoming a city of separate enclaves.” Speaking in her official capacity as the chair of the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association’s planning committee, Meta Brunzema cheered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to tear down the Javits Center: “I hate to say it, but [Hudson River Park's] really inadequate around here and everyone knows it. The Javits Center is an obstacle to it really becoming a great park.” And Saskia Sassen, in an Artforum piece on the sociopolitical conditions that led up to OWS (pictured at left), writes that “The Occupy movements are emergent assemblages of fragments of various national (and global) territories. Their reclamation of public space is also a response to the increasingly palpable insufficiency of the logic of the nation-state.”
Tags: Artforum, brooklyn, Crain's New York, Development, diversity, Governor Cuomo, Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association, Hudson River Park, Javits Center, manhattan, Meta Brunzema, New York City, occupation, Occupy Wall Street, public space, Saskia Sassen, segregation, Tom Angotti, waterfront
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The AIA’s New York chapter, led by Rick Bell, has just put out the call for entries for the 2012 AIANY Design Awards (deadline: 2/3/12); Francis Cauffman, led by James Crispino, has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing A/E/C industry firms on ZweigWhite’s annual Hot Firms List; Patron Steven Holl was named as the winner of the prestigious 2012 AIA Gold Medal; SOM’s Chicago Office, where Philip Enquist is the Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning, received AIA Chicago’s Firm of the Year award; Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin included the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago (pictured at left) in his round-up of the best architecture of 2011; Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as a juror for this year’s Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, which will focus on Cape Town, South Africa (deadline: 2/24/12); AmericasMart founder John Portman will receive a special honor, the “Legend for Life” award, in recognition of his five decades of entrepreneurship and service to the home decor industry; Board Member Saskia Sassen made Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for her “passionate advocacy of an urban-based society”; and the undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, led by Frederick Steiner, was ranked second in the nation by DesignIntelligence.
Tags: A/E/C, advocacy, AIA Design Awards, AIA Gold Medal, AIANY, AmericasMart, Architecture, Austin, awards, Blair Kamin, Cape Town, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DesignIntelligence, Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, Enrique Norten, Firm of the Year, Foreign Policy, Francis Cauffman, Frederick Steiner, Helmut Jahn, Hot Firms List, James Crispino, john portman, Legend for Life, Manuseto Library, Philip Enquist, rankings, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, SOM Chicago, Steven Holl, Top 100 Global Thinkers, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, Urban Design, UT School of Architecture, ZweigWhite
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The World Architecture Festival, for which Board President Michael Sorkin chaired the Grand Jury, kicks off tomorrow (11/2) in Barcelona; Steven Handel will deliver the Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on 11/4; that same day, Board Member Thom Mayne will speak at Architectural Record‘s 2011 Innovation Conference; also on 11/4, Board Member Enrique Norten will speak at Yale’s Catastrophe and Consequence symposium; on 11/5, Colin Cathcart will participate in the Center for Architecture symposium Buildings = Energy; on 11/7, Deborah Gans, Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss will all participate in the Architectural League’s Making Room symposium; Craig Dykers will speak at La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, on 11/11; Board Member Saskia Sassen is co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought’s Ecogram IV: China event on 11/11; Stuart Pertz will join a discussion on Planning the Future of Coney Island’s Amusement District, also on 11/11; the Reconsidering Postmodernism conference, to be held in New York from 11/11-12, will feature Robert A.M. Stern, as well as a session focusing on the work of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Board Member Tami Hausman is a co-organizer of the 11/14 CfA panel What’s Your Story?; and on 11/15, Jack Nyman’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will host the Zoning the City conference in New York, featuring Rick Bell, Stern, and Board Members Mayne and Toni Griffin.
Tags: Architectural League, Architectural Record, Architecture, barcelona, Buildings = Energy, Catastrophe and Consequence, Center for Architecture, China, Colin Cathcart, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Coney Island, Craig Dykers, Deborah Gans, Denise Scott Brown, Ecogram IV, Enrique Norten, Events, festival, Grand Jury, innovation, Innovation Conference, Jack S. Nyman, La Ciudad de las Ideas, lecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, marketing, Matthew Blesso, Mexico, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Puebla, Reconsidering Postmodernism, Rick Bell, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Steven N. Handel, stuart pertz, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, University of Virgnia, urban planning, World Architecture Festival, Yale University, zoning, Zoning the City
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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.
Tags: Architecture, Barbara Wilks, Baruch College, Breaking Borders, brooklyn, Columbia University, Combinatory Urbanism, conference, Critical Halloween, Development, Enrique Norten, GSAPP, Injured Cities, Institute for Public Knowledge, Jack Nyman, Living in the Endless City, manhattan, Midtown, New York Botanical Garden, New York City, Notre Dame, NYU, Olympia Kazi, panel discussion, party, Pratt Institute Latin America, preservation, Queens, Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, urban planning, Urbanism, Van Alen Books, waterfront, Willets Point, Winka Dubbeldam
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The Kentucky Society of Architects presented Deborah Berke with one of their 2011 Honor Awards for the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville; “Mega + Micro: Canada, Invention at the Extremes,” by Trevor Boddy, has been shortlisted for the best architectural criticism published worldwide in the past three years for the 2011 CICA Awards; Theo. David’s Gladstonos 22 housing development (pictured at left) has been shortlisted in the housing category of the 2011 World Architecture Festival; Board Member Saskia Sassen was named as the first Visiting Fellow of Indiana University’s Framing the Global project; and John Wong’s SWA Group was announced as the winner of a competition to re-design the downtown lakefront in the rapidly-developing city of Suzhou, China.
Tags: 21c Museum Hotel, Architecture, Canada, China, CICA Awards, criticism, Deborah Berke, design competition, Framing the Global, Gladstonos 22, Housing, Indiana University, John Wong, Kentucky Society of Architects, landscape architecture, Louisville, master plan, Mega + Micro, Saskia Sassen, Suzhou, SWA Group, Theo David, Trevor Boddy, waterfront, World Architecture Festival
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
The AIACC’s Monterey Design Conference, scheduled for 10/7-9, will feature talks by Peter Walker and Board Member Thom Mayne; Matthew Berman will speak at Chicago Ideas Week on 10/10; Craig Dykers‘ firm Snøhetta will host the Architectural League of New York’s First Friday reception on 10/14; and Board Member Saskia Sassen will participate in the Columbia GSAPP-hosted Injured Cities Conference on 10/14-15.
Tags: AIACC, Architectural League, Chicago, Chicago Ideas Week, Columbia University, Craig Dykers, GSAPP, Injured Cities, matthew berman, Monterey Design Conference, Peter Walker, Saskia Sassen, Snohetta, Thom Mayne
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Speaking at the Center for Architecture, Susan Chin (left) encouraged women to recognize skill sets within others, urging “It is important to look beyond oneself. People always ask, ‘what does the AIA do for me’? But it’s not about you; it’s about driving business to architects.” In a Toronto Star article about neighborhood improvement methods, Ken Greenberg cautioned, “It makes no sense to be building extremely high density where you don’t have transit, or a real plan to get transit. Saying that you’re just going to put the density there and transit may or may not appear someday is not good enough.” Coming off of the Rio+20 Conference, Board Member Saskia Sassen wrote an article for Newsroom Panama about the power of cities – as opposed to the nation state – to make environmental change. “Unlike nation states, city mayors from diverse countries are able to have productive discussions about environmental sustainability without being bogged down by national interests…In part, that’s because it is in cities that many of the global environmental challenges become tangible and urgent.”
