Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: January 17-30

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Jack Nyman will moderate the panel Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development at Baruch College on 1/19; Olympia Kazi will moderate the panel Plywood, Concrete, Paint 2! at New York’s Center for Architecture on 1/20; Jim Venturi, son of Patrons Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, will screen his new documentary Bob and Denise at the Las Vegas Market on 1/25; Gregg Pasquarelli will present SHoP’s recent work (pictured at left) at an Architectural League lecture on 1/26; Peter Walker will present conceptual landscape plans for the Point Wells development in Snohomish, WA, on 1/27; and Craig Dykers and Claire Weisz will take part in the discussion Reimagining Times Square Through Design on 1/27.

Fellows in the News: Angotti, Brown, Holl, Mayne, Portman, Safdie, Sassen, Weisz

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Tom Angotti recently took a peek behind the curtain at NYC’s powerful Economic Development Corp. in the Gotham Gazette; Hillary Brown explored the future of post-industrial public infrastructure projects in a recent Design Observer piece; green megablog Inhabitat interviewed Patron Steven Holl about sustainable architecture; Board Member Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square (pictured at left) was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification; John Portman’s firm was announced by the Georgia DOT as one of five finalists competing to develop a new transit hub in downtown Atlanta; Tablet Magazine profiled Moshe Safdie, dubbing the architect a Master Builder; Board Member Saskia Sassen responded to the Foreign Policy’s 2010 Global Cities Index with some hard-hitting questions; and Claire Weisz’s firm WXY Architecture was profiled [pdf] in the Architect’s Newspaper.

Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning by Daniel Williams

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

sustainable_designInstitute fellow Daniel Williams hosted a book signing for Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning at the Institute spring 2007 fellows’ symposium Affordable Housing: Development & Design.