Monday, June 25th, 2012

As Pratt Institute looks back and celebrates its 125th anniversary, the Institute named Theo. David as one of its ‘Most Admired’ alumni; a Sasaki Associates team led by Dennis Pieprz won a 2012 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for its Dead Sea Development Zone Master Plan in Jordan (pictured above); Pieprz also co-led a team that won a Society for College and University Planning award for its master planning of Universidad del Istmo in Guatemala; Board Member Claire Weisz is in the running for an Urban Land Institute Urban Open Space Award for WXY Studio’s renovation of Pier 25 at the Tribeca section of Hudson River Park.
Tags: 2012 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design, Claire Weisz, Dead Sea Development Zone Master Plan, Dennis Pieprz, Guatemala, Hudson River Park, Jordan, Most Admired, Pier 25, Pratt Institute, Sasaki Associates, Society for College and University Planning, Theo David, Tribeca, Universidad del Istmo, Urban Land Institute, Urban Open Space Award, WXY Studio
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Meta Brunzema will discuss her contribution to the new book “Feminist Practices” at Van Alen Books tonight (3/1) and at Bluestockings Bookstore tomorrow (3/2); also this evening, Tom Angotti will give a lecture at Parsons, as part of the new “In the Urban Crisis” series; Theo David will lecture at Pratt tonight, in advance of the opening of his exhibit, “Built Ideas: A Life of Teaching, Learning, and Action,” at the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery in Brooklyn; Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute will hold its next Open House Brunch and Design Speed Dating event on 3/3; on the same day, “Los Límites de la Forma”, a new exhibit of work by Board Member Enrique Norten, will open at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico; on 3/8, Board Member Claire Weisz will be at the National Building Museum in D.C. to participate in a panel entitled “Architecture and the Great Recession” organized by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (lead by Wanda Bubriski); the next day on 3/9, Weisz will be at The Cooper Union in New York to introduce the latest “Emerging Voices” lecture; an exhibit of work by Craig Dykers‘ Snøhetta is currently on display at the Reykjavík Art Museum and will close on 4/3; and back at the National Building Museum, the exhibit “Unbuilt Washington” features work by Board Member Thom Mayne (picture at left) and is on view through 5/28.
Tags: Architecture and the Great Recession, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Bluestockings Bookstore, brooklyn, Built Ideas, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Emerging Voices, Enrique Norten, Feminist Practices, Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery, Iceland, In the Urban Crisis, Los Limites de la Forma, Meta Brunzema, Mexico, Morphosis, Museo Amparo, national building museum, New York, New York City, Olympia Kazi, Open House Brunch and Design Speed Dating, Parsons, Pratt, Puebla, Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum, Snohetta, The Cooper Union, Theo David, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Unbuilt Washington, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute, wanda bubriski, washington dc
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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.
Tags: A Life of Building, AIANY, AIANY Honors & Awards Luncheon, Alberta, An Architect Drawing, Anne Guiney, Banff Session, brooklyn, Canada, Center for Architecture, Cipriani Wall Street, climate change, Conference on Sustainable Real Estate, Craig Dykers, D. Grahame Shane, David Dixon, David Miles Ziskind, documentary, drawing, exhibit, john portman, Lance Jay Brown, larry wayne richards, Laurie Kerr, megacities, Modernism Week, New York City, nyu schack institute of real estate, Palm Springs, Pratt Institute, real estate, Rick Bell, Stitches, Studio-X, sustainability, Theo David, Toronto
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
The New York Times and WNYC both featured write-ups of last week’s Making Room symposium, which featured panelists Matt Blesso, Mark Ginsberg, and Mark Strauss, as well as the presentation of new work by Deborah Gans; Theo. David’s proposal for the redesign of the Old GSP Area in Nicosia (pictured at left) was featured on ArchDaily; John di Domenico’s firm has just opened a new DC office; work on Board Member Winka Dubbeldam’s Ports1961 flagship in Paris is just wrapping up; as the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities approaches, Anthony Flint reflects on the book’s legacy; John Hoal presented a draft plan for the reinvention of University City’s Parkview Gardens neighborhood, while construction on Chouteau Park, also designed by Hoal, got underway in nearby St. Louis; Patricia Lancaster joined NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate as a clinical professor; Charles McKinney spoke with DNAinfo.com about the NYC Parks Department’s selection of lanscape architect David Kamp for the design of a new city park, Sutton Place South; Norman Weinstein called Board President Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map “a triumph of enlightened nay-saying and affirmation” in a review at ArchNewsNow; Michael Stepner published a letter in support of the San Diego Symphony’s plan to revamp their entrance and re-engage the street; KERA interviewed Peter Walker about “what makes a landscape a beautiful, pleasing, and functional space”; and work by Hank White is featured in the new book Shore Décor: Design at the Water’s Edge.
Tags: Anthony Flint, ArchDaily, ArchNewsNow, books, Charles McKinney, Chouteau Park, criticism, Cyprus, David Kamp, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Deborah Gans, Hank White, Housing, interview, Jane Jacobs, John di Domenico, John Hoal, landscape architecture, Making Room, Mark Ginsberg, Mark Strauss, master plan, matt blesso, Michael Sorkin, Michael Stepner, New York Times, Nicosia, Norman Weinstein, nyu schack institute of real estate, Old GSP Area, Paris, Parkview Gardens, Patricia Lancaster, Peter Walker, Ports1961, public space, retail, review, Saint Louis, San Diego, Shore Décor, streetscape, Sutton Place South, Theo David, University City, washington dc, waterfront, Winka Dubbeldam, WNYC
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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, August 19th, 2011
Deborah Berke will serve on one of the resource teams at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design in Charleston in September; Architizer included Matt Berman’s “Studio Retreat” (pictured at left) in its round-up of modern interpretations of the cabin-in-the-woods; a preview of Re-Definitions, the publication featuring work from a design studio led by Theo. David, is available on Blurb.com; Philadelphia’s TASHAN restaurant, designed by Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, is getting ready to open to the public; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews singer and activist Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, & Mary fame; eOculus recapped a panel on NYC’s waterfront that was moderated by Ernie Hutton; Daniel Libeskind opined about his love of flight (and his “lucky charm” wife, Nina) in the NY Times; Michael Manfredi’s firm was one of six finalists chosen to compete to revamp St. Petersburg, FL’s City Pier; SFGate picked John Portman’s Hyatt Regency Hotel as one of the ten most impressive buildings in San Francisco; Park City, UT’s Kimball Art Center hired Don Stastny to manage a new design competition for its expansion; Board Member Clare Weisz presented the master plan for Manhattan’s Sherman Creek; and the Wall Street Journal spoke to John Wong about his “most personal project”–the renovation of his own home in San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood.
Tags: Architizer, books, Charleston, City Pier, CityWide, Claire Weisz, daniel libeskind, Deborah Berke, design competition, Don Stastny, eOculus, Ernest Hutton, flight, Florida, Hyatt Regency Hotel, interiors, john portman, John Wong, Kenneth K. Fisher, Kimball Art Center, manhattan, Matt Berman, Mayors Institute on City Design, Michael Manfredi, modernism, New York City, New York Times, Nina Libeskind, Park City, Peter Yarrow, Philadelphia, publication, Re-Definitions, renovation, residential, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Sea Cliff, Sherman Creek, Studio Retreat, TASHAN, Theo David, wall street journal, waterfront, Weiss Manfredi, Winka Dubbeldam
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
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.
Tags: AIANY, Architecture, Breakfast Club, Center for Architecture, drawing, Michael Sorkin, New York City, Pratt Institute, Rick Bell, Rome, Theo David
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Fellow Theo David’s design for the GSP Athletes Estia was honored as a distinguished project in the 2010 Architecture State Awards in Cyprus, the ceremony for which took place in the presence of the President Christofias.
Tags: awards, Cyprus, GSP Athletes Estia, Theo David
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Theo David will be featured in the film Encounters as part of Cyprus’ participation in the 2010 Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21/10; concept designs and models for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new Exhibition Road building from eight firms, including Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta, are on display at the London museum now through 9/19/10; the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will be on view in Ottawa from 10/6/10 through 1/9/11; and an exhibit on Matthias Sauerbruch’s design for the Brandhorst Museum is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London now through 11/7/10.
Tags: Brandhorst Museum, Craig Dykers, exhibition road, london, Matthias Sauerbruch, moshe safdie, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Royal Academy of Arts, Snohetta, Theo David, venice biennale, victoria and albert museum
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