Friday, June 29th, 2012
Ken Greenberg spoke at a conference in Hamilton, Ontario about changing transportation habits, stating “Autopia has started to collapse. The new North American dream is about being able to walk to work.” Board Member Toni Griffin (pictured above) discussed the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center for Design on the Just City with Architectural Record, and articulated her goal for the Center as “My long-term vision is to create an academy that raises design awareness among youth of color. As we devise interventions that move toward the “just city”–if we define the just city as being inclusive and equally accessible–then architects must reflect that approach.” In a USA Today article about the Millennial generation of workers, Patricia Lancaster commented, “Cities around the world are competing to become creative digital lifestyle centers…(Young workers) are into culture, parks, working closer to home, having dogs in the office.”
Tags: Architectural Record, Autopia, Hamilton, J. Max Bond Center for Design on the Just City, Ken Greenberg, Millennials, Ontario, Patricia Lancaster, Toni Griffin, USA Today
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Rick Bell appeared on NBC New York’s Nonstop to discuss the Center for Architecture’s exhibits about Middle Eastern architecture; Bell also traveled to Albany with Susan Chin for Architects in Albany Lobby Day at the state capital; Bauwelt magazine featured an article about Richard Dattner and Andrew Whalley’s Via Verde affordable housing project; David Dixon presented more details about Goody Clancy’s master plan for the redevelopment of downtown Sandy Spring, GA to 200 local residents and stakeholders; in an article on the Atlantic Cities, Anthony Flint questioned the longevity of the new urbanism movement; Julie Iovine wrote about Board Member Toni Griffin’s new J. Max Bond Center in Architect’s Newspaper; Vitamin Green, a new book out from Phaidon about ‘eco-inventions,’ features work by Patron Steven Holl; Kaja Kuhl’s Phytoremediation project (pictured below) was featured in Urban Omnibus; John Palmieri spoke to the Washington Post about his Casino Reinvestment Development Authority’s plans for Atlantic City.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Albany, Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect's Newspaper, Architects in Albany Lobby Day, Atlantic Cities, Atlantic City, Bauwelt, Casion Reinvestment Development Authority, Center for Architecture, CNU, Congress for New Urbanism, Dattner Architecture, David Dixon, Design Trust for Public Space, Frederic Bell, Georgia, Goody Clancy, Grimshaw Architects, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, John Palmieri, Julie Iovine, Kaja Kuhl, Max Bond Center, NBC New York, Nonstop, Phaidon, phytoremediation, Richard Dattner, Rick Bell, Sandy Springs, Steven Holl, Susan Chin, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Via Verde, Vitamin Green, Washington Post, youarethecity
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Please join us tomorrow, May 1, 2012, 6-8pm at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York to celebrate the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City.
There will be a brief program at 6:30pm including remarks from Chancellor of CCNY Matthew Goldstein, President of CCNY Lisa S. Coico, and Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture George Ranalli. Meet the Director of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Professor and Institute Board Member Toni L. Griffin and find out about the Center’s mission and programs.
This event is free and open to the public.
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street New York NY 10031
Tags: Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, City College of New York, George Ranalli, J. Max Bond Center, Lisa S. Coico, Matthew Goldstein, Spitzer School of Architecture, Toni Griffin
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
On Wednesday, Richard Sennett will speak at the Sam Fox School in St. Louis; the next day, on 4/19, Trevor Boddy will be at the Museum of Vancouver to discuss recent development projects in the city, while Elisabetta Terragni will be at Van Alen Books to talk about her contribution to Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City, and Planet; on 4/22, the “Civic Action” exhibit (pictured at left) featuring work by Mary Miss closes at the Noguchi Museum; on 4/27, Rosemary Wakeman hosts a lunch at Lincoln Center to discuss the state of the East River; the same day, the RPA will hold their Regional Assembly, a project for which Jeff Ferzoco has been hard at work; on 4/28, Craig Dykers gives the keynote address at the Banff Session 2012; an exhibit of the 23 best buildings in Germany at the DAM Frankfurt includes work by Matthias Sauerbruch’s firm and closes on 4/29; finally, please mark your calendars for the evening of 5/1, as Board Member Toni Griffin launches the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College.
Tags: and Planet, Banff Session, city, City College of New York, Civic Action, Craig Dykers, DAM Frankfurt, East River, Elisabetta Terragni, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Jeff Ferzoco, Lincoln Center, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Museum of Vancouver, Noguchi Museum, Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, Regional Assembly, Richard Sennett, Rosemary Wakeman, RPA, Sam Fox School, Sauerbruch Hutton, Snohetta, Spitzer School of Architecture, St. Louis, Toni Griffin, Trevor Boddy, Van Alen Books
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Eight Fellows and Board Members, including Carmi Bee and Winka Dubbeldam, participated in the Design for the Rising Tide charrette at New York’s Center for Architecture (3/23); tonight in New York, Sudhir Jambhekar will speak on a panel about ‘Building in the Middle East’; Patron Steven Holl will engage in “Discussions in Architecture” tomorrow at Harvard’s GSD; on 4/4, Tom Angotti will be a special guest for Studio-X’s design charrette about gentrification; also on Wednesday, Sara Caples will lecture about “Social Justice-Aesthetic Judgments” at the University of Maryland; Board Member Claire Weisz (pictured at left) will discuss “Urban Planning for Community Building” at the Noguchi Museum (4/8); the week after, she’ll be with Lyn Rice at the Center for Architecture to examine “The Civic Action Planning Model” (4/12); Board Member Toni Griffin invites you to celebrate the launch of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City on 5/1 at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture.
Tags: AIA New York, Building in the Middle East, Caples Jefferson, Carmi Bee, Center for Architecture, City College, Civic Action, Claire Weisz, Design for the Rising Tide, gentrification, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, J. Max Bond Center, Lyn Rice, Noguchi Museum, Rice + Lipka, Sara Caples, Spitzer School of Architecture, Steven Holl, Studio-X NYC, Sudhir Jambhekar, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, University of Maryland, Winka Dubbeldam
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
Please join us Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6-8pm at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York to celebrate the launch of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City.
There will be a brief program at 6:30pm including remarks from Chancellor of CCNY Matthew Goldstein, President of CCNY Lisa S. Coico, and Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture George Ranalli. Meet the Director of the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Professor and Institute Board Member Toni L. Griffin and find out about the Center’s mission and programs.
This event is free and open to the public.
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street New York NY 10031
Tags: Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, City College of New York, George Ranalli, J. Max Bond Center, Lisa S. Coico, Matthew Goldstein, Spitzer School of Architecture, Toni Griffin
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
On 3/6, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam celebrated the German launch of her recent book, Archi-Tectonics, with a party at the Berlin branch of Soho House; last Wednesday, 3/7, Board Member Enrique Norten gave a lecture at the Center for Architecture in New York entitled “This Will Kill That,” asking ‘What has happened to physical space in the age of mass media?’; today, Robert A.M. Stern participated in the commemoration ceremony for the Edward Durell Stone House on New York’s Upper East Side; Board Member Toni Griffin will speak on a panel about architecture, gender and space at the Brooklyn Museum (3/17); on 3/19 at UPenn, Michael Manfredi will present the evolution of the Diana Center at Barnard (pictured at left); a documentary about John Portman, entitled John Portman: A Life of Building, will screen at the Atlanta Film Festival on 3/26; Gregg Pasquarelli will deliver the Graduate Architecture Open House Lecture at the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis (3/30).
Tags: Archi-Tectonics, Atlanta Film Festival, Barnard College, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Center for Architecture, Diana Center, Edward Durell Stone House, Enrique Norten, Gregg Pasquarelli, john portman, Michael Manfredi, Robert AM Stern, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, SHoP Architects, Soho House, St. Louis, This Will Kill That, Toni Griffin, UPenn, Upper East Side, Washington University, Winka Dubbeldam
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
A study by Tom Angotti and Picture the Homeless revealed that New York City is home to enough vacant lots and buildings to house its entire homeless population–with room to spare; Deborah Berke’s Yale architecture students are designing an urban bourbon distillery in downtown Louisville; Rick Bell was profiled by the Epoch Times; the latest episode of CUNY-TV’s Citywide program features Ken Fisher interviewing Working Families Party leader Camille Rivera; Chadwick Floyd is designing the expansion of Waterford, Connecticut’s Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; MLive.com interviewed Board Member Toni Griffin about the long-term strategic planning initiative she’s leading for the Detroit Works Program; Patron Steven Holl was selected to design the expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Morning News walked through Board Member Thom Mayne’s almost-complete Perot Museum of Nature & Science with the architect; Board Member Enrique Norten gave a presentation on how sustainable architecture can catalyze community development at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos; Gregg Pasquarelli’s firm has just released its first monograph, SHoP: Out of Practice; Matthias Sauerbruch’s Low2No complex in Helsinki’s former docklands (pictured at left) is cited as an exemplary mixed use project in a Telegraph piece on the greening of residential architecture; and Achva Benzinberg Stein’s dazzling new Moroccan Courtyard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is featured in this month’s Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Tags: Achva Benzinberg Stein, Architecture, books, bourbon, Camille Rivera, Chadwick Floyd, CityWide, Connecticut, CUNY-TV, Dallas, Davos, Deborah Berke, Design, Detroit, Detroit Works, education, Enrique Norten, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, green buildings, Gregg Pasquarelli, Helsinki, homelessness, Housing, Houston, Kenneth K. Fisher, Landscape Architecture Magazine, long-term planning, Louisville, Low2No, Matthias Sauerbruch, Metropolitan Museum of Art, mixed-use, monograph, Moroccan Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, museums, New York City, Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Picture the Homeless, profile, redevelopment, residential, Rick Bell, Sauerbruch Hutton, SHoP Architects, SHoP Out of Practice, Steven Holl, strategic planning, Telegraph, Texas, Thom Mayne, Tom Angotti, Toni Griffin, vacant space, Waterford, Working Families Party, World Economic Forum, Yale SoA, Yale University
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at St. Louis’ Washington University announced its spring lecture series, with Craig Dykers set to speak tonight (2/1), and visits from Gregg Pasquarelli and Richard Sennett scheduled for later this semester; Rob Rogers will speak about Rogers Marvel’s recent work (including President’s Park South, pictured at left) at the National Building Museum in Washington on 2/2; Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin have organized a panel, Defining Cultural Landscapes, at CCNY on 2/3 (with opening remarks by Olympia Kazi); the Center for Architecture will host the panel Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux on 2/4, with Thomas Balsley, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Susan Chin all participating (Brown will be back at the Center, with David Dixon, for a discussion about Climate Change on 2/17); Bruce Fowle will speak at the Center’s Active Design 201 on 2/7; Board Member Claire Weisz will speak in New York, also on 2/7, at the Studio-X panel Trash Tubes of the Future; Board Member Enrique Norten will give a talk at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach on 2/9; that same day, in New York, Ernie Hutton will moderate a discussion on the Miami21 zoning initiative; and a new exhibit at the National Academy, featuring work by Robert A.M. Stern, has just opened and will remain on view in New York through 4/29.
Tags: active design, Bruce Fowle, CCNY, Center for Architecture, Claire Weisz, climate change, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Defining Cultural Landscapes, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Enrique Norten, Ernest Hutton, Florida, form-based code, Freedom of Assembly, Gregg Pasquarelli, historic preservation, Lance Jay Brown, manhattan, Miami, Miami21, National Academy Museum, national building museum, New York City, occupation, Olympia Kazi, pneumatic tubes, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, President's Park South, public space, Richard Sennett, Rick Bell, Rob Rogers, robert a.m. stern, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Studio-X, Susan Chin, Thomas Balsley, Toni Griffin, washington dc, Washington University, zoning
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Deborah Gans‘ new rose window for the Museum at Eldridge Street, designed in collaboration with artist Kiki Smith (and pictured at left), received a 2011 Faith & Form award from the IFRAA Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture; the Land Art Generator Initiative design competition announced its kickoff, with Executive Director Anne Guiney on the jury (deadline: 7/1/12); recipients of the 2012 AIA Honor Awards were announced–among the winners are Rob Rogers and Board Members Toni Griffin, Thom Mayne, and Enrique Norten; Rosemary Wakeman was awarded a EURIAS Senior Fellowship, and will spend the next academic year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement; Womens’ E-News will honor Beverly Willis as one of their 21 Leaders for the 21st Century at a gala reception this May.
Tags: AIA Honor Awards, Anne Guiney, art, awards, Beverly Willis, Deborah Gans, design competition, Enrique Norten, EURIAS Fellowship, Faith & Form, IFRAA Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture, jury, Kiki Smith, Land Art Generator Initiative, manhattan, Museum at Eldridge Street, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Town Movement, New York City, Rob Rogers, Rosemary Wakeman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, women architects
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