Fellows in “Civic Action”

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012


At the request of the Noguchi Museum, the Architectural League recently hosted a design charrette about the museum’s ongoing “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” project, now an installation at Socrates Sculpture Park (pictured above). The session centered on “how to sustain neighborhood vitality [in Long Island City] by capitalizing on distinctive characteristics rather than succumbing to the often homogenizing effects of mainstream real estate development.” Charrette participants included Andrew Bernheimer, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Deborah Gans, Lyn Rice, and Board Member Claire Weisz. Urban Omnibus published video, images, and an article about the workshop.

Fellows in the News

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

In an Abitare article, Justin Allen wrote about David van der Leer’s Stillspotting exhibit (pictured at left); Rick Bell talked to Metropolis about the building boom in the Middle East; Blouin ArtInfo profiled Meta Brunzema’s “Building Exhibition Hudson Valley/Erie Canal” project; Sara Caples served on the jury that determined the AIA 2012 Housing Awards; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta endowed a scholarship for undergraduates at the UT Austin School of Architecture; for the latest installment of his CityWide talk show, Ken Fisher interviewed former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer; Daniel Libeskind discussed ‘healing’ architecture in Metropolis; John Palmieri contemplated the future of Atlantic City in the Washington Post; Urban Omnibus recapped their Public Space Potluck with Linda Pollak at Dutch Kills Green.

Fellows in the News

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.

Fellows’ Awards & Competitions: Brown, Dykers, Griffin, Handel, Harwick, Hoffman Brandt, Holl, Jahn, Kazi, Libeskind, Manfredi, Rogers, Sorkin, Stastny, Wakeman, & Walker

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Lance Jay Brown will serve as a juror for the AIANY State 2012 Honors Awards, to be presented this coming April; the teams proceeding to the third and final round of the National Mall Design Competition, managed by Donald Stastny, were announced, with Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Rob Rogers, and Peter Walker all still in the mix; Dykers was also just announced as the chair of the jury for the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition; Ron Harwick’s Columbia Parc neighborhood in New Orleans (pictured at left) had a banner year, taking home multiple honors–click here to download a full list of awards and more information on the project; Patron Steven Holl’s Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, won the sole award in the Play category in Architect magazine’s 2011 Annual Design Review; critic Lee Bey cited the opening of Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library on his list of the best Chicago architecture of the past year (echoing Blair Kamin’s list from earlier in the month); the Parks for the People competition, organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute and with Steven Handel sitting on the jury, just announced the selection of nine teams to move on to the second round–one of which is led by CCNY’s Denise Hoffman Brandt and Board Member Toni Griffin; Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter project in Las Vegas won Gold and Sustainable Design Awards in the ICSC’s annual US Design & Development Awards; Urban Omnibus announced an essay competition to complement the Architectural League’s exhibit The Unfinished Grid, with our own Board President Michael Sorkin on the jury (deadline: 2/1/12); and Rosemary Wakeman has received a EURIAS Senior Fellowship to spend the next year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement.

Fellows in the News: Berke, Bernheimer, Blesso, Cathcart, Dykers, Ferrandino, Gardner, Jones, Portman, & Wong

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Bentonville’s 21c Museum Hotel, designed by Deborah Berke, broke ground last month; Urban Omnibus visited Matthew Berman’s BLDG 92 museum and visitors center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Andrew Bernheimer and his sister Kate, an award-winning fairy tale author, collaborated on a three-part series of posts at Places Journal that gives architectural form to famous fairy tale houses; Matt Blesso and Mark Gardner were both interviewed as part of openhousenewyork’s “I Am OHNY” series; NYC Media released a video extolling the virtues of Colin Cathcart’s Greenhouse Project at Manhattan’s P.S. 333; the first renderings of a curvaceous new Maggie’s Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, designed by Craig Dykers, made a splash; Vince Ferrandino is leading the effort to build a solid transition team for Mount Vernon, New York’s mayor-elect Ernie Davis; Mary Margaret Jones led a public forum on Hargreaves Associates’ new plan for Richmond’s James Riverfront; John Portman has opened a new office in Hong Kong–his fourth in Asia, after Shanghai, Seoul, and Mumbai; and it’s not every day that you can see a Fellow’s work in a big-screen blockbuster, but the ASLA’s The Dirt recently pointed out that John Wong’s Burj Khalifa Park has something of a “starring role” in the new Mission Impossible movie!

Fellows’ Events & Exhibitions: February 15-28, 2011

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Urban Omnibus will host a benefit party tonight in New York, including an auction featuring work by Linda Pollak (pictured at left); on 2/17, Fellows Bruce Fowle and Jack Nyman will participate in the conference Greening Modernism at Baruch College in Manhattan; Laurie Kerr will speak at the Center for Architecture’s Building Intelligence Project: Think Tank New York on 2/18; and if you missed Gregg Pasquarelli’s recent lecture on SHoP’s current work, the Architectural League has posted a podcast of the talk.

Fellows in the News: Dykers, Libeskind, and Pollak

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Fellow Craig Dykers‘ firm Snøhetta was recently announced as the winner in the competition to design an addition to Mario Botta’s iconic SFMOMA in San Francisco; Fellow Daniel Libeskind (pictured at left) has signed on to design an addition to his original building for the Jewish Museum in Berlin; and Fellow Linda Pollak recently wrote a thought-provoking article on urban topographies over at Urban Omnibus.

Arrested Development Weekend In Review

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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The-Institute’s November 6th Fellows Dinner and November 7th Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have a Future? symposium were great successes. If you missed the symposium, you can read a review of it at Urban Omnibus, The Atlantic Yards Project, or Architect Magazine. Pictures from both events are on our Facebook page.