Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
Tonight in Los Angeles, Board Member Thom Mayne will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss Culture Now, a new research organization designed to connect academic work to real-world practice; in New York, Mary Miss urges everyone to attend a Hunter College panel discussion with art critics about her Broadway: 1000 Steps project (pictured at left); in Bern, Matthias Sauerbruch will give a lecture at the Architektur Forum; on Wednesday, OHNY hosts their 10th Annual Benefit at Claremont Stables, with Stephan Jaklitsch serving as event co-chair; Susan Chin will discuss women in leadership at the Center for Architecture on 6/8; Meta Brunzema will serve as featured guide as the AIA NY “Around Manhattan” architectural boat tour series continues on 6/10; the Fine Arts Federation of New York, for which Olympia Kazi serves on the Board, holds their Annual Meeting at Van Alen on 6/12 with Carol Coletta as a featured speaker; on 6/13, the AIA NY will hold their 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is slated as 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect.
Tags: AIA, AIA NY, Architektur Forum, Around Manhattan, Bern, Broadway 1000 Steps, Carol Coletta, Claremont Stables, Culture Now, Design Trust for Public Space, Fine Arts Federation of New York, Hammer Museum, Hunter College, Jaklitsch Gardner, Lance Jay Brown, Lost Angeles, mary miss, Matthias Sauerbruch, Meta Brunzema, Morphosis, New York City, OHNY, Olympia Kazi, Sauerbruch Hutton, Stephan Jaklitsch, Susan Chin, Switzerland, Thom Mayne, Van Alen Institute
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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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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC‘s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Tags: 7-line extension, 8 Washington, 9/11 Memorial, Anthony Flint, Architectural Record, Architecture, Artforum, Atlantic City, Beth Greenberg, Boston, Callie Crosby Show, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, CityWide, construction, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Diana Lind, Dresden, Filene's Basement site, Fulton Street Transit Center, Gothamist, Gregory J. Haley, Hugh Pearman, John Palmieri, Kenneth K. Fisher, landscape architecture, Manahttan, Manhattan Media, mass transit, michael arad, Military History Museum, minimalism, MTA, New England, New York City, next american city, NYC mayoral race, Olympia Kazi, Peter Walker, Philadelphia, Postmodernism, public engagement, recession, redevelopment, reflecting absence, residential, Revitalize Atlantic City, robert a.m. stern, Robert Venturi, San Francisco, Storefront for Urban Innovation, subway, Tom Allon, Tourism District Master Plan, Urban Design, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute, victoria and albert museum, wall street journal, waterfront
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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.
Tags: AIANY, Architect Magazine, Architectural League, Biarritz, book, CCNY, Chicago, Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, Columbia Parc, Craig Dykers, Crystals at CityCenter, daniel libeskind, Denise Hoffman Brandt, design competition, Design Review, Donald Stastny, EURIAS Fellowship, Helmut Jahn, ICSC Design & Development Awards, International Council of Shopping Centers, jury, Lance Jay Brown, Las Vegas, Lee Bey, Mansueto Library, Michael Manfredi, Michael Sorkin, National Mall Design Competition, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Orleans, New Town Movement, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, Peter Walker, play, Robert Rogers, Ron Harwick, Rosemary Wakeman, Steedman Fellowship, Steven Handel, Steven Holl, The Unfinished Grid, Toni Griffin, Urban Omnibus, Van Alen Institute, washington dc
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Board President Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map was just reviewed by Archidose’s John Hill; Frederick Steiner recently sat down to chat with The Daily Texan about his new book Design for a Vulnerable Planet; and an award-winning proposal by Barbara Wilks is featured in the new book Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park, which was edited by Jamie Hand and Kate Orff, and released by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute.
Tags: All Over the Map, Archidose, Barbara Wilks, books, criticism, Design, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, Frederick Steiner, Gateway Visions for an Urban National Park, Jamie Hand, John Hill, Kate Orff, landscape architecture, Michael Sorkin, Ollympia Kazi, The Daily Texan, Van Alen Institute
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Next Wednesday, September 28th, we’ll be at Van Alen Books (30 W. 22nd Street) to talk about By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, our newest publication (available for purchase here). The talk, presented as part of VAB’s weekly Brown Bag Reading Series, will take place from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm. We hope that you can make it! Bring yourself, your lunch, and some thought-provoking questions, and we’ll see you there.
Tags: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, book talk, By the City For the City, manhattan, New York City, Van Alen Books, Van Alen Institute
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
On 8/24, IfUD Founder Ann Ferebee and Jeff Byles will speak about their book, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan branch; another previous IfUD Director, Olympia Kazi, recently launched the Van Alen Institute’s Parks for the People student design competition, with a deadline of 11/1; and Glimpses 2040, an exhibit featuring work (pictured at left) by Barbara Wilks, and recently reviewed in the Times and The L Magazine, will remain on view at the Center for Architecture through 9/10.
Tags: A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Ann Ferebee, Barbara Wilks, Center for Architecture, design competition, Events, Glimpses 2040, Jeff Byles, landscape architecture, manhattan, Midtown, National Parks, New York Public Library, New York Times, Olympia Kazi, Parks for the People, The L Magazine, Van Alen Institute
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
John Hartmann’s Freecell received an Honorable Mention for their entry to the Life at the Speed of Rail competition organized by Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute; and Rob Rogers‘ firm Rogers Marvel won a competition to re-design Washington DC’s Ellipse (pictured at left)
Tags: design competition, Freecell, honorable mention, John Hartmann, Life at the Speed of Rail, Olympia Kazi, Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Van Alen Institute, washington dc
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
Board Member Saskia Sassen will deliver the keynote address at Lift France 11 in Marseille on 7/7; Board Member Tami Hausman will participate in the Center for Architecture panel discussion The Pitch: A Hands-On Workshop on Attracting a Client in Two Minutes or Less on 7/11; Board Member Thom Mayne will participate in the Van Alen Institute’s Los Angeles panel [PDF] for their Life at the Speed of Rail program on 7/12; and you can see BOB, a public art installation (pictured at left) designed by a team led by Galia Solomonoff, at Columbia University in Manhattan through 7/25.
Tags: art installation, BOB, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, conference, France, Galia Solomonoff, high speed rail, keynote, Life at the Speed of Rail, Lift France, Los Angeles, manhattan, marketing, Marseille, panel discussion, Saskia Sassen, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, Van Alen Institute
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
In a chat with the Wall Street Journal about the Van Alen Institute’s new bookstore on 22nd Street, Olympia Kazi said of architects: “They’re books junkies, no matter how many Nooks and iPads. They still love their print, the hard copy.” In an article in the latest Americas Quarterly, Board Member Saskia Sassen detailed the ways that networked cities and citizens are changing the way business is done, stating in no uncertain terms that “There is no such entity as the global economy.” Moshe Safdie, meanwhile, reflected on the international atmosphere at the construction site for his Marina Bay Sands project in Singapore (pictured at left) at a press conference, noting that “One tower was built by Chinese workers, and another tower was built by a Bangladeshi team. It looked like the Tower of Babel.”
Tags: Americas Quarterly, Bangladesh, books, bookstore, China, construction, global economy, manhattan, marina bay sands, moshe safdie, networks, New York City, Olympia Kazi, Saskia Sassen, singapore, skyscraper, Tower of Babel, Van Alen Institute
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Tonight in Los Angeles, Board Member Thom Mayne will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss Culture Now, a new research organization designed to connect academic work to real-world practice; in New York, Mary Miss urges everyone to attend a Hunter College panel discussion with art critics about her Broadway: 1000 Steps project (pictured at left); in Bern, Matthias Sauerbruch will give a lecture at the Architektur Forum; on Wednesday, OHNY hosts their 10th Annual Benefit at Claremont Stables, with Stephan Jaklitsch serving as event co-chair; Susan Chin will discuss women in leadership at the Center for Architecture on 6/8; Meta Brunzema will serve as featured guide as the AIA NY “Around Manhattan” architectural boat tour series continues on 6/10; the Fine Arts Federation of New York, for which Olympia Kazi serves on the Board, holds their Annual Meeting at Van Alen on 6/12 with Carol Coletta as a featured speaker; on 6/13, the AIA NY will hold their 145th Annual Meeting, where Lance Jay Brown is slated as 2013 First Vice President/2014 President-Elect.
