The National Academy Museum and School (above) elected Patron Steven Holl and Gregg Pasquarelli as Academicians; ASLA elevated Henry White to its Council of Fellows; the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis and currently led by Wanda Bubriski, received an NEA Art Works grant to support their “Making A Place for Women in 20th-Century American Architecture” project.
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s Executive Director Wanda Bubriski and founder Beverly Willis invite you to “A View from the Future,”a morning symposium hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center on 6/5 about future trends and innovation in the architecture/engineering/construction industry. The event will feature a keynote by Futurist Edie Weiner, followed by a panel discussion of experts debating new opportunities in the AEC field. Board Members Claire Weisz and Tami Hausman serve on the BWAF Board and Advisory Council respectively.
Panelists include: Jane Chmielinski (AECOM), Michael De Chiara (Zetlin & De Chiara LLP), MaryAnne Gilmartin (Forest City Ratner Companies), Jurij Paraszczak (IBM Research), and Ana Bertuna (Related Companies).
Get your tickets here.
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.
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis (pictured at left) and is now led by Wanda Bubriski, has launched a Call for Entries to the Collection of Women in 20th Century Architecture, an online database in which 40 of the 50 US states are currently represented. The BWAF’s summer mission is to find enough entries to fill out the map! If you know of a historical or active practitioner in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, or New Hampshire, please contribute today!
Wanda Bubriski jumped into the public debate surrounding Architect Barbie at BWAF’s new blog; a recent CNN feature on urban agriculture included two projects by Colin Cathcart; Anthony Flint (whose Wrestling With Moses has been garnering fresh attention lately) wrote an article for Boston.com on Ben and Jane Thompson’s storied Design Research store in Cambridge, calling Jane’s new book on DR’s history “wonderful”; a developer announced plans for a floating marina complex (pictured at left), designed by Carlo Frugiuele, on the Jersey City waterfront; Ken Greenberg is working on a plan for the pedestrianization of part of Toronto’s famed Yonge Street; Board Member Toni Griffin and Fellow June Williamson both contributed to a Times Room for Debate feature on “the Incredible Shrinking City”; John Hoal is leading a six-team visioning process for St. Louis’ Ackert Walkway; Stephen Holl talked to the Scotland Herald about his Glasgow School of Art project, which was unanimously approved by the city; Olympia Kazi’s Van Alen Institute has been busy, announcing the mid-April opening of its design bookstore in Manhattan and launching the Life at the Speed of Rail design competition, the jury for which will include IfUD Board Member Thom Mayne; Treehugger talked to Laurie Kerr about NYC’s pioneering Local Law 84; the Architect’s Newspaper posted video of Gregg Pasquarelli discussing SHoP’s design for the Botswana Innovation Hub; Rob Rogers’ firm Rogers Marvel will handle restoration work on Manhattan’s Pier A, which will become a retail and event space; and Metropolis visited Andrew Whalley at Grimshaw Industrial Design’s new Chelsea office.
Claire Weisz will participate in a panel discussion, to be moderated by Wanda Bubriski, on Emily Roebling’s role in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge tonight (3/15) in New York; Weisz will also speak at the New Museum tomorrow (3/16) as part of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices series; Gretchen Bank will lead a Marketing & PR seminar for the AIANY’s Architects’ Fast-Track Leadership Series on 3/23; a traveling exhibit of work by Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta has just landed at Lisbon’s Musea de Electricidade; and the exhibit “Alessi: Ethical and Radical,” featuring items designed by Patron Robert Venturi, opened recently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it will remain on view until 4/10.
Winning proposals from the Sukkah City competition, which were selected by a panel of judges that included Michael Arad, Rick Bell, and Board Member Thom Mayne, go on view from September 19-20 in New York’s Union Square; Matt Berman’s (pictured at left) firm workshop/apd was recently named [PDF] a “Generation Next” firm in Departures Magazine’s September style issue; Wanda Bubriski has been invited to join the board of the Society of Architectural Historians; the most recent issue of Next American City magazine features an interview with Board Member Toni Griffin on her work in Detroit; Steven Handel has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Restoration, a quarterly published by the University of Wisconsin Press; and both Mattias Sauerbruch (who was recently awarded the commission for the M9 Museum in Venice) and Board Member Enrique Norten will serve as judges at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
It is our pleasure to announce two new IfUD Fellows: Jonathan Schrag, the Executive Director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; and Wanda Bubriski, the Executive Director of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. We look forward to their contributions!
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