Friday, August 10th, 2012
Matt Blesso discussed Bushwick’s burgeoning real estate future in Metro New York; an Architectural Record article about Via Verde (pictured left) included comments by Lance Jay Brown, a founding member of the development’s steering committee; Brown, and the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee he co-chairs, was also featured in an Architect article about rising sea levels; Anthony Flint wrote about digital public art in Atlantic Cities; the Washington Post reviewed Daniel Libeskind’s exhibit at the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC; Engineering News-Record gave an in depth account of the structural engineering of the forthcoming Barclays Center designed by Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP Architects; Linda Pollak’s transformation of Queens Plaza was featured in the Wall Street Journal; Metropolis profiled Robert Rogers’ firm; Michael Stepner spoke to the U-T San Diego about planning lessons learned from teaching in Madrid.
Tags: AIANY, Anthony Flint, Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Atlantic Cities, Bushwick, daniel libeskind, Dattner Architects, Engineering News-Record, Goethe Institut, Gregg Pasquarelli, Grimshaw Architects, Lance Jay Brown, Linda Pollak, matt blesso, Metro New York, Metropolis Magazine, Michael Stepner, New York, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel Architects, SHoP Architects, U-T San Diego, Via Verde, wall street journal, washington dc, Washington Post
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
Next Monday, Gretchen Bank and Board Member Tami Hausman will advise about marketing, communications, and business development at the Center for Architecture; on both 7/23 and 7/27, Ernest Hutton talks “Active Design 101: An Introduction to NYC’s Active Design Guidelines,” also at the Center for Architecture; Rick Bell will moderate “Hyper-Public: Olympic City – Present Past Future” on 7/27; an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area at SFMOMA, featuring work by Board Member Thom Mayne, closes on 7/29; the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC is currently showing “Daniel Libeskind: Architecture for the Angel of History” (Libeskind’s Jewish Museum pictured above) through the end of August.
Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, daniel libeskind, Ernest Hutton, Goethe Institut, Gretchen Bank, Rick Bell, San Francisco, sfmoma, tami hausman, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
James Crispino’s firm, Francis Cauffman, has completed extensive renovations on the new Wilmington offices of Delaware law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor; David Manfredi’s firm, Elkus Manfredi, will design The Galleria at Sowwah Square, a new luxury retail destination in Abu Dhabi; Michael Manfredi’s new Visitor Center opens this week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (pictured above); along with Robert Rogers and Peter Walker, Weiss/Manfredi was also selected to redesign sites along the National Mall in Washington, DC (in a competition overseen by Don Stastny); Board Member Thom Mayne will design the first academic building for Cornell’s engineering campus on Roosevelt Island, as covered in the New York Times and New York; the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation named Barbara Wilks to draw up redevelopment plans for an island on the Bow River.
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Alberta, Barbara Wilks, Bow River, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Calgary, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Cornell University, David Manfredi, Delaware, Don Stastny, Elkus Manfredi, Francis Cauffman, James Crispino, Justin Davidson, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, National Mall, New York magazine, New York Times, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Landscape Architecture, Peter Walker Partners, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Roosevelt Island, The Galleria at Sowwah Square, Thom Mayne, Trust for the National Mall, Visitor Center, W Architecture, washington dc, Weiss Manfredi, Wilmington, Young Conaway Stargatt Taylor
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Please join us in welcoming five new additions to our urbanist community: Mark Fiedler, co-founder of New York’s Fiedler Marciano Architecture; Kaja Kühl, founder of youarethecity, a research, design, and planning practice in Brooklyn; Yale-based architecture critic Nina Rappaport (image from her book Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation pictured at right); Glenn Smith, a principal at Smith + Murray Studios in Washington, DC; and Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor at Architectural Record.
Tags: Architectural Record, architecture critic, brooklyn, Deputy Editor, Fiedler Marciano Architecture, Glenn Smith, Kaja Kuhl, Mark Fiedler, Nina Rappaport, Smith + Murray Studios, Suzanne Stephens, washington dc, Yale, youarethecity
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
During the month of April, Larry Wayne Richards was a Visiting Professor at the National Cheng Kung University Department of Architecture in Tainan (Taiwan), where he also presented a lecture, “Is Everything the Same Now?”; Patron Denise Scott Brown will be at the Center for Architecture on Friday (5/4) for a conversation about the National Mosque of Baghdad competition; the final tours of David van der Leer’s stillspotting nyc exhibit will take place on 5/5 and 5/6 in Jackson Heights, Queens; Board Member Saskia Sassen will be at the Frieze Art Fair on 5/6 for a panel about land occupation; on 5/8, Rick Bell will introduce a moderated discussion about “Practice in the Middle East” at his Center for Architecture; the next day in D.C., Lance Jay Brown will be at the National Building Museum to present on public space in the nation’s capital; Sassen will also be at the Megaprojects symposium hosted by Columbia’s GSAPP and CURE on 5/11, and will then participate in the New Cities Summit in Paris (5/14-16), along with Daniel Libeskind; an exhibit of Patron Steven Holl’s work is now on view at the Meulensteen Gallery through 6/2; also on now through 7/29 is an exhibit about Buckminster Fuller at SFMoMA (image from exhibit pictured at right) that includes work by Board Member Thom Mayne.
Tags: AIA New York, Buckminster Fuller, Center for Architecture, Columbia University, CURE, daniel libeskind, David van der Leer, Denise Scott Brown, Frieze Art Fair, GSAPP, Jackson Heights, Lance Jay Brown, land occupation, larry wayne richards, megaprojects, Meulensteen Gallery, Morphosis, national building museum, National Cheng Kung University, National Mosque of Baghdad, New Cities Summit, Paris, Practice in the Middle East, public space, Queens, Rick Bell, Saskia Sassen, sfmoma, Steven Holl, stillspotting nyc, Tainan, Taiwan, Thom Mayne, washington dc
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Finalists in the competition to redesign three sites on the National Mall in Washington, DC were announced last week. Among those selected are the firms of Craig Dykers, Michael Manfredi, Robert Rogers, and Peter Walker (a design for Constitution Gardens by Rogers Marvel Architects & Peter Walker and Partners is pictured above). The competition was overseen by the Trust for the National Mall and Don Stastny.
Tags: Craig Dykers, Don Stastny, Michael Manfredi, National Mall, Peter Walker, Peter Walker Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Snohetta, Trust for the National Mall, washington dc, Weiss/Manfredi
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
SOM’s team lead—by Phil Enquist—was selected to develop the master plan for Beijing Bohai Innovation City (pictured at left); Reflections at Keppel Bayon, Daniel Libeskind’s first residential project in Asia, will open in Singapore on 3/22; Michael Manfredi’s firm has been selected to develop the master plan for the National Geographic Headquarters in D.C.; Lyn Rice’s firm Rice + Lipka will redesign the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in conjunction with James Corner Field Operations.
Tags: Beijing, Beijing Bohai Innovation City, daniel libeskind, Detroit, James Corner Field Operations, Lyn Rice, Michael Manfredi, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, National Geographic Headquarters, Phil Enquist, Reflections at Keppel Bayon, Rice + Lipka, singapore, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM, washington dc
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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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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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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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