Thursday, June 21st, 2012
e-Oculus recapped the Center for Architecture event “Practice in the Middle East,” whose participants included Rick Bell, Sudhir Jambhekar, and Board Member Byron Stigge; John di Domenico, John Hartmann, and Blake Middleton are on the jury for Moleskine’s Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook competition; David Dixon presented Good Clancy’s plans for Central Square in Cambridge to city officials; Craig Dykers created and served as jury chair for the Sam Fox School’s 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design; Dykers’ Snøhetta is also on the cover of the latest issue of The Architect’s Newspaper for their renovation of Times Square (pictured above); Galia Solomonoff has an essay featured in the new Princeton Architecture Press book Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering; Solomonoff also has a house featured in New York Magazine’s new Design Hunting issue; MAS’ MASterworks award winners were announced, with Suzanne Stephens and Board Member Claire Weisz on the jury.
Tags: Blake Middleton, Byron Stigge, Cambridge, Center for Architecture, Central Square, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, David Dixon, Design Hunting, e-Oculus, Galia Solomonoff, Goody Clancy, John di Domenico, John Hartmann, MAS MASterworks, Moleskine's Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook, New York magazine, Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering, Practice in the Middle East, Princeton Architecture Press, Rick Bell, Sam Fox School, Snohetta, Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design, Sudhir Jambhekar, Suzanne Stephens, The Architect's Newspaper, times square, Washington University
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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 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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