Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Deborah Gans‘ new rose window for the Museum at Eldridge Street, designed in collaboration with artist Kiki Smith (and pictured at left), received a 2011 Faith & Form award from the IFRAA Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture; the Land Art Generator Initiative design competition announced its kickoff, with Executive Director Anne Guiney on the jury (deadline: 7/1/12); recipients of the 2012 AIA Honor Awards were announced–among the winners are Rob Rogers and Board Members Toni Griffin, Thom Mayne, and Enrique Norten; Rosemary Wakeman was awarded a EURIAS Senior Fellowship, and will spend the next academic year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies completing her book on the New Town Movement; Womens’ E-News will honor Beverly Willis as one of their 21 Leaders for the 21st Century at a gala reception this May.
Tags: AIA Honor Awards, Anne Guiney, art, awards, Beverly Willis, Deborah Gans, design competition, Enrique Norten, EURIAS Fellowship, Faith & Form, IFRAA Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture, jury, Kiki Smith, Land Art Generator Initiative, manhattan, Museum at Eldridge Street, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, New Town Movement, New York City, Rob Rogers, Rosemary Wakeman, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, women architects
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
Cleveland’s ParkWorks cut the ribbon on Perk Park, a new green space designed by Thomas Balsley; in a post reflecting on what Jeanne Gang’s recent MacArthur win means for women in architecture, Flavorpill noted the accomplishments of Deborah Berke, Board Member Winka Dubbeldam, and Galia Solomonoff in this historically-male-dominated field; Omar Blaik has been hired by the University of Kentucky to help better integrate several universities into downtown Lexington; the New York Times interviewed David Cooper as he celebrated his 30th year with WSP Flack + Kurtz; Craig Dykers had a big November: the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University became Snøhetta’s first building completed in the US, while the firm also unveiled new, detailed renderings of the SFMOMA expansion and won a competition to design the subway entrances for the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián (pictured at left); Kenneth K. Fisher interviewed former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green for this month’s episode of Citywide; Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman’s latest column, on re-thinking housing for contemporary New York, included a nod to Deborah Gans‘ work for the Architectural League’s recent Making Room symposium; Gregg Pasquarelli’s SHoP (which was recently profiled in New York Magazine) released much-anticipated renderings of the modular residential towers planned for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards site; the Hartford Business Journal talked to Jonathan Schrag about the effectiveness of Cap & Trade programs; Paul Schmidt reaffirmed CADA’s committment to the organization’s R Street warehouse project in the Sacramento Bee; and Barbara Wilks‘ new The Edge Park along the Williamsburg’s rapidly-changing waterfront was a featured project on Landezine.
Tags: Affordable Housing, Architectural League, atlantic yards, Barbara Wilks, Basque, Bowling Green State University, brooklyn, CADA, cap & trade, CityWide, Cleveland, Craig Dykers, CUNY-TV, David Cooper, Deborah Berke, Deborah Gans, design competition, Donostia-San Sebastián, downtown, Galia Solomonoff, Gregg Pasquarelli, Jeanne Gang, jonathan schrag, Kenneth K. Fisher, Landezine, landscape architecture, Lexington, MacArthur, Making Room, Mark Green, Michael Kimmelman, modular, New York City, New York magazine, New York Times, Ohio, Omar Blaik, ParkWorks, Paul Schmidt, Perk Park, R Street warehouse, renderings, Sacramento, sfmoma, SHoP Architects, Snohetta, subway, The Edge Park, Thomas Balsley, universities, University of Kentucky, waterfront, Williamsburg, Winka Dubbeldam, Wolfe Center for the Arts, women architects, WSP Flack + Kurtz
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
In a co-authored NY Times op-ed that cites cuts to government-funded social programs as an underlying cause of the recent UK riots, Board Member Saskia Sassen and Fellow Richard Sennett caution that “Americans ought to ponder this aspect of Britain’s trauma. After all, London is one of the world’s wealthiest cities, but large sections of it are impoverished. New York is not so different.” In responding to a young woman’s question about whether or not to take time to work between receiving her undergraduate degree in environmental science and returning to school to pursue a graduate degree in architecture, Galia Solomonoff noted that “One of the benefits of working in between careers is understanding the life applications of a given practice.” And while being interviewed about his role in shaping Postmodernism by filmmaker John Thornton, Patron Robert Venturi (pictured at left) advised that: “Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.”
Tags: communication, education, environmental science, Galia Solomonoff, graduate school, John Thornton, london, modernism, New York Times, Postmodernism, poverty, quotes, Richard Sennett, riots, Robert Venturi, Saskia Sassen, space, UK, wealth, women architects
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
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!
Tags: Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, BWAF, call for entries, Collection of Women in 20th Century Architecture, United States, wanda bubriski, women architects
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Steve Rosenbaum spoke with Michael Arad about the 9/11 Memorial and his role in the reconstruction of Ground Zero (of which the Daily Mail released some fantastic construction photos); Susan Chin appears in a video from a recent University of Chicago panel on the role of architecture in building cultural vitality; Richard Dattner’s PlayCubes (pictured at left) were revisited by the Playscapes blog; David Dixon is developing a comprehensive 20-year master plan for tornado-ravaged Birmingham, Alabama; Architectural Record looks at how Bruce Fowle turned his firm’s office into a veritable art gallery; Ken Greenberg released a study with recommendations for the future of a busy stretch of Toronto’s Yonge Street; Lebbeus Woods wrote an enthusiastic piece on Patron Steven Holl’s Vanke Center in Shenzhen; Chicago Magazine‘s Whet Moser called Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library a “[serious] reading room for the digital age”; Elle named Kate Orff as one of their Inspirational Women of 2011; and Domus featured archi-horoscopes by Dan Graham, including one on Cancerian IfUD Patron Robert Venturi.
Tags: 9/11 Memorial, adventure playground, Alabama, Architectural Record, Architecture, art, Birmingham, Bruce Fowle, Chicago, China, construction, criticism, culture, Dan Graham, David Dixon, Domus, FXFOWLE, Ground Zero, Helmut Jahn, horoscope, Kate Orff, Ken Greeberg, Lebbeus Woods, library, manhattan, Mansueto Library, master plan, michael arad, New York City, pedestrianization, playcubes, Richard Dattner, Robert Venturi, Shenzhen, Steven Holl, Steven Rosenbaum, Susan Chin, Toronto, University of Chicago, Vanke Center, Whet Moser, women architects, Yonge Street
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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.
Tags: Ackert Walkway, Andrew Whalley, Anthony Flint, Architect Barbie, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Botswana Innovation Hub, Carlo Frugiuele, Chelsea, climate change, CNN, Colin Cathcart, Design Research, Detroit, Flatiron District, Glasgow School of Art, Gregg Pasquarelli, Grimshaw Architects, high speed rail, historic preservation, industrial design, Jane Thompson, Jersey City, John Hoal, June Williamson, Ken Greenberg, Laurie Kerr, Local Law 84, manhattan, Metropolis, Missouri, New York City, New York Times, Olympia Kazi, pedestrianization, Pier A, Robert Rogers, Rogers Marvel, Saint Louis, SHoP Architects, shrinking cities, Stephen Holl, sustainability, Thom Mayne, Toni Griffin, Toronto, Treehugger, urban agriculture, Van Alen Institute, wanda bubriski, waterfront, women architects, Wrestling with Moses, Yonge Street
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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.
Tags: AIANY, Alessi, Architectural League, Brooklyn Bridge, Claire Weisz, Craig Dykers, Design, Emerging Voices, Events, exhibit, Gretchen Bank, Lisbon, Musea de Electricidade, New Museum, New York City, panel discussion, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, products, Robert Venturi, Roebling, Snohetta, wanda bubriski, women architects
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Metropolis recently interviewed Gregory Baldwin about ZGF’s design for a piazza in downtown Portland, OR; the Wall Street Journal spoke with Carmi Bee about his Berry Street residential project in Brooklyn; Deborah Berke, who recently wrapped up work on the master plan for the ECLA in Berlin, was named one of Elle Decor‘s Five Women in Design; Kenneth Drucker spoke to the Huffington Post about China’s plan to build 50 cities of one million people in the next two decades; Jamie Hand has accepted a new position as a Design Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC; Board Member Cathy Lang Ho’s full review of the Venice Architecture Biennale is up at Architect; Helmut Jahn’s ambitious proposal for the revamp of Navy Pier (pictured at left) has been stirring up debate in the Windy City; Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design Finland’s second-largest arena; John Portman will design a new 250- to 500-room hotel as part of the $700MM expansion of the San Diego Convention Center; and Lyn Rice’s work on the New School’s Manhattan campus was featured in gb&d Magazine‘s November issue (see p. 48).
Tags: Architect Magazine, Carmi Bee, Cathy Lang Ho, Chicago, China, daniel libeskind, Deborah Berke, Elle Decor, European College of Liberal Arts, Finland, gb&d Magazine, Gregory Baldwin, Helmut Jahn, hotel, Huffington Post, Jamie Hand, john portman, Kenneth Drucker, Lyn Rice, manhattan, Metropolis, National Endowment for the Arts, Navy Pier, New School, New York City, piazza, portland, public space, San Diego, Venice Architecture Biennial, wall street journal, washington dc, Williamsburg, women architects, Zimmer Gunsukl Frasca
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Fellow Beverly Willis, FAIA, recently screened and spoke about the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s film “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. A number of New York organizations also screened the film, including the 5th Annual NY Women in Real Estate Gala, where Willis gave a keynote address, the New York Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network, the New York AIA chapter Women-in-Architecture, and The School of Visual Arts.
Tags: AIANY, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, frank lloyd wright, national building museum, New York City, nycrew, real estate, school of visual arts, washington dc, women architects
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
On Thursday, January 14th at 5:00pm, AECOM New York will host “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”, a film screening and discussion led by Institute fellow Beverly Willis (Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation). Light refreshments. RSVP to tara.fenyak@aecom.com.
AECOM Offices
31 West 27th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY
Tags: AECOM, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, New York City, women architects
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