Friday, February 23, 2007
The Mayor's 2030 Planning Process: GreeNYC follow-up discussion
Friday, 02/23/2007, 8:00–10:00am
This is a follow-up to the New York New Visions series "An Evolving Conversation" about the Mayor's Plan for NYC 2030. An interactive discussion of 'GreeNYC' goals of becoming a sustainable and environmentally sensitive city.
Organized by: AIA NY Planning and Urban Design Committee
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Member Price: $10
Nonmember Price: $15
CES LUs: 1.5, CES HSW: 1.5
Architecture of the Air: The Sound and Light Environments by Christopher Janney
Friday, 02/23/2007, 5:00–7:00pm
Due to overwhelming response, this event is no longer accepting RSVPs. Seats will be available first to those that have RSVP'd and then on a first come, first serve basis.
Christopher Janney is a musician who designs buildings, an architect who makes music, an artist whose works invite interaction and engagement as opposed to passive appreciation. His big idea is, in essence, absurdly simple, yet if taken up and widely applied could have profound and far-reaching effects on the environments where we live, work and play. As documented in this fascinating new book, his Urban Musical Instruments are public installations or constructions that double as instruments that can be played by people in the vicinity. In Touch My Building (1998) a giant bank garage in North Carolina gains colored glass panels and neon fins that trigger sound and light. Sonic Forest is an array of 25 aluminum columns fitted with speakers, lights and sensors that are triggered by human interaction, the music continually changing and evolving in response. It can be set up differently as the site demands. These works are what public art should be - intriguing, colorful, exciting and sensitive and responsive to the environment they are located in.
Speaker: Christopher Janney
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: Free
"Yona Friedman: About Cities" Exhibition Opening Reception
Friday, 02/23/2007, 6:00–8:00pm
Opening Reception for "About Cities," Yona Friedman's first solo exhibition in the United States, on view in the Drawing Room through April 7, 2007.
Organized and sponsored by: The Drawing Center
Location: The Drawing Room
40 Wooster Street (between Broome & Grand Streets)
Subway: 1, 6, A, C, E, J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W to Canal Street
Price: Free
It is the responsibility of those who list non-Chapter events on the AIA New York Chapter's web site to ensure all details (including continuing education credits) regarding those events are listed accurately. We recommend that you verify all details concerning non-Chapter events before making plans to attend via the contact information provided.
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: OBRA Architects
Friday, 02/23/2007, 6:30pm
Join leading contemporary artists as they discuss their work, the creative process, and issues in contemporary art.
Based in New York, OBRA Architects was founded by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee in 2000. OBRA Architects was named one of the 2005 Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York, and has exhibited internationally. The firm received two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and won the 2006 P.S.1/MoMA Young Architects Program competition for BEATFUSE!, a courtyard installation of interconnecting curved shells and wooden tidal pools.
Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film desk, the Cullman Building lobby, or online at www.ticketweb.com
Organized by: Museum of Modern Art
Location: Bartos Theater
4 West 54th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Contact: www.ticketweb.com
It is the responsibility of those who list non-Chapter events on the AIA New York Chapter's web site to ensure all details (including continuing education credits) regarding those events are listed accurately. We recommend that you verify all details concerning non-Chapter events before making plans to attend via the contact information provided.
Resonating Frequencies
Friday, 02/23/2007, 7:00–9:00pm
Christopher Janney moderates a discussion between David Byrne, former leader of the Talking Heads and star of Jonathan Demme's box office hit "Stop Making Sense" and architect Elizabeth Diller, a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and hailed by the New York Times as a "visionary." Together the artists will discuss new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music.
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter
Sponsored by: The Center for Architecture and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Member Price: $10
Nonmember Price: $15
CES LUs: TBD, CES HSW: TBD