AIA New York Chapter

Center for Architecture

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Fit-City 3: Promoting Physical Activity Through Design

Tuesday, 05/20/2008, 8:00am–1:00pm
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.

Please join AIA NY and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for our annual conference on the role that architecture and planning can play in promoting physical activity for New Yorkers. Approximate times of speakers are listed in italics.

Breakfast and registration will take place from 8:00-8:30am.

Introduction:
Commissioner Thomas Frieden, MPH, DoHMH and Commissioner David Burney, FAIA, NYC Department of Design and Construction  (8:30-9:10am)

Keynote remarks:
Dr. James Sallis, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and Program Director of Active Living Research  (9:20-10:00am)

Panel 1: PlaNYC and a Fit NYC (10:15-11:15am)
Assistant Commissioner Lynn Silver, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Moderator); Commissioner Adrian Benepe, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Department of Transportation; Alexandros Washburn, AIA, Chief Urban Designer at the Department of City Planning

Panel 2: Thoughts from the Field (11:15am-12:15pm)
Joyce Lee, AIA, NYC Office of Management and Budget (Moderator); Brandon Mitchell, Full Spectrum NYC; Vishaan Chakrabarti, AIA, Related Companies; Stephanie Gelb, AIA, Battery Park City Authority; Robyne Kassen, Assoc. AIA, Pedestrian Studio

Keynote remarks:
Jan Gehl, Hon. FAIA, architect and public space consultant from Copenhagen, Denmark  (12:15-1:00pm)

As this event may fill up, make sure to RSVP via the "RSVP" link at the top of this listing.

SMPS-NY's Meet-the-Media Breakfast

Tuesday, 05/20/2008, 8:00–10:00am
NEW YORK CITY – Top editors and reporters who cover the architectural, engineering, and construction industries will address The New York Area Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS).

The panelists will be:
•Fred Eliason, deputy real estate editor, The New York Times
•Theresa Agovino, real estate reporter, Crain’s New York Business
•Jan Tuchman, Editor-in-chief, Engineering News-Record
•Beth Broome, Managing Editor, Architectural Record
•Bill Menking, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Architects Newspaper

The moderator will be Rachel Antman, account director with the public relations firm LVM Group.

Among the topics expected to be covered will be:
•What are the best ways for architecture-engineering-construction
firms to obtain fair and accurate coverage from the media?
•Should the media be our cheerleaders?
•To what extent - if any - does advertising affect editorial coverage?

“This panel discussion will provide a unique opportunity to enhance your relationship with the media that matter most to your firm and your potential clients,” says Michael McCann, CPSM, president of SMPS-NY and Director of Business Development for DF Gibson Architects. “This is your chance to have New York City's premier A/E/C editors and reporters answer questions from you.” “At this breakfast panel, attendees will meet the reporters and editors from key media who cover the A/E/C world, and learn how the various publications work, including how to target journalists and tips on achieving coverage with the right combination of timing, targeting, and content,” says David M. Grant, president of LVM Group, who put the program together. Patti Grew of AKF Engineers is director of SMPS-NY's Programs Committee.
Organized and sponsored by: SMPS-NY
Location: Penn Club, 30 West 44th Street
Member Price: $65
Nonmember Price: $85
Telephone/Fax: 212.499.6565/212.751.2862
Contact: David M. Grant, LVM Group

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Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925): A Life in Architecture

Tuesday, 05/20/2008, 6:00–8:00pm

Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925): A Life in Architecture An illustrated lecture by Dr. Samuel Gruber, 2006 Brunner Award recipient

Arnold Brunner was a leading American architect and urban planner from 1885 to 1925. Today, most architects know his name, but few know his work or can even name his many buildings. This year, the 150th anniversary of Brunner's birth, architectural historian Samuel Gruber was awarded the Brunner Grant from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter to research Brunner's life and work. Brunner is known as the first successful American-born Jewish architect, and an important designer of synagogues and Jewish institutional buildings. But he was also one of the founders of modern urban planning and an important designer of civic architecture in New York City, Cleveland, Harrisburg, Albany, and elsewhere. His work on the Cleveland Plan and other “City Beautiful” projects (which he always called “the City Practical”) helped transform American cities. In New York, in addition to designing over two dozen buildings, he was also influential in developing the first zoning laws.

Brunner’s transition from the H.H. Richardson-inspired architecture of his early career (with Thomas Tryon) to the rigorous classicism and historicism of his mature years is representative of the transition experienced in American architecture between the 1880s and 1920s. In an illustrated lecture, Dr. Gruber will review the highlights of Brunner's career, and place his life and work in the context of Jewish and American values and aesthetics from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.

SAMUEL D. GRUBER is Director of the Jewish Heritage Research Center (Syracuse, NY). Dr. Gruber is author of American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community (Rizzoli, 2003) and Synagogues (Metrobooks, NY, 1999); co-author of Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in the Czech Republic (1995) and Survey of Historic Jewish Sites in Poland (1994, second revised edition, 1995); and a contributor to many publications including Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture, (Prestel, 2004.). He is a frequent contributor to the Forward newspaper, and the author of numerous reports and articles about medieval architecture, Jewish art and architecture and historic preservation and is presently involved in over thirty research, documentation, conservation, planning and preservation projects worldwide. Dr. Gruber is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and is Rothman Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University. He lives in Syracuse, New York, where is President of the Preservation association of Central New York.

In 2006 Gruber was recipient of the Brunner Grant from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, and a research grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation to assist in the writing a preservation manual for religious properties.

Speaker: Samuel D. Gruber, Director of the Jewish Heritage Research Center, Syracuse, NY
Organized by: Center for Architecture
Sponsored by: Scholarship Committee of the AIA New York Chapter
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: Free
Telephone: 212.358.6121

Beijing's Olympic Stadium: The Bird's Nest

Tuesday, 05/20/2008, 6:00–8:00pm
This year, the 2008 Olympics will be held in Beijing. In preparation for this event, China has been constructing amazing projects for the Olympic games. Herzog de Meuron's "Bird's Nest" stadium stands out as one of the premier projects of the effort, gaining attraction for its unique use of steel in defining itself. SEAoNY will present a lecture describing and defining the great work that went into this project in preparation for its use on the world stage.
Organized by: Structural Engineers Association of NY
Sponsored by: ARUP
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Member Price: $20 for SEAoNY members
Nonmember Price: $40
Please note that an additional charge of $10 will be applied for registration received at the door.
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More Info: http://www.seaony.org

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