• NEXT/the future-shaping generation
• Schwartz Named for New Jersey Memorial
• Center Talk & Exhibition: July 15: 4 Teams 4 Visions: Design Approaches to the High Line Master Plan
• Villa Tugendhat
• Twenty-Second Annual Art Commission Awards for Excellence in Design
• Design Awards Call for Entries
• July 10: Call for Submissions: Prophesy Magazine
• July 12-16: Cooper-Hewitt Celebrates 10th Annual Summer Design Institute
• July 14: The Design Coalition for the Rebuilding of New York: Professional Forum
• Architectural League Launches Dhaka Unconcealed
• Student Days@the Center
• Get Your Walking Shoes
• New Training and Certification Program to Help Improve Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Buildings
• Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Wallis Annenberg Cultural Center of Beverly Hills
• Larsen Shein Ginsberg Snyder: Clinton Mews Apartments
• Names in the News
• NYCan-do Wins Canstruction
• Members in June
• On View: Storefront for Art and Architecture
• Urban Center Books Top 10 Sellers for June 2004
• Deadlines
• Classifieds
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An Exhibition featuring the work of dozens of emerging architects and designers, including the winner and 17 runners-up of the Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, and the 15 architecture firms profiled in Oculus Spring 2004 issue “New York Next: Faces of the Future”. Opening reception: TONIGHT! - Thursday, July 1, 2004 at 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a NEXT WORKSHOP series of moderated, interactive discussions about the concerns of young architects and designers. The workshops aim to bring forth information that is useful, practical, and inspirational to those who are creating the design culture of the 21st century. Participants will include the individuals profiled in the OCULUS Spring issue “New York Next: Faces of the Future” and finalists in Metropolis magazine’s Next Generation Design Prize.

Wednesday, July 28 – NEXT: Business, Collaboration & Advocacy
6:00 – 8:00pm
2 CES
Cost: $10
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Wednesday, August 4 – NEXT: Materiality & Technology
6:00 – 8:00pm
2 CES
Cost: $10
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Exhibition will be on view July 1 - August 7, 2004

Frederic Schwartz, AIA, was named today as the architect for the New Jersey September 11th Memorial, to be located at the water’s edge in Liberty State Park opposite the World Trade Center. A design jury of eleven family members accompanied New Jersey Governer James E. McGreevey at the announcement and design presentation in the Victory Theater of NJPAC in downtown Newark. Governor McGreevey spoke of the “common purpose” arising from the legacies of those lost, and introduced Fred Schwartz as “an architect of incredible vision, thought, and majesty.” The design, called “Empty Sky,” was described by Schwartz as “remembering those lost, while simply and powerfully connecting the New Jersey community to Ground Zero.” Names of the 710 New Jersey residents who perished on September 11th are engraved in parallel 30-foot-high, 200-foot-long brushed stainless steel walls, set 16 feet apart. The pathway created between the two walls is level with the adjoining Liberty State Park esplanade, but cuts through a gently sloping berm planted with dogwoods and violets. Along with Jessica Jamroz of Frederic Schwartz Architects, the project team included Landscape Architect Ken Smith, Lighting Consultant Kenneth Douglas of Illumination Arts, ARUP for structural and electrical engineering, and Frank J. Sciame Construction for cost and construction consultation. Jury professional advisors included Nikki Stern, Director of Families of September 11th, and AIA New York Chapter Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA.

The four finalists in the Designing the High Line Competition will present their master plans in a discussion at the Center on Thursday, July 15. The panel, moderated by Kurt Andersen, will include members from the teams: Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Olafur Eliasson, Piet Oudolf, and Buro Happold; Zaha Hadid Architects with Balmori Associates, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, and studio MDA; Steven Holl Architects with Hargreaves Associates, and HNTB; and TerraGRAM: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates with D.I.R.T. Studio and Beyer Blinder Belle. The event will begin at 6:00pm. Admission is free; RSVP: rsvp@aiany.org or call 212-358-6111. The exhibition, "4 Teams 4 Visions," will be on view at the Center through August 14, featuring never-before-seen concepts for the 1.5-mile-long High Line's conversion.

A panel discussion on excellence in public design, featuring the 17 award-winning projects from the 2002 & 2003 Art Commission Design Awards, will be held at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, on July 19th at 5:30 p.m. with a reception to follow. Mitchell Moss, Professor of Urban Policy & Planning at New York University will moderate the panel, which includes David Burney, AIA, Commissioner of the New York City
Department of Design and Construction; Nicholas Quennell, FASLA, Quennell Rothschild & Partners, LLP; Nancy Rosen, Public Art Advisor; and Marla Simpson, Director of the Mayor's Office of Contract Services.

The 2003 Design Awards will be conferred by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Monday, July 12th and will be on view at the Center for Architecture from July 19th through August 7th.

Congratulations to the 2003 Design Award recipients:

• Construction of the Queens Community District 14 Garage and Salt Shed
  Almeda Avenue and Beach 51st Street, Edgemere, Queens
  A Project of the Department of Sanitation
  Mike Friedlander & Staff, Department of Sanitation
  Judd Designs/DaSilva Black Calcagni Chesser, Architects, A Joint Venture
• Redesign of the Gardens of Remembrance
  Upper Promenade, The Battery, Manhattan
  A Project of The Battery Conservancy and the Department of Parks & Recreation
  Piet Oudolf, Garden Designer
• Installation of an Entrance Canopy, Light Sculpture and a Distinctive Sidewalk
  The Skyscraper Museum
  39 Battery Place, Battery Park City, Manhattan
  A Project of the Skyscraper Museum
  James Turrell, Artist
  Roger Duffy, AIA, SOM
• Reconstruction of the Northern Portion of the Columbus Park Landscape
  South of Bayard Street between Baxter Street and Mulberry Street, Manhattan
  A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
  Hui Mei Grove, RLA, Department of Parks & Recreation
• Construction of Shaft 21 Superstructure over Water Tunnel No. 1
  285 South Street at Clinton Street, Manhattan
  A Project of the Department of Environmental Protection
  Robert D. Cuevas, Department of Environmental Protection
• Design of the West 8th Street Station South Facade
  Coney Island, Brooklyn
  A Project of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit/New York City Transit
  Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio
  James McConnell, Daniel Frankfurt PC
• Reconstruction of the Ground Floor and Plaza of El Museo del Barrio
  1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, Manhattan
  A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Design and Construction
  Jordan L. Gruzen, FAIA, Gruzen Samton LLP
• Special Recognition Award
  Design of Front Entrance and Plaza
  Brooklyn Museum
  200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
  A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Design and Construction
  James S. Polshek, FAIA, & Duncan R. Hazard, AIA, Polshek Partnership Architects LLP

The AIANYC Design Awards Committee is placing its Call for Entries for this year’s Design Awards which recognize excellence in the following three categories: Architecture, Interior Design, and (Unbuilt) Projects. The juries for this year’s program represent some of the outstanding practitioners on the international scene. Click on the graphic above for more details. Deadline for entry forms and fees: 5:00 PM, Friday, August 20, 2004, Submissions deadline: 5:00 PM, Friday, September 17, 2004

Prophecy Magazine, a quarterly publication that “fuses architecture, fashion, music, art and metropolitan culture,” is seeking submissions for "The Lab" section of it's upcoming, sixth issue, "Influence." The section is a forum for architectural discourse and architectural/conceptual renderings usually featuring the works of three architects/designers. The magazine is distributed internationally including New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, and London. Submission deadline is July 10; e-mail lab@urbanprophecy.com for details.

Designers and design educators are invited to join the Cooper-Hewitt's 10th annual Summer Design Institute. The one-week program, July 12 - 16, is an opportunity to share and explore new teaching strategies for engaging K-12 students in the design process.

Sessions include workshops, master classes, studio visits, and keynote presentations. Among the featured presenters will be Kurt Andersen, novelist, design critic; William McDonough, FAIA; Ralph Caplan, author, "By Design;" Seymour Chwast, Co-founder, Push Pin Studios (and designer of 2004 SDI poster pictured here); and Ellen Lupton, Curator, Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt. Program partners include The New York Foundation for Architecture, Center for Architecture; The Salvadori Center; Art Center College of Design; and Chicago Architecture Foundation. The fee is $250/museum members and $300/non-members. The Summer Design Institute will be held at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, One Bowling Green. Click on link above for details and registration form.

On Wednesday, July 14th, 8am at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York New Visions will hold an open meeting to to stimulate discussion related to issues of design and planning at the World Trade Center site. This will be an opportunity to share information and insights between the agencies, their designers, and our New York New Visions professional membership regarding the redevelopment process. This off-record discussion will focus on the relationships between transportation and planning framework, building and site design, program options, and development strategy. Speakers include; Daniel Libeskind, Master Plan, Michael Arad, Memorial Design, David Childs, Freedom Tower, Santiago Calatrava, PATH Terminal, Betty Chen and Kevin Rampe, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Anthony Cracciolo, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and
Vishaan Chakrabarti, NYC Department of City Planning.

The event is free, but you registration is required, please write to Annie Kurtin, admin@newyorknewvisions.org or call 212-358-6126

CES Lus: 2

Last month, the League posted "Dhaka Unconcealed," the second installment of its web-based project, "Worldview Cities: Contemporary Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism from Around the Globe. The online report, by Bangladeshi architectural historians and architects Kazi Ashraf and Saif ul Haque, examines the built environment of Bangladesh's capital city, and includes essays by Ashraf and ul Haque, maps, photographs, and information on local architectural firms. Worldview Cities is edited by Alex Kliment and designed by Brian Spinks. Click on link above, where you'll also be able to view the project's first report on Caracas, Venezuela.

No more teachers, no more books…

School is out, architecture workshops are in. The New York Foundation for Architecture will be holding a series of exciting afternoon events at the Center for Architecture for summer session students with the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service.

These Students Days@the Center are hands-on workshops that pose fun and timely design challenges. Attendees tackle all sorts of issues including school design, playground planning and public art. Their solutions are inventive, creative and occasionally crazy.

If you would like to arrange a workshop for a summer school, camp group, sports team, or youth club, please call Carole Herman at 212-358-6134 or e-mail her at cherman@nyfarchitecture.org.

We look forward to seeing you at the Center this summer!

Stroll around the city this month with the Museum of the City of New York Walking Tours. The first in the series, From Dakota to Montana, will begin at 6pm on July 15 with "Wild West" starting out at the Dakota Apartments, 72nd Street and Central Park West with architectural historian John Tauranac. The others are: Thursday, July 22 at 6pm: Mansions and Museums with David Hupert, an urban planner and museum specialist; Friday, July 23 at 1pm: Behind the Scenes in East Harlem with MCNY curator Kathy Benson; and Thursday, July 29 at 6pm: A Walk in the Park With NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. All walking tours are $6 for Museum members, seniors, and students; $10 for non-members. Advance registration is required; click on link above, or call 212-534-1672, ext. 3393 for information and reservations.

The Association for Energy Affordability, Inc. (AEA) has been funded by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) to develop new curriculum and training programs designed to prepare building operators and heating system designers to obtain Certifications by the Building Performance Institute (BPI). BPI's top industry experts are developing standards and practices for the new certifications. AEA will offer the courses beginning by early September 2004 at AEA's new fully equipped Energy Management Training Center (EMTC) in the Bronx. For more information, click on link above, or call Michele Lerable: mlerable@aeanyc.org or 212-279-3902.

Last month the Beverly Hills Cultural Center Foundation was happy to announce that a $15 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation will go to the Wallis Annenberg Cultural Center of Beverly Hills. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates is designing the $30 million project, which involves the preservation and adaptation of the historic Beverly Hills Post Office (on the National Register of Historic Places) into a performing arts and cultural facility with a 500-seat theater, a smaller studio theater/rehearsal hall, classrooms, a café, and sculpture garden. Southern California-based Melendrez Design Partners is the landscape architect and Freeman Group is managing the Cultural Center building project. Project completion is set for late 2007.

A $40 million, two-building apartment complex, designed by Larsen Shein Ginsberg Snyder, is currently under construction on a sound-resistant, 18-inch-thick pre-cast concrete platform that straddles the AMTRAK railroad tracks in the Clinton section of Manhattan. When completed in May 2005, the two seven-story buildings will include 151 market rate rental apartments. The project is being developed by Grand Development Group, LLC, a venture of Second Development Services and Procida Realty & Construction Corp. of NY.

Robert Davidson, FAIA, is leaving his position as PANYNJ Chief Architect to join STV, Inc. as Senior Vice President for Transportation Facility Planning and Architecture… Roger Klein, AIA, has been named principal at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Rob Cole was named an associate principal, and Randy Fahey was named a senior associate at the firm… Louise Braverman Architect's low-income housing project Chelsea Court recently was given a 2004 BSA/AIA New York Housing Design Program Award, as well as 2004 National Housing PIA Design Award.

In case you haven't heard, New York City won three prizes in the 8th National Canstruction Competition, juried in Chicago during the 2004 AIA and Society of Design Administration annual conventions. We came in tops for number of structures and second in total pounds (Vancouver came out on top in pounds).

Newly Licensed Architect, Congratulations!
Joakim Aspegren, AIA, Architecture Restoration Conservation, PC

New Architect Members
William M. Bateson, AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Gustavo M. Bonevardi, AIA, West Side Industries
Betty Y. Chen, AIA, LMDC
Jung W. Chin, AIA, Jung Wor Chin - Architect
Robert Cody, AIA, Beckhard Richlan Associates
Vincent W. Dell'Aquila, AIA, Starbucks Corporation
Suzanne M. Henry, AIA, Furnstahl & Simon Architects, LLP
Ann Kalla, AIA, Cicognani Kalla Architects, PC
Maxwell W. Pau, AIA, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
William C. Sharp, AIA, Will Sharp Architects
Gregory R. Smith, AIA, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum

Reinstating Architect Members
Jong Kwon Cho, AIA, KLC Architects
James A. Cicalo, AIA, Form Space Image Architecture, PC
Percy Charles Griffin, AIA, Griffin Architect and Planner
Robert L. Luntz, AIA, Resolution: 4 Architecture
Jesse A. Reiser, AIA, RUR Architecture
William E. Rooney, AIA, Alexandra Champali Maud and Associates
Daniel M. Schunkewitz, AIA, The Schunkewitz Partnership LLP
Joseph D. Tanney, Jr., AIA, Resolution: 4 Architecture

New Associate Members
Ryan C. Clarke, Assoc. AIA, HLW International
Evangeline Dennie, Assoc. AIA, New Civic Works
Matthew Jogan, Assoc. AIA, Christoff Finio Architecture
Bruce Nichol, Assoc. AIA, Front
Shannon R. Quast, Assoc. AIA, Hok Architects
Stefan Wasilweski, Assoc. AIA, Design Construction Studio, Inc.

Reinstating Associate Member
Glenn S. Sarsale, Assoc. AIA, Peter Sweeny Architects

New Center for Architecture Professional
Robert Syska, Let It Grow Indoor Landscapes, Inc.

New Center for Architecture Public Members
Gabriele Knecht
William J. Kraus

New Student Member
Raheli Salkin Millman

The Chapter has also learned of the deaths of the following Emeritus Members:
Benjamin Gaudy, AIA, Benjamin Gaudy, Architect
Simon Breines, FAIA
Olindo Grossi, FAIA, New York Institute of Technology
Eason H. Leonard, FAIA

Storefront for Art and Architecture, through July 31: "History Images," a series of color photographs depicting the impact of rapid urban development on China's landscape by artist Sze Tsung Leong. (Picutred here: Sze Tsung Leong, Shibati, Yuzhong District, Chongquing, 2003; courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.)

1. Content, Koolhaas, Rem
2. Field Guide to Sprawl, Hayden, D.
3. New York Architecture & Design, Adam, H.
4. Cool Restaurants New York, Reschke, C.
5. Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, Phaidon
6. Prefab Modern, Herbers, J.
7. Dark Age Ahead, Jacobs, J.
8. Guide to New York City Landmarks, Dolkart, A.
9. Young Architect's 5, Architectural League
10. Twentieth Century Sprawl, Gutfreund, O.

For more info: www.urbancenterbooks.org

July 30: Architect of the Year Awards 2004: Open to architectural firms that have a permanently staffed office in the UK, but not necessarily headquartered in the UK.

July 31 (registration): Paris 2012: Olympic Landmark International Competition; submissions due September 6

August 6: 2004 Architecture Website Awards

August 20: 3rd International Bauhaus Award

September 1 (registration): Siyathemba: International Open Design Competition: Soccer/Football facility for Somkele, South Africa, sponsored by Architecture for Humanity; submissions due October 1

September 14: ar+d 2004 emerging architecture award

October 1 (registration): Emerging Professionals Guest House/Studio Design Competition

October 15 (registration): Green Dollhouse Competition: Start Small. Think Big. Build Green.

October 29: First Annual Innovation in Workforce Housing Awards: decent and affordable homes for workforce heroes (no entry fee)

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