10.31.05

Editor's note: A busy fall is being had by all…and it's only getting busier! Be sure to vote however you choose on November 8. Be sure to check out the 2006 editorial calendar for Oculus magazine which leads "In The News + New Deadlines." And be sure to save the date, December 6, for the annual AIA NY Chapter's Inaugural celebrations!

Kristen Richards—kristen@aiany.org
Dan Hillman—dhillman@aiany.org
Linda G. Miller

ABOVE THE FOLD

Election Day is Tuesday, November 8th…AIA NY Chapter Urges You to Vote!

The AIA New York Chapter urges you to go to the polls—get your friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to do the same—and:

Vote YES on Proposition 2—the Rebuild and Renew Transportation Bond Act of 2005. Passage of the bond act will raise $2.9 BILLION for the State's five-year capital plan, and allow NYC to qualify for up to $5 BILLION dollars in Federal Transportation matching funds for such projects as East Side Access, the Second Avenue Subway and the JFK Rail Link to Lower Manhattan. Click here for details.

Vote NO on Proposition 1—the New York State Budget Reform Amendment. Intended to give the New York State Legislature incentives to pass a timely budget, the proposed amendment will do exactly the opposite. It will reward the Legislature for delaying the Governor's budget. Click here for details.

Job Opportunities

The AIA New York Chapter seeks a Development Associate for Corporate Relations
See aiany.org/jobs/DevelopmentAssociate.pdf for details.

The Center for Architecture Foundation seeks a Program Manager
See aiany.org/jobs/ProgramManager.pdf for details.

The AIA New York Chapter seeks a Communications Technology Coordinator
See aiany.org/jobs/CommTechCoord.pdf for details.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(For those reading eOculus via email, please note that clicking on a link in the Table of Contents may open this issue in your Web browser).

Above the Fold

• Election Day is Tuesday, November 8th…AIA NY Chapter Urges You to Vote!
• Job Opportunity

Reports from the Field

• NYC High Performance Buildings: The Developer's Perspective
• 42nd Street Light Rail Update
• School Design and Building Community
• Housing Design Awards Celebration
• Getting to Great

In the News + New Deadlines

• Oculus 2006 Editorial Calendar
• New Deadlines: ENYA's Southpoint: From Ruin to Rejuvenation - the Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center Ideas Competition | Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition | Entrance of Illumination - Lighting the Entrance Hall for 2006 Architectural Digest Home Design Show | Get On The Bus: Interdisciplinary Exhibition and Event Series | Nominate National Trust 2006 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places | Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2006 | ASLA Professional & Student Awards
• Kashmir Earthquake Update
• Interchange: 15 Nassau Street
• Beyer Blinder Belle: A Sacramento Civic and Religious Landmark Faithfully Restored
• Tonetti Associates Architects: Back to the Future for Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center at Fort Ticonderoga
• LZA Associates: Aquariums Take Flight at Avitat Westchester
• Names in the News

Around the AIA and the Center for Architecture

• Sighted at the Getting to Great Practice Management Conference
• 2006 Nominating Committee

On View

At the Center for Architecture: Field Experiments in art-architecture-landscape: Hombroich spaceplacelab | 2005 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards | Everything Housing: From Homeless Shelters to Luxury Living AIA New York Chapter 2005 Housing Design Awards | Two Columbus Circle (plus): Museum of Arts & Design and Allied Works Architecture

Elsewhere: Elsewhere: The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940 | Designing the Taxi | Canstruction | Preservation on the Edge: Our Threatened East River Heritage | Fresh Projects: Shimmer | Serving Conscience: Calvin Tsao, Tsao & McKown Architects, NYC | Transcending Type | The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography

eCalendar
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Deadlines

AIA New York Chapter Membership Report—September/October 2005

Classifieds

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD

NYC High Performance Buildings: The Developer's Perspective

Excerpt from an article written by Gunnar Hand, contributing writer for The Architect's Newspaper, the Sallan Foundation, and other publications; the complete article will soon be available at www.sallan.org. The final panel discussion on High Performance Buildings Policy issues will be held at the Center for Architecture on December 6.

On October 19, the third of four High Performance Buildings programs was held at the Center for Architecture. The panel, "Architects and Developers—the Practice and Challenge of Building Green," was sponsored by the Sallan Foundation, the Municipal Art Society, and the AIA NY Chapter Committee on the Environment (COTE). Moderator, Carlton Brown, Chief Operating Officer of the Full Spectrum development group, explained, "Although nobody knew what green buildings were six years ago, everyone on the panel tonight agrees the tempo needs to be sped up."

Bruce Fowle, FAIA, Principal, FXFOWLE Architects (formerly Fox & Fowle Architects), talked about his firm's pioneering efforts in sustainable architecture. Lydia Tom, Deputy Director, Enterprise Foundation New York, explained her organization's approach of balancing practical green design and affordable housing. John Krieble, Director, Office of Sustainable Design, NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC), reviewed his agency's mandate to build green. "We are here tonight to try and comprehend what the barriers are in each of these sectors—private architectural design, non-profit development, and public administration—and how we can begin to work with each other," declared Brown.

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42nd Street Light Rail Update
by Jim Wright, AIA

vision42: auto-free transit mall at Bryant Park
Courtesy Institute for Rational Urban Mobility

Interest in a cross-town light rail line on 42nd Street is resurfacing again.

Picking up on a defunct 1990s-era plan to build a cross-town light rail line on 42nd Street, the not-for-profit Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM) has expanded the concept with the vision42 initiative: an auto-free transit mall linking ferry terminals and planned development areas on the far east and far west sides of midtown Manhattan. IRUM Chair Roxanne Warren, AIA, and Co-chair George Haikalis, ASCE, explained the proposal and summarized key elements of several recently commissioned planning and economics studies for an AIA NY Planning & Urban Design and Transportation & Infrastructure Committees panel discussion at the Center for Architecture on October 21.

Citing successful light rail/pedestrian malls in the U.S. and abroad, IRUM is proposing a fixed rail, overhead catenary system with low-floor vehicles running at 3½-minute intervals along a pedestrian-friendly, paved and landscaped 42nd Street. According to Haikalis, time saving for commuters would result in gains in property values of up to $3.5 billion along the route, which could provide the means to finance the projected $500 million construction cost. It is expected that operations would be self-sustaining. If successful, a second phase could complete the loop with a cross-town segment on 34th Street.

Panelist and planner John Petitt West III, AIA, of the Community Preservation Corporation, observed that the proposal has as much appeal as an open space project as it has as a transportation project because midtown suffers from a chronic shortage of open spaces. While echoing the desire for relief from the ever-increasing midtown crush, Tim Tompkins, Executive Director of the Times Square Alliance, questioned whether the displaced auto traffic would have a benign effect as indicated in IRUM's traffic studies. Will Haas, City Planning Project Director of the West Side/Hudson Yards Plan, noted that a surface light rail system would complement rather than compete with the planned extension of the #7 subway line from Times Square to 34th Street and 11th Avenue since they serve different transit functions. Peter Hopkinson, speaking from his experience as Chief Architect with DMJM Harris for the MTA's East Side Access Terminal at Grand Central, noted that the challenge will be in overcoming the many hurdles such as locating a maintenance facility within the most densely zoned and valuable areas of midtown.

Given the previous Giuliani administration's lukewarm stance on the last proposal for light rail on 42nd Street, gaining institutional support looms as perhaps the biggest challenge. Even with much grassroots support for vision42, the City and MTA have yet to get behind the current proposal.

School Design and Building Community
by Paul Broches, FAIA, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP

Mitchell/Giurgola Architects: PS 156, Brownsville
Kevin Chu/KCJP

The City is made up of many villages. "Village" is also a wonderful metaphor for the schoolhouse. School is ideally the village of the intellect and the forum for civic and civil interaction. The schoolhouse plays an enormously important role in community building. And it can do so much more. To illustrate the potential of the symbiosis of school and community, the New York Chapter of Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR/NY) and the AIA NY Committee on Architecture for Education co-sponsored "Designing Schools and Building Community Involvement: How social services and cultural curricula can expand the boundaries of the schoolhouse and create anchors for community life," on October 18, at the Center for Architecture. The program examined two case studies.

In Washington Heights, IS 218 bridges school and community by offering within the school complex family support and medical, dental and mental health services. Architect Richard Dattner, FAIA, working closely with the Children's Aid Society, its CEO Philip Coltoff (now retired), and the NYC School Construction Authority, created a model for full-service public community schools that has been adapted in over 100 communities in the U.S. and abroad, including Cuba, France, the Netherlands, and Vietnam. This program has been adopted in 13 NYC schools—and should be in every school.

Dattner Architects: IS 218, Washington Heights
Norman McGrath

The second example is a primary and middle school in Brownsville, designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, where curriculum development in the arts is the springboard for community engagement. What is unique about The Waverly School (PS 156/IS 392) are the "bottom up" initiatives, taken by the principals Martha Rodriguez-Torres and Oswaldo Malave, and parents association, to advocate strongly for a building program that would reflect the dynamic arts curriculum, developed in conjunction with The Center for Arts Education and the Annenberg Foundation. A dance studio, recording studio, and arts programming are credited with engaging the students in a manner never imagined.

The tangible results within several years were a near doubling of reading and math scores, and a tremendous increase in the desire for parents to send their students to the school. The new school bathes the street in light, color, welcome and neighborhood pride (as reported by the parents association) that has helped to stabilize what had been a depressed and threatening neighborhood.

We hope the Department of Education and City leaders will take note and take action.

In closing the program, Malave read a poem by Nigeria Tate, a student at PS 156:

My poem has a mind of its own.
It walks through the streets on its paper feet,
Follows the words that surround it,
Speaks its mind as it buries itself in the moonlight.
It wants to be heard.
It wants to be found,
But it sees no one around.

Housing Design Awards Celebration
by Linda G. Miller

"This is a great occasion for the AIA New York Chapter," said incoming Chapter president Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, "as it marks the first time the AIA has recognized Housing Design, separately from our Chapter Design Awards program." The occasion was the opening of the exhibit, "Everything Housing: From Homeless Shelters to Luxury Living—AIA New York Chapter 2005 Housing Design Awards," on October 17 at the Center for Architecture.

The Housing Design Awards program, which complements the Chapter's established annual Design Awards, is the Chapter's first "building types" award. It was born out of the desire to recognize the significant role that housing design—from Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD)-supported projects to luxury glass towers—plays in the life of the City and indeed, the world.

In this, the program's inaugural year, the Housing Committee, chaired by James McCullar, FAIA, and co-chaired by Wids DeLaCour, AIA, received 102 entries. The jury, composed of Santa Monica-based Julie Eizenberg, AIA, Oakland-based Michael Pyatok, FAIA, and Adele Naude Santos, FAIA, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, selected nine Awards and five Citations. Dean Santos returned to the Center opening night to present the projects, and comment on the jury's deliberations and observations, many of which can be read in the exhibit text.

Thirteen of the 14 winning projects are located in New York (the 14th is in Korea), and six winners are HPD projects. According to HPD Commissioner Shaun Donovan, who was in attendance, new housing construction in New York City has reached a 32-year high, and continues to climb. "Great design benefits new building residents, helps regenerate neighborhoods, and reinforces New York's reputation as the design capital of the world," he said. "It is inspiring that so many of the winners are affordable housing developments."

Everything Housing: From Homeless Shelters to Luxury Living—AIA New York Chapter 2005 Housing Design Awards will be on view at the Center through December 3. Click link for a complete list of the winning projects, architects, and clients.

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IN THE NEWS + NEW DEADLINES

Oculus 2006 Editorial Calendar

Don't be shy. If you have ideas, projects, opinions—or perhaps a burning desire to write about a topic below—we want to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me. Submission deadlines are indicated below. —Kristen Richards, Editor-in-Chief: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com

Special Issue: AIA New York Chapter Design Awards and Housing Design Awards (closed)

Spring: Beyond Manhattan
Spotlight on projects in the outer boroughs and along the neighboring New Jersey shoreline communities
Ideas due: December 20

Summer: Architecture as Public Policy
Major public design and planning projects which are transforming New York's urban environment
Ideas due: March 20

Fall: Infrastructure New York
Key infrastructure and transportation projects shaping New York's future
Ideas due: June 20

Winter: The Business of Practice
A focus on the business of design
Ideas due: September 20

Reminder! Deadline November 11: Arnold W. Brunner Grant
The AIA New York Chapter sponsors the Brunner Grant (.pdf) for advanced study in any area of architectural investigation which will most effectively contribute to the practice, teaching, or knowledge of the art and science of architecture. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen engaged in the profession of architecture or a related field and have a professional background more advanced than five years of architectural training or its equivalent. Click on link for details.

Reminder! Registration Deadline November 18: ENYA's Southpoint: From Ruin to Rejuvenation—the Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center Ideas Competition
The registration deadline looms for the AIA NY Chapter Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Committee's 2006 biennial international ideas competition, Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation—the Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center. Young and emerging architects and designers who have completed their education within the past 10 years are invited to enter. Submission deadline is January 13, 2006. Click on link for details.

Deadline December 1: 2006 Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition
Michael Graves, Milton Glaser, Andrée Putnam, and Yves Béhar have all created one-of-a-kind martini glass designs for Bombay Sapphire. You could join their ranks by entering the 2006 Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition (as long as you are 21 years or older). The top three finalists will be flown to the glassblowing studio in Oregon where their creations will be realized. The grand prize winner will be invited to compete in the global competition in Milan and receive a $3,000 gift certificate from Apple stores. Click on link for details.

Deadline December 6: Entrance of Illumination—Lighting the Entrance Hall for 2006 Architectural Digest Home Design Show
The Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section (IESNY) invites professional lighting designers with up to five years of experience and who live or work within easy proximity to NYC, to enter the Entrance of Illumination competition. Submit design solutions to light the entrance hall of the 2006 Architectural Digest Home Design Show at Pier 94 in March 2006. The winner will receive a $1,000 award and work with the show designer to create and implement a final lighting design. Click on link for details.

Deadline December 15: Get On The Bus: Interdisciplinary Exhibition and Event Series
CITY|SPACE, a San Francisco-based cultural organization dedicated to exploring the built environment, will examine the experience, culture, and meaning of bus riding in an upcoming exhibit, Get On the Bus. The curators are looking for ideas, studies, emotions, or fantasies the bus evokes for riders, city planners, and artists in the form of fine art, documentary projects, design schemes, oral histories, narrative investigations, and projects that explore bus history, planning, and technology. Submissions may include existing, new, or proposed work in any discipline. The exhibition is planned for spring/summer 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Click on link for details.

Deadline January 16, 2006: Nominations for the National Trust's 2006 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
Each year since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation issues the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list to identify and raise awareness of historic sites at risk from neglect, deterioration, lack of maintenance, insufficient funds, inappropriate development, or insensitive public policy. The list, which has previously included Governors Island, 2 Columbus Circle, and the TWA Terminal at JFK, has been one of the most successful tools in the fight to save America's irreplaceable architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. While nominations are accepted from any source, the Trust recommends that a preservation professional or community advocate participate in the preparation of the nomination. Click on link for details.

Deadline January 30, 2006: Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2006
Sponsored by Assopiastrelle, the Association of Italian Ceramic Tile Manufacturers, and the Italian Trade Commission, the Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2006 will recognize design excellence in projects that feature Italian ceramic tile. Architects and interior designers from North America are invited to submit residential, commercial, and institutional projects completed between January 2001 and January 2006 for domestic and international new construction and renovation projects. Winners will be awarded $5,000 during Coverings 2006 in Orlando next April, and be eligible for a free trip to Bologna, Italy, to attend Cersaie 2006. Click on link for details.

Registration Deadlines: February 10, 2006: ASLA Professional Awards; May 19, 2006: ASLA Student Awards
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Awards honors the best in landscape architecture from around the world, while the ASLA Student Awards program gives a preview into the future of the profession. Award recipients will be featured in Landscape Architecture magazine; residential category award recipients will also be featured in Garden Design magazine. Submission binders for Professional Awards are due by February 24, 2006; June 2, 2006 for Student Awards. Click the link for details.

Kashmir Earthquake Update
Project Life Line founder Shabbir Kazmi sent an update about the earthquake disaster in Kashmir; Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Among the staggering statistics: Homeless: 3.3 million. Estimated 30% of the area affected has not been reached yet; 120,000 children remain not reached by any aid. Only 20% of aid has been collected so far for the amount of relief that is needed. Snow has started to fall in some high-altitude villages. To make an online donation for immediate relief visit Human Development Foundation (HDF). To send an online donation to support the rebuilding of villages in Kashmir, you can donate to Project Life Line.

Matthu Placek

Interchange: 15 Nassau Street
Located in the former bank lobby in the landmark Equitable Building at 15 Nassau Street (between Pine and Cedar Streets), Interchange is a new arts venue designed and built by Parsons graduate architecture students for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's (LMCC) signature Swing Space program. The program works with building owners to make temporarily vacant space downtown available to artists and small arts groups on a free or reduced-cost basis (the Equitable space was donated by real estate developer Larry Silverstein). The flexible, transportable structure was a project of Parsons' design-build program, The Design Workshop, which partners each year with a New York City nonprofit organization. Encompassing reception desk, cocktail bar, media center, seating for 90, a docking station, and adaptable lighting grid, the installation is designed to be easily transported and configured for a variety of uses and locations. Grand Opening reception: November 7, 6:30–9:30pm. A related exhibition will be on view at Parsons The New School for Design November 17–December 19.

Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners

Beyer Blinder Belle: A Sacramento Civic and Religious Landmark Faithfully Restored
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament will reopen in time for Thanksgiving after a four-year, $34.5 million internal and external renovation. Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners (BBB), in collaboration with supervising architect and client liaison Harry C. Hallenbeck, FAIA, of Vanir Construction Management, led the team that repaired, upgraded, and restored the Italian Renaissance-style cathedral, designed by Bryan Clinch in 1889. John Belle, FAIA, RIBA, says, "What you now see inside the Cathedral is completely in harmony with the original design—yet it is all new." A truncated 1930s dome was opened up to reveal the original dome, albeit without its plaster finish and beautiful decoration. Working from century-old newspaper descriptions and historic drawings, BBB and EverGreene Painting Studios created an all-new "reconstruction" of the ornate decoration, now showcased with lighting by Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. Acoustical panels by Shen Milsom Wilke/Paoletti were installed to reduce sound reverberation within the Cathedral.

BBB also designed liturgical elements—including a marble altar and tabernacle and a baptismal font paved with decorative marble mosaic—which, for the first time in the Cathedral's history, are seamlessly integrated with the architecture and the decorative program. Upgrades include a seismic retrofit, undertaken with structural engineer Nabih Youssef & Associates, new mechanical systems, modern wiring for lighting, telecommunications, and data systems, new sprinkler and fire alarm systems, and accessibility improvements to meet ADA and local building codes. The exterior was also restored, and new trees, paving, and lighting now integrate the building and plaza with the surroundings, including the pedestrian mall that leads to the state Capitol.

Tonetti Associates Architects

Tonetti Associates Architects: Back to the Future for Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center at Fort Ticonderoga
In 1759, the French blew up the original magazin du Roi ("King's storehouse") at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. Three weeks ago (and 246 years later), NYC-based Tonetti Associates Architects broke ground for the reconstruction of the magazin as the 15,000-square-foot, $21 million Deborah Clarke Mars Education Center. Given Fort Ticonderoga's status as a National Historic Landmark, the firm conducted research in France and Canada, as well as the U.S., to establish credible prototypes for 18th century French colonial forts. In contrast to the 18th-century exterior, the building's interior is very 21st century, housing an education center with sophisticated and carefully integrated environmental systems. When completed in 2007, the education and visitors center will include exhibits, seminar rooms and distance learning technology, hands-on reenactment activities, day care, and a museum store.

LZA Associates/Avitat Westchester

LZA Associates: Aquariums Take Flight at Avitat Westchester
Thornton-Tomasetti Group's LZA Associates, Engineers and Architects has begun a major renovation of Avitat Westchester's existing 55-year-old facility at Westchester County Airport in White Plains. Deemed to be outmoded for today's private jet passengers and crews, the new facility will include a 21,000-square-foot, two-story lean-to terminal, multi-tenant offices, crew facilities, maintenance shops, and storage, as well as improvements to the existing hanger. The path from vehicle to check-in counter to aircraft door has passengers entering through a translucent glass cantilevered canopy and moving through a double-height atrium that brings natural light and air into the waiting area, which will include cylindrical tropical fish aquariums. And if the architecture's not enough to sooth the senses, passengers can listen to music played on a baby grand and smell Starbucks coffee perking in an internet cafe. The exterior metal cladding is textured to create the look and feel of architectural stone. The new facility is expected to be completed in April 2007 at a cost of $10 million.

Names in the News
Name change: Cesar Pelli & Associates is now Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in recognition of the growing roles of partners Fred Clarke, FAIA, and Rafael Pelli, AIA; William Butler, AIA, Mitchell Hirsch, AIA, Gregg Jones, AIA, Mariko Masuoka, AIA, Lawrence Ng, AIA, and Mark Shoemaker, AIA, have been named Principals… Cesar Pelli, FAIA, received the 2005 Louis Sullivan Award from the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers at its convention in Honolulu, HI, in recognition of superior design, over time, in which masonry is a major element… Michael Fieldman Architects, Perkins + Will, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are the three NYC-based firms among the winners of AIA New England 2005 Design Awards (click "2005 jury comments" for complete list of winners)… David Koren, Assoc. AIA, a Gensler Senior Associate and marketing director for the firm's Northeast region, has been elected President of New York Area Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS)…

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AROUND THE AIA AND THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE

Sighted at the Getting to Great Practice Management Conference (there will be a full report in next issue of eOculus):

2006 Nominating Committee
We are pleased to announce that Bruce Fowle, FAIA, Theodore Liebman, FAIA, Calvin Tsao, AIA, and Claire Weisz, AIA, were elected by recent ballot and will serve, along with 2005 President Susan Chin, FAIA, as the 2006 Nominating Committee.

In accordance with Chapter Bylaws, the Nominating Committee is responsible for filling vacancies on the Chapter's Board of Directors; selecting new members for the Chapter's four elective committees (Fellows, Finance, Honors, Oculus); and for appointing one member to the Center for Architecture Foundation Board of Trustees.

The selections of the Nominating Committee will be announced at the Chapter's 2006 Annual Meeting, to be held in late June. All terms of service for these appointees will begin January, 2007.

Any Chapter member who is interested in serving on the Chapter or Foundation Boards or on one of the elective committees, should contact Stephen Suggs, 212.358.6119 or suggs@aiany.org for further information. The nominating committee will begin meeting as soon as possible.

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ON VIEW

At the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place:

October 6–December 3, 2005 Everything Housing: From Homeless Shelters to Luxury Living AIA New York Chapter 2005 Housing Design Awards Gallery: Gerald D. Hines Gallery Featuring the winners of the AIA New York Chapter Housing Design Awards Program, which has been established to recognize excellence and innovation in housing design. The list of winning entries can be seen at aiany.org/committees/Housing/2005HousingAwards.html. Organized by: AIA New York Chapter Housing Committee Sponsored by: THE HUDSON COMPANIES, INC. ANONYMOUS SPONSOR

October 6–December 31, 2005 Two Columbus Circle (plus): Museum of Arts & Design and Allied Works Architecture Gallery: Street Gallery The Museum of Arts & Design presents a preview of its new premises at Two Columbus Circle. Allied Works Architecture is the architect for this transformation and renewal of the long-derelict building into a state-of-the-art, light-filled museum to house MAD's expanding collections and programs. Sponsored by: Museum of Arts & Design

Elsewhere:

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eCALENDAR
eCalendar now includes the information that used to be found in eOculus' Around the Center, Around the AIA, and Around Town sections. Click the above link to go to to eCalendar on the Web.

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DEADLINES

November 5: Deadline for submissions to the MTA's permanent art program for Jamaica line stations in Brooklyn. For more information contact 212.878.7492 or lbradsha@mtahq.org.

November 7: Expressions of Interest: African Institute of Science and Technology Campus (.pdf), Abuja, Nigeria

November 11: Deadline for 2005 AIA New York Chapter Arnold W. Brunner Grant

November 18 (registration): ENYA Southpoint: From Ruin to Rejuvenation—the Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center Ideas Competition

November 18 (registration): 2006 AIA Housing Committee Awards and the 2006 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards

November 23 (registration): West End Pedestrian Bridge Competition, Pittsburgh

December 1: 2006 Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition

December 6: Entrance of Illumination—Lighting the Entrance Hall for 2006 Architectural Digest Home Design Show

December 15: Metropolis 2006 Next Generation Design Competition

December 15: Get On The Bus: Interdisciplinary Exhibition and Event Series

December 16: RFP: Retail and Housing for Staten Island National Lighthouse Harbor Site

January 16, 2006: Nominations for National Trust's 2006 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

January 17, 2006: NYCDEP/EPA 2nd NYC Green Building Competition (.pdf)

January 30, 2006: Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2006

Registration February 10, 2006: ASLA Professional Awards; May 19, 2006: ASLA Student Awards

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AIA New York Chapter Membership Report—September/October 2005

Did you join a long time ago? Are you just joining now? You can get details about the National Benefits offered to members by visiting: aia.org/join_benefits. A list of local and state benefits is available at aiany.org/membership/#benefits or call Suzanne Mecs, Director of Member Services, AIA New York Chapter, smecs@aiany.org, 212.358.6115. By the way, if you're not a member, now is a good time to join—you will receive up to 14 months of membership for the price of 12 if you join before December 31.

Congratulations to these newly licensed Architect Members!

Jacqueline M. Curry, AIA, Dattner Architects
Chris C Lee, AIA, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
Robert A. Papocchia, AIA, Di Domenico and Partners LLP
Fernando A. Villa, AIA, Francoise Bollack Architects
Ching-Chyi Yang, AIA, Robert A.M. Stern Architects

New Steel Corporate Members:
Haworth

Jacqueline M. Curry, AIA, Dattner Architects

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Lee Stenner, Division Manager, SVP Middle Market Banking

Lizardos Engineering Associates, PC

Ralph Aldorasi, P.E., Vice President
Lewis M. Damrauer, P.E., Executive Vice President
Melinda J. Johnson, P.E., Vice President
Evans J. Lizardos, President
Joseph Mizrahi, P.E., Vice President
Marios C. Tinis, P.E., Vice President

New Aluminum Corporate Members:
American Council of Engineering Companies of New York

Hannah O'Grady, Deputy Executive Director
Jay Simpson, Executive Director

Baxter & Liebchen, Inc.

Andrew Kevelson

Extell Development Company

Raizy Haas

ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair)

Amanda Kasper, Show Manager
Phil Robinson, Senior Vice President

Pratt Institute Center for Community & Environmental Development (PICCED)

Mafruza Khan, Associate Director
Brad Lander, Director

New Architect Members:

Angelo Arzano, AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Tamar M. Bradley, AIA, IA Interior Architects
Tom Lai-Gon Chang, AIA, Helfand Architecture, PC
Nora T. Fernandez, AIA, Nora Fernandez, Architect
Brendan A. Guerin, AIA, G2 Architecture, PC
N. Scott Johnson, AIA, Richard Meier & Partners
Michelle J. Kim, AIA, Toshiko Mori Architect
Giuseppe Lauro, AIA, Gensler
Don Lee, AIA, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Robert J. Lucas, AIA, Gruzen Samton Architects, LLP
Bradley A. Lukanic, AIA, Holzman Moss Architecture
Rita Marks, AIA, Oliver Cope Architects
Elizabeth S. McClintock, AIA, McGram Architects
Harold W. Park, AIA, Rafael Vinoly Architects PC
David W. Prendergast, AIA, Prendergast Laurel Architects
Victor E. Sidy, AIA, Victor Sidy, Inc.
Craig A. Spiegel, AIA, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick, LLP
John M. Szubski, AIA, International Masonry Institute
Ka Yin Tse, AIA, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Raj G. Virani, AIA, Conant Architects
Charles Wolf, AIA, Dean/Wolf Architecture

New Associate Members:

Joshua B. Aisenberg, Assoc. AIA, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick, LLP
Lance E. Amato, Assoc. AIA, Conant Architecture
Patrick J. Bates, Assoc. AIA, Ernst & Young, LLP
Anthony J. Caputo, Assoc. AIA, Cannon Design
Henry G. Cercone, Assoc. AIA, Omni Construction Corporation
Matthew Conrad, Assoc. AIA, Larson and Paul Architects
Anne M. Fletcher, Assoc. AIA, Zyscovich, Inc.
Johannes M.P. Knoops, Assoc. AIA
Michael G. Lindsey, Assoc. AIA
Pedro Marmolejos, Assoc. AIA, Em Design Group
Gregory J. Overkamp, Assoc. AIA, Dattner Architects
Emmanuel Perez, Assoc. AIA, NYC Dept of Health-Bureau of Operations
Olga M. Petrova, Assoc. AIA, Bovis Lend Lease
Kim E. Pomeranz, Assoc. AIA, El Taller Colaborativo, PC
Reza Rahimpour, Assoc. AIA, Ismael Leyva Architects, PC
Christopher B. Rawlins, Assoc. AIA, Rawlins Design Inc
Orsella S. Reyes, Assoc. AIA, San Fanandre Justin-Architects, PC
Satyam A. Sarvankar, Assoc. AIA
Marta Satwin, Assoc. AIA, Robert Krone Architect, PC
William J. Shih, Assoc. AIA, STV, Inc.
Alan K. Stevenson, Assoc. AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Corey C. Wowk, Assoc. AIA, Rafael Vinoly Architects, PC
Basak Yuksel, Assoc. AIA, Pompei AD, LLC

Members Upgraded to Emeritus: Thank you for your years of membership!

Roger L. Patterson, AIA, Roger L. Patterson AIA-Architect

New Center for Architecture Professional Members:

George Agentis, P.F. Valente Associates, Inc.
Robert S. Appel, Schiff Hardin LLP
Jim Friedman, Ryan Associates
Richard Douglas Heaps, New York University
Roberta Lynn Kravette, Nieuw Amsterdam Kitchens
Susannah Monty, Color4Space
George Edward O'Donnell, Dow Corning Corporation
Justin Smith, ADT Security Systems

New Center for Architecture Public Members:

Sara Edelman, Davis & Gilbert LLP
Catherine Lipsetz Dauer, Ryan Associates General Contractors
Edwin Lynch
Alice van Straalen, Vintage Anchor Books

New Center for Architecture Student Members:

Daniel Agustinus, Parsons
Lorraine Elizabeth Barcant, Johnson Design Consulting, Inc.
Serlene Chan, Parsons
Rory Martin Connors, Parsons
Walter Dufresne, City University of New York
Kameron Simon Gad, Parsons
Tim Stephen Gaiennie
Gudmunda Geirmundsdottir, Parsons
Michael Garrett Hargens, Parsons
William Nicholas Hunter
Komal Kehar, Parsons
Irina Kholkhlova
Keith Elie Kohn, Parsons
Maria T. Laboy-Perez, Parsons
Eddyson R. Lambert
Alex Mrose Liberman, Parsons
Nicholas K. Locke, Parsons
Allison McElheny, Parsons
Marica McKeel, Parsons
John M. Mealy, Parsons
Emily K. Mechesney, Parsons
Wing Yee Ng Fung, Parsons
Akimori Okada
Aileen Y. Park, Parsons
Erin Porter, Rice University
Erica Denise Quinones, Parsons
Caroline A. Razook
Kashif A. Saleem
Maria Fernanda Trejos
Adam C. Turba, Parsons
Aaron Edward Tweedie, Parsons
Karla Keala Uyehara, Parsons
Juanita Ann Wichienkuer, Parsons
Janet Yee, Parsons

New Center for Architecture Corresponding Member:

Jill Bouratoglou, Assoc. AIA, Bouratoglou Architect, PC
Jeffrey Allan Brown, AIA, Atelier Jeff Brown
Bryan J. Burke, AIA, Premises
David Cunningham, AIA, Bark
Paul Eric Duncker, AIA, HandsOn Design
Charles R. Schwartzapfel, AIA, CRS Designs Inc.

Reinstated Architect and Associate Members:

Ross Adam Cole Briskman, AIA, BAM Studio
Benjamin Cherner, AIA, Benjamin Cherner, Architect
H. Quon Chin, AIA, Di Domenico and Partners LLP
Oliver Cope, AIA, Oliver Cope Architects
Julia H. Doern, AIA, Davis Brody Bond LLP
Morgen Lockwood Fleisig, AIA, Oliver Cope Architects
Edward A. Goytia, AIA, Mancini Duffy
Timothy Hall, Assoc. AIA, The Hall Partnership Architects LLP
James Harwood, AIA, Oliver Cope Architects
Tracey F. Katchen, AIA, Sander Partnership
Murray L. Levi, LEED AP, AIA, Green4 NYC
Kate Platt, AIA, Platt/Dana Architects, PC
Vishva Priya, AIA, Ahuja Priya Architects
Olivia Rowan, AIA, Oliver Cope Architects

Reinstated Center for Architecture Members:

Christina Wilson Grinnell, Urban DC IHC
Lonn Combs, AIA, Easton + Combs Architects

Members transferred in: Welcome to New York!

Rebecca Bernstein Fertel, Assoc. AIA, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Thomas R. Bayer, AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Suzanne Lanyi Charles, AIA, The Weitzman Group, Inc.
Michael F. Lynch, AIA, Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, Inc.
Audrey A. Matlock, AIA, Audrey Matlock Architects

Members who have transferred to another AIA Chapter: Good Luck in your new locale:

Sandra M. Barry, Fletcher Thompson Architecture Engineering, LLC
Effie Bouras
Vivian Lee
Ryoichi (Rio) Minami Carlyle Group

The Chapter mourns the passing of:

Emanuel N. Turano, FAIA

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YES on Proposition 2, continued

VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 2
The Rebuild and Renew New York Transportation Bond Act of 2005, Proposition 2, is vital to the economic future of New York State and New York City. Unlike the previous bond act in 2000, specific projects have been identified for funding, including:

• $450 million for East Side Access
• $450 million for Second Avenue Subway
• $100 million for JFK Rail Link
• $450 million for MTA core infrastructure needs
• $1.39 billion for state highway and bridge projects in all regions of the state
• $50 million for non-MTA transit systems
• $50 million for canal corridor improvements
• $76 million for general aviation facilities
• $135 million for rail and port improvements

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

VOTE YES for Proposition 2 on November 8. The 2000 bond act failed due to low voter turnout in New York City but with the mayoral election this year, more City residents are expected at the polls. Proposition 2 will be located on the lower right hand side of the ballot. Take the time to VOTE YES after you cast your votes for elected office.

Talk to your friends, family members and colleagues about the importance of the Bond Act to the quality of life in New York and encourage them to VOTE YES. Passage means more jobs, better roads, highways and bridges, and continued improvements to our trains and subways.

Learn more about the Bond Act. Visit the VOTE YES campaign site at www.voteyesny.org

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NO on Proposition 1, continued

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 1

The AIA New York Chapter opposes the proposed New York State Budget Reform Amendment, Proposition 1, to the State Constitution and we encourage voters to defeat it on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8.

The proposed amendment provides that, in the event the Legislature does not act on the Governor's budget by the next fiscal year, the Governor's budget essentially expires in its entirety. A contingency budget automatically takes effect and the Legislature becomes empowered to draft its own budget. Furthermore, the proposal would do away with the current provision that withholds Legislators' paychecks until they pass a budget.

This is an attempt by the Legislature to usurp powers from the Governor. Currently, the Governor is charged with setting State spending priorities. Even under this system, the Legislature has been able to add more than $12 billion in spending to the budget.

Passage of the amendment would reward Legislators who stall the executive budget by granting them the authority to draft a new budget that caters to their local projects and priorities. In a state that already spends more revenue then it brings in, debt would almost surely soar if the Legislature succeeds in hijacking the budget process.

Furthermore, Proposition 1 does not require that a balanced budget be passed, as some proponents have argued. Requiring a balanced budget on time would be true budget reform, but that is not what the designers of Proposition 1 are after.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Go to the polls and vote "NO" for Proposition 1 on November 8.
Talk to your friends, family members and colleagues about the need for true budget reform in Albany and encourage them to vote "NO" on Proposition 1. See www.hightaxesnewyork.com for more information on Proposition 1.

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NYC High Performance Buildings, continued

The program began with Fowle questioning the basic definition of green architecture. Depending upon the building type, location, budget, and climate, "the idea of a green building has many definitions, and it depends on the standard used," he said, explaining that labeling a building "green" is arbitrary, and that the standards associated with green in the United States are totally different from those in Canada or anywhere else in the world.

When asked about working with developers in designing green, Fowle answered, "Having a grip on the costs associated with innovative green architecture is key. You must have the right answers to why they should build green." He explained that for residential projects, his firm stresses the health benefits for residents, whereas for commercial developments, it is important to discuss increased productivity. Brown added that to increase the market value of his developments, more apparent green building techniques, like photovoltaics, are used and marketed as value-added features.

Now that Intro 324-A has been signed into law, building and renovating to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) equivalent standards is mandatory for city buildings. To manage this onerous task, the DDC has found that the best tool to ensure green design is to put all the requirements into the architect's contract. Krieble affirmed that the common language that LEED introduces is irreplaceable.

Lydia Tom said that the Enterprise Foundation focuses primarily on energy conservation and indoor air quality in affordable housing projects. While these initiatives do not necessarily create LEED-rated buildings, she explained that healthy homes with low energy costs mean lower rents, and that is her non-profit's ultimate goal. Said Tom, "Our program mission dictated what green means to us even though we ideally would like a LEED rating."

While each panelist argued the differences in what green is and what it should become, they all agreed that LEED has been an invaluable asset. The U.S. Green Buildings Council has been able to bring the green buildings movement into the mainstream in only a matter of years, and without government support. However, they all concurred that there is room for improvement. The consensus among the panelists was that LEED is best as an interactive process, and should never be stifled by becoming a stagnant text. "LEED is like an SAT score," Krieble remarked. "It can only show the direction a project is moving. The whole process should be simplified and, although simplicity is important, credibility is what matters most."

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