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05.15.07
Welcome back from San Antonio to everyone who went to the AIA Convention. Check out Reports From the Field to read about convention events and go to Sighted to see highlights from the events. What did you think? E-mail me with your impressions. I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
In this issue:
·New Yorkers Set Example at AIA Convention
·Convention Impressions
·Bloomberg Bets Prosperous Future
·NYNV Extols plaNYC
·Beauty Pushes de Botton
·Gopnik Calls NY “Mono-Cultural Desert of Sameness”
·Combating the Cultural Energy Hog
Event: AIA 2007 National Convention and Design Expo
Location: San Antonio, TX, 05.02-05.07
Architects convene in San Antonio for the AIA 2007 National Convention.
Carolyn Sponza; Jeremy Edmunds
“Our theme of ‘Growing Beyond Green’ was chosen before the general public came to its new understanding of the threat climate change poses to our future,” AIA President RK Stewart, FAIA, said at this year’s AIA National Convention. Attracting 21,640 registrants, and 844 exhibitors, architects gathered in San Antonio for four days of panels, exhibitions, programs, and parties. With such a broad line-up (see the last issue’s list of events of interest to New Yorkers “Big Apple Tour of San Antonio“), here are just some of the highlights from the weekend.
Many AIANY Chapter members conducted or orchestrated seminars and symposia. One of the best attended was, “New York New Visions: Success or Failure?” led by Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, and Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, on Lower Manhattan and New York New Visions. The panel also included Alexander Garvin, Hon. AIA, APA, and Rosalie Genevro of The Architectural League of New York.
“Advocacy Tactics for a Sustainable Endgame: The Politics of Sustainability” was a seminar which stressed that many sustainability problems can only be solved with significant help from the political arena. Progress demands political savvy. Understanding and respect for the roles of federal, state, and local governments in regulating land use and other uses such as energy and transportation systems is vital. So said the speakers, who should know. John Norquist, Hon. AIA, was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004 before becoming president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. The Hon. Richard Swett, FAIA, is a former Congressman and former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark. Moderating was New York’s Jeremy Edmunds, Associate AIA, PE, LEED-AP, a sustainability advisor to brownfields redeveloper Cherokee Northeast.
AIANY members were also recipients of major awards at the Convention. One high point was the room filled with thousands of well-wishers applauding Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, who received the Topaz Medallion. Mary Barnes and John Barnes were also present to accept the Gold Medal award posthumously for Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA.
New Fellows were elevated at a most memorable location — the plaza in front of the Alamo. This year nine AIANY members received Fellowship: Mustafa Kemal Abadan, FAIA; Roger Duffy, FAIA; Frank J. Greene, FAIA; Paul Katz, FAIA; Blake Middleton, FAIA; Margaret Rietveld, FAIA; Henry Stolzman, FAIA; Calvin Tsao, FAIA; and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA. Nationwide, 76 new Fellows were individually recognized, along with honorary international Fellows.
The proposal entitled “On the Water, a Model for the Future: a Study of New York and New Jersey Upper Bay” was presented with the $100,000 Latrobe Prize. Awarded every other year by the AIA’s College of Fellows, the focus this year is on NYC’s harbor, but the findings can serve as a model for any waterfront area. The objective of On the Water is to rethink the relationship between ecology and infrastructure. Heading the team is Guy Nordenson, structural engineering professor at Princeton University School of Architecture, founder of NY-based Guy Nordenson and Associates, and former partner at ARUP. Team members are Princeton University’s Stan Allen, AIA, Catherine Seavitt, AIA, and James Smith; Michael Tantala of Tantala Associates; and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, and Stephen Cassell, AIA, of the Architecture Research Office.
Speaking of politics, for most convention-goers the high point was the plenary session at which Al Gore spoke of environmental possibilities and the role of architects and buildings in preventing further environmental degradation. The line was long, as was the speech — accomplished with only the most minimal notes and prompts.
Off-site from the Convention Center, the “New Practices New York” showcase exhibition opened at the Blue Star Contemporary Arts gallery in the trendy King William district. With a re-installation (thanks to Häfele hardware) of last July’s exhibition at NYC’s Center for Architecture, many architectural personages, including Gaéton Siew, President of the International Union of Architects, attended the exhibition’s opening. Students and gallery-hoppers alike voiced enthusiasm for the program.
At a national level, delegates elected Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, as the Institute’s 2009 president. Peter J. Arsenault, AIA, and Clark Manus, FAIA will each serve a two-year term as vice president, and Hal P. Munger, FAIA, will act as treasurer beginning this year.
The AIA 2008 National Convention and Design Expo themed “We the People” will be held May 15-17, 2008, in Boston. For more information about next year’s exhibition contact AIA Infocentral at 1-800-242-3837. To see photographs from the weekend, check out Sighted.
Deep in the heart of Texas…
My personal highlight was escaping late on Saturday night to Austin, where I was able to see, again, the Charles Moore Center for the Study of Place, and, the next morning, the new storefront Center for Architecture of AIA Austin. If what happens in San Antonio, stays in San Antonio (at least according to Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP), what happens in Austin, thanks to Moore Center director Kevin Keim, and AIA Austin Executive Director Sally Ann Fly, should be broadcast to all ends of the U.S. The house where Charles Moore lived his last years is phenomenal, and Kevin keeps his spirit alive. The newest Center for Architecture — Austin’s opened just a few months ago — was a former gasoline station, and it keeps just the right balance between designed sophistication, and greasy grit.
I’m ready to move to Austin (and San Antonio), and have my Molly Ivins’ books packed in the Oculus tote bag, which was the hit of the show.
- Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director
AIA New York State Reception, Aztec on the River, San Antonio
A majestic movie palace was the site of this year’s AIANYS reception, bringing San Antonio’s history into focus for visitors from NY. The ornate styling of the theater was a reminder of the legacy that 1920s deco extremes left on San Antonio. A multi-media presentation with staged special effects — thunder, fog, and a levitating serpent — enacted portions of Meso-American history for guests. At the reception AIANYS President Russell Davidson, AIA, greeted familiar faces from Chapters around the state. The gathering celebrated the 10 New York firms whose projects received 2007 AIA Honor Awards. Also acknowledged were the state’s nine new Fellows, AIA Topaz Medallion recipient Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, and Associate AIA Member of the Year Finalist Jeremy Edmunds, PE, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP.
- Carolyn Sponza, AIA, AIANY Chapter Vice President of Professional Development
And one recollection from slightly off the convention trail
I happened to be walking by the Westin Hotel when an Airstream trailer parked in a lot across the street caught my attention. Called aloft a-go-go, the module is the latest PR tool developed by W Hotels to bring the design of a new line of inexpensive boutique hotels to the public. Besides literally taking their new show on the road, parent company Starwood has also launched aloft in cyberspace for design feedback on the Second Life website. NY-based The Rockwell Group is behind design of the new chain, proving you can bring a little New York to San Antonio. Aloft a-go-go captain Corbin Kappler also assured me that the PR-vehicle will be making an appearance on Union Square sometime in the next few weeks.
- Carolyn Sponza, AIA, AIANY Chapter Vice President of Professional Development
Overall a good time
My general observations were positive. It was the most walkable convention I’ve attended (others included Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles). Locals were friendly. Riverwalk was a sweet urban amenity. The meta-theme — green — is always relevant. I was thrilled to see the AIANY “New Practices New York” exhibition. Our chapter had real presence this year, and I believe the highest number of associates attended, too. I really liked the beer factory-turned-art-museum, and the red ochre public library rocked (especially the Chihuly glass sculpture in the atrium).
- Jeremy Edmunds, PE, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, AIANY Director of Programs and Strategic Planning
But not flawless
One of the major flaws in the convention catalogue was not listing the speakers under the description, as is commonly done at most conferences. I encourage folks to tell the AIA that speakers should be listed with the panel information. I complained and was not given much encouragement. If enough people speak up maybe they will change it next year.
- Concerned attendee
Send an e-mail with your thoughts about the convention.
Mayor Bloomberg shakes hands with Chris Garvin, AIA, LEED AP, COTE co-chair at his Earth Day presentation of plaNYC 2030.
James Estrin/The New York Times/Redux
With a record population, a booming economy, and an aging infrastructure, Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 proposals unveiled on Earth Day constitute a comprehensive, ambitious vision for the city’s future. On par with earlier civic investments that built New York’s parks, subways, bridges, and waterworks, the Mayor’s plan represents the kind of long-range planning the city needs to prosper in the 21st century.
New York’s existing buildings are the source of 79% of our carbon dioxide emissions, and account for more than half of our energy demands, according to the Inventory of NYC Greenhouse Gas Emissions recently completed by the Mayor’s office. For the building community, the plan’s most far-reaching proposal is to upgrade the energy efficiency of large existing buildings — most of which would not meet today’s energy code — with mandates and incentives. This may include upgrades for lighting and mechanical retrofits, improvements to wall and roof insulation, and replacement of old components with high performance windows and high-efficiency condensing boilers.
As we upgrade our existing buildings, it is also critical to address new construction. The new building code that will take effect this summer includes many green improvements, but the Mayor’s plan identifies even more impressive targets for the next update. The proposals include financial incentives for buildings that exceed state energy codes and water efficiency requirements by 30% to 40%, making them some of the greenest buildings in the country. Through pilot programs, the city can play a vital role in introducing such leading-edge technologies.
By taking a comprehensive, integrated approach to intertwined issues — affordable housing, environmental justice, mass transit, environmental quality, green job creation, and climate change — Mayor Bloomberg’s plan is a bold step toward sustainable prosperity. AIA members should encourage their local and state leaders to support PlaNYC as a vision for a greener future. As important as its specific goals are, the overall benefit of the Mayor’s plan is that it creates a critical mechanism to protect the environmental and economic engine of our city for future generations.
Chris Garvin, AIA, LEED AP, is an associate at Cook+Fox Architects / Terrapin Bright Green, and co-chair of COTE.
Event: Mayor Bloomberg’s Plan for NYC 2030 New York New Visions: Exploring Implementation
Location: Center for Architecture, 05.07.07
Speakers: Ariella Rosenberg and Laurie Kerr, RA — Long Term Sustainability Respondents, Mayor’s Office of Planning and Long Term Sustainability; Ethel Sheffer — President, American Planning Association NYC Metro Chapter; Bruce Fowle, AIA, LEED AP — FXFOWLE Architects; Jeffrey Zupan — Senior Fellow, Transportation, Regional Plan Association; Rick Bell, FAIA — Executive Director, AIANY
Moderator: Ernest Hutton, Assoc. AIA, AICP — New York New Visions
Organizers & Sponsors: New York New Visions; AIANY Housing Committee; in conjuction with the AIANY Planning & Urban Design Committee; AIANY Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; and AIANY Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Courtesy nyc.gov
Panelists representing New York New Visions — a coalition of major design and planning organizations — expressed much enthusiasm for plaNYC 2030, although many were concerned about the plan’s longevity after Bloomberg’s mayoral term ends. The many improvements throughout the city over the last 30 years have inspired the mayor to aim high environmentally. With a goal to boost livability and sustainability, his unprecedented plaNYC 2030 targets land, housing, green space, water, air, transportation, and energy.
As an additional 900,000 residents are expected by 2030, there’s a demand for smart planning. To accommodate the 265,000 new housing units needed, more efficient use of government land, revitalized brownfields, and even decking over unused railways and highways are a few of the 127 proposals on the boards. Furthermore, 99% of New Yorkers will live within a ten-minute walk from a park and a subway entrance if the mayor has his way; a public plaza will be incorporated in every community, and one million new trees will be planted by 2017. All of the revenue from congestion pricing will be used to improve mass transit. In addition to these initiatives, panelists suggested the city implement a monitoring system to analyze progress that would be regularly disclosed to the public.
Without mitigation, the city’s annual energy bill will increase $3 billion by 2015, not to mention the effects on air quality and global warming. New York’s aging grid can’t handle 21st century demands, and many of the issues addressed in plaNYC are relevant globally as well as locally. If all goes well, New York has hopes of being not only the nation’s safest, but also its first truly sustainable city.
Kate Soto is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor.
Event: The Architecture of Happiness: How Our Surroundings Affect Our Emotional Well-being
Location: Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 05.01.07
Speaker: Alain de Botton — author, The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon, 2006)
Organizers: World Monuments Fund; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Courtesy alaindebotton.com
Author, philosopher, and television personality Alain de Botton has turned to architectural commentary after popular discourses on love, Proust, status anxiety, among others; his wit and erudition are unmistakable. He brings a degree of common sense to many of the buildings he discusses. If his project to reintroduce beauty unapologetically into architectural discourse were not as laudable as I believe it is, it would not be so painful to note how often his observations recall clichés. He informed us, for example, that good buildings demonstrate a sense of place and respect the natural features that they are replacing. This is not a news flash.
The goal that de Botton strives to help his listeners realize is admirable: connecting one’s attraction to visual beauty (something everyone senses but few articulate) with the more explainable aspects of one’s life. Much of his theory expands on a quotation from Stendhal (”Beauty is the promise of happiness”), and he recognizes a broad variety of definitions of happiness to provide a range of beauties, tailored to the elements people find missing from their lives. His appreciation of a placid minimalist kitchen by John Pawson, for example, expresses his own need for calm; the alarming Deconstructivist planes of a French government building, he says, imply that the bureaucrats within live in mortal terror of becoming any more boring than they already are. These observations ring true but rarely explore fresh territory.
De Botton takes seriously a question that he admits risks naïveté: just how important architecture is at all. He does not automatically assume an answer that will flatter architects. Offering a polarity between “Catholic” and “Protestant” views of architecture — the belief that ordered environs can bring people closer to the deity and a good life vs. the belief that divinity renders physical settings irrelevant — he says, “From an entirely secular point of view, I’m a ‘Catholic,’” and proceeds to anatomize ways that buildings can elevate, debase, defend, or confuse the psyche. Given the limited choice, who wouldn’t line up behind de Botton for communion wafers? The problem is that using this particular binary schism as an organizing metaphor omits most of the range and nuance of architectural debates (not to mention questions of functionality, ecology, and scale).
He also indulges a tendency to use negative examples that are absurd, scoring easy points off a mogul’s effort to mimic Amsterdam near Nagasaki, and a dreary mirror-glass box from one of New Jersey’s most soul-sapping corporate parks. Decoding the more challenging messages of today’s architectural provocateurs would have tested de Botton’s subjectivism in vital ways: what would he make of the atonalities, asymmetries, improvisations, and provocations of love-it-or-hate-it works by, say, Robert Venturi, FAIA, Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, or Frank Gehry, FAIA? He offers many observations that are worth engaging, if he’s willing to push himself past the elementary.
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Oculus, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Event: Gothamitis: Malcom Gladwell & Adam Gopnik in Conversation — The Inaugural Event of the Design Trust Council
Location: Museum of Modern Art, 05.02.07
Speakers: Adam Gopnik — author, Through the Children’s Gate, Paris to the Moon (Random House, 2000); Malcolm Gladwell — author, The Tipping Point, Blink; Deborah Berke, AIA — Co–Chair, Design Trust Council (Introduction)
Organizers: Design Trust for Public Space
Central Park is necessary to preserve a unique sense of place in NYC, according to Adam Gopnik.
Jessica Sheridan
New York City has lost “a part of its identity,” bemoans Adam Gopnik in his article entitled “Gothamitis” (The New Yorker, 01.08.07). Although the city has drastically reduced crime, lowered unemployment, and cleaned up its streets since the 1970s, he describes the NYC of today as “an old lover who has gone for a facelift and come out looking like no one in particular.” Author Malcom Gladwell agrees that the city has changed drastically, but he believes the city has more subtle diversity than ever.
What NYC has maintained in density, it has lost in variety, according to Gopnik. The result is a “mono-cultural desert of sameness.” Gladwell, in contrast, posits that this loss of “physical diversity” has made way for “a more profound human diversity.” Conjuring an image of a coffee shop populated with young people working on laptops, he points out that these people are engaged in “highly varied pursuits, but the outward appearance of their production is the same.” Likewise, many of the city’s loft buildings that once housed the garment industry now support a variety of uses, from housing to commercial businesses. They may be “similar people with similar salaries,” Gladwell admits, but “they are doing very different things.”
While global economic trends have resulted in economic variety, Gopnik worries that, for the first time, Manhattan has no “Bohemian frontier.” While acknowledging the transfer of this activity to locations such a Williamsburg and Red Hook, NYC’s nature has changed from a compact and cosmopolitan place where varied socio-economic groups are in constant interface to a model of a city more akin to London, with far-flung and largely isolated neighborhoods of cultural generation.
Dismissing accusations of nostalgia, Gopnik sees the vernacular form of memory as defining “cultural values.” If global economic shifts affect NY, they cannot be left unquestioned. Looking to zoning codes, Central Park, and landmark preservation, Gopnik believes that similar interventions within the free market are necessary to maintain a desirable and valued city.
Gregory Haley, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, is a project architect and urban designer at Studio V Architecture and teaches architectural design studios at NYIT School of Architecture.
Event: “Green Design: We’re All in This Together” (Sally Henderson Memorial Lecture)
Location: Arthur King Satz Hall, New York School of Interior Design, 04.18.07
Speaker: Hugh Hardy, FAIA — H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
Organizer: New York School of Interior Design
The Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn incorporates solar power and wind heating based on its siting.
Studioamd courtesy H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
Building with ecological values in mind begins with local knowledge, a detailed sense of specific places, and their climates, flora, and other features. In Hugh Hardy, FAIA, and colleagues’ experience with arts infrastructure, resorts, courthouses, and even parking lots, the local applications of these principles prove their resilience. Hardy included data about buildings accounting for 48% of national energy use (cf. 27% for transportation and 25% for industry); the urgency of reducing this burden is hard to dispute. He proceeded to describe an array of projects where sensitivity to site and program afforded a range of sustainable strategies.
Sometimes a useful discovery begins with knowing when to say no: when to foreclose an expected option and replace it with something humble, unorthodox, or both. The Glimmerglass Opera’s Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, NY, with its rustic references and dramatic sliding panels, is a case in point. Mechanical ventilation would have been too expensive, as Hardy says, to serve a rarely-needed function: “moving large volumes of air v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y to avoid acoustical problems… to control temperatures for just a few days out of the 365.” With no winter opera season, conventional heating and cooling weren’t worth the expense; instead, financial necessity gave Glimmerglass audiences a literal breath of fresh air. The theater inspired later projects employing passive green strategies, such as the renovated Bear Mountain Inn’s highly cost-effective geothermal system.
The new LEED Gold-rated headquarters of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas recycles pulverized material from existing buildings and employs a tilt-up construction technique. Concrete walls are poured on-site and then lifted 90 degrees into place (standard for local warehouses), making the site itself a factory of sorts and minimizing costly transportation of finished panels. Plantings on the concrete walls and roof provide shade and thermal control as well as visual variety. In the parking lot permeable paving contributes to water management and returns rainwater to the soil. “Any institution devoted to the natural world,” asserted Hardy, “should be a leader in sustainable design.”
Cultural facilities pose particular challenges. Hardy recognizes that any theater is “an inherent energy hog” because it requires acoustic isolation, artificial light, and other obstacles to sustainability. The new headquarters for the Theater for a New Audience in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District will use the new site’s western orientation of a four-story curtain wall for solar power and winter heating. A new master plan for the Santa Fe Opera adapts a former dude ranch’s open-air pavilions as rehearsal spaces, with rammed-earth walls and subterranean passages maximizing airflow through the complex.
“It would be naïve to think we’re now all suddenly going to pledge allegiance to an eco-friendly existence,” concedes Hardy. Each site-specific choice, however, can help break down a national belief that he finds dangerously counterproductive: the assumption that every building must present an internal environment of identical, constant temperature and humidity. He envisions, instead, a future where people realistically allow for “nature’s variety and fecundity.”
Bill Millard is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Oculus, Icon, Content, and other publications.
Finally there’s someone trying to practice what’s been preached at us. I’ve been following the blog of Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, over the last couple of months, and while I continue to be inundated with new rules for a more sustainable life, his proactive approach touches on what the many government initiatives, Powerpoint presentations, guidelines, and new incentives lack: solutions put into action.
Beaven, along with his wife, 2-year-old daughter, and dog are attempting to live without making a net impact on the environment for one year. According to his website, “When we’re done, we can reenter the world of normal consumerdom equipped to decide which parts of our no impact lifestyle we’re willing to keep and which ones we’re not.” As he attempts to phase out all impactful aspects of his life — he consumes only locally-grown food, bikes or walks everywhere, and now borrows solar power from SolarOne to power his laptop as he eliminates the use of electricity — he approaches his experiment without pretense. He is simply searching for a better way of living and, through his blog, he shares his findings. The blog also serves as a means for readers to respond and write in with their own ideas about living a greener life.
At this point Beaven is half way through his year. While I become more aware of my daily impact, I am also becoming aware of how easy and rewarding it can be to make simple lifestyle changes. As Beaven’s wife, Michelle, wrote on the blog, “No Impact is a great ritual imploder. It’s about a lifestyle redesign, giving up what I think I can’t to see if something different, something better, emerges.”
Beaven seems to be making an impact beyond his blog as well. He has been on television several times, from “The Colbert Report” to “Good Morning America”; he makes guest appearances at environmental events (he moderated a mediabistro course and appeared at the LVHRD Bi-Fold Green celebration); he is on the radio (the “Brian Lehrer Show” and “Talk of the Nation” have featured his experiment). Ultimately, a book will be published and a movie will be produced. By providing suggestions and solutions, Beaven enables everyone with the knowledge of how they personally can make a difference. I look forward to the next six months and beyond.
In this issue:
·HPD Transforms Prison to Mixed-Use Development
·Audubon LEEDs in Design Again
·Mural Spans One and a Half Block at JFK
·Harlem’s Schomburg Center Enters New Phase; Bronx Library Wins LEED Silver
·Korea’s New Songdo City: Asia’s NYC?
HPD Transforms Prison to Mixed-Use Development
Brooklyn’s Navy Brig.
Courtesy NYC HPD
The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has selected Navy Green Joint Venture, a partnership of Dunn Development Corporation and L&M Equity Participants, which in turn has chosen the architectural team of FXFOWLE Architects, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, and Architecture in Formation for the redevelopment of the Navy Brig site in Wallabout, Brooklyn. The redevelopment of this 103,000-square-foot former prison site will create a mixed-use, mixed income community consisting of 434 residential units, commercial space, open space, and a community facility. The Brig was built in the early 1940s and served as a naval prison. After the Brooklyn Navy Yard closed in 1966, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and later the city used the site as a minimum-security prison until it closed in 1994. Construction is anticipated to begin in the late spring or early summer of 2008.
Audubon LEEDs in Design Again
FXFOWLE Architects has been selected to design the 28,000-square-foot interiors of the National Audubon Society’s new national home office in a space formerly occupied by a printing plant. Located in Hudson Square, the new office is designed to be a certified LEED building with an integrated approach to sustainable design. A raised floor system will provide flexibility of electrical wiring while distributing under-floor air to workspaces. The National Audubon Society has long been a leader in green design, and its current office, renovated in the early 1990s, has served as a model for green office design.
Mural Spans One and a Half Block at JFK
“Skyline of the World” mural at JFK.
Courtesy Think Tank New York
People can now see a panoramic depiction of 415 buildings from more than 70 international cities while waiting to check in at the new American Airlines Terminal 9 at JFK. Architect and artist Matteo Pericoli’s drawing spans the entire entry hall; running 397 feet long with a height varying from 30 to 52 feet, the monumental graphic is the world’s largest mural in an airline terminal. The mural was produced after photo-enlarging the original 12-foot-long “Skyline of the World” 32 times. International landmarks are juxtaposed not necessarily according to geography — the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is shown next to the Burj Al Arab hotel in Abu Dhabi, and the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis is adjacent to a Venetian canal.
Harlem’s Schomburg Center Enters New Phase; Bronx Library Wins LEED Silver
At a recent open house, the internationally renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture unveiled its two-year, $11 million renovation. The New York Public Library selected Dattner Architects to update the library to give users more effective access to research resources on- and off-site. The renovation includes a new glass façade complete with a video wall viewable from Malcolm X Boulevard, and a new Scholars-in-Residence Center. Simultaneously, the library opened two new exhibitions, Stereotypes vs. Humantypes: Images of Blacks in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Black Art: Treasures from the Schomburg, selected from the Center’s Art and Artifacts Division with over 20,000 holdings.
And in the Bronx, the NYPL was awarded a LEED Silver certification for the Bronx Library Center, also designed by Dattner Architects. The center, which marks its first anniversary, is NYC’s first LEED certified municipal building.
Korea’s New Songdo City: Asia’s NYC?
New Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea.
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
The NYC office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) is designing seven new buildings in New Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea. New Songdo City, being built on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land along the Yellow Sea, is positioned to become the hub of Northeast Asia. The mixed-use towers and hotel will be part of the $25 billion international business district master planned by Kohn Pederson Fox Architects (KPF). The towers, built along south side of the city’s main public park on what is billed as the “5th Avenue of New Songdo City,” will accommodate housing, live-in work amenities, and retail space. Located on the south side of the park, and already under construction, is the HOK-designed 322-guestroom, 25-story hotel tower for the city’s convention center, and is hoping to be the first LEED certified hotel in Korea. The residential towers and the hotel are expected to be completed in 2009.
In this issue:
·Mayor Overhauls Building Codes
·AIA Members Receive Discount off Guggenheim Memberships
·AIANY Cruises NYC Waterways
·Protest Develops at 5WTC
·Survey Reveals Professional Growth
·Passing: Gregory Clement III, FAIA
Mayor Overhauls Building Codes
Mayor Bloomberg and Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster, FAIA, submitted a landmark modernization of the City Building Code, the first since 1968, to the City Council for review and consideration. Fulfilling a promise made during the 2001 campaign, the Mayor’s proposal overhauls all aspects of the City’s construction codes, including the Building Code, setting new standards and rules that emphasize safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The proposal, to be called the NYC Construction Codes, draws on suggestions and input from hundreds of stakeholders the administration brought together for this effort, and is intended to simplify construction standards and foster long-term, environmentally-friendly growth.
The proposed Codes recognize electronic submissions and digital documents and will be organized according to the International Code Council format. To ensure the Codes never become dated, the proposed law will be tied to the national three-year revision cycle to take advantage of innovations in new materials and technology. The Department of Buildings (DOB) will also allow longer license durations. A cost study by the DOB has identified new code provisions for significant construction cost savings.
The Codes seeks to facilitate sustainable building by providing fee rebates for green design, requiring more efficient heating and cooling systems, requiring white roofs, and encouraging water conserving plumbing systems. The proposed Codes are available on the Buildings section of the New York City website. The website includes section-by-section documents that summarize each chapter and note key changes from the current Codes.
AIA Members Receive Discount off Guggenheim Memberships
AIANY is pleased to announce a partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. AIA Members can redeem a 15% discount on memberships up to and including the Supporting Associate level by using the discount code “AIA” during online purchases and phone purchases (212-432-3535) or by showing the AIA Membership Card at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum membership desk.
The Guggenheim Foundation promotes an understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of visual culture, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods. The Foundation realizes this mission through exhibitions, educational programs, research initiatives, publications, and its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships. For more information, visit the website.
Guggenheim members receive free admission to all Guggenheim museums, invitations to exclusive exhibition previews, 10% discount at the museum store and café, a free subscription to Guggenheim magazine, and more!
AIANY Cruises NYC Waterways
AIANY with NY Waterway Tours is launching the first cruise dedicated to the landmarks and skyline of NYC. The tour kicks off May 25 and will run every Thursday and Sunday at noon through the end of October. “Certified” tour guides will provide facts about numerous structures, and a visual presentation will play on flat-screen monitors to further enhance the experience. Bar service will be available on-board and a food menu will be offered by the “Original” NY Milkshake Company, located at Pier 78. Click here for schedules and to purchase tickets.
Protest Develops at 5WTC
Courtesy Peter Zahartos
J.P. Morgan Chase is in negotiations with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey over moving its businesses from Midtown to the WTC Tower 5 site, formerly the Deutsche Bank Building. While Chase’s downtown relocation would bring employment and money into the area, a series of newspaper reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, among others, reveal that, because the Tower 5 site is too confined to build the large floor plates that investment banks require, J.P. Morgan would have to significantly cantilever five of its upper floors. The floors would jut out over a planned public park on Liberty Street, as well as the new site of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — casting deep shadows on both.
Peter Zaharatos, a board member of the St. Nicholas Church and part of the architectural committee designated to oversee the rebuilding of the church, is collecting feedback, responses, and reactions to the J.P. Morgan Chase design to potentially generate a petition against it.
Survey Reveals Professional Growth
The 2007 Survey of Registered Architects by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) indicates that there are currently 112,650 registered architects in the U.S., reflecting a 4.5% increase over last year. More than 3,800 initial licenses were granted to architects, an increase of 34.5% over last year.
The survey also reveals that there are 109,546 reciprocal (out-of-state) architects and 222,196 total registrations. This means, on average, an architect is registered in at least two different jurisdictions. CA has the most resident architects (16,894) and the highest number of total registrations (21,852). In comparison, NY has 8,356 resident architects and a total of 14,124 registrations.
The Council’s Quality Assurance division collects data for the survey from its 54 member boards, which includes all 50 states, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. NCARB makes this information available annually as a service to the profession.
Passing: Gregory Clement III, FAIA
Gregory Clement III, FAIA, died at home surrounded by family and friends on April 11, 2007. He was 56 and battled melanoma for nearly two years. Gregory served as a Managing Partner at Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects since 1993, overseeing numerous international and award-winning projects such as the Rodin Museum and the New Songdo City Master Plan, both in South Korea. He led the firm in its role as Executive Architect in the renovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, working in tandem with Yoshio Taniguchi, Hon. FAIA.
Respected for his architectural contributions, Gregory was also admired for his personal relationships with clients and colleagues, his mentoring of young architects, and his warmth and integrity. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) in 2005, and he actively participated in the AIA Large Firm Roundtable. He took part in student juries at Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University, among others. With his free time, he pursued painting and collage art, as well as golf.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the Gregory and Elizabeth Clement Melanoma Research Fund, Abramson Cancer Center of The University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St., Suite 750, Philadelphia, PA 19104. A memorial will be held June 1, 2007 at 4pm, the Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th St. at Fifth Avenue.
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Arriving in NY’s North Cove Marina on May 8, the Swiss vessel sun21 has completed the first solar-powered transatlantic voyage. The solar-powered catamaran left continental Europe on December 3, 2006 from Chipiona, Spain. It arrived in Martinique on February 2, completing its journey on the open seas and traveled along the U.S. East Coast through March and April. The transatlantic21 Association set out to prove the feasibility of clean energy vessels on open seas, as well as to showcase the wide spread applications of solar technology to transform the shipping and boating industry. Click the link to read the blog, learn more about the boat, and see pictures of the voyage.
Also on the shores of Manhattan is the Science Barge, a sustainable urban farm designed by New York Sun Works, an environmental nonprofit organization. Offering educational tours, the barge is a sustainable urban farm powered by solar, wind, and biofuels, and irrigated by rainwater and purified river water. Using recirculated greenhouse hydroponics (water collected from rain and the river), tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and peppers are grown in a greenhouse. According to the website, “In a world of climate change, rapid urbanization, and endless pollution, sustainable urban agriculture can help.” Currently the barge is moored at Pier 84 in Hudson River Park. Click the link for more information and for schedules and directions.
Winners of the 2007 Building Brooklyn Design Awards include, in the categories of Arts & Culture: StudioSUMO (The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art); Community Facility: Donald Blair & Partners Architects (New Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA); Higher Education: Gruzen Samton and Davis Brody Bond (Academic Village — Kingsborough Community College); Dormitory: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Laurence Tamaccio Design Destinations, and SLCE Architects (Feil Hall); Primary Education: Gran Associates Architects & Planners (P.S./I.S. 395); Office: Coburn Architecture (West Elm Corporate Offices); Civic Works: Perkins Eastman (Brooklyn Supreme & Family Courthouse); Residential-Affordable: Feder
& Stia Architects (277 Gates Avenue); Residential-1 to 5 Dwellings: Coggan + Crawford Architecture + Design (South Slope Condominiums); Residential-Multi-Family: Office 606 Design + Construction (L3 Condominiums); Retail: MADE (One Girl
Cookies)…
Winners of the 2007 MASterwork Awards of the Municipal Art Society include: Best New Building: Hearst Tower by Foster + Partners; Best Neighborhood Catalyst: Fairway Market in Red Hook by Susan Doban Architect; and Best Commercial Restoration: Battery Maritime Building by Jan Hird Pokorny Associates.
Economic Impact Award winners include the Expansion of NY Marriott Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge by William B. Tabler Architects, SB Architects, and Moss Gilday Group; and Twin Marquis, Inc. by Luis P. Wong. Design & Economic Impact award winners include, in the categories of Mixed-Use: Red Hook Stores by Susan Doban Architect and Energy Concepts Engineering…
Chris Calori, Affil. AIA, and David Vanden-Eynden of Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants were named Fellows of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)… The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has named 13 new honorary members including Susan S. Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis magazine… Peter A. Gross, AIA, has been named Principal of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects… Meltzer/Mandl Architects has appointed Evan L. Schwartz, AIA, NCARB, Director of Design… Mayor Bloomberg appointed Janette Sadik-Khan as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT)… Kimberly Szinger, P.Eng., PE, LEED AP (Stantec Consulting, Ltd.) assumes the position of President (2007-2008) of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) on July 1, 2007…
New York Institute of Technology’s (NYIT) 2007 Solar Decathlon team has re-launched its interactive website… Solar One, BIG!NYC’s sibling organization, was just awarded $3 million in Mayor Bloomberg’s new budget…
Highlights from the AIA 2007 National Convention
FELLOWS’ INVESTITURE
Among a sea of architects, AIA Vice President George Miller, FAIA, and 2009 AIA Vice President Clark Manus, FAIA, at the Alamo. Both will serve on the national ExCom together next year.
Jeremy Edmunds
Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, AIANY President with Ben Fisher, FAIA.
Rick Bell
Tracey Hummer, Calvin Tsao, FAIA, and Fred Schwartz, FAIA.
Rick Bell
Sally Chin Greene, Assoc. AIA, with Frank Greene, FAIA.
Rick Bell
AIANYS PARTY
Mark Ginsberg, FAIA; Mark Strauss, FAIA, Jane Smith, AIA, and Tony Schirripa, AIA.
Kristen Richards
George Miller, FAIA, and Abby Suckle, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
“NEW PRACTICES NEW YORK” EXHIBITION OPENING
Rick Bell, FAIA; Tom Zook and Matthew Bremer, AIA, of Architecture In Formation (one of the six firms featured in the exhibition); and William Tims, AIA.
Karen Plunkett, AIA
AIA SAN ANTONIO HOST CHAPTER PARTY
Susan Chin, FAIA, and Jim McCullar, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
Mark Strauss, FAIA, Hubert Murray, AIA, RIBA, Frank Mruk, AIA, and Lance Jay Brown, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
The 2007 Topaz Award was presented to Lance Jay Brown, FAIA (center) by AIA President RK Stewart, FAIA (left), and Ted Landsmark, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, President of both Boston Architectural College and ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools ofArchitecture), and 2006 AIA Whitney Young Award (right).
Kristen Richards
Kristen Richards, editor of OCULUS, warms up to the locals.
Courtesy Kristen Richards
Oculus 2007 Editorial Calendar
If you have ideas, projects, opinions — or perhaps a burning desire to write about a topic below — we’d like to hear from you! Deadlines for submitting suggestions are indicated; projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Send suggestions to Kristen Richards.
09.07.07 Winter 2007-08: Power & Patronage
05.21.07 Submission: Higher Education Facilities Design Awards 2007
The Boston Society of Architects is looking for design excellence in Higher Education Facilities. Facilities can be public or private and built anywhere in the world after January 1, 1999 and may be new construction or rehabilitations. Firms entering must either submit projects built in or reside in New England. Questions should be directed to Richard Fitzgerald.
05.24.07 Submission: A|L Light & Architecture Design Awards
Architectural Lighting (A|L) magazine seeks to honor outstanding and innovative projects in the field of architectural lighting design. Acknowledging notable issues in lighting design and design techniques particular to lighting, A|L also presents the A|L Virtuous Achievement Awards (ALVA), which recognizes projects that achieve the Best Use of Color; the Best Incorporation of Daylight; and the Best Lighting Design on a Budget. All winning projects will be published in the July/August 2007 issue of A|L and be featured on the website.
05.30.07 Statement of Qualifications: City of Lake Elsinore Design Competition
This design competition solicits ideas for the development of a new civic center in California — which could include a new city hall, council chambers, post office, public library, business incubator, and other government offices or mixed uses in a campus setting. Two sites have been selected for development that differ in size and surrounding environment, but both are relevant to Lake Elsinore’s historic roots and can catalyze downtown development.
06.22.07 Submission: AIA New England’s People’s Choice Awards 2007
Firms submitting project(s) to the AIA New England Design Awards Program may submit an additional display board of a project to the People’s Choice Awards program that will be exhibited at the Ring’s End Showroom prior to the AIA New England Annual Conference October 5-7, 2007 in New Canaan, CT. Visitors to the showroom and library can vote for their favorite projects. The project submission may or may not be the same as that submitted to the Design Awards program. For more information, click the link or contact Joanne Reese at AIA Connecticut.
06.29.07 Submission: Waterfront Awards Program
This awards program will honor waterfront projects, plans, citizen’s efforts (”The Clearwater Award”) and, new in 2007, student awards. Entries are judged by an interdisciplinary jury, and selected entries will be on display on the Waterfront Center’s website. The awards ceremony will take place during the Center’s annual conference November 2, 2007 in Boston.
07.05.07 Submission: Sinocities Awards 2007
FAR Architecture Center Shanghai is holding an international open ideas architecture design competition on new public space. Designers choose a site on Sinocity, a fictional growing city in the heart of China, and apply their innovative designs. All interested architects and related professionals such as architects, urban planners, landscape architects, and students may enter. All projects will be exhibited in Shanghai in August 2007. Winners will receive 35,000 RMB (EUR 3,500) in total, and the award winner will be invited to Shanghai to the Award Ceremony.
07.27.07 Proposal: The Design Trust: Healthy NYC
The Design Trust for Public Space is issuing an RFP focusing on the need to plan for NYC’s healthy future. Mayor Bloomberg’s plaNYC 2030 states that our city will soon be home to over 9 million city residents, older infrastructure, and a less predictable environment. A healthy NYC 2030 — i.e., a city that we all still want to live in — depends on our ability to act now, directing the city’s growth to achieve our goals for the future. Each project proposed should explicitly address this issue.
09.17.07 Registration: Self Sufficient Housing
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is issuing an international summons to architects, designers, and students. This competition encourages the design of a “SELF-FAB HOUSE,” self-sufficient dwellings that anyone can build. Using industrial or traditional craft-based techniques generated by digital processes, software-driven manufacturing, with a focus on sustainability, the prize (total value: 39.500,00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the jury.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
April 9-July 7, 2007
2007 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
Galleries: Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, HLW Gallery, South Gallery, Edgar A. Tafel Hall
A showcase of the 2007 award-winning projects in three categories-Architecture, Interiors, and Projects. Selected from hundreds of international, national and local submissions, these projects spotlight the extraordinary achievements in architectural design excellence happening in New York City and around the world.
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Graham Hanson Design
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter and the AIA New York Chapter Design Awards Committee
Benefactor: DIRTT,
Oldcastle Glass
Patron:
HOK,
Microsol Resources,
F.J. Sciame Construction,
Laticrete International,
Trespa
Lead Sponsor: Certified of New York, Inc., Columbia, KI, Langan, Mancini Duffy, Richter + Ratner, Syska & Hennessy
Sponsors:
Atkinson Koven Feinberg; Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc.; Bentley Prince Street; Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects and Planners; Cosentini Associates; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS; Gensler; Gilsanz Murray Steficek; Haworth; Hopkins Foodservice Specialists, Inc.; The I. Grace Company, Inc.; Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Caroll & Bertolotti; Lutron; Mechoshade Systems; New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies: The Real Estate Institute; Perkins + Will; Peter Marino Architect; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Steelcase, Inc.; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Thornton-Tomasetti Group; Turner Construction
April 12–June 23, 2007
NY 150+: A Timeline
Ideas, Civic Institutions, and Futures
Galleries: Gerald D. Hines Gallery
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the American Institute of Architects in New York City, the AIA New York Chapter will feature an exhibition charting the transformation of the city and the profession from 1857 through the present and into the future. Genetic lines tracing the founding of the institute will intersect with various democratic and social movements and the architecture of New York’s civic structures.
Curator: Diane Lewis
Organized by: Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Underwriters:
*opening presented by Ibex
The exhibition is supported in part by an Arnold W. Brunner grant from the AIA New York Chapter
Additional support is provided by: Peter Schubert, AIA; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
March 22 to June 16, 2007
POWERHOUSE
New Housing New York
Galleries: Street Gallery, Public Resource Center, Judith and Walter Hunt Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery
Winning proposal
Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw
Related Events
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00pm, CES 1.5, HSW
NHNY: Best Practices for Affordable Sustainable Housing -
What worked, what didn’t?
Making Green Design More Accessible
TBD, CES 1.5, HSW
Power House illuminates the people, projects, and public policies that fuel the affordable housing landscape in New York City.
As New York City’s first juried design competition for affordable, sustainable housing, the New Housing New York Legacy Project (NHNY) is generating creative, replicable approaches to urban development. The exhibition focuses on the NHNY competition and sets it within the context of the city’s efforts to preserve and development sustainable, financially viable residences for low- and middle-income New Yorkers. The show’s emphasis is on the future of housing in the city, as represented by the competition winner, Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw (Phipps Houses / Jonathan Rose Companies / Dattner Architects / Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners), the four finalists, and the development mechanisms put in place by Mayor Bloomberg’s 10-year New Housing Marketplace initiative and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Building on the 2004 New Housing New York Ideas Competition, the 2006 two-stage contest will result in construction of the winning design on a 40,000 square-foot Bronx site, which is valued at $4.3 million and was donated by The City of New York.
For the full list of finalists click here
Curator: Abby Bussel
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Casey Maher
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter,
New Housing New York Steering Committee and the
City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development with the additional support of the Center for Architecture Foundation and the AIA New York Chapter Housing Committee
Exhibition Underwriters:
Exhibition Patron:
For more information on the New Housing New York Legacy Project click
href="http://www.aiany.org/NHNY/Legacy_About.html">here
NHNY is a partnership between the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Additional support is provided by the Center for Architecture Foundation, and City University of New York.
The NHNY Legacy Project is sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the National Endowment for the Arts, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., an AIA National Blueprint Grant, JP Morgan Chase, and Citibank.
March 22 — June 2, 2007
Making Housing Home
Photographs with residents of New York City housing developments
Galleries: Library
Norma’s House
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
This photographic exhibition explores how people inhabit housing to create homes in two of New York City’s affordable housing developments, each of which were developed to provide good homes for all. Because units of housing are in essence homes for families, this project takes an interior look at what architecture can allow and support, to afford the crucial process of making space for oneself within designed spaces and housing markets. If social housing reflects the social covenant of our society, what is it to which every citizen is entitled? What does it take for a life to flourish and can a building help or hinder this process? What becomes of designed spaces once they are inhabited?
An Installation by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Exhibition underwriters: Related Apartment Preservation, 42nd Street Development Corporation, Barbara Stanton
Organized with: Center for Human Environments, Housing Environments Research Group, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Chinese Pavilion” (model), 2005, brass.
Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through 07.29.07
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture
Since the early 1990s, Frank Stella has designed various architectural structures, including a band shell, pavilions, and museums. Works range from small models to a quarter-scale mock-up and features how Stella’s formal concerns transitioned from painting to wall-reliefs to freestanding sculpture, to architecture. The exhibition is concurrent with Frank Stella on the Roof, on view through 10.28.07.
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave, NYC
Global Village Shelter.
©2005 Architecture for Humanity and Grenada Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction
Through 09.23.07
Design for the Other 90%
Design solutions that address basic needs for the vast majority of the world’s population not traditionally serviced by professional designers are on display. More than 30 works include: “LifeStraw,” a mobile personal water purification tool; furniture made from hurricane debris through the Katrina Furniture Project; and Nicholas Negroponte’s “One Laptop per Child” project, an inexpensive, universal laptop computer. Organized by curator Cynthia E. Smith, along with an eight-member advisory council, the exhibition is divided into sections focusing on water, shelter, health and sanitation, education, energy, and transportation, and highlights objects developed to empower global populations surviving under the poverty level or recovering from a natural disaster.
Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue, NYC
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
Courtesy James Sanders
05.25.07 through 06.22.07
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
This multimedia installation, based on the award-winning book by designer and writer James Sanders, will whisk visitors into a cinematic city with large-scale projections from NY films and never-before-seen “process” footage from Hollywood. Exhibited are five, three-story-tall “scenic backing” paintings from the studio era of the 1940s and 50s, recreating views of NY including the U.N. (from “North by Northwest” — the actual painting Cary Grant ran in front of) and the old Penn Station. Many of these artifacts have never been seen before in public.
Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal
15 Vanderbilt Ave, NYC
eCalendar includes an interactive listing of architectural events around NYC. Click the link to go to to eCalendar on the Web.
Architecture Week and the celebration of the AIA 150th Anniversary is done, the National Convention is done, the summer is beginning to creep in to New York… what is left to anticipate for 2007? The AIA New York State Convention which will be held here in New York City from October 4-6, 2007. “The Past as Prologue” is the theme, the Grand Hyatt Hotel is the venue. We hope you will all attend the CES programming, product showcase, Host Chapter Party, walking tours, and more. For more information visit the AIANYS website. Sponsorship and product showcase opportunities are still available.
Reminder if you have not yet sent a renewal payment for 2007 membership your benefits have been suspended. The AIA offers a myriad of traditional benefits which can be reviewed here. In addition, the chapter has been working to extend member benefits and has recently formed alliances with the Guggenheim Museum and Kaplan AEC for discounts to our members. Please contact Suzanne Mecs, or 212-358-6115 as soon as possible to renew and restore your membership.
New Architect Members: Alyssa Murphy, Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architects | Bobby K. Young, AIA, Gabellini Sheppard Associates, LLP | Cornelia Wu, Gluckman Mayner Architects | Darren Frederick Schroeder, AIA, Mulvanny G2 Architecture | Frank Mazzarella, AIA, Amaya Y Mazzarella Arquitectos | JaeJun Ryu, AIA, Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson Bee | John I. Kim, AIA, Resolution: 4 Architecture | June Lois Daniel, Terrence O’Neal Architect LLC | Kim Yao, Architecture Research Office | Liza Crespo | Pia Kim, Perkins Eastman/ LSGS | Rodney Crumrine, NBBJ | Stephen Cassell, AIA, Architecture Research Office | Tony Tai, Gensler
The following individuals have recently upgraded to Architect level membership: March W. Chadwick, AIA, March Chadwick Architecture | Anna Lira V. Luis, AIA, Atelier Lira Luis, LLC | Christopher S. Reynolds, AIA
New Associate Members: Sigilit Brunn, Assoc. AIA, | Serena H. Chen, Assoc. AIA, Beyer Blinder Belle: Architects & Planners | Ethan P. Cohen, Assoc. AIA, City College Architecture Center | Elon Danziger, Assoc. AIA, Silberstang Lasky Architects | Stella Fleshler, Assoc. AIA, CUH2A (P.C.) | Felipe Guerrero, Assoc. AIA, Hillier | Viraj S. Hankare, Assoc. AIA, Costas Kondylis and Partners | Nathaly Haratz, Assoc. AIA | Carolyn J. Hinger, AIA, R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects | Kishel John, Assoc. AIA, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP | Marta E. Karamuz, Assoc. AIA, Hillier | Jonathan Francis Kirk, Assoc. AIA, Wettling Architects | Steven Morales, Assoc. AIA | Sharmiette Josepha Robinson, Assoc. AIA, Archetype | John A. Rolka, Assoc. AIA, Frank Seta Associates | Kashifa Saleem, Assoc. AIA, | John Robert Savage, Assoc. AIA, C.A. Lorentz Architect & John Savage Interior Design
New International Associate Members: Emilio Barletta, Int’l Assoc. AIA, Emilio Barletta Architect | Fernando Soler, Int’l Assoc. AIA, Cosentini Associates
New Titanium Corporate Members: Ibex Construction: William R. Brody | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York: Monica Ramirez Montagut, Ph.D. | TRESPA: Aart-Jan van der Meijden, Darlene Byrne, Todd Kimmel
New Steel Corporate Members: Cosentini Associates: Robert Bazewicz | J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.: Tracy H. Levites | Onilda Cruz, Mohawk Industries
New Aluminum Corporate Members: Altamax Capital LLC : Robert F Geils | Jerome S. Gillman Consulting Architect, P.C.: Pamela Gillman | Lane Office Furniture: Greg Burke, Lauren Wichter Friedman | Metro Building Solutions Inc.: Dennis Italia | Oldcastle Glass: Edwin B. Hathaway, Susan Trimble | PPG Industries, Inc.: Mary Hosley, CSI, CCPR | Sustainable Design Collaborative: Jin Huang | Trojan Powder Coating: Carl Troiano | Vitra: Martin Feller |
New Center for Architecture Professional Members: Michael Casolari, Integrated Building Controls | Sheril Kern, HumanScale Corp. | Thomas Henry Kieren, Custom Corporate Photography | Carmen Rainieri, FAI Construction Consultants | Louise Silver, RCDD | Fusayo Yokota, Fu. Design
New Center for Architecture Public Members: Gautam Gidwani, Habitations Design | Catherine M. Perebinossoff
New Center for Architecture Student Members: William A. Arbizu, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation | Lara A. Delaney, AIAS at Pratt Institute, School of Architecture | Mingda Liu, New York School of Interior Design | Lesley Claire Merz
New Corresponding Member: David L. Dinhofer, AIA, BLDG Management Co., Inc.
Reinstated Members: Carol K. Chang, AIA, Gluckman Mayner Architects | Melissa Cicetti, AIA, Gluckman Mayner Architects | Richard Clarke, AIA, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP | Mark Collins | James H Counts, Jr., AIA, Gluckman Mayner Architects | Anne Reilly Fahim, AIA, Anne Fahim Architectural Services, PC | Safwat B. Fahim, AIA, Archronica Architects P.C. | Ely Fretz, Assoc. AIA, Brennan Beer Gorman Architects (BBG-BBGM) | Alec K. Galli, AIA, Alec Klee Galli Architects | Scott Habjan, AIA, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP | Elliott Kaufman, Elliott Kaufman Photography | Stephen Killcoyne, AIA, Stickley | Amanda Lehman, Assoc. AIA, Cook + Fox Architects, LLP | Omar C. Mitchell, Assoc. AIA, Stephen B. Jacobs Group, PC | Frank Uccellini, AIA, Stantec | Perry G. Whidden, AIA, Gluckman Mayner Architects
Members Transferred in from Another Chapter, Welcome to New York! Mark S. Boekenheide, AIA, The Related Companies, Inc. | Kimberly Brown, AIA | Benjamin Caldwell, AIA, Holzman Moss Architecture LLP | Elizabeth J. Derr, Assoc. AIA, Murdock Young Architects | Marta E. Karamuz, Assoc. AIA, Hillier | Sung W. Kim, AIA, Rafael Vinoly Architects P.C. | Matthew M. Konar, AIA, Redtop Architects | Anthony Machado, Assoc. AIA | Joseph S. Pagac, Assoc. AIA, Joseph Pagac Design
Members Transferred out to another Chapter, Good luck in your new Locale! Andrew Charles Deibel, AIA | Matthew Edwin Hufft, AIA, Hufft Projects LLC | James G. Kendrick, AIA, Cannon Design | Bethany Lundell, Assoc. AIA, Rafael Vinoly Architects P.C. | Chang-Hyun Park, AIA | Shaun S. Shih, AIA, DMJM Harris | Martin Siefering, AIA, Perkins Eastman | Rex Wong, Assoc. AIA
The Chapter mourns the passing of: Charles Vogelstein, AIA, Oppenheimer Brady Vogelstein
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REALITY DOESN’T HAVE TO BITE!
Life is rough enough without job-hunting. So knock it off, already!
Goshow Architects, a woman-owned firm, located in New York’s Flatiron district seeks Project Architects to excel in our unique environment.
Do socially-conscious public projects peak your interest? How about Green Design? (Very Al Gore, very hip, very now - very Bono, even.) Then Goshow’s where to be.
We’re looking for savvy multi-taskers with 5 - 10 years job experience, people who can bandy about phrases like “extensive technical design skill in construction detailing” and “oodles of experience in construction site administration.” Since we’re ACAD proficient, you should be too and a B-Arch is a given.
Email your cover letter with resume and salary requirements to: JobOpps07@goshow.com and check out our website at www.goshow.com
Architect/Project Manager
Moulin & Associates, a N.Y.C design & construction management firm seeks Sr. Architectural Designer to assist in devl. of filing, design & constr. docs; mgmt., coord. & sched. of: client mtgs., proj. mgrs., contractors, subs and vendors. Prep. specs and finishes. Mgmt of bidding process & coord. of trades. Approve estimates & requisitions. Const. supervision. Mgmt of design & const. team and personnel. Must hold BA in Arch w/5 yrs exp as proj architect, with const. mgr exp. Must have 3 yrs exp with NYC zoning & building codes & structural; Acad; 3DS; Photoshop & Excel. MS Project/Primavera preferred. Exp can be concurrent. Any suitable combination of education, training or exp is acceptable. Submit resumes with Ref. code (RS) resume to kathy@moulinassociates.com.
Architectural Designer in NYC/NY: Under dir. of lic.architect, research, plan & admin. bldg properties for lge comm. res., & mixed-used projs. Engage in concept/schematic design, design dvlpmt, & constr. Docs. Plan & prep. scopes for exterior bldg & interior layout designs. Coord w/engineering consultants to integrate engineering & technical design aspects into unified design. Consult w/ clients to determine requirements of struc. Draft scale drawings & represent clients in obtaining bids & awarding constr. contracts. Cond on-site observation of work to monitor compliance w/arch plans. Req. M. Arch-min 2 yrs exp. Knowl. in AutoCAD, 3d Studio Max, Photoshop, Rhino, urban scale design approach & sustainable design initiatives. LEED accred a+. Email CV & work samples to KPF: dnmt@kpf.com. Ref job code INT4 EOE.
Architectural Designers NYC, NY — Perform all phases of arch design under dir of lic Architect on lrg mixed-used projs incl, prep of schematic design/design dvlpmnt/3D modeling/constr docs, solving complex design problems, coord drawings w/consultants. Req: M.Arch + min 2 yrs exp on lrg-scale multi-functional complexes, comm & res. high-rise projs; prof in metric & imperial sys. Familiar w/curtain-wall detail design and spec; Strong hand sketching skills & AutoCAD, 3D max, Photoshop, Rhino. Email CV & work samples to KPF: dnmt@kpf.com. Ref job code NYC. EOE.
Marketing/Events Coordinator
International strategic planning/design consultancy is accepting resumes for the North America marketing team, based in New York. Responsibilities: preparing proposals; events coordination; maintaining marketing information; research. Qualifications: BA/BS in related field with five+ years design industry experience. Skills: organizational, written/verbal communications, detail-oriented, team player. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suites required. Competitive salary with excellent benefits including medical/dental/vision, 401(k), life insurance, and others. EOE/AA.
Send resume/letter with salary requirements to gbank@degw.com.
Callison: A World of Design Opportunity
Callison is an international architecture firm focused on excellence, in design and client service. The New York office, which services the Retail, Corporate Workplace and Mixed Use markets, seeks talented:
Project Managers
Project Architects
Designers
Interior Designers
We offer competitive salary, full medical and dental / vision, 401(k) / profit sharing, transit subsidies, and a great location! See how you can join us on our journey by visiting us at www.callison.com Email resumes to employment@callison.com
We are an Affirmative Action/EEO Employer who values workplace diversity.
PROJECT MANAGER
RAND Engineering & Architecture seeks architect to manage large, multifaceted projects (exterior/interior, M/E/P, structural) for residential and commercial buildings. Review plans, coordinate tasks/schedules, client interaction. Strong design, project planning, communication skills required. Resume, salary requirements: hr@randpc.com.
BUILDING SURVEYS
RAND Engineering & Architecture seeks architect (RA preferred) to conduct building surveys for exterior/interior building systems, prepare reports for capital improvement planning. Knowledge of NYC Building Code, strong writing skills required. Resume, salary requirements to hr@randpc.com. www.randpc.com.
Junior Architect:
Cover Letter, Resume, 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format)
E-mail to hrtechnical@som.com
SOM is seeking junior level architects to work in the Long Island branch of the New York office for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have interest in a full range of project responsibilities with a particular focus in the application of building science in the design process and developing overall project documentation.
Applicants must hold a 5-year professional degree or Master’s degree in Architecture. Knowledge in AutoCAD required. LEED accreditation and knowledge in BIM platforms, such as Revit, and analytical software tools, such as Ecotect and Simulex, are considered a plus.
Please send a cover letter noting clearly your intent to apply for the Long Island office, resume, and 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format) to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Wendy Chang
Or you may email all files to hrtechnical@som.com (.pdf or .jpg only, 5MB message size limit)
No phone calls. Work samples will not be returned.
Intermediate Architect:
Cover Letter, Resume, 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format)
E-mail to hrtechnical@som.com
SOM is seeking intermediate level architects to work in the Long Island branch of the New York office for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have interest in a full range of project responsibilities with a particular focus in the application of building science in the design process and developing overall project documentation.
Applicants must hold a 5-year professional degree or Master’s degree in Architecture and have 3 to 8 years of professional experience. Knowledge in AutoCAD required. LEED accreditation and knowledge in BIM platforms, such as Revit, and analytical software tools, such as Ecotect and Simulex, are considered a plus.
Please send a cover letter noting clearly your intent to apply for the Long Island office, resume, and 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format) to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Wendy Chang
Or you may email all files to hrtechnical@som.com (.pdf or .jpg only, 5MB message size limit)
No phone calls. Work samples will not be returned.
Intermediate Architect:
Cover Letter, Resume, 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format)
E-mail to hrtechnical@som.com
SOM is seeking intermediate level architects for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have interest in a full range of project responsibilities including the investigation of innovative building systems, materials research and sustainable initiatives in the design process.
Applicants must hold a 5 year professional degree or Master’s degree in Architecture and have 3 to 8 years of professional experience. Knowledge in AutoCAD, 3d Studio Max and/or Rhino required. LEED accreditation and knowledge in BIM platforms, such as Revit, and analytical software and simulation tools, such as Ecotect and Simulex, are considered a plus.
Please send a cover Letter, Resume, and 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format) to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Wendy Chang
Or you may email all files to hrtechnical@som.com (.pdf or .jpg only, 5MB message size limit)
No phone calls. Work samples will not be returned.
Senior Architect:
Cover Letter, Resume, 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format)
E-mail to hrtechnical@som.com
SOM is seeking senior level architects for involvement in both large and small scale projects. Applicants should have experience in a full range of project responsibilities. Applicants should also have interest in the application of building science in the design process including investigating and developing materials, innovative building systems solutions, systems integration/interoperability and sustainable design initiatives.
Applicants must hold a 5-year professional degree or Master’s degree in Architecture and have minimum of 5 years of professional experience. Knowledge in AutoCAD, 3d Studio Max and/or Rhino required. LEED accreditation and knowledge in BIM platforms, such as Revit, and analytical software and simulation tools, such as Ecotect and Simulex, are considered a plus.
Please send a cover Letter, Resume, and 1-2 work samples (8 1/2″ x 11″ .pdf or hardcopy format) to:
Human Resources
SOM
14 Wall Street, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10005
ATTN: Wendy Chang
Or you may email all files to hrtechnical@som.com (.pdf or .jpg only, 5MB message size limit)
No phone calls. Work samples will not be returned.
Project Manager
Empyrean International is a global leader of the contemporary and modernist prefab movement. We have 57 years experience in the design and construction of imaginative one-of-a-kind custom houses, including Deck House, Acorn, and the Dwell Homes by Empyrean.
We are searching for a Project Manager for our New York City area office to work with clients who want unique architecture inspired by their site and by the way they live.
We want a person who:
· Is excited by contemporary and modernist architecture
· Can manage projects from design through construction
· can work in a team environment with designers, builders, and clients
· Can support, but not have to create, construction drawings and details
· Communicates comfortably and clearly in writing and in person — including the effective use of computers and the internet and is highly organized
Additional specific skills/tasks include:
Maintain Project Status Reports and Timelines, Hands-on understanding of materials and methods used in residential construction, Make site visits and assist with the various types of permitting issues In short, act as a liason between the client and our internal sales and design functions
Empyrean International offers balanced compensation (salary and performance bonus), excellent benefits, high income potential, architectural innovation, and a team-oriented open working environment.
Respond to: rsmjob@empyreanapf.com
www.empyreanapf.com
Empyrean International
Michael Rogers
930 Main St
852 Main St
Acton, MA 01720
Phone: 978 263 7000
mrogers@emp-apf.com
http://www.empyreanapf.com
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