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09.03.08
It’s been three years since Hurricane Katrina, and even though Hurricane Gustav did not do as much damage as initially predicted, now is the time to reflect on progress that is being made. For some inspiration, check out “Architecture School” on the Sundance Channel airing Wednesdays. See the Editor’s Soapbox to read my review.
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
CLICK ON BLOG CENTRAL: AIANY BLOG: The AIANY Chapter has launched a new blog. Blog Central features opinion pieces on architectural issues relevant to NY-based designers, firms, and projects, along with spotlights on debates and discussions at the Center for Architecture and AIANY, and is an informal discussion board. Be sure to check it out regularly and contribute to the dialogue.
Some of the recent debates include:
· 6 Month Rule. NCARB passed a rule that requires a six-month regulated reporting period for intern architects enrolled in the Intern Development Program. Read how this affects firms and schools as well as individuals.
· Buildings Commissioner Qualifications. City Council voted to pass Intro 755-A eliminating the requirement for the Buildings Commissioner to be a registered professional. Weigh in on the topic.
· AIANY Policy. Have you wondered how AIANY establishes its policy positions? Laura Manville, the AIANY Policy Coordinator explains all.
To become a regular contributor to Blog Central, please e-mail e-Oculus. Pen names are welcome.
Exhibition: Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
Location: Museum of Modern Art, through 03.02.09
Urban Renewal in New York Project, New York, New York. Arial perspective, 1964. Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver photograph on gelatin silver photograph.
Hans Hollein, Hon. FAIA, courtesy Museum of Modern Art
New York City has always been a magnet for dreamers, and architects are no exception. In the 1960s and 1970s, a wave of young architects such as Raimund Abraham, Hans Hollein, Hon. FAIA, and Rem Koolhaas, took inspiration from the cityscape to form new utopian architectural visions. On the 30-year anniversary of Koolhaas’s book Delirious New York, the Museum of Modern Art’s show “Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s” features more than 60 drawings, collages, paintings, and models dedicated to architectural experiments for New York and beyond, whether built or imagined.
Some works evoke the fantastical realms of science-fiction, such as Hollein’s collage “Urban Renewal in New York” (1964), which depicts part of Lower Manhattan transformed into a bug-like mechanical contraption — an ironic extension of Le Corbusier’s notion of the house as a machine for living in, explained curator Andres Lepik in an interview (in the absence of explanatory text in the exhibition, a frequent weakness in an otherwise engaging show). The somber “Church of Solitude” paintings (1974–77) by Gaetano Pesce depict a structure that reverses NYC’s usual inclination to build up by plunging into the earth, far from the noise and hubbub of the city, creating an underground sanctuary where visitors (animal-like and depraved) seclude themselves.
Whimsical imaginings from the then-young firm OMA include works from Delirious New York, such as Elia and Zoe Zenghelis’s painting “Hotel Sphinx” (1975–76), a Times Square hotel that straddles two blocks (a site condition lending to its sphinx shape). Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp’s “The City of the Captive Globe” (1972) also celebrates Manhattan’s grid: each block houses another architectural or artistic idea, whose warmth helps to incubate the growth of the world at the center.
The City of the Captive Globe served as one source of inspiration for the show itself, said Lepik, with its assemblage of disparate concepts. A table at the center of the room serves as a platform for a dream city, dotted with models of eclectic projects from around the world. The curve of Diller + Scofidio’s Slow House rests near the angularity of Simon Unger’s T-House, both models encompassing idealist visions of what a country retreat can be. Surrounded with LED “leaves,” a high-tech model for a new Hotel Habitat in Barcelona (by Cloud 9, Acconci Studio, Ruy Ohtake, and Enric Ruiz-Geli) simulates an electronic tree house powered with solar energy. In some models, the utopian vision is obvious, in others, less so; again, more explanatory text would have made it an even stronger show.
Lisa Delgado is a freelance journalist who has written for Oculus, The Architect’s Newspaper, Blueprint, The LEAF Review, and Wired, among other publications.
Event: Public Ecologies at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
Location: Van Alen Institute, 08.06.08 & 08.14.08
Speakers: Dr. Clive G. Jones — Ecologist & Senior Scientist, Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies; Michael Osman — Architectural Historian; Julia Czerniak — Co-founder, CLEAR & Associate Professor, Syracuse University; Edward Mitchell — Principal, Edward Mitchell Architects
Moderator: Ellen Grimes — Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago & Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellow, Summer 2008
Organizer: Van Alen Institute
Photograph from Disarming the Prairie (Creating the North American Landscape), published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, a survey of the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, once the world’s largest TNT factory.
Photograph © Terry Evans
Just off Route 66 an ecological experiment is brewing under the auspices of Ellen Grimes, Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellow, with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Center for Research in Urban Ecology at the University of Illinois Chicago (CRUE). The work focuses on restoring a 19,000-acre reserve in Illinois known as Midewin, the first official national tallgrass prairie. Described by Grimes as “an atypical design project,” restoring the brownfield to its original eco-state is a challenge since the site is located at the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant and remains contaminated with toxic waste. Currently, Midewin consists of only 3% prairie and is largely comprised of abandoned farmland.
The rebirth of Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie will begin with a microcosmic, 2.5-mile strip of land that could take up to 25 years to complete, according to the USFS. The area will house a series of environmental experiments inviting public observation and interaction intended to reconnect people to nature. The experiments will include carbon sequestration analyses, investigations of nutrient and energy fluxes, and studies of the interactions among mammals, birds, and plant life. By redesigning human activities in the fields of forestry and agriculture, Grimes hopes that ecosystems may be used to more effectively impact design, the public realm, and even metropolitan life.
Rather than artificially simulating a prairie in a controlled environment, Midewin is a test bed to explore the relationships among economy, ecology, and design in a real environment. The USFS and CRUE seek to build regional and global audiences while educating local farmers in methods to restore and sustain the ecosystem.
Jacqueline Pezzillo, LEED AP, is the communications manager at Davis Brody Bond Aedas and a regular contributor to e-Oculus.
Entry perspective of Slade Architecture’s villa in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
Slade Architecture
In 2002, architect James Slade, AIA, and wife Hayes Slade, an MBA with a background in engineering, launched a joint practice, Slade Architecture. Their work includes commercial, residential, and cultural projects, and now they’ve been selected by Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei as one of 100 international firms building 100 villas in the new town of Ordos, Inner Mongolia. E-Oculus contributor Ian Volner sat down with Slade Architecture to talk about Ordos, Ai Weiwei, and designing in the desert.
e-OCULUS: How did you first get involved with the Ordos project?
Hayes Slade: Herzog & de Meuron contacted us first about a year ago. We didn’t really understand the full scope of the project at the time, but the CC: list on the e-mail went on and on. “Dear all, we’ve put your name on a list of 100 young architects from around the world…”
James Slade, AIA: Then we started getting more information several months later, in December. Suddenly, we were told that the project was going forward and we were asked to come to Inner Mongolia either in January or in April. We went for the “Phase II” visit in spring. We met up with Ai Weiwei in Beijing at his restaurant, and found ourselves in the company of a lot of architects we already knew and others, especially from abroad, we didn’t. The next day, we all flew to Ordos, which is about a two-and-a-half hour flight from Beijing. Once we got to Inner Mongolia, we were constantly under police escort — a busload of architects and reporters.
e-O: What was the brief, exactly?
JS: All 100 houses in the development are 10,000 square feet with a lot of amenities: we had to provide for a pool, a wine cellar, study, and media room. The suggested footprint for each unit is set back into the lot and surrounded by paths, making the whole development a gallery for architecture. We were told that the construction of the house would have to be relatively low-cost concrete and brick. But other than that, there were so few limitations placed on the project that we had to grab on to the few restrictions there were. And, of course, there’s nothing there at the moment except desert, so we had to extrapolate on the master plan to find the context.
HS: There was no reason to jettison what little information we had about the site, and the lack of context became a kind of compelling context in and of itself. I mean, how often do you have a client giving you such vague instructions?
JS: So we took that gallery aspect as a given, as an objective of the master plan. We tried to make the house a sculptural object that would reward the viewer walking around it, but also allow for privacy inside. The private spaces have interior views, and the public spaces are put on display. We had three typologies in mind: Johnson’s glass house, an enclosed living space that’s an extension of the ground plane; a Chinese courtyard house, a traditional regional typology; and a freestanding, sculptural volume.
e-O: How did your design process differ from that of previous projects you’d worked on?
JS: We worked from the outside in on this one. It seemed like the sculptural possibilities of the house were very important, so we started by looking for a massing that we liked, since the building was going to be seen as a freestanding form on the site. Then we found an interior arrangement based on our foam core massing models, in coordination with Rhino.
HS: We also thought, working in China and with brick, that we had a unique opportunity because the labor there is so cheap. We realized we could do something unusual and inventive with the brick surfacing that we wouldn’t have been able to do in the States. The geometry of the bricks runs throughout the façade — the bricks rotate on their own axes as they wrap around the building, creating a ripple effect.
e-O: What’s it been like working with Ai Weiwei?
JS: I think one of Weiwei’s objectives with this project is to create a cross-cultural exchange. Part of the whole experience has been the social scene with the other architects, the mixing of practices.
HS: Weiwei put us up in a Holiday Inn in a town near Ordos. At the hotel, it was a little bit like waiting for an airplane that never arrived — there was a lot of lounging around, talking to other architects. It was a completely nondescript, ubiquitous tourist hotel in a nondescript tourist part of town, and the environment seemed to fit perfectly with Weiwei’s goal. The whole project is like a big social/art experiment, with us — the architects, as the subjects.
Ian Volner is a writer and critic living in Manhattan.
“Architecture School,” a six-part weekly documentary series on the Sundance Channel, premiered August 20. After the inundation of reality shows about design infiltrating television over the last couple of years, finally here is a show that brings out the best about those who study and practice architecture, and in a realistic way.
So far, two episodes have aired. A fourth- and fifth-year design studio at Tulane University, under the tutelage of Professor Byron Mouton, AIA, holds an in-studio competition to design a single-family house in a low-income neighborhood of New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The first episode features the nine students and introduces the project, while the second episode takes viewers through the design process, a critique with the Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (NHS) which is helping to fund the project, and a critique with noted architecture professors and critics around the country (including former-dean Reed Kroloff, Assoc. AIA, the harshest on the panel). Finally, the students vote on whose house will actually be built.
Watching this show brought back all of the mixed memories of late nights in the studio and architecture school critiques. Through desk crits that send some students in directions that are critiqued later, students trying to channel Modern architects like Adolf Loos and John Hejduk, and claims that most students will be pulling all-nighters to try to pull off the best designs they can, it comes down to the final crit that persuades the studio to select Adriana’s S-shaped, industrial-inspired design. It is easy to empathize with the students who are working so hard because they genuinely want to make a difference in the world and positively impact an ailing community. Subsequent episodes will follow the students as they build the house together, and I look forward to watching it happen.
In this issue:
· Work on Brooklyn Bridge Park Progresses
· Brooklyn Goes 80/20 on Housing
· Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Modernizes
· New School Goes Green by the Book
· Admiral’s Row In Jeopardy
· Long Island City Celebrates Industry
· Clinton Library Receives Conditions Report
· New Med School Breaks Ground in Scranton
Work on Brooklyn Bridge Park Progresses
Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Courtesy brooklynbridgepark.org
The new park, designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, will run 1.3 miles along the East River and will tie together the neighborhoods of DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights. The 85-acre park will be built on land now covered with asphalt, concrete, abandoned sheds, and rubble along the water’s edge. The NY office of Skanska is charged with turning the industrial remains into lawns, beaches, coves, restored habitats, playgrounds, sports facilities, and landscaped gardens. Structural steel and aluminum cladding from the old sheds, as well as concrete and asphalt, will be recycled. In addition, the waterfront will be reshaped with 180,000 cubic yards of material dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers from Fresh Kills channels in the harbor. Approximately 85% of the park will be complete by 2010, and the park is expected to be fully complete in 2012.
Brooklyn Goes 80/20 on Housing
80 DeKalb Avenue.
Costas Kondylis Partners
Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) has closed on financing for a 335,000-square-foot building designed by Costas Kondylis at 80 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn. The project is a 34-story tower that contains 73 affordable and 292 market rate rental units — making it the first 80/20 development in the borough to be financed with New York State Housing Finance Agency funds. The project consists of 123 studios, 188 one-bedroom, and 54 two-bedroom units, and aims for LEED certification. Green features include: the use of low- or no VOC-emitting materials; low-flow fixtures; recycling over 75% of construction waste; and using recycled materials with recycled content. As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen minority- and women-owned businesses, FCRC has awarded 19% of the project’s contracts to such firms. In addition, FCRC projects that 30% of the construction workforce will be made up of minority workers and 10% of women workers. Major construction on the building began in July, which is expected to open during the summer of 2009.
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Modernizes
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
Levien & Company
New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, housed in an early 20th century mansion on the Upper East Side, has been completed. The 27,000-square-foot cultural and academic facility contains conference rooms, offices, and exhibition galleries. Major elements of the project included the restoration of the building’s grand staircase, installation of new elevators and interior and exterior staircases, and a four-story glass-and-metal library embedded in three stories of the grand building. Levien & Company managed the project team including Selldorf Architects and was funded by the Leon Levy Foundation.
New School Goes Green by the Book
P.S. 59.
Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects
Through a public-private partnership between the Educational Construction Fund, an arm of the NYC Department of Education, and real estate developer The World-Wide Group, Manhattan’s first School Construction Authority (SCA)-certified green school located on 57th and 2nd Avenue opens this month. Designed by Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, the school is the new temporary home for Public School 59 — also known as The Beekman Hill International School — for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students. The project is the first school to comply with the Department of Education’s NYC Green Schools Rating system based on LEED certification requirements, which was adopted in 2008. With SCA standards calling for higher levels of fresh air, the project includes an ultra-efficient HVAC system, all of the windows were replaced with low-e-coated glass to help keep heat out and allow light in, and the building uses steam for heat, which emits no greenhouse gases. The new school includes a rooftop play area, a full-sized gymnasium, common learning areas, science laboratories, and classrooms.
Admiral’s Row In Jeopardy
Admiral’s Row rendering by Andrew Burdick.
Courtesy Municipal Art Society
The Municipal Art Society (MAS) recently presented alternative plans to retain the 11 historic buildings on Admiral’s Row on the edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the U.S. Army National Guard Bureau. Since the National Guard is in the process of selling the site to the City of New York, which intends to lease it to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), MAS instead proposes the development of a 65,000-square-foot grocery store, a large parking lot, and additional retail and industrial space on the site. The collection is composed of 10 houses for naval officers that were built between the mid-19th century and 1901, and a timber shed from the 1830s that is believed to be a rare survivor. Although the deteriorated buildings have been abandoned since the 1970s, MAS believes they are of architectural interest and most are structurally sound.
MAS held a public visioning session where participants developed several principles to guide the preparation of the alternatives, ranging from saving all of the buildings to losing only three or four of them; retaining green space; reducing substantially the number of surface parking spaces; and provide public access, serve the needs of the community, and help foster small businesses and new employment opportunities. Renderings produced by Andrew Burdick of the studio collaborative and Architecture for Humanity New York were created to illustrate the differences between the concept behind one of the MAS alternatives and the BNYDC’s proposal.
Long Island City Celebrates Industry
L haus.
Cetra/Ruddy
Cetra/Ruddy’s new residential condo project in Long Island City is starting to reveal its faç ade composed of a mix of green-hued cement fiber and corrugated metal panels, in deference to the neighborhood’s industrial character. Named the L haus because of its shape, the 11-story building will contain 122 one-, two-, and three-bedroom residences with 17,000 square feet of amenities. Outdoor spaces include a lawn with a water feature, and a roof terrace with both public areas and private cabanas with views of Manhattan. There will also be a club room, a relaxation space, catering pantry, fitness center, yoga space, and media room. L haus is expected to be completed in early 2009.
Clinton Library Receives Conditions Report
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum (left), and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library.
Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering
The National Archives and Records Administration recently selected Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering (EYP) to conduct a building conditions report at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, designed by Polshek Partnership in 2005. Its archival and museum holdings are the largest within the Presidential Library system with approximately 76.8 million pages of paper documents, 1.85 million photographs, and over 84,600 artifacts. EYP has worked on all 12 presidential libraries in the country; work ranges from thorough building envelope studies and recommendations, to replacing roofs and systems, to renovation and addition of archival storage spaces.
New Med School Breaks Ground in Scranton
The Commonwealth Medical College.
HOK
The Commonwealth Medical College recently broke ground on its Medical Sciences Building in Scranton, PA. The NY office of HOK, in association with Highland Associates, shaped the physical planning of the educational program by pairing biomedical laboratories with other highly technical components, such as a gross anatomy lab, simulation rooms, and standardized patients’ rooms to achieve operational and mechanical efficiency. The west research wing and east educational wing will surround a shared courtyard to create a campus setting. The linkage between the two buildings will act as a gathering space with a porch, courtyard, and café. To the east, public ground-floor spaces include additional common areas, a bookstore, and lobby. Rainwater collection that will be used for the gardens and indigenous plantings, heat recovery, CO2 sensing, occupancy sensors, high-performance glazing, integrated daylight control through honeycombed transom glazing, and the use of local stone will contribute to the overall sustainability. The project is slated for completion by 2011.
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Submit your response to the latest poll: City Council voted to pass Intro 755-A eliminating the requirement for the Buildings Commissioner to be a registered professional, and paving the way for acting commissioner Robert LiMandri to hold the position. What do you think about this decision?
Note: Results from this poll are non-scientific.
City of Memory is an online narrative map of NYC. Visitors are able to browse tours that link to stories about local communities and cultures, and add their own experiences to the map.
The 2008 AIANYS Design Award Recipients include NYC-based firms in the following categories — Adaptive Reuse: New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch (Award of Excellence), Rogers Marvel Architects; Betances Community Center & Boxing Gym (Award of Merit), Stephen Yablon Architect; Bronx Lighthouse Charter School (Award of Merit), Gran Kriegel Associates…
Commercial/Industrial, Small Projects: Fendi Flagship (Citation for Design), Peter Marino Architect… Historic Preservation: Rodin Studios (Award of Merit), Zaskorski & Notaro Architects… International: Hong Kong International Airport, Terminal 2 and Skyplaza (Citation for Design), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architect, Aedas Limited, Executive Architect…
Commercial/Industrial, Large Projects: The New York Times Building (Award of Excellence), Renzo Piano Building Workshop in association with FXFOWLE Architects and Gensler, Interior Architect; Hamptons Country Club (Award of Merit), Hart Howerton; The Plaza at PPL Center, Office Development for Liberty Property Trust (Award of Merit), Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Design Architect, Kendall/Heaton Associates, Associate Architect; Theory World Headquarters & Retail Flagship (Award of Merit), Rogers Marvel Architects…
Institutional: The Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center, (Award of Excellence), BKSK Architects; The Reece School (Award of Excellence), Platt Byard Dovell White Architects; Princeton School of Architecture (Award of Merit), Architecture Research Office; Bronx Library Center (Citation for Design), Dattner Architects; Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium & Ice Rink (Citation for Design), Handel Architects in association with Kevin Hom & Andrew Goldman Architects; Glenstone Museum (Citation for Design), Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects; Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, New York University School of Medicine (Citation for Design), Mitchell/Giurgola Architects…
Interiors: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Award of Excellence), Lyn Rice Architects with Astrid Lipka; 23 Beekman Place (Award of Merit), Della Valle Bernheimer; Ermenegildo Zegna Flagship (Award of Merit), Peter Marino Architect; Interior for a Writer’s Studio (Award of Merit), Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture; Louis Vuitton Flagship (Award of Merit), Peter Marino Architect, Architect, Denton Corker Marshall, Associate Architect; Apple Store West 14th Street (Citation for Design), Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Historic Central Park West Residence (Citation for Design), Shelton Mindel & Associates; IAC Headquarters (Citation for Design), STUDIOS architecture, Architect, Gehry Partners, Base Building Architect; NoVo Foundation Offices (Citation for Design), Ryall Porter Architects; The Core Club (Citation for Design), SPaN…
Residential, Small Projects: Addition to House on the Gulf of Mexico (Award of Excellence), Toshiko Mori Architect; Studio for a Writer (Award of Excellence), Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture; Grand Street Residence & Gardens (Award of Merit), Andrew Berman Architect; Mesa’s Edge (Award of Merit), Bone/Levine Architects; Artist Studio (Citation for Design), Basil Walter Architects; Duane Street Live/Work Loft (Citation for Design), Marpillero Pollak Architects, Architect, John Furth Peachy Architect, Architect of Record…
Residential, Large Projects: 325 West Broadway Condominium (Award of Excellence), Beyhan Karahan & Associates, Architects; Private Residence (Award of Merit), Oliver Cope Architect; Upper West Side Townhouse (Citation for Design), Redtop Architects in association with Antonietta Schreiber; Watermill Houses (Citation for Design), 1100: Architect…
Unbuilt: Decatur Modern Home (Citation for Design), Kimberlae Saul Architect; Urban Planning/Design: Hudson River Promontory (Award of Merit), Weisz + Yoes Architecture; Philadelphia Navy Yard, Liberty Property Trust and Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (Citation for Design), Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Architect, EDAW and Synterra Ltd., Landscape Architecture/Planning/Design…
The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) announced the 2008 recipients of the 31st Annual National Marketing Communications Awards (MCA), including Advertising, RAND Engineering & Architecture and Annual Report, Mancini Duffy…
The National Building Museum will present the 2008 Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology to Charles H. Thornton, Hon. AIA, Ph.D., P.E., co-founder of Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., and founder of the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) Mentor Program of America…
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board of Directors voted at its July meeting to merge with the Civil Engineering Forum for Innovation (CEFI)… The Board of HOK Group, Inc., and managers of HOK Sports Facilities have jointly agreed to transfer ownership of HOK Sport Venue Event to leaders of that practice, becoming and independent entity… Steven Rosenstein Associates (SRA) has merged into Perkins Eastman and Steven Rosenstein joins them as a Principal…
Kathryn Dean of Dean/Wolf has been appointed director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis… Magnusson Architecture and Planning announced the appointment of Fernando Villa, AIA, LEED AP, to senior associate…
08.06.08: Terrence O’Neal, AIA (left), principal of Terrence O’Neal Architect and 2008-2010 AA Regional Director, attended a birthday celebration for Representative Charles Rangel (right) at Tavern on the Green.
DK Perryman for Wyzemenn Media Group
09.05.08 Call for Entries: QUITO XVI PAN — American Architecture Biennale BAQ 2008
The BAQ, College of Architects of Ecuador — Provincial Pichincha, invites design professionals of the Americas to participate in the XVI Biennale, to strengthen the professional network, generate innovative discourses, compare work, and acknowledge the efforts, especially in Latin America, to create a better future through architectural and urban design. Participating projects will be published in the XVI Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennale catalogue, BAQ/2008: Feel the Latin American Architecture.
09.15.08 Call for Entries: Next American City Urban Leaders Fellowship Program
Next American City seeks writers to contribute about the development of the nation’s cities. The nine-month, part-time fellowship comes with a $10,000 stipend. Through substantial contribution to the print magazine and website, and presence in other national media outlets, fellows will conduct new research and in-depth reportage on the issues at the forefront of urban change. Candidates should have related published writing and be passionate urban thinkers, activists, and professionals working in city-related professions — law, urban planning, social work, real estate development, education, and others.
09.24.08 Call for Entries: Contract Interiors Awards
The Annual Interiors Awards honors innovative design teams in several different categories. Both established and emerging firms are welcome to submit. Held since 1979, the awards are presented at a breakfast gala along with the Designer of the Year and the Legend Award. Winners are featured in Contract’s January issue and on Contractmagazine.com.
10.01.08 Call for Nominations: ASCE 2009 National Achievement Awards
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is seeking nominations for the following awards: The Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Awards, Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research, The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award, and the Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. The awards will be presented at ASCE’s OPAL Awards Gala in April 2009. The awards call attention to and celebrate leadership, creative spirit, and commitment to excellence within the engineering profession.
10.31.08 Call for Entries: Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards
The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau invite entries in this awards program honoring design excellence and architectural accomplishment using western red cedar. Projects must be completed no earlier than 01.01.05. The awards categories are: those featuring extensive use of cedar lumber, and those featuring extensive use of cedar shakes and shingles. New, restored and renovated buildings are eligible, and entries are not limited by geography.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
September 10 — October 4, 2008
Memorial Sites: New York to Nairobi
Memorial Sites: New York to Nairobi is an exhibition of photographs by Julie Dermansky which reflects on the meaning and history of memorials while addressing site specificity and the culture of place. “History belongs to all of us,” says Dermansky, “but it is the memorial site commemorating a particular historical moment and connecting it to the present that infiltrates our being and transcends history.” Dermansky has documented memorials in diverse locations, from the site of the destroyed US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, to the Valhalla, New York 9/11 memorial by Frederic Schwartz. Her global perspective explores the range of realized memorial design solutions. Memorial Sites: New York to Nairobi engages issues of injustice and genocide, while capturing the irony of sacred sites converted to tourist destinations.
Exhibition Curator: Tracey Hummer
Image caption: Oklahoma City National Memorial
Related Events
Thursday, September 10, 2008, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
September 5 — January 3, 2009
New Practices New York 2008
New Practices New York 2008 is the second juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform for recognizing and promoting new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies - both in projects and practice.
From the 52 portfolios submitted, the New Practices Committee - consisting of Amale Andraos (Work AC), Jennifer Carpenter (TRUCK), Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects), William Menking (Architect’s Newspaper) and Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) - was expected to choose the six most promising firms. The competition winners, all of whom will be participating in our exhibition are:
Baumann Architecture
Common Room
David Wallance Architect
Matter Practice
Openshop | Studio
Urban A&O
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with New Practices Committee
Exhibition organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Design: We Should Do It All
Media Partner: The Architects Newspaper
Underwriter: Häfele
Patron: ABC Imaging
Lead Sponsors: Ibex, MG & Company, Poliform, Thornton Tomasetti
Supporters: Fountainhead Construction, FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
Beverage Sponsor: SAAGA Vodka
Related Events
Friday, September 5, 2008, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Winner’s Symposium
Each firm will have a six-week exhibition and will be delivering a Hafele NY Showroom at 25 East 26th Street. For more information, visit Hafele’s New York showroom listing at www.hafele.com/us
July 17 — September 27, 2008
South Street Seaport - Re-envisioning the Urban Edge
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) presents the Third Biennial Ideas Competition, South Street Seaport | Re-envisioning the Urban Edge. This competition encouraged participants to envision new connections, both material and metaphoric, between this richly historic neighborhood and Manhattan’s contemporary urban fabric.
South Street Seaport | Re-envisioning the Urban Edge provided an opportunity, uncommon for students and young professionals in the field of design and architecture, to engage the ongoing evolution of the South Street Seaport. More than 200 participants entered the competition, representing a broad spectrum of domestic and international architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and graphic artists. From over 100 entries, a jury selected four top prizes, five honorable mentions, and additional Jury Selections, all of which are presented in this exhibition.
ENYA partnered with the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI), whose headquarters have been in the neighborhood since 1832. The principal element of the program is a community center for local residents and gallery space to house the SCI’s collection of maritime art and artifacts. In addition, competitors were encouraged to make community-building interventions in open spaces throughout the site in order to preserve the neighborhood’s intriguing history, while re-imagining its future edge condition on the downtown New York waterfront.
Exhibition organized by the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)
Exhibition organized by the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)
ENYA Co-Chairs:
Megan Chusid, Assoc. AIA
Harry Gaveras, AIA
Exhibition and Competition Developers:
Anne Leonhardt, Assoc. AIA
Heather Mangrum
Joel Melton, Assoc. AIA
Sean Rasmussen, Assoc. AIA
Exhibition Design:
Steven Mosier
South Street Seaport: Re-Envisioning the Urban Edge
Emerging New York Architects (ENYA)
Underwriter: F.J. Sciame Construction
Sponsor: Gensler; Propylaea Architecture; Richter+Ratner
Friends:
Service Point USA and A. Estéban & Company
Food Sponsor: Acqua Restaurant
Beverage Sponsor: Barefoot Wine and Brooklyn Brewery
June 23 — September 14, 2008
Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Study Center
Galleries: Libary
The Dymaxion Study Center will display over four hundred volumes of books by and about visionary inventor and theorist, Buckminster Fuller, whose work has influenced generations of architects and environmentalists. These volumes will include the complete and extremely rare set of Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics Dictionary edited by Ed Applewhite, as well as other well-known works by Fuller, such as Synergetics and Nine Chains to the Moon. The Study Center will include selections from Fuller’s “live book squad” of influential texts and a Dymaxion timeline, outlining the evolution of Fuller’s geodesic designs in the context of their co-evolution with the Dymaxion map, organized in collaboration with Bonnie DeVarco, former Fuller Archivist and Shoji Sadao, President of Fuller and Sadao PC.
On Monday, June 23rd, 2008, the Center for Architecture will also unveil the Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome, courtesy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and Max Protetch Gallery, New York, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Temporary Art Program and Friends of LaGuardia Place. The dome will be temporarily displayed at LaGuardia Park between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets. Its presence will draw attention to the imminent re-design of the park by landscape architect, Adrian Smith, ASLA, working with students and Friends of LaGuardia Place.
“The Fly’s Eye domes are designed as components of a ’livingry’ service. The basic hardware components will produce a beautiful, fully equipped, air-deliverable house that weighs and costs about as much as a good automobile. Not only will it be highly efficient in its use of energy and materials, it also will be capable of harvesting incoming light and wind energies.” - Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1983.
The Center for Architecture’s Dymaxion Study Center will offer audiences an in-depth view of Buckminster Fuller, his influences, his words, and works.
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter and the Center for
Architecture Foundation in association with the Buckminster Fuller Institute
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Project Projects
Underwriters: NYC Department of Transportation’s Temporary Art
Program
Friends of LaGuardia Place, Center for Architecture
Foundation
Lead Sponsors: Spring Scaffolding
Sponsor: Richter+Ratner
Supporters: New York University; Purchase College, State University of
New York
Media Sponsor: Metropolis Magazine
May 22 — September 6, 2008
Ecotones: mitigating NYC’s contentious sites
Galleries: Margaret Helfand Gallery, Gerald D Hines Gallery, Public Resource Center
Given the global and local challenges of climate change, the Landscape Architecture profession is at the forefront of New York City’s sustainability efforts. Collaborating with governments, regulatory agencies, community groups, and design professionals, Landscape Architects are transforming ecological problems into opportunities for habitation and recreation. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s sustainability plan, plaNYC, in place, the challenge is to understand the interconnectedness of the City’s green spaces.
Ecotones are transition zones between adjacent ecosystems. In urban environments they emerge as contentious sites located between disparate or opposing forces: where industry meets the river; where community and industrial uses collide; where public and private interests merge. These areas are often the unconsidered result of infrastructure improvements and building developments yet have the potential to be cultural and ecological mitigators. The projects in this exhibition show us how sustainable practices, specifically, the collecting, cleansing, and reclaiming of water, can be used to mediate conflicting circumstances, integrating technical solutions with the social and cultural considerations that make for vibrant urban spaces.
Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter
Curator: Tricia Martin
Exhibition Design: Moorhead & Moorhead
Graphic Design: PS New York
Patron: Alcan Composites USA
Sponsor
H.I. Interior Corp
Duggal Visual Solutions
Supporters: Delta Fountains; H.M. White Site Architects; Landscape Forms; Langan Engineering and Environmental Services; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Landscape Architects
Friends: EDAW; Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture; Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; Sawyer/Berson, Architecture and Landscape Architecture
09.20.08 through 11.30.08
Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Arbores Laetae (Joyful Trees)
As part of the 2008 Liverpool Biennial arts festival, Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed an installation consisting of 17 hornbeams planted in a grid pattern with rotating trees. The site is a former brownfield close to the Liverpool Cathedral. Intended to be a playful reinvention of a public park, the architects want people to “view nature at its most unnatural.” Fifteen art works were commissioned for the month-long festival to be exhibited in public spaces.
2008 Liverpool Biennial
Parliament Street, Liverpool, England
Klex, 2008; digital rendering.
Ruy Klein / David Ruy and Karel Klein
09.25.08 through 11.22.08
Matters of Sensation
This exhibition contains projects by 14 American architecture studios exploring design through digital rendering. Unaligned in their interests, this group of young architects produce work that attempts to answer no questions, solve no problems, and broach no oppositions. It is, rather, about a fascination with architectural forms that induce sensation — about fantasy, intimacy, sci-fi, and experiencing pleasure. Exhibiting architects are davidclovers with C.E.B. Reas, Emergent, Gage/Clemenceau Architects, Gnuform, Hirsuta, Höweler+Yoon Architecture, IwamotoScott Architecture, mod, MOS, murmur, Ruy Klein, Sotamaa, SU11, and Xefirotarch.
Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, NYC
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Senior Design Architect — Leo Daly, WDC. Design studio leadership position. Talented individual with exceptional design skills leading teams on hi-profile international/domestic architecture/planning projects.
- Architect, 7-10 years experience, Bachelors/Masters Architecture.
- Initiate project design individually, within group or with Design Director.
- Lead client meetings, prepare presentations and inspire colleagues.
- Excellent graphic, verbal and written communication skills.
- AutoCad, SketchUp, Photoshop (rhino, Revit).
- Strong portfolio, completed projects, published and recognized projects.
Send resume and work portfolio (PDF maximum 5mb):
jtaylorjohnson@leodaly.com
Intern Architect — Leo Daly, WDC. Design studio position. Talented individuals with strong design skills for design teams on hi-profile international/domestic architecture/planning projects.
- Architect/Designer minimum 3 years experience, Bachelors/Masters Architecture.
- Excellent graphic, verbal and written communication skills
- Initiate concept design ideas individually, within group or with Design Director.
- Effective skills preparing design presentations and collaborating with design team.
- AutoCad, SketchUp, Photoshop, (rhino, 3Dmax, Revit).
- Strong portfolio — innovative, completed projects
Send resume and professional work portfolio (PDF - maximum 5mb):
jtaylorjohnson@leodaly.com
SMWM, one of the largest, most diverse women-owned architecture, planning and urban design firms in the nation, needs a dynamic designer / architect with 3 to 5 years experience to join our team in NY. Visit www.smwm.com for more information.
Architectural Construction Administrator
DattnerArchitects is an award winning, mid-sized architecture firm with diversified project types seeking qualified architects to provide quality assurance services during construction for NYC transportation and multi-family housing projects.
Responsibilities include observing work in progress to determine compliance with contract requirements, and preparing reports of observations. Process submittals and maintain submittal log, issue clarifying information to facilitate construction. Attend construction meetings and prepare minutes. Monitor contractor compliance with schedule to avoid delays. Review construction issues with owner and design team.
Requirements include: a degree in architecture, demonstrated construction administration experience, clear understanding of building construction technologies. Knowledge of Expedition and AutoCad software skills and professional registration are a plus.
E-mail cover letter, resume and work samples to: resumes@dattner.com
Thornton Tomasetti, an international leader in building design and technology, seeks a Forensic and/ or Exterior Wall Architect for its NY office. The ideal candidate will have a master’s degree and 4+ years experience in Technical Architecture, Exterior Wall Design/ Forensic Consulting. Candidate must have strong technical skills, excellent communication and report writing skills, and the ability to efficiently execute forensic and other building investigations. Excellent benefits include company-paid medical and matching 401(k) plan.
Send resume to careers@thorntontomasetti.com
Website: www.thorntontomasetti.com
ARCHITECTS
Tired of working on the board?
Robson Forensic seeks exceptional architects with building design and construction experience to join our Architect Practice Group. Fulltime opportunity in Columbus, OH; part-time in Pittsburgh PA, Albany NY and Charleston SC. Send resume and cover letter to Nancy Chillas at Apply@robsonforensic.com. Ref: AIAny-090108.
Design Director — Mexico City, Mexico
One of the largest U.S.-based firms operating globally seeks a Design leader for its Mexico City office of over 70 people. This is an established office with a portfolio of large scale, varied work. The successful candidate will probably have been trained in North America and is working in the U.S. or Canada today; experience with larger scale, primarily program-driven projects for corporate, higher education, aviation, civic and other institutional clients. They seek an outstanding educational and work pedigree. Resort experience will be a major plus. This is an unusual opportunity to establish a career as an architectural design leader of significance, while obtaining valuable experience outside the U.S. Send your resume in confidence to mary@breuerconsulting.com to initiate a discussion.
Strategic Planning Lead
The New York office of a large architectural firm seeks a leader of its Planning and Strategies practice. The 18 consultants are in five of this firm’s offices: five in New York. Workplace improvement, strategic facility planning and portfolio strategy are the three primary services.
The current head of New York Planning and Strategies also leads the group globally. he is also Managing Director of the New York office. Executing all three roles well is no longer possible. He seeks a design-trained professional with consulting experience. The right candidate will be naturally attracted to the business of his/her clients’ operations, seeking ways to optimize operations through facilities changes.
This management position requires experience with a significant organization doing business development, project management, practice management and people management. There is opportunity for advancement, a portfolio of world-class clients, experienced, eager colleagues and a nationally-recognized practice leader. To initiate a dialog in confidence, send your resume to Karen@breuerconsulting.com.
Position Available: Training Specialist
Large NYC organization is seeking a Professional Engineer or Registered Architect to serve as a Training Specialist. Responsibilities will include developing and implementing various operational and technical programs of instruction for new and existing inspectors, identifying individual, division and Department wide training deficiencies in order to develop more comprehensive training programs, and creating new innovative training strategies. Candidates must have a New York State Professional Engineers license or Architect Registration and 6 years of full time experience in engineering or architecture. Excellent leadership and managerial skills, experience in delivering technical workshops in the construction trades, and field work experience preferred. E-mail a cover letter and résumé to TrainingChiefBU@hotmail.com.
Suben/Dougherty is seeking a full-time, salaried Intermediate Architect with 3-5 years experience. Candidate must be a true team player with a good balance of design and technical skills. We are a Mac based firm and Archicad experience is a plus but is not required. 3-D modeling/rendering capabilities are also a plus.
Salaries and benefits are competitive.
Job Location: Soho, New York
Contact via e-mail: personnel@subendougherty.com
Web Address: http//www.subendougherty.com
ARCHITECTURE FT/PermPosition
Tired of complaining about your limited influence as an architect? Ever wonder how development and design can work together to create great places and regenerate our cities & smalltowns? Seeking to expand your skill set? If so, Street-Works may be the place for you! Street-Works, an entrepreneurial, award-winning, design-oriented development & development consulting firm, is seeking architects and urban designers for an exciting range of large, urban-scale mixed-use, and retail-oriented development projects. Candidate must be geared toward working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams. Architecture/Planning degree req & 2-5 years ACAD + 3D-modeling experience. Hand drawing skills, PShop and interest in the “bigger picture” a +.
Street-Works is located in White Plains, NY adjacent to the N. White Plains MetroNorth station. Excellent growth opportunities, competitive salary and benefits. Send CVs to info@street-works.com.
Architectural Sales Representative
Leading Italian porcelain tile manufacturer seeking Architectural Sales Professional to represent our exclusive product lines to the NY A&D market. Must have architectural sales experience. Base Salary + Commission + Benefits. Email resume and salary requirements to info@emilamerica.com.
Positions Available: Architects and Engineers
Enjoy outstanding benefits, limitless opportunities for advancement and more! Large NYC organization is seeking Registered Architects and Professional Engineers to fill several challenging specialized positions. Candidates must have a valid New York State Registration as an Architect and/or a Professional Engineers license in the State of New York, and at least four years of full-time architectural or structural engineering experience as well as strong leadership and managerial skills. E-mail a cover letter and résumé to BuildNYC@hotmail.com for immediate consideration.
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