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05.12.09
AIA New York Chapter has launched its new redesigned website. Be sure to check it out for updated information about the Chapter, the Center for Architecture, and the Center for Architecture Foundation.
- Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Approximately 22,500 architects convened in San Francisco for the 2009 AIA Convention.
Jessica Sheridan
PLENARY & PENURY
The most remarkable aspect of the 2009 AIA Convention in San Francisco was that despite near-record attendance, many AIA members were able to participate in the plenary sessions and continuing education seminars from home. From the podium at the Moscone Center, AIA President Marvin Malecha, FAIA, spoke of a symposium where 14 people were in the room, while over 14,000 participated electronically. Questions were asked online and through Twitter, and the Tweet sounds of pluralist participation, at 140 characters max, kept the grandstanding and pontificating to the minimum, except at Saturday’s Business Session. While overall attendance surpassed 20,000 people, and the product exhibition space was sold out, revenue was down, and many who were in Boston could not afford to attend because of the state of the economy and the liquidity of their firms.
HONORS & AWARDS
The almost-full plenary sessions belied the fall-off since last year’s convention, and spirits were high as many New Yorkers were honored for design awards and distinguished service. Honor awards were won by NY-based firms including FXFOWLE Architects, Thomas Phifer & Partners, Lyn Rice Architect, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Cristoff:Finio, TEN Arquitectos, and STUDIOS Architecture.
Matthew Bremer, AIA, notably, won one of the eight Young Architect Awards. Bremer was recognized as co-chair of the AIANY New Practices Committee and as a “young architect who combines recognized and celebrated talent with a willingness to support the profession and provide mentorship for others.” His design talent and attention to detail were also noted in the AIA National commendation. Bremer, along with co-chair Marc Clemenceau Bailly, AIA, curated and installed the New Practices New York exhibition at AIA San Francisco’s Center for Architecture + Design; the exhibition opened with the concurrent announcement of the New Practices San Francisco winning firms.
Venesa Alicea, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, received the AIA Associates Award. First presented in 2008, it is the highest honor given to individual Associate AIA members based on their demonstrated and unparalleled commitment to their component or region’s membership, in the community, in professional organizations, and in the design and construction industries. Alicea was commended for her unwavering commitment, her abilities in practice, and her outreach encouraging others to pursue IDP and licensure.
Marcy Stanley, Hon. AIA, received her Honorary Membership in the AIA, where she was applauded for her service to the Institute, AIANY, and the Washington DC Metro Chapter.
One of the highest AIA honors, the Edward C. Kemper Award for Service to the Profession, was bestowed on Barbara Nadel, FAIA. Nadel’s commendation by President Malecha noted the worldwide impact of her security design work. Her remarks credited the many collaborators and colleagues, both in her writings and consultations. She was described by AIA President-elect George Miller, FAIA, as “a proven leader, a dedicated mentor to emerging professionals, and an advocate for the AIA and the issues that are critical for the future of the profession.”
PORTER & BOND
The Whitney Young award, a very moving ceremony in which Clyde Porter, FAIA, a Dallas-based architect and facilities administrator, was honored, also included a tribute to J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA. Bond had been scheduled to speak at the convention, and his untimely death leaves an immeasurable gap in the architectural fabric of our city and the world. The tribute, organized by AIA National’s historian and poet Ray Rhinehart, used interview footage seen at the 2005 Heritage Ball when Bond was honored with the AIANY President’s Award. A memorial will take place Tuesday, 05.12.09, at 3:00pm at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, followed by the opening at 6:00pm that evening of “The Life and Work of Max Bond, 1935-2009,” an exhibition at the Center for Architecture.
INVEST & CONVOKE
This year the Fellowship investiture took place at Grace Cathedral, a grand space atop Nob Hill where the invocation of distinguished achievement was spiritual, and the architecture itself awe-inspiring. Among the 112 architects elevated to Fellow were nine AIANY members, including Ken Drucker, FAIA; Belmont Freeman, FAIA; Christopher Grabé, FAIA; John Grady, FAIA; Robert Heintges, FAIA; Frank Lupo, FAIA; Joanna Pestka, FAIA; Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA; and Sylvia Smith, FAIA. Among the nine Honorary FAIA awards conferred, one name in particular stands out — that of Manfredi Nicoletti, Hon. FAIA. Nicoletti visited the Center for Architecture on 05.04.09 and delivered an impassioned oration on technology and growth after an introduction by his friend and sponsor, John Johansen, FAIA. The celebratory dinner included many others from NY, there to honor friends and colleagues. The new Fellows were honored, as well, at the social highlight of the Convention, the AIA New York State party organized and sponsored by Ibex Construction and its president, Andy Frankl. It was held at the City Club, the city’s best Art Deco interior graced by a Diego Rivera mural.
ELECTIONS & BUSINESS MEETING
The election results for AIA National office have been announced through various other communications. Our Chapter’s congratulations go out to 2010 President-elect Clark Manus, FAIA, of San Francisco, Vice Presidents Peter Kuttner, FAIA, of Boston, and Mickey Jacob, FAIA, of Tampa, along with John Rogers, AIA, of Ohio, elected as Treasurer. The merits of these and the other eminently qualified candidates were discussed at an AIA New York State caucus marked by candor and passionate debate.
Speaking of impassioned debate, the business session of the convention was held on Saturday, 05.02.09. Three reasonable and necessary amendments to the AIA National Bylaws were defeated. Our Chapter voted in favor of all of them:
1. Changing the term International Associate to AIA International,
2. Allowing Associate members to serve as Regional Directors, and,
3. Creating a new category of “Public Membership” in the AIA.
The fact they did not receive the necessary 2/3-delegate vote was seen by many as an abnegation of the future — a slap in the face to the associate membership, a denial of international outreach, and a reinforcement of the traditional insularity of many of the voting delegates. The various AIA list serves have been hot and heavy with statements of principle on both sides of all three issues. Over the next weeks and months strategies for compromise and consensus will emerge. In the aftermath of these three nay votes, however, one thing is certain: better communications and better outreach is needed to reaffirm the core principles of the AIA of the future: inclusiveness, participation, and growth. On these topics, I clearly left my heart, and say hey votes, in San Francisco.
Considering the economic downturn, retaining clients for repeat work is key. According to many of the speakers at the 2009 AIA Convention, the way to do this is by holding on to the best employees and adjusting the practice to accommodate modern lifestyles.
At the “Focus on Design and Global Practice” General Session, Craig Dykers, AIA, principal at Snøhetta, called for architects to “practice what we preach,” by democratizing and socializing the office. With a mixed office of international architects, landscape architects, and interior designers, his firm is not divided into typical studios. Instead, collaborations are formed and hierarchical titles and categories are discouraged. A committee of employees is responsible for making many of the policy decisions in the office, resulting in five-week vacation time and a narrow salary range (Dykers makes only twice as much as entry-level employees).
It is of ultimate importance to achieve a comfortable work-life balance. Panelists at “Navigating Life and the Workplace: How Leading Women in Architecture and Other Professions Balance Their Careers and Other Goals” discussed how this is possible by learning to be a good leader. Nancy Goshow, AIA, of NY-based Goshow Architects and co-chair of the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee, said that to achieve balance is to understand how much one can take on, and then take full responsibility to carry out the tasks required. Leadership requires knowing how to delegate, listening and being objective, taking risks, and prioritizing goals. All of the panelists agreed family must come first, but to be successful calls for an understanding of personal limits. If you are an asset to your firm and you are productive, stated Lina G. Telese, Esq., you will be able to keep reasonable hours, even request flex time, and maintain the value of your, and your firm’s, work.
With the country’s changing demographics, the Millennials will soon take up a large portion of the profession — if they stay in the field. Catering to their needs is important, and understanding the generational differences will help businesses on many levels.
If employees are happy, clients are happy, simply stated Patricia Saldaña Natke, AIA, founding partner of Urban Works in Chicago, at “Designing the Emergent Firm.” When hiring, Natke brings in individuals who demonstrate leadership in and outside of the office — many employees are board members and activists at local and national organizations. To retain emerging talent, her firm enters design competitions regularly to not only get new work, but to empower younger architects by allowing them ownership of designs. With summer hours and part-time employment options, the best employees enjoy the firm’s working environment, and this is the reason, she said, that they were voted the most family-friendly firm by Architect magazine.
For Frank Greene, FAIA, NY-based Ricci Greene Associates has enjoyed success because of the expertise of its employees. There are no project managers, only project architects at the firm. This encourages a culture of ideas and everyone has a personal stake in the work, he explained. Designing justice facilities is possible because the firm consists of diverse specialists, and, with two PhDs in criminal justice on the team, not everyone is an architectural designer.
Acknowledging the many various jobs it takes to run an architecture firm, “What’s Wrong with How Design Firms Are Set Up?” addressed the question about why ownership is in the hands of licensed professionals alone. While each state differs, the majority of the U.S. requires that owners of architecture and engineering firms be licensed professionals (in NY, 100% of owners must be licensed, although regulations may change this year dropping the percentage to 75%). This is a disservice to the profession, argued Joan Capelin, Hon. AIA, FSMPS, of Capelin Communications, as it deprives businesses of diversity and expansive knowledge. If employees who specialize in finance, marketing, information technology, public relations, human resources, among others, have an opportunity to partially own businesses, architects and engineers would have more time to focus on the creative development of their firms. Also, with a broader base, firms will be able to expand and market differently to new clients, stated James Frankel, Esq., a lawyer at Arent Fox.
Ranch Commons in Bulverde, TX, by Architecture In Formation.
Photo credit goes here.
At the “Focus on Design and Global Practice” session, Amale Andraos, principal of WORKac in NYC, discussed the need to always look for new ways of working in the world. Her firm tries to transform the way it works and lives as they encounter new audiences and new clients. With Public Farm 1, infrastructure and gardening were mixed with the urban context of P.S. 1 to create an interactive installation that served as a party space and vegetable garden throughout the summer. Now, WORKac is collaborating with Alice Waters for Public Farm 2 to create edible gardens at P.S. 216.
Young architects are no longer settling for traditional paths of practice; when they are faced with road blocks, they adjust the rules to their needs, as was proven at the “2009 Young Architects Award Recipient’s Discussion.” “Good design should be accessible, especially for those who can’t afford it,” stated Angela Brooks, AIA, LEED AP, principal at CA-based Pugh + Scarpa Architects. If good design is not feasible because of policy, she continued, then make friends in the government and change the policy. When she faced 15 variances for a market-rate, affordable housing project in Los Angeles, she co-founded Livable Places, a non-profit organization aimed at changing policy in LA.
Jinhee Park, AIA, principal of SsD in Cambridge, MA, developed a housing prototype that could be built by highway construction workers. When the Big Dig was developing, SsD’s proposal was to recycle the highway and the skilled labor to create both new housing and an opportunity for the construction workers to stay in one city longer than usual. Matthew Bremer, AIA, principal of NY-based Architecture In Formation and co-chair of the AIANY New Practices Committee, faced the challenge of developing housing in an area suffering from suburban sprawl in Bulverde, TX. His solution was to propose a development that looks like a cattle ranch, so the community would welcome it, yet it will be the densest development in the area, making it much more efficient than the surrounding neighborhoods.
During “Queer Space: Designing for the GLBT Community,” social sustainability took on a slightly different meaning. Creating a space for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender populations, architects are faced with designing a building that embraces all lifestyles, provides privacy for those who need it, enables individuals to celebrate their identity, and links people within and without the community. Belmont Freeman, FAIA, of Belmont Freeman Architects in NY, presented his firm’s LGBT Carriage House at the University of Pennsylvania. While the design incorporates a private back entrance in addition to the front entry and a Modern interior to counter the traditional architecture on campus, the meeting spaces and multi-purpose lounge are now some of the most popular spaces for all student groups on campus. For Freeman, the building is successful because the spaces are inviting to all, and its users do not segregate themselves into separate groups.
Radicalism and big ideas are what John Hockenberry, WNYC and PRI host and moderator of the “Focus on Design and Global Practice” session, called for from architects during these poor economic times. With so many bad, small ideas out there, he exclaimed, architects need to think beyond pragmatism and look to idealism to bring hope back to the U.S.
Perhaps one of the biggest ideas presented was the “2007 Latrobe Prize Presentation” on the On the Water — Palisades Bay project. Awarded to Guy Nordenson, Stan Allen, AIA, Catherine Seavitt, James Smith, Michael Tantala, Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, and Stephen Cassell, AIA, the team has been studying the effects of the rising sea level in NYC’s Upper Harbor. As the water rises, major storms are a growing threat to the city. Looking to the history of the shoreline and using various types of analysis and modeling, the team combined engineering, research, planning, and economic analysis to analyze the effects of future weather conditions and propose a solution to lessen its impact.
By marrying design with detail analysis, the proposal incorporates everything from oysters to filter the bay, windmills and algae farms to generate energy, and artificial reefs to restore wildlife habitats. Artificial islands will be strategically placed to roughen the edge of the channel, decreasing the energy of a potential storm surge and replacing some of the lost wetlands. Piers and slips will help re-contour the edge of Lower Manhattan to help break the wave energy, lessening the impact of a potential hurricane.
Ultimately, the team hopes to “turn the challenge of a problem into an optimistic opportunity,” said Nordenson. This conceivably was the mantra repeated throughout the convention overall. By next year’s convention in Miami, let’s hope to see some of the positive results.
Jessica Sheridan
While the formal theme for the AIA Convention in San Francisco was “The Power of Diversity,” not surprisingly, the state of the economy overshadowed all. The tone, however, was one of optimism: a take-charge mentality encouraging firms to find new avenues for revenue while still keeping sustainable design at the forefront, as well as providing plenty of advice for emerging practices struggling to survive.
SHIFTING FOCUS IN PRACTICE
At “Four X Four: 4 Architects/4 Regions/4 Visions/4 the Future,” Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP, discussed his theme as AIA New York Chapter President in 2006 — Architecture as Public Policy. He shared an anecdote about Terence Riley, AIA, the director of the Miami Art Museum, who asked a White House aide if they have had any architectural Fellows. The aide looked at him quizzically and responded, “no, they [architects] just design buildings.” Strauss believes that architects should do much more by taking an active role in politics and planning in order to make cities more livable, such as AIANY’s involvement with PlaNYC 2030.
Despite the slowing economy, many sustainable projects are still going forward. Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief of Metropolis magazine, moderated a panel of experts including a sustainability consultant for IDEO, a physicist, and a professor of urban design, who compared city emissions patterns internationally to show how much they need to be reduced. Architects should be aware of these factors, the panelists argued, to help reduce carbon footprints through environmentally conscious design.
EMERGING PRACTICES
Paul Lewis, AIA, of NY-based Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) discussed his practice at “Design Innovation: Turning Challenges into Opportunities,” moderated by Roberty Ivy, FAIA, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record. LTL regularly participates in design/build projects to save on construction costs, and it makes research a focal point of its young but successful practice. “Opportunistic Architecture,” written by the firm’s partners, expresses their design philosophy that “challenges in architectural practice can be transformed into generators of innovative solutions.”
When starting his firm amidst the recession of the early 1990s, Phillip G. Freelon, FAIA, LEED AP, entered many competitions and also designed furniture. The principal of Freelon Group (and a member of the team Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, recently chosen to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture) offers this advice to start-up firms: “Do the projects that no one else wants to do.” No matter how small or uninteresting the project seems, it can lead to more exciting opportunities, he explained.
Murrye Bernard, LEED AP, is a freelance writer and has written for Architectural Record, Architecture Boston, and Architectural Lighting.
Courtesy Hafele San Francisco.
As the convention began, a group of New Yorkers and San Franciscans convened at the Center for Architecture + Design for an afternoon cocktail to celebrate the opening of the 2008 New Practices | New York Showcase, and to hear the winners of the 2009 San Francisco New Practices Showcase announced. Many of the San Francisco entrants were on hand, and the winners were: CMG Landscape Architecture, Edmonds + Lee Architects, Faulders Studio, Kennerly Architecture + Planning, Min|Day, and Public Architecture, with honorable mentions going to Axelrod Design, and Envelop A+D. New York winners on display were Baumann Architecture, common room, David Wallance Architects, Matter Practice, Openshop Studio, and Urban A+O. The exhibition included a video compilation made by each firm, project images, and a newspaper with more extensive coverage of the firms. This meeting of kindred cities represented the second time AIANY New Practices Committee has participated in such an exchange, having hosted the New Practices London winners at NY’s Center for Architecture in 2007, and then in London in 2008. The New Practices San Francisco exhibition will open at the Center for Architecture in NY on 06.04.09.
Matthew Bremer, AIA, is the principal of Architecture In Formation and the co-chair of the AIANY New Practices Committee.
After attending six sessions and finding them all to be informative and heavily attended, I offer my thoughts on the convention overall. In the “High Performance Schools: Design Strategies, Tools and Resources,” Deane Evans, Jr., FAIA, of New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Charles Eley, FAIA, the executive director of CHPS (The Collaborative for High Performance Schools) for California, laid out the design standards, strategies, incentives, and resources that they have made available to school designers in their respective states. When the third presenter, Lisa Gelfand, AIA, of Gelfand Partners Architects in San Francisco, took the stage and presented built examples of schools that she had designed to meet (and help create) the CHPS standards, the architects in the room audience was clearly lifted by visual evidence of the successful implementation of sustainable building theory.
The architects’ hunger to hear from each other was inadvertently brought to a crescendo at the end of a session the next day: “IDEO Smart Space: Design for Community.” To demonstrate the Silicon Valley group’s design methodology, attendees divided into small work groups to create concepts and communicate ideas. The topic was none other than the AIA convention itself and how it could be improved. The findings were consistent — architects want to meet and hear from each other. Future conventions could do more to facilitate this. A sampling of ideas were offered: provide gathering places outside the sessions (with chairs!) for smaller groups to identify with (there was a Student Lounge, so how about one for architects of different regions, or of specific building types, or of age groups); find a technology to allow architects to scan each other’s badges or project each other’s work onto white boards; provide pre-convention blogs to start an intra-architect network; offer more architect-led sessions; and serve more martinis.
Other architects shared a similar sentiment outside of the sessions. In passing, one architect said the best session he attended was a talk given by Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, that brought their design methodology to life.
It goes without saying that the small groupings offsite, such as the AIA New York State party at the City Club were well worth the trip.
Scott Phillips, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal at Phillips Gelfand Architects.
Event: Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan: On the Drawing Board
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.24.09
Speakers: Adriaan Geuze — Principal, West 8
Sponsors: AIANY; Architectural League of New York; New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects; Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation
West 8, Rogers Marvel Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Quennell Rothschild, and SMWM’s proposal for Governors Island.
The West 8 Team.
Small, pastoral Governors Island might technically be part of NYC, but it feels like another world, remarked Adriaan Geuze, principal of West 8. When people visit the 172-acre island, “this sensation of leaving the town behind, taking the boat, and crossing is really amazing,” he said. “You’re totally reborn!”
The future redesign of the island aims to extend and heighten the visitors’ sense of wonder throughout their time there, Geuze said. His urban design and landscape architecture firm is part of a larger team that won a competition in December 2007 to design the island’s park and open spaces. West 8, along with Rogers Marvel Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Quennell Rothschild, and SMWM are currently working on completing the master plan, scheduled for release in early June.
As it is, the partially man-made island offers stunning views of the harbor, Lower Manhattan, and Brooklyn, but it is “even flatter than Holland,” Geuze observed. Not only does its low landscape raise fears of flooding, it also eradicates any sense of mystery. “It’s not about temptation and desire — not at all. You are standing there, you see everything…. And you walk, and you still see the same.” To remedy that, the designers used a combination of maquettes and computer modeling to sculpt the island into a hilly topography with viewlines that will make visitors “hunger to walk through the park,” he said. Two high spots on opposite ends of the park will provide sweeping 360-degree panoramic views of the surrounding harbor, giving a true sense of place as an island.
The essential look and concept of the design — the “organic grid” of paths, the sculpted hills made from recycled building debris — has stayed true to the original competition entry, but Geuze’s slide-filled talk revealed how the design has been refined in the meantime. The butterfly wing-like pattern of paths has been tested and tweaked to offer better circulation. Lining the paths, seats and curbs act as “edging,” adding visual definition: “It’s the same effect as eyeliner,” Geuze joked. In an ornamental impulse, they hope to embellish lampposts and benches with designs “poetically linked to ocean and shore and wind and sea,” he said.
In addition to the island’s predominant use as a park, some of the existing buildings are gaining new tenants, and around 33 acres on the south side will be devoted to a future development zone, said Leslie Koch, president of Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation. This prompted a flurry of questions from the audience. Calling the park a “fantastical place,” and expressing concern that the development could be detrimental to the overall vision, the question was asked whether urban design guidelines had been set for it. It is too early to determine exactly what sorts of buildings will fill that zone, Koch said, but public access through the area will be preserved, along with view corridors — an encouraging sign, for a park whose design is so much about celebrating its views.
Lisa Delgado is a freelance journalist who has written for OCULUS, The Architect’s Newspaper, Blueprint, and Wired, among other publications.
Event: New Practices Winner Lecture: Matter Practice, “Reading Matter”
Location: Hafele New York Showroom, 04.23.09
Speakers: Alfred Zollinger, AIA, & Sandra Wheeler — Partners, Matter Practice
Organizer: AIA New Practices Committee
Sponsors: Hafele; The Architect’s Newspaper
Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video by Matter Practice.
Matter Practice
Walking through a workshop everyday to get to an architecture office is a continual reminder of the interconnected processes of design and fabrication. Alfred Zollinger, AIA, and Sandra Wheeler, husband and wife as well as partners, have committed to working on at least one design/build project per year in their DUMBO studio. During these periods, Wheeler explained, the office and workshop merge into one chaotic, creative space.
Zollinger and Wheeler have developed their own approach to creating space: trained as exhibition designers, they have completed designs for institutions including the Cooper-Hewitt and the National Building Museum. Exhibition design, Zollinger believes, “is halfway between architecture and theater.”
Matter Practice designed, fabricated, and installed an exhibition for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art titled, “Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age.” For this traveling show, Zollinger and Wheeler fabricated the display in Brooklyn and shipped it to Alaska. The exhibition was comprised of thin, floppy steel components that could easily be packed flat, becoming rigid when assembled.
While “green” is a serious buzzword in the design industry, Zollinger and Wheeler made light of it in their design for “Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” at the International Center of Photography. They designed pods to house the A/V and theater components for the exhibition. In the process of exploring materials with which to fabricate the pods, they discovered that petroleum tubing — the black foam insulation that replaced asbestos — worked exceptionally well since it sticks together and they could cut it into sections to create screens for the windows — a “toxic topiary,” Sandra joked.
Delightoscope, Matter Practice’s entry for the 2008 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Competition, employs shading devices that also serve as visual screens. In an unorthodox design approach, Zollinger and Wheeler first selected the material — netting on which plants can grow — and then determined the form through experimenting with its properties.
While most of their projects fall in the category of exhibition design, Matter Practice has also recently completed the renovation and addition of a townhouse in Brooklyn. Operating on a small budget, Zollinger and Wheeler had to be creative. They designed inexpensive, custom, plywood millwork, and they dyed the existing wood floor to delineate a seating area in the living room rather than purchasing a rug — demonstrating that material can definitely define space.
Murrye Bernard, LEED AP, is a freelance writer in NYC and has written for Architectural Record, Architecture Boston, and Architectural Lighting.
Event: Public Art + Architecture New York
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.20.09
Speakers: Todd Schliemann, FAIA — Partner, Polshek Partnership; James Carpenter — Principal, James Carpenter Design Associates; David Thurm, Hon. AIANYS — Vice President for Operations, New York Times
Moderator: Jean Parker Phifer, FAIA — Author, Public Art New York (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009)
Organizers: Center for Architecture
Sponsor: Margaret Helfand Fund
Dichroic Light Field by James Carpenter.
Photography by Francis Dzikowski/Esto
“Public art can enhance one’s experience of a building or a space by heightening visual perceptions and by focusing the senses on elements such as light, texture, color, or sound,” says Jean Parker Phifer, FAIA, author of Public Art New York. The book captures many of New York’s recently completed buildings that integrate art installations with the aesthetic and function of the spaces they inhabit. These buildings broaden the dialogue on how art enhances and complements architecture and public space.
Todd Schliemann, FAIA, James Carpenter, and David Thurm, Hon. AIANYS — representing architect (Principal, Polshek Partnership), artist (James Carpenter Design Associates), and owner (Vice President for Operations, New York Times) respectively — echoed the sentiment that an early collaboration among all parties along with a shared approach to the building yields a successful union between art and architecture. Referring to the public art installation in Polshek’s New York Hall of Science, Schliemann said, “the closer architecture and art evolve hand-in-hand, the more they are in harmony.” Exemplary of such a marriage is “Moveable Type,” by artist Ben Rubin and statistician Mark Hansen — an installation in the Renzo Piano Building Workshop/FXFOWLE Architects’ New York Times Building lobby. Designed for the vista through The Times building, 560 small screens are suspended in a grid and display choreographed content from The Times database, pulling from both the paper’s memory and real time web commentary. It is an organic, evolving artwork with a specificity to place and program that is undeniable.
Similarly deliberate, Carpenter’s “Ice Falls” in the lobby of Foster + Partners’ Hearst Building creates an experiential reorganization of light. No stranger to atmosphere and perception, Carpenter devised a system of cast-glass prisms to illuminate the lobby and create a glittering reflection of the three-story fountain.
Jacqueline Pezzillo, LEED AP is the communications manager at Davis Brody Bond Aedas and a regular contributor to e-Oculus.
Event: James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City: Beijing Inside Out: Caochangdi, a lecture by Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray
Location: Center for Architecture, 04.05.09
Speakers: Robert Mangurian & Mary-Ann Ray — Principals, STUDIO WORKS
Organizer: AIANY; Canadian Centre for Architecture; London School of Economics
Sponsors: Underwriter: PKSB Architects; Sponsors: Benjamin Moore & Co.; Buro Happold Consulting Engineers; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Syska Hennessy Group; Trespa
Courtesy cca.qc.ca/
The Bird’s Nest Stadium. The Forbidden City. Tian’anmen Square. Caochangdi? Though it may not be on most tourists’ lists of sites to see in Beijing, Caochangdi, which means “grassland” in Mandarin, is one of Beijing’s approximately 500 urban villages. It is the largest revenue producing district in the country, and is the home and workplace of architects Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, principals of STUDIO WORKS, who won the competition for the third biennial James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City.
Their presentation, “Caochangdi Urban Rural Conundrums: Off Center People’s Space in the Early 21st Century Republic of China — A Model for the Momentous Project of the New Socialist Village,” gave an insider’s view of life in a place they called an “urban village.” Urban villages like Caochangdi were originally carved out for agriculture and peoples communes, and are now the new lexicon of Chinese urbanism. As presented from the seat of a bicycle coursing along the streets, one sees the floating populations of migrant farm workers, taxi drivers, ex-pats, and artists who find it a source of cheap, albeit “illegal,” three-story residences.
Caochangdi is also the home of artist Ai Weiwei, who after living in NYC, returned to his native China in 1993. Ai Weiwei served as the artistic consultant for design, collaborating with Herzog & de Meuron on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics as well as Ordos 100, and is part of what the presenters call “the new DNA for creative development” in China.
The James Stirling Memorial Lectures competition was established in November 2003 by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) to create a forum for the advancement of new critical perspectives on the role of urban design and urban architecture in the development of cities worldwide. It was conceived in homage to British architect James Stirling, who believed that urban design is integral to the practice of architecture and a vital topic for public debate.
With the many discussions centered on how the architecture profession can change with the times, this year’s convention was inspiring for me. Many firms garnering awards are changing the profession through their practice. They spoke of treating their employees with esteem, respecting their needs for more flexible hours, supporting involvement in their local AIA chapters as well as in their communities, and mentoring emerging architects by giving them responsibility and allowing them ownership of design. It was most disappointing for me, then, to discover the results of the annual business meeting, in which three AIA National Bylaws Amendments were voted down: changing the term International Associate to AIA International; allowing Associate members to serve as Regional Directors; and creating a Public Membership category in the AIA. Although AIANY voted in favor of all of these motions, ultimately, they were defeated.
By turning away Associate members from regional directorship, the AIA is turning its back on the enormous number of professionals practicing in the field of architecture. Although they may not (yet) be architects, the field of architecture is dependent on them and they deserve a right to hold a voting position on the Board. In a time when the AIA is trying to grow its membership, devaluing the associates will hurt the cause. Also, as architecture increases in public consciousness, it is important that the AIA acknowledge individuals who contribute to the profession in many ways outside of just being licensed. Many individuals are helping promote architects in the public realm and do the profession a service by participating.
In addition, I think it is outrageous that someone who has practiced architecture successfully for many years in other countries cannot claim that they are architects in the U.S. They should not have to register in the U.S. to use AIA after their names.
Seminar after seminar, panelists spoke of diversifying practice, collaborating with experts in other fields, and broadening firms to include specialists who are not architects (See “Convention 2009: The Power of Diversity,” in this issue). It may be that the voting is reactive to the economic downturn, and architects are scared of losing their jobs and their control over the profession. But as was evidenced by the award winners who are younger and run practices that are collaborative and comprised of nontraditional unions, the future of the AIA depends on expanding its umbrella. The AIA needs to find new ways to accept more people if it is to truly represent the architecture profession.
In this issue:
· Preservationists Have Something to Dance About
· Port Authority Gets Temporarily Fashionable
· Exhibition Documents Arrival of the Dutch
· New Law School Rises to Head of Its Class
· University Center Innovates With Local Materials
Preservationists Have Something to Dance About
Peridance Center.
Kohn Architecture
The future home of the Peridance Center located in the East Village and designed by Kohn Architecture is currently under construction. The circa 1903 Beaux-Arts building, designed by Jardine, Kent & Jardine, will suit the needs of the dance school’s expanding programs, featuring eight professionally equipped studios with high ceilings, column-free space , sprung floors, and a professional sound system. The ground floor will contain the Salvatore Capezio Theatre, café, a museum, and a store that sells dancewear. The two-story red brick and limestone building looks like it has an additional floor because of an exposed metal truss supporting a shed roof. Its façade is pierced by round and oval windows common to the style of townhouses built during the period. The former horse auction barn was slated for demolition, but a “standstill agreement” was reached with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission that paved the way for the building to be added to the Trust for Architectural Easements, guaranteeing the building will be preserved in perpetuity.
Port Authority Gets Temporarily Fashionable
Port Authority Bus Terminal’s temporary fashion retail and art exhibition space.
super-interesting!
Super-interesting! architecture.design.strategies has transformed an unused 2,500-square-foot storefront in the Port Authority Bus Terminal Building into a temporary fashion retail and art exhibition space that will provide young fashion designers and artists a visible stage to display and sell their work. Off-the-shelf fluorescent strip lights function as a chandelier, merchandise lighting and giant LCD-style signage reflect off a glossy black floor. Oversized, translucent lace super-graphics and white-painted thrift store wood chairs give the space a stripped-down-to-suit-the-economic-time look. Due to budgetary constraints, the firm decided to manage and coordinate the construction, organizing licensed trades people, and set builders from the film industry to execute the highly custom-designed details. The firm worked with the Times Square Alliance and The Fashion Center BID on the project.
Exhibition Documents Arrival of the Dutch
Urban A&O has been selected as the lead designer for the 400th Henry Hudson anniversary exhibition, “The Island at the Center of the World,” at the South Street Seaport Museum, on view 09.10-12.31.09. Working in collaboration with Thinc Design, the exhibition will be categorized into three themes — what the world was like at the time the Dutch were exploring Manhattan, the history of New Amsterdam, and the various groups of people living there at the time. Four galleries will exhibit historical maps, and books. Portrait Stations will allow visitors to sit and listen to stories of early Dutch immigrants and their diverse backgrounds while viewing portraits of contemporary Dutch New Yorkers. The approximately 4,150-square-foot show will utilize 34 transparent acrylic tables of varying sizes and will be arranged to form a dynamic relationship with the four existing gallery spaces and serve as an organizational device.
New Law School Rises to Head of Its Class
Lewis Katz Building at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law.
Polshek Partnership Architects
Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law celebrated its 175th anniversary with the opening of its new 114,000-square-foot Lewis Katz Building, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects. The focal point of the building is its glass-enclosed law library with a 100,000 volume capacity and seating for 294 students. The design draws from the idea that the law library is the theoretical and physical heart of the legal educational experience, and was conceived as a floating element, sheltered from the rest of the school’s program beneath.
The ground plane flows unimpeded, linking interior and exterior space to foster the feeling of openness and accessibility. Within, the library’s continuous looping circulation system offers several different types of study environments. Beneath this aerial form is a series of volumes clad in local sandstone that contain the classrooms, auditorium, and courtroom. These elements surround a broad commons area that opens to the landscape and follows its stepping contours, directly connecting the school’s interior programs to the surrounding campus. The project was constructed to meet LEED certification requirements, and from its continuous planted green roof to its reintroduction of pervious surfaces on what was a massive parking lot, the building helps reduce the amount of rainwater runoff generated by the site.
University Center Innovates With Local Materials
University Center expansion.
Holzman Moss Architecture
The University of Southern Indiana in Evansville recently broke ground on its new $18.4 million University Center expansion, designed by Holzman Moss Architecture. The project will convert the university’s former 60,000-square-foot library into dining, lounging, meeting, and student organization spaces and replace the existing conference center bridge linking the old library and existing University Center. The project features a 103-foot-tall, conical stone tower at the center of campus, and incorporates local and reclaimed materials. Key design elements formed from select materials produced by leading regional manufacturers include the dome-shaped ceiling in the central atrium decorated by a geometric pattern created out of 1,200 intertwined chair legs from Jasper Chair Company, and the stone-clad tower featuring quarry-faced roughback limestone from BG Hoadley Quarries. A series of solid aluminum ingot ends will be transformed into benches for the lobby as well. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the expansion adds a total of 20,815 square feet of space.
In this issue:
· National Officers Elected at AIA Convention
· AIA Supports Green Energy Education Act
· Green Firms: AIA’s 2030 Commitment Program
· New and Upgraded Software from the AIA
· AIA New York State Legislative Update
· NCARB Updates IDP Requirements
National Officers Elected at AIA Convention
AIA national officers were elected at the 2009 AIA Convention in San Francisco. Clark D. Manus, FAIA, AIA San Francisco, was elected AIA First Vice President and 2011 President-elect. Manus has served as AIA national vice president from 2007-2009. Mickey Jacob, FAIA, managing principal at Urban Studio Architects in Tampa, FL, was elected 2010-2011 AIA Vice President. Peter G. Kuttner, FAIA, was elected 2010-2011 AIA Vice President. Kuttner is president of Cambridge Seven Associates, represents AIA New England on the AIA Board, and is a past president of the Boston Society of Architects. And John W. Rogers, AIA, ACHA, AIA Cincinnati, was elected AIA 2010-2011 Treasurer. Rogers has served on the AIA Board of Directors from 2007-2009.
AIA Supports Green Energy Education Act
The AIA announced its support for the House’s 411-6 vote to approve the Green Energy Education Act of 2009 (HR 957) that authorizes the Energy Department to distribute funds otherwise allotted to the department for energy research and development to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. The NSF programs are aimed at both undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary engineering and architecture education programs related to the design and construction of high performance buildings. The AIA now strongly calls on the Senate to vote this bill into law.
Green Firms: AIA’s 2030 Commitment Program
The AIA’s 2030 Commitment is a voluntary program for AIA member firms and other entities in the built environment that asks these organizations to make a pledge, develop multi-year action plans, and implement steps that can advance AIA’s goal of carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030. Architects are confronting the fact the buildings are the largest single contributor to the production of greenhouse gases and almost half of the total annual production. Participating firms must commit to following four steps. Click here to learn more.
New and Upgraded Software from the AIA
The AIA announced the release of an updated version of AIA Contract Documents software as well as new Construction Manager documents. The updated software features easier project and document management, flexible dialogs allowing for easier document completion, Microsoft Excel capabilities in several G-Series forms, and one-click custom template creation. The new Construction Manager documents include new documents in the Construction Manager as Advisor (CMa) and Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc) families. Collectively called the “4.0 Release,” this new software and documents release builds on AIA Contract Documents’ 120 years of experience in defining the contractual relationships in the design and construction industry and deliver additional value, ease of use, and new features that address users’ needs. For more information or to purchase AIA Contract Documents, click the link.
AIA New York State Legislative Update
The top legislative priorities for AIANY include the following bills, most of which are currently in committee:
· Design Build — Provides that a contract made by a person unlicensed to practice certain professions shall be against public policy.
· Non-Design Professional Ownership — Relates to design professional corporations.
· Green Schools — Establishes the state Green School Construction Act.
Other bills that AIANYS supports:
· Historic Preservation Tax Credit — Provides a tax credit for rehabilitation of historic properties.
· QBS — Requires public authorities to negotiate with most qualified architectural and engineering professional firms before negotiating with other firms.
· Smart Growth/Livable Communities — Directs state agencies and public authorities to adopt and utilize smart growth principles.
· Good Samaritan Act — Enacts the engineers’, architects’, landscape architects’ and land surveyors’ Good Samaritan act.
· Design Liability Reform — Repeals and reenacts provisions on time limitations on certain actions against professional engineers, architects, other designers and construction contractors.
· Funding for Prosecution of Illegal Practice — Provides for an additional $10 dollar licensing fee to be charged for the registration of any application for a professional license.
The following bills are opposed by AIANYS:
· Prohibiting Professional Certification — Grants cities authority to review and approve plans for the construction of structures proposed to be made within its boundaries.
· Damages for Delay — Requires public contracts to include a clause authorizing contractors to recover damages for delay for itself as well as on behalf of subcontractors or material men.
· Criminal Prosecution for Certain Violations of the State Fire and Building Code — An act to amend the executive law, in relation to criminal prosecution for certain violations of the state fire and building code where such violation leads to serious injury or death of a person.
· Construction Threshold
· Design Delegation
NCARB Updates IDP Requirements
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is updating the Intern Development Program (IDP) requirements to more closely align with the current practice of architecture. The new program requirements, which will be rolled out as “IDP 2.0,” will help ensure that interns acquire the comprehensive training that is essential for competent practice and will make reporting experience fundamentally easier.
The changes to the IDP have been developed in response to the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture. The proposed changes to the IDP offer many benefits to interns by allowing them to complete some of the training requirements during periods of unemployment, expanding the definition of “direct supervision,” and simplifying the reporting process. These changes will be rolled out in three phases over the next two years. For more information, visit the NCARB website.
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American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) 2009 Professional Award winners include NY-based firms in the following categories: General Design — The Museum of Modern Art Roof Garden and Observation Balloon Preview Park Orange County Great Park by WORKSHOPWEST Ken Smith Landscape Architect; Analysis and Planning — Brooklyn Bridge Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.; and Research — Restoration ecology processes to advance natural landscape design, by Steven N. Handel, Hon. ASLA…To view all award winners and images, click here…
Three NYC projects are among the winners of the Preservation League of New York State Excellence in Historic Preservation Award: The Emerson (team: Clinton Housing Development Company; New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development; Enterprise; Edelman Sultan Knox Wood / Architects; Abraham Joselow; Robert Silman Associates; Higgins Quasebarth & Partners; and Mega Contracting); The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (team: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Wank Adams Slavin Associates (WASA/Studio A); Robert Silman Associates; Integrated Conservation Resources; William B. Rose & Associates; AKF Engineers; and Nicholson & Galloway, Inc.); and The Chapel of the Sisters, Prospect Cemetery (team: Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects; Hage Engineering; Gabor M. Szakal Consulting Engineers; Jablonski Building Conservation, Inc.; Fame Construction; The Gil Studios; Greater Jamaica Development Corp.; New York Landmarks Conservancy; Prospect Cemetery of Jamaica Village; and the New York City Parks Department)…
The 26th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards Winners include a Citation for the TKTS Booth in Times Square by Perkins Eastman based on a competition-winning concept by Choi Ropiha Architects with lighting design by Paul Marantz, FIALD… The 10th Annual SpecSimple.com Save A Sample! winners include Kim Farrah, Lauren Haber, Nicole Moudis, Heather Groff, Janet Rotondo, and Megan Meade… United Cerebral Palsy of New York City (UCP/NYC) has selected Juliette G. Lam, Director of Interiors for HOK NY, as a recipient of its “Women Who Care” honors…
Parsons, The New School for Design announced that Joel Towers, the inaugural director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center and Associate Provost for Environmental Studies, has been appointed as the Interim Dean… Ed Feiner, FAIA, has joined the Washington, DC-based office of Perkins+Will… Einhorn Yaffee Prescott recently appointed Judy Pullar as a principal and director of business development…
04.29-05.02.09: Approximately 22,500 architects convened in San Francisco for the 2009 AIA Convention. From awards to convocations, New Yorkers were honored on many accounts.
Barbara Nadel, FAIA, received the Edward C. Kemper Award.
Rick Bell, FAIA
Venesa Alicea, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP (center), received the AIA Associates Award. Marvin Malecha, FAIA (left), and Chris McEntee, FAIA (right), presented her with the award.
Franklin Ortiz, Assoc. AIA
The NY-based architects elevated to Fellowship (l-r): Belmont Freeman, FAIA; Kenneth Drucker, FAIA, LEED AP; Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA; John Grady, FAIA; Sylvia Smith, FAIA, LEED AP; Frank Lupo, FAIA, LEED AP; Robert Heinteges, FAIA; Joanna Pestka, FAIA. Not pictured: Christopher K. Grabé, FAIA
Rick Bell, FAIA
Marcy Stanley, Hon. AIA, received Honorary AIA membership.
Rick Bell, FAIA
04.29.09: The AIANY New Practices Committee celebrated the opening of the New Practices San Francisco showcase at the Hafele Showroom in San Francisco.
Co-chairs of the AIANY New Practices Committee Matthew Bremer, AIA, (who also received the Young Architects Award at the convention) and Marc Clemenceau Bailly, AIA, with Rick Bell, FAIA, discussing the evolution of the program as AIASF New Practices winners look on.
Kristen Richards
04.30.09: AIA New York State hosted a party at the City Building, sponsored by Ibex Construction.
Andy Frankl, President of Ibex Construction (left), with George Miller, FAIA, AIA President-elect (right).
Darcy Padilla
(L-R): AIANY President-elect Tony Schirripa, AIA, IIDA; AIANY President Sherida Paulsen, FAIA; AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA.
Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
(L-R): AIANY Vice President of Public Outreach Margaret Castillo, AIA, LEED AP; AIANY Secretary Abby Suckle, FAIA, LEED AP; AIANY President-elect Tony Schirripa, AIA, IIDA.
Kristen Richards
FXFOWLE Architects Senior Partners Bruce Fowle, FAIA, and Sylvia Smith, AIA, LEED AP.
Kristen Richards
05.01.09: AIASF Host Chapter Party at San Francisco’s magnificent Asian Art Museum (formerly the city’s Main Library).
(L-R): Pelle Lind Bournonville, Commercial Affairs Officer for Construction & Civil Engineering, Consulate General of Denmark; AIANY Director of Development Sophie Deprez; AIASF Assistant Director Erin Cullerton; AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
The NY State Associate Members gathered at the National Associates Committee Reception. (L-R): Elizabeth Shipley, Assoc. AIA; RK Stewart, FAIA (Past AIA President); Franklin Ortiz, Assoc. AIA; George Miller, FAIA (AIA President-elect); Shanntina Moore, Assoc.AIA (Associate Director AIANYS); Javier Gonzalez, Assoc. AIA; Venesa Alicea, Assoc. AIA (Associate Director AIANY); Stephanie Burns (AIA National Staff).
Courtesy Venesa Alicea
Architecture for Humanity’s 10th anniversary fete at the very engaging and entertaining Autodesk Gallery at One Market: AFH co-founder Cameron Sinclair and Margaret Castillo, AIA, LEED AP.
Kristen Richards
04.21.09: The annual Design Awards Luncheon took place at Cipriani Wall Street.
John Hockenberry, WNYC and PRI host, gave the keynote speech.
Courtesy AIANY
2009 Oculus Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. The themes:
Fall Issue: Carbon Neutral Now. The new green frontier, carbon neutrality, researched, explored, planned, and designed at all scales by New York architects.
06.01.09: Suggestion Deadline
Winter Issue: Health & Architecture. Architecture designed to promote fitness, health, and wellness will be profiled. Projects selected from within this growing field will demonstrate sensitivity to generational and demographic issues, sustainability, and technology.
08.01.09: Suggestion Deadline
If you have suggestions, please contact OCULUS editor-in-chief Kristen Richards.
05.15.09 Call for Nominations: Skandalaris Awards
06.08.09 Call for Entries: 2009 McKinley House
08.15.09 Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians 63rd Annual
Meeting
08.31.09 Call for Entries: Gondwana Circle Design Competition
08.31.09 Call for Entries: Sustainable Suite Design Competition
09.11.09 Call for Submissions: Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award for Istanbul
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Helfand Spotlight Series:
Max Bond 1935 - 2009
May 12 - June 11, 2009
Max Bond: 1935 - 2009 was organized by AIA New York with Davis Brody Bond Aedas to commemorate the life and work of J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of ABC Printing and Davis Brody Bond Aedas.
Max Bond: 1935 - 2009 is presented as part of the Margaret Helfand Spotlight Series.
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Supporters:
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Friends:
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The Margaret Helfand Fund
2009 Design Awards and Building Type Awards
April 23 — June 13, 2009
AIA New York’s Annual Design Awards Program is the largest competition held to recognize excellence in architectural design for projects in New York City and by New York City architects worldwide. The 2009 Design Awards Program also includes the Building Type Awards in collaboration with the Boston Society of Architects to honor excellence in architectural design in Housing and Health Facilities.
The thirty-two winners of these awards will be on display at the Center for Architecture beginning April 23 and through June 13.
For the full list of winners, please visit the AIANY Awards Web site.
Exhibition organized by: AIA New York
Exhibition design by: Remake with Corey Yurkovich
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May 18, 2009, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Interiors Winners’ Panel Discussion
May 28, 2009, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Housing Winners’ Panel Discussion
June 3, 2009, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Project Winners’ Panel Discussion
June 10, 2009, 6:00 — 8:00pm
Health Facilities Winners’ Panel Discussion
05.19.09 through 05.23.09
“Child of the Sun:” Florida Southern College
Florida Southern College.
Robin Hill
Florida Southern College, the largest integrated collection of Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the world, is the subject of this exhibition of photographs by Robin Hill.
World Monuments Fund
95 Madison Avenue, Floor 9, NYC
05.12.09 through 05.24.09
Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture
Red+Housing by OBRA Architects (Interior).
OBRA Architects
To commemorate the first anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, this exhibition reviews disasters in the past and prepares for those to come, presenting examples of post-disaster emergency architecture from around the world. Seventeen Chinese and international architects, including NY-based OBRA Architects, were invited to design feasible, efficient, safe, beautiful, and user-friendly emergency shelters for the victims of natural and social disasters.
National Art Museum of China
Beijing, China
05.14.09 through 06.14.09
Ernesto Neto
Neto’s exhibition will fill Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
Courtesy Park Avenue Armory
This installation will be comprised of several monumental structures that together form an overall environmental sculpture in which various activities, including presentations and participatory experiences, will take place.
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, NYC
05.15.09 through 08.23.09
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
The Guggenheim — from outward, in.
Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Fifty years after it was completed, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates its anniversary with an exhibition that brings together 64 projects including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, and religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures. Including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, as well as newly commissioned models and digital animations (including six analytical models by Situ Studio) this exhibition illuminates Wright’s pioneering concepts of space and reveals the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC
05.15.09 through 08.23.09
Learning by Doing
Designer: Kamal Amin Completed: 1960’s.
Courtesy Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education
In conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Sackler Center for Arts education will hold a parallel exhibition focusing on the design/build/live program at Taliesin: The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture — currently known as the Taliesin Shelter program. In keeping with Wright’s interest in learning by doing, designers are invited to contribute concepts for unique shelters. Selected submissions will be integrated into and rotated throughout the course of the exhibition.
Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC
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