At the Center for Architecture

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS


New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:
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Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper


UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Building Connections 2009

September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

September 17 — December 12, 2009

About Town

09.16.09 through 10.16.09
The Aurora Project

aurora

Rendering of plaster cast buoys, PETG surface, LED and CRT Aurora field.

©The Aurora Project by Future Cities Lab, Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellows, Summer 2009

Architects and New York Prize Fellows Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno explored the shifting territorial resources in the Arctic and created a speculative vision for a massive new energy infrastructure and settlement pattern. The exhibition comprises three related installations.
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor, NYC


09.18.09 through 09.26.09
FEED

FEED

FEED.

Courtesy Fragmental Museum

This migratory exhibition presented by Fragmental Museum seeks to re-nourish public spaces with the installation of visual arts and cultural projects. A collaboration between artist Konstantinos Stamatiou and The Very Many forms the façade of the host space, Cuchifritos Gallery. Inside, a site-specific stadium by Constance Armellino & OFF Architecture is built of recycled materials. There will be video screenings and performances on various dates during the exhibition.

Cuchifritos
Essex Street Market


10.01.09 through 10.12.09
Meier 75

meier-2

Richard Meier, Design for Museum Entrance Area, for J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 1984-97.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Richard Meier, FAIA, is presenting two architectural drawings of the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles to the Cooper-Hewitt on the occasion of his 75th birthday and the publication of Richard Meier, Architect Volume 5 (Rizzoli USA, Oct. 2009). The installation includes drawings and models for three major projects — the Smith House in Darien, CT; the Getty Center; and the Jubilee Church, in a suburb of Rome — as well as three Meier collage works.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, NYC

At the Center for Architecture

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A Space Within: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum

June 25 – September 14, 2009

wtcOn September 11th, 2001, what had been one of the world’s most densely developed business districts became, for many, hallowed ground. Soon after, questions emerged. What comes next? How could one site serve the needs of victims’ families, survivors of the attacks, members of the surrounding communities, business interests, and visitors?

The answer required a clear separation of the sacred and the secular; a defined, eight-acre space, serving as a tribute, would be created within the larger development. A Space Within is a public showcase of the memorial and museum that are now taking shape at the heart of the World Trade Center site.

Memorial design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Museum design by Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Museum pavilion design by Snøhetta

Exhibition curator:
Thomas Mellins
Exhibition design: Incorporated Architecture & Design

Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Partner:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Leading Sponsor: Digital Plus
Faithful+Gould
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sponsor:
Associated Fabrication
Supporter: Adamson Associates
Fisher Marantz Stone
Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers
Horizon Engineering Associates
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Snøhetta
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
WSP Cantor Seinuk


New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:
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Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper

About Town

09.21.09 through 09.27.09
Appetite for Design

The Moss Room 02

The Moss Room.

Lundberg Design

This exhibition on restaurant design and lecture series by chefs and designers will feature London’s The River Café, and San Francisco’s The Moss Room in the Renzo Piano-designed California Academy of Sciences.

Trespa Design Centre
62 Greene St., NYC


Through 10.09
The Deeper They Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes

Rigo23

Benoit Pailley

This site-specific installation by Rigo 23 provides a sensory experience highlighting the confinement of a “non-space” in the museum, and challenging visitors with views that mimic those confronting over two million prisoners in the U.S., home to the world’s largest penal system.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery, NYC


Through 10.12.09
Ahoy! Where Lies Henry Hudson?

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Byron Bell and Les Walker, “The Magnificent Adventure of Henry Hudson”.

Alan Schindler

This outdoor exhibition celebrates the life and death of Henry Hudson as part of New York State’s Quadricentennial commemoration. Highlighting memorials on Hudson’s historic journey, featured NY-based architects include: Randy Gerner, AIA; Tobias Armborst (with Charles Warren, AIA, & Vassar College Students); Byron Bell, FAIA, and Les Walker; Matthew Bialecki, AIA / Project Team: Bialecki Architects; Matt Bua; John Cetra, AIA, and Nancy Ruddy; Solange Fabião; Nicholas Goldsmith, FAIA, and Gisela Stromeyer; Michael McDonough (with Andrew Neal); Barry Price, AIA; Todd Rader, AIA, and Amy Crews; and Evan Stoller.

Byrdcliffe Art Colony
Woodstock, NY

At the Center for Architecture

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC
212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A Space Within: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum

June 25 – September 14, 2009

On September 11th, 2001, what had been one of the world’s most densely developed business districts became, for many, hallowed ground. Soon after, questions emerged. What comes next? How could one site serve the needs of victims’ families, survivors of the attacks, members of the surrounding communities, business interests, and visitors?

The answer required a clear separation of the sacred and the secular; a defined, eight-acre space, serving as a tribute, would be created within the larger development. A Space Within is a public showcase of the memorial and museum that are now taking shape at the heart of the World Trade Center site.

Memorial design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Museum design by Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Museum pavilion design by Snøhetta

Exhibition curator:
Thomas Mellins
Exhibition design: Incorporated Architecture & Design

Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Partner:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Leading Sponsor: Digital Plus
Faithful+Gould
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sponsor:
Associated Fabrication
Supporter: Adamson Associates
Fisher Marantz Stone
Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers
Horizon Engineering Associates
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Snøhetta
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
WSP Cantor Seinuk


New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:
abclogo_rgb

Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper


The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures

May 15 – August 29, 2009

What is infrastructure? For much of the twentieth century, the answer to this question was guided by the ideology of functionalist urbanism, a school of thought that said that all healthy cities served four major needs – work, housing, recreation, and transportation. Today, we no longer take this view for granted, for it is a perspective that makes no provisions for community, identity, or history. At the same time, we still lack an alternative model for visualizing the city that can deal adequately with the public health and quality-of-life issues that the early functionalists sought to address. Our capacity to balance urban development with the demands of ecological imperatives and social needs has only worsened in recent decades, and this exhibition asks whether the trend can be reversed.

Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture, and design that treat cities and their environments in holistic terms, as a complex social, political, and ecological matrix – not just as an assembly of buildings, roadways, bridges, pipes, and tunnels (although each of these is important). Infrastructure cannot be divorced from the structure of democracy, from the environment at large, and the contributions to this exhibition highlight the important role that community, communication, participation, and the sharing of knowledge can play in informing understanding of the urban fabric.

This spring and summer, a series of workshops and public programs will be held to generate discussion and debate about civic participation, urbanism, and design. Drawings and diagrams produced in the workshops will be incorporated into the exhibition as an evolving presentation of ideas.

Exhibition and related programs organized by AIA New York in partnership with Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) , The Austrian Cultural Forum, and the American Institute for Graphic Arts New York (AIGA NY).

Curator: Nader Vossoughian
Exhibition Design: Project Projects

SPONSORS
Underwriter:

Lead Sponsor:

Supporter:
Consulate General of The Netherlands

Friend:
Times Square Alliance

About Town

Through 08.29.09
constant variable — Thomas Navin Architect

Navin

Constantly variable.

Thomas Navin Architect

This landscape installation attempts to reflect on the notion of layering, confluence, and interplay. The work gives the illusion that the building has been lifted on pilotis so the front lobby becomes an extension of the outside. Plants will grow and markings on the sidewalk will begin to erode as foot traffic and natural forces cause them to fade, and then disappear.

common room 2
465 Grand Street, NYC



Through 10.09
Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: A Clearing in the Streets

clearing

Public Art Fund

A 10-sided plywood structure houses a meadow 15 feet in diameter offset by a panoramic interior mural of a vast blue sky. Eight-inch gaps spaced throughout the structure permit controlled visual access — the limited viewing opportunities magnify the natural cyclical processes of the ecology that, over a four-month period, will evolve from seeds and seedlings to a landscape of flowering native plants and grasses.

Collect Pond Park
Leonard Street between Centre and Lafayette Streets, NYC



Through 09.02.09
WILD CHILD

wildchild

SOFTlab

This group show features an array of computationally experimental art, architecture, and design involving the latest undertakings in digital and algorithmic computing and advanced fabrication. Participants come from both coasts, evoking an east vs. west showdown.

bridgegallery
98 Orchard Street, NYC

At the Center for Architecture

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC
212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A Space Within: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum

June 25 – September 14, 2009

On September 11th, 2001, what had been one of the world’s most densely developed business districts became, for many, hallowed ground. Soon after, questions emerged. What comes next? How could one site serve the needs of victims’ families, survivors of the attacks, members of the surrounding communities, business interests, and visitors?

The answer required a clear separation of the sacred and the secular; a defined, eight-acre space, serving as a tribute, would be created within the larger development. A Space Within is a public showcase of the memorial and museum that are now taking shape at the heart of the World Trade Center site.

Memorial design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Museum design by Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Museum pavilion design by Snøhetta

Exhibition curator:
Thomas Mellins
Exhibition design: Incorporated Architecture & Design

Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Partner:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Leading Sponsor: Digital Plus
Faithful+Gould
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sponsor:
Associated Fabrication
Supporter: Adamson Associates
Fisher Marantz Stone
Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers
Horizon Engineering Associates
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Snøhetta
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
WSP Cantor Seinuk


New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:

Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper


The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures

May 15 – August 29, 2009

What is infrastructure? For much of the twentieth century, the answer to this question was guided by the ideology of functionalist urbanism, a school of thought that said that all healthy cities served four major needs – work, housing, recreation, and transportation. Today, we no longer take this view for granted, for it is a perspective that makes no provisions for community, identity, or history. At the same time, we still lack an alternative model for visualizing the city that can deal adequately with the public health and quality-of-life issues that the early functionalists sought to address. Our capacity to balance urban development with the demands of ecological imperatives and social needs has only worsened in recent decades, and this exhibition asks whether the trend can be reversed.

Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture, and design that treat cities and their environments in holistic terms, as a complex social, political, and ecological matrix – not just as an assembly of buildings, roadways, bridges, pipes, and tunnels (although each of these is important). Infrastructure cannot be divorced from the structure of democracy, from the environment at large, and the contributions to this exhibition highlight the important role that community, communication, participation, and the sharing of knowledge can play in informing understanding of the urban fabric.

This spring and summer, a series of workshops and public programs will be held to generate discussion and debate about civic participation, urbanism, and design. Drawings and diagrams produced in the workshops will be incorporated into the exhibition as an evolving presentation of ideas.

Exhibition and related programs organized by AIA New York in partnership with Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) , The Austrian Cultural Forum, and the American Institute for Graphic Arts New York (AIGA NY).

Curator: Nader Vossoughian
Exhibition Design: Project Projects

SPONSORS
Underwriter:

Lead Sponsor:

Supporter:
Consulate General of The Netherlands

Friend:
Times Square Alliance

About Town

08.06.09, ongoing
First Thursday Gallery Walk in DUMBO

dumbo

DUMBO gallery walk.

©Jianai Jenny Chen

Enjoy exhibitions, performances, discussions, food, and wine as DUMBO’s galleries stay open into the evening on Thursday, 08.08.09 from 5:30-8:30 pm, and continues on the first Thursday of each month. Participating businesses vary by month, and a list of participating locations for the next event is available online.

Various galleries, DUMBO, NYC


Through 08.21.09
Annual Design Review 2009

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Courtesy I.D. Magazine

Since 1954, I.D. magazine’s Annual Design Review has recognized product, packaging, furniture, graphic, and environmental design, from the iconic to the obscure. This year’s winning entries are on view.

Material ConneXion
60 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NYC


Through 08.21.09
TRASHION

Trashion1

Trashion.

Urban Green Initiative

Part of an ongoing series of art exhibitions, concerts, and dance performances to encourage an artistic approach to environmental awareness, this exhibition features graffiti-inspired art, chemical paintings, clothing made of trash bags and Metro Cards created by Miz Metro, and furniture made of neckties, paint samples, and glitter by Kristy Leibowitz.

Gallery 151
350 Bowery, NYC

At the Center for Architecture

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC
212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A Space Within: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum

June 25 – September 14, 2009

On September 11th, 2001, what had been one of the world’s most densely developed business districts became, for many, hallowed ground. Soon after, questions emerged. What comes next? How could one site serve the needs of victims’ families, survivors of the attacks, members of the surrounding communities, business interests, and visitors?

The answer required a clear separation of the sacred and the secular; a defined, eight-acre space, serving as a tribute, would be created within the larger development. A Space Within is a public showcase of the memorial and museum that are now taking shape at the heart of the World Trade Center site.

Memorial design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Museum design by Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Museum pavilion design by Snøhetta

Exhibition curator:
Thomas Mellins
Exhibition design: Incorporated Architecture & Design

Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Partner:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Leading Sponsor: Digital Plus
Faithful+Gould
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sponsor:
Associated Fabrication
Supporter: Adamson Associates
Fisher Marantz Stone
Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers
Horizon Engineering Associates
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Snøhetta
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
WSP Cantor Seinuk


New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:

Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper


The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures

May 15 – August 29, 2009

What is infrastructure? For much of the twentieth century, the answer to this question was guided by the ideology of functionalist urbanism, a school of thought that said that all healthy cities served four major needs – work, housing, recreation, and transportation. Today, we no longer take this view for granted, for it is a perspective that makes no provisions for community, identity, or history. At the same time, we still lack an alternative model for visualizing the city that can deal adequately with the public health and quality-of-life issues that the early functionalists sought to address. Our capacity to balance urban development with the demands of ecological imperatives and social needs has only worsened in recent decades, and this exhibition asks whether the trend can be reversed.

Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture, and design that treat cities and their environments in holistic terms, as a complex social, political, and ecological matrix – not just as an assembly of buildings, roadways, bridges, pipes, and tunnels (although each of these is important). Infrastructure cannot be divorced from the structure of democracy, from the environment at large, and the contributions to this exhibition highlight the important role that community, communication, participation, and the sharing of knowledge can play in informing understanding of the urban fabric.

This spring and summer, a series of workshops and public programs will be held to generate discussion and debate about civic participation, urbanism, and design. Drawings and diagrams produced in the workshops will be incorporated into the exhibition as an evolving presentation of ideas.

Exhibition and related programs organized by AIA New York in partnership with Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) , The Austrian Cultural Forum, and the American Institute for Graphic Arts New York (AIGA NY).

Curator: Nader Vossoughian
Exhibition Design: Project Projects

SPONSORS
Underwriter:

Lead Sponsor:

Supporter:
Consulate General of The Netherlands

Friend:
Times Square Alliance

About Town

Through 07.30.09
Deadpan by Steve McQueen

mcqueen

Steve McQueen, Deadpan, 1997.

Courtesy Creative Time and Marian Goodman Gallery

At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s screen in Times Square, the classic video work Deadpan (1997) by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen is being screened. This slapstick convention, repeated, investigates cinematic conventions and aims to be salient in its media-saturated environment.

Times Square
42nd Street, NYC


Through 08.01.09
Reef

Reefopening

A view of the installation at the opening reception.

Storefront for Art and Architecture

This installation creates an interior condition that reacts according to an exterior streetscape, and reasserts an active role in shaping that public space. Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), a category of metals that change shape according to temperature, offer the possibility of efficient, fluid movement without the mechanized motion of earlier technologies.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC


Through 07.31.09
Jiri Makovec: Tales from the Island

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1 Madison Park” is taken from the penthouse under construction.

Jiri Makovec, courtesy Fragmental Museum

In Jiri Makovec’s fifth exhibition at the Chelsea market, he continues his personal exploration of the urban experience of New York..

Chelsea Market c/o Fragmental Museum
75 9th Avenue, NYC


Through 08.05.09
Design S: Swedish Design Award

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Unik Standard 18-drawer cupboard, made from three different grades of Masonite.

Emma Nilsson

The work of recipients of Sweden’s biggest design award is on view focusing on design for sustainable development and addressing issues such as the climate, the environment, the welfare of society, and the long-term quality of life.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, NYC