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06.25.14: At the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago, the AIA Foundation and Architecture for Humanity, in partnership with NJIT, announced a new regional recovery studio in...
Calling all architects! AIANY | Center for Architecture is soliciting work of all scales and types – large and small, private or public, commercial, residential,...
On Tuesday, 06.10.14, newly-appointed NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, FAICP, and Dr. Feniosky Peña-Mora, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Design +...
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced his initiative to provide free, universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) for all eligible children in NYC. To make enough seats...
Known mostly through the images like those prominently on display at the Museum of the City of New York’s (MCNY) exhibition “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and...
Nearly everything important in a living democracy takes place in public space: expression that's politically or artistically consequential, transactions that drive the...
“So you’re off to the circus,” Lars Lerup, professor of architecture at the Rice School of Architecture, admonished me the evening before I left for Venice. From...
The June Oculus Book Talk was introduced by AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, who presented a short, well-produced film on the newly opened “Open to the...
On 06.09.14, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Hillary Brown, FAIA, principal of New Civic Works, professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture...
If the right to freedom of speech could be described as the integral value in American society, perhaps the analogous value would be the right to housing in Spain. That...
Museums are an architect's playground, both in designing and visiting. More than with other building typologies, museum patrons encourage design exploration,...
On 5.20.14 the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) hosted Samuel Carter, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Associate Director for Resilience. Carter,...
(Slideshow Above) In this issue: - Post-Disaster Housing Solution - An Intellectual Hub for Arts and Sciences Amidst the Oak and Redwood Trees - Touchable 3-D Models...
I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is the recipient of the International Union of Architects (UIA) 2014 Gold Medal… The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
2014 OCULUS Editorial Calendar The Oculus 2014 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New...
06.14.14: Chrisitine Bram, Executive Director of the Office of Parks and Open Spaces for the City of Zurich; AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA; NYC Planning...
On 05.27.14, just a few weeks after Massimo Vignelli’s son invited designers who were influenced by the graphic designer to send him a letter of support and gratitude,...
Energized by a love of “anonymous architecture” – and unfazed by the New York Public Library's recent decision to return his firm's redesign of the 42nd Street...
On a misty day last week, the city's newest active recreational facility, Pier 2 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, opened with a flourish of eloquence, and a day of basketball...
As the City introduces new policies and initiatives, AIANY wants to ensure that the public is properly informed and prepared. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the NYC...
