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Oculus magazine, AIA New York’s quarterly print publication, is an important means of asserting the identity and advocacy of architects in New York.
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Spring 2021: AIANY Design Awards 2021

A Publication of AIA New York, Volume 83, Issue 2. Cover: Newark Housing Authority | Training Recreation Education Center (TREC), ikon.5 Architects. Photography by Jeffrey Totaro.

Table of Contents
Articles & News
Kenneth Lewis Resized Headshot
Letter from the President
A Year Like No Other
by Kenneth Lewis, AIA, RA, NCARB
Molly Heintz, Editor-in-Chief. Photo: Nir Arieli.
Letter from the Editor
Awards Reflect Values
by Molly Heintz
Plant Seeds Grow Blessings, by Olalekan Jeyifous, 2020. Photomontage, framed renderings printed on Luster 260 GSM. Photo: Courtesy of Olalekan Jeyifous.
Beyond the Center
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
by Casey Romaine
Photo: Courtesy of Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum.
Beyond the Center
When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan
by The Editors
A rendering of affordable housing by winning team RKD Architects. Image: Courtesy of RKD Architects.
Street Level
Gaining urban space: Winner announced in competition to design affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard
by The Editors
AIA logo, red and white on black background
OP-ED
Teams Lead the Way: What architecture can learn from The Queen’s Gambit
by Drew Lang, AIA
Photo: Sam Lahoz.
Letter from the Executive Director
A Call for Advocacy
by Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA
Jury Note
The 2021 Design Awards jury symposium was held on January 11. Top row, left to right: Julie Eizenberg, Andrea Love, Maria Paz de Moura Castro, Middle row: Molly Heintz (moderator), Francesca Perani, Stephen Gray; bottom row: Marlon Blackwell, Ken Lewis (host). Photo: AIA New York.
AIANY Design Awards
The 2021 Design Awards jury met in early January and selected 23...
Best in Competition
Photo: Jeffrey Totaro.
Newark Housing Authority | Training Recreation Education Center (TREC)
ikon.5 Architects
by Fred Bernstein
ARCHITECTURE Honor
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
Bennington College Commons Renovation
Christoff:Finio Architecture
Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
nARCHITECTS
Rooftop Prim
Productora
DL1310 Apartments
Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture
Architecture Merit
New York Public Library Van Cortlandt Branch
Andrew Berman Architect
Boulder House
Atelierjun
National Museum of The United States Army
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Yale University Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking
Weiss/Manfredi
Rhode Island School of Design Student Center
WORKac
Six Square House
Young Projects
Architecture Citation
Land Community Center
EID Architecture
Interiors Merit
Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum
Atelier Alter Architects
New York Public Library Macomb’s Bridge Branch
Michielli + Wyetzner Architects
LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Projects Honor
Pollinators Pavilion
Harrison Atelier
Projects Merit
The Panda Pavilions
EID Architecture
Perch
HardingOstrow
Make The Road New York Community Center
Ten Arquitectos with Andrea Steele Architecture
Projects Citation
Manual of Physical Distancing
LTL Architects
Containerized Waste DaRT
Marvel Architects
Urban Design Merit
St. John’s Park
Ballman Khapalova
Urban Design Citation
River Ring
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
James Corner Field Operations
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