(L-R): Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow, Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University; Amanda M. Burden, FAICP, Hon. AIANY, Chair of the NYC Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning; Adrian Benepe, Commissioner New York City Department of Parks & Recreation; and Ariella Masboungi, General Advisor for Sustainable Development Ministry of Ecology for France speak at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

Barbara Chénot Camus

AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, led a tour of Lower Manhattan, while Masboungi and Michael Arad, AIA, look at the 9/11 National Memorial construction site from the 10th floor of 7 WTC.

Tom McWilliam

Masboungi with Craig Copeland of Pelli Clarke Pelli at the green roof of the Visionaire.

Barbara Chénot Camus

Attendees enjoyed a dinner boat cruise around Manhattan.

Barbara Chénot Camus

An event was held in the honor of Mark di Suvero (pictured with Rick Bell, FAIA) celebrating the installation of several of his large-scale sculptures on Governors Island, sponsored by Storm King Art Center and on view through 09.25.11.

Susannah C. Drake, ASLA, AIA

Ricardo Scofidio and Elizabeth Diller of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, pictured in front of Philip Johnson’s Library/Study at the Philip Johnson Glass House site.

Tom McWilliam

Maps on display from 1609-2011 depict ecological, historic, transportation, planning, cultural, and civic data.

Kathy Kia

Curators/Exhibition Designers Seetha Raghupathy and Abby Suckle, FAIA.

Kathy Kia

Rick Bell, FAIA; Denise Hochbaum; Margaret Castillo, AIA, LEED AP; Jose Armenio de Brito Cruz at the NPSP opening reception.

Courtesy the Center for Architecture