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01.25.12: The British Consul-General, New York, the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the UK Trade & Investment Department hosted a reception for “Shaping London,” an initiative to use new media to share the story of how London developed since 1945. RIBA recently completed a body of work around Denys Lasdun, Ernö Goldfinger, and the London County Council’s archives, and is seeking funding for preservation of these and other valuable architectural archives.
AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA (left) and James Lasdun, son of noted British architect Denys Lasdun.
Kristen Richards
Jonathan B. Wimpenny, AIA, RIBA, President, RIBA-USA Board of Trustees; architect Allan Greenberg; and James Karl Fischer, AIA, RIBA, Ph.D., RIBA Council, Overseas Member
Kristen Richards
(l-r): Nicole Friedman, AIANY Communications Director; Megan S. Chusid, Assoc. AIA, AIANY Director for Educational Affairs; Abby Suckle, FAIA, LEED AP, AIANY VP for Public Outreach; Darren Buttle, Managing Director, ABF; and AIANY 2012 President Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP.
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02.03.12-02.04.12: “Architecture on Screen: Selections from the 2011 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)” featured several notable speakers introducing the films, as well as Q&A sessions with many of the directors.
Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen, Consul General of Denmark, introduces A City Hall for All Occasions.
Nicole Friedman
Kenneth Frampton, Associate AIA, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, introduces Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction.
Nicole Friedman
Rima Yamazaki, director of Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction, takes questions.
Nicole Friedman
AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, and Kerstin Stutterheim, director of Bauhaus: Model and Myth.
Nicole Friedman
02.14.12: “Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today Redux” was the second in a series of events at the Center for Architecture examining the role of public space in civic life and its relation to democratic values.
(l-r): Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Division of Social Science, The City College of New York; Paula Z. Segal, lawyer and founder of 596 Acres; Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, GSD; Susan Chin, FAIA, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Space; Paul Broches, FAIA, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects; Thomas Balsley, FASLA, Principal, Thomas Balsley Associates; Jeffrey Hou, Associate Professor, Chair, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington; Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, Rogers Marvel Architects.
Nicole Friedman
02.09.12: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, presented Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company’s form-based code for Miami at the event “Miami21 New Code: New Lessons for New York?”
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Nicole Friedman
Panelists Ray Gastil, AICP, Gastilworks; Michael Kwartler, FAIA, Michael Kwartler & Associates; Jerilyn Perine, Executive Director, Citizens Housing & Planning Council; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA
Nicole Friedman
02.11.12: The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) hosted jury day for its fifth biennial ideas competition, “The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections,” at the Center for Architecture.
(L-R): Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, ENYA; Ernesto Martinez, ENYA; Juror Dr. Dickson D. Despomier, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University; Juror Keith VanDerSys, PEG office of landscape + architecture, 2010 ENYA Prize recipient; Juror Meta Brunzema, RA, LEED AP, Meta Burnzema Architect; Juror Jesse Reiser, Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture; Sean Rasmussen, Assoc. AIA, ENYA; Brynnemarie Lanciotti, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, ENYA co-chair; Venesa Alicea, AIA, LEED AP, ENYA; Amanda Rivera, Assoc. AIA, ENYA co-chair; Juror Michael Marrella, AICP, Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning, NYC Department of City Planning; Juror Emily Abruzzo, AIA, LEED AP, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects; Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, ENYA; Juror Louise Harpman, Specht Harpman.
Manual Miranda