by: Daniel Fox
07.12.12: “The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections” Exhibition Opening + Publication Launch Party
(l-r): Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY 2012 President; Amanda Rivera, Assoc. AIA, ENYA Co-chair; Javier Carcamo, ENYA member and Co-Chair of the Zoning and Land-use Committee at Manhattan Community Board 9.
Marvine Pierre, Assoc. AIA
ENYA Member Ilkay Standard, Assoc. AIA, in front of her entry (with Arjuna Balaranjan), “Community Transfer Station.”
Marvine Pierre, Assoc. AIA
(l-r): Davide Catenazzi; Arjuna Balaranjan; Ilkay Standard, Assoc. AIA; and Guido Fascioli. Catenazzi and Fascioli, of Davide Catenazzi Architetto, traveled from Brusson, Italy, for the opening. Both teams presented their entries at The Harlem Edge Symposium on Saturday, 07.14.2012.
Marvine Pierre, Assoc. AIA
ENYA Co-chairs Brynnemarie Lanciotti, Assoc. AIA, and Amanda Rivera, Assoc. AIA.
Marvine Pierre, Assoc. AIA
ENYA Prize winners and Yan Wang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and Ting Chin, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, of Linearscape in front of their entry, “Sym’bio’pia.”
Marvine Pierre, Assoc. AIA
Council Member Margaret Chin coordinated a reworking of the New York University Core Plan which significantly reduced floor area and addressed community concerns about public access to open space in the two NYU superblocks. The AIA New York Chapter has been actively engaged in the redesign process [read about it in the Wall Street Journal and New York Observer]. On Tuesday, 7/17, the Council’s Land Use Committee voted 19-1 to endorse the “Chin Compromise,” reminiscent of Mario Cuomo’s intervention in Forest Hills which launched his political career.
Rick Bell, FAIA
06.28.12: Wendy, a temporary installation designed by HWKN, made her debut in MoMA/P.S. 1’s courtyard. The design was selected as the winner of the Young Architects Program and is composed of fabric-treated titania nanofilm that neutralizes airborne pollutants.
Wendy and party-goers at the press preview.
Linda G. Miller.
Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) co-founders Mattias Hollwich, SBA, and Marc Kushner, AIA, Wendy’s designers.
Linda G. Miller
James Russell, FAIA, e-Oculus/Oculus editorial advisor, tours the “interior” of the installation.
Linda G. Miller
07.10.12: Boating with Porcelanosa: two guests from Porcelanosa USA recently accompanied Rick Bell, FAIA, and Florence Veber on AIANY and Classic Harbor Line’s “Official NYC Architectural Boat Tour.”
(l-r) Andrew Pennington, National Sales & Marketing Director, Porcelanosa USA, and Jose Alacreu, Sales Manager, Porcelanosa USA.
Rick Bell, FAIA
07.11.12: AIANY 2013 President-Elect Jill Lerner, FAIA, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), along with James von Klemperer, FAIA, Design Principal, KPF, hosted representatives from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office. Lerner’s 2013 Presidential theme will be concerned with global issues, including New York’s exportation of high-quality design services. A Hong Kong / New York exhibit and symposium is being planned for December as a kick-off event.
(l-r) James von Klemperer, FAIA, Design Principal, KPF; Anita Chan, Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York; Jill Lerner, FAIA, Principal, KPF; Joyce S. Lee, FAIA, LEED AP, most recently of the New York City Department of Design + Construction.
Rick Bell, FAIA
07.13-.7.14.2012: The Association of Architectural Organization’s (AAO) founding board met in Detroit on 7.13-14.12, and took the opportunity to tour the Pony Ride incubator space at 1401 Vermont in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood with its founder Phil Cooley.
(l-r): John Claypool, AIA, Executive Director, AIA Philadelphia; Lynn Osmond, President & CEO, Chicago Architecture Foundation; Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation; and, back to camera, Reed Kroloff, Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum.
Rick Bell, FAIA
At the AAO Board meeting held in the Cranbrook Library, those present had the opportunity to tour a small part of the 320-acre grounds. (l-r) Susan McDaid, Hon. AIA, Vice President, Member and Component Resources, AIA National; Lynn Osmond, President, Chicago Architecture Foundation; Srinivas Murthy, President & CEO, Hyderabad Architecture Foundation, Hyerabad, India; and Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation.
Rick Bell, FAIA
07.14.2012: Architects Silva Ajemian and Jorge Prado, principals of TODA DA and co-founders of FirstStreet Green, with participants in expoTENtial’s NYChair Lab, a one-day charrette to imagine design ideas for an outdoor chair for the park at 33 East 1st Street (site of last year’s BMW Guggenheim LAB).
Linda G. Miller
NYCHair lab team leaders and judges (l-r) landscape architect Celia Petersen, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Capital Projects Division; Evan Benett. AIA, Principal, Vamos Architecture; Emily Weidenhof, Project Manager, Public Spaces, NYC Department of Transportation, Division of Traffic and Planning; Michael Piper, DUB-studios; Gail Wittwer-Laird, Senior Designer, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Capital Projects Division; and Silva Ajemian.
Linda G. Miller
Laetitia Wolff, founder of futureflair/expoTENtial, and Executive Director of desigNYC
Linda G. Miller