by: Jessica Sheridan Assoc. AIA LEED AP
Execs play ball: AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, with David Parken, LFRAIA, CEO of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects — which recently changed its name to Australian Institute of Architects (or AIA… now it can really get confusing!).
Kristen Richards
AIANY past presidents Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, (left) and Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP (right).
Megan Chusid
(l-r): Iva Kravitz, marketing consultant and OCULUS contributor; Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, 2007 AIANY President; and Barb Steffen, AIANY Communications Coordinator.
Megan Chusid
Architectural Record Editor-in-Chief Bob Ivy, FAIA, congratulates Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, who had just been named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design at the AIA New York State party at Fenway Park.
Kristen Richards
AIANY 2008 President Jim McCullar, FAIA, congratulates Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
Book launch reception for “Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future,” edited by Nancy Solomon, AIA (l-r): George Miller, FAIA, chair of AIA150; managing editor and AIA staffer Janet Rumbarger; and 2007 AIA President RK Stewart, FAIA.
Kristen Richards
AIANY Emerging NY Architects (ENYA) committee co-chairs Harry Gaveras, AIA, and Megan Chusid, Assoc. AIA.
Jessica Sheridan
The Google SketchUp booth seemed to be the most popular on the Expo floor (or maybe they were there for the free socks!).
Jessica Sheridan
Rain didn’t dampen the festivities for the BSA Host Chapter Party at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.
Kristen Richards
2010 AIA President George Miller, FAIA, with wife, Ann, at Fenway Park. AIA President Marshall Purnell, FAIA, threw the first pitch at the Red Sox game.
Rick Bell
Steve Haslip designed the “Bipolar” chair (left), and Nicole Marinake designed the “Macho” chair (right).
Courtesy School of Visual Arts
The installation, complete with ping-pong tables, a Pong projection game, giant bouncing balls, and inflatable, inhabitable spheres, were meant to be “light, simple, and fun,” according to Jennifer Lee, AIA, partner at OBRA Architects. Guest Sara Caples, AIA, of Caples Jefferson Architects observed that the event was reminiscent of 1960s happenings and loft parties.
Brandon Cook