The 2011 Jury of Fellows from the AIA elevated 104 members to the College of Fellows, including NYC-based Stanley T. Allen, FAIA; Audrey A. Matlock, FAIA; Henry Myerberg, FAIA; Michael A. Nieminen, FAIA; Thomas Phifer, FAIA; Burton L. Roslyn, FAIA; and David Miles Ziskind, FAIA… Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, became a 2011 AIA Honorary Member…

2011 AIANYS officers and directors include David Businelli, AIA, President; F. Eric Goshow, AIA, Vice President/Government Advocacy; Susan Chin, FAIA, AIA Regional Director; and Directors Frank LoPresto, AIA, Brooklyn; Jonathan Marvel, AIA, Margery Perlmutter, AIA, and Claire Weisz, AIA, New York; Michael Cosentino, AIA, Queens; and Timothy Boyland, AIA, Staten Island… Venesa Alicea, AIA, will serve as National Associates Committee Regional Associate Director-NY, and Terrence O’Neal, AIA, was recognized for his years of service to the board…

Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA, received a Distinguished Service Award from the AIA Council of Architectural Component Executives, an annual award given to a member of the AIA National staff, decided by a jury of Component Staff members, for his impact as interim EVP/CEO. In the proclimation, presented by Ray Rhinehart, Hon. AIA, senior director of special projects at AIA National, this description followed:
Who for over three decades
Has served with distinction
the aia component family in a broad array
Of roles and responsibilities.
No one has been more passionate or patient
Than he in nurturing a spirit of collaboration,
A commitment that models a quality of leadership
Which recognizes that although each of us
Has different gifts and temperaments,
Like crayons, we all come out of the same box.

Michael Van Valkenburgh will be awarded the 23rd Brendan Gill Prize by the Municipal Art Society for his design of Brooklyn Bridge Park…

Parsons The New School for Design has launched the country’s first Bachelor of Science in Urban Design and is developing new Master of Arts and Master of Science programs…

John P. Reed, AIA, has joined Cannon Design as a Design Principal…