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2011 OCULUS Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
2011 Themes:
Spring (President’s Theme): Design for a Change: Buildings, People, Energy
[Closed]
Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2011
[Closed]
Fall: Interior Activity
— Sustainable interior architecture/design.
— Interiors as laboratories for small firms.
— Changes in Practice: Diversity out of necessity; multi-disciplinary cross-overs; architectural firms establishing quasi- or totally independent design studios for products, graphics, etc.
— Pro-bono policies: we’d like to hear from firms participating in established programs such as The 1%, Architecture for Humanity, etc. — and from firms who have an established in-house pro-bono program and/or policy.
Submit story ideas by 04.22.11
Winter: Up, Down, and Sideways: Density and Transportation
Density enabled by transportation: mass transit, cycling; Moynihan Station; Regional connections; Housing Authority: former purposeful disconnect, now reintegrating back into neighborhoods; How a century of New York skyscrapers has/is/will affect the architecture, planning, and culture of the city and the world.
Submit story ideas by 08.19.11
For further information, contact OCULUS Editor Kristen Richards: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
04.11.11 Call for Presentations: TRI State Design Conference
04.15.11 Call for Entries: AIANY Interiors Committee Speed Presentations: Not-for-Profit Projects
04.20.11 Call for Nominations: MASterworks Awards
04.25.11 Call for Submissions: 2011 Photo Urbanism Fellowship
04.25.11 Request for Proposals: Water Street Median — Feasibility Study
05.01.11 Call for Entries: The Generative Space Award
05.01.11 Call for Entries: The Gowanus Lowline — deadline extended
05.21.11 Call for Entries: Life at the Speed of Rail
06.01.11 Call for Entries: ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition: Sponsored by FLATCUT_
06.15.11 Call for Papers: 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference on Planning Healthy Communities for All