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Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns is a fine text for professionals and student of urban design. This book can live on one’s desk and be a constant...
AIA and Reed Construction Data are pleased to announce a new AIA member benefit. Insight for Architects is an instant upgrade for your market intelligence, allowing...
On 7.17.14, the Center for Architecture opened its doors to the “QueensWay Connection: Elevating the Public Realm” exhibition. The installation’s opening and...
The recent publication Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering is, dare I say, delightful. It is the fourth in a series of conference publications at...
On 07.01.14, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Michael Bell, professor of architecture at Columbia University and co-editor of Permanent Change:...
Many homes reach the point when owners outgrow them or they’re sold or abandoned. Sometimes, the property is more desirable than a piece of architectural history,...
On 08.11.14, the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) organized a tour of the recently-unveiled NYC Office of Emergency Management (OEM)...
The event “Architecture as a Way of Life and Placemaking” was certainly not business as usual at the Center for Architecture. As AIANY Architecture for Education...
Well veiled, the destination at the end of the street led many too far. Only after returning on a dirt road did a unique awning peek above the shrub and fence line. A...
What is a global conversation, and how does technology and social media impact it? That question, asked of panelists at the "Viral Voices III: Globalization" program,...
It's no fluke that bike shares and bike lanes are popping up everywhere. They provide easy transportation, require no fossil fuels, have no emissions, occupy little...
In an ever-evolving landscape of global design competitions, how does one begin to separate oneself from the pack? When organizations come together, such as the...
Even though Fred Schwartz, FAIA, passed away on 04.28.14, the loss was still fresh to many, speakers and audience alike, at the Center for Architecture on 06.30.14, when...
Social media is the root of much conversation, worry, speculation, and excitement across many fields and seems to pervade our everyday lives – so how is it affecting...
Death and taxes, as the old saying goes, are the only sure things in life. Hopefully the former comes after a long and rewarding life. But are we prepared for old age?...
The Center for Architecture hosted an event that tackled an un-sexy but pressing issue in NYC: garbage. As the host Antonio Reynoso, a NYC council member, said, dealing...
On 06.24.14, Beatrice Galilee, the newly-appointed associate curator of architecture and design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Modern and...
On 6.11.14 the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) hosted Daniel Zarrilli, PE, to update the design community on New York’s progress in becoming...
Nearly everything important in a living democracy takes place in public space: expression that's politically or artistically consequential, transactions that drive the...
The June Oculus Book Talk was introduced by AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, who presented a short, well-produced film on the newly opened “Open to the...
