Chapter News | 8/14/14

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,...

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Chapter News | 8/14/14

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)...

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Chapter News | 8/14/14

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...

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Chapter News | 8/14/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/30/14

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,...

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Chapter News | 7/30/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News, In Memoriam | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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?...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News | 7/16/14

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...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

Nearly everything important in a living democracy takes place in public space: expression that's politically or artistically consequential, transactions that drive the...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

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...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

On 06.09.14, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Hillary Brown, FAIA, principal of New Civic Works, professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

If the right to freedom of speech could be described as the integral value in American society, perhaps the analogous value would be the right to housing in Spain. That...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

Museums are an architect's playground, both in designing and visiting. More than with other building typologies, museum patrons encourage design exploration,...

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Chapter News | 6/18/14

On 5.20.14 the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) hosted Samuel Carter, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Associate Director for Resilience. Carter,...

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Chapter News | 5/29/14

Energized by a love of “anonymous architecture” – and unfazed by the New York Public Library's recent decision to return his firm's redesign of the 42nd Street...

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