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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...
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...
Museums are an architect's playground, both in designing and visiting. More than with other building typologies, museum patrons encourage design exploration,...
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,...
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...
“‘Nature’ is simply another 18th- – and 19th-century fiction.” – Robert Smithson This is one of the quotations that AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell,...
AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, introduced Françoise Astorg Bollack, AIA’s 05.12.14 Oculus Book Talk at the Center of Architecture by proclaiming that her...
On 05.12.14, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Françoise Astorg Bollack, AIA, DESA, author of Old Buildings New Forms: New Directions in...
Nine of this year's AIANY Design Award winners lined up for an evening of presentations "pecha kucha" style – 20 slides at 20 seconds each. It's the fast-paced format...
“Big Data.” The concept seems to be on the minds and lips of those even remotely interested in business trends in the 21st century. And yet, as alluded to by Matthew...
“The pressure for scoops is bigger than ever because of the linking system that has developed,” said Matt Chaban, referring to the preponderance of online...
The first P(RE)Think panel discussed competitions from the architect's point of view: portfolio building, exploring ideas, media attention, and that pipedream of winning...
It is hard to believe that better business could be as simple as asking better questions. In her presentation featured as the third of five lectures in the AIANY...
“If you’re ever going to get an award from the AIA New York Chapter, this was the year to do it.” No one can deny the truth spoken by honoree David Burney, FAIA,...
There may be only one proposition that every sentient being in the tri-state region would agree on: Penn Station, as we know, it has to go. As Margaret Newman, FAIA,...
On Earth Day, 4.22.14, AIANY and the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) hosted Henk Ovink, former Acting Director-General of Spatial Planning and...
Ana Kučan, professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and founder of Studio AKKA, is deeply involved in mixing theory and practice,...
On 04.07.14, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed journalist Charles Montgomery, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design,...
The Professional Practice series “Transforming Architectural Practice” presented the second of five lectures on 03.31.14, addressing the topics of transparency,...
Charles Montgomery’s book, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), is essentially a mind mapping of the current...
