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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...
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...
