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On 11.13.13, the Center for Architecture’s Tafel Hall was packed with notebook-wielding architects and architecture-appreciating professionals. The word...
“Then I started thinking, I’m taking down what some poor guy broke his back 50 years ago to put up. Going home to his kids at night telling them their daddy was...
On 09.09.13, Michel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed David Halle and Andrew Beveridge, co-editors of New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future,...
We spent the entire month of Archtober celebrating architecture and design, but there is one special night of the year when architecture truly takes center stage:...
“An elegant building, an elegant book, an elegant writer,” is really all anyone needs to say about the newly published Building Seagram by Phyllis Lambert, Hon....
There were essentially two threads UNStudio Principal Ben van Berkel weaved through his presentation for the Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture. The first was a...
Deborah Berke, FAIA, is a preeminent member of the architecture industry as well as an extraordinary academic. On 11.01.13, Berke joined the AIANY Women in Architecture...
Queuing up at Pershing Square amidst the swarm of neon-clad NY Road Runners Dash to the Finish Line runners, a conspicuously darkly-attired group waited in the crisp...
Nearing the first anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, the AIA New York Chapter, Architecture for Humanity, and Cooper Union organized a symposium to report on and measure...
The audience was young and old, but all interested in the myriad of ways that we can improve the ability of seniors living in NYC to age in-place. “Age-Friendly...
No one attending the United Nations conference for World Habitat Day needed convincing about certain key principles: that climate change and extreme weather events are...
Arriving late can be unsettling; arriving late to the opening keynote presentation of the 2013 AIA New York State Convention by Roman Mars, host of “99% Invisible,”...
Then the hand seeks other hands to help, A community of hands to help- Thus the dream becomes not one man’s dream alone, But a community dream. Not my dream alone, but...
In Donald Judd’s 1994 New York Times obituary, Roberta Smith wrote: “By the late ‘60s, his sleek cubic and rectilinear works had helped redefine the direction of...
For the 13th annual Oberfield Memorial Lecture, Marion Weiss, FAIA, of Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, spoke before an overflowing, rapt audience at the...
The 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, with violent fanaticism still very much in the headlines, makes a look at the built environment's security a timely exercise....
Reading the epic New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, however ominous the title, is actually an optimistic act. The 600-page tome will go down as a tremendous...
On Monday 09.16.13, the AIANY Marketing & Communications Committee, in its penultimate event of the year, took on the topic of our converging digital and built...
This year, Oculus, AIANY’s quarterly magazine exploring issues relevant to architectural discourse and practice in the city, turns 75. On 09.03.13, attendees –...
“Everything is political,” a wise person once said, “but politics isn't everything.” In the first explicitly campaign-oriented event to be held at the Center for...
