October 13, 2010
by: Emily Nemens
by: Emily Nemens
10.07.10: More than 1,100 guests gathered at Chelsea Piers to celebrate design excellence at the Heritage Ball. The event, with proceeds benefiting the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation’s many initiatives, honored Vicki Match Suna, AIA, Senior Vice President and Vice Dean for Real Estate Development and Facilities at New York University Langone Medical Center (Center for Architecture Award); the Clinton Climate Initiative, a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation (Center for Architecture Foundation Award); 200 West Street Project Team (AIA New York Chapter Award); and Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, Founding Partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architect (Presidents Award).
Cobb accepted his lifetime achievement award with “three brief but memorable remarks,” that Cobb explained “have accompanied and often sustained me throughout the six decades of my professional life.” The third of these was by Claude Lévi-Strauss: “The city is both natural object and a thing to be cultivated; individual and group; something lived and something dreamed; it is the human invention, par excellence.” The 1,135 attendees responded to his remarks, and his achievement, with a standing ovation.
Cobb accepted his lifetime achievement award with “three brief but memorable remarks,” that Cobb explained “have accompanied and often sustained me throughout the six decades of my professional life.” The third of these was by Claude Lévi-Strauss: “The city is both natural object and a thing to be cultivated; individual and group; something lived and something dreamed; it is the human invention, par excellence.” The 1,135 attendees responded to his remarks, and his achievement, with a standing ovation.