by: AIA New York
New Hires and Promotions
Urban Design Forum has also announced the ninth cohort of its Forefront Fellowship: 28 emerging leaders who will reimagine a New York City where older adults can thrive with support and dignity, including Kavyashri Cherala, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Architect at Dattner Architects, César Delgado Rodríguez, Assoc. AIA, Senior Urban Designer, NYC Department of City Planning, and Meg Kalinowski, AIA, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture.
Interior Design Magazine will be holding its 40th annual Hall of Fame Gala on December 11, 2024. The event will honor several leaders who have made significant contribution to the fields of interior design and architecture, including New York City-based architects Adam Rolston, Drew Stuart, and Gabriel Benroth of INC Architecture & Design, as well as special tributes to DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS), which is also celebrating 40 years, and to the late architect, Jeffrey Beers.
The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College names architect and architectural historian Valentina Rozas-Krause as the 2024-25 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism, marking a decade since the fellowship’s conception.
The National Academy of Design has announced the 28 artists and architects from across the United States who have been elected as National Academicians in the Class of 2024. The list includes New York City architects Sara Caples, AIA, and Everardo Jefferson, AIA, Principals, Caples Jefferson Architects; Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid, Cofounders, Asymptote Architecture; Florian Idenburg, Int’l Assoc. AIA and Jing Liu, AIA, Principals, SO-IL; and Jesse Reiser, FAAR, RUR, Principal, RUR Architecture DPC, among others.
The American Society of Landscape Architects has named 39 winners for the 2024 edition of its annual Professional Awards honors. Awarded projects in New York include EcoCommons – Social and Ecological Resilience in the Campus Landscape by Nelson Byrd Woltz, Tom Lee Park: “Come to the River” by SCAPE Landscape Architecture and Studio Gang, and St. John’s Terminal: An Ecology for Technology and Innovation by Future Green Studio.
Leadership and Firm Transitions
Sandra Bloodworth has announced her retirement as the Director of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts & Design in New York, after over three decades of leading the organization.
Mergers and Expansions