by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
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04.29.13: AIANY sent representatives to AIA New York State’s Architects in Albany Lobby Day. AIANY leadership met with State Senators, Assembly members, and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s staff to reinforce the need for Good Samaritan legislation and convey the content of AIANY’s Post-Sandy Initiative Report.
05.06.13: NYC Council Christine Quinn announced NYCxDESIGN during a press conference in Times Square. AIANY Executive Director, Rick Bell, FAIA, and the festival’s steering committee look on.
05.07.13: Honor Awards winners at the 2013 AIANY Design Awards Panel at the Center for Architecture: (l-r) Jongseo Lee; Scott Duenow, AIA, LEED AP; Hye-Young Chung; Jesse Reiser, AIA; Mustafa K. Abadan, FAIA; Trent Tesch, AIA; Stefan Scheiber-Loeis; Christopher Johnson; Jou Min Lin; Tom Hanrahan, AIA; Ming Wu, AIA
05.09.13: Moderator Marta Gutman, introducing Karen Kubey at “Beyond the Lawn,” a program of the exhibition “Low Rise High Density.” Kubey is the exhibition’s curator and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Architecture.
05.04.13: Jeffrey Franklin (PlayLab), Archie Lee Coates (PlayLab), Dong Ping Wong (Family New York), representing +Pool, an initiative to build a floating, water-filtering pool on the East River, at the IDEAS CITY Streetfest.
05.04.13: Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, in front of the exhibition “Reimagining Housing Developments on the Lower East Side,” which presented public-space proposals designed to reinvigorate Lower Manhattan, at the IDEAS CITY Streetfest.
05.04.13: Anne Lewisohn, AIA, and Abby Suckle, FAIA, of cultureNOW at the IDEAS CITY Streetfest.
05.07.13: Architect and interior designer Steven Learner founder and creative director of Collective, at a press preview for Collective.1 Design Fair, New York.
05.07.13: Ennead Project Designer Stephen Chu, AIA, and Duncan Hazard, AIA, Partner-in-Charge of the revitalization of the Public Theater, at a press walk-through.
05.13.13: openhousenewyork (OHNY) honored NYC Department of Design + Construction (NYC DDC) Commissioner David Burney, FAIA, Susan Henshaw Jones, Director of the Museum of the City of New York and President of the South Street Seaport Museum, and Frank J. Sciame, Jr., Hon. AIANY, CEO/Chairman of Sciame, at its annual Spring Benefit.