Sighted — AIA New York

July 24, 2013
by: Camila Schaulson Frenz

07.11.13: AIANY held its 2013 Heritage Ball kick-off reception at The Caledonia, a residential building developed by the Related Companies. Related Chairman and Founder Stephen M. Ross is being honored at this year’s Heritage Ball. The other honorees are Patricia E. Harris, First Deputy Mayor, City of New York; Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, Co-Founders, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; and Richard Kahan, Founder and CEO, The Urban Assembly.Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, 2013 AIANY President, gives remarks. (Photo: John LoPresto)

07.11.13: AIANY Board leadership, members, and staff attended the Heritage Ball kick-off reception at MiMA.(l-r): Abby P. Suckle, FAIA, LEED AP, AIANY Director for Programs and Strategic Planning; Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, Immediate Past President; Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY Managing Director, Billie Tsien, AIA, Tod Williams, FAIA, and Guy F.X. Geier II, FAIA, AIANY Director for Publications (Photo: John LoPresto)

07.15.13: AIANY hosted its Second Annual Golf Classic at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, NJ. Over 130 golfers from the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate communities participated in the event, which raised significant funds to support the AIA New York Chapter.(l-r): David Piscuskas, FAIA, AIANY Vice President for Professional Development; Andy Frankl, Director for Developmental Affairs, and Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director at the dinner reception following a day of golf. (Photo: Jessica Frankl)

07.15.13: AIANY hosted its Second Annual Golf Classic at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, NJ.(l-r) Frank J. Greene, FAIA; Guy F.X. Geier II, FAIA; and Scott Harrell, LEED AP, at the reception. (Photo: Nicole Pesce)

07.15.13: AIANY hosted its Second Annual Golf Classic at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, NJ.Lisa Holzwarth was the winner of the "straightest drive" competition. (Photo: Jessica Frankl)

07.09.13: The “Post-Sandy: The Effect on the URBAN” symposium and workshop was held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss recovery strategies in Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and the region.Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, AIANY First Vice President/President-Elect, and Co-Chair, AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, presenting. (Photo: Justin Mihalik)

07.09.13: The “Post-Sandy: The Effect on the URBAN” symposium and workshop was held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss recovery strategies in Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and the region.Leaders from chapters of AIA New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut presented at pin-up sessions to share local design and policy initiatives, applied strategies and efforts, and lessons learned. (Photo: Justin Mihalik)

07.09.13: The “Post-Sandy: The Effect on the URBAN” symposium and workshop was held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss recovery strategies in Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and the region.Darius Sollohub, AIA, Director of the New Jersey School of Architecture, led a presentation on Hoboken, which was flooded extensively by Sandy. (Photo: Justin Mihalik)

07.09.13: Kai-Uwe Bergmann, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP, Partner at BIG, discussing how public infrastructure can be conceived with social side-effects in mind at “Social Infrastructure,” organized by the AIANY Technology Committee.Center for Architecture

07.10.13: Ilana Judah, Int’l Assoc, AIA, and Pat Sapinsley, AIA, LEED AP, Co-Chairs of the AIANY Committee on the Environment, with the speakers at “MidCentury (un)Modern: An Environmental Analysis of the Manhattan Office Building.” The discussion raised the provocative question: Is it more sustainable to retrofit or to demolish office buildings built between the 1950s and mid-1970s?(l-r): Ilana Judah, Int’l Assoc. AIA, OAQ, LEED BD+C, Co-Chair, AIANY Committee on the Environment; Theodore Prudon, PhD, FAIA, Partner, Prudon & Partners; Niko Kienzl, DDES, LEED AP BD+C, ASHRAE HBDP, Atelier Ten; Pat Sapinsley, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY Committee on the Environment; Bill Browning, Co-Founder and Partner, Terrapin Bright Green

07.16.13: Beth Broome, Managing Editor of Architectural Record, led a discussion on the socially transformative power of architecture in Medellín between architects Francisco Sanin and Orlando Garcia and Medellín’s Planning Commissioner, Jorge Pérez, during “Medellín’s Renaissance.”(l-r): Beth Broome, Managing Editor, Architectural Record; Francisco Sanin, Chair of Graduate Programs, School of Architecture, Syracuse University; Orlando Garcia, Principal, G Ateliers Architecture; and Jorge Pérez, Planning Commissioner, City of Medellín, Colombia. (Photo: Center for Architecture)

07.17.13: Ron Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA NYS, of the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment, led a discussion between Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development; Henk Ovink, Chair of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force; and Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, Co-Chair of the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, on how to infuse collaboration, civic engagement, and design innovation into the recovery and adaptation process in Sandy-affected areas during the first session of “Equity, Engagement and Transparency in Urban Adaptation: Best Case Scenarios from Abroad.”(l-r): Ron Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA NYS, Pratt Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment; Joan Byron, Director of Policy, Pratt Center for Community Development; Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Hon. AIANY, Chair of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force; and Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, The City College of New York, and Co-Chair, AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (Photo: Center for Architecture)

07.18.13: Charles McKinney, Hon. AIA, ASLA, of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, moderated the discussion at “Living in a Fit Nation.”(l-r): Yael Lehman, Executive Director, The Food Trust; Hugo Subotovsky, AIA, Principal, Aufang + Subotovsky Architecture and Planning; Ernest Watson Hutton Jr., FAICP, Assoc. AIA, Hutton Associates; Charles McKinney, Hon. AIA, ASLA, Principal Urban Designer, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and Stephen Yablon, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Stephen Yablon Architect

07.19.13: After presenting the two-part publication Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience, Skye Duncan joined a discussion with NYC DDC Commissioner David Burney, FAIA, and Stephen Whitehouse, RLA, AICP, LEED AP, moderated by Ernie Hutton, FAICP, Assoc. AIA, on the complexities of the policies, players, and physical form of pedestrian streetscapes.(l-r): Ernest Hutton Jr., FAICP, Assoc. AIA, Hutton Associates; David Burney, FAIA, Commissioner, NYC Department of Design + Construction; Skye Duncan, Senior Urban Designer, NYC Department of City Planning; Stephen Whitehouse, RLA, AICP, LEED AP, Starr Whitehouse (Photo: Center for Architecture)

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07.11.13: AIANY held its 2013 Heritage Ball kick-off reception at The Caledonia, a residential building developed by the Related Companies. Related Chairman and Founder Stephen M. Ross is being honored at this year’s Heritage Ball. The other honorees are Patricia E. Harris, First Deputy Mayor, City of New York; Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, Co-Founders, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; and Richard Kahan, Founder and CEO, The Urban Assembly.

07.11.13: AIANY Board leadership, members, and staff attended the Heritage Ball kick-off reception at MiMA.

07.15.13: AIANY hosted its Second Annual Golf Classic at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, NJ. Over 130 golfers from the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate communities participated in the event, which raised significant funds to support the AIA New York Chapter.

07.09.13: The “Post-Sandy: The Effect on the URBAN” symposium and workshop was held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss recovery strategies in Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and the region.

07.09.13: Kai-Uwe Bergmann, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP, Partner at BIG, discussing how public infrastructure can be conceived with social side-effects in mind at “Social Infrastructure,” organized by the AIANY Technology Committee.

07.10.13: Ilana Judah, Int’l Assoc, AIA, and Pat Sapinsley, AIA, LEED AP, Co-Chairs of the AIANY Committee on the Environment, with the speakers at “MidCentury (un)Modern: An Environmental Analysis of the Manhattan Office Building.” The discussion raised the provocative question: Is it more sustainable to retrofit or to demolish office buildings built between the 1950s and mid-1970s?

07.16.13: Beth Broome, Managing Editor of Architectural Record, led a discussion on the socially transformative power of architecture in Medellín between architects Francisco Sanin and Orlando Garcia and Medellín’s Planning Commissioner, Jorge Pérez, during “Medellín’s Renaissance.”

07.17.13: Ron Shiffman, FAICP, Hon. AIA NYS, of the Pratt Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment, led a discussion between Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development; Henk Ovink, Chair of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force; and Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, Co-Chair of the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, on how to infuse collaboration, civic engagement, and design innovation into the recovery and adaptation process in Sandy-affected areas during the first session of “Equity, Engagement and Transparency in Urban Adaptation: Best Case Scenarios from Abroad.”

07.18.13: Charles McKinney, Hon. AIA, ASLA, of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, moderated the discussion at “Living in a Fit Nation.”

07.19.13: After presenting the two-part publication Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience, Skye Duncan joined a discussion with NYC DDC Commissioner David Burney, FAIA, and Stephen Whitehouse, RLA, AICP, LEED AP, moderated by Ernie Hutton, FAICP, Assoc. AIA, on the complexities of the policies, players, and physical form of pedestrian streetscapes.

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