by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
09.11.13: AIANY Committee on the Environment Co-chairs Pat Sapinsley, AIA, LEED AP, and Ilana Judah, Intl. Assoc. AIA, organized “Integration Series – Succeeding at Nothing: Achieving Net Zero”, featuring speakers Jeffrey Rios, PE, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Engineer, Possee/AKF, and Anna Serra, Associate Sustainability Consultant, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers.
09.14.13: Tour leader Kyle Johnson, AIA, guided participants through Robert Moses-era superblocks and the architecture of SoHo, including I.M. Pei’s Silver Towers, during the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee’s walking tour, “NYU Superblocks & SoHo: Modernist Urban Renewal and More Recent Urban Interventions.”
09.19.13: Lionel Devlieger and Maarten Gielen of Brussels-based ROTOR were the curators of the “Behind the Green Door” exhibition, a highlight of the Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opened 09.19.13. For the Triennale’s main exhibition, Rotor looked at architecture that calls itself sustainable, collecting 625 objects from more than 200 offices, companies and exhibitions. Visitors are invited to the exhibition at DogA, the Norwegian Center for Architecture. The show remains open until 12.01.13. Devlieger said that the objects were “a series of helping hands, ideas that people can take away – an unraveling on a series of topics that anyone can have an opinion about, such as what is a passive house.” Among the projects shown are the Green Lighthouse in Copenhagen by Christensen + co. Architects, a residential structure by Widmer & Bernath from Zurich, and the ENDESA Pavillion by MaRGeN-Lav with IaaC and Endesa.
09.19.13: Rick Bell, FAIA, and Mayor Stian Berger Røsland of Oslo at the exhibition opening of “Behind the Green Door.”
09.20.13: Clifford Pearson, Deputy Editor at Architectural Record, and Todd Schliemann, FAIA, Partner at Ennead Architects, discuss architecture and design over drinks by Eben Klemm during September’s “Cocktails & Conversations.”
09.23.13: Event organizer Dale Cohen, Assoc. AIA, Co-Chair, AIANY Interiors Committee, with Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA, Co-founders of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, and AIANY Vice President for Design Excellence David Burney, FAIA, at this year’s Oberfield Lecture on interior architecture.
09.23.13: Marion Weiss, FAIA, Co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, spoke about blurring the boundaries, between inside/outside and between disciplines, during the annual Oberfield Lecture on interior architecture.