by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
09.22.13: AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner presented the AIANY 2013 Design Awards Exhibition at the XIV Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture.
09.22.13: AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, presented a lecture entitled “New York 2013: Toward a More Livable City”, which featured ideas from AIANY’s A Platform for the Future of the City, at the XIV Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture.
09.22.13: Says Lerner about her trip to Buenos Aires: “It was an exciting experience to be part of the Biennial, drawing people from all over South America and beyond. Over 50,000 people are expected to see the show and there was tremendous interest in what is happening in New York. It was an honor to present the work of our members and to highlight the activities of the AIA New York Chapter.
09.22.13: AIANY 2013 Chapter President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, with Natalia Valencia, AIA, Associate Principal, KPF
09.22.13: At an interview during the XIV Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture, AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, spoke about the future of architecture education.
09.30.13: (l-r) Illya Azaroff, AIA, Co-chair, AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, AIANY 2014 President; Willy Zambrano, AIA, AIA Queens Treasurer; and John Calcagnile, AIA, a Queens-based architect, presented testimony on the Proposed Flood Resilience Text Amendment before City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises.
10.01.13: AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, introduces “Practical Utopias” to the press before the before the public opening.
10.01.13: Tour-goers crane their necks to look up at City Hall’s coffered dome during a Building of the Day tour led by (l-r) Richard Southwick, FAIA, LEED AP, Partner and Director of Historic Preservation, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners; Patricia Orfanos, City Hall and Tweed Courthouse Docent; and NYC Department of Design + Construction Deputy Commissioner David Resnick, AIA.
10.02.13: The tour for Building of the Day #2, Stella 34 Trattoria, was led by (l-r) Michael Bevivino, Senior Designer at Studio V Architecture, and restaurant manager Kellen Hamrah.
10.02.13: (l-r) Maiken Tandgaard Derno, Cultural Attaché, Consulate General of Denmark, with Kyle Bergman, Director, Architecture and Design Film Festival, during the Archtober kick-off at Steelcase.
10.03.13: Frank Monterisi, Senior Vice President, Related Companies; John Curtis, AIA, Vice President, Arquitectonica; and Linda Casper, Project Manager, Rockwell Group, were among the featured tour guides of Building of the Day #3, MiMA.
10.03.13: Ford’s “Design with a Purpose: Built Tough” panel featured (l-r) Erik Churchill, Project Manager at SHoP Construction; Steven Coletta, Vice President of Sciame Construction Company; and J Mays, Ford’s Group Vice President of Design, with AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, as moderator.
10.03.13: AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, cruised around in a Ford F-Series Super Duty truck before the “Design with Purpose: Built Tough” panel.
10.05.13: (l-r) Toshihiro Oki of Toshihiro Oki architect, and Socrates Sculpture Park Executive Director John Hatfield led tour-goers around Building of the Day #5, Socrates Sculpture Park.
10.06.13: In spite of the government shutdown, a group of devoted Archtoberites took a boat tour around the Statue of Liberty, led by the chief architect of the restoration, Richard Seth Hayden, FAIA, RIBA, of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects.
10.07.13: On the day of the Center for Architecture’s 10th anniversary, (l-r) George Miller, FAIA, 2010 AIA National President and 2003 AIANY President ; Andrew Berman, AIA; and AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, took the audience back to the Center‘s beginnings at World Architecture Day.
10.07.13: (l-r) AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA; Mustafa K. Abadan, FAIA, Design Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Ashok Raiji, Assoc. AIA, PE, LEED AP, Principal, Arup; and Jonathan D. Solomon, AIA, Associate Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture, discussed Asia’s Practical Utopias during World Architecture Day at the Center for Architecture.
10.07.13: (l-r) AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA; Elizabeth Richter Chu, AIA 2015 President; AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA; and Peter Murray, Founding Director of New London Architecture celebrated the Center for Architecture’s 10th Anniversary after World Architecture Day.
10.08.13: (l-r) AIANY 2013 President Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, and AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, led the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps around the Center for Architecture’s “Pracitcal Utopias” exhibition.
10.08.13: Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, 2015 AIA President (center), joined fellow Archtoberites on a tour of the Park Avenue Armory led by James D. Seger, AIA, LEED AP, and Scott Duenow, AIA, LEED AP, of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects.