Sighted

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01.12.14: AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, attended Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer’s swearing-in ceremony at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

01.14.14: Nathan Miller, associate partner and director of architecture & engineering solutions at CASE, discussed computational design in mainstream practices at the Center for Architecture.

01.15.14: James Yankopoulos, Assoc. AIA, AIANYS Associate Member; Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, AIANYS Associate Director; Margaret Castillo, AIA, AIANYS New York Director, and Abby Suckle, FAIA, AIANYS New York Director rode the train from New York City to Albany to attend the AIA New York State board meeting.

01.17.14: Superstar mixologist Eben Klemm designed a gin-based cocktail for the January installment of Cocktails & Conversations.

01.17.14: At the latest installment of Cocktails & Conversations, Cathleen McGuigan, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, joined Belmont Freeman, FAIA, principal of Belmont Freeman Architecture.

01.18.14: A jury composed by Claire Weisz, FAIA, founding partner of WXY architecture + urban design; Lisa Switkin, associate partner and managing director at James Corner Field Operations; Matthew Johnson, senior associate at Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Margaret Newman, executive director of the Municipal Arts Society; Ting Chin and Yan Wang, co-founders of Linearscape; Susan Chin, FAIA, executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space; and members of the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) gathered at the Center for Architecture to review the 236 submissions for the “Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm” ideas competition.

01.21.14: Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art; Elizabeth Diller, Principal, and Christopher Kupski, Architect, at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, presented their MoMA expansion proposal to the AIANY Board of Directors.

01.21.14: Large crowds gathered for the opening of “Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art” exhibition, designed by the multi-disciplinary design firm, Situ Studio, at the American Folk Art Museum.