by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
07.15.14: A public conversation about public spaces between NYC Department of Design + Construction Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora; Joe Michael, AIA, Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Maria Sisternas, Project Director at Urban Habitat Barcelona; and Antoni Vives i Tomàs, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, closed the exhibition “Barcelona Glòries: Dialogue & Transformation.”
07.17.14: The “QueensWay Connection: Elevating the Public Realm” exhibition, organized by the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), includes submissions to ENYA’s sixth biennial ideas competition, and background information on the Queensway’s community development process, courtesy of The Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay.
07.17.14: Bruce Wiener, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at ABC Imaging, the underwriter for “QueensWay Connection: Elevating the Public Realm,” spoke at the exhibition opening at the Center for Architecture.
07.17.14: First Prize winners of the QueensWay Connection competition Carrie Wilbert and Eleonore Levieux of Paris, France, were congratulated by Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA, Principal, dlandstudio, at the exhibition opening.
07.17.14: Second Prize winners of the QueensWay Connection competition Katya Zavyalova and Nikolay Martynov from Basel, Switzerland, were congratulated by Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA, Principal, dlandstudio, at the exhibition opening.
07.19.14: Winners and organizers of the AIANY Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Committee’s sixth biennial ideas competition, “QueensWay Connection: Elevating the Public Realm,” convened at the Center for Architecture for a Saturday symposium to discuss winning proposals and the redevelopment teams’ community outreach process.
07.21.14: Current graduate students of the Master of Professional Studies in Healthcare Interior Design at the New York School of Interior Design presented their projects for Design of an Ambulatory Care Center at the Center for Architecture.
07.23.13: Speakers and organizers of “Moving Modern” Eric Hildebrandt, Project Manager, Andre Tchelistcheff Architects; filmmaker James Venturi; Jon Michael Schwarting, AIA, Partner, Campani Schwarting Architects; Luca Baraldo, Associate, COOKFOX; moderator Mary Kay Judy, Principal, Architectural & Cultural Heritage Conservation; and John Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA, Co-chair, AIANY Historic Buildings Committee, discussed the commoditization of Modern architecture.
07.24.13: David Burney, FAIA, Associate Professor of Planning and Placemaking at Pratt Institute; Diana Balmori, Ph.D., FASLA, IFLA, Founder, Balmori Associates; Emily Weidenhof, NYC Plaza Program Director, NYC Department of Transportation; AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA; and Jerold Kayden, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, discussed the means of financing public spaces at “Who Pays for Public Space,” an event related to the Center for Architecture’s exhibition “Open to the Public: Civic Space Now.”
07.28.14: President Barack Obama presented the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2013 National Medal of Arts to architects Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, for their contributions to architecture and arts education at a White House ceremony.
07.30.14: While doing some routine maintenance, José showed AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, the inside of the LaGuardia Place CitiBike machine.