In this issue of “Sighted”
09.13.14: Kyle Johnson, AIA, led participants including former Center for Architecture president Roberta Washington, FAIA, on a tour of SoHo, organized by the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee.
09.12.14: Scott Duncan, AIA, LEED AP, design director at Skidmore Owens & Merrill; Urs Gauchat dean of the College of Architecture & Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and CSU board member; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, AIANY 2014 President and CSU board member; James McCullar, FAIA, principal of James McCullar Architecture CSU co-chair; James Rausse, AICP, president of APA New York Metro Chapter and director of Capital Programs and the Office of the Bronx Borough President; and Dr. Joan Clos, executive director of UN-Habitat and secretary general of HABITAT III discussed the role of design professionals in developing sustainable and equitable solutions for the rapidly urbanizing world at a program designed to help set the agenda for the HABITAT III Conference in 2016.
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09.10.14: Joseph Lstiburek, principal of Building Science Corporation, discussed hygrothermal analysis during Building Science Days 2014, organized by the AIANY Building Enclosure Council.
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09.09.14: Shingo Sekiya (center), a winner of the Teatrum Mundi competition “Designing Free Speech: A Call to Design New York City Public Spaces for First Amendment Rights,” joined AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA (left), and AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA (right), at the Center for Architecture.
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09.09.14: AIANY Technology Committee Co-chair Alexandra Pollock joined speaker Peter Yeadon, AIA, principal at Yeadon Space Agency, and Bruce Weiner of ABC Imaging for the lecture “Substance Abuse: Various Exotic States of Manipulated Matter.”
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09.08.14: Bill Buchen, founder of Sonic Architecture; Vito Acconci designer, landscape architect, and performance and installation artist, Christopher Janney, composer, artist, and architect at PhenomenArts; and artist Monica Banks participated in the panel discussion “Artists and the City,” moderated by AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA.
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09.03.14: The September Oculus Book Talk featured Metropolis magazine editor-in-chief and publisher Susan S. Szenasy, Hon. AIANY, and journalist and author John Hockenberry in conversation about Szenasy, Design Advocate. (l-r) Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, editor-in-chief, Oculus; Barbara Spandorf, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY Director of Publications; John Hockenberry, journalist and author; Susan S. Szenasy, Hon. AIANY, editor-in-chief and publisher, Metropolis magazine; and Miguel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, member, AIANY Oculus Committee.
Credit: Camila Schaulsohn