by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
05.11.15: Health Keynote speaker Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, Professor of Clinical Studies of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, celebrated a decade of active design with AIANY and Center for Architecture Interim Executive Director David Burney, FAIA, at the FitCity 10 conference.
05.11.15: During the Commissioners’ Panel at FitCity 10, city officials discussed the accomplishments of the Active Design Guidelines and what is yet to be achieved. (l-r) David Burney, FAIA, Interim Executive Director, AIANY and Center for Architecture, and Chair, Center for Active Design; Feniosky A. Peña-Mora, Commissioner, NYC Department of Design + Construction; Wendy Feuer, Assistant Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation; Eden Hauslaib, Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives, NYC Administration for Children’s Services; Sonia Angell, MD, MPH, Deputy Commissioner, Prevention and Primary Care, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Mitchell Silver, Commissioner, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; Caryn Resnick, Deputy Commissioner, External Affairs, NYC Department for the Aging; Purnima Kapur, Executive Director, NYC Department of City Planning; and Victor Calise, Commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.
05.04.15: The Architectural League of New York presented its President’s Medal to Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners by League President Billie Tsien, AIA, at a dinner at the Metropolitan Club.
05.05.15: The AIANY Oculus Committee hosted Mike Lydon, Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative and author of Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, in conversation with Gordon Douglas, Ph.D., Rebuild by Design Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge.
04.24.15: For the April edition of Cocktails and Conversations, the AIANY Architectural Dialogues Committee invited Louisa Hutton, partner at Sauerbruch Hutton, and Barry Bergdoll, Hon. AIANY, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University School of Arts & Sciences.
04.22.15: Speakers and organizers of the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee (HBC) and the AIANY Design and Risk for Reconstruction (DfRR) Committee’s “Historic Buildings and Districts at Risk” discussed how New York City is preparing for future weather events post-Superstorm Sandy. (l-r) Illya Azaroff, AIA, DfRR; Cecilia Kushner, AICP, Deputy for Climate Resilience Strategic Planning, NYC Department of City Planning; Megan Jadrosich, PMP, CFM, Regional Environmental Officer, FEMA Region 2; Caterina Roiatti, AIA, HBC; Cory Scott Herrala, Senior Technical Advisor, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DfRR; and John Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA, HBC.