by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
09.30.15: A crowd gathered at Carl Hansen & Son Showroom to celebrate the beginning of Archtober 2015. Richard Meier, FAIA (center) was joined by Kyle Bergman, AIA, founder of the Architecture and Design Film Festival (left), and Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, Archtober festival director (right).
09.30.15: Resiliency specialists gathered at the National Museum of the American Indian to answer questions about their work to protect the city from the acute shocks and chronic stressed brought about by climate change. (l-r) Mary Rowe, Municipal Art Society; Illya Azaroff, AIA, AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee; Amy Chester, Rebuild by Design; Pamela Puchalski, New America; and Laurie J. Schoeman, Enterprise Community Partners.
10.01.15: Kicking off Archtober’s Building of the Day series, Paul Broches, FAIA, LEED AP, partner at Mitchell | Giurgola led Archtoberites through the swirling centrifuge in Rockefeller University’s Collaborative Research Center.
10.01.15: Curator Marc Norman gave opening remarks at the opening of “Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now” at the Center for Architecture.
10.01.15: AIANY 2015 President Tomas Rossant, AIA, with AIANY 2016 President Carol Loewenson, FAIA, at the opening for “Designing Affordability.”
10.01.15: Oculus Editor-in-Chief Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, with curator Marc Norman at the opening for “Designing Affordability.”
10.02.15: at Archtober’s second Building of the Day tour, Ennead Architects Associate Theresa O’Leary gave a detailed account of the extensive renovations that were made to the New York Hall of Science in preparation for the 1964-65 World’s Fair’s 50th anniversary.
10.02.15: WEISS/MANFREDI co-founders Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA, were joined in conversation by Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art director Julian Zugazagoitia at the Archtober edition of Cocktails and Conversations.
10.02.15: No Longer Empty and the Consulate Generals of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Sweden gathered at Archtober Hall in the Seaport Culture District to discuss art in public space.
10.03.15: Alex Lamis, FAIA, of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, led a tour of architecture enthusiasts through the North Hall and Library at Bronx Community College on Archtober’s Building of Day #3.
10.04.15: Patrice Kleinberg, garden educator for the Queens Botanical Garden, and Joan Krevlin, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, a partner at BKSK Architects, led an Archtober Building of the Day tour of the garden’s new Visitor and Administration Building, providing perspectives of the design solutions to the project’s unique public engagement challenges.
10.05.15: Archtober enthusiasts were treated to a hard hat tour of Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transit Hub, led by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Robert Eisenstat, AIA, and Thomas L. Grassi, AIA, program manager for the World Trade Center construction.
10.05.15: On World Habitat Day, experts and representatives from national and local governments, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and industry discussed public space, an overlooked and undervalued, but increasingly necessary, element of city life. (l-r) Dr. Alfred Chanza, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Labor and Manpower Development, Malawi; Eugenie Birch, FAICP, Co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Mitchell Silver, FAICP, Commissioner, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, ACSA, Distinguished Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York; Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University; and Tomas Rossant, AIA, 2015 AIANY President, and Partner, Ennead Architects.
10.06.15: On a day with blue skies and abundant sunshine, Paul Duston-Munoz of WEISS/MANFREDI led Archtoberites through the new entrance pavilions to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
10.07.15: TEN Arquitectos Partner Andrea Steele talked about how the challenges and opportunities of zoning in New York influenced the firm’s design of Mercedes House during Archtober’s Building of the Day #7 tour.
10.08.15: Gita Nandan, LEED AP, led green-thumbed Archtober enthusiasts through thread collective’s one-acre project for the New York Housing Authority Red Hook West Urban Farm.
Credit: Center for Architecture
10.10.15: Led by Olaf Schmidt and Filipe Taboada of Steven Holl Architects, a group of Archtober tour-goers filtered into the 400-square-foot, jewel-like space of the Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle store in the West Village.
10.11.15: Kait Kurts of Maryann Thompson Architects discussed the Brooklyn Bridge Park from conception to completion during a perfect day for an Archtober outdoor Building of the Day tour.
10.12.15: Marc Tsurumaki, AIA, LEED AP, of LTL Architects, showed off the recently-opened David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation, housed within a late 19th-century McKim, Mead & White building at Columbia University.
10.13.15: Brooke Hodge, deputy director of the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, showed Archtober fans around the recently-opened museum during a noontime Archtober Building of the Day tour.