10.05-09.09: Architecture Week 2009 In addition to the 2009 Heritage Ball and honoree programs, AIANY and the Center for Architecture opened two exhibitions last week. “ContextContrast” will be view at the Center for Architecture through January 23, 2010. “New York Now” will be on view at the West 4th Street Subway Station through the end of October.

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10.06.2009: New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation Chair Christina Davis delivered remarks to attendees of “ContextContrast’s” opening.

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AIANY First Vice President Anthony Schirripa, AIA, and Mark Silberman, General Counsel for the Landmarks Preservation Commission and “ContextContrast” Steering Committee member.

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10.07.09: Rick Bell, FAIA, AIANY Executive Director, Judith Kunoff, Chief Architect, NYC Transit, and Sherida Paulsen, FAIA, AIANY President, at the “New York Now” opening.

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“New York Now” will remain on view at the south end of the West 4th Street Subway through the end of the month.

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10.01.09: Eleven teams of architects took to their yachts to the high seas of the Hudson River at the Ninth Annual Architects Regatta, hosted by Gerry Dolezar, Les Metalliers Champenois, and held to aid Project City Kids. Although it was a chilly October evening, the hardy sailors maneuvered their boats through winds of up to 15 knots. A handful of spectators bravely made the journey out to the Manhattan Yacht Club’s floating clubhouse to cheer their colleagues on.

As in the past, the competition was fierce, particularly between boats sailed by Polshek Partnership, and Fuller & D’Angelo/Pei Partnership. The two were neck-and-neck for the first two of three races, before Polshek was forced to return to the starting line in the third for a false start. However, thanks to the skippering prowess of principal Todd Schliemann, FAIA, Polshek came through the field to place a dramatic third in the final race. Overall, Fuller & D’Angelo/Pei Partnership placed first, Polshek second, and William Nicholas Bodouva Architects third. AIANY placed a very respectable sixth out of 11 — a definite improvement on last year’s ninth place!

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The First Place Fuller & D’Angelo/Pei Partnership team.

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Second Place Polshek Partnership.

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Third Place William Nicholas Bodouva Architects.

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Boats round the windward mark.

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Teams sailed into the sunset.

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2010 Oculus Editorial Calendar
Coming soon!

10.20.09 Call for Proposals: 2009 NCARB Grant

10.23.09 Call for Entires: 2010 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

10.26.09 Call for Submissions: Performing Arts Centers

11.01.09 Call for Proposals: 2010 Berkley Prize

11.01.09 Call for Entries: Green Good Design Awards 2010

11.15.09 Early Registration Deadline: HB:BX Building Cultural Infrastructure International Ideas Competition

11.17.09 Call for Submissions: RE:VISION Design Awards 2010

12.01.09 Call for Entries: Project 2009: Lakefront Station

12.11.09 Call for Entries: AIA Facebook Young Designers Challenge

12.11.09 Call for Entries: SHIFTboston Ideas Competition 2009

12.15.09 Call for Entries: 2010 Arthur Ross Awards
01.22.10 Call for Entries: WHR Architects 2010 Tradewell Fellowship

02.24.10 Call for Entries: 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

ContextContrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009

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On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

New York Now

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On view October 1-31, 2009.

Building Connections 2009

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On view September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

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On view September 17 — December 12, 2009.

Helfand Spotlight Series: What if

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On view October 2 — October 30, 2009.

Through 10.23.09
Models of Concern

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Design by Gilian Schrofer.

Photography by Peter Gerhards

This traveling exhibition features models of the work of Gilian Schrofer, principal at the Dutch design firm Concern, who has designed select interiors of the Stedelijk Museum renovation.

Trespa Design Centre
62 Greene Street, NYC


Through 11.07.09
Design Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street

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Design Jazz.

Pratt Institute

The cross-disciplinary design trio of Amy Guggenheim, artist, writer, filmmaker, and professor; Mitchell Joachim, architectural designer, and co-founder of Terreform ONE; and Leon Reid IV, street artist, teacher, and Pratt alumnus met to discuss and theorize the design of the street for our contemporary culture, for sustaining communities, and for adding to the exploration of contemporary critical design theory.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, NYC


Through 11.07.09
Toward the Sentient City

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Toward the Sentient City.

Architectural League of New York/Mark Shepard

Five newly commissioned projects and installations by teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed forms of communication systems might inform the architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior within it.

Sentient City Hub Exhibition, The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue, NYC

Robert Silman, PE, Hon. AIA: AIA New York Chapter Award

Event: Heritage Ball
Location: Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, 10.08.09
Speakers: Robert Silman, PE, Hon. AIA — Principal, Robert Silman Associates
Organizers: Center for Architecture for Architecture Week

(Time 03:12):
[podcast format=”video”]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/AIA_podcast_episode0002_HeritageBallAward_BobSilman.mov[/podcast]

Related Links:
Robert A. Silman: Technology and Values in Architectural Form,” by Linda G. Miller, e-Oculus, 10.14.09.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: President’s Award

Event: Heritage Ball
Location: Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, 10.08.09
Speakers: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Organizers: Center for Architecture for Architecture Week

(Time 03:08):
[podcast format=”video”]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/AIA_podcast_episode0004_HeritageBallAward_DillerScofidioRenfro.mov[/podcast]

Related Links:
DS+R Straddle Architectural Lines,” by Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, e-Oculus, 10.14.09.

Commissioner Adrian Benepe: Center for Architecture Award

Event: Heritage Ball
Location: Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, 10.08.09
Speakers: Adrian Benepe — Commissioner, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
Organizers: Center for Architecture as part of Architecture Week 2009

(Time 02:54):
[podcast format=”video”]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/AIA_podcast_episode0003_HeritageBallAward_AdrianBenepe.mov[/podcast]

Related Links:
The Value of Doing Nothing,” by Bill Millard, e-Oculus, 10.14.09.

Make It Right: Center for Architecture Foundation Award

Event: Heritage Ball
Location: Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, 10.08.09
Speakers: Make It Right
Organizers: Center for Architecture for Architecture Week

(Time 03:32):
[podcast format=”video”]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/AIA_podcast_episode0005_HeritageBallAward_MakeItRighFoundation.mov[/podcast]

Related Links:
Raising the Lower Ninth,” by Murrye Bernard, LEED AP, e-Oculus, 10.14.09.

Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts

Event: “Context/Contrast” exhibition
Speakers: Sherida Paulsen, FAIA — 2009 AIANY President; Otis Pratt Pearsall — Representative of the Brooklyn Museum, NYC Public Design Commission; Kevin Wolfe, AIA — Principal, Kevin Wolfe Architect; Kent Bartwick — President Emeritus, Municipal Art Society; Peter Pennoyer, AIA — Principal, Peter Pennoyer Architects; Richard Olcott, FAIA — Partner, Polshek Partnership Architects
Exhibition Curator: Rachel Carley
Exhibition Design: Moorhead & Moorhead
Graphic Design: PS New York
Photography: Elizabeth Felicella

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On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

Synopsis:
Listen to Sherida Paulsen, FAIA, 2009 AIANY President and preservation advocates discuss the five historic districts featured in the “Context/Contrast” exhibition at the Center for Architecture.

Otis Pratt Pearsall on Brooklyn Heights (Time 29:15):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/BH-OP-podcast-final.mp3[/podcast]

Kevin Wolfe, AIA, on Douglaston (Time 17:57):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/DG-KW-podcast-final.mp3[/podcast]

Kent Bartwick on the South Street Seaport (Time 34:16):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/SSS-KB-podcast-final.mp3[/podcast]

Peter Pennoyer, AIA, on the Upper East Side (Time 11:24):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/UES-PP-podcast-final.mp3[/podcast]

Richard Olcott, FAIA, on Soho (Time 18:48):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/SOHO-RO-podcast-final.mp3[/podcast]

Interview: Christian de Portzamparc, Hon. FAIA

Event: Wake Up the Cities: Recent Work by Christian de Portzamparc
Speakers: Christian de Portzamparc, Hon. FAIA — Principal, Atelier Christian de Portzemparc; Tony Schirripa, AIA, IIDA — AIANY President-elect; Rick Bell, FAIA — Executive Director, AIANY (introductions)
Organizers: AIA-NY Cultural Facilities Committee; La Maison Française; NYU
Location: Center for Architecture, 09.29.09

Event: Riverside Center: Presentation and Panel
Location: Center for Architecture, 09.29.09
Speakers: Christian de Portzamparc, Hon. FAIA; Signe Nielsen, Hon. AIANY, FASLA — Principal, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; Gale Brewer — New York City Council; Paul Elston — Riverside South Planning Corporation; Paul Willen, FAIA — Architect; Craig Whitaker — Coalition for a Livable West Side
Moderator: Rick Bell, FAIA — Executive Director, AIANY
Organizers: AIANY Planning & Urban Design Committee

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Hergé Museum in Louvain, Belgium.

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Interview (Time 31:19):
[podcast]http://www.e-oculuspodcast.com/podcasts/AIA_podcast_episode0006.mp3[/podcast]

Synopsis:
e-Oculus reporter Bill Millard interviews Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, Hon. FAIA.

Related Links:
de Portzamparc’s Challenge to NYC, and Vice Versa ,” by Bill Millard, e-Oculus, 10.14.09.