The Edgeless School: Design for Learning
On view through 01.19.12, in conjunction with “The Best School in the World: Seven Finnish Examples from the 21st Century,” on view through 10.31.12.
On view through 10.31.12
Subway Show 2012: Design by New York
On view through 11.04.12
The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections
On view through 10.31.2012
CFAF Lead Design Educator Tim Hayduk introduces tour attendees to “The Best School in the World,” which highlights Finland’s progressive education system via seven exemplary schools.
Catherine Teegarden/Center for Architecture Foundation
Administrators from Horace Greeley High School and architects from Studios Architecture are guided through examples of other educational institutions in The Best School exhibition at the Center.
Eveline Chang/Center for Architecture Foundation
On 10.4.12, a diverse group of educators, design professionals, and the general public attended the Center for Architecture Foundation’s Guided Exhibition Tour of the Center for Architecture’s fall exhibitions, “The Edgeless School: Design for Learning” and “The Best School in the World: Seven Finnish Examples from the 21st Century.” Both exhibitions opened on 10.1.12, the inaugural date of Archtober, Architecture and Design month in New York City. Both exhibitions focus on innovative school design, including examples as local as Lower Manhattan and as far as Scandinavia.
Led by CFAF’s Lead Design Educator, Tim Hayduk, the tour began with an overview of “The Best School in the World” as a way to compare and contrast the two exhibitions. This exhibit not only presents handsome modern architectural settings, it frames several key reasons why Finnish schools have topped PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and provides insight into the culture of Finnish Education. The nation holds education and teaching in very high regard, encourages life-long learning to all citizens in a non-competitive environment that does not emphasize testing as its go-to method of assessing student achievement.
The tour’s next stop was “The Edgeless School.” Curated by Tom Mellins with Edith Ackerman as Senior Research Consultant, this exhibit reconsiders the school in the age of “digital natives” where learning can happen virtually anywhere with the assistance of wireless technology. Teachers, too, take on a new role as facilitators in hands-on experiential learning. The audience was extremely interested in discussing the role technology will continue to play in learning. Video points of view by several contemporary educators present the importance of gaming, play and other non-traditional teaching methodologies. A salon-style discussion ensued in the Center for Architecture’s double height gallery space, where tour participants posed questions and shared experiences about the work presented in their professional lives.
STUDIOS Architecture, working with school administrators from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY, attended a private tour of the exhibitions, also led by Tim Hayduk. The Chappaqua Central School District received a grant from the Chappaqua School Foundation for Studios to prepare a feasibility study and concept design for a state-of-the-art Learning Commons at Greeley. Their visit was an opportunity to study the two exhibitions, serving as a resource for schools looking to expand or change their physical plant to address technology and the change that it continuously brings.
CFAF will reprise its Guided Exhibition Tour of The Edgeless School on 11.16.12 from 12:00 – 1:00pm, and on 1.7.13 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. The tour will also include a look at “Building Connections 2012,” CFAF’s annual exhibition of K-12 student design work, which opens on 11.15.12. For more information and to register, please visit www.cfafoundation.org.
Winners of the 9th Annual Emirates Glass LEAF Awards include Steven Holl Architects for the Daeyang Gallery & House, Mixed-Use Building of the Year; Studio Daniel Libeskind with DCA Architects for Reflections at Keppel Bay, Special Award, Residential Building of the Year (multiple occupancy); and Daniel Libeskind, AIA, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement in Architectural Community Award…
desigNYC’s third round of project collaborations, orchestrated under the annual theme of Recharging Communities, connected 15 organizations with close to 50 design professionals; the 2012 Communications Design Projects & Teams include Bard Prison Initiative + PS New York; Clemente Soto Velez Center (CSVC) + Studios Kudos; Compost for Brooklyn (C4B) + Karen Greenberg; Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) + Pure+Applied; NYDesigns + Remake Design; OpenPlans Transportation + Purpose; and Safe Horizon + Reboot; the 2012 Built Environment Projects & Teams include Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action (SNAP) + Incorporated; Fulton Area Business (FAB) Alliance + ABArchitekten and Mapos; Gowanus Canal Conservancy + KaN Landscape Design; Lower East Side Business Improvement District (LES BID) + DUB-studios with SVA Impact! students; Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union (LES FCU) + Bernheimer Architecture and d/b/A designbuild; New Destiny Housing Corporation + EOA | Elmslie Osler Architect; PlayHarvest + Moorhead & Moorhead; and Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation + WE-design/WE-build…
Interior Design announced its 2012 inductees into the Hall of Fame, including Alexandra Champalimaud…
Paola Antonelli, the Museum of Modern Art’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, has been named Director of Research and Development…
Ken Levenson, AIA, president of the nonprofit NY Passive House, and a founding board member of the American Passive House Network, has opened 475 High Performance Building Supply (which refers to the PH annual heat demand requirement: 4.75Kbtu/sfyr) with other passive house professionals…
The New York Society of Architects is honoring John di Domenico, AIA, LEED AP – di Domenico + Partners; Dolly Williams, A. Williams Contruction; Thomas Hanrahan, AIA, Dean, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute and principal, Hanrahan Meyers Architects; Elliott M. Glass, AIA, Glass and Glass; and Anthony Morali, RA, Morali Architects; on Wednesday, November 14th at their 106th Annual Awards Dinner Dance at 106th Annual Awards Dinner Dance at Tribeca Rooftop…
2013 OCULUS Editorial Calendar will be announced shortly!
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, note that OCULUS editors want to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Deadlines for submissions will be included. For further information, contact Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
10.14.12 Call for Entries: Enlightening Libraries: Student Design Competition—AIAS/Kawneer
10.15.12 Call for Submissions: 2012 Chicago Prize Competition: FUTURE PRENTICE
10.15.12 Call for Entries/Expression of Interest/EOI: West Kowloon Cultural District Museum
10.19.12 Call for Nominations: AIA Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship
10.19.12 Call for Nominations: AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education
10.19.12 Call for Entries: Gowanus by Design WATER_WORKS
10.26.12 Call for Entries: 60th Annual P/A Awards—Architect Magazine
10.31.12 Call for Entries: The Battery Conservancy: Draw up a Chair Americas Design Competition – Portable Outdoor Seating for the Battery
10.31.12 Call for Entries: Architectural Record One Millionth CEU Test-Taker Sweepstakes
10.31.12 Call for Entries: Generation Kingspan Student Architectural Design Competition
11.01.12 Call for Applications: 2013 Rome Prize Fellowships—American Academy in Rome
11.01.12 Call for Entries: Building Trust International Open Photography Competition: “Developing World – Digital World”
11.01.12 Call for Papers: 50th IMCL Conference on Reshaping Suburbia into Complete Healthy Communities, Portland, OR, 06.23.13 – 06.27.13
11.01.12 Call for Submissions: 2013 World Habitat Awards
11.05.12 Call for Submissions: RIBA Open Ideas Competition: Re-imagining York’s Guildhall Complex
11.16.12 Request for Applications: 2013 Sustainable Design
Assessment Team Program (SDAT)
11.16.12 Call for Submissions: NYCEDC “Change the Course” – The NYC Waterfront Construction Competition
11.20.12 Call for Entries: Street Seats Design Challenge: Design Furniture for Boston’s Fort Point Channel
11.23.12 Call for Entries: 2012 Palladio Awards Honoring Excellence in Traditional Design
11.30.12 Call for Entries: Sherwin-Williams Emerald Paint Design Contest
11.30.12 Call for Submissions: Detroit by Design 2012: Detroit Riverfront Competition
12.01.12 Call for Entries: 2013 Berkeley Prize Essay Competition – The Architect and the Accessible City
12.07.12 Call for Entries: USITT 2013 “Ideal Theatre” Student Design Competition for Architecture and Theatre Students
12.10.12 Call for Applications: 2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
12.15.12 Call for Entries: 2012 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards
[Ongoing] Call for Applications: TH!NK:Art+Architecture Design-build Camp, Abetenim Arts Village, Ghana
Maria Escalera, Garrison Architects
A grid of school desks hangs within the storefront and mezzanine at the Center as part of the “The Edgeless School” exhibition.
Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA
Thomas Mellins, curator, “The Edgeless School,” and Juulia Kauste, director, Museum of Finnish Architecture, and project leader, “The Best School in the World”.
Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA
(l-r) Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, AIANY; Finland’s Consul General in New York, Jukka Pietikäinen; and Joseph Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, 2012 AIANY President
Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA
(l-r) Geoff Lynch, AIA, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Raj Patel, Arup; David van der Leer, associate curator of architecture and urban studies, Guggenheim Museum; Richard Olcott, FAIA, FAAR, Ennead Architects; and artist Mary Ellen Carroll. Hugh Hardy, FAIA, not pictured
Linda G. Miller
Clifford Pearson, deputy editor, and Cathleen McGuigan, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, flanking keynote speaker David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA, RIBA, founder and principal, Adjaye Associates
Linda G. Miller
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, principal and founder, Studio Gang Architects, and Brandon Haw, senior partner in charge of the New York office of Foster + Partners
Linda G. Miller
(l-r) William Singer, AIA, AIANY Architectural Dialogue Committee; Abby Suckle, FAIA, president, CultureNOW and AIANY Vice President for Public Outreach; Arthur Platt AIA, co-chair of AIANY Architecture Tourism Committee; Anne Lewisohn, AIA, CultureNOW vice president; and Molaundo Jones, program director at the Creative Arts Workshops for Kids
Linda G. Miller
Central Synagogue is the oldest building in New York in continuous use for this purpose. It was designed by Henry Fernbach in 1872 in the Moorish style, and restored by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in 2000.
Jessica Sheridan, Assoc. AIA
On view in the Slocum Gallery at Syracuse University School of Architecture through 10.25.12 is “Investigations,” an exhibition of the work of Syracuse visiting critic Stephan Jaklitsch, AIA, and Marc Gardner, AIA, Principals of Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects.
Courtesy of Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects
“Richard Meier: Building as Art” is on view through 03.03.13 at the Meier-designed Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen, Germany. The exhibition focuses on his museum buildings and residential projects, and includes models, sketches, renderings, and photographs.
© David Ertl