Author: Camila Schaulsohn - Editor

New Deadlines

2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

Summer 2015: AIANY 2015 Design Awards
Submission deadline: 02.13.15

Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.22.15

Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 08.14.15 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We are thrilled to welcome 2015 and “Dialogues from the Edge of Practice,” the presidential theme of 2015 AIANY President Tomas Rossant, AIA. We hope you will join us in making this year as successful as the last!

As the new year begins, our exhibition “New Practices New York 2014” comes to a close. If you haven’t had a chance to see the works of these six promising, young NYC firms, make sure you stop by the Center for Architecture before 01.17.15. Projects range from the wacky (wax piñatas and fuzzy tentacles) to the civically-minded (water-absorbing sponge parks).

Finally, don’t forget to submit your work to the AIANY 2015 Design Awards! Our annual awards program recognizes architectural design by AIANY members, NYC-based architects in any location, and work in NYC by architects from around the world. Enter your projects by the 02.06.15 deadline.

I hope you had a lovely and restful holiday season.

Names in the News

Winners of the 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture include: the Danish Maritime Museum by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, John Jay College of Criminal Justice by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, the LeFrak Center at Lakeside Prospect Park by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and the United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City by Thomas Phifer and Partners …Arent Fox by STUDIOS Architecture, The Barbarian Group by Clive Wilkinson Architects and Design Republic Partners Architects, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum by Davis Brody Bond were winners of the 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture…Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), The BIG U by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, and Target Field Station by Perkins Eastman were winners of the 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design… Continue reading “Names in the News”

New Deadlines

2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

Summer 2015: AIANY 2015 Design Awards
Submission deadline: 02.06.15

Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.22.15

Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 08.14.15 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“New Practices New York 2014”
Through 01.17.15

“Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance’s Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG”
Opening 01.22.15

“Building Connections 2014”
Through 02.28.15

“Arch Schools 2014”
Through 03.21.15

About Town

“Reviewing Renewal” at the Queens Museum
Through 02.08.15

“596 Acres” presents all of the urban renewal plans the city has ever adopted in an intervention directly on the Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum. The project realizes the online Urban Reviewer map on the 1:1200 scale of the 9,335-square-foot Panorama. The exhibition asks: What can we learn from the continuing story of urban renewal in NYC? Talks, readings, discussions, and film showings will take place every Sunday.

Happy Holidays!

In this last issue of 2014, the AIA New York Chapter would like to wish you all the best in 2015, and thank you for your continued support and readership. We’re looking forward to kicking off the New Year with our first issue on 01.07.15. Stay tuned!

Please note that the Center for Architecture office and gallery will be closed on Wednesday, 12.24.14; Thursday, 12.25.14; Wednesday, 12.31.14, and Thursday 01.01.15.

Happy Holidays!