At the 65th Annual Honors and Awards Celebration, the AIA bestowed honorary membership upon 10 individuals outside the profession, and recognized the winners of the 2014 Young Architect Award, Associates Award, and the Institute’s Honors for Collaborative Achievement. Many of this year’s projects were tied to the convention’s theme, “Design with Purpose,” and, as expected, AIANY members shone. Continue reading “2014 AIA Convention Special: New Yorkers Acclaimed for Designing with Purpose”
Author: Camila Schaulsohn - Editor
2014 AIA Convention Special: 11 AIANY Members Inducted into the AIA College of Fellows
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, designed by Chicago architecture legends Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in 1889, was the perfect setting for the investiture ceremony for 139 new AIA Fellows, including 11 members of the AIA New York Chapter. Out of 80,000 AIA members, around 3,000 are distinguished with this honor nationwide. Our own Chapter of just over 5,000 members includes 283 AIA Fellows. Continue reading “2014 AIA Convention Special: 11 AIANY Members Inducted into the AIA College of Fellows”
2014 AIA Convention Special: Learning from Sandy with Lance Jay Brown, FAIA
At “Coordinated Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Hurricane Sandy,” AIANY 2014 President and AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) founding co-chair Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, took a holistic look at disaster recovery, imparting lessons learned through a thorough account of the many different initiatives that AIANY and the DfRR participated in after Superstorm Sandy. Continue reading “2014 AIA Convention Special: Learning from Sandy with Lance Jay Brown, FAIA”
2014 AIA Convention Special: AIA Elects 2015-2016 Leadership
On 06.28.14 at the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago, AIA delegates elected new national leadership for 2015 through 2016, including two members from New York State. Russell S. Davidson, FAIA, of AIA Westchester Hudson Valley, will serve as the 2015 first vice president/president-elect and 2016 AIA president. Francis M. Pitts, FAIA, of AIA Eastern New York, and William J. Bates, AIA, of AIA Pittsburgh, will serve as vice presidents, and John A. Padilla, AIA, of AIA Santa Fe, as the Institute’s secretary. Continue reading “2014 AIA Convention Special: AIA Elects 2015-2016 Leadership”
Names in the News
At the 2014 AIA National Convention, Russell A. Davidson, FAIA, was elected 2015 First Vice President/2016 President-Elect; William J. Bates, AIA, and Francis M. Pitts, FAIA, were elected 2015-2016 AIA Vice Presidents; and John A. Padilla, AIA, was elected 2015-2016 AIA Secretary…
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee-sponsored Head in the Clouds Pavilion by StudioKCA, and Starlight and Small House in an Olive Grove by Cooper Joseph Studio were recipients of the 2014 AIA Small Project Awards… Continue reading “Names in the News”
New Deadlines
2014 OCULUS Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2014 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Winter 2014
Emerging Skyline / Evolving Street
Submit story ideas by July 14, 2014 Continue reading “New Deadlines”
On View: At the Center for Architecture + About Town
On View
“Barcelona Glòries: Dialogues & Transformation”
Through 07.16.14
“The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture”
Through 07.19.14
“Affording Resilience: Housing Retrofits for Climate Threats”
Through 08.07.14
“Open to the Public: Civic Space Now”
Through 09.06.14
Upcoming
“QueensWay Connection: Elevating the Public Realm”
Opening 07.17.14 Continue reading “On View: At the Center for Architecture + About Town”
Sighted: At the 2014 Chicago Convention
06.25.14: At the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago, the AIA Foundation and Architecture for Humanity, in partnership with NJIT, announced a new regional recovery studio in in Newark, NJ, to aid in regional reconstruction. Many worked hard to make the studio a reality. (l-r) Justin Mihalik, AIA, NCARB, AIA New Jersey; Illya Azaroff, AIA, AIA New York Chapter; John Peterson, AIA, Public Architecture; Eric Cesal, Architecture for Humanity; Sherry-Lea Botop Bloodworth, CFRE, AIA Foundation; Urs Gauchat, Hon. AIA, NJIT; and Thomas Dallessio, NJIT. Continue reading “Sighted: At the 2014 Chicago Convention”
Editor’s Note
Calling all architects! AIANY | Center for Architecture is soliciting work of all scales and types – large and small, private or public, commercial, residential, interiors, historic preservation, engineering, landscape and urban design – for our upcoming “New York New Design” 2014 Subway Show. During Archtober, our month-long festival or architecture and design, we launch our annual “station domination” of the West 4th Street subway station, presenting built and unbuilt architecture projects in the station’s two southern corridors. The exhibition will present the scope and quality of work being done by AIA New York Chapter members both at home and abroad in one of the city’s most busy stations – over 13.5 million passengers walked through West 4th Street last year alone! Submission deadline is July 16, 5:00 PM EST.
In addition, I hope that you will join us at the AIA Convention 2014 taking place in Chicago from 06.26-28.14. The AIA New York Chapter, AIA New York State, and IBEX Construction will be celebrating the 2014 Honorees and New Fellows on 06.26.14 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at the University Club of Chicago, 76 East Monroe Street. Please RSVP to sstein@ibexconstruction.com.
Behold City Hall Station
Known mostly through the images like those prominently on display at the Museum of the City of New York’s (MCNY) exhibition “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile,” the secret hideaway of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been glimpsed by a few curious New Yorkers looping around on the #6 train at Brooklyn Bridge Station and explored by a lucky handful of (mostly) New York Transit Museum members. On 06.05.14, presidents and members of AIA’s local New York chapters boarded an empty #6 train and toured the abandoned City Hall Station. Led by the MTA’s affable Frank Klimasz, the tour proved the aphorism “not all subway stations are created equal” correct.
When City Hall Station opened in 1904, the southern terminus of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the crown jewel of the nascent system. The nontraditional curved platform is bedecked in tiled green and white archways, once-sparkling chandeliers, and intricate glass skylights that dramatically light the underground space. The plaques that commemorate the construction of the underground train system honor architects Heins & LaFarge of St. John the Divine fame, but omit Rafael Guastavino, MCNY’s unsung hero and the true mastermind behind the station’s design (and, coincidentally, the cathedral’s 12-story vaults). Walking through the station, the collective feeling was one of nostalgia: “Why don’t we have spaces like this anymore?” Continue reading “Behold City Hall Station”