AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, rang in the opening of the New York Restoration Project’s (NYRP) EDGEucation Pavilion exhibition on 02.06.14 to a packed house at the Center for Architecture. As city leaders become more and more focused on both sustainable design and education for all, the exhibition’s goal – marrying both of these efforts – felt especially apt. Bette Midler, founder of NYRP, came to the opening and spoke with many present, including competition winning team from Bade Stageberg Cox. Continue reading “Learning in Nature: NYRP EDGEucation Pavilion”
Author: Claire Webb
Design for Dementia
As a complement to the Center for Architecture’s “Booming Boroughs: Redesigning Aging-in-Place in NYC” exhibition, several experts presented ideas about designing for and living with people with dementia. While the exhibition explored fresh ways to design for SMLXL situations in NYC, the Living with Dementia – At Home and in Urban Communities: Opportunities and Challenges program on 01.28.14 focused on the science and the social issues that surround a particularly challenging nuance of “aging-in-place.” (Read a re-cap of the exhibition here.) Continue reading “Design for Dementia”
Design for Aging in SMLXL
Riding my bike on the West Side Highway to the exhibition opening of “Booming Boroughs: Redesigning Aging-in-Place in NYC” at the Center for Architecture, I passed an ad for starting a retirement account: “The person who will live to be 131 is alive today.” Though a little ominous, the ad seemed auspiciously fitting – priming me to think about how the idea of aging must be reexamined. Continue reading “Design for Aging in SMLXL”
Ratensky Lecture: Carlton Brown
Carlton Brown is a man of big ideas and grand ideals. Honored last week at the Ratensky Lecture at the Center for Architecture, Brown talked about how his upbringing in the Civil Rights Era South shaped his philosophy of inclusivity and the importance of sharing resources equitably. Using four touch points, Brown harnessed a mantra that has shaped his role as a developer: “Generate more energy than we use, include more people than we exclude, use more waste than we create, and create more wealth than we consume.” Continue reading “Ratensky Lecture: Carlton Brown”