Author: Emily Nemens

In this issue:
· Architecture Week Schedule Announced
· ENYA ARE Bootcamp Schedule for Fall
· eCalendar

Architecture Week Scheduled Announced
This year, Architecture Week will stretch nine days, from Saturday 10.02 to Sunday 10.10. The schedule, bookended by the Center for Architecture Foundation’s Usonian House Tours and the annual openhousenewyork weekend, will include the Center for Architecture’s annual Deans’ Roundtable, in conjunction with our 2010 Arch Schools exhibition; four special programs for our four honorees (Vicki Match Suna, AIA, 200 West Project Team, Clinton Climate Initiative, and Henry Cobb, FAIA); and two exhibition openings (“Innovate : Integrate,” and “MADE IN NEW YORK”). Tours of the High Bridge will be given by the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee for openhousenewyork and the committee will also be hosting a Disassembly Party on 10.03 for the Living Pavilion on Governors Island.

And of course, on Thursday, 10.07 is our biggest celebration of the year: Heritage Ball and Party@theCenter. Don’t miss a minute! Check out aiany.org/architectureweek now, and start planning for a great week of the best in architecture and design.

ENYA ARE Bootcamp Schedule for Fall
AIANY Associate members and other New York designers studying for the Architect Registration Examination, mark your calendars! The fall session of the AIANY Emerging New York Architect Committee’s ARE Bootcamp begins in September.

To kick off the series, join us on 09.12.10 for Dorf Day.

The ARE Bootcamp Series begins the following Sunday with:

· 9/19 CDs
· 9/26 Schematic Design
· 10/17 Site Planning & Design
· 10/24 Building Design & Construction Systems
· 11/7 Building Systems
· 11/21 Structures (Part 1)
· 12/5 Structures (Part 2)
Registration is $10/session for members, and $75/session non-members, with join and attend rates available. Click here to register.

eCALENDAR
eCalendar includes an interactive listing of architectural events around NYC. Click the link to go to to eCalendar on the Web.

In this issue:
· Media Roundup
· Registration Open for AIA-NJ’s East Coast Green
· eCalendar

Media Roundup
Rick Bell on NPR’s Morning Edition
Last week, AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA, spoke to Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep about the proposed Islamic Cultural Center, slated to be built on Park Place in downtown Manhattan.

AIANY’s Boat Tours featured in the New York Times
This weekend, the New York Times reviewed AIANY’s “Around Manhattan Official NYC Architectural Tour,” with an article and video. Tickets for sailings, scheduled through December 2010, are available here [].

Our Cities Ourselves on NY1
The Center for Architecture’s current exhibition, “Our Cities Ourselves,” was featured on Monday morning’s news on NY1. The exhibition is now on view through 09.15.10.

Registration open for AIA-NJ’s East Coast Green
AIA New Jersey Chapter and the AIA-NJ Committee on the Environment are planning East Coast Green, to be held 09.16-17.10 at Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. Early bird registration is available through 08. 20.10. The conference, with keynote speakers Bill Reed (Regenesis, Delving Deeper, Integrative Design Collaborative), Ed Mazria (Architecture 2030), and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance), will cover Legislation, Codes/Metrics, Planning, Buildings, and Tectonics, and how local architects are responding to the AIA’s 2030 challenge. It is organized to coincide with AIA-NJ’s annual Design Day, also taking place on 09.16.10 at Bally’s Atlantic City.

eCALENDAR
eCalendar includes an interactive listing of architectural events around NYC. Click the link to go to to eCalendar on the Web.

In this issue:
· AIA Launches KnowledgeNet
· New ADA rules adopted
· AIANY Media Round-up
· eCalendar

AIA Launches KnowledgeNet
On 08.02.10, AIA National launched KnowledgeNet. The site features blog posts, member profiles, podcasts, and conversation among members of the AIA community. Designed to connect AIA’s 83,000+ members and to help them share their experiences and learn from one another, KnowledgeNet will grow into a more robust network with more participation. To check out the latest in architecturally-minded social media, click here. To log on, use the same log-in information you use to get member-only content on AIA.org.

New ADA rules adopted
Twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act, and six years since the release of the 2004 Accessibility Design Guidelines (ADAAG), new ADA laws are coming. After Obama’s 07.26.10 announcement, designers will have six months until the rules go into effect. The revisions will synchronize the Model Code standards (ANSI) with the ADAAG. For the list of amendments, visit this page from the Department of Justice.

AIANY Media Round-up

AIArchitect looks to New York
Last week’s issue of AIArchitect, the publication of AIA National, featured Emerging Architects. Two articles highlighted the AIA New York Chapter. There was a profile on Darris James, Assoc. AIA, the recipient of the 2010 Associates Award. In another article, “AIA Components Expand Opportunities for Emerging Professionals” AIANY board members Megan Chusid, Assoc. AIA, and Mark Behm, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, discussed the professional development programs for associates developed by the AIANY Emerging New York Architects and AIANY Professional Practice Committees.

Rising Currents ReturnsWith the second Rising Currents boat tour on 07.29.10, more people started talking about the sunset cruise around New York Harbor. Read posts in Architizer and Capital New York.

Our Cities Ourselves — Exhibition Reviews
Our Cities Ourselves has been getting a lot of attention this summer, including a review in The Architect’s Newspaper , the Associated Press , and a feature in Time Out New York. More information on the exhibition can be found at www.ourcitiesourselves.org.

eCALENDAR
eCalendar includes an interactive listing of architectural events around NYC. Click the link to go to to eCalendar on the Web.

In this issue:
· MADE IN NEW YORK Submissions Now Open
· New Design Fellow for Haiti

MADE IN NEW YORK Submissions Now Open
Registration and submissions are now open for AIANY’s annual subway show, “MADE IN NEW YORK.” Building on the huge success of last year’s exhibition, “New York Now,” this exhibition will also showcase AIANY members’ work. This year, the Chapter is soliciting member designs of projects built around the globe. The worldwide focus will show the diversity of work being generated in NYC, and reinforce NYC as a truly global city. The exhibition will open on 10.06.10, during AIANY’s Architecture Week, and be on view for a month. Read more here.

Read the call for entries here. Submissions are open until 08.18.10. The cost per submission is $300, and members are able to submit up to four projects, (each $300). This price helps cover the costs of commissioning the registration software, exhibition design, printing, and renting all the advertising space (“station domination”) in the West Fourth Street Station.

New Design Fellow for Haiti
Last week, the AIA, the U.S. Green Building Council, and Architecture for Humanity (AFH) announced that Stacey McMahan, AIA, LEED AP, has been named the organizations’ Architecture for Humanity Sustainable Design Fellow for Haiti. Working from AFH’s Rebuilding Center in Port-au-Prince, McMahan will work on sustainable rebuilding efforts. Currently, McMahan is a partner/principal at Koch Hazard Architects in Sioux Falls, SD, where she is the Green Studio Director. Her position is a yearlong appointment, and she will focus on helping Haitian communities use safe and sustainable construction methods to build stronger, more sustainable buildings for the future of Haiti.

In a release issued by AIA National, AIA President George Miller, FAIA, said, “Stacey brings the best the architecture profession has to offer to this new assignment. Her talent, skill, and compassion — combined with her intense dedication to the design process — will help the people of Haiti rebuild their nation in a way that prevents a tragedy of this magnitude from ever happening again.”