Murrye Bernard, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP – Contributing Editor – Page 15 – News – What’s New at AIANY and the Center for Architecture.

2010 Oculus Editorial Calendar
If you are an architect by training or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, OCULUS editors want 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: Kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

THE 2010 THEMES:
Spring: Architect as Leader: (CLOSED).

Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2010: (CLOSED).

Fall: Thinking Back / Thinking Forward and Understanding the Shift: The recession has given us the opportunity to reflect on the last decades of design and building — and what might be ahead. We will investigate trends in design, building, and marketing that are coming into play. What are the next steps in social media, BIM, sustainability, technology, competitions, stalled projects, adaptive re-use, design for flexibility, mergers and firm acquisitions?
Submit story ideas by 05.21.10

Winter: Practice without Borders: The world is growing smaller. New York is an international city, and it is easier than ever for overseas firms to work here and for New York City firms to work abroad. We will look into reciprocity, licensure, removal of boundaries to practice, and international competitions as ways to build renown.
Submit story ideas by 08.13.10

04.16.10 Call for Proposals: reNEWable Times Square: Designing Temporary Surface Treatments

04.20.10 Call for Ideas: Montréal Taxi Stand

04.23.10 Call for Entries: R+D Awards

04.23.10 Call for Entries: New Practices New York 2010

04.30.10 Call for Entries: Designing the Parks

05.05.10 Call for Presentations: AIANYS/ASLA Upstate New York 2010 Convention in Buffalo

05.03.10 Call for Entries: The Zweig Letter 2010 Hot Firms List

05.07.10 Call for Entries: Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residencies for Scholars and Creative Artists, Lake Como, Italy

05.11.10 Call for Entries: Design 21: Game Changers

06.15.10 Call for Entries: Pratt Manhattan Gallery Public Art Competition: Mobile Voter Registration Centers

07.01.10 Call for Entries: 2010 Eco-Structure’s Evergreen Awards

Through 04.05.10
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary

Peter Matthews, 11 Hours in the Pacific Ocean (detail), December 2007. Ink, water from Pacific Ocean and rust on paper.

Courtesy of the artist

This exhibition explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). Trained as a civil engineer, Xekakis became an architect while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this is the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included are hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores.

The Drawing Center
Main Gallery, 35 Wooster Street, NYC

Through 04.11.10
Diseño Mexicano: Mexican Design

Don Shoemaker X chairs.

Courtesy Sebastian + Barquet

Sebastian + Barquet’s first New York retrospective of Mexican 20th- and 21st-century design includes works by some of the era’s most significant designers. The exhibition showcases six chairs in sabino wood and leather from the Casa Prieto Lopez in El Pedregal by Luis Barragán; a loveseat in Cocobolo and leather from Morelia by the Nebraskan émigré Don Shoemaker; a butterfly mosaic coffee table by Juan O’Gorman; and a prototype “Flex” coffee table made from undulating strips of maple plywood by Emiliano Godoy.

Sebastian + Barquet
544 West 24th Street, NYC

Through 04.17.10
Landscapes of Quarantine

Storefront for Art and Architecture

This exhibition features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of 18 artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal, and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC

Through 05.05.10
Envelopes

“Wanderings,” from environmental design office Weathers founder Sean Lally’s Climate Design series. The work is an exterior infrastructure that can be purchased for private gardens, gardens, public parks, and landscapes to enhance and change the local climate of the site.

Courtesy of Weathers

This exhibition explores new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. On view are full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings, computer animations, and process documentation from eight international firms and designers.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC

Lessons Learned from the NYC Street Design Manual

Event: Conversations on the NYC Street Design Manual
Location: Center for Architecture, 02.22.10
Speakers: Wendy Feuer — Assistant Commissioner for Urban Design & Art, NYC Department of Transportation (DOT); Edward Janoff — Senior Project Manager for Streetscapes and Public Spaces, NYC DOT
Organizer: AIANY Public Architecture Committee

Courtesy NYC DOT

Published in May 2009, the NYC Street Design Manual outlines what NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan calls “world class streets.” Co-authors Wendy Feuer, assistant commissioner for urban design and art at DOT, and Edward Janoff, DOT senior project manager for streetscapes and public spaces, assessed the guide’s initial impact on shaping our streets, lessons learned, and future updates.

Some of the successes attributed to the guidelines can be seen in several of Sadik-Khan’s pilot programs, which she established because she didn’t want to wait five to seven years (the typical amount of time required to implement capital projects) to see her visions come to fruition. Green Light for Midtown, which established pedestrian streets at Times and Herald Squares, recently became permanent due to its success in reducing traffic and accidents in the areas. The Ninth Avenue bike lane has also reduced accidents by 50% for pedestrians, bikers, and motorists alike, according to DOT studies.

Other pilot projects have disappointed, but have provided learning experiences for the DOT. For example, the public plaza at Gansevoort Street and Ninth Avenue is being redesigned with a new and more permanent design that follows the Street Design Manual’s recommendations. “As streets are transformed, you’re transforming the form of a city,” Feuer stated.

Periodic updates to the manual, such as the recent recommendation that sidewalks are poured with 3% tinted concrete for consistency, are posted on the website or are available through e-mail subscriptions. The next version of the manual will include a more thorough explanation of the DOT review process, hyperlinks to specifications in the .pdf version, expanded furniture and lighting chapters, and new chapters on wayfinding and signage.

Murrye Bernard is a freelance architectural writer and a contributing editor to e-Oculus.

Puerto Rican Architects Spice Up NYC

Event: The Making of Modern New York: Puerto Rican Architects and Their Contributions to New York
Location: Hunter College, 02.25.10
Speakers: Ruperto Arvelo, AIA — Owner, ARVELO Architecture + Design; Frank X. Moya, LEED AP — Principal, Matthews Moya Architects; Agustin Ayuso, LEED AP — Founder, Ayuso Architecture
Moderator: Warren James — Principal, Warren A. James Architects + Planners
Organizers: Center for Puerto Rican Studies/Hunter

38 Wilson Avenue Condominium, Brooklyn, NY.

Scott Larsen, courtesy Ayuso Architecture

New York City is home to the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico itself. Currently, there are more than 15 Puerto Rican-led firms based in NYC. For the fourth in a series of presentations by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, three Puerto Rican architects discussed their practices and projects, and what defines Puerto Rican architectural style.

Born in NJ, Ruperto Arvelo, AIA, principal of Arvelo Architecture + Design, moved with his parents to their native Puerto Rico at the age of 10. He returned to the U.S. to pursue his MArch from Syracuse University and later moved to NYC to work for a variety of firms before starting his own practice. Arvelo’s design aesthetic reflects both cultures, combining colors and textures from P.R. with his U.S.-learned work process. Completed projects include Morgan Stanley offices in NJ, Deutsche Bank Max Blue lobbies in both NYC and São Paulo, Brazil, and an apartment complex in Puerto Rico.

Like Arvelo, Agustin Ayuso, LEED AP, was born in the U.S. but raised in P.R. He chose to practice in the U.S. in part because he was frustrated with the limited material palette on the island. His firm has completed a variety of residential designs in NYC, from affordable housing to high-end residential projects. Condos at 38 Wilson in Bushwick, Brooklyn, feature an exterior clad in context-inspired corrugated aluminum. 44 Berry Street in Wiliamsburg involves the conversion of a historic seltzer factory to modern apartments.

Frank Moya, LEED AP, a painter, designer, and urban planner from San Juan, started his own practice in Trenton after attending Princeton University. The local Puerto Rican community was extremely supportive of his practice. Now in NYC, Matthews Moya Architects specializes in designs for the arts and education, and has completed a master plan for the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in NJ. Moya discussed his firm’s renovations for the Dalton School, a tight, urban building in Manhattan, including a common space with a freeform, wavy ceiling and a performing arts area located in the basement. A design for the Affirmation Arts foundations explores the contradiction between nature and technology: English ivy grows over a gridded structure reminiscent of the street grid.

While the speakers’ practices are thriving, moderator Warren James, founder of Warren A. James Architects + Planners, noted that P.R. architects typically work in the private sector but attain less public work. In fact, no Puerto Rican architects were among the finalists chosen for the design of a new FBI building in San Juan. However, James believes that young Puerto Rican firms can shape NYC by retrofitting existing buildings before graduating to new building designs and urban planning projects.

Murrye Bernard is a freelance architectural writer and a contributing editor to e-Oculus.

Van Alen Institute Launches Design Archive

The Van Alen Institute (VAI) has accumulated a significant archive of historical design material documenting the development and expansion of late 19th- and early 20th-century American architectural education. The archive includes 258 linear feet of institutional records, 39 linear feet of photographic materials, and 4,000+ original architectural drawings dating from 1893 to1994.

In 2007, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, VAI began organizing, arranging, and digitizing materials from its architecture collection. Public access to digitized architecture competition drawings, programs, and jury reports will be available in March via CollectiveAccess, an open-source, web-based, collections management platform. Visit the VAI’s Facebook page for image previews.

AIANY announced the winners of the 2010 Design Awards, in the category of Architecture, Honor Award Winners: Knut Hamsun Center and Vanke Center / Horizontal Skyscraper by Steven Holl Architects; East Harlem School by Peter Gluck and Partners; Toni Stabile Student Center by Marble Fairbanks; Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer and Partners; 41 Cooper Square by Morphosis Architects with Gruzen Samton; and The Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion by Toshiko Mori Architect; Architecture Merit Award Winners: 200 Fifth Avenue by STUDIOS Architecture; New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion by Handel Architects (Architect-of-Record) and UNStudio (Design Architect); Salim Publishing House by SAA/Stan Allen Architect; 39 East 13th Street by Phillip Wu Architect; Koby by Garrison Architects; and Carrasco International Airport New Terminal by Rafael Viñoly Architects…

Interiors category, Honor Award Winners: Chanel Robertson Blvd. by Peter Marino Architect and Trinity School – Johnson Chapel by Butler Rogers Baskett; Interiors Merit Award Winners: The New School Welcome Center by Lyn Rice Architects ; Slocum Hall by Garrison Architects; Dow Jones Offices by STUDIOS Architecture and Manhattan Rooftop Duplex by Shelton, Mindel & Associates…

Un-Built work, Merit Award Winners: R-House by Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office; Open Paradox by Ginseng Chicken Architecture; Lux Nova by EASTON+COMBS; Korean Cultural Center New York and The Great Hall at Grace Farms by OBRA Architects; Transbay Transit Center by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Chungnam Government Complex by H Associatesand Haeahn Architecture; Urban Aeration by konyk; Tianjin Hang Lung Plaza by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; On the Water: Palisade Bay by Guy Nordenson and Associates with Catherine Seavitt Studio and Architecture Research Office and Medeu Sports Center by Audrey Matlock Architect…

Urban Design, Honor Award Winner: The High Line by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Merit Award Winners: Five Principles for Greenwich South by Architecture Research Office; MTA Flood Mitigation Streetscape Design by Rogers Marvel Architects (Design Architect) and di Domenico + Partners (Architect-of-Record) and BQE Trench: Reconnection Strategies for Brooklyn by dlandstudio…

The winning entry for the Newark Visitor Center International Design Contest is by Di Domenico & Partners; PLT Design placed second, Arquitectura, inc placed third and superinteresting! placed fourth…

N.E.E.D., the winner of AIANY Emerging New York Architecture Committee’s third biennial ideas competition, has been awarded the Second Place Prize in the International Urban Ideas Competition for the Sustainable Development of Gadeokdo, Busan in the Republic of Korea, with Group Han Associates…

Midwest Construction Magazine’s Best of 2009 include Trump International Hotel & Tower by Skidmore Owings & Merrill with PMG Architects in the categories of Project of the Year, Overall & Project of the Year, and Multifamily Residential, and Ted Moudis Associates’ projects for Société Générale and Cottingham & Butler both won Awards of Merit… Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, a book co-authored by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, an associate professor of urban design at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), has received a 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence from the American Association of Publishers (AAP)…

The Illuminating Engineering Society, NYC Section (IESNYC) announced the winners of the 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition: First Place — EDGE: PROBLEMS AND PROMISE by J. Parkman Carter, Parsons The New School for Design; Second Place — CUSP by Suerrisa Blecher, New York School of Interior Design; Third Place — LIMINALLY ENLIGHTENED by Megan Pfeffer, Parsons The New School for Design; Honorable Mention for Craftmanship — MAGIC by Brett Banakis & Bradley King, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Honorable Mention for Use of Materials – SUBLIMINATION by Gabriela Grullan, Parsons The New School for Design…

Santiago Calatrava, FAIA is a recipient of the 2010 Travel + Leisure Design Award for his Liege-Guillemins TGV Railway Station in Belgium….

Leslie E. Robertson Associates has opened a Mumbai office… Magnusson Architecture and Planning has launched MAP Green, a division specializing in green consulting services for building design, green retrofit/rehabilitation, and sustainable neighborhood planning…

Erleen Hatfield PE, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is a new partner at Buro Happold… Cannon Design announced that Antonio Borgese, AIA, LEED AP, has been named Vice President… Melissa Marsh, Assoc. AIA, has joined Mancini Duffy as Principal and Director of Workplace Strategy… Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects promoted Qian Li and Mathew Snethe to Senior Associates… Barbara Zieve, IIDA, and Erik Hodgetts, AIA, LEED AP, have joined IA Interior Architects as Design Director and Director of Legal Services, respectively… Janice Barnes, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, Global Discipline Leader for Planning + Strategies at Perkins+Will, is relocating to the New York Office… David Thurm, formerly with the New York Times, was appointed as the Art Institute of Chicago’s new Chief Operating Officer…

03.01.10: The AIA New York Chapter Design Awards winners were announced, followed by a moderated symposium discussion with this year’s jurors.

The Interiors Jury. (L-R): Brian MacKay Lyons, Hon. FAIA, cofounder of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd; Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA, principal at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects; and Glenn Pushelberg, cofounder of Yabu Pushelberg.

Emily Nemens

The Architecture Jury. (L-R): Julie Snow, FAIA, founder of Julie Snow Architects; Gilles Saucier, principal at Saucier + Perrotte Architectes; and Stanley Saitowitz, principal of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc.

Emily Nemens

Jurors at the Symposium. (L-R): Glenn Pushelberg, cofounder of Yabu Pushelberg (Interiors); Julie Eizenberg, AIA, founding principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture in Santa Monica (Urban Design); Teddy Cruz, professor of public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego (Urban Design); Stanley Saitowitz, principal of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc. (Architecture); Maurice Cox, urban designer, architectural educator at the University of Virginia School of Architecture (Urban Design).

Sam Lahoz

03.04.10: The AIA New York Chapter held a reception for members who were elevated to the College of Fellows this year.

(L-R): Christine J. Bodouva, FAIA, LEED AP, William Nicholas Bodouva & Associates; Michael F. Doyle, FAIA, Acheson Doyle Partners Architects; Donald Fram, FAIA, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Lia Gartner, FAIA, LEED AP, The New School University; Stephanie Gelb, FAIA, Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority.

Courtesy AIA New York Chapter

(L-R): Alexander Klatskin, FAIA, Samual A. Klatskin Architect; Joan Krevlin, FAIA, LEED AP, BKSK Architects; Sandro Marpillero, FAIA, Marpillero Pollak Architects; Bernard A. Marson, FAIA, Bernard Marson Architect.

Courtesy AIA New York Chapter

(L-R): Bodgan Z. Pestka, FAIA, NYC Department of Design + Construction; James S. Russell, FAIA, Architecture Columnist, Bloomberg News; Anthony P. Schirripa, FAIA, IIDA, Mancini Duffy; Walter Sedovic, FAIA, LEED AP, Walter Sedovic Architects; Yvonne Szeto, FAIA, LEED AP, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects.

Courtesy AIA New York Chapter

(L-R): Dorthea Gelb; Louise Braverman, FAIA, and new fellow Stephanie Gelb, FAIA.

Kristen Richards

New fellows James S. Russell, FAIA (left), and Sandro Marpillero, FAIA.

Kristen Richards

02.26.10: The Center for Architecture hosted a series of productions on architecture, selected from the 2009 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) as part of MUSE’s Art on Screen Film Festival.

(L-R):David Leitner, filmmaker; Nadine Covert, New York Delegate of FIFA; Mary Burke, AIA, VP for Design Excellence; and Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director of AIANY.

Emily Nemens

03.03.10: AIANY organized a panel discussion in Washington, DC, on how new buildings and historic districts have learned to coexist in the country’s two most culturally and architecturally diverse cities: New York and Washington, DC.

(L-R): Tony Schirripa, FAIA, IIDA, 2010 President of AIANY; George Miller, FAIA, 2010 President of AIA; Sherida E. Paulsen, FAIA, principal, PKSB architects, New York City; Robert Tierney, Chair, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission; Tersh Boasberg, Chair, Historic Preservation Review Board, Washington, DC; Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director of AIANY.

Emily Nemens

THE 2010 THEMES:
Spring: Architect as Leader: (CLOSED).

Summer: AIANY Design Awards 2010: (CLOSED).

03.15.10 Call for Applications: Women’s Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship

03.15.10 Call for Applications: Center for Architecture Design Scholarship

03.15.10 Call for Applications: Fontainebleau Prize

04.01.10 Call for Entries: One Good Chair 2010

04.05.10 Call for Applications: EPA National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement

04.30.10 Call for Entries: 2010 Brick in Architecture Awards

05.03.10 Call for Entries: Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals

05.05.10 Call for Entries: 2010 Lester Dundes Interior Design Competition

05.17.10 Call for Entries: 2010 National Design-Build Awards Competition

06.15.10 Call for Entries: Gustavino Biennial

03.02.10 – 03.08.10
TIMESSQUAREARTS

“Black Sun” by Alexandre Arrechea. Illustration by Arrechea. Ten-minute animation of wrecking ball bouncing of the building. Video runs on NASDAQ screen at 11:50 PM.

Times Square Alliance

As part of the Public Art Program of the Times Square Alliance, several installations will grace Times Square, including: Sofia MalDonado’s “42nd Street Mural,” a 92 x 12 foot mural mounted on a construction fence (through 04.30.10); Alexandre Arrechea’s “Black Sun,” a 10-minute animation of a wrecking ball on the giant NASDAQ screen; and David Ellis and Roberto Lange’s Kinetic Sound Sculpture, a pile of real trash that moves and make sounds.

Times Square Alliance
Times Square, NYC

Through 03.20.10
Olafur Eliasson

Multiple shadow house (2010). Wood, metal, fabric, spotlights, color filter glass, halogen bulb, projection foil and transparent projection foil. Installation view Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, 02.11-03.20.10.

Photo by Jean Vong, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

This exhibition consists of a series of rooms, each lit with a bank of lights. The individual lights are different colors, but they create white light when blended on a single wall. As visitors walk in front and block the light sources, colored shadows are revealed.

Tonya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street, NYC

Through 03.27.10
Konstantinos Stamatiou: Refused Reused

Konstantinos Stamatiou

An installation, collages, and light boxes made from non-traditional materials create a multilayered labyrinth of social issues and various forms of physical interaction between the art and the viewer.

Black and White Gallery
636 West 28th Street, NYC

Through 04.04.10
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

LTL. Fluff Bakery, New York, NY, 2004.

Michael Moran

Celebrating the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, this exhibition features the work of the more than 75 award winners for outstanding contemporary achievements in architecture, landscape, interiors, product design, communication design, corporate design, interactive design, and fashion.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, NYC

Two New Shades of Green

Almost two years ago, Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn asked the Urban Green Council to create a task force to investigate bringing NYC codes to a higher and greener level. Comprised of more than 200 members including government officials, industry advisors, and sustainability experts, the Green Codes Task Force recently unveiled 111 proposals, many of them low-cost, including new rules for the insulation of all-glass high rises and storefront lighting regulations. To download the proposal in its entirety, click here.

Another new entity that seeks to shape NYC sustainability policies is Green Light New York. This non-profit is dedicated to providing the city’s design, construction, and real estate communities with training and resources on energy efficient lighting technologies. They are seeking input from those willing to take a 12-question survey.