Category: At the Center for Architecture

This Archtober, share your firm’s New York City-based works with architecture enthusiasts! Archtober is accepting nominations for projects to be included in the festival’s Building of the Day series. Each day in October 2016, Archtober will feature a building as a noon-time, architect-led tour. In addition to publication in the Archtober print guide and website, the tour will be featured on the Archtober blog and as a podcast on cultureNOW’s app, Museum Without Walls. Continue reading “Call for Buildings of the Day”

Join us this week as the AIANY Chapter and Center for Architecture explore architectural education! The Center’s annual showcase of K-12 student design work, “Building Connections,” will open on 11.13.15. Come back on 11.14.15 for the opening of “Arch Schools 2015,” an exhibition of exemplary student work from area schools, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. The opening will be followed by the Deans’ Roundtable, where deans from schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. Moderated by Tim De Noble, dean of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University, the program will examine ways that schools are innovating to expand the periphery of architecture, and prepare their graduates to extend the realm and reach of design leadership.

There are only a few days left until the end of Archtober, and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in our month-long festival of architecture and design. From Building of the Day tours, to LEGO-sponsored events for families, and city-wide exhibitions about the built environment, Archtober sets out to prove to the general public that design matters.

And while the month is almost over, architecture programming is not! Don’t forget to check the Center for Architecture’s online calendar, and visit our partner organizations’ websites to see their offerings for the rest of the year!

In their quest to meet deadlines, architects do not get many opportunities to play at design. To lighten things up, the Center for Architecture invited young professionals to “Bricks and Beverages” on 10.16.15 for a lively game night that rekindled their love of LEGOs. Continue reading “Bricks and Beverages”

Have you heard the exciting news? Citi Bike has teamed up with Archtober to offer an exclusive discount for the month. With over 110 new bikes and stations added to the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy, it’s now even easier to get around to all the fun Archtober programming.  Whether you’re headed to a Building of the Day tour, checking out one of the many exhibitions on view, or enjoying the Seaport Culture District, hop on a Citi Bike and see your city from a different perspective. Friends of Archtober can sign up to receive a $25 discount off annual membership (regularly $149). Citi Bike will also be at Archtoberfest at the Seaport Culture District, a celebration of all things Archtober on 10.30.15 from 6-9pm. They will have Citi Bike keys available for those that sign up in person!

Sign up at citibikenyc.com/archtober before the end of Archtober (10.31.15) to take advantage and start riding for cheaper today!

Happy Archtober! The Center for Architecture will be kicking off the month-long celebration of architecture and design with the opening of “Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now” tomorrow, 10.01.15 at 6:00 pm. Please join us for the opening reception of the exhibition, which features local and global strategies to reduce the cost of housing.

New York is in a housing crisis. Market rate housing exceed the budgets of many New Yorkers and affordable housing production cannot meet demand. As the city’s vibrant culture and economy continue to attract more residents, the housing deficit has become an ever-growing issue. In Housing New York: A Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan, the de Blasio administration has pledged to address this situation by building and preserving 200,000 affordable apartments. In order to achieve this, the city must work with a variety of stakeholders, including architects.

Although affordable housing typically refers to policy initiatives to ensure that residents at a certain income can qualify for housing, affordability is a broader concept. Designing Affordability examines how architects, planners, engineers, policy makers, tenants, and homeowners are crafting innovative ways to reduce the cost of housing without compromising quality.

Adding to the discussion about affordability, the Fall issue of Oculus also tackles the subject with the theme “Home Game: Innovations in Housing.” Click here to read the digital edition.

For those of us in the architecture and design community, Fall = Archtober.

At a recent press conference, Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, AIA, Center for Architecture managing director and Archtober Festival director, announced the breadth of this year’s festival at Archtober Hall (aka 181 Front Street), the festival’s second hub, which will host programming organized by some of this year’s 60+ partner organizations from across New York City. Continue reading “Five Years, Five Boroughs, One Archtober”

On the evening of Thursday, 09.17.15, over 2,000 people flooded the streets of the South Street Seaport to celebrate the inauguration of the Seaport Culture District.

From August to December 2015, the Seaport Culture District, sponsored by The Howard Hughes Corporation and directed by James Sanders, AIA, is transforming the historic upland blocks of the Seaport. By hosting an array of art and design exhibitions, installations, and public programs organized by eight premier cultural institutions, the district will revitalize previously empty storefronts, many of which were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading “Come On Down to the Seaport Culture District!”

The Center for Architecture is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2015 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals. This year the Scholarship Committee granted the award to ISSUES, the undergraduate journal of Washington University in St. Louis. Continue reading “2015 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals Recipient”