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Through 12.04.09
Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil

This floating Ecopolis has a double objective: to extend the sustainable territory of the most developed countries, and to house the climatic refugees of less-developed, at-risk marine territories (such as the Polynesian atolls).

Vincent Callebaut

Innovative ideas, projects, initiatives, and policies from around the globe that can help us re-think how we inhabit urban areas are on view. From car sharing to citywide environmental initiatives to futuristic floating cities, the projects displayed show a spectrum of possibilities.

Municipal Art Society
457 Madison Avenue, NYC

Through 12.04.09
Bits ‘n Pieces

THEVERYMANY

This interactive traveling exhibition features work by an international group of designers, architects, computer scientists, and material and technology researchers that anticipates the next phase of materiality in the digital revolution.

Material ConneXion
60 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NYC

Through 12.11.09
Flatiron High and Low

Flatiron (originally Fuller) Building by D.H. Burnham & Co., constructed 1901-1903.

Photo by Charles L. Ritzman / Library of Congress

An exhibition of photographs, architects’ renderings, vintage views, and film footage spotlights two centuries of building culture in the Flatiron district.

Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, NYC

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

ContextContrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009

On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

New York Now

On view October 1– November 30, 2009.
Extended one month!

Building Connections 2009

On view September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

On view September 17 — December 12, 2009.

Helfand Spotlight Series: Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100

On view November 5 — November 30, 2009.

Through 11.20.09
Les Lalanne on Park Avenue

Claude Lalanne, Pomme de New York, 2007 (bronze)

Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

More than eight monumental works and a single work comprised of 12 sculptures will span multiple sites on Park Avenue between 52nd and 57th Streets. Featured works include “Pomme de New York,” by Claude Lalanne (b.1924), a large-scale bronze sculpture of an apple, epitomizing the monumentality of the city’s iconic image, and François-Xavier Lalanne’s (1927–2008) last sculpture, “Singe Avisé (Très Grand),” a cross-legged monkey with a pensive expression.

Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 10th Avenue, NYC

Through 11.29.09
The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs

Pepsi Cola Sign, Queens West Development, Long Island City, Queens

42 photographs spotlight the transformation of the NYC waterfront throughout the 20th century, from an industrial and commercial hub to a vestigial space reclaimed for recreation and public use.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 12.08.09
Carole Eisner on Broadway

76th: Torque

Carole Eisner

Nine sculptures by Carole Eisner span Broadway. Starting with “Walter” at Dante Park, located within the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, the exhibition continues north to “Swizzle” at 166th Street.

Susan Eley Fine Art
46 West 90th Street, Floor 2, NYC

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

ContextContrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009

On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

New York Now

On view October 1-31, 2009.

Building Connections 2009

On view September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

On view September 17 — December 12, 2009.

Helfand Spotlight Series: What if

On view October 2 — October 30, 2009.

Through 11.07.09
A Square

Hosang Park, 40″ x 50″, Edition of 5, Digital C-Print.

Samsung-dong

In 2004, Korea-based artist Hosang Park began taking aerial photographs of the parks often developed alongside luxury apartment buildings, increasingly common in high-density areas of Seoul. The images flatten the spaces into geometric surfaces while referencing the traditions of town squares.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street, NYC

Through 11.14.09
Pike Loop, a Robot-Built Installation

“R-O-B” building Pike Loop.

Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich

Pike Loop claims to be the first architecture project in the U.S. to be digitally fabricated on site. The installation was built by R-O-B, a robotic digital fabrication unit housed in a shipping container. The sculptural form is composed of 7,000 bricks. Also on view is Gramazio & Kohler’s ongoing research into digital fabrication in architecture at ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC
Installation location: Pike Street between Division Street and East Broadway, NYC

Through 11.29.09
Architectural Photography: from 1860 to the Present

White Barn, Germantown, NY.

Photo by Martin E. Rich, AIA, 2009

More than 70 works by nearly 36 internationally and regionally renowned photographers are on view, including Julius Shulman, Norman McGrath, James Anderson, Brassai, Eric Lindbloom, Richard Edelman, Martin Rich, AIA, and many others.

Carrie Haddad Gallery
318 Warren Street, Hudson, NY

Through 12.04.09
Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009

Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009.

The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

This exhibition traces the transformations of Cooper Union’s architecture, from the Foundation Building, designed by Frederick Petersen and completed in 1859, extensively renovated by Leopold Eidlitz in the 1880s and 90s, and transformed in 1975 by John Hejduk, to the construction of 41 Cooper Square by Morphosis in 2009. The exhibition also examines how the education of architects has been reflected in the design and re-design of the school’s buildings.

Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

ContextContrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009

On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

New York Now

On view October 1-31, 2009.

Building Connections 2009

On view September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

On view September 17 — December 12, 2009.

Helfand Spotlight Series: What if

On view October 2 — October 30, 2009.

Through 10.23.09
Models of Concern

Design by Gilian Schrofer.

Photography by Peter Gerhards

This traveling exhibition features models of the work of Gilian Schrofer, principal at the Dutch design firm Concern, who has designed select interiors of the Stedelijk Museum renovation.

Trespa Design Centre
62 Greene Street, NYC

Through 11.07.09
Design Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street

Design Jazz.

Pratt Institute

The cross-disciplinary design trio of Amy Guggenheim, artist, writer, filmmaker, and professor; Mitchell Joachim, architectural designer, and co-founder of Terreform ONE; and Leon Reid IV, street artist, teacher, and Pratt alumnus met to discuss and theorize the design of the street for our contemporary culture, for sustaining communities, and for adding to the exploration of contemporary critical design theory.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, NYC

Through 11.07.09
Toward the Sentient City

Toward the Sentient City.

Architectural League of New York/Mark Shepard

Five newly commissioned projects and installations by teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed forms of communication systems might inform the architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior within it.

Sentient City Hub Exhibition, The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue, NYC

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Building Connections 2009

On view September 17, 2009 — January 9, 2010.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future

On view September 17 — December 12, 2009.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

ContextContrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009

On view October 6, 2009 — January 23, 2010.

New York Now

On view October 1-31, 2009.

Through 10.18.09
Life and Works of J. Max Bond, Jr.: Practice, Education, and Activism

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) presents an exhibition in memory of J. Max Bond Jr., FAIA. As an alumnus of both Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, BArch ’55) and the GSD (MArch ’58), he is fondly remembered for his personal encouragement and mentorship of students from the GSD.

Gund Hall Gallery
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Boston, MA

Through 10.24.09
Noguchi ReINstalled

Gallery view of the Noguchi Museum, Small Torso, 1958-1962; Core Piece #1, 1974; Core Piece #2, 1974.

Photograph by Sarah Wells, Courtesy The Noguchi Museum, New York

This installation commemorates Isamu Noguchi’s original vision in celebration of the museum’s recent renovation completion. The collection occupies the entire Museum, as it did upon its opening in 1985.

The Noguchi Museum
33rd Road at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY

Through 10.24.09
Downtown Alliance Vision for Future of Greenwich South

Vision for Future of Greenwich South.

Courtesy Alliance for Downtown New York

The Alliance for Downtown New York displays its vision for the future of Greenwich South, the 41 acres south of the World Trade Center, as a set of scalable principles, illustrated by architects, designers, and artists.

Zuccotti Park
Broadway and Liberty Street, NYC

10.01.09 through 10.30.09
Forms+Surfaces® Beyond the Surface

MicroPerf (detail) shown in Stainless Steel Savannah.

Material ConneXion

On view is Forms+Surfaces’ Screens, a new building system for façades, outdoor fencing, as well as interior applications such as privacy screens or wall panels. Also on display is the new high-performance material, Bonded Quartz, a composite of quartz and FRP-reinforced resin matrix.

Material ConneXion
60 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NYC

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

New Practices San Francisco

June 04 – September 19, 2009

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies — both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.

New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco.

Congratulations to our 2009 New Practices San Francisco Winners:

* CMG Landscape Architecture
* Edmonds + Lee Architects
* Faulders Studio
* Kennerly Architecture & Planning
* Min|Day
* Public Architecture

Exhibition Design:

Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.

Graphic Design:
Anyspace Studio

Organized By:
AIA New York/ Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco/ Center for Architecture + Design, and the New Practices Committee

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

Lead Sponsor:

Presenting Sponsor: Hafele
Sponsor: MG & Company
Supporter: Hawa
Friends: diamondLife, Specialty Finishes, Trespa and Yarde Metals – Hauppauge, NY, and Hotel Carlton San Francisco
Media Partner: The Architect’s Newspaper