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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
October 18 — December 19, 2008
ARCH SCHOOLS 2008
ARCH SCHOOLS 2008 is the AIA New York Chapter’s fourth annual architecture schools exhibition, and will feature exemplary student work, including drawings and models, from 14 Tri-State area schools.
Participating Schools:
The City College of New York
Columbia University
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cornell University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
Parsons The New School for Design
Pratt Institute
Princeton University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Exhibition Designer: Martina Sencakova
Lead Sponsor: Bentley Systems
Sponsors:
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Kohn Pedersen Fox
RMJM Hillier
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Supporters:
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners
Friends
ABC Imaging
Butler Rogers Baskett
Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Tsao & McKown Architects
October 1 — January 19, 2009
+Housing
2008 AIA New York Designs for Living Exhibition
In the coming decades, New York will confront the challenge of housing another million people in a built-up city with limited area for new construction. Aging infrastructure and environmental concerns pose additional impediments to growth. Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC addresses the need for housing, and targets eight other quality-of-life issues including open space, air and water quality, and contaminated sites. Public and private developers have also begun responding to, and even anticipating, these concerns with mixed-use, hybrid designs. +Housing focuses on eight current examples which illustrate this phenomenon: public uses combined with, and often financed by housing. The essential urban institutions – parks, schools, places of worship, museums, and hospitals – are being combined with residential developments, fusing diverse typologies and increasing density. This observation creates the rubric, [fill in the blank] + Housing. The phenomenon is observable at multiple scales, from infill Hybrid Buildings with condos sitting on top of a public space, to Transformed Blocks rebuilt and rearranged into places for living, performing and gathering, to New Neighborhoods that attempt to remediate and improve old sites, shaping parks, creating spaces for culture and childcare, adding new density.
+Housing helps keep the city affordable, accessible, sustainable, and architecturally ambitious. Projects that include cultural institutions, new schools, improved infrastructure, and green roofs are often built faster and more efficiently. That said, all pluses have their minuses, and this exhibition looks beyond the benefits of the +Housing formula, examining its potential impact on the look, economy and public life of New York City.
Exhibition Curator: Alexandra Lange
Exhibition Designer:Pro-Am Inc.
Champion: Studio Daniel Libeskind
Supporters: HumanScale Corporation; James McCullar & Associates; Gensler
Friend:
Benjamin Moore & Company
Costas Kondylis & Partners
Forest City Ratner Companies
Frank Williams & Associates
Hugo S. Subotovsky Architects
Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Carroll & Bertolotti
Magnusson Architecture & Planning
Mancini Duffy
Rawlings Architects
Ricci Greene Associates
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Syska & Hennessy
Trespa North America
Universal Contracting
Contributor:
Anchin, Block & Anchin
Calvin Tsao
Consolidated Brick & Building Supplies
Cosentini Associates
Cross Construction Company
DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects
Domenech Hicks Krockmalnic Architects
FXFOWLE Architects
Helpern Architects
IBEC BUILDING CORPORATION
Levien & Company
Michael Zenreich, AIA Architect
Monadnock/Capsys
Myron Henry Goldfinger, FAIA
New York Building Congress
Perkins Eastman
Plaza Construction
Porter & Yee Associates
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Roberta Washington, Architect
Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee
Shen Milsom & Wilke
Skanska USA Building
Strategic Development & Construction
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Theo. David, Architects
Thornton Tomasetti
Weidlinger Associates
September 5 — January 3, 2009
New Practices New York 2008
New Practices New York 2008 is the second juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform for recognizing and promoting new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies – both in projects and practice.
From the 52 portfolios submitted, the New Practices Committee – consisting of Amale Andraos (Work AC), Jennifer Carpenter (TRUCK), Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects), William Menking (Architect’s Newspaper) and Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) – was expected to choose the six most promising firms. The competition winners, all of whom will be participating in our exhibition are:
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with New Practices Committee
Exhibition organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation
Exhibition Design: We Should Do It All
Media Partner: The Architects Newspaper
Underwriter: Häfele
Patron: ABC Imaging
Lead Sponsors: Ibex, MG & Company, Poliform, Thornton Tomasetti
Supporters: Fountainhead Construction, FXFOWLE Architects
Beverage Sponsor: SAAGA Vodka
Related Events
Each firm will have a six-week exhibition and will be delivering a Hafele NY Showroom at 25 East 26th Street. For more information, visit Hafele’s New York showroom listing at www.hafele.com/us
