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On View: About Town

Wolfgang Tillman’s “Book for Architects” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through 07.05.15

“Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro” at Yeshiva University Museum
Through 07.05.15

“Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980” at the Museum of Modern Art
Through 07.19.15

“Facing East: Chinese Urbanism in Africa” at the Storefront for Art and Architecture
Through 08.01.15

“Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today” at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
Through 09.27.15

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 06.16.15

“AIANY 2015 Design Awards”
Through 06.20.15

“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley”
Through 06.20.15 Continue reading “On View”

The second discussion in a series about the legacy of landscape architect Dan Kiley brought together Ken Smith, FASLA, and Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, FAAR, to talk about Kiley’s influence, preservation issues, and current themes in landscape architecture. Continue reading “Revisiting Landscapes”

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 06.16.15

“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley”
06.20.15

“AIANY 2015 Design Awards”
Through 06.20.15

Continue reading “On View”

Conversing About Kiley

There’s an old joke among architects (based on a Frank Lloyd Wright quip) that if a client doesn’t like the building, they can plant ivy. This may, in part, explain architects’ apparent hesitancy to work with landscape architects until relatively recently. However, M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, explained that Dan Kiley’s relationships with architects showed that landscaping could enhance a building’s setting and extend its presence. Continue reading “Conversing About Kiley”

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“ASLA-NY 2015 Design Awards”
Through 04.30.15

“OK PLAN ARCHITECTS ‘15”
Through 04.30.15

“AIANY 2015 Design Awards”
Through 05.20.15

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 05.23.15

“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley”
Through 06.20.15 Continue reading “On View”

On View: At the Center for Architecture + About Town

At the Center for Architecture

“BxW NYC”
Through 04.11.15

“AIANY 2015 Design Awards”
Opening 04.23.15

“ASLA-NY 2015 Design Awards”
Through 04.30.15

“OK PLAN ARCHITECTS ‘15”
Through 04.30.15

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 05.23.15

“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley”
Through 06.20.15 Continue reading “On View: At the Center for Architecture + About Town”

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley”
Opening 03.26.15

“ASLA-NY 2015 Design Awards”
Opening 04.02.15

“OK PLAN ARCHITECTS ‘15”
Opening 04.02.15

“BxW NYC”
Through 04.11.15

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 05.23.15

About Town

“Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980” at the Museum of Modern Art
Opening 03.29.15

Wolfgang Tillman’s “Book for Architects” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through 07.05.15

On View

At the Center for Architecture

“BxW NYC”
Opening 03.02.15

“Arch Schools 2014”
Through 03.21.15

“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes”
Through 05.23.15 Continue reading “On View”

Inside “Prague Functionalism”

Zdeněk Lukeš, curator of “Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes,” began his tour of the exhibition on 2.13.15, with a discussion of the Tugenhadt House, a famous prototype of Modernism in the present-day Czech Republic. Designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1932, while he was director of the Bauhaus, the Tugenhadt House exemplified the cross-pollination of avant-garde design philosophy across Europe that buttressed the Functionalist movement in Prague. Continue reading “Inside “Prague Functionalism””