Category: In The News

2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.08.15

Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline story for ideas, projects: 08.07.15 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

02.25.15: AIANY 2015 President Tomas Rossant, AIA, welcomed attendees to “netWORKing” event at GD Cucine, and invited members to learn more about the Chapter’s advocacy initiatives. Continue reading “Sighted”

At this point, it shouldn’t be news to anyone that architecture is a male-dominated industry. Unfortunately, research shows that, despite historically high numbers of women entering the profession, top positions are still mainly held by men. A growing number of organizations and individuals, however, are hard at work trying to right this wrong. Many of these efforts are also right on time for March, Women’s History Month.   Continue reading “Designed by Women: Architecture for All”

For me, it’s Nancy Spero’s Lincoln Center mosaics, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers. I pass them nearly every day on the 1/2/3 line, and I always peer out the train window to look. Transit art is simultaneously hugely public and deeply intimate; the majority of the 4.3 million daily riders of the New York City rail system see the same works of art every day on their commute. “It’s a museum, with hundreds of miles of walls; it’s a museum that never closes; it’s a museum with a fairly modest entry fee,” praised Sam Roberts, New York Times Urban Affairs correspondent. The MTA’s Percent for Art Program, which dedicates 1% of the cost of city-funded construction projects to public art, has repurposed the many walls of our underground streets into a living museum. The program was instituted in 1982 by Mayor Edward Koch and pushed by Ronay Menschel, founder of MTA Arts & Design, at a time of a reinvestment in the city’s public transit. Since its inception, MTA Arts & Design has commissioned 260 works of public art. On 02.19. 15, director of MTA Arts & Design Sandra Bloodworth, artist Andrea Dezso, Sam Roberts, and Ronay Menschel, former MTA board member, gathered at the Museum of the City of New York to talk about the history and vision of MTA Arts and the Percent for Arts Program. Continue reading “The Art Under-World: the MTA Arts for Transit Program”

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In this issue:
– A Modern Classic Makes a Good Neighbor to Adjacent Historic District
– A Fresh Coat of Paint Completes a Painter’s New Studio
– It Takes Three Offices to Build a Village
– An Airstream Camps Out in a Building on the LES
– Gensler’s Ark Continue reading “In the News”

2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.08.15

Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 08.07.15 Continue reading “New Deadlines”

02.05.15: Mark Strauss, FAIA, AICP, Senior Partner, FXFOWLE; AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA; Bruce Fowle, FAIA, LEED AP, Founding Principal, and and Alfreda Radzicki, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, FXFOWLE, celebrated the launch of the firm’s new monograph, Reveal Filter Revolve Effect, and the opening of “REVEALing Architecture” at the National Academy Museum & School. Continue reading “Sighted”

Though Germany’s Bauhaus and the Dutch De Stijl are renowned the world over as major exponents of European Modernist design, there was a third center of avant-garde architecture that, while equally productive, has not achieved the same level of international recognition: Prague Functionalism. Starting tomorrow, 02.12.15, the Center for Architecture will present the U.S. premiere of the exhibition “Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes,” which traces the Czech city’s Modernist architecture from its roots to its influence on current projects. The exhibition presents photographs and drawings of buildings both built and unbuilt, and includes several models of historic and contemporary buildings, along with a to-scale reproduction of a 1930s minimal housing unit.

If you can’t make it to tomorrow’s opening, the exhibition will be on view through 05.23.15. You can also check the Center’s exhibition page for related programming.

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In this issue:
– Derelict Public School Has New Life as a Live/Work Space for Artists
– A Model for Universal Clean Water Wins YAP 2015
– Old Factory Becomes New Condos
– Hudson Square‘s Half-acre
– Honeycomb Design Buzzes with Artworks Continue reading “In the News”