Niko Luoma And Time Is No Longer an Obstacle
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is pleased to present And Time is No Longer an Obstacle, the first solo exhibition in the United States by esteemed Helsinki School artist Niko Luoma. Niko Luoma (b. 1970) uses light as a raw material to produce images that visualize the passage of time by drawing focus to the intrinsic qualities [...]
A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living
The exhibition and the accompanying publication are significant additions to the field of architecture history as they illuminate Jones’s largely under-recognized contributions to late mid-century modern architecture and planning. To demonstrate Jones’s ability to work at many scales and across a wide variety of building types, the exhibition is organized thematically. On view in Gallery [...]
GIS 2013 International Architecture Expo Conference, with Arch. Giorgio Borruso
GIS 2013 International Architecture Expo Conference, with Arch. Giorgio Borruso Interior architecture and design, product design, lighting design and engineering May 27-28, Bucharest, JW Marriott Grand Hotel The third edition of GIS International Architecture Expo Conference continues to promote the recent innovative and sophisticated projects in architecture and interior design. GIS is addressed to all [...]
GIS, the International Interior Architecture, Design and Lighting Expo Conference
The 3rd edition of GIS, the International Interior Architecture, Design and Lighting Expo Conference takes place on May, 27 and 28, 2013, in Bucharest. The event is addressed to architects, designers, lighting and installation engineers, hotel and restaurant owners and managers, developers of office and commercial building projects, fashion retailers, companies with solutions for interiors and all those interested [...]
LUXURY INTERIORS, with Esat FISEK, Winner of the International Property Awards 2013
Esat FISEK will hold a presentation on luxury interiors in the 3rd edition of GIS 2013, the International Interior Architecture, Design and Lighting Expo Conference takes place on May, 27 and 28, 2013, in Bucharest. Esat FISEK is co-founder and Design Principal of Esat Fisek Interiors in Istanbul. In January, he won the “Best Retail [...]
Project Space Workshop on Vacancies in Budapest 27-31 May
The LAKATLAN BUDAPEST FESTIVAL (Vacant Budapest Festival) is a cooperation between the KÉK Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Wonderland – Platform for European Architecture and the Vacant Central Europe project. The festival’s goal is to summarize current research on mapping and reusing vacant properties and to explore new methods and solutions. It includes an architecture workshop, [...]
“Show Up,” The Cooper Union End of Year Show – Opening
The Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery from more than 150 years. A time honored tradition, the first recorded exhibition took place in 1860 at the historic Foundation Building, now joined by 41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union’s LEED Platinum academic building. Works [...]
“Show Up, ” The Cooper Union End of Year Show
The Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery from more than 150 years. A time honored tradition, the first recorded exhibition took place in 1860 at the historic Foundation Building, now joined by 41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union’s LEED Platinum academic building. Works [...]
Free Workshop – DrawNow! Scribble; An Unselfconscious Return to Drawing
As part of The Drawing Center’s DrawNow! series, artist Morgan O’Hara will present Scribble; An Unselfconscious Return to Drawing. During this 3-hour workshop, O’Hara will guide participants through drawing exercises using researched scribble sequences to explore the phenomenology of the unconscious as evoked through the act of drawing. By using both hands to manipulate the pencil, participants will [...]
On Display: Design Challenge for a New Penn Station and the Next Madison Square Garden
MAS asked four of New York’s most well-known and respected design firms to re-envision New York’s Penn Station – the busiest train station in North America – and Madison Square Garden. Be there when they reveal their designs LIVE for the first time: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Doors open at 8:30 AM Program from 9:00 [...]
Extreme Ideas: Architecture at the Intersection
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) will carry the narrative of modern architecture in L.A. forward from its influential past to the future with Extreme IDEAS: Architecture at the Intersection, a series of programs that chart a dynamic new future for architecture. The programs will look beyond the field’s traditional boundaries and explore topics arising [...]
Setting Up a Template File in Vectorworks Architect 2013 Webinar
Presented by Rubina Siddiqui, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, and Wes Gardner, Assoc. AIA, Industry Specialists at Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. Whether you’re working independently or in a team environment, starting a project from a template file will help save time by setting common items in place. Common items can include classes, layers, scale, and line weights. This [...]
Launch Party: PLOT Volume 2
The Graduate Landscape Architecture Program of the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, is launching Volume 2 of its student-edited journal, PLOT. Featuring submissions by students, faculty, and friends of the Landscape Architecture program, Volume 2 explores the theme of PATCHWORK, developed by the second year MLA student editorial board in collaboration [...]
DEPE SPACE ARTIST TALK
DEPE Space resident Graem Whyte discusses his RecPod project and the notion of play as art practice.
The Guastavino Legacy
Famous for his “Tile Arch System,” architect Rafael Guastavino created the self-supporting arches and interlocking terracotta tiles that define some of the City’s most striking Beaux-Arts landmarks. John Simko leads this walking tour uncovering Guastavino tile in Grand Central Terminal and throughout some of Midtown’s oldest buildings including Wolfgang’s Steakhouse and the 59th Street Bridge. [...]
On the Road
On the Road is a yearlong series of architecture, art, and design programs intended to frame a moment in time within the contemporary context of the city of Los Angeles. The first event will take place at Temple @ Alameda in downtown Los Angeles on June 2, 2013 from 12-6pm as a flotilla of U-Haul [...]
Sustainable Brands 2013
Sustainable Brands ’13 promises to be more powerful and engaging than ever before as we explore the 21st century renaissance that is being created by brands big and small who are finding new ways to deliver value to society. Be inspired, engaged and equipped as you join in conversation with over 2,000 innovators from around [...]
The Iron Designer Challenge Event
Enjoy live music, delicious hor d’oeuvres, an open bar and a chance to mingle with industry leaders while watching the Iron Designer Challenge unfold during this 4th annual event. The audience will have an opportunity to bid for items in the silent auction as well as vote for the People’s Choice Award!
After Superstorm Sandy: Rebuilding and Planning Metropolitan Infrastructure
Technical Conference Keynote: The Mayor’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding & Resiliency (SIRR) Tokumbo Shobowale – City of New York, Office of the Mayor Presentations: Design for Today and the Future – the Challenge of Tidal Stormwater Planning Dahlia Thompson, PE, Sandeep Mehrotra, PE – Hazen & Sawyer; Dana Gumb Jr, James Garin, PE – Dept. [...]
After Superstorm Sandy: Rebuilding and Planning Metropolitan Infrastructure
Keynote: The Mayor’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding & Resiliency (SIRR) Tokumbo Shobowale – City of New York, Office of the Mayor Presentations: Design for Today and the Future – the Challenge of Tidal Stormwater Planning Dahlia Thompson, PE, Sandeep Mehrotra, PE – Hazen & Sawyer; Dana Gumb Jr, James Garin, PE – Dept. of Environmental [...]
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
After an absence from print for over a decade, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design announces the relaunch of the LA Forum Newsletter. The premiere issue features architect Frank Escher on the clinical restoration of the Eames house and The Retronaut’s Simon Reynolds on past futures, as well as an interview with [...]
First Friday Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Join Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates at its office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. This program is part of First Friday, a monthly opportunity for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices to see work on the boards and learn more about the [...]
Film Screening: Lost Rivers
In nearly every industrial city around the world, rivers have been a defining feature of civic life. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, polluted rivers became conduits for disease and other urban ills, and—as we’ve explored in the [...]
NY13 Passive House Symposium
To slash energy use and carbon emissions while developing our built environment, Passive House is the proven essential first step – increasing comfort and health while reducing heating and cooling demand by up to 90%. The NY13 Passive House Symposium (NY13) will explore the effectiveness of Passive House as a cornerstone of our low-energy, low-emissions [...]
Passive House: Toward Net Zero Energy
To slash energy use and carbon emissions while developing our built environment, Passive House is the proven essential first step – increasing comfort and health while reducing heating and cooling demand by up to 90%. The NY13 Passive House Symposium (NY13) will explore the effectiveness of Passive House as a cornerstone of our more resilient, [...]
Le Corbusier/New York
AIA CES 8.5 LU over the course of the two-day symposium When: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 8 Where: At The Center This is the first day of the two-day international symposium. Please click here for information on the second day. Held in conjunction with MoMA’s exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern [...]
DINING + DESIGN – Conversations with Chefs and Architects on Creating the Ideal Dining Experience
This unique series will feature panel discussions with top toques and architects, highlighting the critical relationship between a restaurant’s culinary concept and physical design.
CTBUH London Conference 2013 – Height and Heritage: The Unique Challenges of Building Tall in Historic Cities
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is bringing together global leaders and top industry executives to focus on the best practices for developing sustainable tall buildings in historic cities. In a period of unprecedented tall building development, owners, developers, contractors, architects, engineers, planners and policy-makers are seeking to create cities that accommodate growing [...]
Member’s Event: Hard-Hat Tour of Governors Island
We’re heading out for a sneak peek of the new Governors Island! Members are invited to join us on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:15 p.m. for an exclusive, behind-the-fence tour of the construction site soon to open as the heart of Governors Island’s new park and public space. With the project’s first phase nearing completion, [...]
Sketchbook: Architectural Reflections on GCT
The Museum’s new exhibition Grand Central Sketchbook highlights the winning drawings by contemporary architects, from a contest sponsored by the Transit Museum and the Architectural League of New York. These designs, all featured in a limited edition Moleskine sketchbook, evoke a range of narratives that consider the complexity and dynamism of a working transit hub. [...]
FitNation
Inspired by New York City’s Active Design Guidelines, and the annual FitCity conference, going into its eighth year, the FitNation exhibition will present active design at a range of scales to show how designers and architects in partnership with city and national governments are encouraging increased physical activity and greater attention to health in the [...]
Streets as Places
You don’t have to be a transportation professional to have an impact on the streets and sidewalks in your community. The Streets as Places training course offered at Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is for anyone trying to bring about change to their public realm. From health professionals to bicycle advocates, community activists to transportation [...]
AZ Awards: Gala Celebration
The AZ Awards for Design Excellence celebrates the finalists and winners at a gala celebration on Thursday, June 13, 6pm. Join colleagues and designers from around the world as we celebrate the very best in international architecture, interiors and product design. Enjoy a selection of wines provided by Fielding Estate Winery and Flat Rock Cellars, [...]
“Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America”
The campus of Cranbrook Educational Community will welcome experts from around the world as the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), Cranbrook Art Museum and MPdl Studios of Ann Arbor, launch the most ambitious project to date examining the history of Michigan’s role in the development of American mid-century Modernism. [...]
MICHIGAN MODERN: Design that Shaped America
Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America is the story of Michigan designers and architects who met the challenge of a new century with optimism and spirit. Their innovative approach to design and their willingness to take chances with new methods and materials left an indelible mark on the American cultural landscape. They defined the look [...]
Bicycle Urbanism Symposium: Re-imagining Bicycle-Friendly Cities
An International Symposium Organized by the Department of Urban Design and Planning and the College of Built Environments, University of Washington. The International Bicycle Urbanism Symposium, to be held in Seattle in June 2013, will explore how best to encourage and facilitate widespread bicycle use in 21st Century cities. In some European and Asian cities, [...]
EBie Awards – Urban Green Council
Join us at the Hard Rock Cafe Theatre in New York City on June 19 where EBie winners and their award categories will be announced LIVE; tickets are available for the Oscars-style awards show here. Congratulations to our 2013 EBie Finalists! Their projects were chosen for their impressive environmental performance and innovative solutions that can [...]
Growing Up: Where to Go Once Your Firm Has Arrived
“Growing Up: Where to Go Once Your Firm Has Arrived” is being offered as a pre-AIA National Convention workshop. This highly interactive workshop is targeted to firm owners who are interested in taking their firms to another level. Provided by the AIA’s Architect’s Knowledge Resource, this workshop will feature expert contributors from the soon to [...]
Wells Street Bridge Rehabilitation: A Moveable Monument Restored
Since its construction in 1922, many changes have been made to the Well Street Bridge and bridge houses that have chipped away at the clarity of their original designs. The bridge houses retain much of their historic integrity, but original materials have deteriorated and modern equipment has been inappropriately added. Working closely with a large [...]
Campaigning Architecture (AA/UIC Global Workshop, London 2013)
Campaigning Architecture is a design workshop that operates across a range of scales and disciplines to explore more effective ways for architecture to make thought-provoking changes to our urban environment. The 2013 workshop will be located in London where we will campaign new modes of urban intervention for a hedonistic reuse and reactivation of a [...]
Edward Cella Art + Architecture Presents streetseasky
Edward Cella Art + Architecture is pleased to present streetseasky, featuring new work by artist R. Nelson Parrish. Rendering a kinetic impression of the Southern Californian landscape, Parrish distills the iconic elements of surf, sun, and highway through glass-like resin wall mounted objects. Ultimately seeking the inter-connectedness of body and landscape, the artist uses the [...]
Every Building Conference & Expo
If your world is commercial real estate, your business is here. Join us in San Diego, June 23-25, 2013 for the three most important business and career-building days of the year. Only at the Every Building Conference & Expo will you find all the innovations, ideas and information you need to heighten asset performance, increase [...]
2013 IVSA Conference
The International Visual Sociology Association 2013 Annual Conference will take place from 8 to 10 July 2013 at Goldsmiths, University of London. The conference will be hosted by CUCR – Centre for Urban and Community Research gold.ac.uk/cucr Inspired by Michael Burawoy’s concept of “public sociology,” we dedicate the 2013 IVSA conference to the concept of the [...]
Workshop: Management and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments
Course Description: This workshop provides attendes with management and remediation solutions to contaminants in both marine and freshwater sediments including the effects of remediation on the benthic environment. All aspects of contaminated sediments will be reviewed, including determination of contaminant sources, site characterization, remedial technology selection, monitoring, and demonstration of the effectiveness of remedial technology. [...]
+FARM OPEN CALL: Summer Studio 2013 – The Hunter and Artists Cabin
The project for this year’s week long intensive design and construction workshop is to build a cabin for the Hunter and the Artist. During the week participants are introduced to emerging design processes through hands-on construction. Away from the confines of an insular indoor studio practice, the team of participants and craftsmen will be able [...]
Unity Temple Restoration Foundation presents new teen and youth programs
We see fractal geometry everywhere — in nature (plants, clouds, sea shells, even lightning), in music (Bach, Beethoven, and the Beatles), and especially in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. We’ll take teens on a fractal journey with hands-on-activities, labs, and workshops. First, we’ll observe fractals in nature. Next, we will apply this knowledge to hands-on activities in [...]
The Water Expo
The Water Expo is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable WATER related markets for ALL the Americas. With its unique marketing mix (USA + Latin America & the Caribbean), the Water Expo works as the one-stop, all-inclusive, interactive conference and marketplace on this extremely important resource, combining a [...]
The Water Expo – Showering Connections throughout the Americas!!
The Water Expo is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable WATER related markets for ALL the Americas. With its unique marketing mix (USA + Latin America & the Caribbean), the Water Expo works as the one-stop, all-inclusive, interactive conference and marketplace on this extremely important resource, combining a [...]
13th Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class
The 13th annual Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class will be taking place at the Architecture Foundation Australia from 22 September – 6 October 2013. The two week residential studio based program has been described by many participants as ”a life changing experience” and has created a wonderful active international alumni network in over 65 countries around [...]
Retail Design & Construction Conference
The 2013 Retail Design & Construction Conference, which brings together retailers, restaurants, architects and engineers to examine the latest trends in efficient and sustainable design and construction, will be held Sept. 24-25 at the Westin Chicago Northwest in Itasca. Attendees at this fall’s Retail Design & Construction Conference can earn continuing education credits from two [...]
APT NYC 2013
For the first time in history, the population of cities exceeds that of the surrounding suburbs and countryside. Both millennials and baby boomers are flocking to city centers; New York City, after decades of population decline, has recently exceeded its peak 1970s population and continues to grow. Both expanding and shrinking cities of all sizes [...]
CitiesAlive: 11th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference
Securing Urban Resiliency with Living Architecture: Food – Water – Energy
2013 Green Industry Conference (GIC)
Combined with GIE+EXPO trade show, this is the most highly anticipated landscape industry education and networking experience of the year. A speaker lineup composed of the industry’s leaders and successful entrepreneurs; an exposition floor, hosting nearly 500 exhibits; and an unparalleled opportunity to be inspired, learn about industry trends, and build new relationships make this [...]
ASLA 2013 Annual Meeting & Expo
The ASLA 2013 Annual Meeting and EXPO in Boston will be the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals in the world. More than 6,000 attendees and nearly 500 exhibitors are expected to participate. ASLA annual meeting attendees consistently rate the EXPO as the “most valuable event” of the entire conference.
MiaGreen 2014 Expo & Conference 6th Edition
MiaGreen 2014 Expo & Conference – The Green Convention of the Americas The MiaGreen Expo & Conference is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable green, renewable and sustainable markets for ALL the Americas. This annual, well-established, business-to-business event is one-of-a-kind and grows bigger and better every year. With [...]
MiaGreen 2014 – The Green Convention of the Americas!
The MiaGreen Expo & Conference, is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable green, renewable and sustainable markets for ALL the Americas. This annual, well-established, business-to-business event is one-of-a-kind and grows bigger and better every year. With its unique marketing mix (US + Latin America & the Caribbean), MiaGreen [...]
TINY: A Story About Living Small
Can living small go big? Fresh off its premiere at SXSW 2013, TINY, a film about families living in homes smaller than a parking space and one couple’s attempts to build a similarly scaled house for themselves, will feel perfectly sized for a screening in the street-turned-pedestrian plaza atmosphere of Annie Alley. As a sneak [...]
Ruins of Modernity: The Failure of Revolutionary Architecture in the Twentieth Century
Join Peter Eisenman (M.Arch ’60), GSAPP faculty members Reinhold Martin and Bernard Tschumi, and Joan Ockman for a disucssion about the specter of modernism, the burden of postmodernity, and whether architecture can responsibly be practiced today. This is a Platypus New York event.
Inner Journeys Outer Visions
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is pleased to present Inner Journeys Outer Visions, a group exhibition that showcases artists who mine other disciplines like psychology, anthropology, physics and science, philosophy, and theology to explore “something more than ordinary perception in our lives,” says curator Sara Cannon. Artists in the exhibition are Lynn Aldrich, Craig Keith [...]
CLAIRE BAKER: SUNBODY and STEVE SCHMIDT: GYRES
Edward Cella Art + Architecture is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by emerging Los Angeles based artist Claire Baker. Baker is an abstract painter who strives to harness the spontaneity of gesture through the deliberation of strategy. SunBody, her newest series of large format paintings, thoughtfully negotiates this fine balance [...]
