Uneasy Alliance: Designing a Dialogue between New and Old
Ann M. Beha FAIA is teaching as a distinguished Visiting Professor in the spring of 2012 semester at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. At this lecture, she will speak about her work and the work of other leading architects exploring the intersection between historic landmarks [...]
Conversation: In the Kitchen with Keith Edmier and Jennifer Komar Olivarez
Step back to 1971 with Keith Edmier’s full-scale replica of the kitchen from his childhood home—a major artwork in the exhibition Lifelike, opening February 25. The artist, who painstakingly sourced and fabricated the tiles, wallpaper, and furniture, talks about the art and craft of restaging “real” interiors with decorative arts curator Jennifer Komar Olivarez, who oversees [...]
Tom Leader, “Groundwork”
Tom Leader is Founder and Principal of Tom Leader Studio, a nationwide landscape architectural practice that strives to be anactive, experimental atelier seeking a liaison between emerging ideas and the concrete need for their realization in physical space. With interest and experience in large-scale work, Leader nevertheless seeks what is personal and original while in [...]
Artist Talk: Stephen Shore
In 1972 self-taught photographer Stephen Shore set out from his native New York City to Amarillo, Texas, on the first of what would become a decade’s worth of road trips across America. Shore’s trademark photographs of middle-American landscapes, interiors, and figures helped establish color photography as an accepted medium in the world of art. Shore’s [...]
Unearthing Agamemnon’s City: The Lower Town of Mycenae
Since archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began investigating the site of Mycenae in Greece in 1874, excavations have focused on the citadel itself while work in the surrounding area has been limited to cemeteries and a few buildings. Recent systematic geophysical surveys combining ground-based remote-sensing methods and digital technology have traced and mapped visible and buried structures [...]
SMPS-NY Business Development Live! Building Business in Four Acts
Kick off the 2012 professional development season with Business Development (BD) Live! – A real-time, sneak peek event where four business developers engage a target client and introduce their “team” based on a case study. This event will be a hands-on workshop designed to help participants develop effective business development skills. Attendees will work in [...]
State of our City
City & State’s State of our City will be a one-day series of conversations featuring a truly dynamic line-up of New York City commissioners, officials and thought leaders to discuss some of the pressing challenges and opportunities facing New York today, and to reflect on the short and long term state of our city. The [...]
Megacities and Meta-Cities: Sustainable Models for Growing and Shrinking Territories
Megacities and Meta-Cities: Sustainable Models for Growing and Shrinking Territories Global Urban Design Studies and Research in Local Schools Thursday February 23rd 2012 Columbia, Studio X -NY (180 Varick street, suite 1610) The goal of the conference is to examine the role of urban design and urban ecology in the mega scale development of cities [...]
Columns and Stories
During a tour of the exhibition “News Paper Spires”, families will learn about newspaper headquarter buildings, both historic and contemporary. Kids will then explore what running a newspaper is like by producing their own special edition paper!
The Future of Asia’s Cities: Design, Environment, Health
The explosive growth of Asia’s cities and its global implications is a critical issue of our time. How can cities innovate to address design, environmental, and public health challenges? Abidin Kusno, Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia Lisa Hoffman, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma
Cornerstones of a Great Civilization
For the past two years, the Museum’s Money Tree has been the subject of intense scientific examination and conservation. This spring, the Museum will celebrate the restoration of this extremely rare bronze sculpture in a special presentation that places it in the context of major cultural developments in ancient China. Crafted in southwest China during the Eastern [...]
Man With a Movie Camera
IN-PERSON: Jan-Christopher Horak, director, UCLA Film & Television Archive. The Archive is please to present the West Coast premiere of the EYE Film Institute Netherland’s definitive new restoration of Man with a Movie Camera, which preserves the original full-frame image of cameraman Mikhail Kaufman’s dazzling Constructivist compositions. A breathtaking and witty vision of cosmopolitan life in [...]
Robert Siegel: Movement
The venerable NYC-based Robert Siegel, principal of Robert Siegel Architects will discuss “Movement” on Feb. 27, 2012. Siegel was previously the chair of the AIA New York Chapter Committee on the environment and served on the NYC High Performance Building Initiative. For more information, please visit: http://robertsiegelarchitects.com.
Live Models: A Lecture and Discussion with Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab
Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, California. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, responsive building systems and public space. Most recently Future Cities Lab was awarded the 2011 Architectural League of New York Young [...]
Architecture Criticism Today
In the first of a four-part series, architecture critics discuss the role of criticism in the field of architecture and how it informs the general public’s understanding of design. They also answer a vital question: as a project comes to life, at what point(s) should critics weigh in? In this panel discussion, prominent editors and writers will discuss the [...]
Urban Omnibus BlockParty 2012
A cocktail reception, art auction and benefactors’ dinner to support Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League’s online publication dedicated to defining the culture of citymaking. Buy tickets here.
Theoharis David: BUILT IDEAS
The work of Theoharis David a practicing architect and educator of Cypriot descent living in Brooklyn, is the subject of an exhibit “Built Ideas A Life of Teaching Learning and Action”, at the School of Architecture of Pratt institute. The 19 mostly realized works shown through models, photos and the architect’s concept drawings, demonstrate the interweaving of four [...]
Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss, born in 1961, has refined a cameraless technique in his work, relying on the most basic infrastructure of photography: objects, light and light-sensitive material. His work includes photograms of water droplets, smoke, flowers, christening gowns, and birds captured n a moment of flight. Her is also known for reviving the laborious technique of [...]
Built Ideas: A Life of Teaching, Learning & Action
Pratt Institute will celebrate renowned architect, alumnus, and longtime Pratt Architecture Professor Theoharis David, FAIA, with two exhibitions in 2012. David will also deliver a lecture a 6 PM on March 1 in Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn) that reflects on his 43 years as a teacher through the work of his [...]
Alan Rath: Skinetics
A pioneering artist, Alan Rath has created a sustained and distinctive body of sculptural work, developing signature techniques out of moving and interactive digital media. His works explore a profound insight: that we communicate and give expression to our feelings through gestures, blinks of the eye, movements of the hand. His sculptures embody these languages [...]
“Clear Light” The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli
The public is cordially invitied to view the exhibit from 9 am to 6 pm weekdays at the Spitzer School of Architecture.
Data Deluge
The ongoing dialogue between the digital and physical worlds provides the backdrop for Data Deluge,an exhibition that presents a selection of sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video, sound and works on paper by artists who shape Web-based and software-generated data into art. The exhibition, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, takes its name from the title [...]
Complete Streets for California
Building on the momentum of the successful Complete Streets for Los Angeles conference hosted by UCLA in 2011, the 2012 event will examine how to apply to California communities the latest developments in research, policy, and best practices from around the globe for complete, living streets.
William F. Baker
William F. Baker is the Structural Engineering Partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP. Throughout his distinguished career, Bill has dedicated himself to structural innovation. His best known contribution has been to develop the “buttressed core” structural system for the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest manmade structure. While widely regarded for his work on supertall buildings, his [...]
Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas
In this conference, historians and art historians investigate the role and interpretation of visual objects such as drawings, prints, and paintings as well as theatrical performances in British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish American colonies from 1500 to 1800. $25. Program and registration
Ted Ngai: Ecophysiological Architecture
Ted Ngai, of atelier nGai, a lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will discuss “Ecophysiological Architecture” on March 5, 2012. Ngai teaches and conducts research at the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) in New York City. For more information, please visit: http://www.tedngai.net/.
Peter Eisenman Lecture
Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. Prior to establishing a full-time architectural practice in 1980, Mr. Eisenman worked as an independent architect, educator, and theorist. [...]
Lecture by Philippe Rahm
Philippe Rahm studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993. He works currently in Paris. In 2002 he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and was one of the 25 manifesto architects of Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He [...]
Architecture in the Expanded Field
At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic Rosalind Krauss had written a seminal text entitled “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time, such as the work of Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Mary Miss, and Donald Judd. These artists’ practices [...]
Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist on “Project Japan: Metabolism Talks”
In 1958, a group of young Japanese architects gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the completion of one of their revolutionary new buildings. This run-of-the-mill act of comradery – unthinkable among today’s relentlessly competing architects – led to the formation of a movement that would play a crucial role in the rebuilding and reimagining of [...]
Kleindeutschland: the Lower East Side’s Forgotten Past
Few New York neighborhoods have been home to as many immigrant groups as the Lower East Side. Focusing on the German community, this talk will walk you through one of the earliest and largest of these groups’ local histories. From beerhalls to anarchist clubs, from newspaper offices to ethnic theaters, and from the headquarters of [...]
A Proposition by House of Natural Fiber
Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar introduces a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are responded to, researched, and discussed to propel them forward in unique ways. The structure of this [...]
Rothko Chapel: A Conversation in Words and Music
Experience the exhibition through music inspired by the abstract expressionism of Rothko and his contemporaries. This program features the landmark musical composition, Rothko Chapel. The life and legacy of Rothko will be celebrated with this special performance of Morton Feldman’s modern musical masterpiece. $20 for Museum members; $30 for nonmembers. Tickets available online or on site.
FamilyDay@theCenter: Build a Geodesic Dome
Learn about this unique structural form made famous by engineer and inventor Buckminster Fuller as we work together to construct a 14-foot geodesic dome! Then create your own model of a dome or other structure, inspired by its wonderful geometry.
From Inspiration to Realization: The Curatorial Process
When visitors arrive at a museum exhibition, they see the manifestation of months, years, and sometimes decades of curatorial effort. The many steps it has taken to arrive at that point can be just as intriguing as the exhibition itself. In this compelling panel, moderated by SFMOMA’s Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs Ruth Berson, a [...]
The Piers: Art & Sex Along the New York Waterfront
Jonathan Weinberg, artist and art historian will discuss how the Hudson piers below 14th street were used and transformed by avant-garde artists and a new emerging gay subculture in the 1970s and early 1980s. He will also spotlight the upcoming exhibition he curated with Darren Jones on the same subject that will be on view at the Leslie [...]
St. Patrick’s Day: Greening the City
Explore the possibilities for greening New York City! Kids will work together to create a model green building giving them a hands-on understanding of what makes a building green.
Millard Sheets: A Legacy of Art and Architecture Tour
Join the Los Angeles Conservancy for a special, one-time-only tour showcasing the art and architecture of Millard Sheets in the Claremont and Pomona area. The Conservancy’s contribution to Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1940 – 1980, this special tour will explore Sheets’ indelible mark on the postwar Southern California landscape. A native of the [...]
History of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company
Come share in discussion about the legacy of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, once one of Los Angeles’ largest African American businesses. The focus includes the significance of the building, the services to the community, the art collection and the murals.
Anthony Vidler: James Frazier Stirling: Notes from the Archive – Crisis of Modernism
Anthony Vidler, a historian and critic of architecture, is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. Trained in architecture at Cambridge University in England, with a PhD in history and theory from TU Delft, he was a member of the faculty of the Princeton University School of [...]
Drylands Design Conference
Nowhere are the opportunities for global leadership in water-smart design greater than in the US West. Shifts in the economy, demographics, and climate are requiring westerners to rethink the centralized, energy-intensive water systems of the 20th century. What do design professions have to contribute, and how can they be more effective? This conference will re-examine [...]
Daniel Eisenberg: The Unstable Object
What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common? Daniel Eisenberg’s (Persistence, Something More Than Night) latest film, The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on contemporary models of production. Interested in the ways “things” affect both producer and consumer, Eisenberg travels to a Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany, [...]
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
Explore. Shop. Get Inspired. A world of design inspiration awaits at the 11th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show. Explore the latest products for the home. Shop from new and established brands. Get inspired by new ideas and insight from top talents in the industry. Exhibits from nearly 400 premium brands Keynote Presentation by Margaret [...]
Panorama
This screening brings together short contemporary and historic film and video works by artists affiliated with either SFMOMA’s SECA Film As Art Award series or its ongoing SECA Art Award program. It showcases a variety of approaches to the urban environment as well as animated representations of natural landscape. Artists include William Allan, Kota Ezawa, [...]
Christian Marclay’s The Clock: 24-Hour Screening
Join us for another twenty-four-hour screening of artist Christian Marclay’s The Clock beginning Saturday, March 24, at noon and ending at noon on Sunday, March 25. Awarded the prestigious Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Biennale, The Clock is a twenty-four-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time. Marclay has excerpted each of [...]
Magdalena Fernández – 2IPM009
This exhibition features an installation by artist Magdalena Fernández. The work of Magdalena Fernández has been associated, not without reason, to one of the most effective Venezuelan artistic traditions: that of optical and geometric abstraction. The similarity between some of her seminal works and such precedents as the works of Jesús Soto, Gego, and Alejandro [...]
Peter Pelsinski: Creative Generalism
Architect Peter Pelsinski, RA, LEED AP, a partner in Stonely, Pelsinski and Neukomm, NYC will discuss “Creative Generalism” on March 26, 2012. Pelsinski, an NJIT adjunct faculty member, is the recipient of the prestigious Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects Award as well as the American Institute of Architects’s Henry Adams Medal. For more [...]
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building
Artist Linda Vallejo will conduct a closing ceremony to thank Otis and those individuals responsible for making the exhibition possible. The ceremony will pay homage to the elements of earth, water, fire, and air, the four cardinal directions, mother earth, father sky, and the great spirit. An altar, built for the opening ceremony of the exhibition, will [...]
Tracie Morris
One of Pratt’s Associate Professors for Humanities and Media Studies, the poet Tracie Morris will be the The Annual Christina Porter Art and Poetry in the Schools Lecture guest. This annual event inspires students to examine the structure of poetry as it relates to structures in architecture and how words can translate into the lines [...]
Stack ‘Em High
Get familiar with New York’s major players in the world of tall buildings by simulating their construction. Using stacking blocks, kids will make shapes like the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building. Upon construction, get your picture taken with your mile-high building!
Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, Historicism, Eclecticism: Toward an Architecture
The Victorian art critic John Ruskin, the pre-Raphaelite art movement in England and how all that and more relate to architecture will be the focus on April 2, 2012 when Marymount Manhattan College Associate Professor Jason Rosenfeld, PhD, an art historian, takes the podium. The lecture will tie into Rosenfeld’s second exhibition which he is [...]
Peter Cook + Eric Owen Moss: Gallery Exhibition Discussion
Peter Cook’s Six Dreams—Six Targets installation in the SCI-Arc Gallery introduces a six-zone, almost completely light-tight experiential space with projection screens and a sonic chamber, in an enclosure dependent upon a single point of entry, with no part of its internal physicality being visible from the outside. Architect Peter Cook and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss discuss the installation.
Tina Manis: In Search of Beauty: Synchronizing Domestic Space
On April 9, 2012 the topic will be aesthetics when Tina Manis, a principal of Tina Manis Associates discusses “In Search of Beauty: Synchronizing Domestic Space.” Manis is an adjunct professor teaching graduate design studio in the department of architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She has also taught at [...]
Coverings 2012 – The Ultimate Tile + Stone Experience
Coverings is the premier international trade fair and expo dedicated exclusively to showcasing the newest in ceramic tile and natural stone. Featuring more than 800 global exhibitors, thousands of industry professionals, nearly 70 free education sessions and dozens of networking opportunities and event, Coverings 2012 is not to be missed. Whether you are an architect, [...]
Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from The Blanton Museum Of Art
Storied Past presents an in-depth look at French drawing from the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. The exhibition features approximately 60 works dating from the 16th to 19th centuries. Many stages of finish may be seen in the drawings—which range from preliminary sketches to compositional and figure studies [...]
Society of Architectural Historians 65th Annual Conference – Detroit
The Society of Architectural Historians is holding its 65th Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan. Conference highlights include: 25 academic paper sessions on topics such as shrinking cities, the architecture of Fordism, cultural landscapes, and topographies. Paper sessions cover all geographic areas and time periods. Tours led by architectural history experts on topics such as 19th [...]
Preston Scott Cohen: Attenuation
On April 19, 2012, Preston Scott Cohen, principal chair and the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design will deliver the AIANJ Endowed Lecture. This lecture has been a program in place since 2007 and has included architects Thom Mayne, Daniel Libeskind, and Bernard Tschumi. Cohen is the founder [...]
Body Buildings
Kids will work together to make a city skyline with their silhouettes. Come learn about all the different skyscraper shapes by using poster paper to turn your “skeleton frame” into a drawing of your very own building!
The Kitchen & Bath Industry Show
The Kitchen & Bath industry’s main event is an inspiring, interactive showcase of everything new, where the brightest and best assemble to spot trends, experience product introductions and find the practical solutions and valuable connections that will take them into the future. Always on the leading edge, KBIS is your innovation resource for staying current, [...]
Building Envelopes Asia 2012
The 3rd annual Building Envelopes Asia 2012 presents 30 global experts from all stakeholder groups – developers, architects, façade engineers and technology providers, discussing current trends in: – The impact of regional regulations and rating standards on building envelopes – Efficient envelopes as a tool of ensuring ROI for developers – Combining aesthetics, function and [...]
PLANEfurniture
Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents its first exhibition of contemporary furniture that advances the gallery’s unique focus on 20th and 21st century architects and designers. The exhibition also represents the debut of PLANEfurniture, aninnovative suite of modern furniture created by noted designer and collector Michael Boyd. Inspired by the pioneers of modern design, from Gerrit Rietveld and Rudolph Schindler [...]
Bones of an Old Dutch Farmhouse
In this full house tour examine the white oak timbers—the bones—of the house and the many layers that were added, subtracted and changed over the past 227 years. Climb the staircase for a view of the attic’s smokehouse and see both public and private areas. For adults and teenagers. Reservations required. (718) 789-2822, ext. 303.
