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The AIA New York Chapter has three main goals: design excellence, professional development, and public outreach. Archtober fulfills all three, and goes above and beyond...
In a street market in Bangkok, the lives of two men – Ae, a former business manager turned earring salesman, and Niyom, a sugar cane vendor from the north –...
In English y en Español On Thursday, 07.11.13, just nine days shy of Colombian Independence Day, visitors to the Center for Architecture were treated to a preview of...
On 07.08.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Raymund Ryan about his latest book White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, published by...
Raymund Ryan sets out to illustrate the demise of the heroic museum in his recent book White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes. As he takes us through a variety of...
Low-rise, high-density housing – a topic much explored recently at the Center for Architecture through the just-closed exhibition “Low Rise High Density” – is...
The new “FitNation” exhibition at the Center for Architecture highlights 33 projects in 18 cities that exemplify the range of creativity that active design elicits....
One of the Center for Architecture’s current exhibitions “Low Rise High Density” has attracted some critical dialogue around a housing typology that inspired...
Each chair at the 05.03.13 “Future of the City” exhibition preview at the Center for Architecture – presented as a part of the IDEAS CITY Festival – was loaded...
“I hope this exhibition gets people talking more about a housing type that’s built a lot but not discussed very much, so we can have better housing in the United...
Interdisciplinary exchange is a natural way of working among architects and allied design professionals, but in many realms it represents more of an ideal than a...
The Invisible Architect Marvin Mass, PE with Janet Adams Strong, Ph.D Piloti Press for Cosentini Associates, a TetraTech Company, 2012 In 1989, when Marvin Mass,...
To celebrate Grand Central Terminal's centennial, on 02.13.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed John Belle (FAIA, RIBA, and Hon. PhD) on his book...
Popular culture has grown increasingly more defined by names with celebrity status and punctuated in the media and the arts by gratuitous repetition. There is, however,...
On 01.14.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Robert Geddes, FAIA, the longtime Princeton professor and author of FIT: An Architect's Manifesto,...
Awaken a New Yorker in the middle of the night and ask what the name Copenhagen brings to mind: the answer will probably be bikes. Yet its enthusiastic embrace of...
FIT: An Architect's Manifesto Robert Geddes, FAIA Princeton University Press, 2013 As 2012 drew to a close, conversations at the Center for Architecture were ever...
AECOM hosts an annual international competition called Urban SOS and invites teams of students from a variety of disciplines to tackle the topic of urban sites in...
Rescheduled due to Superstorm Sandy, a diverse audience of educators, city officials, and architects convened at the Center for Architecture on 01.07.13 to listen to...
Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY 2012 President. Laura Trimble Elbogen Jean-Baptiste Cuzin, Director, Office of International and Multilateral Affairs,...
At first glance, a school in the Bronx and a school in a Helsinki suburb appear to have little in common. The former is clad in brick and zinc panels and spans a long...
Sam Lahoz A view of the hanging desks in the Center's double-height space. Sam Lahoz Guests listen to the "talking heads" of contemporary education and learning...
A lively panel with audience participation made for a thoughtful Sunday morning discussion on the relationship between architecture, urban design, and the use of...
2012 AIANY President Joseph Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, introduces the program. Daniel Fox Wendy Goodman, Design Editor, New York Magazine, and Roberto Guerra,...
(l-r) Frederic Schwartz, FAIA, Denise Scott Brown, RIBA, Int’l. FRIBA, and Renata Holod. Laura Trimble Dr. Ghada Musa Rzouki Al-Slik updates the panel and...
An image of Big Allis from Mary Miss' "If Only The City Could Speak." Courtesy Mary Miss Event: The Civic Action Planning Model Location: Center for Architecture,...
Event: Faster and Bigger: Building in the Middle East Location: Center for Architecture, 04.02.12 Speakers: Scott Duncan, AIA, LEED, Design Director, Skidmore, Owings...
Event: Three Houses, One Skyscraper and a Chair; a lecture by Fran Silvestre Location: Center for Architecture, 03.28.12 Speakers: Fran Silvestre Introductions: Rick...
Speakers Dena Al-Adeeb, left, and Hadani Ditmars Matt Shoor, AIA Event: Iraqi Culture Pre- and Post-Invasion: From Secular to Sectarian Location: Center for...
Actors Michele Rafic and Yusef Bulos in The House Laura Trimble Event: Building ANew: Noor Theatre Presents a Reading of Short Plays by Award-winning Middle...