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A unique program that offers graduate students some real world experience is helping to improve city life for all New Yorkers. NY1’s Rebecca Spitz filed the following report.
Columbia University GSAPP graduate William Anglin Taylor, AIA received an Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation at ceremonies held on October 15, 2009 during the National Trust’s annual conference. The Honor Award recognizes outstanding preservation projects across the country. The restoration of the Danish School in St Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands is the second project by Bill to receive a National Trust Award. Congratulations to Bill Taylor and to the rest of the team that restored this beautiful landmark.
Ricardo Scofidio '60, Principal and Founding Member of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects, with wife Elizabeth Diller was one of just over 200 contemporary thought leaders and artists inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences this April, 2009. Scofidio's list of achievements include receiving the first MacArthur Fellowship ever awarded in architecture, alongside wife and Princeton University professor Elizabeth Diller. They also were responsible for the revitalization of Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
He obtained his B.A. in Architecture from Columbia in 1960 and attended the Cooper Union School of Architecture from 1952-55. Scofidio initially worked as an Architect and then as a Professor, a post he maintains to this day at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Diller + Scofidio was formed in 1979.
Together the couple has been recognized with the following awards: Graham Foundation for Advance Study in the Fine Arts fellowship, 1986; New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, 1986, 1987, and 1989; Bessie Schoenberg Dance and Performance Award for design, 1987; Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism fellowship, 1989; Tiffany Foundation Award for Emerging Artists, 1990; Award from Progressive Architecture magazine, for Slow House, 1991; Chrysler Award for Achievement and Design, 1997; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1999; Eugene MacDermott Award for creative achievement from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999; Brunner Prize, Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2003; James Beard Foundation Award for best new restaurant design for the Brasserie; Progressive Architecture Design Award for Blur Building; Obie Award for creative achievement, Village Voice, for Jet Lag.
Posted 11/13/2009
The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space have named Dongsei Kim '09 and Jamieson Fajardo '09 winners of Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an international ideas competition for the future of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Their bold proposal calls for a sleek ribbon-like pump device, about as wide as a lane of traffic, to be installed along the Major Deegan Expressway as a way to clean air, provide acoustic buffering, filtrate rainwater, and ultimately provide pedestrian access to a new green waterfront. Called a p.U.M.p. (purifying Urban Modular parasite), the new kind air purification technology would be manufactured in the industrial district adjacent to the Lower Concourse, spurring development of new green industries in the Bronx. This idea edged out nearly 200 other proposals from more than 25 countries in a competition coorganized and presented by The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Design Trust for Public Space. They will be illustrated, along with four other finalist concepts, in Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an exhibition of renderings, drawings, videos and models on view through January 3, 2010 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street.
"These bold new visions may look like science fiction—but in fact they are glimpses of the urban future, based upon the existing character of the Grand Concourse—and are feasible given evolving technology and urban planning," says Holly Block, director, The Bronx Museum of the Arts. "Altogether, they suggest that the Grand Concourse has the potential to become the city's most adventurous and livable urban experiment." "Altogether, the pervasive assessment running through the proposals is that the Grand Concourse should be transformed from a thoroughfare for cars into a dynamic new public space for people with separate strands for transportation modes and activities," says Deborah Marton, executive director, Design Trust for Public Space.
"Where the Wild Things Are"
Safari 7 Reading Room in The Architect's Newspaper....
Mimi Zeiger of "loud paper" interviews Kate Orff, Janette Kim and Glen Cummings about the "Safari 7 Reading Room" at Studio-X, on display through December 31. Open Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm. Also, Open House on Saturday, November 9, noon-6pm.
Listen to a segment on Museum of the Phantom City, an iPhone app designed by GSAPP alumni Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder that lets users see visionary designs for the city of New York on their iPhones:
http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2009/10/26/museum-of-the-phantom-city/
On Saturday, 10/31, at 2 pm, WNYC and Urban Omnibus will host a meet-up in Bryant Park. The designers will lead a short tour and discussion about the project.
Van Alen Institute, in cooperation with the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, is pleased to present "Flatiron High and Low," an exhibition of photographs, architects' renderings, vintage views, and film footage spotlighting two centuries of building culture in the Flatiron district. The exhibition is curated by architectural historian Joan Ockman and designed by architect EJ Eunjeong Seong.
http://www.vanalen.org/participate/programs/FlatironHigh_Low
A panel discussion on the exhibit and its content is scheduled at the VAI on Tuesday, November 3, 6:30-8:30pm. Participants in the panel discussion will be architect Shohei Shigematsu, partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and director of OMA*AMO New York; Robert A.M. Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture; Carol Willis, architectural historian and founder of the Skyscraper Museum; and James Wines, artist, architect, and founder of SITE, the multidisciplinary architecture and environmental arts organization. The moderator will be Deborah Berke, principal of Deborah Berke and Partners Architects and professor of architectural design at Yale. RSVPs (events@flatironbid.org) are required for the panel discussion.
WNYC's Brian Lehrer on the "Safari 7 Reading Room."
Listen in as Janette Kim (Urban Landscape Lab) and Glen Cummings (MTWTF) discuss dog demographics, political ecology, cock-fighting in Corona and more on WNYC's "Brian Lehrer Show," 10/21/09.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/10/21/segments/142935
"It's a nature tour of New York, using the city's existing transportation infrastructure as both route and guide—and it's a fantastic idea." -BLDGBLOG
China Lab/GSAPP research and student work is included in the exhibition "Divergent Convergences," curated by Qingyun Ma, Dean, USC School of Architecture, located at the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall.