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The all-time high number of 5,019 members of the AIA New York Chapter was announced today by Board Secretary Jane Smith, AIA, of Spacesmith. Building on a steady...
Riding my bike on the West Side Highway to the exhibition opening of “Booming Boroughs: Redesigning Aging-in-Place in NYC” at the Center for Architecture, I passed...
The Nature of Urban Design is the product of a mind that can work on many intellectual levels and emotional constructs. This book, by Alexandros Washburn, Assoc. AIA,...
In a presentation on 01.10.14, organized by the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Susannah Drake, ASLA, AIA, founding principal of dlandstudio...
As more New York firms work globally, the relevance of importing and exporting international design ideas has never been greater. This exchange of ideas will be...
Martin Filler is the architecture critic for The New York Review of Books (NYRB) and the author of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007) and, most recently, Makers of...
On 12.09.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Martin Filler, architecture critic for The New York Review of Books, and author of Makers of Modern...
What follows are adapted remarks from the 2013 Inaugural. Looking back over the past year, I am proud and humbled by all that our Board and volunteers have done to...
What follows are adapted remarks from the 2013 Inaugural. Being President of the AIA New York Chapter is an honor, a challenge, a responsibility, and, truly, a great...
Asia’s urban centers are global metropolises and construction continues full speed ahead. One need only look at two photos of Shanghai, one from the 1980s and one from...
There are many big-name performers and fast-paced sporting events that take place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the multi-purpose arena at the intersection of Flatbush...
Where is the most expensive office rent in the world in 2013? Unexpectedly, Luanda, Angola, due to extreme economic growth and lack of Class A office space to serve...
Carlton Brown is a man of big ideas and grand ideals. Honored last week at the Ratensky Lecture at the Center for Architecture, Brown talked about how his upbringing in...
The Solar Decathlon, an annual design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, challenges academic institutions to design and build cost-effective,...
“A Tale of Two Futures: The Living Building Challenge” was explored through the Willow School in Bedminster, NJ, designed by Michael Farewell, FAIA, LEED AP,...
On 10.28.13, Michel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Phyllis Lambert, Hon, FAIA, founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal...
If you are not currently an AIA member there are many great reasons to join, and particularly to be part of the AIA New York Chapter. With a growing number of programs...
Discussing competitions and new models for disseminating architectural ideas, the “(P) RE:Think | Competitive Ideas” panel discerned little about the future. When...
Roughly a year after New York endured Superstorm Sandy, with current headlines showing the devastation caused by a massive typhoon that wracked the Philippines, the...
On 11.13.13, the Center for Architecture’s Tafel Hall was packed with notebook-wielding architects and architecture-appreciating professionals. The word...
