by: Emily Nemens
Cobb accepted his lifetime achievement award with “three brief but memorable remarks,” that Cobb explained “have accompanied and often sustained me throughout the six decades of my professional life.” The third of these was by Claude Lévi-Strauss: “The city is both natural object and a thing to be cultivated; individual and group; something lived and something dreamed; it is the human invention, par excellence.” The 1,135 attendees responded to his remarks, and his achievement, with a standing ovation.
Center for Architecture Foundation President Jean Parker Phifer, FAIA; AIANY President Anthony Schirripa, FAIA; and the four honorees: Arah Schuur (Clinton Climate Initiative); Vicki Match Suna, AIA; Harrry Cobb, FAIA, and Timur Galen (200 West Street).
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AIANY and the Center for Architecture Foundation also gave five scholarships on behalf of the honorees: Samuel Mikhail (City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Institution chosen by the Clinton Climate Initiative: A Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation); Kai Reynolds (Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, Institution chosen by Vicki Match Suna, AIA); Karli Molter (The University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Institution chosen by 200 West Street Project Team); Farah Ahmad (City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture); and Daphne Binder (The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Institution chosen by Henry N. Cobb, FAIA)
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Honoree Henry Cobb, FAIA, is joined by AIA National President and former AIANY president George Miller, FAIA, and NYC City Planning Chair Amanda Burden, Hon. AIA, FAICP.
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Many of the attendees travelled back to the Center for Party@theCenter, where they joined hundreds of other revelers for a late-night dance party.
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