by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
05.13.14: AIANY executive director Rick Bell, FAIA; Bernard Tschumi, FAIA; and AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, gathered around an image of Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, by Bernard Tschumi Architects, one of the projects featured in “The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture.”05.13.14: AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, and Ambassador François Barras, Consul General of Switzerland in New York, attended the opening of “The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture.”
05.13.14: “The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture,” on view through 07.19.14, provides insight into the richness and variety of Swiss landscape architecture, presenting projects by landscape architects, along with architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Herzog & de Meuron and engineers like Jürg Conzett.
05.12.14: Organizers of May’s Oculus Book Talk received signed copies of Old Buildings New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations, from author Françoise Bollack, AIA, DESA. (l-r) John Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA, co-chair, AIANY Historic Buildings Committee; Rick Bell, FAIA, executive director, AIANY; Françoise Bollack, AIA, DESA; and Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, AIANY Oculus Committee.
05.12.14: Craig Dykers, AIA, FRIBA, FRSA, LEED AP, founding partner of Snøhetta, gave a tour of the 9/11 Museum to members of the press.
05.09.14: AIANY 2014 President Lance Jay Brown, FAIA (left), and AIANY Executive Director Rick Bell, FAIA (right), joined Luis Vidal at the opening of his exhibition “ENCOUNTERS,” which invites visitors to discover and explore the work of Spanish practice luis vidal + architects.
05.09.14: Architect Luis Vidal demonstrated the multimedia capabilities of his exhibition “ENCOUNTERS,” on view at the Center for Architecture through 05.20.14.
05.05.14: AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Co-chair Jeffrey Dugan, AIA, and Darko Hreljanovic, AIA, Principal, IBA Group ▪ Gruzen Samton, at “The Red Line LRT, Tel Aviv, Israel” presentation, where Hreljanovic presented the plans to create a mass transit system in Israel’s most populous city.
05.02.14: At the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee’s “Breakfast Leadership with Lia Gartner, FAIA,” the Vice President of Design, Construction, and Facilities Management at The New School University, discussed her role in overseeing the management and operations of university campuses.
05.02.14: The Center for Architecture joined a delegation from Catalonia, Spain, which included Minister of Infrastructures and Development Santi Vila, on a tour of the High Line. (l-r) Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, Managing Director, AIANY; Peter Mullan, Executive Vice President of Planning and Design, Friends of the High Line; Mireia Rozas i Simon, Public Affairs Officer, Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United States; Marta Subirà, Director General of Sustainability of the Government of Catalonia; Eduard Vallory, Visiting Professor, NYU, and former Director, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics; Clara Barreneche, Director, Catalonia Trade and Investment Office in NY; Santi Vila, Minister of Infrastructures and Development of the Government of Catalonia.