by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
01.13.15: Oculus Editor-in-Chief Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, celebrated her birthday at 2015’s first Oculus meeting.
01.14.15: Lois B. Area, PE, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Steven Winter Associates, discussed the challenges to bringing passive house techniques to multifamily high-rises at a talk organized by Urban Green Council.
01.20.15: Edith Hsu-Chen, NYC Department of City Planning Director for Manhattan; James von Klemperer, FAIA, President and Design Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Tommy Craig, Senior Managing Director at Hines; New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick; and Municipal Art Society Executive Director Margaret Newman gathered at the Museum of the City of New York for the program “Is the Vanderbilt Corridor the Future of East Midtown?”
01.21.15: AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) members Michael Archer, AIA, and Alex Alaimo, Assoc. AIA, presented at the ARE 2015 Workshop’s kickoff, “Demystifying the ARE.”
01.28.15: Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director of AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture and Daniel Vasini, Project Director for West8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, at the West8 offices in Rotterdam
Credit: Rick Bell