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130th Annual Meeting

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130^th Annual Meeting
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
6:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35^th Avenue (at 37^th Street)
Astoria

The Architectural League cordially invites
members and their guests to its 130^th Annual Meeting.

6:30 p.m.
Reception and open house in the museum

7:00 p.m.
Welcome
Carl Goodman, Executive Director, Museum of the Moving Image
Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, Architectural League of New York

Remarks
Annabelle Selldorf, President, Architectural League of New York
Election of officers and directors

Remarks
Thomas Leeser, architect of the recent expansion and renovation of Museum of the Moving Image

7:30 p.m.
Open house continues until 8 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Architectural League would like to thank Museum of the Moving Image and Sciame for hosting this event.

For travel directions to the museum, click here.

Reservations are requested. This is a members-only event. Members may make reservations for themselves and one guest. Please RSVP by Monday, June 27 to rsvp@archleague.org.

Photos: Photographs by Peter Aaron / Esto. Courtesy of Museum of the Moving Image.

The Architectural League Prize: Ajmal Aqtash, Richard Sarrach, and Tamaki Uchikawa; Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo; William O’Brien Jr.

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The Architectural League Prize
Ajmal Aqtash, Richard Sarrach, and Tamaki Uchikawa, form-ula
Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo, NAMELESS
William O’Brien Jr.
Wednesday, June 22
7:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
1.5 CEUs
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Advance tickets are sold out. A limited number of tickets for walk-ins may be available. The exhibition reception following the lectures, approximately starting at 8:15, is free and open to all; no reservations necessary.

The second evening of lectures by winners of the 30th annual Architectural League Prize, featuring Ajmal Aqtash, Richard Sarrach, and Tamaki Uchikawa, form-ula; Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo, NAMELESS; and William O’Brien Jr.

Ajmal Aqtash, Richard Sarrach, and Tamaki Uchikawa founded form-ula in 2009 in New York City. The firm is a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to understand the intersection of design and engineering and its collaborative possibilities to produce culturally rich and high performance architecture for large and small scale projects Work includes Arch XXX, an art installation in Chicago; F.A.T. (face lift) in New York; and Clay Sutures: The Flats, an apartment complex in Louisville, KY. The three are also co-founders of core.form-ula, the research and development wing of form-ula, which seeks to capture cultural content related to design, engineering, science, technology, and art and organize it into an on-line repository.

Aqtash is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and is Research Director at the Center for Experimental Structures (CES). Additionally, he serves as the Creative Art Director for Milgo-Bufkin’s Design Series. Sarrach is Director of Digital Futures and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture. Aqtash, Sarrach, and Uchikawa each received a B.Arch from Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a MsAAD from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo are principals of NAMELESS with offices in New York and Seoul. Committed to “the simplicity on the unpredictable world,” the firm’s recent projects include an ice pavilion in Winnipeg, Canada, collective housing in Tokyo, and an auditorium in Gyeonggi, Korea. In 2011, the firm was awarded an AIA New York Unbuilt Work Merit Award, and in 2010, it was awarded the Boston Society of Architects Award for Design Excellence. The firm won first prize in the 2009 Seoul Museum of History Landmark design competition.

Na and Yoo both hold M.Arch degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Na received his B.Eng in Architecture from Hongik University. Yoo received her B.Eng in Architecture from Korea University. They are both currently teaching at Hongik University in Korea.

William O’Brien Jr. is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and is principal of an independent design practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Last year his practice was a finalist for the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, for which the firm designed an installation, “Weathers Permitting | A Field Guide to Transitional Environments.” More recently his work was recognized as an inaugural winner of the Design Biennial Boston Award. Projects include Allandale House in the Mountain West, Cog House, and Twins, a pair of houses in upstate New York. He has been selected as a Socrates Fellow by the Aspen Institute and was named a MacDowell Fellow by the MacDowell Colony. His recent publications include the essays, “Approaching Irreducible Formations” in ACADIA re:Form, and “Experts in Expediency” in Log.

O’Brien received his M.Arch at Harvard University where he was the recipient of the Faculty Design Award and studied at Hobart College for his undergraduate degree in architecture and music theory.

Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets here, beginning one week before each program until six hours before the program start. Purchased tickets are available for pick-up at the venue check-in desk and are non-refundable.

For more information, email info@archleague.org or call 212.753.1722 x13. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

The Architectural League Prize is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The program is supported by Dornbracht, Susan Grant Lewin Associates, and Tischler und Sohn.

The League thanks the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design for co-sponsoring the exhibition and lecture series.

Images from top left to bottom right: form-ula, Arch XXX [ gallery interior 1]. Photo by Dhanraj Emanuel; NAMELESS, Playcloud. Image by Unchung Na+Sorae Yoo; William O’Brien Jr., Allandale House, © William O’Brien Jr. LLC.; form-ula, Electric Plant:Predator BLDG [ exterior night ]. Copyright form-ula; NAMELESS, Whiteout. Image by Unchung Na+Sorae Yoo; William O’Brien Jr., Allandale House © William O’Brien Jr. LLC.

The Architectural League Prize: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno; Kiel Moe; Catie Newell

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The Architectural League Prize
Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Future Cities Lab
Kiel Moe
Catie Newell, Alibi Studio
Wednesday, June 15
7:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
1.5 CEUs
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The League Prize exhibition opening and first evening of lectures by winners of the 30th annual Architectural League Prize, featuring Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Future Cities Lab; Kiel Moe; and Catie Newell, Alibi Studio.

Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, California and Athens, Greece. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, responsive building systems, and public space. Most recently they were the 2008-09 Muschenheim and Oberdick Fellows at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, and exhibited work at the 2009-10 Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale, the Extension Gallery in Chicago, and the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.

Jason Kelly Johnson received his M.Arch from Princeton University, and his B.S. from the University of Virginia. Nataly Gattegno received her M.Arch from Princeton University, and a M.A. from Cambridge University, St. John’s College, UK. They currently teach at California College of the Arts and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as workshops including the Architectural Association Global Summer Program Biodynamic Structures and Hydra-Cities Lab in Athens, Greece.

Kiel Moe is a registered architect and an Assistant Professor of Design and Building Technologies at Northeastern University. He maintains a design-build practice for smaller, research-driven projects that test certain propositions about architecture. Moe also consults with larger offices on integrated design strategies for projects at a range of building scales, types, and climates based on his research. His research focuses on the theories, techniques, and technologies of converged material and energy systems for higher-performance buildings. He is the author of Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture and Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture, both from Princeton Architectural Press. He was awarded the 2009-10 Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He recently received the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award.

Moe received his B.Arch from the University of Cincinnati, his M.Arch from the University of Virginia, and his M.DesS in Design and Environmental Studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Advanced Studies Program.

CatieNewell is a founding partner of Alibi Studio based in Detroit. Her work captures spaces and material effects, focusing on the development of new atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light, or lack thereof. Newell’s most recent work and research is reflected in the installations completed in 2010: “Weatherizing,” and “Salvaged Landscape.” This work emphasized material and assembly logic research within the potent context of Detroit. In 2006, she was awarded the SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design with her project “Weather Permitting.”

Newell is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, joining in 2009 as the Oberdick Fellow. She received her M.Arch from Rice University and a B.S. in architecture from Georgia Tech.

Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Advance non-member tickets are sold out. A limited number of tickets may be available for purchase at the door.

For more information, email info@archleague.org or call 212.753.1722 x13. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

The Architectural League Prize is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The program is also supported by Dornbracht, Susan Grant Lewin Associates, and Tischler und Sohn.

The League thanks the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design for co-sponsoring the exhibition and lecture series.

Images from top left to bottom right: Future Cities Lab, Aurora Project © Future Cities Lab (Johnson/Gattegno);Kiel Moe, View of StackHouse. Courtesy of Kiel Moe; Catie Newell, Salvaged Landscape, Detroit. Photo by Catie Newell; Future Cities Lab, Desert House © Future Cities Lab (Johnson/Gattegno); Kiel Moe, Ceiling of StackHouse. Courtesy of Kiel Moe; Catie Newell, Weatherizing, Detroit. Photo by Catie Newell.

nARCHITECTS

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First Friday
nARCHITECTS
Friday, June 3, 2011
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Offices of nARCHITECTS
68 Jay St, Suite 317 (Third Floor)
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Join Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS at their office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at their ongoing work. New projects to be featured include ABC-Dbayeh, department store and cinema facades, located in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as a new bamboo pavilion for the Da Nung Da Fu Forest Art Festival in Wua Lien, Taiwan. This program is part of First Friday, a monthly opportunity for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices to see work on the boards and learn more about the offices’ organization and design processes. These informal social gatherings feature happy hour drinks arranged by the host office.

nARCHITECTS recent and ongoing projects range from buildings to ephemeral environments, and include Switch Building in Manhattan; Windshape in Lacoste, France; Canopy for MoMA/P.S.1; a new park for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus; and Villa-Villa in Ordos, China. In 2009, nARCHITECTS was selected by MoMA to lead a design team for the Rising Currents Exhibition, on view last year.

nARCHITECTS’ work has been published and exhibited internationally, including the recently published monograph DD 29: nARCHITECTS / Eric Bunge & Mimi Hoang_2000-2008. Recent awards and recognition include two AIA NY Design Honor Awards (2007, 2005), an AIA NY Building Type Merit Award (2008), The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices (2006), an AR+D Mention (2006), the Canadian Professional Rome Prize (2005), Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard (2004), the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program (2004), and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant (2008, 2002).

This program is free and open to League members. Members may bring one guest whom they would like to introduce to League programs. RSVP required to rsvp@archleague.org.

Columbus Circle Station Complex Rehabilitation

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New York Designs
Group Tour
Columbus Circle Station Complex Rehabilitation
Lester Burg, Jeff Dugan, Judith Kunoff, and Sara McIvor
Wednesday, May 25
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Columbus Circle Subway Station
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Join Jeff Dugan, principal at Dattner Architects (and principal in charge of the project); Lester Burg, project manager at MTA Arts for Transit; Judith Kunoff, Chief Architect at MTA New York City Transit, and Sara McIvor, historic preservationist at MTA New York City Transit for a tour of the rehabilitation of the Columbus Circle Station Complex and the installation of the Sol LeWitt public artwork.

Columbus Circle is one of the original IRT stations, dating from 1904. As one of Manhattan’s primary transit hubs, it serves more than 200,000 riders daily. The project, which was completed while the station was in operation over the last five years, preserves and restores the station’s landmark elements, provides improvements to public access and employee facilities, and showcases a major artwork in porcelain tile by the late American artist Sol LeWitt, titled “Whirls and Twirls (MTA)” and two of his compass rose designs. A new entrance at West 60th Street and Broadway makes entry to the complex more convenient and eases passenger flow, while new elevators provide handicapped accessibility to all platforms.

Jeff Dugan,Principal at Dattner Architects, led the Columbus Circle Station renovation project, and he is also involved in other transportation projects in the New York metropolitan area such as the PATH Grove Street station in Jersey City, the Second Avenue Subway, and the Number 7 Line extension. He oversaw the award-winning Myrtle-Wyckoff Station Complex Rehabilitation in Brooklyn and the Pelham Parkway Station Rehabilitation in the Bronx – both for New York City Transit. In addition to his transit work, he is the principal in charge of the New Settlement Community Campus, a public school and community center currently under construction in the Bronx.

Dattner Architects is a New York City firm founded in 1964 with a staff of 70. The firm’s portfolio includes transportation and infrastructure projects; master planning and buildings for educational and cultural institutions, public agencies, not-for-profit groups and corporate clients; historic preservation/adaptive reuse; sustainable architecture; and interior design.

Lester Burg has more than fifteen years experience in public art project management, having been involved in artist selection and overseeing fabrication and installation of public art from Hollywood, CA to New York City, where he is currently a manager at MTA Arts for Transit. He served as project manager for the fabrication and installation of the Sol LeWitt artwork at the Columbus Circle station. Prior to the MTA, Burg was City Art Coordinator for the City of West Hollywood, CA and spent many years at the LA Community Redevelopment Agency, where public art and cultural development were used as tools to rebuild neighborhoods.

MTA Arts for Transit has installed 220 permanent projects throughout the transit system with another 90 in planning.

Judith Kunoff is the Chief Architect of MTA New York City Transit. As Chief Architect, her role is to champion “design excellence of civic architecture within Transit including respect of our historic rich assets, incorporation of high performance architectural systems, and the implementation of state of the art processes aiding the goal of attaining a quintessential built environment for our passengers.”

Sara J. McIvor is a historic preservationist and has been involved with the 59th Street/Columbus Circle Station Project since December of 2009; the time at which she first joined New York City Transit. Since joining the project, Sara has assisted with on-site mock-up review, matching finishes, design change review, submissions to the State Historic Preservation Office, coordination with the FTA, and oversight for the work taking place with the landmark boundaries of the original IRT station.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Images from top to bottom: Model diagramming renovation, courtesy of Dattner Architects; New York City Transit archive photo of the historic Broadway Island north stair at platform, courtesy of Dattner Architects

Talking Books: Making Policy Public Pamphlet Series by CUP

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Christine Gaspar and Erika Wood in conversation with Cassim Shepard
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
7:00 p.m.
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince St.
1.0 CEUs
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The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a local non-profit organization that uses design and art to make visible the policy and planning decisions that affect our every day life. CUP works to bring together artists, graphic designers, architects, urban planners along with community-based advocates, government officials, and policymakers. The result is a fascinating diversity of projects and publications that illuminate complex social processes in astoundingly simple and accessible formats.

CUP and the Brennan Center for Justice will introduce “Know Your Lines,” the latest fold-out poster in the Making Policy Public series. The moderated discussion will address the ins and outs of the largely invisible redistricting process, in which politicians often get to choose their voters instead of the other way around; the process of collaboratively developing the hot-off-the-press poster; and the nature of CUP’s diverse publishing projects more generally.

Christine Gaspar is the Executive Director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Erika Wood is the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. They will be in conversation with Cassim Shepard, the Project Director of Urban Omnibus.

This program is free and open to all. Seating first-come, first-served. Reception to follow.

Organized by The Architectural League of New York and McNally Jackson Books.

reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum

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New York Designs
Group Tour
reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum
Sharon Matt Atkins, Aleksey Lukyanov, Wes Rozen
Thursday, May 12
6:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
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Join Aleksey Lukyanov and Wes Rozen of Situ Studio and Sharon Matt Atkins, Managing Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, for a tour and discussion of the design, fabrication, installation, and program of reOrder : An Architectural Environment at the Brooklyn Museum.

Situ Studio’s installation responds to the building’s 120-year architectural history and operates upon the ideals of proportion and ornament that figure so centrally in McKim, Mead and White’s original design of the Great Hall. Augmented by a new set of ordering principles that challenge the colossal scale and regularity of the gridded space, reOrder plays with and transforms the ornamental logic of the classical order in the service of the complexities of a contemporary institutional program.

This vision of a new, dynamic order is expressed through the lightweight and flexible language of fabric construction. Building on strategies developed in the textile industry for folding and gathering, the resulting variety of forms is generated without complex cutting or patterning of fabric. A system of flexible canopies, thermoformed benches and tables, and a configuration of internal plywood and steel armatures forms a new logic of the architectural order, one that creates a unique forum for public interaction and assembly within this ever-evolving institution.

Situ Studio was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York shortly after the five founding partners graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Through research, design, and fabrication, the firm operates at the intersection of architecture and a variety of other disciplines to engage a wide range of spatial projects. Recent projects include the design and fabrication of a series of analytical models for the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, as well as Solar Pavilions 1-3, a series of traveling structures commissioned by Solar One.

Recently appointed Managing Curator of Exhibitions, Sharon Matt Atkins joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2009 as Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Since then, she has coordinated exhibitions devoted to Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell, and has facilitated numerous other special exhibitions. She coordinated the installation of reOrder with Lance Singletary, Associate Exhibition Designer.

Images from top to bottom: reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum. Installation Image Courtesy of Keith Sirchio; Installing reOrder in the Great Hall of the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Keith Sirchio.

Festival of Ideas for the New City: Workshop Session 2 Report Out

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Workshop Session 2
World Café: Report Out
Saturday, May 7, 2011
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
New Museum Theater
235 Bowery
Tickets: Free
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World Cafe is an innovative “group-sourcing” practice, enabling successive small groups to focus on aspects of a particular problem or issue. A topic is broken into sub-questions, each addressed at one table in the “café”; after a set period of small-group conversation, participants move to a different table, where each moderator summarizes the previous conversation and opens a new discussion. Through multiple rounds, each component part of an issue is thoroughly aired—and each participant has an opportunity to address different questions.

Moderators and participants from World Café Session 2 regroup for a “report out.” Moderators present the results of the workshops followed by a lively discussion amongst all the participants.

Tickets can be purchased here or in person at New Museum visitors desk during museum hours. The museum is open Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Festival of Ideas for the New City: Workshop Session 2

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Workshop Session 2
World Café: Built Environment
Saturday, May 7, 2011
2:00pm – 4:00pm
NYU Wagner at the Puck Building
295 Lafayette St.
Tickets: $10 (Limited to 60 Participants)
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In the afternoon, a group of highly innovative architects, artists, and entrepreneurs brought together by the Architectural League and the New Museum will lead World Café sessions on how the themes of the Festival—the Heterogeneous City, the Networked City, the Reconfigured City, and the Sustainable City—can take form in specific ideas and proposals for the New City.

Session leaders are:
David Benjamin
Director of The Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Benjamin is also the Principal of the architecture practice the Living.

Andrea Blum
Artist and Professor at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y., Blum lectures frequently on the relation between art, architecture and public space. She has designed social sculptures for permanent and temporary projects internationally.

Anna Dyson
Director of The Center for Architecture (CASE), Science, and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dyson is currently directing multidisciplinary research for on-site energy generation.

Mitchell Joachim
Co-founder of Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE, Joachim is a Clinical Associate Professor of Architecture, urban Planning and Sustainable Design at NYU’s Gallatin School.

Lydia Kallipoliti
Assistant Professor Adjunct at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, Kallipoliti is a practicing architect, engineer, and theorist. She is the founder of Eco Redux, an innovative archival and design resource.

Mitch McEwen
Founder and Director of Superfront, McEwen is dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of radical contemporary architecture. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia’s Graduate GSAPP.

Jorge Otero-Pailos
Founder and Editor of the journal Future Anterior, Otero-Pailos created this first American peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the state of historic preservation. He teaches courses such as the Theory and Practice of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s GSAPP.

Roo Rogers
Co-founding partner of OZOlab and the former CEO of OZOcar, Rogers has shaped the OZOlab to provide consulting services to consumer companies that need to drive sustainable innovation throughout their business model.

Festival of Ideas for the New City: Workshop Session 1

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Workshop Session 1
World Café: Downtown NYC, Policy Issues
Saturday, May 7, 2011
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
NYU Wagner at the Puck Building
295 Lafayette St.
Tickets: $10 (limited to 60 participants)
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In the morning sessions, NYU Wagner and IDEO will collaborate to highlight policy challenges and elicit solutions that can help create a better downtown New York. Using yourlist.org, the organizers will solicit and aggregate citizen views to identify downtown residents’ issues and concerns, which will then be addressed in World Café-format discussions. Following the Festival, OpenIDEO will select one or more of the most prominent issues for its “Challenges” program, in which citizens and experts from around the globe weigh in with suggested solutions.