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The Architectural League Prize: Michael Szivos; Koji Tsutsui; Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim

Gabriel Silberblatt — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:55:29 +0000

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The Architectural League Prize
Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim, STPMJ
Michael Szivos, SOFTlab
Koji Tsutsui, Koji Tsutsui & Associates
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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

The second evening of lectures by winners of the 31st annual Architectural League Prize. A reception will follow the lectures.

SOFTlab is a New York-based design studio specializing in media: graphic design, branding, strategy, environmental design, and interactivity. The studio was founded in 2005 by Michael Szivos. The office’s work has been shown at the New Museum, MoMA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the office was selected by the New York Chapter of the AIA in 2010 as part of its New Practice New York program. Szivos received his B.Arch from Louisiana State University and his M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP and is a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture.

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Koji Tsutsui & Associates was founded in Tokyo by Koji Tsutsui in 2004, opening an office in San Francisco in 2010. The office’s InBetween house received a 2011 World Architecture Festival Award in the Villa Category and was named to Architectural Record‘s Record Houses. The office was also part of Architectural Record‘s Design Vanguard in 2011. In 2009, the office’s Annular Orphanage was a Finalist for the Global Holcim Award. Tsutsui received his B.Arch from the University of Tokyo and his M.Arch from The Bartlett School at University College London.

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STPMJ is an interdisciplinary architectural practice founded in 2009 with work in scale from furniture to urban infrastructure. The office is lead by Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim and based in Brooklyn, New York. Seung Teak Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. After graduating with a B.E and M.E from Korea University, he received his M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lee was the recipient of the Harvard Architectural Department’s Faculty Design Award in 2009 and was also a finalist for the SOM architecture and urban traveling fellowship. Mi Jung Lim was born in Seoul, Korea. After graduating with a B.S from Yonsei University, she received her B.Arch from Rhode Island School of Design and M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Tickets
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, starting June 13. Purchased tickets are available for pick-up at the venue check-in desk and are non-refundable.

Support
The program is supported by Dornbracht, Susan Grant Lewin Associates, and Tischler und Sohn. The program is also supported by the Next Generation Fund of the Architectural League.

Architectural League programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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

The Architectural League Prize: Jimenez Lai; Emmanuel Ramirez, Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Diego Ricalde; Sean Lally

Gabriel Silberblatt — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:41:27 +0000

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The Architectural League Prize
Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, and Diego Ricalde, MMX Studio
Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular
Sean Lally, WEATHERS / Sean Lally
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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

The first evening of lectures by winners of the 31st annual Architectural League Prize. A reception will follow the lectures.

Established in 2009, MMX Studio is a collaborative practice based in Mexico City focused on design process and research. The studio is led by Jorge Arvizu, who received his B.S. in architecture and M.S. in civil engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana; Ignacio del Rio, who received his training in architecture from the National University of Mexico; Emmanuel Ramirez, who holds a degree in architecture from the National University of Mexico and a M.Arch from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and currently teaches at the Universidad Iberoamericana; and Diego Ricalde, who received his architecture training at the National University of Mexico and holds a Master’s degree in architecture and urbanism from the Architectural Association in London, and currently holds a teaching position at the Universidad Iberoamericana. del Rio, Ramirez, and Ricalde were awarded the Mexican Young Creators Award in 2003 by the National Fund for Culture and Arts in Mexico.

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Jimenez Lai founded Bureau Spectacular in 2008 in Chicago. The office imagines other worlds and engages the design of architecture through telling stories, conflating design, representation, theory, criticism, history, and taste into cartoon pages. These cartoon narratives swerve into the physical world through architectural installations, models, and small buildings. Lai was the recipient of the LeFevre Fellowship. His work has been widely exhibited and published. Lai’s graphic novel/manifesto, Citizens of No Place, will be published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus. Jimenez Lai is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated with a M.Arch from University of Toronto.

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Sean Lally founded the office WEATHERS /Sean Lally in 2005 and is currently based in Chicago. The office explores the overlap of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Lally is the co-editor and contributor of Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, from Routledge 2007 and was quest editor for the AD Journal issue entitled Energies: New Material Boundaries through Wiley Press 2009. A new single authored book entitled The Air on Other Planets will be published in 2013. He is the recipient of the 2011- 2012 Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor at the UIC School of Architecture, Chicago. He received his B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.Arch from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Support
The program is supported by Dornbracht, Susan Grant Lewin Associates, and Tischler und Sohn. The program is also supported by the Next Generation Fund of the Architectural League.

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

“Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet”

Gabriel Silberblatt — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:14:42 +0000

“Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet”
Andrew Blum
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Walking Tour — SOLD OUT
5:30 p.m.
RSVP required

Talk & Reception
7:00 p.m.
594 Broadway, Suite 607

The Internet has changed everything. Yet the network itself, its physical nuts and bolts, remains utterly obscured, hidden in secret locations and behind closed doors. In his new book, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet’s physical infrastructure–its buildings–and flips on the lights. Tubes is a book about real places on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who work there.

Blum will lead a walking tour of the Internet’s infrastructure in lower Manhattan, followed by a short talk and reception at the Architectural League.

Andrew Blum is a journalist writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. He is a contributing editor at Metropolis and Urban Omnibus, and his articles and essays have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, Popular Science and Architectural Record, among many other publications.

Admission and Reservations
Admission for both the walking tour and the reception is free and open to the public. Reservations are required for the walking tour. Space is limited to 25 people. Reserve a space by emailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Reservations are not necessary for the talk and reception.

Co-sponsored by Studio-X NYC.

Álvaro Siza Vieira

Gabriel Silberblatt — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:28:15 +0000

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Current Work
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Introduced by Kenneth Frampton and Barry Bergdoll
Friday, June 8, 2012
6:30 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1, The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53^rd Street, entrance at The Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder Building (with curvilinear awning)
1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

SOLD OUT — Additional tickets may become available. To be added to the wait list, League members may email rsvp@archleague.org.

This event is co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art, The Architectural League of New York, and Aicep Portugal Global, with the kind support of Tap-Air Portugal and the St. Regis Hotel.

Álvaro Siza Vieira is the most important and influential Portuguese architect. His work has been internationally recognized for more than five decades for its coherent and thoughtful response to both site and history in context. His architecture, spread across the globe, is lauded for its intuitive creative drive and innovative spatial experimentation.

A 1992 Pritzker Prize winner, Siza has also received the honorary title of Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and in 1998 the Praemium Imperiale from the Emperor of Japan. More recently, Siza was awarded the 2009 RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal and the 2011 International Union of Architects Gold Medal. He was a Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique of Lausanne, the University of Pennsylvania, the Los Andes in Bogotá, and at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University as Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor. He continues to teach at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.

Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Barry Bergdoll is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art.

Tickets
Tickets are free and available to League members only (no non-member guests). To join the League and attend this (and all other League programs) for free, click here. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org, beginning 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 16. Limited tickets available, first-come, first-served.

Support
The Architectural League is pleased to acknowledge the support of TRESPA for the Current Work series. This program is additionally supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Grimshaw

Gabriel Silberblatt — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:56:17 +0000

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First Friday
Grimshaw
Friday, June 1, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Offices of Grimshaw
637 West 27 Street
Gallery Space–Ground floor

Join Grimshaw at its New York office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. 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.

Grimshaw was founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980, becoming a partnership in 2007. The firm operates worldwide with offices in New York, London, Melbourne, and Sydney employing over 250 staff.

The practice describes its work as the “search for optimal solutions to create a built environment that uses the planet’s resources carefully.” Its current New York projects include Via Verde Greenway affordable housing (with Dattner Architects) in the Bronx, the Fulton Street Transit Center in Manhattan, the Queens Museum of Art expansion, and masterplanning at New York University. Past work includes the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at RPI, flood mitigation street furniture for the MTA, and bus shelter designs for CEMUSA New York.

Grimshaw’s international portfolio covers all major sectors, and has been honored with over 150 international design awards including the prestigious Lubetkin Prize.

Tickets
First Friday events are free and open only to League members, who may bring up to one non-member guest. RSVP required to rsvp@archleague.org. To become a member and attend this program, join here.

Public Space Potluck: Dutch Kills Green

Gabriel Silberblatt — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:40:05 +0000

Public Space Potluck: Dutch Kills Green

Speakers to include: Linda Pollak, Principal, Marpillero Pollak Architects; Penny Lee, Senior Planner, New York City Department of City Planning; Tracy Sayegh Gabriel, Vice President, Development, New York City Economic Development Corporation; Leni Schwendinger, Principal, Light Projects Ltd.; and Margie Ruddick, Margie Ruddick Design

~~Tuesday, May 15, 2012~~ Wednesday, May 23, 2012 (NEW DATE DUE TO EXPECTED RAIN ON MAY 15)

6:30-8:00 p.m.

Queens Plaza

Long Island City, Queens

Join the League’s Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space for a field trip to Dutch Kills Green, a one-acre public space at the eastern end of Queens Plaza, Long Island City’s newly-transformed gateway to the borough. For more information visit Urban Omnibus.

Free and open to all. RSVP on Facebook or by email to rsvp@designtrust.org by Monday, May 14.

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Ennead Architects

Gabriel Silberblatt — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:22:19 +0000

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First Friday
Ennead Architects
Friday, May 4, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Offices of Ennead Architects
320 West 13th Street (Entrance on West 4th Street)

SOLD OUT: If you would like to add your name to the wait list for this event, please email rsvp@archleague.org. We will contact you if any tickets become available. Thank you for understanding.

Join Ennead Architects at its office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. 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

Ennead Architects is known for its cultural, educational, scientific, and governmental work, buildings whose designs express the progressive missions of their institutions and are responsive to their specific environmental conditions . The studio’s work demonstrates technical and artistic excellence, contributing both to the cultural life of their communities and to the enhancement of their precincts. Ennead’s collaborative process is rooted in extensive research involving the analysis of context, program, public image, emerging technologies and a commitment to sustainable solutions.

Among the studio’s award-winning projects are: New York City Center, Natural History Museum of Utah, Stanford Law School William H. Neukom Building, Rose Center for Earth and Space, William J. Clinton Presidential Center, Carnegie Hall, Yale University Art Gallery Renovation and Expansion, Weill Cornell Medical Center Weill Greenberg Building, Schemerhorn House, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, The Standard New York, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, and FDNY Rescue Company 3.

Partners Joseph Fleischer, Timothy Hartung, Duncan Hazard, Guy Maxwell, Kevin McClurkan, Richard Olcott, Susan Rodriguez, Tomas Rossant, Todd Schliemann, Don Weinreich, and Thomas Wong lead the firm..

Situated Technologies:Beneath and Beyond Big Data

Gregory Wessner — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:55:05 +0000

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Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data
A symposium with Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Omar Khan, Laura Kurgan, Helen Nissenbaum, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard, and Kazys Varnelis
Saturday, April 28, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
3 AIA and New York State CEUs

The Architectural League invites you to celebrate the publication of the final pamphlet in the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, “Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects,” by Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis. Bringing together contributors to the Situated Technologies Project throughout its first six years, this half-day event will address current issues surrounding situated technologies and the increasing entanglement of data, technology, and the built environment, and attempt to identify future trajectories for their evolution.

The afternoon will begin with a conversation between pamphlet authors Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis, moderated by Trebor Scholz, addressing the redefinition of privacy in the age of big data and the networked, geo-spatial environment, and questioning the implications for the construction of contemporary subjectivity. Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Laura Kurgan, and Mark Shepard will then present a series of case studies on open data and the process of making data public, focusing on distributed sensing initiatives and contrasting them with centralized programs managed by government agencies. Finally, Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, and Omar Khan will identify the challenges of developing data literacy among the next generation of architects, addressing these issues through an expanded architectural curriculum for the 21st century.

Tickets
Tickets are free for League members and students with a current ID; $20 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Non-members may purchase tickets here. Purchased tickets are available for pick-up at the venue check-in desk and are non-refundable.

AIA and New York State Continuing Education Credits will be available.

This event is co-sponsored by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center.

About the Situated Technologies Project
The Situated Technologies Project, co-organized by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, and Mark Shepard in partnership with the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities? The project began with a 3-day symposium in fall 2006 and continued with the publication of the Situated Technologies Pamphlets, a nine-part series of conversations between leading practitioners and researchers from architecture, art, technology, sociology, and related fields. In fall 2009, Toward the Sentient City, an exhibition curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the League, presented five newly commissioned installations and projects that explored the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the city. A book based on the exhibition is available from MIT Press.

Links
Architecture and Situated Technologies Symposium–Podcasts
Situated Technologies Pamphlets
Toward the Sentient City
Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

For more information, visit www.situatechtechnologies.net.

About the Speakers
Philip Beesley is a professor in the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo and an architect who is developing responsive kinetic architectural environments that approach near-living functions. His work is widely cited as a pioneer in the rapidly expanding technology of responsive architecture. He is co-author, with Omar Khan, of Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4: Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments.

David Benjamin is an architect and a principal of The Living. He teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation where, with Soo-In Yang, he is co-director of the Living Architecture Lab. The Living received a New York Prize Fellowship from the Van Alen Institute and was a winner of the Architectural League’s Young Architects Forum. The Living’s project with Natalie Jeremijenko, “Amphibious Architecture,” was one of five commissioned projects for the Architectural League exhibition, Toward the Sentient City.

Laura Forlano is an Assistant Professor of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research is on the role of information technology in supporting open innovation networks in urban environments with a specific emphasis on the use of mobile, wireless and ubiquitous computing technologies to support collaboration. She is co-author, with Dharma Dailey, of “Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy.” Her project, “Breakout,” was one of five commissioned projects for the Architectural League exhibition, Toward the Sentient City.

Usman Haque is the director of Haque Design + Research Ltd, which specializes in the design and research of interactive architecture systems. He is also founder of Pachube.com and CEO of Connected Environments Ltd. He is co-author, with Matthew Fuller, of Situated Technologies Pamphlets 2: Urban Versioning System 1.0. His project, “Natural Fuse,” was one of five commissioned for the Architectural League exhibition, Toward the Sentient City.

Natalie Jeremijenko directs the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD and the Faculty of Engineering at Yale. Her project with The Living, “Amphibious Architecture,” was one of five commissioned for the Architectural League exhibition, Toward the Sentient City.

Omar Khan is an architect and Chair of Architecture at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, where he is also Director of the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies. Khan is a co-organizer of the Situated Technologies Project and co-author, with Philip Beesley, of “Situated Technologies Pamphlet 4: Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments.”

Laura Kurgan is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she is Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Director of Visual Studies. Her recent research includes a multi-year SIDL project on “million-dollar blocks” and the urban costs of the American incarceration experiment, and a collaborative exhibition on global migration and climate change.

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her book Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life accounts for privacy threats posed by IT and digital medial systems in terms of the theory of contextual integrity. She is co-author, with Kazys Varnelis, of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 9: Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects.

Trebor Scholz is a scholar, artist, organizer, and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at The New School, where he also teaches in the Department of Culture and Media Studies. Scholz is co-organizer of the Situated Technologies Project and is co-author, with Laura Y. Liu, of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 7: From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City.

Mark Shepard is an artist, architect, and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice addresses new social spaces and signifying structures of contemporary network cultures. Shepard is co-organizer of the Situated Technologies Project and is co-author, with Adam Greenfield, of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 1: Urban Computing and Its Discontents. He was also curator of the exhibition Toward the Sentient City.

Kazys Varnelis is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is editor of books including Networked Publics (MIT Press, 2008), The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles (Actar, 2009), and The Philip Johnson Tapes (The Monacelli Press, 2008). He is co-author, with Helen Nissenbaum, of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 9: Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects.

Hanif Kara

Gabriel Silberblatt — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:21:22 +0000

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Current Work
Hanif Kara
AKTII
“The Engineering of Empathy”
Introduced and moderated by Gregg Pasquarelli
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:00 p.m.
The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

This program is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

Structural engineer and Design Director and co-founder of AKTII, Hanif Kara will present his approach to engineering in the lecture: “The Engineering of Empathy.” Kara will discuss the evolving relationship between architects and engineers brought on by new struggles and challenges with technological advancement, economy, and ecology in the past decade. Kara will elaborate on what he refers to as the “strategic model” of practice, which, he explains, requires the engineer to “sit in the mind” of the architect or client, while thinking with the expert knowledge of the engineer.

His work includes collaboration on Foster + Partners’ Sheikh Zayed National Museum, Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno Science Centre, Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion at World Expo 2010 Shanghai, FOA’s Ravensbourne Design College, and David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Museum.

In addition to professional practice, Hanif Kara is the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Creative Engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for Architectural Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is a commissioner for CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) and was the first engineer to be a judge for the annual RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. He serves on the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation and has been an advisor to the Aga Khan Development Network.

Gregg Pasquarelli is a founding partner of the New York firm SHoP Architects and serves on the Architectural League’s Board of Directors.

Tickets
Tickets are free for League members; $15 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 April 18.

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Newly Drawn: Emerging Finnish Architects

Gabriel Silberblatt — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:12:11 +0000

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Newly Drawn: Emerging Finnish Architects
Janne Teräsvirta, ALA Architects; Anu Puustinen, Avanto Architects; Mikko Summanen, K2S Architects; and Tuomas Toivonen, NOW for Architecture and Urbanism
Introduced by Aki Davidsson, Davidsson Tarkela Architects
Friday, April 20, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

Co-sponsored by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

This program will present four young Finnish practices. These lectures are part of a two-day festival of Finnish architecture in New York, itself part of a larger international tour of emerging Finnish architects. For more information on the festival and related programming, click here.

Janne Teräsvirta co-founded ALA Architects in 2005 after architecture studies at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) and TU Delft in the Netherlands. His first major built project, the Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand/Norway, received the Finnish Steel Structure Prize and the Norwegian Concrete Element Award in 2011. ALA’s work has been awarded, exhibited, and published worldwide. Teräsvirta was the laureate for the Raili and Reima Pietilä Prize in 2008, and he was nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov prize in 2010. Currently he runs a studio in the Public Buildings Chair at the Aalto University Faculty of Architecture in Helsinki.

Avanto Architects was established in 2004, after Ville Hara and Anu Puustinen won an open competition for the design of the St. Lawrence Cemetery Chapel. Since then the office has successfully participated in a wide range of competitions in Finland and abroad, winning 2^nd prize in the Tsunami Memorial International Design Competition in Khao Lak, Thailand in 2006. The office has won the Bryggman Prize for young architects and interior designers and two separate nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Anu Puustinen studied at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT). Before starting her own office, she worked for the Helsinki City Planning Department, the Helsinki City Building Control Department, and SARC Architects. She has also taught at HUT.

Mikko Summanen is one of three partners in K2S Architects. Among his best known works are Kamppi Chapel of Silence, Enter–IT College in Sipoo, and the refurbishment of the Helsinki Olympic stadium. He is currently designing a new hospital in Espoo and a floating headquarters for an ice breaking company.

Tuomas Toivonen is a frequent commentator on design, serving as a former host of a weekly 2-hour live talk show on urban politics, planning, and culture on Radio Helsinki and as a columnist for the Helsingin Sanomat week-end supplement. He is currently shooting a documentary series about the dilemma of protecting built heritage with the Finnish National Broadcasting company YLE. Toivonen published “Urbanism in the House”, a 12” record and book during the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, and has since performed architecture lectures set to music in London, Shanghai, St. Louis, New York, Budapest, and Helsinki.

Tickets
Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. League 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 online here. Purchased tickets are available for pick-up at the venue check-in desk and are non-refundable. AIA members receive free admission with a valid member card shown at the door.

Support
The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 satellite events in New York City have been produced as a collaboration between the Architectural League of New York, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the Consulate General of Finland in New York, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. The events form a part of the 10-month-long New Finnish Design CITY project organized by the Cultural Institute and the Consulate General. Additional program support has been provided by TRESPA.