The fourth and final evening of the 30th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring arquitectura911sc and Atelier TAG.  Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.  For more information on the competition and annual awards, click here.

Confronted with the complexity and political uncertainty of Mexico City, Jose Castillo and Saidee Springall of arquitectura911sc strive for a “dual commitment to an architecture that connects the physical with the social, and architecture that is grounded and informed by the city.”  Their performing Arts Center in Guadalajara is under construction.  Recently completed projects include a low-income housing development, bookstores, offices, and commercial spaces in Mexico City, as well as urban planning and infrastructure projects throughout Mexico.

Atelier TAG “seeks to reinterpret the civic function of architecture through the careful study of sociocultural context…in order to create evocative spaces where society as a collective can express itself.”  Building primarily in the public realm, the firm has completed projects, including the Bibliothéque Raymond-Levésque  in 2011, as well as the Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne, and the Bibliothéque Municipale de Chateauguay.  Based in Montreal, Atelier TAG is led by Manon Asselin and Katsuhiro Yamazaki.

Dan Wood is a founding partner of WORKac.  He served on this year’s Emerging Voices committee.

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 online 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.

AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

Support
Emerging Voices is generously supported by Maharam. The Emerging Voices 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 third evening of the 30^th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring Oyler Wu Collaborative and SsD.  Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.  For more information on the competition and annual awards, click here.

Most of Oyler Wu Collaborative’s projects are self-built, providing the opportunity for “the design process to continually respond to the feedback provided by the fabrication process.”  In addition to speculative façade designs, over the past year the office has built Anemone, a pavilion in Taipei; a traveling installation “reALIze” (in collaboration with Michael Kalish); and “Netscape,” a large steel-framed and knitted rope canopy at SCI-Arc, which was designed and constructed with students.  Based in Los Angeles, the firm is led by Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu.

Jinhee Park and John Hong of SsD approach design as an interdisciplinary venture, simultaneously exploring aspects of architecture, landscape, history, and social systems.  Among their recently completed projects are the White Block Gallery and “Cloud,” an interactive light and sound sculpture, both in Heyri, Korea; and the Braver house in Newton, Massachusetts.  The firm, based in Cambridge, New York, and Seoul, also curated and designed the exhibition New Trajectories: Convergent Flux, Korea, first displayed at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Paul Lewis is a founding partner of LTL Architects and is  the current Vice President for Architecture of the Architectural League of New York.  He served on this year’s Emerging Voices committee.

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, 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.

AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

Support
Emerging Voices is generously supported by Maharam. The Emerging Voices 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.

Emerging Voices
SCAPE / Landscape Architecture; Studio NMinusOne
Kate Orff; Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber
Introduced by Claire Weisz
Friday, March 9, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

The second evening of the 30^th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring SCAPE / Landscape Architecture and Studio NMinusOne.  Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.  For more information on the competition and annual awards, click here.

A landscape architecture and urban design firm, SCAPE / Landscape Architecture is “committed to the … creative design and construction of the joint urban-natural environment.”  Led by Kate Orff and Elena Brescia, the New York-based firm engages both built landscapes and research projects.  Recent work includes landscape designs for Milstein Hall at Cornell University, the Austin Nichols Warehouse on the East River Waterfront, and the 103^rd Street Community Garden for the New York Restoration Project; and the study “Oyster-tecture,” for the Museum of Modern Art’s Rising Currents exhibition.

Studio NMinusOne works on projects in scales from urban design and architecture to diagnostic objects and building materials. Throughout the cross-disciplinary work of Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber one finds the “physiological engagement of the body, through physical/material and informational processes.” The Toronto office’s work includes “real” houses in Toronto and Whistler; “surreal” houses, theoretical projects exploring domestic space; and responsive prototypes such as a digital window and other collaboratively designed projects.

Claire Weisz is a founding partner of WXY Architecture + Urban Design.  She served on this year’s Emerging Voices committee.

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 online 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.

AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

Support
Emerging Voices is generously supported by Maharam. The Emerging Voices 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 first evening of the 30^th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring 5468796 architecture and INABA.  Emerging Voices spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.  For more information on the competition and annual awards, click here.

Winnipeg’s 5468796 architecture is a collaborative firm that engages design at a variety of scales, participating in “an ongoing dialogue rooted in curiosity and play, generating innovative architectural solutions within modest budgetary constraints.”  Their current and recent projects range in scale from the OMS Stage to multifamily housing, including the projects Bloc 10; youCube; and Welcome Place, immigrant housing and services.

Working in a variety of media, INABA “gives form to content” by “giving shape to facts through design.”  The firm, led by Jeffrey Inaba and based in Los Angeles and New York, applies architectural design at multiple scales, ranging from diagrams and books to installations and master plans. Among the firm’s recent projects are a temporary café for the 2010 Whitney Biennial and installations for: the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea; Little Tokyo Design Week, Los Angeles; and the Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York.

Annabelle Selldorf is Principal of Selldorf Architects and President of the Architectural League.  She served on this year’s Emerging Voices committee.

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 online 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.

AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

Support
Emerging Voices is generously supported by Maharam. The Emerging Voices 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.

Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity
Marie J. Aquilino, Michael Murphy, and Maggie Stephenson
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Scholastic Auditorium
557 Broadway
1.5 HSW AIA and New York State CEUs

This program is co-sponsored by Metropolis Books, ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

As the frequency of major natural disasters increases, so does the need to help rebuild the communities and lives of those affected. Across the world, innovative architecture and engineering firms, as well as nonprofits and research centers, are making huge efforts to assist these communities by bridging the gap that separates short-term solutions from long-term sustainable recovery. As a result of their work, they are changing the way we think about disaster recovery solutions.

This conversation will explore the ways in which architects and engineers can play truly effective roles in disaster recovery and mitigation. The participants will look at both the successes and failures that they have encountered, particularly in Haiti but in other regions of the world as well. The conversation will be introduced and led by Marie J. Aquilino, editor of Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity.

Marie J. Aquilino is a professor of architectural history at the École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris and is developing a program to train architecture students to work in contexts of extreme need in the developing world. Aquilino serves as associate program director of the BaSiC Initiative and is collaborating with Caritas and architecture students on building an orphanage and outreach facility in Titanyen, Haiti.

Michael Murphy is founding partner and Executive Director of MASS Design Group.  He founded the organization in 2007 to better address the need for a holistic design approach in developing economies. Through partnership with Partners in Health, Murphy led the design on Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, assisting with breakthrough architectural solutions to mitigate and reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like tuberculosis.

Maggie Stephenson is senior technical advisor for Haiti at UN-HABITAT. From 2005 to 2011 she was based in Pakistan, where she worked with UN-HABITAT and the National Disaster Management Authority, supporting response and mitigation, based on people-centered approaches, to help the millions of people affected by natural disaster and conflict there. For the last twenty years, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, she has worked in architecture and planning education, urban government, housing and development, and post-disaster reconstruction for governments, the United Nations, nonprofits, and in the private sector.

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, beginning February 8th.

Support
This program is 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.

Current Work
Francis Kéré
“Bridging the Gap”
Introduced and moderated by David Turnbull

This program is co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.

Architect Francis Kéré will present a lecture entitled “Bridging the Gap.”  Kéré is increasingly known for his philosophy of “self-building,” in which he works with communities to develop capacity to monitor climactic circumstances and use local materials.  In a discussion of his recent and current projects, which have won both Aga Khan and Holcim Awards,  Kéré will consider new ways architects can exchange knowledge with communities and propose new models for practice.  In Kéré’s words, “only people who take part in the building process can maintain and spread the word about these architectural projects.”

Diébédo Francis Kéré, from Burkina Faso, studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he is now based. As an architect he defines himself as “a bridge between cultures, between the technically and economically developed countries of ‘the north’ and the less developed African countries (of the south)” His projects have focused on education as “the developing concept for his country.” While a student, he founded the association Schulbausteine für Gando e. V, for the funding of his first project, a Primary School in his native village. The building, completed in 2001, received the Aga Khan Award. The school’s construction is “the result of a vision, initially verbalized by the architect and realized by the community.”

Subsequently, Kéré has built teachers’ housing for the school in Gando, as well as another school building and a library, enabling 900 children to go to school in the village. He has also completed work on Mali’s National Park in Bamako and the Museum for Earth Architecture in Mopti. In all of his projects, Kéré notes that workers trained through the construction have found work far beyond the region.

Since 2005, Kéré has worked internationally, with projects completed or under construction in Spain, China, Switzerland, and Yemen, among others. Kéré has lectured or taught at a variety of institutions, including the Berlin University of Technology, the Harvard GSD, the Oslo National Academy of Arts, and the University of Venice. Recognized internationally, Kéré has most recently received the 2011 Regional Holcim Award for Africa and Middle East, for his work in Morocco.

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 February 2nd.

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.

First Friday
Architecture Research Office
Friday, February 3, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Architecture Research Office
160-170 Varick Street aka 10 Hudson Square (between Charlton and Vandam Streets), 7th Floor
Please note: a photo ID is required to enter the building.

This program is sold out.  If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email rsvp@archleague.org.  We will contact you if a ticket becomes available. 

Founded in 1993, Architecture Research Office (ARO) is led by Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky, and Kim Yao. ARO’s project portfolio spans strategic planning, architecture, and urban design.  The office through its projects — from a 1,000 sf, low-income, sustainable housing prototype to private homes to a proposal to reinvent the role of ecology and infrastructure in New York City — seeks “to create the greatest aesthetic impact using the fewest natural and financial resources.”

ARO has worked with universities, cultural institutions, global corporations, government agencies, private residential clients, and international fashion labels. Current projects include the Donald Judd Home + Studio Museum at 101 Spring Street in New York City; a dormitory for Tulane University; a private residence in Minnesota; a new performing arts complex in Lower Manhattan for the Flea Theater; and a synagogue for Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

Architecture Research Office received the 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored founding principals Cassell and Yarinsky with their 2010 Academy Award for Architecture. The firm’s work on the impact of climate change on New York City appeared as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Rising Currents exhibition and was featured at the U.S. Pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale.

This program is free and open to League members. Members may bring one guest. RSVP required to rsvp@archleague.org. To become a member, join here.

League members and their guests are invited to a private reception and viewing of two exhibitions about the past and future of Manhattan’s legendary street grid. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan for New York–the foundational document that established the original Manhattan grid of 12 north-south avenues and 155 east-west streets–the Museum of the City of New York and the Architectural League have organized a pair of exhibitions that explore the creation and evolution of the Manhattan grid over its first two hundred years, and consider how the grid might continue to evolve in the future.

To read more about the The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculation’s for Manhattan, click here.  To read more about The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811-2011, click here.

Wine and snacks will be served.

Tickets
This reception is free and open to League members. Members may bring one guest. RSVP required to rsvp@archleague.org. To become a member, join here.

About the Exhibitions
The Greatest Grid is curated by Hilary Ballon and is a co-presentation of the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public Library, and the Architectural League of New York. The Unfinished Grid is curated by Gregory Wessner and is organized by the Architectural League of New York in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York. The Greatest Grid and The Unfinished Grid were designed by Cooper Joseph Studio, with exhibition graphics by Thumb Projects.

Pavilions and Follies
A conversation with Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem; Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg; and Michael Loverich
Response by Galia Solomonoff
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
7:00 p.m.
The Architectural League
594 Broadway, Suite 607
1.5 CEU credits

Noted architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote that “the virtue of a folly is that [it] provides the freedom to explore without rules.” This conversation among a group of emerging architects and designers explores the increasingly important opportunities that contemporary pavilions, follies, and similar small-scale projects provide for research and experimentation in design and fabrication. The conversation will focus on questions of program, materials, duration, and audience, among others. This event is organized in conjunction with Folly, a new studio residency and project commission co-organized by the Architectural League and Socrates Sculpture Park.

Michael Loverich is co-founder of Bittertang with Antonio Torres. Bittertang strives to bring humor and pleasure to the built environment by digging deep into the sensual world that surrounds us; extracting rich and hilarious fodder from overlooked eras that have contributed integral matter to the production of architectural atmospheres. Notable projects include Burble Bup, City of Dreams Pavilion, on Governors Island (2011), and Bio Puff for Sukkah City (2010). Bittertang won the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers in 2010.

Rachely Rotem is the founder and principal of Rachely Rotem Studio, llc. The design practice, based in New York City and Tel Aviv, has projects in architectural design, interiors and urban environments. The practice is committed to capitalizing on the intersection between existing and changing conditions in order to create new spatial experiences.  Phu Hoang is the founder and principal of Phu Hoang Office, a New York-based architecture practice with projects in architecture, interior, and installation design. Phu Hoang Office won the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers in 2009. In 2010, Hoang and Rotem won an invited competition organized by Creative Time for an outdoor public art pavilion in the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. Phu Hoang Office and Rachely Rotem Studio also won SHIFTboston’s Barge 2011 design competition for a public installation on a barge in Boston harbor.

Galia Solomonoff is the founder and creative director of Solomonoff Architecture Studio. She received her Masters in Architecture from Columbia University her BA from City College, where she was named Best Student of the School of Architecture in 1990. Prior to founding SAS, Solomonoff worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Rafael Vinoly, and Bernard Tschumi Architects, as well as OpenOffice, which she co-founded. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, The Cooper Union, Yale University, and Columbia University’s GSAPP. Solomonoff is the recipient of two AIA Design Awards, grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recognition in the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices series. Her work–which ranges in scale from apartments to townhouses to large museum projects–has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, W, ARTNews, Artforum, and Domus.

The deadline for the Call for Proposals for Folly is January 16. Click here for more information.

Wine and snacks will be served.

Tickets

This program is sold out.  Email questions to rsvp@archleague.org

Co-sponsored by Socrates Sculpture Park.  Folly is made possible with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

SOLD OUT
First Friday
Allied Works
Friday, January 6, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Offices of Allied Works
12 West 27th Street, 18th Floor

Allied Works is an interdisciplinary architecture and design practice that operates from offices in New York City and Portland, Oregon. Founded by Brad Cloepfil in 1994, the practice has been defined by a deep concern for the landscape, human experience, and craft, as well as the preservation and enhancement of the public realm.

In 2003, Allied Works established an office in New York after receiving the commission to re-design 2 Columbus Circle for the Museum of Arts and Design. Other projects have included the NYC Loft, a major urban residence in Lower Manhattan, and the Dutchess County Residence, a suite of buildings including a main house, guest house, and private gallery located on 350 acres. The opening of the Main House in early 2012 will complete the estate, which features landscape design by Michael van Valkenburgh, site-specific façade installations by Doug Aitken and Mel Bochner, land works by Jeppe Hein, Franz West and Roxie Paine, and several furniture designs by Allied Works.

In November 2011, Allied Works completed the Clyfford Still Museum, a single-artist institution devoted to the life and work of the 20th century painter.

Currently, Allied Works is working on a variety of projects at all scales. Among these are the design for the National Music Centre of Canada in Calgary, Alberta, a 135,000 sf performance, education, exhibition, and production space dedicated to advancing Canada’s musical heritage, which is scheduled to open in 2014. In collaboration with Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, the practice is also completing the Vancouver Community Connector, a 14-acre urban park and freeway cap in Vancouver, Washington, just north of the Columbia River. Additional major works include master planning and a major building redevelopment for the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a master plan and new facilities for Sokol-Blosser Vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

This program is sold out.  Reservations are no longer being accepted.