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Gregory Wessner — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:34 +0000

Toward the Sentient City
Thursday, September 17, 2009
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
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An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space.

Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York
On view September 17–November 7, 2009

For more information about the exhibition, visit the exhibition website.

Toward the Sentient City was made possible with support from the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional support was provided by the University at Buffalo.

Toward the Sentient City is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The City We Imagined/The City We Made

Varick Shute — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:16 +0000

Click above for more images of the exhibition installation at 250 Hudson Street.

The Architectural League presents
The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010
An exhibition about architecture, planning, and development in New York since 2001

July 2–August 15, 2010
Governors Island Building 110
Exhibition hours: Friday, 10-5 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 10-7 pm
Free admission
This exhibition is no longer on view.

Click here for the exhibition website.

The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010 is the sixth in an ongoing series of Architectural League exhibitions about contemporary architecture in New York City. This installment takes as its subject the design, planning, and building of New York in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Beginning in 2001, an array of powerful forces converged to dramatically transform large portions of the city. The events of September 11, the policies and priorities of the Bloomberg Administration, the volatile ups and downs of the global and local economies, advances in material and construction technologies, and a new interest among the public in leading edge architecture all combined to reshape New York in ways that we may not fully grasp for decades to come. The City We Imagined/The City We Made documents this recent chapter in the city’s history, providing an overview of the most notable projects and proposals, plans and initiatives, so that New Yorkers can begin to shape an overall understanding of the decade and consider what the cumulative impact of this era of planning and building might be.

The exhibition includes:
•The City We Imagined: A timeline of the major architecture and planning events of the past ten years
•The City We Made: 1000 photographs taken by the New New York Photography Corps, a volunteer group of nearly one hundred architects and design professionals who spent more six months beginning in October 2009 documenting the city
•Archipelago: A video production of Urban Omnibus, exploring a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea. Click here to watch.
•Observations on the Changing City: Video interviews with leading New Yorkers including, William Aguado, former Executive Director, Bronx Council on the Arts; Tom Angotti, Director, Hunter College Center for Community Planning; Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society; Jonathan Bowles, Director, Center for an Urban Future; Vishaan Chakrabarti, Director, Real Estate Program, Columbia University GSAPP; Barbara Corcoran, former president, The Cocoran Group; Elizabeth Egbert, President/CEO, Staten Island Museum; Omar Freilla, Founder, Green Worker Cooperatives; Thelma Golden, Director, Studio Museum in Harlem; Richard Kahan, Executive Director, Urban Assembly; Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director, Queens Council on the Arts; Jerilyn Perine, Executive Director, Citizens Housing and Planning Council; Rosemary Wakeman, Director, Urban Studies Program, Fordham University; and Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives

Curator: Gregory Wessner
Exhibition Design: Moorhead & Moorhead
Graphic Design: PS New York
Photo Advisor: Esto

New New York 2001-2010 is generously supported by
Lead Sponsor Sciame Construction Corp.
Associate Sponsor Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Additional support has been provided by Jack Resnick & Sons; the Bernheimer Family; NRI: National Reprographics Inc; and the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League. League programs are also made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; 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.

From May 7 through June 26, The City We Imagined/The City We Made was on view in a pop-up space at 250 Hudson Street. The League thanks Renee Schoonbeek of the Hudson Square Connection and Jonathan Dean and James Cosentino of Jack Resnick & Sons for their assistance in arranging that venue for the exhibition.

Toward the Sentient City

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:22:24 +0000

Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League
September 17–November 7, 2009
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue

Exhibition Design: Thumb Projects

Exhibition website

Toward the Sentient City is made possible with support from the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional support has been provided by the University at Buffalo.

A major exhibition of five newly commissioned projects and installations by teams of architects, artists and technologists that imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed forms of communication systems might inform the architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior within it.

Toward the Sentient City is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Young Architects Forum 2009: Foresight

Gregory Wessner — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:31:09 +0000

Featuring work by Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima; Frida Escobedo Lopez; Ivan Juarez and Patricia Meneses; Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau; Phu Hoang; and Sung Goo Yang

May 14-July 29, 2009
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

Foresight is the twenty-eighth annual exhibition of work by winners of the Architectural League’s Young Architects Competition. The portfolio competition is open to architects and designers who are ten years or less out of undergraduate or graduate school. In addition to creating a site-specific installation of their work, winners present lectures for the League’s Young Architects Forum, are the subject of video podcasts, and subsequently edit their work and text for an annual catalogue.

The theme for the competition, developed by the Young Architects Committee, changes every year to reflect current issues in architectural design and theory. The committee, a group selected each year from past participants in the Young Architects Forum, also asks prominent members of the design community to serve with them on the jury. In addition to committee members Mark Gage, Ana Miljacki, and Julia Salcedo, jurors for 2009 were Paola Antonelli, Teddy Cruz, Nader Tehrani, and Calvin Tsao.

This year’s theme defined foresight as an ability that “relies on the surveying, researching, and engaging [of] the present towards particular, desired outcomes in the future.” Given today’s economic, socio-political, and climatic flux, entrants were asked to show work that relies on foresight to imagine an effective role for architecture now and in the future.

The ‘call for entries’ posed a series of challenges: What problems can architecture solve? What problems can it not? Is architecture a vehicle to be used to address our most pressing problems and challenges? Or is it something else? Architects have the ability to concretize information—translating into physical form what might otherwise seem abstract. Whether through theoretical speculations, or pragmatic designs, the winning work demonstrates new ways to illuminate questions and envision solutions. Some of the projects provide commentaries on contemporary socio-economic problems, others take on design solutions for environmental challenges, while others create structures to respond sensitively to particular places. All of the work employs architects’ analytic and design tools to respond to the present with an eye to the future.

Above: Exhibition installation. Photo: David Sundberg/Esto.

Ordos 13

Gregory Wessner — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:51:49 +0000

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Ordos 13
Recorded: October 17, 2008

On October 17, 2008, in conjunction with the exhibition 13:100 Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, representatives from each of the thirteen New York-based firms working in Ordos presented their projects. Each team was allowed to present 15 slides for 15 seconds each.

13: 100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos

Gregory Wessner — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:23:08 +0000

13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
October 11 – November 26, 2008
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

The Ordos 100 is a residential development proposed for the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world were invited to design a nearly 11,000 square foot villa on lots ranging from a quarter to a half acre. With a master plan by artist Ai Weiwei and architect selection by Herzog & de Meuron, the Ordos 100 challenges conventional ideas about urban design, placemaking, and context. Criticized by some for its scale and environmental impact, applauded by others as a form of art practice, Ordos underscores and intensifies the complexities of contemporary architectural practice. This exhibition of the designs by the thirteen New York-based firms working in Ordos explored the unique process of the undertaking and provoked a conversation about the role that design played in the development.

Curator: Gregory Wessner
Exhibition Design: Project_ (Ana Miljacki, Lee Moreau)

Projects by:
Barker Freeman Design Office
Keller Easterling
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
Lyn Rice Architects
Multiplicities
nARCHITECTS
Normal Architecture Office
OBRA Architects
rsvp architects
SINGLE speed DESIGN
Slade Architecture
Josh Uhl/Toshiko Mori Architect
WORK Architecture Company

Above: Exhibition installation. Photo: David Sundberg/Esto.

Pablo Castro

Gregory Wessner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:43:17 +0000

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13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
Pablo Castro, OBRA Architects
Recorded: August 2008
Running time: 13:51

Video interview filmed in conjunction with the League’s fall 2008 exhibition, 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos. Each of the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 was asked the same set of questions, excerpts of which were included in the exhibition. This video podcast includes the complete set of responses from Pablo Castro.

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Gregory Wessner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:41:09 +0000

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13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Normal Architecture Office
Filmed August 2008
Running time: 13:16

Hayes Slade and James Slade

Gregory Wessner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:38:54 +0000

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13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
Hayes Slade and James Slade, Slade Architecture
Filmed August 2008
Running time: 10:38

Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice

Gregory Wessner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:36:42 +0000

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13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice, Lyn Rice Architects
Recorded: August 2008
Running time: 14:07