Archiculture

I would like to formally welcome and announce Bill Morrish’s participation in the Sept. 2nd Roundtable being held in conjunction with our Trailer Premier Benefit at the Center for Architecture. The discussion will focus upon how generational recessions have affected design training in the past and how we can evolve the profession under the current economic landscape for a better design future. I’m excited to bring Bill to the table for the discussion due to his experience both working within the fields of architecture and urban design, and his years of commitment to the multidisciplinary education model of tomorrow’s generation of designers. He is the newly appointed Dean at The School of Constructed Environments for Parsons New School for Design. His abbreviated bio can be read below:

“William Morrish is a nationally recognized urban designer and architect whose practice encompasses inter-disciplinary research on urban housing and infrastructure, collaborative publications on human settlement and community design, educational programs exploring integrated design which are applied to a wide range of innovative community based city projects. Drawing from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, planning and architectural history, his work engages citizens and civic leaders in the act of giving visual representation and form to the complex infrastructural, cultural and ecological systems that link residents to community, city to region, and local to global. Identifying points of convergence between systems, he defines principles making the connections between nature to humans, and humans to humans tangible. From these places he constructs sustainable urban spaces and practices based on the everyday economic and ecological transactions of the local urban society.”

It’s crunch time.  Out of commission till post Trailer Debut Event.

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Check out the Sky High series by Zoo York.

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In the mad dash to get everything ready for next week’s event we have been using this playlist as a performance enhancing drug.

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Check out more of his work here.

sample from today’s cut over at anyline

I would like to formally welcome and announce Billie Tsien’s participation in the Sept. 2nd Roundtable being held in conjunction with our Trailer Premier Benefit at the Center for Architecture. The discussion will focus upon how generational recessions have affected design training in the past and how we can evolve the profession under the current economic landscape for a better design future. I’m excited to bring Billie to the table for the discussion due to her exceptional quality of design work and breadth of professional exposure she has gained over her esteemed career. She will definitely add a strong perspective on the discourse of architecture and what it takes to rise to such an elevated level of designer and succeed within today’s profession. She is currently Co-Founder and Principal at Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Her abbreviated bio can be read below:

“Billie Tsien received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale in 1971 and her Master in Architecture from UCLA in 1977. In 1986 she co-founded Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

Recent projects include the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, an addition to the Phoenix Art Museum and the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Current work includes the Asia Society in Hong Kong, the new museum for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, a performing and visual arts center at the University of Chicago, a conference center at Bennington College, and an information technology campus in Mumbai, India. Work in New York includes Harmony Atrium – a new ticketing venue and public space for Lincoln Center, a residence in Long Island, and a skating rink in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Her buildings have been repeatedly honored by the American Institute of Architects and have received numerous awards. In 2002 the American Folk Art Museum, the first new museum built in New York in over three decades, won the Arup World Architecture Award for the Best Building in the World. Her office has also been the recipients of the Brunner Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City AIA, the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture.

She maintains an active teaching career parallel to her practice and has taught extensively throughout the United States. Most recently, Billie and Todd held the Bishop Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale University. They are also interested in work that bridges the realms of art and architecture. Billie serves on the advisory council for the Wexner Prize, and is a Director of the Public Art Fund and of the Architectural League of New York.

The work of her office pays careful attention to context, detail and the subtleties of materials. Their projects have been published extensively both in the United States and overseas. A monograph entitled Work/Life was released in the fall of 2000 by Monacelli Press.”

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10,000 volunteers pitched in to help build the Atlantic Avenue Condominiums in Brownsville NY.  The 41 story building is Habitat for Humanities largest project completed to date.  The condominium was built for 13 million dollars and is meant to give lower-income individuals an opportunity at home ownership.