Architectural League of New York
By Architectural League of New York
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The Architectural League of New York is an independent, non-profit forum for the presentation and discussion of creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related design disciplines. Founded in 1881, the League promotes excellence and innovation in architecture and urbanism by furthering the education of architects and designers, and by communicating to a broad audience the importance of architecture in public life. Through an active schedule of lectures, exhibitions and other programs, the League provides a venue for contemporary work and ideas, identifies and encourages the work of talented young architects, creates opportunities for exploring new approaches to problems in the built environment, and fosters a stimulating community for dialogue and debate.
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| 1 | VideoJesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto | In this exceprt from their October 2011 lecture, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, principals of Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture, present 0-14. Founded in 1986, Reiser + Umemoto’s New York City-based practice has an international collection of projects, yet considers each as the continuation of an ongoing inquiry, delving into relationships between architecture, territory, and systems of distribution. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoMichael Van Valkenburgh (Part 1) | In this excerpt, Michael Van Valkenburgh presents two projects, one for Cornell University and another for Princeton University. Based in Brooklyn and Cambridge, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) is a landscape architecture firm, which works on projects in scale from the city to the campus to the garden. MVVA’s commissions have sought to achieve an “ecological urbanism,” with projects such as the Master Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Wellesley College, and built work like Mill Race Park and Allegheny Riverfront Park. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoMichael Van Valkenburgh (Part 2) | In this excerpt, Michael Van Valkenburgh presents Brooklyn Bridge Park. Based in Brooklyn and Cambridge, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) is a landscape architecture firm, which works on projects in scale from the city to the campus to the garden. MVVA’s commissions have sought to achieve an “ecological urbanism,” with projects such as the Master Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Wellesley College, and built work like Mill Race Park and Allegheny Riverfront Park. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFrancine Houben | Francine Houben, creative director and founding architect of the Dutch firm Mecanoo, presents an office complex and an apartment complex, both in the Netherlands. With offices in Delft and Birmingham, UK, Mecanoo’s ambition is to design buildings with “a strong respect for context: physically, historically, and environmentally.” | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoBernard Khoury | Bernard Khoury presents the work of his firm DW5, founded as an independent practice in 1993. In this excerpt from his lecture he presents several projects from Lebanon, including B018 and Al Ghanim Residence. As an architect, Khoury is preoccupied with presentness; he writes about the work of his firm: “I have given up on fantasizing on the future of cities. My work is not about the past and it is certainly not about the future.” | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoMichael Maltzan | Since founding his firm in 1995, Maltzan has created a practice committed to “creating architecture that is a catalyst for new experiences and an agent for change in our cities.” In this excerpt from his lecture, Michael Maltzan, principal of Los Angeles-based Michael Maltzan Architecture, presents the School for Inner City Arts, and the Carver apartments. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoJeanne Gang | The 2011 Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment, an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, was delivered by Jeanne Gang on October 12, 2011 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. In the following excerpt, Gang presents several ecological projects for Chicago, including the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Ford Calumet Environment Center. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoKarel Klein and David Ruy | The New York-based office of David Ruy and Karel Klein, Ruy Klein, examines contemporary design problems “at the intersection of architecture, nature, and technology.” The office describes its investigations within this context: “The devastating technological changes of the last century have marked unusual territories of material production where artificial and natural systems share vague, overlapping boundaries. As architecture grapples with new synthetic regimes, the uncertainties of contemporary material practices unexpectedly opens unexplored possibilities for aesthetic experience and a renegotiation of architecture’s meaning structures.” In this excerpt from their lecture they discuss “Knot Garden,” a proposal for PS1 Queens, NY; and “Klex,” their ongoing experiments with developing ornamentation through digital modeling. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBenjamin Ball | Ball‐Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice founded by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. The design of each project’s production is essential for the Los Angeles-based studio: “We devise proprietary systems of construction, create new fabrication devices, develop custom digital tools, and invent materials, all with the aim of expanding the potential of the physically constructed world… Although our projects are experimental with respect to production, they are not simply prototypes; each directly addresses human occupation by enhancing and celebrating social interaction through sensation, spectacle, and physical engagement.” In this excerpt from the lecture, Benjamin Ball discusses “Feathered Edge,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and “Cradle,” Santa Monica, CA. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoClaire Weisz and Mark Yoes | WXY architecture + urban design was founded in 1998 as Weisz + Yoes by Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes. In 2009, the New York-based studio renamed itself WXY to reflect the ethos of the firm and the addition of a third partner, Layng Pew. The firm is known for the realization of innovative architecture by means of public and community-initiated commissions. Its work ranges from single buildings to public landscapes to urban design plans to urban furniture. In this excerpt from their lecture, Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes present the Battery Bosque and Sea Glass Carousel; the Times Square Visitors Center; and the Official NYC Information Center, all in New York. | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoTobias Armborst, Dan D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore | Interboro Partners is a Brooklyn-based office of architects, urban designers, and planners “who work together to improve the urban environment.” Founded in 2002 and led by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore, Interboro has engaged in projects “that represent an ever-expanding concept of what architecture is, of how it acts on the world, but also how it is acted upon by individuals, institutions, ideas, idealizations, and objects.” In this excerpt from their lecture they discuss In the Meantime, Life with Landbanking, Fishkill, NY; Improve Your Lot!, Detroit, MI; and Holding Pattern, Long Island City, NY. | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoB. Alex Miller and Jeff Taylor | Jeffrey Taylor and B. Alex Miller founded Taylor & Miller Architecture and Design in 2002. The Brooklyn- and Pittsfield, MA-based studio focuses “on mining materials and ideas from contexts that are most ‘accessible’, both physically and conceptually.” The studio engages deeply in the fabrication and material manipulation for every project. The firm considers “the actions that are taken to modify…materials as the real process of…architecture.” Projects discussed in this excerpt include Pull House, Great Barrington, MA; Peel House in Pittsfield, MA; and the installations “Drawn” and “Version 3.0.” | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoRoberto de Leon | Principals Roberto de Leon and M. Ross Primmer established de leon & primmer architecture workshop in 2003 as a design studio focusing on “cultural and civic environments.” Based in Louisville, Kentucky, the studio uses “the contextual specificity of [the] region as an open-ended opportunity for research and investigation.” This localized approach to design has lead the studio to explore traditions of craft and fabrication, ordinary materials, and passive strategies of sustainability focused on a sensitivity to site and climate rather than specialized technological systems. In this excerpt from their lecture, they discuss Yew Dell Botanical Gardens Visitor Center, Crestwood, KY; Urban Barn, Louisville, KY; and Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility in Goshen, KY. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoMarcelo Spina | Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich are principals of the office, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, founded in Los Angeles in 1999. The research- and collaborative-based approach of the practice seeks to move between digital and material expressions. P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S describes its form-making, as “Driven by digital techniques and advanced computation, this is not just an abstract formalism, but a formalism deeply embedded in the physics of materials and tectonics, and the potential of construction methods and new fabrication processes.” In this excerpt from the presentation, Marcelo Spina discusses the Prism Contemporary Art, West Hollywood, CA; FYF Residence and Jujuy Redux, both in Rosario, Argentina. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLola Sheppard and Mason White | Lateral Office, founded in Toronto in 2003 by Mason White and Lola Sheppard, is an experimental design practice that operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The studio describes its practice as a commitment to “design as a research vehicle to pose and respond to complex, urgent questions in the built environment,” engaging in the “wider context and climate of a project– be that social, ecological, or political.” In this excerpt from their lecture, they discuss Architecture, After Discipline; Water Economies/Ecologies, Farming the Salton, CA; and Next North: Caribou Research Station, Nunavut. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCharles Renfro | Charles Renfro, a principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will use the context of the firm’s work as a means to ruminate on the relationship between nature and its “perversion.” In this excerpt from the lecture, Renfro discusses the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the pneumatic bulges of the temporary extension to the Hirshhorn Museum. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoBen van Berkel | Ben van Berkel, founding partner with Caroline Bos, of the Dutch architectural design studio UNStudio, presents the office’s current projects within the context of the firm’s belief in constant experimentation through building. Projects discussed in this excerpt include the Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart; the Burnham Pavilion, Millenium Park, Chicago; Collectors Loft, New York City; and the Music Theatre, Graz. The firm describes its practice as: “Today, the discipline of architecture is wide open to the possibility of radical change. The narratives of gain and growth that explained, legitimized and propelled forward so much architecture in the past decades have been interrupted. The focus now is on articulating new conceptualizations of possibly all the vital considerations at the core of the field. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoChristo | In this video of the full lecture, Christo presents two works in progress: “Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado,” which will suspend 5.9 miles of fabric panels over a forty mile stretch of the Arkansas River in Colorado; and “The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates,” which will consist of 410,000 horizontally stacked, multi-colored oil barrels, forming an oblong trapezoidal monument nearly 150 x 225 x 300 m. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoGregg Pasquarelli | Gregg Pasquarelli founding partner with Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden, and William Sharples of the New York firm SHoP Architects presents the office’s current projects with a focus on how the firm seeks to reinvent the business model of architectural practice. Projects presented in this excerpt include the Botswana Innovation Hub in Gabarone, Botswana, and the Barclay’s Center, Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoYoshiharu Tsukamoto | In this excerpt from his lecture, co-founder of Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, discusses White Limousine Yatai, House & Atelier Bow-Wow, and Pony Garden. Tsukamoto explores the concept of “architectural behaviorology” in the firm’s recent and current work. “Behavior,” as defined by Tsukamoto, can include human behavior inside and outside of buildings; physical phenomena produced by different environmental elements such as light, air, heat, wind, and water; and a building’s behavior in its surroundings. “Architectural behaviorology” aims to understand the behaviors of those different elements in order to synthesize them, optimizing their performance in their specific contexts and suggesting a new idea of the “organic” in architecture. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoJo Noero | In this recording of his lecture, Jo Noero, of the South African firm Noero Wolff Architects, presents the office’s long history of design work in the once segregated townships of South Africa, most notably the competition and multiple-award winning design for the Red Location Museum and Master Plan in New Brighton township outside Port Elizabeth. Noero discusses a series of projects that demonstrate the “commitment to making an architecture that straddles the everyday world of people in South Africa and the radical possibilities that this world of the everyday offers.” The Red Location Museum was included in The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, which ran from October 3 2010 to January 3 2011. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoMinsuk Cho | Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea. The firm describes its practice as: “a critical investigation of architecture in “the context of mass production, intensely overpopulated urban conditions, and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society. Amid the many frictions defining spatial conditions in the twenty-first century, namely past vs. future, local vs. global, utopia vs. reality, and individual vs. collective, Mass Studies focuses on the operative complexity of these multiple conditions instead of striving for a singular, unified perspective. For each architectural project…Mass Studies explores issues such as spatial systems/matrices, building materials/techniques, and typological divergences to foster a vision that allows the discovery of new socio/cultural potential.” In this excerpt from his lecture, Cho discusses the Korea Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoKeith VanDerSys | Keith VanDerSys is a partner of Philadelphia-based PEG office of landscape + architecture, which he co-founded with Karen M’Closkey in 2004. The office “explores the expressive potential of surface techniques that open up more integrative thinking about natural systems in urban environments. We utilize pattern as a discernible, repetitive system that enables the display of new combinations of organic and inorganic material in the formation of public space.” Projects include Hustle & Flow, Chicago; Double Jeopardy, west lounge, Ann Arbor; Mies van der Rohe Plaza, Detroit with PLY Architecture; Not Garden, Philadelphia; and Ripple Effect, New York. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoEric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu | Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu founded ESKYIU in 2005 as a design collaborative integrating culture, art, community, technology, and architecture. Based in New York and Hong Kong, the firm’s interests are in “examining the ways in which built environments shape social relationships by forming connections between civic engagement and sustainable design.” Selected projects include Chinatown WORK 2006, an interactive public arts installation sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Department of Cultural Affairs, and 3form material solutions; SINO, a video installation shown at the Brooklyn Museum; Nutritious: an Aeroponic Façade exhibited at the Architectural Association in London; Human Motor: Narratives from the Assembly Line exhibited at the International Architectural Biennale Ljubljana; and Linear Landscapes: Fabricating a Rural/Urban Interface, an award winning project created for a noise barrier competition. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoEmily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak | Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak founded ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS, a Brooklyn-based architectural office, in 2009. Responding to the theme, the firm writes: “It is here…the unconsidered – that many time-tested vernacular typologies, materials, methods and forms reside largely forgotten. It is possible, however, that a reconsideration of these issues – indeed, these resources – through the lenses of contemporary design techniques…might reveal new uses, methodologies, forms, and effects.” | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoMarc Frohn | AR frohn&rojas is a networked architectural design and research practice led by Marc Frohn and Mario Rojas Toledo, located in Berlin, Santiago de Chile, and Los Angeles. Through its name the office acknowledges “both its geographically distributed anatomy as well as the increasingly widened pro¬fessional scope that is literally shaping its work…establishing a more diversified type of architectural production in which both the inherent contradictions between geographies, as well as the stretching of disciplinary boundaries will let formerly undeterminable links thrive.” | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoMichael Loverich and 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. One of our goals is to resurrect the Rococo continuing where its practitioners left off, privileging interactive pleasure, frothiness, plant, and animal sourcing as well as immersive design…Our explorations are based in digital and visceral matter with output transitioning between scales and localities leaving traces of our frothy matter in various disciplines.” | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoJason Austin and Aleksandr Mergold | Austin+Mergold is an architecture and landscape practice based in Philadelphia and Ithaca. Founded in 2007 by Jason Austin and Aleksandr Mergold, the firm “operate[s] on the cusp of architecture, landscape, design, and installation art…Believing that it is preferable to rethink and repurpose existing resources than to tap new ones, we infiltrate existing systems that are responsible for constructed environments, rather than reinvent the wheel each time. …For us, this is sustainable design—both vis-à-vis the environment and our own practice—and it is particularly well-suited to the twinned economic and ecological crises that we face today.” Projects discussed in this lecture include: House-in-a-Can/Park-in-a-Can, Mechanicsburg, PA; SURAL wall; RVG club house, Mechanicsburg, PA; The Grand Resource, Hong Kong; and ParkView, Carlisle, PA. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoStephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen | molo, based in Vancouver, Canada, is a design and production studio dedicated “to an exploration of space making in combination with innovative experiments in manufacturing, materials, and structure.” Led by founders and principal designers, Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, along with co-founder Robert Pasut, the work of the molo studio “balances between the realms of art, architecture, and design for serial production, crossing a variety of scales, from tea set to museum.” | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoTatiana Bilbao | Tatiana Bilbao formed her own practice in 2004 in Mexico City. The multidisciplinary office “analyzes urban and social crises, as well as the rigid codes of communication and telematics. Through these strands, the office, regenerates spaces ‘humanized’ to be aware and reactive to global capitalism, opening up niches for cultural and economic development.” Projects discussed in this lecture include the Botanical Garden Culiacan; Parque Biotecnologico, Culiacan; Centro de Artes Escenicas, Guadalajara; amoung others. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoSunil Bald and Yolande Daniels | Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels are founding partners of the New York architecture and design studio SUMO. Founded in 1997, the firm “responds to contextual forces that include the physical, social, cultural, and historical conditions of site, program, and type, [while striving] for solutions that are inventive and unexpected.” Often working in the public realm, studio SUMO’s built work discussed in this presentation includes the Josai University School of Business Management, Sakado, Japan; the Museum of African Diaspora Art, Brooklyn; Leaney Harlem Duplex, Harlem; and interior space for the Museum of African Art in Long Island City. Current projects include Mitan Housing, Miami; and the Mizuta Museum of Art, Sakado, Japan. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoMichel Rojkind | Michel Rojkind founded Rojikind arquitectos in Mexico City in 2002. The firm finds “new directions in architectural practice – evoking common identities through the exploration of uncharted geometries that address questions of space, function, technology, materials, structure, and construction methods related directly to geography, climate, and local urban experiences.” Projects included in this lecture include the Nestle Chocolate Museum in Toluca, Mexico; the Nestle Application Group in Queretaro, Mexico; Code Horizon, Dubai and R432 in Mexico City. | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoMakram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine | L.E.FT is a New York City-based architecture collective comprised of architects Makram El Kadi, Ziad Jamaleddine and Naji Moujaes. Established in 2001, L.E.FT is “dedicated to examining the intersections of cultural and political productions as they relate to the built environment…A focus on unconventional interpretations of architecture is posited as a design onset, redefining the relationship between the architectural object and both its context and its users from a social as well as an aesthetic perspective.” Among the several projects covered in this podcast are the in-construction Beirut Exhibition Center; Art Gallery, Beirut, the Baabdat Residence, Baabdat, Lebanon; and the speculative projects Offshore Urbanism in Lebanon and Terminal City in Dubai. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoJames Dallman and Grace La | Founded in 1999, the Milwaukee design studio LA DALLMAN, led by Grace La and James Dallman, has explored architecture “as transformed site, reshaping the raw materials of found and abstracted landscape.” In this lecture they discuss the following Wisconsin based projects, Discovery World, the Rust Belt House, and the Marsupial Bridge and Urban Spaces. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoSarah Dunn and Martin Felsen | UrbanLab is a research-based architecture and urban design practice led by Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen. The Chicago-based firm “theorizes that infrastructure can be hybridized, thereby leveraging a technically oriented project into one with cultural qualities.” In this podcast UrbanLab presents current work addressing issues of urban space through the development of infrastructural and ecological urbanism concepts include Growing Water, an Urban Plan for Chicago; Aurora Master plan; and Central Open Space for MAC, a park design in South Korea; as well as built work, including Live+Work, Chicago; Hennepin House in Illinois; and Echo Park House, a residence in Los Angeles. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoHayes Slade and James Slade | James Slade and Hayes Slade, of New York’s Slade Architecture, presents past and current work for the Emerging Voices 2010 lecture series. Slade Architecture seeks “to develop the unique characteristics of each project” and “to engage the occupant or viewer by testing their experience/perception of the space.” Recently completed projects include the Barbie Store Shanghai and the Aperture Foundation Headquarters. | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoAlejandro Zaera-Polo | Alejandro Zaera-Polo, co-founder with Farshid Moussavi of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA), presents the firm’s recent work and current projects under design and construction including the Meydan Shopping Center in Istanbul, the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in Greenwich, UK, and Carabanchel Social Housing in Madrid. | 9/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoRafael Viñoly | Rafael Viñoly, founding principal and design leader of Rafael Viñoly Architects, discusses the New York, London, and Los Angeles based firm’s diverse projects and design approach. The office combines an atelier design practice with the capabilities of a large, multi-disciplinary, international firm. Projects included in this podcast are the Battersea Power Station Masterplan, London; the residential conversion of the Domino Sugar Refinery complex in Brooklyn; the Curve Theatre, Leicester, UK; and the Carrasco International Airport New Terminal, Montevideo. | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoAndrew Whalley | Founded in 1980 by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Grimshaw is an international practice with permanent offices in London, Melbourne, and New York. Grimshaw’s worldwide presence and commitment to sharing resources between offices allows the firm to approach each project with a collective knowledge base and shared aesthetic. Grimshaw established the New York office because “our contextually sensitive design culture demands geographical and cultural knowledge. We believe that our best architectural responses are created when we understand the wider context within which our designs take shape, and when we are able to interact with clients, sub-consultants, and peers on a frequent and personal basis.” Andrew Whalley, partner in charge of Grimshaw’s New York office presents the firm’s recent and current work, including EMPAC (The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Via Verde, and the Fulton Street Transit Center. | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoThomas Balsley, Scott Marble, Charles McKinney, David Resnick, and Jennifer Sage, with Julie Iovine | The Design + Construction Excellence program was initiated in 2004 with the goal of pursuing an “innovative and ambitious public works program in partnership with the most creative and experienced design professionals in the world.” This lecture focuses on how the New York City Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Parks and Recreation have implemented the “tools” created by the Design + Construction Excellence program—in projects that are completed, in construction, or in design in all five boroughs. How has a policy of emphasizing design quality influenced the planning for, commissioning of, and shape of public architecture during the past six years? | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoJames Corner | Field Operations, based in New York City, is a landscape architecture and urban design practice, comprising 35 professionals, many with cross-disciplinary backgrounds in landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, and communication art. Field Operations’ mandate is to create “intelligent, high-quality design solutions for cities, landscapes, and public spaces.” In this excerpt from his lecture, Corner presents Fresh Kills Park and the High Line. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoAlex Garvin with Michael Sorkin and Rosalie Genevro | A conversation about urban design and New York's transformation over the past decade, with Alexander Garvin, Michael Sorkin, and Rosalie Genevro. | 8/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoDan Doctoroff and Paul Goldberger | Dan Doctoroff, former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, discusses his tenure and the challenges facing the city, with Paul Goldberger. | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoAdrian Benepe, Amanda Burden, and David Burney, with Paul Goldberger | Paul Goldberger, architecture critic of The New Yorker, will engage NYC commissioners Adrian Benepe (Parks), Amanda Burden (Planning), and David Burney (Design and Construction) in a discussion about how they have made design integral to the work of their departments; what today’s stringent fiscal constraints portend for the continuation of their efforts and the preservation of what they have already created; and what their agendas promise for the mayor’s final term. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoBjarke Ingels | Bjarke Ingels of BIG, a Copenhagen based group of architects, designers, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and development, presents the firm’s recent and current work noted for its analysis, playful experimentation and humor, and social responsibility. | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoToshiko Mori | The Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment is an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. In this podcast Toshiko Mori introduces Werner Sobek. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoWerner Sobek | The Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment is an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. The 3rd Franzen Lecture was given by Werner Sobek on December 2, 2009 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoTod Williams and Billie Tsien | Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects present their design for a new home in Philadelphia for the Barnes Foundation’s world renowned art collection. In 2007, the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously selected their firm from six entries in an invited interview process. | 1/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoChuck Hoberman and Craig Schwitter | Hoberman and Schwitter discuss their new joint venture, the Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), which is dedicated to designing a new generation of adaptive buildings, and their upcoming projects the Aldar Central Market and the Ciudad de Justicia. | 1/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoSung Goo Yang | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 21, 2009. | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoAndrew Freear | Andrew Freear, Director of the Alamba-based Rural Studio, presents several of the studio's recent projects. Founded in 1993, the Rural Studio is based in the School of Architecture at Auburn University and was conceived as a strategy to improve lliving conditions in rural Alabama while imparting practical experience to architecture students. | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoPhu Hoang | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 21, 2009. | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoFrida Escobedo Lopez | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 14, 2009. | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoCrisina Goberna and Urtzi Grau/Fake Industries | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 21, 2009. | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoAziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 14, 2009. | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoIvan Juarez | Presentation from the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum, the annual portfolio competition for architects and designers ten years or less out of school. Filmed on May 14, 2009. | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoSentient City Case Studies: New Songdo City/Meixi Lake | Working in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Kohn Pedersen Fox is currently master-planning two new cities — New Songdo City, South Korea and Meixi Lake, Hunan Province, China — in which all information systems — residential, medical, business — will be linked. Organized around eight “tracks,” the systems will be designed to provide smart and connected solutions for real estate, safety and security, transportation, utilities, government, education, health care, and sports. | 12/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoToward the Sentient City: Amphibious Architecture | David Benjamin, Natalie Jeremijenko, Deborah Richards, and Soo-in Yang talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings. “Amphibious Architecture,” their project for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City, created a public interface to water quality and aquatic life of urban rivers, and our interest therein. | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoToward the Sentient City: Trash Track | Assaf Biderman,of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, discusses the extensive research underlying the SENSEable City Lab's project “Trash Track,” organized as part of the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City. “Trash Track” deploys a set of smart tags on different types of trash and follows these through the city’s waste management system to reveal the end-of-life journey of our everyday objects. | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoToward the Sentient City: Too Smart City | JooYoun Paek and David Jimison discuss building high tech robotic street furniture meant to fail every time. The talk focuses on their research into street furniture in New York City public parks, efforts to mimic the aesthetics of public design, and the potential for sentient objects in the everyday and mundane. “Too Smart City,” their project for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City, posits a set of “intelligent” street furniture that behaves in unexpected ways. | 11/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoToward the Sentient City: Natural Fuse | For many of us these days, “home” is an idea constructed from several places–we live in social environments and neighborhoods composed of networked fragments that bridge huge geographical distances. Usman Haque will talk about such architectural issues with specific reference to “Natural Fuse,” his project for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City. “Natural Fuse” is a city-wide network of electronically-assisted plants that act both as energy providers and and as a shared “carbon sink” resource. The project encourages collective cooperation in regulating energy consumption through a network of “circuit breakers” distributed throughout the city. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoToward the Sentient City: Breakout! | The team behind "Breakout!" discusses the inspirations, design, and initial experiences behind their project, an experiment of mobile work organized for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City. “Breakout!” is a festival of work in the city that explores the dynamic possibilities of a single question: what if the entire city were your office? | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoBetances Community Center and Boxing Gym, South Bronx | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoFloating Pool, New York City, multiple sites | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoGreenBranches Learning Gardens, Horticultural Society of New York, Queens Library, Whitestone Branch and Brooklyn Public Librar | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoNYC Info Center, Times Square | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 7/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoTKTS Booth, Times Square | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoTriple Bridge Gateway | The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define "public" today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009. | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoDigital Archive Project: Max Abramovitz (Part 2) | Recorded on October 18, 1994 Max Abramovitz (1908-2004) was a partner, with Wallace Harrison, of Harrison and Abramovitz. Either as lead architects or as team members, Harrison and Abramovitz participated in some of the most significant commissions of the 20th century, including the United Nations and Lincoln Center. Abramovitz himself served as director of planning for the United Nations and was architect of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In this lecture from 1994, Abramovitz discusses the full scope of his career, beginning with the Trylon and Perisphere for the New York World's Fair (1939) to his later work for U.S. Steel and Banque Rothschild. Part 2 of 2 | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 70 | VideoAndrew Berman Architect | Recent and current projects include “Whitespace Studios,” New York City; “Rooftop Residence and Gardens,” New York City; “PS1 Visitor Kiosk,” Long Island City; and “The Center for Architecture,” New York City. In this podcast, Andrew Berman presents a writing studio and library on Long Island. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 71 | VideoDigital Archive Project: Max Abramovitz (Part 1) | Recorded on October 18, 1994 Max Abramovitz (1908-2004) was a partner, with Wallace Harrison, of Harrison and Abramovitz. Either as lead architects or as team members, Harrison and Abramovitz participated in some of the most significant commissions of the 20th century, including the United Nations and Lincoln Center. Abramovitz himself served as director of planning for the United Nations and was architect of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In this lecture from 1994, Abramovitz discusses the full scope of his career, beginning with the Trylon and Perisphere for the New York World's Fair (1939) to his later work for U.S. Steel and Banque Rothschild. Part 1 of 2 | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 72 | VideoHutchison and Maul Architecture | Recent and current projects include the "Wall + Roof Studio," Seattle; "Lake House," Mercer Island; the "WeiLi Office Building and Dyeing Facility," Guangzhou, China; and the “City of Bothell Public Works Facility,” WA. In this podcast, Robert Hutchison and Tom Maul present "Courtyard House on a Steep Site" and "Hole Houses." | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Charles Eames | Recorded on March 31, 1976 In March 1976, the Architectural League, under then president Robert A.M. Stern, honored Ray and Charles Eames at a dinner at the National Arts Club in New York City. The dinner was held to celebrate the Eames' design of the bicentennial exhibition, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 5 to May 2, 1976. In this recording from that evening, following introductions and short toasts by Stern, Robert Blake of Herman Miller (the sponsor of the dinner), and architect Peter Blake, Charles Eames presents a selection of the the firm's projects, including a short overview of the Eames House, before discussing their work for the Metropolitan Museum. The presentation ended with the screening of a film by the Eameses, the audio of which was recorded and available here. | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 74 | VideoGray Organschi Architecture | Projects include "Tennis House," Washington, CT; "Cottage," Guilford, CT; and "Music Studio at Firehouse 12," New Haven, CT. In this podcast, Alan Organschi presents two footbridges and a storage barn, all in Connecticut. | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | Videoat103 | Recent and current projects include the “Casa Romero,” Queretaro, Mexico; “Explanada,” a studio and exhibition space in Mexico City; “GM1607 Apartment Building,” Mexico City; and “at103 Villa” in Ordos, China. In this podcast, they present the “Ave Fenix Fire Station,” Mexico City. | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Craig Ellwood | Recorded on October 22, 1987 California architect Craig Ellwood (1922-1992) lectured at the Architectural League in 1987 as part of a three-part series called “Three Modern Architects.” Known as much for his exuberant lifestyle as for his work–which included three Case Study Houses (No. 1953, 17, 18)–Ellwood was one of the most visible faces of California modernism. At the time of this lecture, which he claimed was his first in ten years, Ellwood was living in Italy and working as a painter and sculptor, although the lecture announcement indicated that he had “recently begun to practice architecture again,” more than a decade after having closed his firm. | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 77 | VideoLeven Betts | Current and recent projects include "Mixed Greens Gallery," New York; "CC01 House," Columbia County, NY; "Catskills House," Stone Ridge, NY; "Chicago Filter Parking,“ which won first prize in the 2003 Chicago Prize competition for a thousand-car parking facility; and "Princeton House," NJ. CC01 House and Catskill House are presented in this podcast. | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoA-I-R | Recent and current projects include "Comfort Zone,” shading and cooling canopies for transit and courtesy vehicles at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport; “Garden Rooms,” streetscape and transit stop improvements in Scottsdale; “vh r-10 ghouse,” a guest house prototype on Martha’s Vineyard; and “Cool Ground,” digitally designed and fabricated furniture/landscape at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts. “Stripscape,” pedestrian amenities on a commercial avenue in Phoenix, are presented in this podcast. | 4/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 79 | VideoCoen + Partners | Recent and current projects include Mayo Plan #1, Rochester, MN, which rethought and reformed traditional cul-de-sac development; "Jackson Meadow," a community master plan and residential landscape design in Marine on St. Croix, MN; streetscape design around the Minneapolis Central Library; Albrecht, a residential landscape design in Red Wing, MN; and Lavin Bernick Center, a campus landscape design at Tulane University, New Orleans. Mayo Plan and Jackson Meadow are presented in this podcast. | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 80 | VideoCraig Dykers | Craig Dykers co-founded the architecture and design firm Snøhetta in 1989, the same year the firm won the international competition to design the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. Snøhetta established a New York office in 2004, the year it was awarded the commission for the National September 11 Memorial Museum and Pavilion at the World Trade Center. The international practice emphasizes site-specific and environmentally responsible design solutions that “enhance … qualities of place and create diverse and rich architectural experiences.” Recent and current work includes the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum, Norway; Norwegian Embassy, Berlin; and the Wolfe Center for the Arts, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. In this podcast, recorded on October 28, 2008, Dykers presents the Norwegian National Opera, Oslo. | 3/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 81 | VideoThe Future of Glass in the New Economy | An excerpt from a panel discussion on the near and long-term future of glass, held at the Architectural League on February 26, with panelists Mark DuBois, James O’Callaghan, Marc Simmons, Michael Steinhuelb, and Paul Stoller, moderated by Nat Oppenheimer. | 3/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 82 | VideoAdriaan Geuze | Founded in 1987 by principal Adriaan Geuze, West 8 uses “ecology, infrastructure, weather conditions, cultural influences, historical gestures, building programs…in a playful and engaging manner to encourage the public to understand and take ownership of spaces.” Based in Amsterdam, the multidisciplinary landscape and urban design practice is global in scope. Recent and current projects, many commissioned through international competitions, include the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization; Parque Lineal de Manzanares, Madrid; Jubilee Gardens, London; Buona Vista Park, Singapore; and Schiphol Amsterdam International Airport. In 2007, a design team led by West 8 won the competition to design three major parks, covering 90 acres, on Governors Island. This lecture was co-sponsored by the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, and The Irwin S.Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. This podcast presents an excerpt from Geuze's lecture, in which he describes in detail West 8's proposal for the Toronto Waterfront. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 83 | VideoFritz Haeg: Edible Estates | Recorded on December 3, 2008 | Fritz Haeg blurs the boundaries of architecture, landscape design, art, ecology, activism, performance, and education. His work rotates between his architecture and design practice Fritz Haeg Stuio, the happenings and gatherings of the Sundown Salon (now schoolhouse), the ecoloby initiatives of Gardenlab (including Edible Estates), and other various combinations of building, designing, gardening, exhibiting, dancing, organizing and talking. In this excerpt from his December 2008 lecture at the Architectural League, Fritz Haeg presents the project Edible Estates, prototypes of edible landscapes to replace traditional grass lawns. | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Arthur Drexler: Unfinished Modern (Part 2) | Recorded on April 18, 1984 | At the height of postmodernism in 1984, the League commissioned Arthur Drexler, then the director of the Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, to deliver a two-part lecture on future directions in architecture. Drexler used the occasion to argue for a renewal of modernism, suggesting that though much of it was repetitious, modernist architecture was experiencing "a period of refinement that...merit[ed] investigation and analysis." Recognizing the dilemma that postmodernism represented for many architects, Drexler asserts that modernism had not died, it had simply fulfilled many of its original aims and needed to look for new sources to revitalize itself. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Arthur Drexler: Unfinished Modern (Part 1) | Recorded on April 11, 1984 At the height of postmodernism in 1984, the League commissioned Arthur Drexler, then the director of the Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, to deliver a two-part lecture on future directions in architecture. Drexler used the occasion to argue for a renewal of modernism, suggesting that though much of it was repetitious, modernist architecture was experiencing "a period of refinement that...merit[ed] investigation and analysis." Recognizing the dilemma that postmodernism represented for many architects, Drexler asserts that modernism had not died, it had simply fulfilled many of its original aims and needed to look for new sources to revitalize itself. | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 86 | VideoCarme Pinós | Since establishing her Barcelona-based firm in 1991, Carme Pinós has endeavored to create an experiential “architecture to be understood not only with the eyes and the head, but also with the whole body.” Her built work, such as the Pedestrian Bridge in Petrer, Alicante, Spain; the La Serra High School in Molerussa, Spain; and the Primary School in Castelldefels (Barcelona), embodies her interest in the relationship between site, path, and program. Current projects include the Novell housing complex in Florence, Italy; the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, Spain; and a high school in Sant Carles de la Rapita, Spain. In this excerpt from her lecture, Pinós presents the design of the Gardunya Square in Barcelona, as well as adjacent housing and the Massana Fine Arts School. | 2/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Charles Jencks: Symbolic Architecture | Recorded on October 22, 1985 Charles Jencks' last lecture at the League that had postmodernism as its primary theme. Includes an extensive discussion of the Thematic House, the London townhouse Jencks designed with Terry Farrell. | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Reviving Revivalism | Recorded on February 26, 1980 Panel discsussion with Allan Greenberg, Frances Halsband, and Robert A.M. Stern on the topic of revivalism in architecture. | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 89 | VideoDigital Archive Project: Michael Graves: The Portland Building (Part 2.5) | Recorded on September 24, 20008 Conversation with Michael Graves; Stan Allen, Dean, Princeton School of Architecture; and Sarah Whiting, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, revisiting the Portland Building twenty-five years later. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 90 | VideoDigital Archive Project: Michael Graves: The Portland Building (Part 2) | Recorded on September 24, 20008 Michael Graves revisits the Portland Building twenty-five years later in this lecture co-sponsored by the Architectural League and the Princeton University School of Architecture. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Michael Graves: The Portland Building (Part 1) | Recorded on November 30, 1982 Michael Graves gives an extensive presentation of the Portland Building, one of the icons of postmodernism, in this lecture presented shortly after the building's completion. | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: James Stirling: The Monumentally Informal | Recorded on May 16, 1985 James Stirling presents the firm's recent projects at the time, centered around an extensive discussion of the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Charles Moore: Work in Progress | Recorded on November 4, 1980 In this lecture recorded on election day 1980, Charles Moore presents a selection of current projects at the time, including several houses; the Tegel Harbor LIbrary and Housing, West Berlin (1985-88); and St. Matthew's Church, Pacific Palisades (1979-1983). | 12/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: From Bauhuas to Our House | Recorded on December 1, 1981 A panel discussion with Peter Blake, Martin Filler, and Susana Torre, moderated by Suzanne Stephens, on the critical reception to Tom Wolfe's book, From Bauhaus to Our House. | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: John Burgee: Is this Postmodern? | Recorded on April 4, 1983 Recorded while the ATT Building was under construction, John Burgee, Johnson Burgee Architects, presents the firm's then current and recent work, which included, in addition to ATT, the United Bank Center, Denver; 101 California, San Francisco; and PPG, Pittsburgh. | 12/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Charles Jencks/Freestyle Classicism: The New Rules | Recorded on April 5, 1982 In his second lecture at the League on the subject of postmodernism-presented two years after the first- Jencks proposes seven rules (or "crutches") for a freestyle classicism in architecture, including urbane urbanism, anthropomorphism, and amplification. | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 97 | VideoOrdos 13 | On October 17, 2008, in conjunction with the exhibition 13:100 Ι Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view at the Urban Center from October 11 - December 6, 2008, 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. The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. | 11/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Archive Project: Charles Jencks/Postmodern Classicism | Recorded on November 17, 1980 Charles Jencks' first lecture at the Architectural League on postmodernism is a strong and witty argument for what he calls "the consensus of postmodern classicism." Jencks builds his argument through a comprehensive series of case studies ranging from the classcial to the (then) contemporary. He begins his lecture with an extended analogy, equating Modernism in architecture with the Christian Reformation. | 11/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 99 | VideoKen Haines/Hargreaves Associates | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 5 of 6 Presented by Ken Haines, Hargreaves Associates Design team: Hargreaves Associates and TEN Arquitectos | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 100 | VideoJerry van Eyck/West 8; Claire Weisz/Weisz + Yoes | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 3 of 6 Presented by Jerry van Eyck, West 8; Claire Weisz, Weisz + Yoes Design team: West 8, Mathews Nielsen, and Weisz + Yoes | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 101 | VideoHugh Hardy, Introduction | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 1 of 6 Introduction by Hugh Hardy | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 102 | VideoDan Wood/WORKac; Mark Thomann/Balmori Associates | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 2 of 6 Presented by Dan Wood, WORKac; Mark Thomann, Balmori Associates Design team: WORK Architecture Company and Balmori Associates | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 103 | VideoMatthew Urbanski/Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; Toshiko Mori/Toshiko Mori Architect | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 4 of 6 Presented by Matthew Urbanski, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architect Design team: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Toshiko Mori Architect | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 104 | VideoKeith McPeters/Gustafson Guthrie Nichol; Brent Linden/Allied Works Architecture | Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately four-acre system of parks, open space, and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 42nd Streets, as part of a 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district. On September 25, 2008, representatives from the finalist teams for the design competition presented their proposals at the Center for Architecture, in an evening introduced and moderated by Hugh Hardy. Proposals for Hudson Park and Boulevard September 25, 2008 Part 6 of 6 Presented by Keith McPeters, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol; Brent Linden, Allied Works Architecture Design team: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Allied Works Architecture | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 105 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 033/Barker Freeman Design Office | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 033 Barker Freeman Design Office Alexandra Barker | 10/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 106 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 093/Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 093 Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David Lewis | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 107 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 096/WORK Architecture Company | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 096 WORK Architecture Company Amale Andraos and Dan Wood | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 108 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 092/SINGLE speed DESIGN | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 092 SINGLE speed DESIGN Jinhee Park and John Hong | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 109 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 089/nARCHITECTS | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 089 nARCHITECTS Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 110 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 071/r s v p architects | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 071 r s v p architects, psc Rodrigo Vidal | 10/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 111 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 064/Josh Uhl/Toshiko Mori Architect | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 064 Josh Uhl/Toshiko Mori Architect Josh Uhl | 10/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 112 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 038/Keller Easterling | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 038 Keller Easterling Keller Easterling | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 113 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 062/Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/NAO | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 062 Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/NAO Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 114 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 031/Slade Architecture | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 031 Slade Architecture Hayes Slade and James Slade | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 115 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 024/*multiplicities | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 024 *multiplicities Daniel Holguin and Issei Suma | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 116 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 007/Lyn Rice Architects | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 007 Lyn Rice Architects Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 117 | VideoThe Ordos 100: Site 016/OBRA Architects | The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10,700 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. The Architectural League presents projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100 in the exhibition 13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos, on view October 11 - November 26, 2008. For this exhibition, interviews were conducted with the participating architects, to allow them to describe in their own words their experiences working in Ordos and how they feel about it now that the design phase has come to an end. Audio excerpts are included in the exhibition installation; extended video interviews are available on www.archleague.org and through iTunes. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.archleague.org. Site 016 OBRA Architects Pablo Castro | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 118 | Video322 Hicks Street/Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects | Situated on an open two-block site in a historic, residential section of Brooklyn Heights, 322 Hicks Street mediates its historical context and status as new construction – a threshold between past and present. The angled and inflected brick facade breaks the building’s mass to remain constant with the neighborhood’s scale. The building stretches from lot line to lot line, continuing the nature of the block. Oriel windows punctuate the façade and recall the iconography of the brownstone bay window. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 9/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 119 | VideoLuminaire Celebrates Public Space/Rogers Marvel Architects | Luminaire Celebrates Public Space considers threshold in the most familiar and pervasive of ways, as an entry condition. Forming the Metropolitan Tower Lobby’s desk as a Luminaire or illuminated feature, Rogers Marvel Architects employed light and the object’s sculptural form to animate and engage the building’s entrance. The glowing lobby desk broadcasts to the street, connecting interior and exterior. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 9/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 120 | VideoSwitch Building/nARCHITECTS | The Switch Building is a seven-storey apartment and art gallery building in New York’s Lower East Side, consisting of four floor-through apartments, a duplex penthouse, and a double height art gallery on the ground and cellar levels. Interpreting threshold as a productive space between various demands, the project’s design mediates and exploits the limits imposed by zoning and development. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 9/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 121 | VideoThe New School Sheila C. Johnson Design Center/Lyn Rice Architects | The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is a 32,000 square foot academic building. The project organizes a range of shared spaces around a new urban quad, uniting the four historic buildings of Parsons, The New School for Design. The renovation includes new entries on Fifth Avenue and West 13th Street, an auditorium, archives center, galleries, meeting rooms, and a student critique area. The façade – the threshold between street and building, neighborhood and school – becomes an occupiable space as steel windowsills punch through the walls to create seating. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 9/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 122 | VideoBrooklyn Bridge Underpass Light Installation/Tillett Lighting Design and KT3D | A permanent work commissioned by the City of New York, Percent for Art Program and the DUMBO Business Improvement District, the Brooklyn Bridge Underpass Light Installation consists of washes of blue light, creating a locus, and fiber-optic arrays, establishing direction. Taking a formerly dour site of banal urban infrastructure, which proved a navigational hazard for the surrounding community, the project enlivens the space, providing directional help, turning what was an oppressive piece of steel and concrete into a piece of public art. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 123 | VideoSlide Library, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University/Marble Fairbanks | The Slide Library of Columbia University's Department of Art and Archaeology can be conceived as a threshold between disciplines and uses. Forming an alliance between the university clients, facilities department, and architecture schools, the project offered to the client department a unique design—milled and sandwiched one inch thick undulating ultralight, embedded with glass pieces, illuminated by natural light—at a significant value, while providing the architecture school a venue to explore and test new fabrication processes. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 8/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 124 | VideoBest Pedestrian Route/GRO Architects | Best Pedestrian Route was commissioned through the Construction 2007 Competition sponsored by the Alliance for Downtown New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Serving as an actual construction site walkway in downtown Manhattan, the project exploits the concept of construction as a liminal activity: between plan, digital technology, and construction; construction and finished building; or simply between the graphic symbol and diagrammatic pattern. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 8/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 125 | VideoWest Harlem Piers Park/Archipelago | Described by the architects as a threshold between land and water, the urban and the natural, and the past and the present, West Harlem Piers Park redevelops a forgotten industrial strip of land along the Hudson. The revitalized park serves as a new focal point for the surrounding neighborhood, providing bike and foot paths, grassy areas, and new walkways integrating the park with 125th Street. The Architectural League created the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work built in New York City. This year’s theme, ‘threshold,’ focuses on projects whose design mediates distinct conditions. A ‘threshold’ might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. What limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city? What can thresholds tell us about the experience of building in New York City and contemporary design practice? Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on May 29 and June 5, 2008. | 8/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 126 | VideoShigeru Ban | The Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment is an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. The 2007-08 Franzen Lecture was given by Shigeru Ban on January 22, 2008 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s innovative work tests the limits of structure and form. Often based on elements derived from traditional Japanese architecture, his firm’s designs are ecologically sensitive and flexibly programmed, from quickly constructed temporary paper structures to modular, reconfigurable galleries and pavilions to permanent urban structures. Recent and current work includes the Nomadic Museum; the Seikei Library; Papertainer Museum, Seoul; Nicolas G. Hayek Center, Tokyo; the Metal Shutter Houses; and the Pompidou Center – Metz. | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 127 | VideoPaul Mankiewicz: Turning Risk Around | This program was recorded on May 1, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. What if the threat of a large rise in sea levels inspired us to use living communities of marshes, mussels, seaweeds, and oysters to restore and expand the intertidal edge to catch sediments and resist storm surges? What if the need to counter urban heat islands led us to create a whole new approach to urban parks and water use, with green spaces, green streets, green roofs, and waste water recycling all forming a new cooling infrastructure? What if we thought about New York City’s waste stream as a kind of essential municipal resource, available in the quantities needed to protect coastal infrastructure with reefs and wave-dissipators? Biologist and plant scientist Paul Mankiewicz discusses how some of the enormous challenges posed by climate change could be addressed by radically different ways of thinking about material flows and ecosystem function in the urban environment. Mankiewicz is founder and executive director of the Gaia Institute, which explores, through research and development, design and construction, how human activities and waste products can be treated to increase ecological productivity, biodiversity, environmental quality, and economic well being. Reimagining Risk Turning Risk Around: Material Flows, Ecosystem Growth, and Urban Landscape Renewal Paul Mankiewicz May 1, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 128 | VideoShih-Fu Peng | Shih-Fu Peng and his partner Róisín Heneghan founded heneghan.peng.architects in New York in 1999 before moving to Dublin, Ireland in 2001. The office has won numerous significant international design competitions, including the Carpenter’s Lock footbridge for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In 1999, Heneghan and Peng were among the winners of the Architectural League’s Young Architects Forum. In this excerpt from Shih-Fu Peng’s April 17, 2008 lecture at the Urban Center in New York City, he discusses his firm’s design of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Current Work is the Architectural League’s annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 5/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 129 | VideoFrank Barkow | Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded the Berlin based practice Barkow Leibinger Architects in 1993. Characterized by the interaction of practice, research, and teaching, the firm’s “interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows its work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge and technology.” Pursuing their interest in digitally tooled material, Barkow Leibinger’s recent research projects investigate revolving lasercutting and CNC-cut translucent concrete formwork with an application to facade systems, pre-cast concrete, and ceramic elements. These excerpts from Frank Barkow’s April 11, 2008 lecture at the Urban Center in New York City include a brief history of the firm, and a discussion of the use of revolving lasercutting, particularly in relation to the Gatehouse project in Stuttgart, Germany. Current Work is the Architectural League’s annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 5/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 130 | VideoTerrie Sultan, Parrish Art Museum | In conjunction with the exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron's Design for the New Parrish Art Museum, the League has produced a set of video interviews with key individuals related to the project. Here, watch Terrie Sultan, Director of the Parrish Art Museum, discuss the project. Exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum On view March 12–May 2, 2008 The Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue New York City | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 131 | VideoSteven Holl | Steven Holl’s diverse commissions are unified by his philosophy that “Architecture does not so much intrude on the landscape as it serves to explain it.” His designs offer a nuanced experience of unfolding space, demonstrating architecture’s “potential to shape experience, interrelating body, brain, and world.” Founded in 1976, Steven Holl Architects has offices in New York and Beijing, and has been honored with architecture’s most prestigious awards, publications, and exhibitions for excellence in design. In these excerpts from his February 21, 2008 lecture at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York, Holl argues the 11 points that frame his new book, Urbanisms: Working with Doubt, and discusses his design of the Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing. Current Work is the Architectural League’s annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 4/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 132 | VideoDouglas Reed, Reed Hilderbrand Associates | In conjunction with the exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron's Design for the New Parrish Art Museum, the League has produced a set of video interviews with key individuals related to the project. Here, watch Douglas Reed, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand Associates, discuss the project. Exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum On view March 12–May 2, 2008 The Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue New York City | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 133 | VideoNew Orleans, Part 3: Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen | This program was recorded on April 3, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans? Part 3 of 4: Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, principals of the New York City firm Workshop APD, discuss the building process of their winning entry in the first phase of the Global Green competition. Reimagining Risk: New Orleans Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea Introduced and moderated by James Russell April 3, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 134 | VideoNew Orleans, Part 4: Q&A | This program was recorded on April 3, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans? Part 4 of 4: James S. Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg, moderates a Q&A session with Allen Eskew of Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, Carey Shea of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen of Workshop APD. Reimagining Risk: New Orleans Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea Introduced and moderated by James Russell April 3, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 135 | VideoNew Orleans, Part 1: James Russell, Carey Shea | This program was recorded on April 3, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans? Part 1 of 4: James S. Russell, who has written extensively about New Orleans as architecture critic for Bloomberg, provides an overview of current work in New Orleans. Following, Carey Shea, who spearheaded the Rockefeller Foundation’s assistance to planning efforts in New Orleans and who is now senior program director of the Community Revitalization Program at the Greater New Orleans Foundation, discusses current efforts, particularly the development of the Unified New Orleans Plan and Community Revitalization Fund. Reimagining Risk: New Orleans Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea Introduced and moderated by James Russell April 3, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 136 | VideoNew Orleans, Part 2: Allen Eskew | This program was recorded on April 3, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans? Part 2 of 4: Allen Eskew of the New Orleans firm Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, discusses some of his firm’s current projects, which include a new high school, VA hospital, and the BioInnovation Center. Reimagining Risk: New Orleans Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea Introduced and moderated by James Russell April 3, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 137 | VideoMichael Meredith and Hilary Sample/MOS | Founded in 2003 by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, the New Haven and Boston-based firm MOS focuses “on architecture and design through design research and multivalent architectural objects.” Their interdisciplinary design process of “radical inclusion and experimentation” inspires work of varying scales, from product and exhibition design to residential architecture and cultural centers. Here, Meredith and Sample present two related projects, the Sleeping Cottage and the Floating House, on Granite Island in the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 138 | VideoHagy Belzberg/Belzberg Architects | Santa Monica based Belzberg Architects was founded by Hagy Belzberg in 1997. Exploring “the suppleness of contemporary forms and the character of both natural and synthetic materials,” Belzberg Architects challenges the “efficacy of digital design within the constraints of physical environments in an effort to understand an interesting and possibly unexplored tectonic reality.” Here, Hagy Belzberg presents a series of cultural projects: the Laboratory of Art + Ideas at Belmar Center in Lakewood, CO; the Ahmanson Founders Room at the Los Angeles Music Center; and the interiors of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 139 | VideoAscan Mergenthaler, Herzog & de Meuron | In conjunction with the exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron's Design for the New Parrish Art Museum, the League has produced a set of video interviews with key individuals related to the project. Here, watch Ascan Mergenthaler, Partner in Charge, Herzog & de Meuron, discuss the project. Exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum On view March 12–May 2, 2008 The Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue New York City | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 140 | VideoBeirut, Part 2: Amale Andraos | This program was recorded on March 7, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. In part 2 of this evening, Amale Andraos, principal, WORKac, presents her own professional experiences in addressing these different manifestations of risk, looking particularly at her firm’s recent architectural biennale entry. The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by design; and how compelled architects become to work not only with non-formal attributes in their discipline but also how they reach out to other media. Reimagining Risk: Beirut Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis March 7, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 141 | VideoBeirut, Part 4: Ziad Jamaleddine | This program was recorded on March 7, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. In part 4 of this evening, Ziad Jamaleddine, principal, L.E.FT, presents his own professional experiences in addressing these different manifestations of risk, looking particularly at his firm’s recent architectural biennale entry. The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by design; and how compelled architects become to work not only with non-formal attributes in their discipline but also how they reach out to other media. Reimagining Risk: Beirut Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis March 7, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 142 | VideoBeirut, Part 1: Hashim Sarkis, Introduction | This program was recorded on March 7, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. In part 1 of this evening, Hashim Sarkis, principal, Hashim Sarkis Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design, frames an introductory argument about risk and its relation to working in Beirut. The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by design; and how compelled architects become to work not only with non-formal attributes in their discipline but also how they reach out to other media. Reimagining Risk: Beirut Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis March 7, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 143 | VideoBeirut, Part 3: Hashim Sarkis | This program was recorded on March 7, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. In part 3 of this evening, Hashim Sarkis, principal, Hashim Sarkis Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design, presents his own professional experiences in addressing these different manifestations of risk, looking particularly at his firm’s recent architectural biennale entry. The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by design; and how compelled architects become to work not only with non-formal attributes in their discipline but also how they reach out to other media. Reimagining Risk: Beirut Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis March 7, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 144 | VideoGranger Moorhead and Robert Moorhead/Moorhead & Moorhead | Moorhead & Moorhead is a New York-based architecture and industrial design collaboration formed in 2000 by brothers Granger Moorhead and Robert Moorhead. Exploring function and materiality at scales ranging from furniture to architecture, Moorhead & Moorhead combines the brothers’ distinct backgrounds in architecture and industrial design, leading to “a unique synthesis of their expertise in detailing, fabrication, and spatial design.” Here, Granger Moorhead presents a variety of projects involving various methods of and approaches to weaving: the Filament Wound Bench, the Metropolis Magazine Booth, the Mobile Chaplet, and Hanover Square Loft. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 4/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 145 | VideoBrian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling/Johnsen Schmaling Architects | Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling founded Johnsen Schmaling Architects in 2002 as a design and research studio in Milwaukee. Exploring the local “tensions between a besieged urban rustbelt and its agrarian hinterland,” Johnsen Schmaling Architects informs its projects with “a poetic reading of site and terrain that rejects contextual mimesis as much as modernism’s preoccupation with self-referential objects.” Here, Johnsen and Schmaling present Camouflage House, a lake-view home in Green Lake, Wisconsin which, through their use of natural materials and thoughtful exploration of the site, reflects and responds to the surrounding hillside environment. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 146 | VideoChris Reed/Stoss Landscape Urbanism | Stoss Landscape Urbanism (StossLU) is a Boston-based landscape architecture, planning, and urbanism studio led by Chris Reed. Emphasizing a “performance-based approach over one that is primarily physical, spatial, or visual,” StossLU asks how landscapes work: “how they function urbanistically, socially, hydrologically, environmentally; how they reinforce existing city frameworks and how they invent new ones; and how they may support a range of complementary and sometimes contradictory civic programs and uses.” Here, Chris Reed presents StossLU’s proposal for the Lower Don Lands, a 300-acre, high-density project at the mouth of the Don River in downtown Toronto, Ontario. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 3/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 147 | VideoJohnny McDonald, Pat McDonald, Tim McDonald, Howard Steinberg/Onion Flats | Formed in 1997 in Philadelphia by brothers Tim McDonald and Pat McDonald and later joined by Johnny McDonald and Howard Steinberg, Onion Flats is a collective combining the roles of developer, architect, and builder. The firm’s mission is to bring architecture not only “beyond the drawing board and into the building process,” creating a dialogue between the often disparate worlds of architecture and building, but also to integrate buildings with communities and culture. Here, Tim McDonald and his partners present Stable Flats, a residential project in Philadelphia they hope will be a model for sustainable urban building, through their innovative approaches to storm water management, geothermal heating and cooling, green roof technology, community space, and affordable housing. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 3/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 148 | VideoRwanda, Part 2: Carl Worthington | This program was recorded on February 28, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured presentations and a panel discussion on Rwanda. Part 2 of that evening was a presentation by Carl Worthington, Director of Urban Design and Planning at OZ Architecture, who discussed the new master plan and building efforts for Kigali, Rwanda. The master plan is part of the Rwandan government’s response to rapid urbanization, and seeks investment in human capital, information technology, and economic growth as bulwarks against population growth, inadequate infrastructure, poverty, and a history of conflict. Reimagining Risk: Rwanda Catherine Leslie, Alfred Ndabarasa, Carl Worthington Moderated by Andrew Blum Thursday, February 28, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 3/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 149 | VideoRwanda, Part 3: Catherine Leslie, Carl Worthington, and Panel Discussion | This program was recorded on February 28, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured presentations and a panel discussion on Rwanda. Part 3 of that evening was a joint presentation by Catherine Leslie, Project Manager at Tetra Tech and Executive Director of Engineers without Borders – USA, and Carl Worthington, Director of Urban Design and Planning at OZ Architecture, who discussed the new master plan and building efforts for Kigali, Rwanda. The master plan is part of the Rwandan government’s response to rapid urbanization, and seeks investment in human capital, information technology, and economic growth as bulwarks against population growth, inadequate infrastructure, poverty, and a history of conflict. Following this presentation was a panel discussion with Leslie, Worthington, and Alfred Ndabarasa, second counselor to the Republic of Rwanda’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, moderated by journalist Andrew Blum. Reimagining Risk: Rwanda Catherine Leslie, Alfred Ndabarasa, Carl Worthington Moderated by Andrew Blum Thursday, February 28, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 3/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 150 | VideoRwanda, Part 1: Alfred Ndabarasa | This program was recorded on February 28, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured presentations and a panel discussion on Rwanda. Part 1 of that evening was an introduction by journalist Andrew Blum, followed by a presentation by Alfred Ndabarasa, second counselor to the Republic of Rwanda’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, who gave an introduction to Rwanda and the government’s goals. Reimagining Risk: Rwanda Catherine Leslie, Alfred Ndabarasa, Carl Worthington Moderated by Andrew Blum Thursday, February 28, 2008 The Urban Center, New York City | 3/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 151 | VideoDavid Dowell, Dan Maginn, and Josh Shelton/el dorado inc | Kansas City, MO based el dorado inc is led by principals Jamie Darnell, David Dowell, Dan Maginn, Josh Shelton, and Douglas Stockman. The firm consists of a collaborative architectural studio and steel fabrication facility. el dorado inc has characterized its design and fabrication practice as “the development of a simple process and an actively shared language of detailing that results in elegant, well-crafted projects.” Here, the firm describes their Hodgdon Powder Co. facility in Herington, KS by pitting it against the planet Mars in a “fair fight.” The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 3/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 152 | VideoAmale Andraos and Dan Wood/WORK Architecture Company | WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) was founded in 2003 by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Based in New York City, WORKac pursues projects at all scales, from residential and commercial interiors to private residences, housing, institutional buildings, and urban planning projects both in New York and internationally. The firm’s name, WORK, captures its design philosophy, “represent[ing] the rigorous analysis and relentless testing of concepts to find the specific solution.” Here, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood present Public Farm 1, their plan for the 2008 /P.S.1 Young Architects Program, which will bring an Urban Farm to Queens, NY. The Architectural League created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. | 3/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 153 | VideoRed Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures | An edited version of a program recorded on January 17, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Damon Rich, founder and chair of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), lectures on CUP’s new project exploring financial architecture from the Great Depression to the subprime meltdown. This project is commissioned by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. The lecture traces the evolving relationship between buildings and money over the 20th century in three episodes: 1. The Great Depression and the creation of a national secondary mortgage market; 2. The battle against redlining and the creation of the Community Reinvestment Act; 3. The Savings and Loan crisis and the ascendancy of securitization. Each episode describes a different configuration of government, private markets, and finance and how the status quo adapted to an emerging risk in the system. The lecture concludes with speculations on what architects can learn from studying this extra-architectural history, and what architects can contribute to popular understandings of the current crisis in real estate finance. CUP is a nonprofit practice that designs educational projects about places and how they change. CUP brings artists and designers together with community-based advocates and researchers to create public projects ranging from high school curricula and outdoor installations to websites and TV shows. Damon Rich is the founder and chair of CUP. After training as an architect at Columbia University, Damon worked for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, eventually becoming Chief of Staff for Capital Projects. Since leaving Parks in 2000, in addition to running CUP, Damon has taught design at schools including Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. He also writes regularly about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. From 2007-2008, Damon served as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. | 2/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 154 | VideoSusan Rodriguez, Richard Olcott, and Todd Schliemann | Susan Rodriguez, Richard Olcott, and Todd Schliemann are the three senior design partners of New York-based Polshek Partnership Architects. This excerpt from their January 31, 2008 lecture at Donnell Auditorium in New York City, includes a portion of Susan Rodriguez's introduction and her presentation of the Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts, the Schermerhorn House for Common Ground Community, and the State Supreme Court building at St. George in New York City, Richard Olcott's presentation of the WGBH Headquarters in Boston, and Todd Schliemann's presentation of the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City. Current Work is the Architectural League’s annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 2/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 155 | VideoNew York, Climate Change, and Sea Level Rise: New Demands on Urban Planning and Architecture | This program was recorded on January 7, 2008, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. In this program, Dr. Klaus Jacob, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, outlines features of climate change expected for this century that will affect the built environment of New York City. Adaptation to a new climate will require innovative ideas for how to (re)plan and (re)build the city, from the underground infrastructure to the above-ground building stock. Apart from new demands on the built environment from more extreme wind, temperature, precipitation, and other extreme events, probably the greatest challenge will come from sea-level rise. In conjunction with Nor’easter storms and more frequent and stronger hurricanes, sea level rise will produce ever more frequent storm surge inundations of the City’s low-lying waterfront and underground structures. Changes in zoning and/or building codes will be one way to respond, but until implemented, voluntary measures may be used by foresighted owners. In the longer run (especially beyond this century) the following options, all “inconvenient”, present themselves: retreat from the waterfront to higher ground; and/or defensive “hard” engineering, with storm barriers and levees protecting properties anywhere from the very local block- or neighborhood scale, to storm barriers protecting the entire inner NY/NJ harbor estuary. The latter “solution” carries, however, ultimate catastrophic risks since there is no foreseeable upper level for sea-level rise. Whatever the future costly adaptation measures may be, climate change and sea-level rise are inevitable, and early anticipation seems prudent. | 1/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 156 | VideoMitch Epstein: American Power: What’s Really at Risk? | This program was recorded on November 20, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening began with this presentation by Mitch Epstein about his current work, “American Power,” which examines energy usage and the idea of excess in the United States. These pictures were made on forays to energy production sites and their environs. Epstein plays with the definition of American power, probing not just corporate power but the powers of nature, sexuality, consumption, and size. Environmental risks aside, Epstein has discovered that in the United States, since 9/11, making art freely in public space, and artists themselves, are at risk due to governmental and corporate surveillance and security. In this video, Epstein shows images from American Power, and speaks about cultural, environmental, and artistic risk. Mitch Epstein’s photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His recent books include "Mitch Epstein: Work" (Steidl, 2007) and "Family Business" (Steidl, 2003). Epstein is the recipient of the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters, Spring 2008, from the American Academy in Berlin. | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 157 | VideoIndefensible Space, Part 4: M. Christine Boyer | This program was recorded on November 20, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured a panel discussion on “Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State,” a new book edited by Michael Sorkin that examines how post-9/11 paranoia and demands for security are, paradoxically, leading to ever more insecurity, as physical barriers, increased surveillance, and anxiety erode public space. Part 4 of that evening was a presentation by M. Christine Boyer. M. Christine Boyer is Williams R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Boyer, who joined the faculty in 1991, is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the American city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Before coming to Princeton, Boyer was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute. She has written extensively about American urbanism. Her publications include "Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890-1945," "Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1900," "The City of Collective Memory and CyberCities," along with essay contributions to numerous books and journals. Christine Boyer received a B.A. from Goucher College, a M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.C.P. and Ph.D. from MIT. | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 158 | VideoIndefensible Space, Part 3: Cindi Katz | This program was recorded on November 20, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured a panel discussion on “Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State,” a new book edited by Michael Sorkin that examines how post-9/11 paranoia and demands for security are, paradoxically, leading to ever more insecurity, as physical barriers, increased surveillance, and anxiety erode public space. Part 3 of that evening was a presentation by Cindi Katz. Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place, and nature; children and the environment; and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. She has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in numerous journals. She is the editor (with Janice Monk) of "Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course," "Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction" (with Sallie Marston and Katharyne Mitchell), and "Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives." | 1/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 159 | VideoIndefensible Space, Part 2: Teddy Cruz | This program was recorded on November 20, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured a panel discussion on “Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State,” a new book edited by Michael Sorkin that examines how post-9/11 paranoia and demands for security are, paradoxically, leading to ever more insecurity, as physical barriers, increased surveillance, and anxiety erode public space. Part 2 of that evening was a presentation by Teddy Cruz. Teddy Cruz is an architect and founding principal of the San Diego based practice, estudio teddy cruz. His work dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. His work and writing is widely published and he is recipient of a Rome Prize, a P/A Award, the Robert Taylor Teaching Award from the ACSA, numerous AIA Honor Awards, and was named an “Emerging Voice” by the Architectural League in 2005. Teddy Cruz began studying architecture at Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City and at the California State University International Program. He received his M.Des.S from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 160 | VideoIndefensible Space, Part 1: Michael Sorkin | This program was recorded on November 20, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. The evening featured a panel discussion on “Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State,” a new book edited by Michael Sorkin that examines how post-9/11 paranoia and demands for security are, paradoxically, leading to ever more insecurity, as physical barriers, increased surveillance, and anxiety erode public space. Part 1 of that evening was a presentation by the book’s editor, Michael Sorkin. Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, a design practice devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city and in green architecture. He is the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York. From 1993 to 2000 he was Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Previously, Sorkin has been professor at numerous schools of architecture. Sorkin lectures widely and is the author of many articles in a wide range of both professional and general publications and is currently contributing editor at Architectural Record and Metropolis. For ten years, he was the architecture critic of The Village Voice. His books include "Variations on a Theme Park," "Local Code," "Giving Ground," "Wiggle," "Some Assembly Required," "After The World Trade Center," "Starting From Zero," and "Indefensible Space." Michael Sorkin received his architectural training at Harvard and MIT. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 161 | VideoBuildings and Fear, Part 2: Joel Sanders | This program was recorded on November 15, 2007, as part of the League’s 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Buildings and Fear, a conversation with David Childs and Joel Sanders, addressed questions such as: What is the design response to increasing demands for secure buildings and pervasive fears of insecurity? Should designers expose or disguise hardened buildings? What are the practical, social, cultural, political, and moral issues that design must face in a world seen as at risk? Part 2 of that evening was a presentation by Joel Sanders. Architect Joel Sanders has been dealing with the tension between security and public access in his work with the First Impressions program of the General Services Administration. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 162 | VideoBuildings and Fear, Part 1: David Childs | This program was recorded on November 15, 2007, as part of the League's 2007-8 thematic lecture series, Reimagining Risk, which explores how different notions of risk are shaping contemporary architecture and urbanism. Buildings and Fear, a conversation with David Childs and Joel Sanders, addressed questions such as: What is the design response to increasing demands for secure buildings and pervasive fears of insecurity? Should designers expose or disguise hardened buildings? What are the practical, social, cultural, political, and moral issues that design must face in a world seen as at risk? Part 1 of that evening was a presentation by David Childs. David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been dealing with these issues in the fishbowl of the World Trade Center site, where he designed Seven World Trade Center and is the architect of the Freedom Tower. He has also confronted them in his terms as Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission and Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 163 | VideoProposals for the West Side Rail Yards: Vornado Realty Trust and The Durst Organization, Inc. | On October 11, 2007, five developers submitted responses to a Request For Proposals issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards, the largest undeveloped tract of land in Manhattan. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008; after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). On December 3, 2007 representatives of the design teams for the five proposals presented their schemes in a public program at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, co-sponsored by the following group of architecture and civic organizations: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter; American Planning Association New York Chapter; American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter; Architectural League of New York; Design Trust for Public Space; Fine Arts Federation; Friends of the High Line; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Municipal Art Society; New York New Visions; Regional Plan Association. This presentation from that evening was given by Dan Kaplan of FXFOWLE and Margie Ruddick of WRT Design on behalf of Vornado Realty Trust and The Durst Organization, Inc. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 164 | VideoProposals for the West Side Rail Yards: Brookfield Properties LLC | On October 11, 2007, five developers submitted responses to a Request For Proposals issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards, the largest undeveloped tract of land in Manhattan. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008; after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). On December 3, 2007 representatives of the design teams for the five proposals presented their schemes in a public program at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, co-sponsored by the following group of architecture and civic organizations: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter; American Planning Association New York Chapter; American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter; Architectural League of New York; Design Trust for Public Space; Fine Arts Federation; Friends of the High Line; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Municipal Art Society; New York New Visions; Regional Plan Association. This presentation from that evening was given by James Corner of Field Operations and Gary Haney of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill on behalf of Brookfield Properties LLC. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 165 | VideoProposals for the West Side Rail Yards: Extell Development Company | On October 11, 2007, five developers submitted responses to a Request For Proposals issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards, the largest undeveloped tract of land in Manhattan. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008; after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). On December 3, 2007 representatives of the design teams for the five proposals presented their schemes in a public program at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, co-sponsored by the following group of architecture and civic organizations: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter; American Planning Association New York Chapter; American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter; Architectural League of New York; Design Trust for Public Space; Fine Arts Federation; Friends of the High Line; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Municipal Art Society; New York New Visions; Regional Plan Association. This presentation from that evening was given by Steven Holl of Steven Holl Architects, on behalf of the Extell Development Company. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 166 | VideoProposals for the West Side Rail Yards: The Related Companies | On October 11, 2007, five developers submitted responses to a Request For Proposals issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards, the largest undeveloped tract of land in Manhattan. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008; after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). On December 3, 2007 representatives of the design teams for the five proposals presented their schemes in a public program at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, co-sponsored by the following group of architecture and civic organizations: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter; American Planning Association New York Chapter; American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter; Architectural League of New York; Design Trust for Public Space; Fine Arts Federation; Friends of the High Line; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Municipal Art Society; New York New Visions; Regional Plan Association. This presentation from that evening was given by Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Bernardo Fort Brescia, Arquitectonica; Claire Weisz, West 8/Weisz + Yoes; and Robert A.M. Stern, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, on behalf of The Related Companies. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 167 | VideoProposals for the West Side Rail Yards: Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley | On October 11, 2007, five developers submitted responses to a Request For Proposals issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for development of both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards, the largest undeveloped tract of land in Manhattan. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008; after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). On December 3, 2007 representatives of the design teams for the five proposals presented their schemes in a public program at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, co-sponsored by the following group of architecture and civic organizations: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter; American Planning Association New York Chapter; American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter; Architectural League of New York; Design Trust for Public Space; Fine Arts Federation; Friends of the High Line; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; Municipal Art Society; New York New Visions; Regional Plan Association. This presentation from that evening was given by Francisco Gonzalez Pulido of Murphy/Jahn Architects on behalf of Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 168 | VideoSean Griffiths | Sean Griffiths is a partner in the London-based art/architecture collective FAT: Fashion. Architecture. Taste. This excerpt from his November 28, 2007 lecture at Donnell Auditorium in New York City, includes a portion of his introduction and his presentation of FAT’s design of the Community in a Cube (CIAC) building in Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, England. Current Work is the Architectural League's annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 169 | VideoMarion Weiss and Michael Manfredi | Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are partners in the New York based firm Weiss/Manfredi, a practice committed to the dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. In this excerpt from their November 8, 2007 lecture at Donnell Auditorium in New York City, Weiss and Manfredi discuss their design of the Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. Current Work is the Architectural League's annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 11/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 170 | VideoDavid Chipperfield | David Chipperfield is the founder of David Chipperfield Architects (est. 1984), whose recently completed Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, was awarded the 2007 Stirling Prize. In this excerpt from his November 2, 2007 Current Work lecture at Caspary Hall at Rockefeller University in New York City, Chipperfield discusses his design of the America’s Cup Building, Veles e Vents in Valencia, Spain. Current Work is the Architectural League's annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 11/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 171 | VideoMichael Rock | Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director at 2x4, a multidisciplinary studio in New York City focusing on design for art, architecture, fashion and cultural clients worldwide. In this excerpt from his November 30, 2006 Current Work lecture at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, Rock discusses 2x4’s design of a student center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a project done in conjunction with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Current Work is the Architectural League's annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 172 | VideoThom Mayne | Thom Mayne is the founder of Morphosis in Santa Monica, CA and the co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture. In this excerpt from his November 14, 2006 Current Work lecture at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, Mayne discusses his design of the Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon. Current Work is the Architectural League's annual series of lectures by leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 173 | VideoBenjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch/Aranda/Lasch | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winners Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch of the New York-based firm Aranda/Lasch. | 9/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 174 | VideoJinhee Park/SINGLE speed DESIGN | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winner Jinhee Park of the Cambridge-based firm SINGLE speed DESIGN. | 8/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 175 | VideoDominic Leong, Jonathan Lott, Brian Price/PARA | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winners Dominic Leong, Jonathan Lott, and Brian Price of the New York City-based firm PARA. | 8/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 176 | VideoTank, Lynn Gaffney Architect | The Architectural League’s New York Designs lecture series spotlights new work by six New York City firms. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. “Starts and Finishes,” the 2007 program theme, focused on the evolution of a project from conception through construction. By comparing generative ideas to completed buildings and by highlighting the beginning and end points of the design process, the series attempts to illuminate the linkages between the conceptual and built realms. Lynn Gaffney is the principal of Lynn Gaffney Architect, founded in 1997. New York’s iconic roof water tanks provide the inspiration for the Tank – Quandt Heyer Roof Project, a residential roof deck. This lecture was presented on June 14, 2007 at the Urban Center in New York. | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 177 | VideoJuliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion, hanrahan Meyers | The Architectural League’s New York Designs lecture series spotlights new work by six New York City firms. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. “Starts and Finishes,” the 2007 program theme, focused on the evolution of a project from conception through construction. By comparing generative ideas to completed buildings and by highlighting the beginning and end points of the design process, the series attempts to illuminate the linkages between the conceptual and built realms. Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers founded hanrahan Meyers in 1987. The firm’s recently completed Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion for Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute connects two existing buildings, Steuben Hall and Pratt Studios, into a unified Design Center for the campus. This lecture was presented on June 7, 2007 at the Urban Center in New York. | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 178 | VideoMoCADA, Studio SUMO | The Architectural League’s New York Designs lecture series spotlights new work by six New York City firms. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. “Starts and Finishes,” the 2007 program theme, focused on the evolution of a project from conception through construction. By comparing generative ideas to completed buildings and by highlighting the beginning and end points of the design process, the series attempts to illuminate the linkages between the conceptual and built realms. Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels founded Studio SUMO in 1996. Their project for the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) consists of gallery, reception, store, and office space in the BAM cultural district. This lecture was presented on June 14, 2007 at the Urban Center in New York. | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 179 | VideoEcotopiaries, Matter Architecture Practice | The Architectural League’s New York Designs lecture series spotlights new work by six New York City firms. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. “Starts and Finishes,” the 2007 program theme, focused on the evolution of a project from conception through construction. By comparing generative ideas to completed buildings and by highlighting the beginning and end points of the design process, the series attempts to illuminate the linkages between the conceptual and built realms. Ecotopiaries, by Matter Architecture Practice, the firm co-founded by Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger in 2002, is an installation created to house the International Center of Photography exhibition Ecotopia: the Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. This lecture was presented on June 14, 2007 at the Urban Center in New York. | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 180 | Video"The Twist," studioMDA | The Architectural League’s New York Designs lecture series spotlights new work by six New York City firms. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. “Starts and Finishes,” the 2007 program theme, focused on the evolution of a project from conception through construction. By comparing generative ideas to completed buildings and by highlighting the beginning and end points of the design process, the series attempts to illuminate the linkages between the conceptual and built realms. studioMDA, founded by Markus Dochantschi in 2002, recently completed the project “The Twist.” The goal was to turn a landmarked West Village townhouse into a modern, flexible home, while acknowledging the building’s historical container and context. This lecture was presented on June 7, 2007 at the Urban Center in New York. | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 181 | VideoWonne Ickx, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, and Abel Perles/PRODUCTORA | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winners Wonne Ickx, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, and Abel Perles of the Mexico City-based firm PRODUCTORA. | 7/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 182 | VideoChaewon Kim and Beat Schenk/UNI | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winners Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk of the Cambridge-based firm UNI. | 7/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 183 | VideoRenzo Piano | The Ulrich Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment is an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for architecture and the environment. On October 30, 2006, Renzo Piano gave the inaugural presentation of this new series at the Cooper Union in New York City. This is an excerpt of his lecture, with introduction by League president Calvin Tsao. | 7/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 184 | VideoNew York 2000: The Good, the Bad, and the Appropriate | On February 13, 2007, the Architectural League presented the second of a two-part lecture series considering major themes raised by the physical development of New York City during the last quarter of the twentieth century, coinciding with the publication of New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium, by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove (The Monacelli Press, 2006). This is Robert A.M. Stern's introduction to the second evening's discussion. | 7/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 185 | VideoNew York 2000: The City as Stage | On February 6, 2007, the Architectural League presented the first of a two-part lecture series considering major themes raised by the physical development of New York City during the last quarter of the twentieth century, coinciding with the publication of New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium, by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove (The Monacelli Press, 2006). This is Robert A.M. Stern's introduction to the first evening's discussion. | 7/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 186 | VideoIvan Hernandez Quintela/ludens | Interview with 2007 Young Architects winner Ivan Hernandez Quintela of the Mexico City-based firm ludens. | 6/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jared Della Valle and Andy Bernheimer/Della Valle Bernheimer | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voices Jared Della Valle and Andy Bernheimer of the Brooklyn-based architectural firm Della Valle Bernheimer. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Te Liu | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voice An Te Liu of the University of Toronto. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trey Trahan/Trahan Architects | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voice Trey Trahan of the Baton Rouge-based architectural firm Trahan Architects. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott/IwamotoScott Architecture | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voices Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of the San Francisco-based architectural firm IwamotoScott Architecture. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee/Johnston Marklee Associates | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voices Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of the Los Angeles-based architectural firm Johnston Marklee and Associates. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Howeler/Howeler + Yoon/MY Studio | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voices J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Howeler of the New York City- and Boston-based architectural firm Howeler + Yoon/MY Studio. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson/Anderson Anderson Architecture | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voices Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson of the San Francisco- and Seattle-based architectural firm Anderson Anderson Architecture. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ammar Eloueini/AEDS | Interview with 2007 Emerging Voice Ammar Eloueini of New Orleans- and Paris-based architectural firm, AEDS. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 195 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 196 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 197 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 198 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 199 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 200 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 201 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 202 | VideoArchitecture and Situated Technologies | Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium presented by the Architectural League from October 19-21, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology, and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metropolis. For more information, visit www.situatedtechnologies.net. | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jacobs vs. Moses: How Stands the Debate Today? | Jane Jacobs’ death in 2006 triggered many conversations about her legacy to New York. In particular, people have been mulling the question of whose urban vision—hers, or that of her arch opponent, Robert Moses—dominates Gotham’s approaches to city building today. A conversation among historians, architects, planners, politicians, community activists and developers will explore the issue. | 10/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 204 | VideoThe Living | Interview with 2006 Young Architects winners Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin of the New York-based architecture firm The Living. | 8/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 205 | VideoPLY Architecture | Interview with 2006 Young Architects winners Craig Borum and Karl Daubmann of Ann Arbor-based architecture firm, PLY Architecture. | 7/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 206 | VideoWilliamsonWilliamson | Interview with 2006 Young Architects winners Bestsy Williamson and Shane Williamson of Toronto-based architecture firm, WilliamsonWilliamson. | 6/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill McKibben Lecture | Lecture by writer Bill McKibben titled, Deep Sustainability: Building Communities that Actually Work (April 17, 2006). | 4/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill McKibben Lecture (Excerpt) | Eleven minute excerpt from a lecture by writer Bill McKibben titled, Deep Sustainability: Building Communities that Actually Work (April 17, 2006).. | 4/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Escher GuneWardena | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voices Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena of Los Angeles-based architectural firm, Escher GuneWardena. | 3/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bercy Chen Studio | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voices Thomas Bercy and Calvin Chen of Austin-based architectural firm, Bercy Chen Studio. | 3/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Yu Architects | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voice George Yu of Los Angeles-based architectural firm, George Yu Architects, Inc. | 3/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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dECOi | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voice Mark Goulthorpe of Cambridge-based architectural firm, dECOi. | 3/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lead Pencil Studio | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voices Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Seattle-based architectural firm, Lead Pencil Studio. | 3/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Studio Gang Architects | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voice Jeanne Gang of Chicago-based architectural firm, Studio Gang Architects. | 3/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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estudio teddy cruz | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voice Teddy Cruz of San Diego-based architectural firm, estudio teddy cruz. | 3/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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nARCHITECTS | Interview with 2006 Emerging Voices Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of New York-based architectural firm, nARCHITECTS. | 3/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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