Jorge Colón MDes ’11 Named New Director of Interior Architecture and Design at CO Architects
Jorge Colón MDes ’11, AIA, LEED AP, has been named the first Director of Interior Architecture and Design at Los Angeles-based CO Architects. He brings more than 20 years of experience on a broad range of architectural projects, including running his own firm, LÓNdesign. Colón has also lectured, taught, served on design juries, and led student tours of cities in the United States and Latin America. Read the full press release.
Photo courtesy of CO Architects.
posted May, 2017
Jeanne Gang MArch ’93 to Receive Louis Kahn Memorial Award, Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jeanne Gang MArch ’93, founding principal at architecture and urbanism practice Studio Gang, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Louis Kahn Memorial Award. Established in 1983 by the Center for Architecture and Design, the prize will be awarded at an event on May 23 in Philadelphia. Gang currently serves as the John Portman Design Critic in Architecture at the GSD where she led the spring 2017 option studio Material that Connects: A Campus Center in Chicago.
Other recent professional news for Gang includes:
- In April Gang was one of 228 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies.
- The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada will honor Gang with a 2017 Honorary Fellowship. She will deliver the keynote address during the College of Fellows Convocation on May 25 at the Canadian Museum of History.
- Gang is currently featured in the pages and on the covers of two magazines, CLADmag (2017 Issue 2) and Surface (May 2017).
Image courtesy of Studio Gang.
posted May, 2017
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47 Receives 2017 Landscape Architecture Foundation Medal
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander BLA ’47, OC, MBCSCLA, FCSCLA, FASLA is the 2017 recipient of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Medal. This award honors a landscape architect for “distinguished work over a career in applying the principles of sustainability to landscapes,” according to the Foundation’s website. One of the first female graduates of the GSD, Oberlander collaborated with James Rose GSD ’36, ’38 and Dan Kiley GSD ’36, ’38 early in her career. She founded her own practice in 1953 after moving to Canada with her husband, urban planner H. Peter Oberlander MCP ’47, PHD ’57.
With a career spanning 70 years, Oberlander has received numerous honors for her work and contributions to the field of landscape architecture. A few include the ASLA Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Margolese National Design for Living Prize from the University of British Columbia, and the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award from the International Federation of Landscape Architects.
Read more about Oberlander, her work, and the LAF Medal.
Image courtesy of LAF.
posted May, 2017
MASS Design Group, Co-Founded by Alan Ricks MArch ’10 and Michael Murphy MArch ’11, Wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
MASS Design Group, the Boston-based design collaborative co-founded by Alan Ricks MArch ’10 (shown second from the right) and Michael Murphy MArch ’11 (shown at center), has won the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design. The practice’s leadership team includes Director of Design David Saladik MArch ’10 (shown second from the left).
“This incredible distinction places us in the company of many of the designers we find most inspiring in America and we could not be more honored to be chosen among them,” MASS said in a statement. Now in its 18th year, the Awards honor “design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement,” according to the program’s website.
Read more about MASS and the National Design Awards.
Image courtesy of Cooper Hewitt.
posted May, 2017
Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91 Project Featured in Toronto’s Largest Newspaper
A project led by Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91 of the firm NADAAA is featured in Toronto’s largest newspaper, The Globe and Mail. Praised as “already one of the best Canadian buildings of the past decade,” by the newspaper’s architecture critic, the new University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty building at One Spadina is set to open this fall. It will house programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and visual studies. “It’s a university space, but it’s also a civic space of the city,” says Tehrani. “By creating a space and prospect” – a view – “where there hadn’t been one before, it extends the public imagination.”
NADAAA is led by Tehrani in collaboration with partners Katherine Faulkner MArch ’93 and Daniel Gallagher MArch ’91.
See more images and read the full article.
Photo by Nic Lehoux courtesy of The Globe and Mail.
posted May, 2017
Nate Cormier MLA ’99 Named Principal at Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Nate Cormier MLA ’99 has joined the leadership of Los Angeles-based Rios Clementi Hale Studios as a Principal. He previously spent two decades working on parks, nature preserves, transit station areas, educational and research facilities, and public spaces for large and small firms in Seattle and Los Angeles, including SvR Design Company and AECOM.
“As a new principal landscape architect, Nate brings incredible energy and depth to our team,” firm founder Mark Rios MArch ’82, MLA ’82 said in a press release. “His divergent interests—from Japanese gardens to the future of urbanism—will expand our practice and lead us in new directions.”
Samantha Harris MLA ’99, who attended the GSD with Cormier and serves as a Principal at Rios Clementi Hale Studios added, “I was always impressed by Nate’s career path, dedication, design talent, and deep involvement in the profession. This remarkable ability has allowed him—within only two years of moving to Los Angeles—to internalize the complex nuances of practicing in LA.”
Read the full press release.
Image courtesy of Rios Clementi Hale Studios.
posted May, 2017
Gregg Novicoff MArch ’97 Firm Honored with 2017 National AIA Architecture Award
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA), the firm at which Gregg Novicoff MArch ’97 serves as associate principal, has received the 2017 National AIA Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor given by the AIA to a practice. This annual award recognizes one firm that has been producing notable architecture for at least a decade. Founded in 2001, LMSA is being recognized as a mission driven practice that focuses on the idea that architecture can contribute to social and environmental justice.
Image below (© Tim Griffith, courtesy of LMSA) shows the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California. The project was led in part by Novicoff. See more photos.
posted May, 2017
Jennifer Ly MArch ’14 Named 2017 Rotch Scholar
Jennifer Ly MArch ’14 has won the 2017 Rotch Travelling Scholarship, an annual two-stage design competition that supports architecture research based travel for at least six months abroad. Managed by the Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA), this year’s competition garnered over 110 entries in the first stage and resulted in five finalists in the final stage. Ly was recognized for her project New Common. She currently lives in California and works for the firm Foster + Partners.
Images courtesy of Jennifer Ly.
posted April, 2017
Dr. Kongjian Yu DDes ’95 Awarded Honorary PhD by Sapiensa University of Rome
Dr. Kongjian Yu DDes ’95 has been awarded an honorary PhD in Landscape and Environment by Sapiensa University of Rome. The award ceremony took place on Friday, April 7, 2017, in Italy.
posted April, 2017
Linda Zhang MArch ’14 Named Harry der Boghosian Fellow by Syracuse University School of Architecture
Linda Zhang MArch ’14 has been named the 2017-2018 Harry der Boghosian Fellow by Syracuse University School of Architecture. Established in 2015, the fellowship allows a junior faculty to spend a year working on design related research while teaching at the School. Zhang is currently a Fellow in Residence at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U) in Berlin.
“I am humbled and honored to be awarded the Boghosian Fellowship,” says Zhang. “As an emerging practitioner early in my career, this is a unique and invaluable opportunity to work with students, faculty, and the Syracuse community to pursue my design research interest and propel it into unchartered territory.”
Read more here.
Photo courtesy of Archinect.
posted April, 2017
Peter Walker MLA ’57 Receives Inaugural Richard Brettell Award in the Arts
Peter Walker MLA ’57, FASLA – Senior Founding Partner of PWP Landscape Architecture – is the inaugural recipient of the 2017 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas. Honoring an artist “whose body of work demonstrates a lifetime of achievement in their field,” the bi-annual award includes a week’s residency at UT Dallas, as well as a monetary prize. With a career spanning over five-decades in the field, Walker is known for his transformative designs including the National September 11 Memorial. He also designed the ongoing campus enhancement plan at UT Dallas.
“I am extremely honored to receive the Brettell Award in the Arts,” said Walker. “I am grateful to the University, Professor Brettell and our great patron, Margaret McDermott. Working on the campus over the years has been one of the most gratifying experiences of my career.”
Read more here.
Photo courtsey of PWP Landscape Architecture.
posted April, 2017
Lap Chi Kwong MArch ’13 and Alison Von Glinow MArch ’13 Firm Wins New York Affordable Housing Challenge
Kwong Von Glinow Design Office, the firm founded by Lap Chi Kwong MArch ’13 and Alison Von Glinow MArch ’13, was awarded First Prize in the New York Affordable Housing Challenge, an international competition organized by Bee Breeders and New York Build Expo 2017. Their design uses the modular system of a “table top” to produce a highly adaptable affordable housing solution for New York City that works for a variety of lot sizes and unit combinations. “The success of the first place proposal for the New York Affordable Housing competition lies in its use of a few simple modular elements aggregated to create a heterogeneous whole which serves to generate new modes of interaction between the inhabitants, their neighbors, and the public,” writes the jury.
Kwong and Von Glinow presented their winning design at the New York Build Expo 2017, which included a virtual reality rendering of the proposal that allowed visitors to experience the apartment’s courtyard with VR glasses presented by Vividly.
Photos courtesy of Kwong Von Glinow Design Office.
posted April, 2017
Design Firm of Mark Rios MArch ’82, MLA ’82 to Release First Monograph
Rios Clementi Hale Studios, the design firm founded in part by Mark Rios MArch ’82, MLA ’82, will release its first monograph in May 2017. Not Neutral: For Every Place, Its Story explores design, location, and memory through a variety of projects undertaken by the L.A.-based firm over the past three decades. It includes a series of essays by the firm’s leadership on their design philosophy, as well as photographs and renderings of Rios Clementi Hale Studios designs.
In March, Samantha Harris MLA ’99, Principal at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, and Andy Lantz MArch ’10, Senior Associate at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, visited the GSD for a spring career fair during which they donated an advance copy of Not Neutral to the Frances Loeb Library.
posted April, 2017
John Ronan MArch ’91 and Theaster Gates LF ’11 Receive 2017 Architecture Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
John Ronan MArch ’91 and Theaster Gates LF ’11 have been honored with 2017 Architecture Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chosen from a group of 27 individuals and practices nominated by the Academy, the 2017 honorees will receive their awards at an annual celebrate in May. Members of the jury included: Elizabeth Diller (chairman), Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Hugh Hardy, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, James Polshek, Robert A. M. Stern, Billie Tsien, and Tod Williams.
Ronan received his award in the category of “an American architect whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction.” Juror Tod Williams praised his work saying, “with elegance and rigor, John Ronan continues Chicago’s history of serious architecture of national and international significance.”
Gates, who was honored in the the category of “an American who explores ideas in architecture through any medium of expression,” is founder of the Rebuild Foundation, which works to transform urban spaces through art and design.
Photos courtesy of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
posted March, 2017
Alumni Organize Free Panel: _Virtual_Displacement: Viral Voices 2017 (March 30, 2017, AIANY)
On March 30, 2017 the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee, co-chaired by Elie Gamburg MArch ’08 and Benjamin Gilmartin MArch ’97, will host a free panel discussion moderated by Jessica Leigh Hester, Senior Editor, The Atlantic (+ CityLab).
WHAT: _Virtual_Displacement: Viral Voices 2017
As the digital revolution has become pervasive in its effect on the practice of our everyday lives, counterintuitively, many new processes born in the digital realm are beginning to find needs to become physical and geofixed. Once ephemeral – occurring only in digital space – now online and new media companies have begun to invest themselves into the design and production of actual retail environments, vehicles, kiosks, and other public interfaces, adding new variables to the built environment and forcing evolution in long-standing conceptions of urban place-making. What had once been described as the accelerating process by which “all that was solid will melt into air” may also set into motion a countervailing effects by which what “was air now turns back into solid” – as digital practices and firms that once existed only virtually bring their data, media, and products back into the physical world.
WHEN: Thursday, March 30th – 6:30pm to 8:30pm
WHERE: Center for Architecture – AIANY, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
Speakers:
Anand Babu – Chief Operating Office, Sidewalk Labs
Allie Kelly – Executive Director, The Ray
Brian Lakamp – Founder & CEO, Totem Power
Jeff Maki – Senior Director of Innovation and Strategy, Intersection
Luc Wilson – Founder, KPF-UI (Urban Interface)
posted March, 2017
Lap Chi Kwong MArch ’13 and Alison Von Glinow MArch ’13 Firm Awarded 2016 Chicago Prize
Kwong Von Glinow Design Office, the firm founded by Lap Chi Kwong MArch ’13 and Alison Von Glinow MArch ’13, has been awarded the 2016 Chicago Prize by the Chicago Architectural Club. This year’s competition asked designers to reimagine a site of approximately 18 miles along Chicago’s Lakefront. Kwong Von Glinow Design Office’s proposal, Grand Lattices, transforms Chicago’s famous Lake Shore Drive by providing pedestrian access to multi-level viewing decks situated at strategic points along the highway’s median. Accessible through underpasses currently designed to move people quickly under the roadway, the steel structures invite pedestrians to pause on their way to the waterfront to take in views of the city, the lake, and the famous highway from a new perspective. The open-lattice design of each viewing deck mimics the city’s iconic post-and-beam construction style.
“Lake Shore Drive is no longer a driving-only experience,” states the project description. “For the pedestrian, it becomes a gateway to access the waterfront, see the city, and admire the Lake.”
Images courtesy of Kwong Von Glinow Design Office.
posted March, 2017
Robot Designed by Team Including Rossitza Kotelova MArch ‘15 Featured on the Today Show, The Economist, and More
Rossitza Kotelova MArch ‘15 is a designer at Piaggio Fast Forward where she is the lead designer on exterior features of the robot Gita, interfacing between design, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Gita, the team’s first product, was recently featured on the Today Show, and in The Economist, Wired, the Boston Globe, as well as in other media outlets. Kotelova was one of four team members first hired at Piaggio Fast Forward and has the unique experience of participating in the evolution of the company as well as the creation of Gita from concept sketch to fully functioning prototype.
While at the GSD, Kotelova was selected to participate in the ETH Zurich exchange program, where she worked with pioneering robotic fabrication architects Gramazio & Kohler on complex timber structures. After returning to Harvard, she continued to investigate design through robotics, working with a team to develop the Robotic Roller which strives to eliminate the mold necessary in manufacturing variable surface ceramic tiles. She was an architectural design intern at SHoP Architects in NYC, SCB Architects in Chicago, and E2A Architekten in Zurich. Kotelova continues to apply her architectural training by leading the efforts on spatial projects taken on by Piaggio Fast Forward, including the company’s office space which was featured on BostInno’s Office Envy.
Photos courtesy of Kotelova.
posted March, 2017
Dr. Michelle Addington MDes ’94, DDes ’97 Appointed Dean of UT Austin School of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumna Dr. Michelle Addington MDes ’94, DDes ’97 has been selected as the next Dean of the UT Austin School of Architecture. The first woman to be appointed dean of architecture in the school’s 107-year history, Addington will begin her new role on July 1, 2017. She currently serves as the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, and holds a joint appointment with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Read the full UT announcement.
Image courtesy of Yale University.
posted March, 2017
Joseph Cincotta MArch ’88 Firm Wins World Architecture News Award
LineSync Architecture LTD, the firm of Joseph Cincotta MArch ’88, has been awarded a World Architecture News 2016 Small Spaces Award in the Temporary Category for its project Wheel Pad. This is the first international award for Cincotta and LineSync Architecture LTD, a 11 person firm in the one-stop-light historic village of Wilmington, Vermont owned by Julie Lineberger EdM ’82.
Wheel Pad is a 200 sq.ft. accessible bedroom and bathroom that can be attached to an existing home. It is an affordable, eco-friendly non-toxic, immediately available living space offering privacy, and supporting the independence of individuals with mobility issues. The design comes in both temporary and permanent models. Wheel Pad was started in 2015 to respectfully and supportively provide transitional and permanent housing for anyone needing accessible living accommodations in a socially conscious and environmentally friendly way as economically as possible.
Photo by Carolyn Bates Photography, courtesy of LineSync Architecture LTD.
posted March, 2017
David Buckley Borden MLA ’11 Featured in Harvard Gazette
David Buckley Borden MLA ’11 is a 2016/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at the Harvard Forest where he explores the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?” Over the course of the year, Borden is creating a variety of art and design driven science-communication projects with ongoing research initiatives and contributing to the Harvard community through applied creativity, workshops, talks, and exhibitions at the Harvard Forest and beyond. Borden’s Fellowship program employs a model of stewardship that merges aesthetics, environmental awareness, and communication media. Learn more about his work as a Charles Bullard Fellow here.
Borden and his work at the Harvard Forest are featured in a recent Harvard Gazette article, “Creative path through Harvard Forest: Bullard Fellow brings passion for conservation to his work.”
Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer, courtesy of the Harvard Gazette.
posted March, 2017
Bethany Lundell Garver MAUD ’14 Elected Northeast Regional Director of ACSA
Bethany Lundell Garver MAUD ’14 has been elected Northeast Regional Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association of over 200 member schools. Her three-year term will begin on July 1, 2017.
Garver currently serves as education director at the Boston Architecture College where her responsibilities include leading the CityLab Intensive program. “I most look forward to joining the 23 other ACSA member schools throughout the Northeast by acting in response to these critical issues. Together, we can increase partnerships between the academy and practice, expand opportunities for design stewardship among diverse populations, and develop new educational models for a wide range of learners,” Garver told the BAC in an article about her ACSA appointment. Read the full BAC announcement here.
Image courtesy of the BAC.
posted March, 2017
Maria A. Villalobos H. MDes ’04, David Gouverneur Malakoff MAUD ’80, and Team Win National Architecture Award in Venezuela
A project by Maria A. Villalobos H. MDes ’04 and Carla Urbina of Botanical City, along with key advisors David Gouverneur Malakoff MAUD ’80, Lourdes Peñaranda, and Francois Galletti, has won a National Architecture Award in Venezuela. Entitled “Botanical Urban Landscapes: Lessons from Roberto Burle Marx’s Botanical Garden in Maracaibo, Venezuela,” the project won in the Heritage Restoration Category, as well as the main National Award.
The XII National Biennial of Architecture marks a new milestone in the history of the Venezuelan Biennials, which begun in 1963 and has recognized the work of great architects and teams including: Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Tomás José Sanabria, Jesús Tenreiro, Universities, Tomás Lugo. This year for the first time, the National Prize is awarded to a Landscape Architecture Project and Restoration Work. It is also the first time that women are recognized.
Images courtsey of Maria A. Villalobos H. MDes ’04 and Carla Urbina.
posted March, 2017
GSD Alumni Honored with Architectural League of New York’s 2017 Emerging Voices Award
Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumni were recently honored with Architectural League of New York 2017 Emerging Voices Award. The program spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design “voices” that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Winners will lecture in New York City in March 2017 as part of the award program (more information here).
GSD alumni winners include:
Brian Bell MArch ’97 and David Yocum MArch ’97, Principals, BLDGS, Atlanta, Georgia
Eduardo Cadaval Narezo MAUD ’03 and Clara Solà-Morales MArch ’97, Principals, Cadaval & Solà-Morales, Mexico City and Barcelona
Frida Escobedo MDes ’12, Principal, Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Mexico City
Thomas F. Robinson MArch ’00, Founding Principal, LEVER Architecture, Portland, Oregon
Jonathan Tate Mdes ’08, Principal, OJT, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photo courtesy of The Architectural League.
posted March, 2017
GSD Alumni Honored with 2017 Progressive Architecture Awards
The work of Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumni was recently recognized with 2017 Progressive Architecture Awards from Architect magazine. The jury, which included GSD alumna Jennifer Bonner MArch ’09, was tasked with finding the best examples of works that “represent design that pushes the envelope, novel methods of representation, and an exploration of humble building types that can make peoples’ lives better.” Winning projects from firms led by GSD alumni include:
AWARDS
Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center
New York
REX, led by Joshua Prince-Ramus MArch ’96
Menil Drawing Institute
Houston
Johnston Marklee, led by Sharon Johnston MArch ’95 and Mark Lee MArch ’95
CITATIONS
Bloomberg Center
New York
Morphosis Architects, led by Thom Mayne MArch ’78
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Mask House
Ithaca, N.Y.
WOJR, led by William O’Brien MArch ’05
True North
Detroit
EC3, led by Edwin Chan MArch ’85
New Hampshire Retreat
Bethlehem, N.H.
NADAAA, led by Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91 in collaboration with partners Katherine Faulkner MArch ’93 and Daniel Gallagher MArch ’91
Image courtesy of Architect magazine.
posted March, 2017
Hani Asfour MArch ’94 to Speak at GSD MEdiNA Event on March 3, 2017
Hani Asfour MArch ’94 will speak at the GSD on Friday, March 3, 2017, on the work of his firm, Polypod. The event is sponsored by GSD MEdiNA and is open to the public. Details are below.
POLYPOD: A conversation with Hani Asfour MArch ’94
Friday, March 3
12:00 pm
Gund 124
Set in the rich urban culture of Hamra, Beirut, Polypod, a multidisciplinary firm is committed to raising design discourse in its community. Known for its collaborative and creative approach, Polypod works on projects that combine various fields of design including architecture, master planning, interior design, landscape design, branding, web design, graphics, and information design for local and international clients. Polypod’s studio is also home to Polypodium, a space where local and global luminaries are invited in order to bring people together to discuss design ideas and processes.
Hani Asfour is an MIT and Harvard-trained architect who applies design thinking methods as a creative strategic thought leader with over twenty years of experience. He combines a mix of design expertise with entrepreneurship skills, academic depth and hands-on experience. Hani is a founding partner of Polypod and is currently the President of the Beirut Creative Cluster and Adjunct Faculty at LAU, teaching in the departments of Architecture and Foundation Studies.
A GSD MEdiNA event.
posted February, 2017
Jane Philbrick MDes ‘16 Discusses Artist Residencies, Urban Placemaking, and Social Practice at The New School/Parsons
On February 10, 2017, Jane Philbrick MDes ‘16 was a featured speaker at the symposium Embedded, Embedding: Artist Residencies, Urban Placemaking and Social Practice. The event focused on the “connecting and diverging points between the needs of communities, artists’ needs for materials and professional support, and those commissioning and underwriting such initiatives.” It was organized by Residency Unlimited (RU) in collaboration with the New School/Parsons MFA Fine Arts Program and curated by Livia Alexander.
Image: Jane Philbrick, The Expanded Field: “Swings,” Mass MoCA Rt 2 underpass, 2011 (Photo: Tony Cenicola)
posted February, 2017
Annisia Cialone MAUD ’03 Named Director of City Planning for Jersey City
Annisia Cialone MAUD ’03 has been named the new Director of City Planning for Jersey City. Cialone, a longtime Jersey City resident, brings 16 years of experience to the job, including over a decade at Perkins Eastman, an international planning, design, and consulting firm. “We couldn’t be more excited to hire someone who has both the knowledge and experience that Annisia does, as well as the unique and personal understanding of our city, our community, our neighborhoods and our people,” Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop said in a press release.
posted February, 2017
Alums Organize Free Panel on Designing for the Global Refugee Crisis (Feb. 23, 2017, AIANY)
On February 23, 2017 the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee, co-chaired by Elie Gamburg MArch ’08 and Benjamin Gilmartin MArch ’97, will host a free panel discussion about mass migration and how the design community can respond appropriately to the needs of refugees facing economic distress and environmental degradation. Speakers will include Robert Pietrusko MArch ‘12, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture at the GSD, and moderator Farzana Gandhi MArch ‘06. The event will take place from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012). Learn more and RSVP here.
posted February, 2017
Constantine Bouras MAUD ’11 Organized and Curated “A Shelter for Architecture” Along with Partners; GSD Alumni Contributed
Constantine Bouras MAUD ’11, with Evita Fanou, Electra Kontoroupi, Ioannis Oikonomou, Foteinos Soulos and Dimitra Tsachrelia, organized and curated “A Shelter for Architecture,” for the Greek Institute of Architects in New York [GIANY]. The event negotiated the general discourse on shelter and explored the idea of shelter as a concept through diverse lenses. “A Shelter for Architecture” staged events ranging from architectural exhibitions to talks and presentations, artistic performances, and installations.
Ignacio G. Galan MArch ’10, Nikos Katsikis DDes ’16, Dimitris Papanikolaou DDes ’16, Zenovia Toloudi DDes ’11, Dimitris Venizelos MAUD ’15, and Christina Yessios MAUD ’11 were among the contributors to the event.
posted February, 2017
Craig Scott MArch ’94 and Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 Firm Receives AIA Institute 2017 Honor Award; Featured in Architect, Curbed.
IwamotoScott Architecture, founded by Craig Scott MArch ’94 and Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93, recently received an AIA Institute 2017 Honor Award for its design of the new Pinterest Headquarters in San Francisco’s SOMA district, which was completed in collaboration with Brereton Architects. The award news was featured in Architect and Curbed.
Other recent awards and news features on the project include:
- American Architecture Prize 2016 Gold Medal, Workplaces category
- Featured in Fast Company, “Pinterest’s Subtle New Headquarters Are The Opposite of a Typical Tech Office“, as well as the FastCO.Design article “Office Design Grows Up“ as one the “coolest workspaces of 2016”
- Honorable Mention in The Architect’s Newspaper 2016 Best Of Design Awards, Interior Workplace category
- Interior Design 2016 Best of Year Honoree, XL Creative/Tech category
Other recent professional news from IwamotoScott Architecture includes:
- Miami City View garage also received an American Architecture Prize 2016 Gold Medal, Parking category
- Redpoint Ventures by IwamotoScott was also an Interior Design 2016 Best of Year Honoree, Office: Small category
- Bloomberg Tech Hub was a Finalist in the Fast Company 2016 Innovation By Design Awards, Branded Environments category
- Bloomberg Tech Hub was featured in a San Francisco Business Times article, “These 5 Bay Area offices have the coolest interior designs, experts say“
Image courtesy of IwamotoScott Architecture.
posted February, 2017
In Memoriam: Henry Austin Wood III AB ’51, MArch ’60, Architect Who Shaped Modern Boston
Henry Austin Wood III AB ’51, MArch ’60 passed away at his home in Boston on January 27 at the age of 87. Wood was a partner with Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood Architects, where he was responsible for the building and completion of many Boston landmarks, including Boston City Hall, Back Bay Station, the Hynes Convention Center, Boston Five Cent Savings Bank, the Edward Brooke Courthouse, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge. His son Joshua Rose-Wood MArch ’96 also graduated from the GSD.
A memorial service will be held at Boston City Hall on February 18, 2017 from 2 to 6 pm.
Read Wood’s full obituary in the Providence Journal here.
Photos courtesy of the Wood family.
posted February, 2017
AGi architects, led by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea MArch ’02 and Nasser B. Abulhasan MArch ’02, DDesS ’07, Selected for Project in Spain
“In Natura Veritas” by AGi architects, the international design firm founded in 2006 by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea MArch ’02 and Nasser B. Abulhasan MArch ’02, DDesS ’07, has been selected for the renovation and muesalization of 18 Galician-Roman sites in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
The proposal takes as its starting point the intrinsic nature of this place: the creation of a space for the preservation of memory in a natural environment chosen as a living place hundreds of years ago. As a natural museum, it recreates the memory of landscape through the maintenance, consolidation and recovery of the lost native vegetation.
An abstract system composed of different layers is established with the intention of transferring ad hoc knowledge for each of the sites, integrating them into a unique network for the interpretation of the Galician archaeological landscape.
Read the full press release.
Image provided courtsey of AGi architects.
posted February, 2017
Constantine Bouras MAUD ’11 Curated and Christina Yessios MAUD ’11 and Ioannis Kandyliaris MArch ’08 Contributed Exhibits for GIANY
Constantine Bouras MAUD ’11, with Evita Fanou, Electra Kontoroupi, Ioannis Oikonomou, Foteinos Soulos, and Dimitra Tsachrelia, curated the exhibition GRE►NYC for the Greek Institute of Architects in New York [GIANY], an exhibition of projects by young Greek architects practicing in New York. Mr. Bouras, Christina Yessios MAUD ’11, and Ioannis Kandyliaris MArch ’08 were among the contributors to the exhibit.
posted February, 2017
Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91 South End Loft Profiled in Boston Home
The 1,400-square-foot South End loft of Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91, which he overhauled with architect Cristina Parreño, is featured in the Winter 2017 issue of Boston Home. Tehrani is principal of NADAAA and currently serves as Dean of Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
Image courtesy of Boston Home.
posted January, 2017
Paul S. Belaski MArch ’77 Elected to Vermont House of Representatives
Paul S. Belaski MArch ’77 was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. His first term begins in January 2017.
posted December, 2016
Richard T. Murphy, Jr. MLA ’80 Honored for Leadership
Richard T. Murphy, Jr. MLA ’80 has been honored with two awards in 2016: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal included Murphy on its inaugural list of Most Admired CEOs, and AARP and Pollen Midwest named him a “50 over 50” award winner. Both awards recognize Murphy for his industry leadership and his commitment to environmental sustainability. As president and CEO of Murphy Warehouse Company, Murphy puts design front and center in the management of this fourth-generation family business. From solar-powered and LED-lit facilities to stormwater-managed campuses surrounded by native prairies, Murphy’s robust list of sustainability initiatives includes energy savings and power generation, carbon sequestration, pollution abatement, recycling and resource management. A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Murphy views sustainable landscape design as a smart business strategy, and he is dedicated to elevating the profession throughout the broader business community.
December 2016
posted December, 2016
Alex Krieger MCP ’77 and Toni L. Griffin LF ’98 Named to United States Commission of Fine Arts
President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint two Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni and faculty members to the United States Commission of Fine Arts: Toni L. Griffin LF ’98, professor in practice of urban planning, and Alex Krieger MCP ’77, professor in practice of urban design. The seven-member Commission of Fine Arts is an independent federal agency tasked with advising the President, Congress, and the federal and District of Columbia governments on select matters of design and aesthetics. It was established by Congress in 1910 as a permanent body to advise the federal government on matters pertaining to the arts and national symbols, and to guide the architectural development of Washington, D.C.
Photo credit: United States Commission of Fine Arts webpage.
November 2016
posted November, 2016
Installation by Ethen Wood MArch ’02 Voted Top Pavilion
An installation designed by Ethen Wood MArch ’02 of Kuth Ranieri Architects was voted top pavilion and awarded the People’s Choice Award at the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Designed to create a place of respite on the busy sidewalk of San Francisco’s primary thoroughfare, SonoGROTTO is one of three dozen installations created for the 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival. It consists of hundreds of cardboard tubes, ranging from 6 to 24 inches in diameter, fastened together to create a protected but open enclosure.
Photos by R. Brad Knipstein; rendering courtesy of Kuth Ranieri Architects.
October 2016
posted October, 2016
Michael Murphy MArch ’11 Presents “Architecture That’s Built to Heal” at TED Conference
Michael Murphy MArch ’11 presented at the annual TED conference in Vancouver. In this eloquent talk, entitled “Architecture that’s built to heal,” Murphy shows how he and his team look far beyond the blueprint when they’re designing. Considering factors from airflow to light, theirs is a holistic approach that produces community as well as (beautiful) buildings. He takes us on a tour of projects in countries such as Rwanda and Haiti, and reveals a moving, ambitious plan for The Memorial to Peace and Justice, which he hopes will heal hearts in the American South.
September 2016
posted September, 2016
Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91 Interviewed by The Cooper Union; Talks GSD
Nader Tehrani MAUD ’91, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, was interviewed by The Cooper Union in its Meet the Deans series. In the piece, he mentions the GSD and his studies under Jorge Silvetti.
August 2016
posted August, 2016
New book by Katherine Orff MLA ’97, Toward an Urban Ecology
Katherine Orff MLA ’97 has published the book Toward an Urban Ecology, an extended case study of her firm SCAPE, a the New York-based landscape architecture and urban design studio that combines the efforts of designers, scientists, policy-makers, and communities to effect change. The book shows in detail how they construct narratives of projects, what kinds of questions they ask, and how they’ve engaged in a constellation of sites and issues in a way that is useful to inspire the next generation of landscape design practitioners and activists.
May 2016
posted May, 2016
