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2016/2017 A n n u a l R e p o r t L e a g o u f e N e w Y o r k Architectural Architectural T h e PHOTOS Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa, installation by Wild Dogs International; held at A/D/O, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, above (Leandro Viana); Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa, below (Leandro Viana)

Annual Report Editors Nicholas Anderson with Frances Leslie The Architectural League’s 2016–17 program year affirmed yet again Schmidt; program associates Matt Ragazzo and Catarina Flaksman; that good ideas and important work come from everywhere. development associate Frances Leslie; executive assistant Diatre The Fall Current Work series focused on Latin America, with lectures Padilla; Urban Omnibus assistant editor Olivia Schwob; and by Alejandro Araveña (Chile), Giancarlo Mazzanti (Colombia), bookkeeper Marla Carter. Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico), and Gloria Cabral and Solano Benítez The League benefits profoundly from the work of its supportive, (Paraguay). Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Lene Tranberg (Denmark), and collegial, and accomplished board of directors, led by president Billie Kengo Kuma (Japan), along with Chicagoan Theaster Gates and Tsien. Three long-serving board members, Frank Lupo, Peter Mullan, New Yorkers Nat Oppenheimer and Nader Tehrani rounded out the and Kate Orff, stepped down from the board this year. I thank them series. In November, we collaborated with Kazi Ashraf and the for all they contributed, over many years of service, and welcome two Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes, and Settlements on new board members, Nader Tehrani and Mabel O. Wilson. I note a program called Architecture and the Anxieties of Location, with deep sadness the death of our long-time board member and life which included the presentation of stunning work by Dhaka-based trustee Hugh Hardy in March of 2017. architects Marina Tabassum, Rafiq Assam, and Jalal Ahmad. As this quick recounting of just some of our activities indicates, the In the spring, Emerging Voices from New Orleans, Atlanta, Jackson, League’s 2016–17 program and fiscal year was healthy and productive— MS, Vancouver, Mexico City, Portland, OR—and New York but it was also very challenging contextually and institutionally. City!—shared their work, as did League Prize winners from Denver, The fraught national political atmosphere and outrageous affronts to Houston, Syracuse, New York, and Mexico City. essential values of tolerance, inclusion, environmental sanity, social While our annual program series bring talented individuals from justice, and basic civility provoked many searching discussions among far and wide to engage with New York audiences, the League’s online board and staff about how the League could respond to these magazine, Urban Omnibus, continues to search out and make threats to our collective life in the United States. We identified specific accessible significant work being carried out by activists, designers, initiatives to focus on in the coming year, including a new national and historians in all corners of New York City. Amanda Schachter conversation we will initiate, American Roundtable, to look at how and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture guest-edited a three-part series diverging conditions and experiences of the constructed environment about cycling, including installments on speed, empathy, and affect our capacity for mutual understanding and common purpose. networks, that discussed new developments in New York and systems Most of all, however, we reaffirmed our commitment to a set of values elsewhere that offer promising ideas for making New York biking that energize and motivate the League. As we conceive and carry safer, faster, and more integrated into the fabric of the city. Omnibus out our programs, publications, competitions, and special events, features this year told the stories of people including Veronica we rededicate ourselves to continuously enact our commitment to Ramirez of the Queens-based Mujeres en Movimiento, who mobilized openness and inclusion, the pursuit of knowledge, the importance immigrant mothers to fight for safer streets and bike lanes in her of scientific inquiry, and the value of expertise, and we reaffirm our belief neighborhood of Corona, and Mei Lum, who in partnership with Diane that diversity, freedom of expression, the exercise of imagination, Wong transformed her family’s historic porcelain store on Mott the possibility of creating beauty, and pursuit of the common good are Street in Chinatown into a meeting place for her community. And a new indispensable attributes of a civilized society. We advocate and resist series by photographer Stanley Greenberg tantalizes readers with by intensifying our commitment to the driving values of the work mysterious images of little-known elements of New York’s immense we have long done. water-delivery infrastructure. This year our work on housing drew on talents both foreign and Rosalie Genevro close to home. In December, the conference Tower, Slab, Superblock: Executive Director Social Housing Legacies and Futures brought housing activists, architects, and historians from London, Paris, and Toronto to talk about their efforts to save, rethink, and reuse housing of the modernist era. Housing Brass Tacks discussions (and subsequent summaries on Urban Omnibus) explained the nuts and bolts of housing policy, finance, and development practice. And the second iteration of Typecast thoroughly examined, in word, drawings, and photos, the ubiquitous rowhouse as a past, present, and possible future constituent of New York City’s urban fabric. We were extremely honored in May 2017 to award the League’s President’s Medal to His Highness the Aga Khan, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and in deep admiration of His Highness’s lifelong commitment to pluralism. Scholar Homi Bhabha, planner Amanda M. Burden, and architect Diébédo Francis Kéré celebrated His Highness in remarks at the medal dinner. The work of the League is carried out by a talented staff: program director Anne Rieselbach; development director Nick Anderson (who I am happy to announce was promoted to managing director in June); communications director Jordan Hruska; Urban Omnibus editor-in- chief Mariana Mogilevich; manager of housing initiatives Emily PHOTOS Artist Theaster Gates talks with League President and program moderator Bille Tsien after his Current Work lecture at Parsons, above (Signe Schloss); First Friday at 1100 Architect, below (Jordan Hruska); Diébédo Francis Kéré speaks at the President’s Medal dinner in May, opposite (Leandro Viana) EVENTS 0 7 /16 1 0 /16

Folly/Function 2016: First Friday: Sticks Fogarty Finger Inauguration of installation Office of Fogarty Finger by Hou de Sousa Socrates Sculpture Park, Circle and Council Member Event: Long Island City, Queens (Socrates) Inside the Farley Tour of the James A. Farley Post Office Building with Fred Bartoli; remarks by Michael Evans and Margaret Morton; reception and viewing of photographs by Margaret Morton 0 9 /16 James A. Farley Post Office Current Work: Giancarlo Mazzanti, El Equipo de Mazzanti First Friday: Moderated by Chris McVoy Asymptote Architecture The Cooper Union (Cooper) Office of Asymptote Architecture, Long Island City, Queens Urban Omnibus: OmniBeers Current Work: The Scratcher Alejandro Araveña, ELEMENTAL Moderated by Nader Tehrani Variations on a Theme: The Cooper Union (Cooper) Intergenerational Perspectives from League Prize Winners Annual Student Program Introduced and moderated by Panel at Trespa Design Centre with Jordan Hruska, Jonathan Massey, Leah Meisterlin, Justin Garrett Moore, and Anne Rieselbach; roundtable and Leon Rost; studio visits to with Jason Austin, Neeraj Bhatia, Architecture Research Office, James Nataly Gattegno, Lisa Iwamoto, Corner Field Operations, LTL Architects, Peter Pfau, Brian Price, John Randolph, Marvel Architects, Morris Adjmi Architects, Craig Scott, Mete Sonmez, Perkins+Will, Selldorf Architects, SOM, Clark Thenhaus, Bruce Tomb, and TEN Arquitectos, and Tod Williams Billie Neyran Turan Tsien Architects | Partners; reception California College of the Arts, at SHoP Architects San Francisco

Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa Installations by Ultramoderne and Wild Dogs International; graphics by Pentagram ABC Worldwide Stone and A/D/O, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Program partners and co - sponsors are listed following event listings. (For key to abbreviations, please see end of event listings). Unless noted, venues are in Manhattan. PHOTO Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa, installation by Ultramoderne; held at A/D/O, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Leandro Viana) 1 1 /16 1 2 /16

Architecture and the Anxieties First Friday: of Location Langan Introduction by Kazi K. Ashraf; Office of Langan presentations by Rafiq Azam, Jalal Ahmad, and Marina Tabassum; Folly/Function 2017 The Sheen Center (Bengal) Information Session Remarks by John Hatfield First Friday: and Nancy Hou Ike Kligerman Barkley The Architectural League Office of Ike Kligerman Barkley Tower, Slab, Superblock: Current Work: Social Housing Legacies Solano Benítez & Gloria Cabral, and Futures Gabinete de Arquitectura Introduction by Rosalie Genevro; Moderated by Nat Oppenheimer presentations by Martine August, The Cooper Union (Cooper) Javier Arpa, Jean-Louis Cohen, Kenny Cupers, Geraldine Dening, Urban Omnibus: Frédéric Druot, Simon Elmer, Metropolitan Meditations: Phineas Harper, Paul Karakusevic, A Tribute to Peter Hutton Susanne Schindler, Graeme Stewart, Film screening and reception and Lawrence Vale; film program UnionDocs, Williamsburg, Brooklyn introduced by Emily Schmidt (UnionDocs) The Cooper Union

Current Work: Theaster Gates Moderated by Billie Tsien Parsons School of Constructed Environments (Cooper, Parsons)

Current Work: Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO Moderated by Hilary Sample The Cooper Union (Cooper)

PHOTOS Marina Tabassum presents her work as part of the Architecture and the Anxieties of Location program at the Sheen Center, above (Signe Schloss); Tatiana Bilbao of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO gives her Current Work lecture at The Cooper Union, below (Signe Schloss) 0 1 /17 0 2 /17

First Friday: First Friday: 1100 Architect KPF Office of 1100 Architect Office of KPF

Current Work: Current Work: Glenn Murcutt Nat Oppenheimer, Silman A conversation with Tod Williams on the Moderated by Paul Lewis design of the Australian Islamic Centre The Cooper Union (Cooper) The Cooper Union (Cooper) Housing Brass Tacks: After Belonging Roundtable Affordability Toolbox With Sean Anderson, Luis Alexandre Discussion with Matthew Gordon Lasner Casanovas, Hanna Dencik Petersson, The Architectural League Ignacio Galan, Rosalie Genevro, Jordan Hruska, Kristian Jul Røsjø, Penn Palimpsest: Marcelo López-Dinardi, Paul Makovsky, History Becomes the Future Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Josephine Introduction by Tom Wright; presentation Minutillo, Mariana Mogilevich, Alejandra by Vishaan Chakrabarti; responses by Navarrete Llopis, Johanne Nordby, Hilary Ballon and Henry N. Cobb Mariana Otero Verzier, Ben Rawlence, New York University Law School (RPA) Eduardo Rega, Anne Rieselbach, Elin Bergithe Rognlie, Brad Samuels, Housing Brass Tacks: Felicity Scott, Matt Shaw, Aaron Smithson, The Money Leo Villardi, and Mabel Wilson Discussion with Mark Willis The Architectural League The Architectural League

Housing Brass Tacks: Hud, Hud, HUD! Discussion with Holly Leicht The Architectural League

PHOTOS Duvall Decker Architects, 2017 Emerging Voices, present their work at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, above (Lyndsay Morrow); Kengo Kuma gives his Current Work lecture in The Cooper Union’s Great Hall, below (Lyndsay Morrow) 0 3 /17 0 4 /17

Emerging Voices: Norden Fund 2017 Brian Bell and David Yocum, BLDGS; Information Session Frida Escobedo, Frida Escobedo, Remarks by Rosalie Genevro and Taller de Arquitectura Caitlin Blanchfield Introduction by Sunil Bald The Architectural League SVA Theatre Current Work: First Friday: Dattner Architects Nader Tehrani, NADAAA Office of Dattner Architects Introduction by Anthony Vidler; moderated by Florian Idenburg Emerging Voices: The Cooper Union (Cooper) Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall Decker, Duvall Decker Architects; First Friday: Chris Leong and Dominic Leong, MOS Leong Leong Office of MOS Introduction by Billie Tsien SVA Theatre Housing Brass Tacks: Homelessness Housing Brass Tacks: Discussion with Giselle Routhier Documenting Discrimination and Jarquay Abdullah Documentary film screening The Architectural League The Architectural League Inside the Farley: Emerging Voices: Photographs by Margaret Morton Eduardo Cadaval and Opening Clara Solà-Morales, Cadaval & Margaret Morton in conversation with Solà-Morales; Thomas F. Robinson, Bonnie Yochelson LEVER Architecture The Architectural League Introduction by Lisa Gray SVA Theatre

Current Work: Lene Tranberg, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects Moderated by Karen Stein The Cooper Union (Cooper)

Emerging Voices: Jonathan Tate, OJT; David Scott and Susan Scott, Scott & Scott Architects Introduction by Ian Volner SVA Theatre

Housing Brass Tacks: What’s “Fair” In Housing? Discussion with Fred Freiberg The Architectural League

Current Work: PHOTOS Cooper Union Dean Nader Tehrani welcomes the audience to a Current Work lecture, above Kengo Kuma, Kengo Kuma (Nick Anderson); Emerging Voices dinner roundtable, below (Marta Elliott) and Associates Moderated by Kenneth Frampton The Cooper Union (Cooper) 0 5 /17 0 6 /17

First Friday: First Friday: Hollwich Kushner Perkins+Will Office of Hollwich Kushner Office of Perkins+Will

Housing Brass Tacks: Housing Brass Tacks: Public Housing’s Future How Development Works Discussion with Rasmia Kirmani-Frye Discussion with Michelle de la Uz, The Architectural League Martin Dunn, and Jarrett Murphy The Architectural League Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Opening of Folly/Function 2017: Shapes Our Lives Circle Shade – 2πR4 Conversation between Sarah Williams Eva Jensen Design Goldhagen and Nader Tehrani Socrates Sculpture Park, Rizzoli Bookstore Long Island City (Socrates)

Housing Brass Tacks: 136th Annual Meeting Documenting the Last Projects Remarks by Serge Drouin Discussion with Catherine Fennell (Renzo Piano Building Workshop), and Crystal Palmer Rosalie Genevro, Maxine Griffith The Architectural League (Columbia University), and Billie Tsien Election of officers and directors President’s Medal Dinner 2017: Reception and building tours His Highness the Aga Khan Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia Introduction by Billie Tsien; welcome by University Manhattanville Campus Rosalie Genevro; remarks by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Amanda M. Burden, and The Architectural League Prize: Homi K. Bhabha; presentation of the Kevin Hirth, KEVIN HIRTH Co.; medal by Billie Tsien; acceptance of the Michelle JaJa Chang; Greg Corso medal by His Highness the Aga Khan and Molly Hunker, SPORTS Metropolitan Club Introduction by Erin Besler Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Parsons)

The Architectural League Prize: Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh, Architecture Office; Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, LANZA Atelier; Mustafa Faruki, the Lab-lab for architecture Introduction by Sung Goo Yang Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Parsons)

KEY: EVENT SPONSORS/PARTNERS Bengal: The Bengal Foundation Cooper: The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union PHOTOS League Executive Director Rosalie Genevro addresses a group of members during the Annual Meeting Parsons: Parsons School of Design, preview of Columbia University’s new Lenfest Center for the Arts, above (Gilbert Santana); Panel discussion at The New School the League’s housing conference, Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures, held in the RPA: Regional Plan Association Rose Auditorium at the Cooper Union, below (Jordan Hruska) Socrates: Socrates Sculpture Park UnionDocs: UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art WEB ARCHLEAGUE.ORG July 2016 – June 2017

Current Work: Mia Lehrer Mia Lehrer + Associates Lecture video (July 8)

Current Work: Annabelle Selldorf Selldorf Architects Lecture video (August 1)

Folly 2016: Sticks Feature on the installation Sticks and notable entries to the competition (September 12)

Emerging Voices 2016 Lecture videos and On The Table conversations among the winners, jurors, prominent architects, and critics on topics raised by the winners’ work and practice (November 20)

Current Work: Nader Tehrani NADAAA Lecture video (May 30)

President’s Medal 2017: His Highness the Aga Khan Event video with remarks by Billie Tsien, Diébédo Francis Kere, Amanda M. Burden, and Homi K. Bhabha (June 30)

PHOTOS 2016 Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Araveña discusses his current work at The Cooper Union, above (Jordan Hruska); 2017 League Prize winners Greg Corso and Molly Hunker of SPORTS Collaborative are interviewed after installing their work in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, below (Lyndsay Morrow) U R B A N O M N I B U S . N E T July 2016 – June 2017

Typecast | The Magnate-Messiah City of Cycling | Empathy Urban Memory Infrastructure Underexposed | 1 of the Upper West Side “Escape and Microcosm” by Ben Vershbow and by Stanley Greenberg (May 31) by Allison Henry (July 6) “Out and About in the Bronx” Shannon Mattern (March 1) by SLO Architecture (November 16) Obstruction for Justice Building Back the Bungalow Housing Brass Tacks | The Money by Oksana Mironova (June 8) by A. F. Brady (July 13) Typecast | Live/Work Balance by Urban Omnibus (March 8) by Amani Willett (November 22) Housing Brass Tacks | In the Same Room Circulation Desk | Planning Public Housing Transformed Without Screaming The Enduring Outlier at Hallet’s Cove for the Worst by Urban Omnibus (June 15) by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (July 28) by Daniel Campo (December 1) by Olivia Schwob (March 15) Circulation Desk | Little Black Boxes City of Cycling | Speed Gotham in the Gallery Housing Brass Tacks | by Urban Omnibus (June 22) “ B u i l d i n g S p e e d ” by Urban Omnibus (December 14) Discrimination, Documented “ F a s t ” by Urban Omnibus (March 22) Underexposed | 2 “Planning the Radschnellweg” Capturing Change: by Stanley Greenberg (June 29) “ S l o w ” Golden Hour Super Strategies by SLO Architecture (September 14) by Megan Moriarty (December 21) by Juliette Spertus Housing Brass Tacks | Development and Valeria Mogilevich (March 29) by Urban Omnibus (June 29) Back to Work Codes of Conduct by Mariana Mogilevich (September 14) by Andrea Renner; Eric Goldwyn Housing Brass Tacks | Fair (January 12) Housing for All? City as Playground by Urban Omnibus (April 5) by Julia Jacquette and James Trainor Circulation Desk | If Developers (September 21) Ruled the World… Housing Brass Tacks | by Mariana Mogilevich (January 19) Beyond Shelter Typecast | The Row House by Urban Omnibus (April 19) on Rising Waters Housing Brass Tacks by Henry Grabar (September 28) by Urban Omnibus (January 24) Shelf Life | Architecture in the Basement Excavating the Farley Chinatown Shop Talk by Janet Parks by Margaret Morton (October 12) by Urban Omnibus (January 26) and Mariana Mogilevich (April 26)

Model Cities Redux Typecast | At Face Value Studio Report: by Susanne Schindler (October 19) by Rob Stephenson (February 1) Design and Advocacy in the South Bronx City of Cycling | Networks Power Lines by Nandini Bagchee (May 4) “Map It and They Will Bike” by Ayluonne Tereszkiewicz (February 8) “Nature, Your Neighbors, and You” People Movers | Women in Motion “What Goes Around Comes Around” Housing Brass Tacks | by Verónica Ramírez (May 11) by SLO Architecture (October 26) What HUD Does by Urban Omnibus (February 8) Typecast | Front of House Making Sense of Model Cities by Vincent Meyer Madaus and by Urban Omnibus (November 1) The Story of Squats Sebastian Bernardy by Amy Starecheski (February 15) (May 18) For Sale: Nonprofits Housing Brass Tacks | Affordability Housing Brass Tacks | NYCHA by DW Gibson (November 9) by Urban Omnibus (February 22) by Urban Omnibus (May 23) PHOTOS West 121st Street in Harlem part of Urban Omnibus’ Typecast series, above (Garrett Ziegler via Flickr); Rowhouses included in Urban Omnibus’s Typecast feature, below, (Ryan Dowd via Flickr); Carey Clark (The Point), Monxo López (SBU), Xul Marina Guerra (SBU), and Danielle Quinn (SBU) talk to design students at the first community envisioning session at Brook Park in the South Bronx with Nandini Bagchee Studio, opposite (photo courtesy of Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY) HONORS H O N O R S

2017 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers Support

Committee Erin Besler Aaron Forrest Sung Goo Yang

Jury Sylvia Lavin Guy Nordenson Mark Robbins Shohei Shigematsu

Winners Michelle JaJa Chang Greg Corso and Molly Hunker Mustafa Faruki Kevin Hirth Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh Isabel Martínez Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo

Deborah J. Norden Fund 2017 Travel Grant

Jury Rosalie Genevro Barry Magid Linda Norden Kerry O’Connor Anne Van Ingen

Winners Kevin Malawski, “Pikionis’ Pathway: Paving the Acropolis” Priyanka Shah, “Deep Skins: Roger Anger’s Facade Operations”

President’s Medal Dinner 2017

Laureate His Highness the Aga Khan

PHOTOS Billie Tsien, the League’s President, presents His Highness the Aga Khan with the 2017 President’s Medal at the Metropolitan Club, above (Leandro Viana); Professor and Mahindra Humanities Center Director at Harvard University, Homi K. Bhabha, delivers his President’s Medal dinner remarks, below (Leandro Viana) H O N O R S

Emerging Voices 2017

Jury Sunil Bald Mario Gooden Lisa Gray Paul Lewis Jing Liu Thomas Phifer Bradley Samuels Billie Tsien Ian Volner

Winners Brian Bell and David Yocum Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solá-Morales Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall Decker Frida Escobedo Chris Leong and Dominic Leong Thomas F. Robinson David Scott and Susan Scott Jonathan Tate

Folly/Function, a program in partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park 2017

Jury Tatiana Bilbao Eric Bunge John Hatfield Mary Miss Craig Schwitter Hayes Slade

Winner Eva Jensen Design, “ C i r c l e S h a d e – 2πR4”

PHOTOS Support, the 2017 League Prize exhibition at Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, above (David Sundberg/ESTO); Eva Jensen (left) and team assemble Circle Shade – 2πR4 at Socrates Sculpture Park on the summer solstice, below (Gilbert Santana) PUBLI- C A T I O N S P U B L I C A T I O N S

Young Architects 17: Folly/Function 2016: Authenticity Sticks

Foreword by With contributions from Michael Meredith Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, Introduction by Hou de Sousa Anne Rieselbach Pasqualina Azzarello Managing editor Marta Elliott Matthew Ragazzo Matt Ragazzo

Published by Project direction by The Architectural League of Jess Wilcox New York with Andrea Monfried Editions Anne Rieselbach

Edited by Socrates Sculpture Park

Published by Socrates Sculpture Park, 2017

PHOTOS Authenticity, a publication cataloging work by winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, above (Gilbert Santana); Folly/Function 2016, a catalogue exploring the 2016 Folly/ Function competition and winning installation, Sticks, by Hou de Sousa, below (Gilbert Santana) EXHIBI- T I O N S E X H I B I T I O N S

Architectural League Prize for Folly/Function 2017: Young Architects and Designers: Circle Shade – 2πR4 (im)permanence Opened July 21, 2016, ongoing June 29 – July 30, 2016 Eva Jensen Design Featuring work by the 2016 Eva Jensen winners of the League Prize In collaboration with Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Laufs Engineering Design Parsons School of Design The New School Socrates Sculpture Park

Exhibition co-sponsored by the In partnership with Socrates Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Sculpture Park Parsons School of Design Architectural League Prize for Folly 2016: Young Architects and Designers: Sticks Support Opened July 9, 2016, ongoing June 28 – August 1, 2017

Hou de Sousa Featuring work by the 2017 Josh de Sousa winners of the League Prize Nancy Hou Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Socrates Sculpture Park Parsons School of Design The New School In partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park Exhibition co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Inside the Farley Parsons School of Design March 17 – May 19, 2017

Photographs by Margaret Morton The Architectural League

PHOTOS Inside the Farley exhibit at the League office featuring photographs by Margaret Morton, above (Gilbert Santana); A visitor admires work by the Lab-lab for architecture at this year’s League Prize exhibition at Parsons, below (Lyndsay Morrow) SPON- SORED S P O N S O R E D

New York Architecture Diary architecturediary.org/NewYork

Partners: The Architectural League of New York; Center for Architecture / AIANY; Design Trust for Public Space; Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University; The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union; The Municipal Art Society of New York; The Museum of the City of New York; Open House New York; Parsons School of Constructed Environments; Storefront for Art and Architecture; and Van Alen Institute

New York State Council on the Arts Independent Projects Grants Sponsorship

Kerri Culhane, “Chinese Style: 150 Years of Architecture and Design in New York’s Chinatown” Joel Sanders, “Gender Neutral Bathroom Prototype” Chat Travieso, “Yes Loitering”

Individual Projects Sponsorship

Josef Asteinza, Nicholas Quintana Documentary Robert Gatje, Great Public Squares Stanley Greenberg, CODEX: New York Joel Sanders, Bathroom and Locker Room Prototype Accommodating Diverse Gender, Ages and Abilities Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King, and Ryan Neiheiser, Another Pamphlet FUNDING F U N D I N G

Government Support WXY Architecture + Urban Design $2,500 – $4,999 Paratus Group National Endowment for the Arts Xhema of New York 110 0 A r c h i t e c t Avani Parikh New York City Department of Adjaye Associates Pentagram Cultural Affairs $5,000 – $9,999 AE Greyson + Company Prutting & Company New York State Council on the Arts Andrew Berman Architect AECOM Custom Builders The Berman Group Allied Works Architecture Radii Inc. $25,000+ BKSK Architects Altieri Rice + Lipka Architects Anonymous Amanda M. Burden Anonymous (10) RXR Construction and Mary Burnham BuroHappold Engineering The Architect’s Newspaper Development Edwin B. Hathaway Cauldwell Wingate Company Armand LeGardeur Architect S9Architecture Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown Walter and Mary Chatham Atelier Ten Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Sharon Davis BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group Sawyer|Berson Jeannie and Tom Phifer Douglas Elliman Development Marketing Peter Bohlin SilverLining Interiors, Inc. Robert A.M. Stern Architects Kenneth Drucker, HOK CBRE Slade Architecture Sciame Construction Ennead Architects Cerami & Associates SO—IL Annabelle Selldorf Joshua and Filipa Fink CNR Group Spacesmith SHoP Architects Forsgate Industrial Partners Cooper Robertson SPAN Architecture Billie Tsien and Tod Williams FXFOWLE Architects D. Reis Suzan Tillotson Williams Family Fund Jeanne Giordano and Robert Frasca Diller Scofidio + Renfro TEN Arquitectos Harvard University Graduate School Duratherm David and Andrea Thurm $10,000 – $24,999 of Design Emre Arolat Architecture Tischler und Sohn Alloy HDR Roger Ferris Toshiko Mori Architect Arup Karen Heyman – Sotheby's Frampton Co TransCeramica Beyer Blinder Belle International Realty Gilsanz Murray Steficek Engineers Turner Construction Company Bloomberg Philanthropies Hanif and Shamsah Kara and Architects Tzelan Columbia University Graduate School of Ken Smith Landscape Architect GLUCK+ Vidaris Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Kliment Halsband Architects Grace Farms Foundation Walker Zanger Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group Leroy Street Studio Maxine Griffith Woods Bagot Fogarty Finger Leslie Gill Architect Agnes Gund Workshop/APD Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies Thom and Blythe Mayne Guy Nordenson & Associates Stephen Yablon in the Fine Arts Cathleen McGuigan and David Berridge Structural Engineers Handel Architects Meringoff Properties Christopher Hughes, $1,000 – $2,499 Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Miele Hudson Green Craft ABC Worldwide Stone La Vida Feliz Foundation Miller Blaker Tracey Hummer AKRF Engineering Lily Auchincloss Foundation Morris Adjmi Architects INC Architecture and Design Anthony Ames Michael A. Manfredi and Marion Weiss New York Institute of Technology J.T. Magen & Company Architecture Research Office Marvel Architects School of Architecture and Design James Corner Field Operations Hilary Ballon MdeAS Architects Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Josie Natori Bendheim Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Rachel and Mike Judlowe Bernheimer Architecture Pei Cobb Freed & Partners OLIN Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel Tatiana Bilbao Practice for Architecture + Urbanism Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Kubany Judlowe Bone/Levine Architects Rafael Viñoly Architects Peter T. Joseph Foundation LaPlaca Cohen Caples Jefferson Architects Susan Rodriguez and Charles Lowrey Richard Meier & Partners Architects Leslie E. Robertson Associates Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee, Rogers Partners Rick Joy Architect LEVENBETTS OBRA Architects Scaler Foundation Mark Robbins and Brett Seamans Glenn and Susan Lowry CetraRuddy Selldorf Architects Rockwell Group LTL Architects Elizabeth and Jay Chandler The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Rogers Partners Barry Magid David Childs Silman Sage and Coombe Architects National Elevator Cab and Door Susan Chin and Charles McKinney Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Snøhetta Corp and Elevecture Christoff: Finio Steven Holl Architects Studio Libeskind ODA NY Henry N. Cobb Studio Joseph Thornton Tomasetti One Lux Studio Cornell University College of TsAO & McKOWN Vornado Realty Trust Jorge Otero-Pailos Architecture, Art, and Planning CWB Architects Michael Szivos P.R.O - Peterson Rich Office Gannett Fleming Deborah Nevins & Associates Toby Usnik and Harlan Bratcher REX Deborah Gans Stephen DeSimone Tucker Viemeister RKT+B Richard Garber and Nicole Robertson Aashish and Dinyar Devitre University of Pennsylvania School of Robert Young Architect Robert Gatje Nathan Elbogen | XO Projects Design Ryall Sheridan Architects John and Evans Geisler Karen Fairbanks and Scott Marble University of Southern California Philip Ryan and Dr. Anna Vallye Gilbane Building Company Fisher Marantz Stone School of Architecture Christopher Scholz Sarah Williams Goldhagen Ford Foundation Walter P. Moore Severud Associates Steve and Halley Green Friends of Edward J. Logue Wilkstone William M. & Catherine Sweeney Singer Sharon Haar and Robin Wagner Timur Galen and Linda Genereux Aaron Sosnick Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri Gauthier Architects $500 – $999 Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Family Louise Harpman and Jonathan Stone Hargreaves Jones Alan Wanzenberg Architect Foundation Zachary Hemmelgarn Mike Harshman and Andrea Monfried Albert K. 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