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The Architectural League of New York Annual Report 2016/2017 16 T h e Architectural L e a g u e o f N e w Y o r k A n n u a l R e p o r t 2016/2017 17 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,
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