City CollegeAA 8/18/08 8:40 AM Page 1 THE CITY COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Lecture Series Fall 2008

WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE 9/18 JULIE SNOW Design Performance 9/25 SARA CAPLES More 10/2 KAREN FAIRBANKS Expanded Alliances 10/16 HSINMING FUNG Syntax, Setting, and Synthesis 10/23 KAREN BAUSMAN Grid, Interrupted 11/6 HILLARY BROWN Green Affirmations: emerging trends and practices in ecological design SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE All lectures at 6:00 pm in Shepard Hall in the ground floor Lecture Hall, Room 95. Convent Avenue at 138th Street, 212.650.7118

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JULIE SNOW SARA CAPLES KAREN FAIRBANKS HSINMING FUNG KAREN BAUSMAN HILLARY BROWN

Green Affirmations: emerging trends and practices in ecological design ecological in practices and trends emerging Affirmations: Green Julie Snow is the principal of Julie Snow Sara Caples, AIA is a Principal at Caples Karen Fairbanks is a founding partner of Hsinming Fung, AIA, earned her B.A. at Noted architect Karen Bausman, currently A nationally respected advocate for sus- Hillary Brown Hillary Architects, Inc., a studio based architectur- Jefferson Architects. Marble Fairbanks, an architecture, design Cal State Dominguez Hills and M. Arch at principal of Karen Bausman + Associates tainable design, Hillary Brown has pio-

al practice in Minneapolis. The work of Recently selected to design the Louis and research office in and UCLA, and is both co-founder and in New York City, has completed projects neered a program-wide approach to

11/6 the studio is characterized by refined Armstrong House Museum Visitors Center, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Director of Design for Hodgetts + Fung at such landmark New York City sites as greening buildings and infrastructure for Grid, Interrupted Grid, detail, lightness, spatial clarity and struc- Caples Jefferson has previously designed Professional Practice and Chair of the Design and Architecture since its inception the World Financial Center, Rockefeller public agencies and institutions, through

tural directness, exploring an intensity of the visitors center for Historic Weeksville Architecture Department at Barnard in 1984. As of 2002, Ms. Fung has held Center and Ladies Mile, and for private policy development, projects and outreach. Karen Bausman Karen dialogue between site and architecture. (the noted African-American heritage site College. Marble Fairbanks actively pur- the post of Director of Graduate Programs clients that include Warner Bros. Records, As a former NYC Assistant Commissioner

The use of innovative strategies reveals in Brooklyn) and the expansion of Queens sues the use of new materials and tech- at the Southern California Institute of Elektra Entertainment Group, and and Director of Design, Hillary had been 10/23 the studio’s fascination with the technical Theatre-in-the-Park. niques utilizing the latest developments in Architecture (SCI-Arc) Newmark Knight Frank. Ms. Bausman’s one of a handful of public architects

aspects of building design that transform In 1998, the Architectural League hon- digital design and integrated production Ms. Fung has been engaged in the execu- numerous projects include Los Angeles’ nation-wide who began promoting sustain-

Syntax, Setting, and Synthesis and Setting, Syntax, human experience. ored Caples Jefferson Architects as an technologies. Recent work includes, tion of all of Hodgetts + Fung projects, award-winning Performance Theater, ability as a central to design excellence. Hsinming Fung Hsinming The studio has received peer recognition Emerging Voice. Caples Jefferson has Flatform, a speculative architectural frag- including a new design for the Hollywood which she completed in 1999, and the Since the early 90’s, she has worked to

since its inception. AIA MN Honor received awards from the NYC Art ment about the possibilities of digitally Bowl, a 29-story, mixed-use tower in Flower Tower, an iconic model of sustain- develop green standards for public build- 10/16 Awards have consistently recognized the Commission, the NY Chapter AIA, the designed assembly that was commis- Tokyo, the award winning temporary ability she expects to complete in Long ing initiatives, and champion the need for

studio's design quality. Julie Snow National AIA Design Award, and the sioned for the current exhibition at the Towell Library at UCLA, and the renova- Island City in 2010. multi-stakeholder and inter-disciplinary Expanded Alliances Expanded Architects is one of two architectural prac- National Organization of Minority Museum of Modern Art, Home Delivery. tion of the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Ms. Bausman is a graduate of The Cooper participation in realizing sustainability at

tices to have received multiple national Architects. Marble Fairbanks has received numerous The firm has established a reputation for Union. She has taught there as well as at the scale of capital programs.

Karen Fairbanks Karen awards from the Business Sara Caples is currently a distinguished local, national, and international design high-caliber exhibit design, including the ’s Graduate School of In 1997, Hillary Brown founded the NYHC 10/2 Week/Architectural Record Award jury. Visiting Professor in the Bachelor of awards including several AIA awards, a design of the Library of Congress/ Ira Architecture, held the Eero Saarinen Department of Design and Construction’s

The studio's project for Quadion Architecture program at the School of PA Award, an ID Award, American Gershwin Gallery at Walt Disney Concert design chair at and the Office of Sustainable Design. In 1999, her More Corporation was selected for an I.D. mag- Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Awards and an ar+d Award Hall and the Charles and Ray Eames Eliot Noyes chair at Harvard, and was a office published the nationally recognized

azine Design Distinction Award and the Architecture of the City College of New from Architecture Review Magazine. show. Ms. Fung’s work has been exhibited Rome Prize recipient in 1994. In 2005 City of New York High Performance Sara Caples Sara Koehler Residence received the Chicago York/CUNY. Their work has been widely published and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos the City of New York Department of Building Guidelines. Currently, almost sixty

Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and exhibited around the world, including the Aires, the Los Angeles Museum of Design and Construction (DDC) awarded projects have, or are in process of imple-

9/25 Design American Architecture Award. Architectural Association in London, the Science and Industry, the Museum of Bausman + Associates a highly coveted menting the Guidelines (now incorporated Design Performance Design Julie Snow Architects’ work has been Nara Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the multi-year contract as part of Mayor into Local Law 86.) The companion pub-

published in numerous journals, nationally and the Museum of Modern Art in New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Michael R. Bloomberg's ambitious effort lication, High Performance Infrastructure Julie Snow Julie and internationally. Professional journals York, where their drawings are part of the A demonstrated leader in academia, Ms. to improve the architectural quality of city- Guidelines, best practices for the pubic

such as Architecture, Progressive museum’s permanent collection. Fung served as professor at Cal Poly financed libraries, community centers and right-of-way, was released in October 9/18 Architecture, Architectural Review and Karen and her partner, Scott Marble, were Pomona for 16 years, and was invited as other structures in New York. 2005, a project she envisioned and co- Architectural Record, along with consumer the Charles and Ray Eames lecturers at both Herbert Baumer Professor at Ohio In addition to her award-winning work as authored. journals such as Dwell, I.D. magazine and the University of Michigan, in 2004. State University in 1996 and the Eero an architect, Ms. Bausman has produced Based on her entrepreneurial green build-

Business Week have covered the studio's Their recent publication, Marble Fairbanks: Saarinen Professor at Yale University in a distinct visual and sculptural art practice. ing program for New York City (1995- WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE IN WOMEN work. Additional work has been featured Bootstrapping, was published on the occa- 1995 and 2000. Ms. Fung currently Her visual exhibitions have paralleled her 2001), Hillary Brown launched a unique in international journals and magazines sion of that event. In 2007, they were serves on the President Advisory Board to architectural career from the start, with consulting group focused on the challenge including Komhatbi (Russia), Bauwelt the Michael Owen Jones Memorial the Dean of Cal State Dominguez Hills. her first installation, Seasightings, mount- of achieving scale in sustainable design (Germany), WISH (Canada), A+U Lecturers at the University of Virginia that The work of Hodgetts + Fung has been ed by Creative Time in 1985, followed by and construction. Through education and (Japan), Enlace (Mexico) and Abstract included the exhibition, Expanded acknowledged with numerous awards and commissions for the New York Times and advocacy, guidelines development, and (Belgium). Phaidon Press, Thames and Alliances, of their award-winning design citations: the 1991 American Academy exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, project facilitation, her organization, New Hudson, Rockport Publishers, Taschen for the Slide Library at Columbia Rome Prize, Fellowship Architecture the American Academy in Rome and Civic Works helps her clientele – primarily Press, LOFT Publications and Images University. They received a research grant Award from the American Academy of Artist’s Space, NYC, among other venues government agencies, university and non- Publishing Group have featured the work from the New York State Council of the Arts and Letters in 1994, 1996 Chrysler in the U.S. and abroad. Her current profit institutions –integrate and opera- in architectural survey publications. Arts for their proposal “New Media in Award for Innovation in Design, LA focus, an extensive experiment with how tionalize program-wide sustainability Perhaps most notably, Princeton Learning Environments”, continuing Winners Award for 1997 and 1999, nuanced form emerges cumulatively from measures. By engaging those who must Architectural Press published the first research that began with their project for 2004 Founders Award from the LA rigorous editing of material and idea, has implement improved practices in research- monograph on the studio's work in the . They have been awarded Forum, the Gold Medal from the AIA/LA produced an enormous body of work that ing and authoring them, her consulting spring of 2005. the “forty under forty” design award, mul- in 2006, and most recently the 2008 invites extended contemplation. This work methods motivate needed change in Julie has presented the studio's work at tiple New York Foundation for the Arts AIACC Firm of the Year Award. Current is to culminate in Ms. Bausman’s most organizations’ cultures. the National Building Museum in Fellowships in Architecture awards, and Projects include the Donna Rio Bravo Port ambitious public art installation to date, In addition to universities and nonprofit Washington DC, the San Francisco the Emerging Architect award at the of Entry in Donna, Texas, Port of Los the Wall Project: a sculptural re-contextu- organizations, Hillary has worked with Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Architectural League of New York. Karen Angeles historic fireboat museum, and alization of lower Manhattan’s long-lost large public entities including, for example, Center, the New York Architectural League Fairbanks was included in the book The Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center in topography. the City of Salt Lake, the City of New and at many professional conferences and Architect: Women in Contemporary Atherton, California as well as current Haven’s School Construction Program, the university lecture series. She has partici- Architecture published by The Images master plan and exhibit design for Natural New York Power Authority, NYC Economic pated as a juror for the American Institute Publishing Group. She has served as a History Museum in Los Angeles. As an Development Corporation, and Governors of Architects’ Honor Awards, the Business juror for architecture awards panels architect and educator, Hsinming Fung Island Preservation Education Corporation. Week/Architectural Record Awards, the around the country, and lectures extensive- endeavors to strengthen relations between Ms. Brown served on the U.S. Green US Design Excellence GSA Peer Review, ly on the work of the firm. education and contemporary practice so Building Council national Board of the James Beard Foundation Design As Department Chair at Barnard College, that the discipline recognizes the shifting Directors, and as a founding director of its Awards and the Dupont Benedictus Karen oversaw the merger of the Barnard nature of both Los Angeles and global cul- New York Chapter, served 8 years on its Awards. In 1998 the New York and Columbia architecture programs, and tures. Board. She was Co-Director of the Architectural League selected Julie Snow has developed the current department cur- national Council’s State and Local as an “Emerging Voice”. riculum and the digital architecture lab. Government program and co-author of the She has been teaching design studios and State and Local Green Building Toolkit. courses on new technologies in the under- Ms. Brown was a Bosch Public Policy graduate architecture program at Barnard Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and Columbia Colleges since 1989. in 2001 examining green practices in While at Barnard she has participated in Germany. She is currently a Fellow with the capital planning of the campus and as the City University of New York Institute DESIGN: VIGNELLI ASSOCIATES, NY PRINTING: THE LANGENDORFF CORP., NY CORP., LANGENDORFF THE PRINTING: NY ASSOCIATES, VIGNELLI DESIGN: a faculty representative, she lectures and for Urban Systems, and teaches at participates in panel discussions around Princeton University School of the country. Karen received her Master of Architecture. Architecture Degree from Columbia In February 2008, Ms. Brown was elect- University and her Bachelor of Science in ed to the College of Fellows of the Architecture degree from the University of American Institute of Architects. School School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture The City College/CUNY Convent Street Avenue at 138th NY New 10031 York, Michigan. Hillary Brown is currently a distinguished Visiting Professor in the Master of Urban Design program at the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture of the City College of New York/CUNY.