NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies New York Area Calendar of Events March 2019 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 New Wisdom from I.M. Pei and Urban Experiencing Achieving Circular Soanian Classicism Nepal: Design, 1948-60 Pasts, Material Loops Earthquakes, Understanding the with Gypsum Wall Local Practice, Planning La Nueva BoardAchieving Present: The and World Ciudad in Circular Material Heritage Guayaquil, Mythic Art at Loops with Ecuador: The Rockefeller Center Gypsum Wall Star Innovation Rehabilitation of Board Center: Tropical, the Guayaquil Hybrid Commercial, and Airport Landscapes Rethinking City Passive Planning & 18th Annual The Art of Architecture Constructivism: McKim Lecture Resistance: An Giving Shape to Artists Forum on the Everyday LICNYC: A Design Perspective / PT1 Race, New Media, In the Shadow of NYC Technology and Genius Placekeeping in New Perspectives the Global City Tour: The Performing City Emerging Voices 1 Rising Tide: The History and Future of New York's Shoreline 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A Walking Tour Material Matters Soane Seen from New Perspectives What Can You Do of Historic 19th Afar Tour: The with a 3D Century Noho A Livable New York: Performing City Reconstruction of The Future of Reimagining Ancient Rome? Community Green Mobility with BMW Space and Group’s Emerging Voices | Affordable Housing Designworks 2 Greenwich Village After Rikers: Historic District Justice by Design 50th: The Work Behind the District's New York Designation Botanical Garden Sustainability Margot Gayle Fund Action Plan Benefit Realism and the Statue of Liberty: Shadow of the Myths about the Avant-Garde Lady in the Harbor The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The Shore Thing: In Pursuit of the The Architecture of A Practical Allusive Object: A the Ideal City Seminar on Case for an Shoring Methods Ambiguous Trailblazing Women and Case Studies Architecture Architects: for Historic Celebrating Women's Buildings Emerging Voices | History Month 3 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 A Walking Tour The Anniversary of The American The Making of an School Program Rising Urbanists: of Historic 19th the Triangle Imperium and the Avant-Garde Tour Reframing the Urban Century Noho Shirtwaist Factory City Beautiful in Forest Fire of 1911 What Makes Prepositions the Philippines, Gowanus Designing in New Constructive Responses to Rome 1898-1916 York "New A Tale Of Two Geometry Getting There in the Middle East Yorkish"? Asylums - The Fall and Back and and Egypt Herbert Bayer’s of Greystone and Behind-the-Ropes: Around Expanded Vision Candela on the Rise of the Insider’s Tours of the and the Upper West Side Richardson Merchant’s House Instrumentalizing Olmsted Campus of Design in Carbon Neutral by Sixth Avenue Modern: Wartime 2020: A Kilroy Real Celebrating the 20th-Century Estate City: 2019 MAS Architecture in the Curator Tour: Presentation Awards Heart of Midtown Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History Emerging Voices | Sunnyside Art Deco 4 Walking Tour The Feature is Female: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 31 Cast Iron SoHo 2/45 Events AIA Center for Architecture SEE ALL EVENTS → ​ ​ Columbia GSAPP SEE ALL EVENTS → ​ ​ The Municipal Art Society of New York SEE ALL EVENTS → ​ ​ TUE 5 New Wisdom from Nepal: Earthquakes, Local Practice, and World Heritage Erich Theophile, Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust World Monuments Fund On April 25, 2015, a major earthquake struck Nepal, causing thousands of human casualties and widespread destruction of buildings and infrastructure. The earthquake’s impact on heritage was extensive throughout the Kathmandu Valley, which is home to hundreds of sacred Buddhist and Hindu sites. Throughout the country, around 750 monuments were affected by the earthquake, according to Nepal’s Department of Archaeology. At the 2019 Paul Mellon Lecture, Erich Theophile of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust will discuss the ongoing recovery effort and the invaluable lessons learned from this destructive event. EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME Tuesday, March 5th | Cocktails at 6:15 PM, Lecture at 7 PM VENUE The Rockefeller University, Caspary Auditorium, 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065 FEE Free and open to the public RSVP VIA EMAIL 3/45 Star Innovation Center: Tropical, Commercial, and Passive Jordan Parnass, Principal, Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture Lois Arena, Director, Passive House Services, Steven Winter Associates Building Energy Exchange Join BE-Ex for the presentation and discussion of a highly unique project that brings Passive House to South Asia. While much Passive House activity is focused on the new construction of residential buildings in cold-temperate climates, the Starr Innovation Center successfully utilizes the Passive House standard on the renovation of a mixed industrial-commercial building in a tropical climate. The first Passive House certified project in South Asia and one of only two factories certified in the world, the Starr Innovation Center combines a garment manufacturing facility and offices within a highly efficient envelope that reduces total energy by 70% and dehumidification energy by 90%. Completed in 2018, the building offers highly improved working conditions including far superior air quality, consistent temperatures, and access to daylight throughout. This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the application of Passive House to a rare typology in a rare climate with the principal members of the project team, Jordan Parnass of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture and Lois Arena of Steven Winter Associates. EVENT TYPE Panel discussion DATE & TIME Tuesday Mar 5th | 9 – 10:30 AM VENUE 31 Chambers St New York, NY 10007 FEE $15 general admission | $10 BE-Ex members and students REGISTER Constructivism: Giving Shape to the Everyday Jean-Louis Cohen, Professor of History of Architecture, NYU Institute of Fine Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art This lecture considers the Constructivist period between 1923 and 1930, when building activity resumed following the Russian Civil War and Russian artists and architects collaborated closely in educational institutions, such as Moscow's Vkhutemas, where Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky both taught. EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME Tuesday, March 5th | 6 – 7 PM VENUE The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium New York, NY 10028 FEE Free and open to the public REGISTER 4/45 In the Shadow of Genius Barbara Mensch, Author New York Transit Museum In honor of the 150th anniversary of when construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge, join us for a book talk with photographer and author Barbara G. Mensch. Photographer and author Barbara G. Mensch will discuss her new book “In the Shadow of Genius,” a photographer’s quest to understand the brilliant minds and remarkable lives of those who built the Brooklyn Bridge. She combines striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative to cast a unique light on the concept of genius, tracing her own curious path to understanding the genius of John, Washington, and Emily Roebling. A Q&A and book signing will follow the presentation. EVENT TYPE Book talk DATE & TIME Tuesday, March 5th | 6:30 – 8:30 PM VENUE New York Transit Museum | 99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 FEE $10 general public | Free for Museum members GET TICKETS WED 6 I.M. Pei and Urban Design, 1948-60 Eric Paul Mumford, Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis Collins/Kaufmann at Columbia University Architect Ieoh Ming Pei began working for the New York developer William Zeckendorf in 1948 and went on to design a series of major urban projects for him in North American cities until founding his own firm in 1960. While these projects themselves—which include two in downtown Denver, the Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, and mixed use urban renewal projects for Washington, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsbugh—were widely publicized at the time, the intellectual context that informed them and their importance to the history of urbanism are not as clearly understood. In this paper Mr. Mumford argues that Pei’s urban design work for Zeckendorf was closely related to the modified modernist approach to urban design that began to be advocated in the early 1950s by Philadelphia city planner Edmund N. Bacon, and the architects Louis I. Kahn, and Josep Luis Sert, Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953-69. That direction, which was made public at the First Harvard Urban Design conference in 1956 and further developed at the third Harvard Urban Design conference (1959), was an internal critique of earlier CIAM ideas. It put a new emphasis on pedestrian street life and urban connectivity, anticipating some of the ideas of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of 5/45 Great American Cities (1961), while still advancing the model of master planning in an era of extensive Federal investment in cities. EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME Wednesday, March 6 | 6:30 PM VENUE Room 930, 9th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall Columbia University REGISTER Planning La Nueva Ciudad in Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Rehabilitation of the Guayaquil Airport Stephen Forneris, AIA, Principal and Board Director, Perkins Eastman Society of Architectural Historians, NY Chapter and NYU Department of Art History ​ ​ ​ ​ In 1920 Guayaquil, Ecuador was a relatively small city in South America of 30 Square kilometers and a population of 258,000 inhabitants. Today at 215 Square kilometers, Guayaquil is a sprawling metropolis of 2.29 million inhabitants. If located in the United States, Guayaquil would be the 4th largest city in our country The city suffers from many classic challenges seen around the world: informal communities, urban sprawl, lack of adequate public services and transit. This explosive growth enveloped the city’s airport (240 hectares) which is now being relocated outside the city center.