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Popular culture has grown increasingly more defined by names with celebrity status and punctuated in the media and the arts by gratuitous repetition. There is, however,...
Forty homeowners, contractors, and architects gathered at the Center for Architecture on 02.13.13 for the first offering of the Center for Architecture Foundation’s...
On 01.14.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Robert Geddes, FAIA, the longtime Princeton professor and author of FIT: An Architect's Manifesto,...
On 01.16.13, the Urban Assembly School for Design and Construction (UASDC) on West 50th Street welcomed a number of design professionals and recent UASDC graduates to...
Awaken a New Yorker in the middle of the night and ask what the name Copenhagen brings to mind: the answer will probably be bikes. Yet its enthusiastic embrace of...
FIT: An Architect's Manifesto Robert Geddes, FAIA Princeton University Press, 2013 As 2012 drew to a close, conversations at the Center for Architecture were ever...
AECOM hosts an annual international competition called Urban SOS and invites teams of students from a variety of disciplines to tackle the topic of urban sites in...
The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. Margaret Arbanas is a New York-based designer...
Rescheduled due to Superstorm Sandy, a diverse audience of educators, city officials, and architects convened at the Center for Architecture on 01.07.13 to listen to...
Incoming Center for Architecture Foundation Board President Joseph Tortorella shares his goals for his term, how he first got involved with CFAF, and why he is so...
Center for Architecture Foundation 2012 was major year of growth for the Center for Architecture Foundation (CFAF), which kicked off the year with its 20th...
Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, AIANY 2012 President. Laura Trimble Elbogen Jean-Baptiste Cuzin, Director, Office of International and Multilateral Affairs,...
Young designers featured in the this year’s “Building Connections” exhibition excitedly point out their models to families and friends. Eveline...
P.S. 1 staff on their first trip to the school’s roof. Catherine Teegarden Teachers at P.S. 1 enjoy learning about their school’s history. Catherine...
Center for Architecture Center for Architecture Center for Architecture Center for Architecture Thomas Mellins, curator, “The Edgeless...
At first glance, a school in the Bronx and a school in a Helsinki suburb appear to have little in common. The former is clad in brick and zinc panels and spans a long...
Hundreds turned out for the openhousenewyork/OHNY Weekend Family Festival at the Center to take part in a number of architecture and design activities. Eveline...
Sam Lahoz A view of the hanging desks in the Center's double-height space. Sam Lahoz Guests listen to the "talking heads" of contemporary education and learning...
CFAF Lead Design Educator Tim Hayduk introduces tour attendees to "The Best School in the World," which highlights Finland’s progressive education system via...
A lively panel with audience participation made for a thoughtful Sunday morning discussion on the relationship between architecture, urban design, and the use of...
Tour guides Geoff Lynch, AIA, LEED AP, Don Guyton, and James Houghton, explain the many challenges of designing a theater complex within a residential tower. Center...
2012 AIANY President Joseph Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, introduces the program. Daniel Fox Wendy Goodman, Design Editor, New York Magazine, and Roberto Guerra,...
ENYA Co-chair Amanda Rivera, Assoc. AIA, provides the contextual background for “The Harlem Edge: Cultivating Connections” as part of the Center for...
Shani Leibowitz welcomes guests at Building 92’s new lecture space. Tim Hayduk Guests walk through the colossal shipbuilding shed that will soon become Duggal...
CFAF Volunteer Catherine Dillard (center) helps 3rd-5th graders collect rubbings of textural patterns in Greenwich Village. Adam Rubin Summer@theCenter students...
From the winning student journal Fresh Meat of University of Illinois at Chicago. The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the...
P.S. 1 students at the completion of their 2011-12 LBD:NY residency Catherine Teegarden The Center for Architecture Foundation recently completed eight 10-session...
Guess-A-Sketch audience members watch (and tweet!) as the action unfolds on stage. Rebecca Woodman Taylor ...
"New York, New York" - Frederic Schwartz, FAIA 1989, 4’-8 x 8’-6” wool and silk. Center for Architecture Guests view Shelton, Mindel &...
From portfolios of Anthony Carrion, Paul Scrugham, and Roberto Jenkins. Courtesy Center for Architecture Foundation The Center for...