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Event: PASSIVE HOUSE: TOWN & COUNTRY and Passive House 101 Location: Center for Architecture, 02.15.11 Speakers: Floris Keverling Buisman -- Principal, Vital...
Event: Family Day: Jugaad Urbanism: Designs for City Life Location: Center for Architecture, 02.19.11 Families visited the "Jugaad Urbanism" exhibition and then...
Event: Selections from Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) Location: Center for Architecture, 01.29.11 Speakers: Peter Eisenman, FAIA -- Founder and...
Event: StudentDay@theCenter -- Urban Design Studio Location: Center for Architecture, 02.03.11 Educator: Heather Zusman Students present their urban...
Event: Design for Decades: Spaces for Learning Location: Center for Architecture, 01.19.11 Speakers: Daniel Heuberger, AIA, LEED AP -- Principal, Dattner Architects;...
Jennifer Golan Last week, 15 self-selected 11th- and 12th-grade students from the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, Brooklyn Technical High...
Event: Parks Design Manual Launch Location: Center for Architecture, 01.06.11 Speakers: Adrian Benepe -- Commissioner, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; Deborah...
The Center for Architecture Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant, which was established to further the personal and...
CFAF students built a model of a town from the Middle Ages. Catherine Teegarden This fall, 14 eight-to-10-year-old students were studying the Middle Ages as...
Event: Dharavi Slum for Sale Premiere / "Jugaad Urbanism" Exhibition Preview Location: SVA Silas Theatre, 11.19.10 Speaker: Lutz Konermann -- Flimmaker, "Dharavi, Slum...
Event: Plywood, Concrete, Paint! Re-imagining the Contemporary Construction Site as Canvas for Public Art Location: Center for Architecture, 11.18.10 Speakers: Joe...
Event: New Tools for Builders Location: Center for Architecture, 11.29.10 Speakers: Onalee Finio -- Director of Technical Services, The Hilti Group; Larry DeGennaro --...
Students from MAT worked in teams to construct scale models of "green" buildings. One group built a spiral apartment building with green roofs, wind turbines,...
Event: Homeless Housing: LA and NY Location: Center for Architecture, 11.12.10 Speakers: Michael Maltzan, FAIA -- Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture; Jonathan...
Event: Innovation by Necessity, Exhibition Symposium Location: Center for Architecture, 11.17.10 Speakers: Carl Galioto, FAIA -- Senior Principal, HOK; Frank Sciame,...
Event: NY Passive House presents: The Hudson Passive Project by Dennis Wedlick & PH 101 Location: Center for Architecture, 11.16.10 Speakers: Dennis Wedlick, AIA --...
A student in the CFAF after-school Digital Design Studio works on his 3-D personal shelter using Google SketchUp. Maggie Yolen Three-dimensional modeling...
Event: Five Keys to Interpret Contemporary Danish Architecture Location: Center for Architecture, 10.27.10 Speakers: Marianne Ibler, Architect MA, Ph.D., RIBA -- Founder...
"Building Connections 2010," the Center for Architecture Foundation's (CFAF) 14th annual exhibition of K-12 student design work, opened on Thursday, 11.04.10 at the...
Event: The Liquid Wall Prototype: A Case Study in Innovation Location: Center for Architecture, 10.19.10 Speakers: Tristan Al-Haddad -- Assistant Professor, School of...
Event: A Conversation with the Architects of 200 West Street Location: Center for Architecture, 10.05.10 Speakers: Stephen Apking, FAIA -- Skidmore, Owings &...
Event: A New Standard of Design Care Location: Center for Architecture, 10.04.10 Speakers: Vicki Match Suna, AIA -- New York University Langone Medical Center; Duncan...
On 10.07.10, visitors toured the Empire State Building with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the Clinton Climate Initiative, and other leaders from the...
Event: Exhibition Opening and Presentation: Sukkah City Location: Center for Architecture, 09.22.10 Speakers: Joshua Foer & Roger Bennett -- Co-Founders, Sukkah City...
Event: Checkerboard Conversations: Rick Joy Location: Center for Architecture, 09.16.10 Speakers: Rick Joy, AIA; Suzanne Stephens -- Deputy Editor, Architectural...
English architect Sir John Soane's London home (left); the site of medieval castle ruins and a hermit's cell in Knaresbourgh, Yorkshire. Richard William Hayes,...
Event: New Practices New York 2010 Winner Presentation: ARCHIPELAGOS Location: Center for Architecture, 09.02.10 Speaker: Jonus Ademovic -- Director,...
Center for Architecture Foundation volunteer Ted Mineau (left). Parents and children at a Family Day program. Maggie Yolen The Center for Architecture...
Students from A Room of One's Own Studio showcase their finished models (left). A personal shelter designed by a student in the Digital Design Studio using...
(left) Alice Tully Hall; (right) New Building New York tour guides (l-r): Charles Renfro, AIA; Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA; Sylvia Smith, FAIA, LEED AP; Peter...