Learning by Design | 2/19/14

While the weather this winter has proven bitter and frightful, the atmosphere inside the Center for Architecture was warm and cozy on 02.04.14 thanks to a little...

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Learning by Design | 2/5/14

Second-graders at PS 199 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side had an opportunity to teach their parents about the city’s history at the culminating celebration of their...

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Learning by Design | 1/22/14

The Center for Architecture Foundation and AIA New York Chapter are pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. The purpose of the...

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Learning by Design | 1/8/14

With the close of another calendar year and 2014 just begun, there’s no better time to reflect back on our final youth and family programs in November and December of...

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Learning by Design | 12/18/13

If the destruction that Superstorm Sandy inflicted on the New York region tested our resilience, imagine the challenges a natural disaster can impose on a place where...

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Learning by Design | 12/18/13

Learning By Design:NY, the Center for Architecture Foundation’s K – 12 architecture education program has been active in city schools since 1996, pairing architects...

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Learning by Design | 12/4/13

On 11.22.13, the Center for Architecture Foundation (CFAF) hosted an Architecture College Fair. More than 100 high school students and families from New York City,...

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Learning by Design | 11/20/13

What do the Renaissance villas, tree houses, and mosques on display at the Center for Architecture have in common? They were all designed and built by students in the...

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Learning by Design | 11/6/13

Over Columbus Day Weekend, 10.12–13.13, the Center for Architecture Foundation welcomed more than 300 families to the Center for the sixth annual OHNY Weekend Family...

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Learning by Design | 10/23/13

On 10.08.13, the Center for Architecture Foundation’s Young Patrons hosted their first event at Knoll’s new mid-town showroom. Seventy rising design stars came...

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Learning by Design | 10/9/13

“Practical Utopias,” the Center for Architecture’s new exhibition on global architecture firms' work in five Asian cities, organizes a wealth of visual and textual...

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Learning by Design | 10/9/13

For those who missed this year’s Association of Architecture Organizations’ annual conference in Boston, 09.26.13–09.28.13, here is an armchair tour of a few of...

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Learning by Design | 9/25/13

On a crisp weekday evening, a dozen architecture enthusiasts gathered at the Center for Architecture for "Reading the Streetscape: Bleecker Street" – a walking tour of...

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Learning by Design | 9/11/13

The Center for Architecture is a tad bit quieter today than it was just a few weeks ago when the exhibition spaces were filled with the bustle of 250 school-aged...

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Learning by Design | 8/14/13

The Center for Architecture’s youth and family programs took an engineering turn as both our FamilyDay@theCenter program on 07.27.13and week-long Summer@theCenter camp...

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Learning by Design | 7/24/13

At the Center for Architecture Foundation, we are halfway through our popular Summer@theCenter architecture-themed day camps. With topics such as “My Dream House,”...

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Learning by Design | 7/10/13

Over the course of four Saturdays in June, 11 adults took part in the Center for Architecture Foundation’s “Sketching the City” workshop. Led by architect and...

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Learning by Design | 6/27/13

The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 CFA Design Scholarship, and the Women’s Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship....

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Learning by Design | 6/12/13

The school year might be winding down, but the Center for Architecture Foundation’s partnership with the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction (UASDC) is in...

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Learning by Design | 5/30/13

On 05.21.13, the Center for Architecture Foundation held its annual Guess-A-Sketch drawing competition and benefit. This non-traditional cocktail party featured an...

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Learning by Design | 5/15/13

Each May, 7th-grade students from IS 220 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, make their way to the Center for Architecture to present models and drawings they’ve created in a...

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Learning by Design | 5/1/13

A diverse group gathered at the Center for Architecture on Wednesday 4.24.13 for a crash course on landscape architecture, culminating in their own designs for a new...

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Learning by Design | 4/18/13

The Center for Architecture Foundation conducted a series of vacation camps this spring, providing elementary and middle school students with a chance to explore how...

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Learning by Design | 4/3/13

The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Arnold W. Brunner Grant: Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA, and Yutaka Sho. The two...

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Learning by Design | 3/20/13

The Center for Architecture Foundation (CFAF) opened its doors Saturday, 03.09.13, for our March FamilyDay@theCenter program on Skyscrapers. 2013 marks the 100th...

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Learning by Design | 3/6/13

Even a winter rainstorm couldn’t dampen the spirits of 20 architecture enthusiasts who gathered on 02.19.13 for the New Buildings New York behind-the-scenes tour of...

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Learning by Design | 2/20/13

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...

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Learning by Design | 2/6/13

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...

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Learning by Design | 1/23/13

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...

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Learning by Design | 1/10/13

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...

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