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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...
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...
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...
CFAF Lead Design Educator Tim Hayduk introduces tour attendees to "The Best School in the World," which highlights Finland’s progressive education system via...
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...
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 ...
From portfolios of Anthony Carrion, Paul Scrugham, and Roberto Jenkins. Courtesy Center for Architecture Foundation The Center for...
Claire Buckley guides Family Day participants through the Center for Architecture’s exhibitions. Catherine Teegarden Second graders participate...
A second-grade class looks closely at models in the exhibition. Catherine Teegarden Families engage in hands-on activities during their gallery tour. Catherine...
Images from Bird-Friendly Building Design, by Christine Sheppard, Ph.D The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Arnold...
The Foundation's Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour for families began at the Brooklyn Historical Society and concluded at the Promenade, overlooking the Brooklyn...
Groups work to construct different parts of the geodesic dome. Claire Buckley Kids proudly show off the structure they created. Claire Buckley As groups...
CFAF Lead Design Educator Tim Hayduk and students investigate tropical and ocean eco-systems at the American Museum of Natural History. Claire Buckley Twenty...
Students from a local community group attended the Active Design Family Day at the North Brooklyn YMCA to learn about and build a healthy environment. Students...
(Left): Original members of the Learning By Design:NY Committee (L-R): Julie Maurer; Polly Carpenter, AIA; Catherine Teegarden; Christine Hunter,...
Tarana Hafiz in earlier fieldwork studies in Accra, Ghana (left); Matthew Schulte's installation for ArtPrize 2010 (collaborators Steven Mankouche...
Event: Learning by Design:NY Home School Residency, 12.19.11 Location: Queens Paideia School, Long Island City, NY Educator: Tim Hayduk LBD:NY...
(L-R): Communicity; Green House; Personal Shelter (L-R): Carin Queener; Jasmine Nadal-Chung; Jennifer Smith The Center for Architecture...
Eleanor Lygo Energy ran high at the Center for Architecture Foundation's Family Day on 11.12.11, as kids and their parents explored the Center for...
Gina Pollara, executive director of the Four Freedoms Park, guided visitors through the construction site (left). John Kurtz, AIA, partner at Mitchell | Giurgola...
On 10.15-16.11, the Center for Architecture Foundation, in partnership with openhousenewyork (OHNY), hosted several local organizations, providing children and their...
Family Day participants present their architectural centerpieces that will be showcased at this year's Heritage Ball (left). Exhibition attendees admire the K-12...
(Left): Board member Jerry Maltz, AIA, and staff member Catherine Teegarden facilitated a teacher workshop on the built environment for Lincoln Center Institute,...
Students build stories with new building designs. Max Wolf Families gathered at the Center for Architecture on 09.10.11 to explore the stories every...