Enrique Norten of TENARQUITECTOS will be speaking on Monday October 25^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium as keynote speaker for Latin Pratt’s Breaking Borders exhibit.

Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA was born in Mexico City where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1980.

In 1986 he founded TEN Arquitectos [Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos] in Mexico City, initiating a lifelong commitment to Architecture and Design.

Among others awards, Enrique Norten was the first Mies van der Rohe Award recipient for Latin American Architecture in 1998, and in 2007 he obtained the “Legacy Award” from the Smithsonian Institution for his contributions to the US arts and culture. In 2005 he received the “Leonardo da Vinci” World Award of Arts by the World Cultural Council. Since 1997 he is an Honorary Fellow of the AIA and a member of the CAMSAM since 1986.

Enrique Norten has lectured all over the world in a diverse array of institutions and universities.

Throughout his career, he has balanced the practice of architecture with a constant participation on international juries and award committees such as the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York City.He is a regular member for the Holcim Foundation Awards for Sustainable Construction, the Deutsche Bank’s Board of Trustees and for the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. On successive years he has become a board member of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

Enrique Norten holds the Miller Chair at the University of Pennsylvania since 1998. He has held the Lorch Professor of Architecture Chair at the University of Michigan, the O’Neal Ford Chair in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin; he has been the Eliot Noyes Visiting Design Critic at Harvard University and the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University. He was professor of architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City from 1980 to1990 and was coordinator of the Graduate Urban design Program from 1983 to 1985.

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Carlos and Borja Ferrater will be speaking on Thursday March 31^st at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Bio – Carlos Ferrater:

Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Architectural Project Design at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Director of the Cátedra Blanca, Barcelona.
Academician-Elect of the Real Academia de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. Conferred as Doctor honoris causa by the University of Trieste.

In 2006 he set up, along with Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), with Núria Ayala as Projects Director. Awarded the 2009 National Architecture Award by the Spanish Ministry of Housing for his overall career. Since 2000 he has won four FAD Prizes, the 1999 and 2008 City of Barcelona Prize, the 2005 Brunel International Architecture Award (Denmark) and the 2009 BigMat Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award. He has received the City of Madrid Award, the 2001 National Spanish Architecture Award, the 2006 Dedalo Minosse International Prize in Vicenza, the 2006 Decade Award and the 2007 International Flyer Award. The 2008 RIBA International Award was given to his Editorial MP monograph, among others. He received a mention in the X Biennial of Spanish Architecture and urbanism in 2009. He was a guest exhibitor in the International Pavilion and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, and was invited by the MoMA, New York, to participate in the exhibition On-Site: New Architecture in Spain, and to exhibit his work in a one-man show at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall in Chicago, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Israel Institute of Technology, the College of Architects of Catalonia, and the Foundation of the College of Architects of Madrid.

He is the designer of, among other works, three city blocks in Barcelona’s Olympic Village; the Olympic Village in Vall d’Hebron; the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I; the Catalonia Convention Center; the Auditorium in Castellón; the Scientific Institute and the Barcelona Botanical Garden; the El Prat Royal Golf Club; different buildings on the Passeig de Gracia; the Intermodal Station in Zaragoza; the MediaPro Building in Barcelona; the Aquileia Tower in Venice; the Science Park in Granada; West Beach Promenade in Benidorm, which won first prize in the VIII ASCER Ceramics Awards, and the GISA and FGC headquarters in Barcelona. At present he is working on, among others, the Centre Culturel des Jacobins in Le Mans; the AA House in Sant Cugat; Vila·real Library; an office building in Barcelona; the City of Music in Sabadell; a number of wineries in Toro; housing in Abandoibarra; IMQ Hospital in Zorrozaure (Bilbao); intermodal and multimodal buildings for Barcelona Airport; Murcia Airport; a landscaping intervention in the Atapuerca archaeological site in Burgos; the World Trade Center Tower in Cornellà, and an office complex on the banks of the River Seine in Paris.

OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona):

Office of Architecture in Barcelona together with Carlos Ferrater, combines the experience of a recognised innovator architect and the strength of a young company, nowadays expanding with great success. The youth and eagerness of our team have enabled us to complete projects of great complexity, both in form and structure. A high degree of self-demand, compromised with constant research of contemporary formal expression, based on the work and experience of a 40 years successful career, has turned the team of Carlos Ferrater Partnership into a certified “Laboratory of Ideas” and a professional company of highest standard.

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Urban Theorist Paul Guzzardo will be speaking on Thursday March 3^rd at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium in a series titled ‘New Ways to Smear the Street with Our Extended Epistemology’.

Paul Guzzardo is a lawyer and media activist/artist. His new media praxis probes the effect of emerging digital information archives on the design and occupation of public space. His work examines the relationship between this current wave of digital information technology and the street.

He uses the recursive “loop-cut-paste” grammar of digital information systems to activate the public sphere. For the last ten years he’s examined the performative dynamics of new communications technologies; in a nightclub, a media lab, in theatres, documentary films and in various public installations and projections. He believes the street is a good place to examine how digital information technologies change us. His work is situated in the communication’s discipline of Media Ecology.

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Profile:

I’m a media activist, artist – designer and a lawyer. I refer to my praxis asRecursive Urbanism. RU probes the effect of pervasive computing on the design and occupation of public space. I use the recursive  _redundant loop-cut-paste_  grammar of digital information systems to activate the public sphere.  For the last thirteen years I’ve examined the performative dynamics of new communications technologies; in a nightclub, a media lab, in theatres, documentary films, and in various public installations, projections and publications. The projects mix spectacle and information. I use the street as the platform/medium to investigate how digital information technologies change us. I am particularly interested in how the digital fog of image and sound affects our democratic public sphere and civic identity. More and more I focus on why existing noetic economies (knowledge systems) discourage an emergent political geography, a “Polis” that promotes contest, collaborations and creativity.

I am a fellow at The Geddes Institute for Urban Research. It is an interdisciplinary research institute within the University of Dundee. Also I am currently working with activist attorneys. We’re looking at reified cultural art practices as viral bad-code; code that hollows out the public sphere _ and what to do about it. Or in legal parlance “what’s the remedy”.

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Paul Guzzardo is a designer and lawyer based in St. Louis and Buenos Aires. Guzzardo maps the devolving state of the American public sphere. He is interested in epistemology and where urban designers, traditional creative practitioners and collectors fit, and or don’t, in a zoomed out digitized culture. His research is out on the street. It’s where he designs protocols for data sampling. He uses the street as a platform to assemble networks to critique the network. And he looks to the street as the place to probe how we’re being changed by the sweep of information technologies. His design praxis includes: nightclubs, outdoor multimedia projections, street-front media-labs, street theater, remix concerts, gallery installations and documentary film. He exploits these venues and disciplines to design epistemic gear _ maps_ for navigating through this digital minefield. His writings have appeared in blogs, academic monograms and popular journals, including AD Architectural Design, Urban Design (UK), andDisplaced with Michael Sorkin and George Ranalli. As a Fellow, Guzzardo has been involved in Exploring the Digital City and the Cartographers Dilemma, in which, with Lorens Holm, he has been working on recursive urbanism.

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Monday November 15th at 6pm Pratt Institute School of Architecture will host the symposium “Factory Cities” in Higgins Hall Auditorium in conjunction with the exhibit “Vertical Urban Factory” at the Skyscraper Museum.

On the panel will be Nina Rappaport, Professor Yale University, Andrew Ross, Professor at New York University, and the documentary filmmaker, Emmanuel Picardo. Do not miss what should prove to be a unique discussion.

Vertical Urban Factory

Pratt Institute School of Architecture will host the symposium “Voyage Through Le Corbusier” on Monday, October 11 from 6 to 9 pm in conjuction with the “Le Corbusier – Miracle Boxes” exhibition. It will include presentations by Kenneth Frampton, Mary McLeod, Jose Oubrerie, Stanislaus von Moos, Deborah Gans, and Ivan Shumkov who will speak about their research on the work of Le Corbusier and his legacy which goes far beyond the fields of architecture and art in suggesting a plan for radical social change. After the individual presentations, the symposium participants will gather for a round table discussion and public Q&A session.

Pratt Institute School of Architecture and the Pratt Library will present “Le Corbusier – Miracle Boxes”, a multidisciplinary, three-part exhibition on the work of renowned Swiss-French architect, urbanist, designer, writer, and painter Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), who is considered by many to be the most important architect of the 20th century, starting August 30, 2010. “Miracle Boxes,” the first New York exhibition dedicated entirely to the work of Le Corbusier, is curated by Ivan R. Shumkov, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of architecture at Pratt Institute.

On view through October 15, 2010 in the atrium and in The Hazel and Robert Siegel Gallery of Higgins Hall, the exhibition’s architectural portion will provide an in-depth look at more than 50 of Le Corbusier’s public buildings, including all his exhibition pavilions, museums, theaters, cultural centers, monuments, and temples. Original editions of such seminal works as Vers un Architecture, Precisions, Le Modulor, and Le Corbusier Oeuvre Complete will be on display in the Pratt Library through November 20, 2010.  In addition, a timeline of the projects displayed in Higgins Hall will accompany the book display, providing exhibition attendees with a comprehensive view of Le Corbusier’s work over time.

To give Pratt students, faculty, and visitors an opportunity to experience one of Le Corbusier’s visions first-hand, the exhibition will also include the Miracle Box: a full-scale construction based on Le Corbusier’s smallest architectural project, or a “working cell” that was originally located inside his Atelier in Paris. The exterior façades will feature a selection of the symbols published in Le Corbusier’s books, which, while not part of the original design, further represent Le Corbusier’s work. The project is currently on view outside the Pratt Library, and will be installed in the lobby of the Library as part of its permanent collection following the exhibition.

For more information on the exhibition, lecture, and symposium surrounding “Le Corbusier- Miracle Boxes,” please visit http://www.miracleboxes.com.

The exhibition and symposium are made possible in part with generous support from Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

Architects Belen Moneo and Jeff Brock of the MoneoBroch Studio in Madrid will be September 27^th at 6pm in the Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Below is an image of one of their latest works entitled “The Forest of Steel”. Acclaimed for their work world-wide, this event should prove to be exciting as well as educational.

MONEO BROCK STUDIO

Belén Moneo Feduchi and Jeff Brock formed MONEO BROCK STUDIO in 1993 in New York, when they first collaborated professionally on a project for a loft in Tribeca, in New York City. By the end of 2001 they had built seven more lofts, a house in Maine and a house in the countryside outside of Stockholm, Sweden.

At the same time they worked for the Studio of Rafael Moneo. In December of 1993 they moved for two years to Stockholm where they directed the project of the New Museums of Modern Art and Architecture. In this work they developed details of the buildings’ construction as well as designs and details for its furnishings and interiors.

In 1997 they continued work with Rafael Moneo on the project for the new residence for the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C. and in 1998 they began to develop the design for a new building of studios and workshops for the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Both buildings were finished in 2002.
At the end of 2001 the office moved to Madrid, Spain to begin work on their own project for a new building to house thermal baths and a spa in the Pyrenees of Aragon, which includes 91,500 square feet of interior space. The spa, completed in January 2008, is built into the mountainside at a spectacular site on a glacial moraine at an elevation of 5,413 feet beneath a cirque of 10,000 foot peaks. The program includes thermal pools, a gymnasium, treatment rooms and various spaces for recreation and relaxation.

In 2003 they began work on two projects in El Escorial, Madrid, both of which were complet

ed in 2008. One is a 5,000 square foot single-family house among pine trees opposite the monastery of El Escorial, while the other is a small apartment building in the historic center of the town incorporating a protected façade. Also completed this year is a new gas station for the town of San Agustín de Guadalix, 21 miles outside of Madrid.

Finished in May 2010 is a steel and glass pavilion and a park in the city of Cuenca. The pavilion of 33,360 square feet is to house the events of the annual town fair, as well as the weekly market. The pavilion is composed of 23 modules, each an identical or symmetrical distorted pentagon. Also beginning construction is a Museum project for Telefónica. The Museum will be housed in one of Madrid’s more emblematic buildings, situated in Gran Via and built during the 1920’s in the heart of the city. The 92,500 square foot museum is distributed on three floors connected by an engaging sculptural stair. Also under construction is the restaurant LANBROA in the Hotel Reina Petronila in Zaragoza while the cafeteria has been inaugurated in December 2009.

In development is a 90-unit housing project in Manresa, Barcelona, as well as three houses in the town of Sevilla la Nueva, a suburb of Madrid, and another villa in Marbella, Malaga. Of the various competitions in which they have participated, it is worth mentioning -although the project will not be built- the sports facilities in Sanchinarro in which they were awarded first place.

Currently they are collaborating with Rafael Moneo in the design of the INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE BUILDING for Columbia University in the City of New York. The building is under construction on the last remaining site of the McKim, Mead and White campus, and will be completed in the summer 2010.

Among the numerous design and furniture pieces they have developed is the complete series of lavatories and bathroom fixtures FRONTALIS for Roca Sanitarios, the armchair FUN FAN for Jacinto USAN, the kitchen GLASÉ for BD and the polycarbonate shelves CHROMODULAR, all of which are presently being manufactured in Spain.

Daniel Libeskind will be lecturing Monday, April 5^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Daniel Libeskind, B.Arch. M.A. BDA AIA is an international figure in architectural practice and urban design. He is well known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture and for his multidisciplinary approach.  His practice extends from building major cultural and commercial institutions – including museums and concert halls- to convention centers, universities, housing, hotels, shopping centers and residential work.  He also designs opera sets and maintains an object design studio.

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Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Mr. Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965.  He studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York, becoming a virtuoso performer.  He left music to study architecture, receiving his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.  He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University (England) in 1972.

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In 1989, Mr. Libeskind won the competition for the Jewish Museum Berlin, which opened to the public in September 2001 to wide public acclaim.  The city museum of Osnabrück, Germany, The Felix Nussbaum Haus, opened in July 1998.  In July 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England opened to the public.  Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery, opened in Mallorca, Spain in September 2003.  The Graduate Student Centre at the London Metropolitan University opened in March 2004, and the Danish Jewish Museum opened in Copenhagen in June 2004.  Tangent, an office tower for the Hyundai Development Corporation, opened in Seoul, Korea in February 2005, Memoria e Luce, a 9/11 memorial in Padua, Italy opened on September 11, 2005 and the Wohl Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel; opened in October, 2005.  Most recently, the Frederic C. Hamilton building, Extension to the Denver Art Museum, alongside the Denver Museum Residences, in Colorado, opened in October 2006, The Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, opened in June of 2007, and the Glass Courtyard, an extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin, which covers the original Courtyard, was completed in the Fall 2007. The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge, a residential high-rise in Covington, Kentucky opened in March 2008.  The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California opened in June 2008 and Westside, the largest shopping and wellness center in Europe opened in October 2008, in Bern, Switzerland.

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Several of Mr. Libeskind’s projects are currently under construction, including: the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany; the Grand Canal Performing Arts Centre and Galleria in Dublin, Ireland; CityCenter, a retail complex, on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada; Zlota 44; a residential high rise in Warsaw, Poland, and a grand piano design for Schimmel Piano is currently in production. Upon winning the World Trade Center design competition in February 2003, Daniel Libeskind was appointed as master plan architect for the site in New York City.  Memory Foundations is now under construction.

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Mr. Libeskind has many other projects in design and planning, such as The New Center for Arts and Culture in Boston, Massachusetts; the L Tower and Sony Centre for the   Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada; the redevelopment of the historic Fiera Milano Fairgrounds in Milan, Italy; New Songdo City, in Incheon, South Korea; Haeundae Udong Hyundai l’Park in Busan, South Korea; a waterfront, residential development, Reflections, in Keppel Bay, Singapore;  Rejuvenation, a center for children in the Katrina-ravaged area of Gulfport, Mississippi; Editoriale Bresciana Tower in Brescia; and Orestad Downtown Master Site Plan, in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is a 5km development zone.

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Mr. Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. He has held such positions as the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Cret Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Louis Kahn Chair at Yale University. He has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize – an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace, never before given to an architect. He was awarded the 1999 Deutsche Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; also the 2000 Goethe Medallion for cultural contribution; in 1996 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture and in the same year the Berlin Cultural Prize; in 1990 a membership in the European Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate from Humboldt Universität, Berlin; also in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, England; in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Doctorate from DePaul University, Chicago, and most recently in 2004, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto. Two of Mr. Libeskind’s buildings won RIBA Awards in 2004, the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre and the Imperial War Museum North, the latter of which was also nominated for the Stirling Prize. Also in 2004, Mr. Libeskind was appointed the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the U.S. Department of State, as part of the CultureConnect Program.

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Daniel Libeskind’s work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and has also been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages.

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HONORS and AWARDS

2010

Buber-Rosenzweig Medal from DKR (German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) awarded to Daniel Libeskind

2009

Outstanding Project Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to the Contemporary Jewish Museum

2008

The American Institute of Architects present the Award of Honor for the highest achievement in design excellence for the Museum ResidencesAIA New York and the Center for Architecture Foundation present Studio Daniel Libeskind with 2008 President’s AwardCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in categories of Best Development to the Museum Residences and Best High-Rise Development to the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge awarded to Studio Daniel Libeskind and Corporex

The Technion Honorary Doctoral Ceremony awarded the Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa at Mount Carmel Campus, Haifa

CNBC Europe & Africa Property Awards 2008 in categories of Architecture, Redevelopment, High-Rise Architecture and High-Rise Development to ORCO Property Group for Zlota 44

Annual Project of the Year Award given to the Midland Engineering Company for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

2007

The Commander ’s cross of the Order of Merit at the Residence of the Consul General of GermanyGold medal for Architecture at the National Arts ClubThe Second Penn State IAH Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the Public Advancement of Arts and Humanities, PA, USA

Silver Award for “Large Visitor Attraction of the year” for the Imperial War Museum North

Award of Merit for innovative steel design for the Royal Ontario Museum,Canada

Merit Award for Multifamily for “The Museum Residences”, Denver, Colorado, USA

Trebbia European Award  Laureates , Prague State Opera, Prague

2006

RIBA International Award, for the Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2005

Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, Building of the Year Award, Jeu D’ Esprit, for London Metropolitan UniversityAmerican Architect Award, for the Danish Jewish MuseumGiants of Design Award, The Hearst Corporation and House Beautiful

2004

Board of the Cultural Foundation of the Borough of Copenhagen, Recognition of Exceptional ArchitectureHonorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, EnglandRIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award, 2004, for Imperial War Museum North

RIBA Award, 2004, for London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre

The First Cultural Ambassador to the US for Architecture by the U.S. Department of State, as part of the Culture Connect program

Awarded Honorary Doctorate, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa from the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The New York Academy of Medicine, Honor for visionary Leaders contributions to public health, for World Trade Center Design, New York City

CITY arts 36th Annual Benefit Honor

Honorary Korczak Award, American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, New Jersey

Best of New York Award, for the ‘Building of New York’, Hosted by the New York City College of Technology Foundation, New York

Genovino D’Oro, (Gold Metal Award), for Architecture Genoa, Italy

Man of the Year Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

The Cooper Union, Urban Visionary Award for Architecture, New York City

CITY arts” Making a Difference through the Arts” Award, New York City

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research “Lifetime Achievement” Award, New York City

The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize from the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City

2003

Building of the Year, British Construction Industry for Imperial War Museum NorthVisitor Attraction of the Year, Northwest Tourism Board for Imperial War Museum NorthInterfaith Visionary Award, Interfaith Center, New York City

Leo Baeck Institute Award, New York City

New York Association for New Americans, Torch of Honor Award

The Bronx Walk of Fame Induction, New York City

The James Parks Morton Interfaith Award

The Holocaust Educational Trust Award, London, England

The American-Israel Cultural Foundation Aviv Award, New York City

Honorary Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts , London, England

2002

Awarded Honorary Doctorate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, DePaul University, ChicagoAwarded Honorary Doctorate Faculty of Social Sciences, Edinburgh University, ScotlandHolocaust Educational Trust Award

America-Israeli Cultural Foundation Award

2001

Hiroshima Art Prize: Award given to an artist whose work promotes peace

2000

The Goethe Medal for cultural contribution, the Goethe Institute, Germany

1999

Honorary Doctorate for the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, EnglandThe German Architecture Prize for the Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

1998

Polish Consulate of New York, Award for Culture, New York, USAArt forum International, The Best of 1998, The Jewish Museum BerlinTIME Magazine, The Best of 1998 Design Awards, The Felix Nussbaum Museum Osnabruck

1997

Awarded Honorary Doctorate, from Humboldt Universität Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin, Germany

1996

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USAAwarded Bild Zeitung Kulturpreis (Berlin Cultural Prize), Berlin, GermanyFirst prize for Best Exhibition by the German Museum Directors Association

1993

Elected to the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany

1992

Augustus St. Gaudens Medal for Outstanding Contribution to ArchitectureBook Design Award from the German Publisher’s Commission

1990

A membership to the European Arts and LettersAkademie der Kunst Member

1989

Senior Scholar, The Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, California, USA

1988

Visiting Getty Scholar, The Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, California, USA

1987

First Prize I.B.A. Building Competition City Edge, Berlin

1986

Forty Under Forty Award for ArchitectsPratt Institute Award for Representation in Architecture

1985

Venice Biennale First Prize Stone Lion Award for the Palmanova ProjectSenior Fulbright-Hayes Teaching Fellowship

1984

1983

Graham Foundation Fellowship for Studies in ArchitectureNational Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant for Studies in Architecture

1979

United States – Scandinavia Society Travel AwardAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence

1976

University of Kentucky Award for Best Teacher

1973

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Research Grant

1972

Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies Research Grant

1970

Graham Foundation Award for TravelNew York City American Institute of Architects Award for Design ExcellenceAmerican Institute of Architects Medal for Highest Scholastic Achievement

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BUILDING AWARDS

2008

The American Institute of Architects Award of Honor for the Museum ResidencesCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in category of Best Development for the Museum ResidencesCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in category of Best High-Rise Development for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

Building of America Award by Real Estate Construction and Review to Contemporary Jewish Museum

CNBC Europe & Africa Property Awards 2008 in categories of Architecture, Redevelopment, High-Rise Architecture and High-Rise Development to ORCO Property Group for Zlota 44

Annual Project of the Year Award given to the Midland Engineering Company for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

2007

Silver Award for “Large Visitor Attraction of the year” for the Imperial War Museum NorthAward of Merit for innovative steel design for the Royal Ontario Museum,CanadaMerit Award for Multifamily for “The Museum Residences”, Denver, Colorado, US

2006

RIBA International Award, for the Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2005

Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, Building of the Year Award, Jeu D’ Esprit, for London Metropolitan University

2004

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award, 2004, for Imperial War Museum NorthRIBA Award, 2004, for London Metropolitan University Graduate CentreBest of New York Award, for the ‘Building of New York’, Hosted by the New York City College of Technology Foundation, New York

2003

Building of the Year, British Construction Industry for Imperial War Museum North

1998

TIME Magazine, The Best of 1998 Design Awards, The Felix Nussbaum Museum Osnabrück

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Liferaft Earth 1969 a film by Robert Frank will be shown Thursday, April 1^st in Higgins Hall Auditorium, a symposium panel, including Alessandra Ponte, Edward Dimendberg, Caroline Maniaque, and William Menking, will discuss the film.

Liferaft Earth begins with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: “Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population protesters spent their second starving day in a plastic enclosure…. The so-called Hunger Show, a week-long starve-in aimed at dramatizing man’s future in an overpopulated, underfed world….” This film accompanies the people on this “life raft” from 11 to 18 October 1969, and was made by Robert Frank for Stewart Brand, the visionary founder of the international ecological movement and publisher of the bestselling Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85).

Alessandra Ponte is currently the Director of the Undergraduate Program in History and Theory of Architecture at Pratt’s School of Architecture, New York. She has also taught at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, at Princeton’s School of Architecture, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and at Cornell’s Department of Architecture.
She has published a book on Richard Payne Knight and the XVIIIth Century Picturesque: Le paysage des origines. Le voyage en Sicile (1777) de Richard Payne Knight (Paris, 2000). She edited (in collaboration with Antoine Picon) a volume on the interconnections between architecture and the sciences: Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2003), and she is currently preparing a collection of essays on the American desert.

Edward Dimendberg currently is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies, and German at the University of California, Irvine, and a University of California President’s Research Fellow in the Humanities. He has received grants and fellowships from the German Fulbright Commission, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Graham Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Social Science Research Council, and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. From 2005 to 2008 he served as the first Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and he remains a frequent lecturer at schools of architecture, museums, cinema studies programs, and film festivals. His book Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity is a key contribution to scholarship on cinema and the city in the 1940s and 1950s. Together with Anton Kaes and Martin Jay, he co-edited The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. As Sponsoring Editor in the Humanities at the University of California Press from 1990 to 1998, Dimendberg acquired and published manuscripts in philosophy, twentieth-century Art, film studies, and European intellectual history. He is a General Editor of the Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism book series and of the Flashpoints electronic book series.

Caroline Maniaque is both an architect and a historian, having earned her PhD from l’université de Paris VIII. She is an associate professor at l’école nationale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage in Lille, where she teaches architectural history and culture. Additionally, she teaches regularly at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture in New York. Between 1994 and 1997, Caroline was the associate curator at the Centre Pompidou for the exhibition L’Art de l’ingénieur taking charge of the portion of the exhibit devoted to light structures showing the works of Graham Bell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Kenneth Snelson, Georges David Emmerich, Frei Otto, Robert Le Ricolais, and Emilio Perez Pinero. Her research and publications have, on one hand, focused on scholarly architectural culture of the 1950s and, on the other hand, on alternative North American culture of the 1960s and its impact on Europe. In particular, she has published Hard et Soft America : Perspectives françaises, dans Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine (2002). She contributed to the catalogues for Ant Farm exhibitions both through the University of California Press in 2004 and at the FRAC Centre in October 2007. During her stay at the CCA, she is putting the finishing touches on a work about European architects and North American counterculture. She has presented her work in progress at the Docomomo international colloquium in New York in 2004, at the Americanization of Post War Architecture colloquium at the University of Toronto in 2005, as well as at the colloquium on the Whole Earth Catalog organized by UC Davis in 2006.

William Menking is the founder and editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Published in both New York and California the papers highlight the latest design projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, current events and cultural developments on architecture, urban design and planning. He has organized, curated and created catalogues for exhibitions on architecture and urbanism for venues in the U.S., England and Europe, including Forever Modern: Fifty Years of Record Houses and Shrinking Cities at The Pratt Manhattan gallery and Van Alen Institute. He is the commissioner and curator of the United States pavilion at the 2008 Venice biennale. The title of the exhibition Into the Open: Positioning Practice proposes that social, cultural and spatial boundaries be understood as a new kind of center that can and should act as a definer of architectural problems. He is professor the Pratt Institute in New York City.

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Sir Peter Cook, renowned English architect, will be lecturing at Pratt Institute Thursday, March 11^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Sir Peter Cook (b Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 22 Oct 1936). English architect, teacher and critic. He studied architecture at the Bournemouth College of Art (1953-8) and at the Architectural Association, London (1958-60), where his teachers included James Gowan, John Killick and Peter Smithson. While working in the office of James Cubitt and Partners (1960-62) he met David Greene (b 1937), and, beginning in 1960, they produced the first of nine issues of the magazine Archigram. An ARCHIGRAM group was formed with other recently graduated young architects, including Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, who came together after Cook had joined the Taylor Woodrow Design Office in 1962. Archigram magazine was the group’s most important outlet, but a wider audience was also sought through exhibitions, for example the Living City exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (June 1963); through such events as the International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, Folkestone (June 1966), a seminal conference for the architectural progressives; and through lecturing and teaching. Cook started teaching at the Architectural Association in 1964.

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When asked to describe the inspiration for the marvelous form of his Kunsthaus Graz museum, Cook describes how an intimate familiarity with the project’s site (“It used to be the one place that you could get a drink after 3 o’clock at night”) helped make the design decisions for this acclaimed building “terribly easy.” (1:40)

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Image courtesy Kunsthaus Graz; photography by Nicolas Lackner.

William F. Baker, partner and structural engineer for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, will be lecturing Thursday, March 4^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Bill Baker is the partner in charge of Structural and Civil Engineering for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Mr. Baker pursues a collaborative process which resonates with SOM’s multidisciplinary practice. His approach to structural engineering seeks to integrate form, function, and aesthetics. Since joining the firm in 1981, Mr. Baker has worked on a broad range of engineering projects including designing structural systems for supertall buildings, to smaller, specialized structures and engineering collaborations with artists.

Mr. Baker leads the Structural Engineering studio to ensure that quality, innovation, material economy, and cost efficiency are customized to fit each project’s scope and needs. Mr. Baker has developed the structural system for the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest structure. Other recently-completed projects include the long span structure of the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the glass cable-net entrancepavilion of the General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower.

In addition to working at SOM, Bill’s expertise is frequently solicited by institutions of higher learning, as well as numerous professional organizations. Bill is the 2008 recipient of the Fazlur Rahman Khan medal from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the 2009 recipient and first American to receive the Fritz Leonhardt Prize. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). Bill is on the Specifications Committee of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and also frequently lectures on a variety of structural engineering topics within the U.S. and abroad.

Professional Associations:

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Committee on Specifications, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

University of Illinois President’s Council

Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI)

Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC)

Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAONY)

Certified in the Practice of Structural Engineering by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB)

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