The Architectural League of New York Annual Report 2014/2015

In a recent review of the League’s new book 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, Karrie Jacobs noted that “Revisiting three decades of winners as a continuum is revealing about what architecture truly is: not the province of a few celebrated practitioners, but an ongoing process of invention and reinvention by a multitude of talented and thoughtful firms.” The League’s programs and projects in the 2014-15 season manifest this truth about “what architecture truly is” in myriad ways, from the extraordinary freshness and passion in the ideas produced by the Reinventing Branch Libraries project teams; to the expansive thinking about resources and the designed world evident in the projects presented by Hadley and Peter Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute, and Jen Maigret and Maria Arquero de Alarcón of MAde Studio, in The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water symposium this winter; to the thought-provoking investigations of the boundaries of material, digital, and imagined space by Erin Besler and Thom Moran in their League Prize lectures and installations. The fascinating projects and people and criticism and art works presented week after week on Urban Omnibus, the project ideas of the scores of entrants to the Deborah Norden Fund travel grant and the Folly competition— all of this and much, much more adds up to a magnificently varied manifestation of the creative and intellectual vitality of architecture and design in the current moment. It is a continuous pleasure for the staff of the League to be able to help foment, support, curate, interpret, and make available to the wider world this extraordinary outpouring of creativity. In addition to being pleasurable, it is also demanding, and I thank the entire League staff for the dedication and intelligence they bring to our work. I also want to acknowledge and thank Cassim Shepard, the founding editor of Urban Omnibus, who left the League in December to work on a book on the ideas that have shaped and evolved with Urban Omnibus, for his truly significant work on that publication.

Hadley Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute speaking at The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water symposium | Emily Schmidt

For several decades the League has been the lucky beneficiary of the extraordinary graphic design talent of longtime board member Michael Bierut. This year Michael and his team at Pentagram have designed four particular projects for the League that are so spectacular that they deserve special mention. The perfect, intricate logo for Craft, our Beaux Arts Ball; the multi-edition programs for the President’s Medal dinner honoring Harry Cobb; the witty and thought-provoking graphic campaign for the League Prize: Authenticity, that included 3000 hand-numbered posters, and exhibition publicity and graphics featuring the signatures of the winners; and the remarkable combination of more than 1500 images, vast amounts of data, and a substantial amount of prose into the extremely handsome volume 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance for all of these, and everything else he does for the League, a huge thank you to Michael and his team. The now twice-mentioned 30 Years of Emerging Voices book deserves yet another: it provides a fascinating overview of three decades of North American architecture, through the lens of the League series very capably directed by Anne Rieselbach. Like the program it documents, the book is destined to become a significant marker in the understanding of this era. It will be celebrated in a series of events around the country over the coming year. The League could not produce what it does without the engagement, encouragement, and support of its board of directors, all of them accomplished individuals who bring to their service to the League a deep understanding of architecture and its significance to our collective life. In particular I thank Billie Tsien, the president of the League’s board of directors, for her deep, thoughtful, generous commitment to the League and its work. Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director Paul Goldberger, David Mohney, Monica Ponce de Leon, Peter Eisenman, and Anthony Vidler on Architectural Pedagogy at the Michael Graves: Past as Prologue symposium | Leandro Viana

From lectures by leading international figures, to competitively awarded commissions that offer the opportunity to realize small projects in New York City, Architectural League programs inspire, educate, and demonstrate how design can shape and improve the built environment. This year’s Current Work speakers—prominent architects and artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia—were asked to focus on a single project, or small group of projects, from conception to construction, as a way to identify the ideas and issues that animate their work. Themes articulated in the lectures were amplified through moderated discussions following the talks, and through digital programming on ArchLeague.org, including an engaging conversation between Sheila O’Donnell, John Tuomey, and Kenneth Frampton, and a walk-through of Marlon Blackwell’s new School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas with Blackwell and Thomas Phifer. Now in its third season, the First Friday series of installations and receptions hosted by leading architecture, landscape, and engineering firms provided an inside view of each firm’s projects and office culture. The League continues to encourage the development of talented young architects and designers through a number of annual programs and special projects. The 32nd annual juried Emerging Voices lecture series, an invited competition open to practices in North America, featured eight firms from the United States and Mexico whose inventive design “voices” are beginning to influence the disciplines of architecture and landscape design. Authenticity, the theme for the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, inspired the six competition winners to test the meaning of originality and reproduction. The Norden Fund Travel Grant, open to young designers and urbanists, was awarded to Ylan Vo for a study of the evolution of the postwar landscape in the A Luoi Valley in Vietnam. The Folly competition, a design/build residency to create an installation at Socrates Sculpture Park, asked applicants to consider questions including, “Is it folly to pursue an ideal?” and “If a folly has no utilitarian purpose, is it sculpture?” This year’s winning entry, “Torqueing Spheres,” designed by Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim of IK Studio, was selected from over 120 submissions and is on display through the summer. The League acted as curatorial advisor for the competition, commissioned in partnership with Times Square Arts, which brought the bright, throbbing form of HeartBeat (later transformed to HeartSeat) to Times Square during late winter. Designed by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente of Stereotank, the piece was relocated to DUMBO and later to Fort Greene Park. The year was rich in symposia organized by the League with partners. Sessions on Land and Water continued the series of Five Thousand Pound Life conferences; an event in connection with the Latin American architecture show at MoMA surveyed historic and contemporary strategies for incremental development of housing and neighborhoods. In November the League presented a symposium on the occasion of Michael Graves’ 50th anniversary in practice, examining his influence on architectural pedagogy, drawing, and the design of objects and interiors and the current state of these areas. The event provided both celebration and analysis of contemporary and recent architecture and design. The League benefits from collaborations with a range of institutions. We are grateful to our friends at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and the Institute for Sustainable Design at The Cooper Union; the Center for an Urban Future; the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and School of Constructed Environments at Parsons; Socrates Sculpture Park; the Museum of Modern Art; the Latin Lab at GSAPP, Columbia University; and the Times Square Alliance. Anne Rieselbach, Program Director

EVENTS July 2014-June 2015 Program partners and co-sponsors are listed following event listings. 7.22.14 Urban Omnibus: Common Shares Writing Competition Reading and Booklet Launch Keith Engel, Yen Ha, and Jonathan Tarleton reading for Frederica Hill, introduced by Cassim Shepard McNally Jackson Books (McNally) 9.12.14 First Friday: Sage and Coombe Architects Office of Sage and Coombe Architects 9.20.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft Projection installation created by Nuit Blanche New York (NBNY), with content developed by 2×4, The Bittertang Farm, CASE, INABA, Jenny Sabin Studio, LAB at Rockwell Group, Norman Kelley, and PellOverton Architects Graphics by Pentagram Weylin B. Seymour’s

10.18.14 Annual Student Program Panel at Trespa Design Centre with Dana Getman, SHoP Architects, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, SITU Studio, and Kyle May, CLOG; studio visits to Allied Works Architecture, COOKFOX Architects, OMA, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, Snøhetta, Thomas Phifer and Partners, Weiss/Manfredi, WORKac, WXY Architecture + Urban Design; reception at Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers 10.23.14 Urban Omnibus: OmniBeers Scratcher 10.28.14 Current Work: Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, O’Donnell + Tuomey Moderated by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien The Cooper Union (Cooper) 11.7.14 First Friday: LEVENBETTS Office of LEVENBETTS

9.26.14 The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land | a symposium on rethinking land and its value in light of climate change With Kevin Bone, Vishaan Chakrabarti, Coral Davenport, Rosalie Genevro, Rob Holmes, Alex Klatskin, Jesse LeCavalier, Albert Pope, Eric Sanderson, Cassim Shepard, Rebecca Solnit, Ted Steinberg, Emily Talen, and Charles Waldheim The Cooper Union (CUISD)

11.22.14 Michael Graves: Past as Prologue | a symposium in honor of Michael Graves on the occasion of his fiftieth year in practice With Glenn Adamson, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Peter Eisenman, Paul Goldberger, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Ron Johnson, Dean Kamen, David Mohney, Nicholas Olsberg, Monica Ponce de Leon, Mary-Ann Ray, Francisco Sanin, Karen Stein, Joel Towers, Billie Tsien, and Anthony Vidler The New School (Parsons)

10.8.14 Current Work: Marlon Blackwell, Marlon Blackwell Architects Moderated by Walter Chatham The Cooper Union (Cooper)

11.24.14 Current Work: Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects Moderated by Anthony VIdler The Cooper Union (Cooper)

10.10.14 First Friday: LOT-EK Office of LOT-EK

12.2.14 Current Work: Walter Hood, Hood Design Studio Moderated by Michael Sorkin The Cooper Union (Cooper)

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Karen Fairbanks discusses her team’s design at the Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Design Showcase and Policy Symposium | Lauren Altman

Cassim Shepard, Christopher Kui, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Tiffany Alston, and Faith Rose at the Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Design Showcase and Policy Symposium | Lauren Altman

2015 Emerging Voice Neri Oxman | Lauren Altman

12.4.14 Re-envisioning New York’s Branch Libraries | a design showcase and policy symposium With the design teams Andrew Berman Architect, Library Development Solutions, Neil Donnelly, AEA Consulting, and Auerbach Pollock Friedlander: Andrew Berman, Leslie Burger, Neil Donnelly, Adrian Ellis, Elizabeth Ellis, and Steven Friedlander; L+: Bradley Samuels, Jessica Blaustein, Glen Cummings, Jesse Keenan, Rachel Meltzer, Christian Zabriskie, and Lauren Comito; Marble Fairbanks with James Lima Planning + Development, Leah Meisterlin, and Special Project Office: Scott Marble, Karen Fairbanks, James Lima, Richard Tyson, and Leah Meisterlin; MASS Design Group: Michael Murphy, Michael Haggerty, James Martin, and Chitra Aiyar; and UNION: Annie Barrett, Adriel Mesznik, Ann Whiteside, Bryan Boyer, Ceren Bingol, Helen Han, Jane Lea, Landon Brown, Ryan Thacker, Sapna Advani, and Scott Geiger Speakers and respondents including Tiffany Alston, Vicki Been, Jonathan Bowles, Michelle de la Uz, Mary Dempsey, Rosalie Genevro, Gensler, David Giles, Jukay Hsu, Kyle Kimball, David Kramer, Christopher Kui, Brad Lander, Brian Lehrer, Faith Rose, Julie Sandorf, Cassim Shepard, Jimmy Van Bramer, Stelios Vasilakis, and Sarah Williams Goldhagen The Japan Society (CUF) 12.5.14 First Friday: MdeAS Architects Office of MdeAS Architects 12.10.14 Folly 2015 Information Session Jason Austin, Elissa Goldstone, Aleksandr Mergold, and Anne Rieselbach The Architectural League 1.9.15 First Friday: FXFOWLE Architects Office of FXFOWLE Architects 1.12.15 Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Design Study Presentations With the design teams led by Andrew Berman Architect; L+; Marble Fairbanks; MASS Design Group; and UNION Introduced by Rosalie Genevro, moderated by David Giles, response by Shannon Mattern The New School (CUF, Parsons)

1.30.15 Roundtable on Architectural Journalism The Architectural League 2.6.15 First Friday: Rockwell Group Office of Rockwell Group 2.7.15 The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water | a symposium on issues of water supply in the context of climate change With Al Appleton, Hadley Arnold, Peter Arnold, Maria Arquero de Alarcón, Ila Berman, Kevin Bone, Rosalie Genevro, Henry L. Henderson, Jen Maigret, Peter Mulvaney, Josh Newell, Stephanie Pincetl, and James Wescoat The Cooper Union (CUISD) 2.9.15 Opening of the 2015 Times Square Valentine: HeartBeat by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente of Stereotank Times Square (TSA) 2.10.15 Norden Fund 2015 Information Session Rosalie Genevro, Kerry O’Connor, and Julian Palacio The Architectural League 2.20.15 Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan Margaret Morton and Nasser Rabbat The Cooper Union (Cooper, SOACU) 3.5.15 Emerging Voices: Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, Aranda\Lasch; Manuel Cervantes Cespedes, MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES / CC ARQUITECTOS Introduced by Louise Harpman Scholastic Auditorium 3.6.15 First Friday: WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect Office of WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect

3.12.15 Emerging Voices: Brian Phillips, ISA; Roberto Rovira, Studio Roberto Rovira Introduced by Susannah Drake Scholastic Auditorium

5.1.15 First Friday: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners Office of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners

3.18.15 Urban Omnibus: OmniBeers 61 Local

5.2.15 Capital: A City Symphony with Cast in India A screening, followed by conversation with Maxim Pozdorovkin, Joe Bender, Natasha Raheja, and Bradley Samuels UnionDocs Organized by UnionDocs and co-hosted by Urban Omnibus

3.19.15 Emerging Voices: Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto, Atelier ARS°; Elizabeth Whittaker, Merge Architects Introduced by Mario Gooden Scholastic Auditorium 3.26.15 Emerging Voices: Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi, AMBROSI | ETCHEGARAY; Neri Oxman, Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab Introduced by Billie Tsien Scholastic Auditorium 4.7.15 Current Work: Peter Gluck, Marc Gee, Thomas Gluck, Charlie Kaplan, and Stacie Wong, GLUCK+ Moderated by Jared Della Valle The Cooper Union (Cooper) 4.10.15 First Friday: Deborah Berke Partners Office of Deborah Berke Partners 4.25.15 Latin American Incrementalism: From PREVI to the Present | a symposium exploring the contributions of Latin American progressive housing strategies and participatory design to architecture and urban development With Barry Bergdoll, Lucía Calcagno, Rosalie Genevro, Catalina Justiniano, Peter Land, Manuel Llanos, Fernando Luíz Lara, Alejandro de Castro Mazarro, Patricio del Real, and Felicity Scott The Museum of Modern Art (GSAPP, MoMA) 4.29.15 Current Work: Rick Joy, Rick Joy Architects Moderated by Billie Tsien Scholastic Auditorium (Cooper)

5.4.15 2015 President’s Medal Dinner: Henry N. Cobb With Michael Bierut and Rosalie Genevro; remarks by Merrill Elam, Guy Nordenson, Neil Rudenstine, and Mack Scogin; and presentation of the Medal by Billie Tsien Metropolitan Club 5.12.15 The Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture: Ursula von Rydingsvard Introduced by Billie Tsien The Cooper Union 5.17.15 Opening of Folly 2015: Torqueing Spheres by Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim of IK Studio Socrates Sculpture Park (Socrates) 5.20.15 Current Work: David Chipperfield, David Chipperfield Architects Introduced by Billie Tsien The Cooper Union (Cooper) 5.26.15 Roundtable on Modeling the Future The Architectural League 5.28.15, 5.29.15, 5.30.15 IDEAS CITY Festival: The Invisible City IDEAS CITY Festival was founded by the New Museum with executive committee members The Architectural League of New York, Bowery Poetry Club, The Cooper Union, The Drawing Center, and Storefront for Art and Architecture

David Chipperfield discussing his Berlin work at his 2015 Current Work lecture | Lauren Altman

6.5.15 First Friday: ABRUZZO BODZIAK, INABA, MESH, and Young Projects 68 Jay Street 6.17.15 Current Work: Shigeru Ban, Shigeru Ban Architects Introduced by Billie Tsien and Elizabeth O’Donnell The Cooper Union (Cooper) 6.23.15 The Architectural League Prize: Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio; Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa; Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office Introduced by Jenny Sabin and Carrie Norman Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SCJDC) 6.25.15 The Architectural League Prize: Erin Besler, Besler & Sons; Thom Moran; Clark Thenhaus, Endemic Introduced by Rhett Russo and Carrie Norman Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SCJDC) 6.29.15 134th Annual Meeting Remarks by Donald Albrecht, Rosalie Genevro, Wendy Evans Joseph, and Billie Tsien Election of officers and directors Tours The Museum of the City of New York Event partners and co-sponsors key Cooper: The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union CUF: Center for an Urban Future CUISD: The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design GSAPP: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Columbia University McNally: McNally Jackson Books MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art New Museum: New Museum Parsons: Parsons School of Design, The New School SCJDC: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design, The New School SOACU: School of Art of The Cooper Union Socrates: Socrates Sculpture Park TSA: Times Square Arts First Friday at LOT-EK | Lauren Altman

COMPETITIONS & HONORS July 2014-June 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers 2015: Authenticity Committee: Carrie Norman, John Rhett Russo, and Jenny Sabin Jury: Keller Easterling, Sanford Kwinter, Michael Meredith, Lyn Rice, and Billie Tsien Winners: Dan Adams and Marie Adams; Erin Besler; Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa; Thom Moran; Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood; and Clark Thenhaus Deborah J. Norden Fund 2015 Travel Grant Jury: Rosalie Genevro, Barry Magid, Linda Norden, and Anne Van Ingen Winner: Ylan Vo, “Ecologies of War and Recovery: A Case Study in Vietnam’s A Luoi Valley” Emerging Voices 2015 Jury: Cynthia Davidson, Susannah Drake, Mario Gooden, Louise Harpman, Paul Lewis, Toshiko Mori, Thomas Phifer, and Billie Tsien Winners: Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch; Manuel Cervantes Cespedes; Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi; Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto; Neri Oxman; Brian Phillips; Roberto Rovira; and Elizabeth Whittaker Folly 2015 Jury: David Benjamin, Leslie Gill, John Hatfield, Sheila Kennedy, and Alyson Schotz Winner: Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim, IK Studio, “Torqueing Spheres” In partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park President’s Medal 2015 Henry N. Cobb

Re-envisioning Branch Libraries RFQ Selection Committee: Seema Agnani, Rosalie Genevro, Sarah Goldhagen, Shannon Mattern, Henry Myerberg, Lyn Rice, Anne Rieselbach, and Cassim Shepard Selected teams: Andrew Berman Architect, Library Development Solutions, Neil Donnelly, AEA Consulting, and Auerbach Pollock Friedlander: Andrew Berman, Leslie Burger, Neil Donnelly, Adrian Ellis, Elizabeth Ellis, and Steven Friedlander; L+: Bradley Samuels, Jessica Blaustein, Glen Cummings, Jesse Keenan, Rachel Meltzer, Christian Zabriskie, and Lauren Comito; Marble Fairbanks with James Lima Planning + Development, Leah Meisterlin, and Special Project Office: Scott Marble, Karen Fairbanks, James Lima, Richard Tyson, and Leah Meisterlin; MASS Design Group: Michael Murphy, Michael Haggerty, James Martin, and Chitra Aiyar; and UNION: Annie Barrett, Adriel Mesznik, Ann Whiteside, Bryan Boyer, Ceren Bingol, Helen Han, Jane Lea, Landon Brown, Ryan Thacker, Sapna Advani, and Scott Geiger In partnership with the Center for an Urban Future 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart RFP Selection Committee: Barry Bergdoll, Yolande Daniels, Wendy Evans Joseph, Wendy Feuer, Jennifer Lantzas, Granger Moorhead, Sara Reisman, and Bradley Samuels, as well as additional jurors Sherry Dobbin, Rosalie Genevro, Ellen Goldstein, Anne Rieselbach, and Tim Tompkins Winners: Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente, Stereotank, “HeartBeat” Finalists: Alibi Studio, “Dark Heart;” Bittertang, “Heart Throb;” Chat Travieso, “Lovepost;” MODU, “Collective Heart;” SLO Architecture, “Love Is No Accident;” and Taylor and Miller, “Love Letter” In partnership with Times Square Arts

The exhibition Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: Authenticy on view at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design, The New School | Lauren Altman

PUBLICATIONS July 2014-June 2015

EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS July 2014-June 2015

SPONSORED PROJECTS July 2014-June 2015

30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance Foreward by Billie Tsien Introduction by Anne Rieselbach Essays by Ashley Schafer, Reed Kroloff, and Karen Stein Commentaries by Suzanne Stephens, Henry N. Cobb, Thomas de Monchaux, Paul Makovsky, Alexandra Lange, and Alan G. Brake Afterword by Rosalie Genevro Editor: Anne Rieselbach Associate Editor: Ian Veidenheimer Assistant Editors: Sophie Elias, Jessica Liss, Melissa Russell Consulting Editor: Abby Bussel Graphic Designers: Michael Bierut and Laitsz Ho, Pentagram Editor: Meredith Baber, Princeton Architectural Press Published by Princeton Architectural Press

5.11.14-8.3.14 Folly SuralArk Austin + Mergold, Jason Timberlake Austin and Aleksandr Mergold Socrates Sculpture Park In partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park

New York Architecture Diary architecturediary.org/NewYork Partners include: The Architectural League of New York; Center for Architecture / AIANY; Design Trust for Public Space; Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University; The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union; The Municipal Art Society of New York; The Museum of the City of New York; Open House New York; Parsons School of Constructed Environments; Storefront for Art and Architecture; and Van Alen Institute

Common Shares: Winners of the 3rd Annual Urban Omnibus Writing Competition Introduction by Cassim Shepard Essays by Frederica Hill, Keith Engel, and Yen Ha Illustrations by George Bates Published by The Architectural League and McNally Jackson Books

6.24.14-8.1.14 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers Overlay Featuring work by the 2014 winners of the League Prize Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design Exhibition co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design

30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance (published by Princeton Architectural Press) | Lauren Altman

2.9.15-3.8.15 HeartBeat, the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Stereotank, Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente Duffy Square Transformed to “HeartSeat” on 3.2.15 and subsequently reinstalled in DUMBO and in Fort Greene Park In partnership with Times Square Arts 5.17.15-8.30.15 Folly Torqueing Spheres IK Studio, Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim Socrates Sculpture Park In partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park

Folly 2014: SuralArk With contributions from Jason Austin, Aleksandr Mergold, Melissa Russell, Varick Shute, Gabriel Silberblatt, and Jonathan Tarleton Project direction by Elissa Goldstone and Anne Rieselbach Editor: Socrates Sculpture Park Published by Socrates Sculpture Park

6.23.15-8.1.15 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers Authenticity Featuring work by the 2015 winners of the League Prize Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design at The New School Exhibition co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design at The New School

Young Architects 16: Overlay Foreword by Preston Scott Cohen Introduction by Anne Rieselbach Published by Princeton Architectural Press Editor: Barbara Darko, Princeton Architectural Press

Young Architects 16: Overlay (published by Princeton Architectural Press) | Lauren Altman

New York State Council on the Arts Independent Projects Grants sponsorship Lydia Kallipoliti, “Closed Worlds” Arianne Kouri, “1959 Soviet Show in New York” Aleksandr Mergold, “Sural Atlas of Central New York” Christopher Rawlins, “Bachelor Pad: An Illustrated History” Phyllis Ross, “The Design Works of Bedford-Stuyvesant” Jin Young Song, “Z-E-A-F (Zero Energy Adaptive Façade)” Ife Vanable, “Working the Middle — A Revival” Marie Warsh, “Design Play and Preservation in Central Park” Individual Projects Josef Asteinza, Nicholas Quintana Documentary Marianne Stockebrand, Donald Judd – The Multicolored Works Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King, and Ryan Neiheiser, Another Pamphlet

The Architectural League produces a wealth of digital content that week by week, post by post, extends our reach to global audiences and deepens our inquiry into the voices, ideas, and issues we engage in pursuit of our mission. Our digital platforms allow us to offer new perspectives and understandings through original writing and videos, conversations and interviews, and documentation of live events. On ArchLeague.org, our In Conversation and On the Table series listened in on informal chats between leaders in the field, such as Current Work speaker Farshid Moussavi and Cooper Union’s Elizabeth O’Donnell debating the state of architectural education; and lively after-dinner conversations among this year’s Emerging Voices and journalists, curators, and former Emerging Voices. We followed Stereotank as they transformed plastic septic tanks into a glowing, pulsing, heart-shaped sound machine, and celebrated craftsmanship in a ten-part series on the exquisite details of the restoration of the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank, where the League held its Beaux Arts Ball. ArchLeague.org features also provided a chance to learn from Norden travel grant recipients about their research, including Angela Starita on Lina Bo Bardi in Brazil, and Julian Palacio on Eladio Dieste in Uruguay. And we added dozens of videos to our extensive archive of lecture documentation, including talks by Bernard Tschumi, Walter Hood, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. The League’s online publication, Urban Omnibus, continues to build and articulate a distinctive way of understanding the city, and citymaking, that embraces the range of disciplines, voices, work, and ideas required to build, shape, and run contemporary New York. Over the past year, Omnibus contributors traced the border between Brooklyn and Queens, explored the topography of the Bronx, unearthed the military history of northern Central Park, and learned how Times Square operates. We spoke with artists and archaeologists, historians and hydrologists, composers and community advocates, and unpacked the processes of participatory budgeting, ecosystem restoration, and the development of alternative energy infrastructures. Two columnists—Stephen Rustow and Susanne Schindler—joined the Omnibus roster to contribute quarterly dispatches on topics ranging from the privatization of views to affordable housing and preservation. Profiles in Public Service offered insight into the inner workings of city government through conversations with individuals striving to improve our city’s schools, libraries, bridges, health equity, and disaster response efforts. Urban Omnibus allows us not only to explore new corners of the city, but also to dive deeper into certain crucial topics—such as the architecture, history, policies, economics, and social experience of New York’s housing. This year, we published analyses of the new Sugar Hill residences in Harlem and the slated-fordemolition Lambert Houses in the Bronx; followed debates over homeowner buyouts in at-risk coastal communities on Staten Island and the privatization of a Mitchell-Lama co-op in Lower Manhattan; and examined NYCHA’s janitorial system and the implications of a Supreme Court ruling on enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. This past year also saw the departure of Urban Omnibus Founding Editor Cassim Shepard, who, in his six years at the helm, shaped the project with a deep knowledge of, enthusiasm for, and curiosity about how we tell the stories of cities that will fuel the project for years to come. The Re-envisioning Branch Libraries design study, carried out in collaboration with the Center for an Urban Future, created an opportunity to engage both of our digital platforms. Urban Omnibus contextualized the project with features on the history, architecture, and current conditions of branch libraries in New York and on innovative library practice and operations, while features on ArchLeague.org presented the projects created by the design study teams and responses from policymakers and community advocates. Varick Shute, Digital Editorial Director

ON ARCHLEAGUE.ORG July 2014-June 2015 7.7.14 Current Work | Richard Meier Lecture video 7.14.14 Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Introduction to the design teams 7.21.14 Emerging Voices 2014 | The Living and Ants of the Prairie Interviews and lecture videos 7.28.14 Women in American Architecture: 1977 and Today | Susana Torre, “Feminism and Architecture” Lecture video 8.18.14 Emerging Voices 2014 | Williamson Chong Architects and TALLER |Mauricio Rocha+GabrielaCarrillo| Interviews and lecture videos 8.25.14 Current Work | Sou Fujimoto Lecture video 9.2.14 The Five Thousand Pound Life | The Energy Issue Symposium videos 9.8.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | From Williamsburgh Savings Bank to Weylin B. Seymour’s Interview with Carlos Perez San Martin 9.10.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Conservation On the conservation of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Michael Smart 9.11.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Preservation On the preservation of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with David Scott Parker

9.12.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Gold On the gilding and decorative painting restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Sandra Spannan 9.15.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Paper On the wallpaper restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Stephen Bauer 9.16.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Wood On the wood restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Scott Holland 9.17.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Graphics On the graphic identity of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Federico Rozo 9.18.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Glass On the stained and leaded glass restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Ernest Porcelli 9.19.14 Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft | Tile On the marble mosaic restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank with Danilo Bonazza 9.22.14 Common Shares: Winners of the 2014 Urban Omnibus writing competition with Frederica Hill, Keith Engel, and Yen Ha 9.29.14 Emerging Voices 2014 | SITU Studio and Estudio Macías Peredo Interviews and lecture videos 10.6.14 Current Work | Winka Dubbeldam Lecture video 10.14.14 Architectural League Prize 2014 | The LADG and SIFT Studio Interviews and lecture videos 10.16.14 Architectural League Prize 2014 | Geoffrey von Oeyen Design and Young & Ayata Interviews and lecture videos

Sheila O’Donnell, Kenneth Frampton, and John Tuomey in conversation for a Current Work feature published on ArchLeague.org | Emily Schmidt

A collection of reports by recipients of the League’s Deborah J. Norden Fund on ArchLeague.org

Stereotanks’s HeartBeat, the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart, transformed to HeartSeat | Lauren Altman

10.20.14 Architectural League Prize 2014 | Norman Kelley and Jenny Sabin Studio Interviews and lecture videos 10.27.14 The Five Thousand Pound Life | Land: Nature and the City Symposium video 11.3.14 The Five Thousand Pound Life | Land: Spatial Logistics and Density Symposium videos 11.10.14 The Five Thousand Pound Life | Land: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit Symposium video The Five Thousand Pound Life | Four Questions With Vishaan Chakrabarti, Alex Klatskin, Albert Pope, Ted Steinberg, and Emily Talen 11.17.14 200 Years of American Architectural Drawing Reprinted introduction by David Gebhard and excerpts from Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier from the 1977 League publication 11.24.14 Michael Graves: Past as Prologue Symposium livestream video 12.1.14 Current Work | Farshid Moussavi and Elizabeth O’Donnell A conversation 12.4.14 Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Preview: The Design Approaches 12.15.15 NYSCA Architecture + Design Grants Project Reports “Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan,” by Margaret Morton “Temporary Landscape and The Urban Meadow,” by Julie Farris 1.5.15 Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Symposium video

1.12.15 Current Work | Farshid Moussavi Lecture video 1.13.15 Re-envisioning Branch Libraries Final proposals from the five design teams: Marble Fairbanks, L+, UNION, Andrew Berman Architect, and MASS Design Group 1.21.15 The Deborah J. Norden Fund Travel Reports “Lina Bo Bardi’s Return to Salvador: a Plan to Restore the City’s Historic Center,” by Angela Starita 2.2.15 The Productive Park | Waterworks: Landscape and Architecture Reprinted 1992 essay by Thomas Cirillo, Rosalie Genevro, and Anne Rieselbach 2.9.15 The Productive Park | Clean Water, Open Space, and a Distinctively American Urbanism Audio from a 1992 lecture by Ethan Carr The Productive Park | World-Class Engineering: Development of the New York City Water Supply Audio from a 1992 lecture by Sidney Horenstein 2.17.15 Michael Graves: Past as Prologue Symposium video 2.23.15 Making HeartBeat A video documenting the creation of the Times Square Valentine Heart by Ryland McIntyre 3.2.15 Current Work | Marlon Blackwell Lecture video Current Work | Bernard Tschumi Lecture video 3.9.15 Current Work | Sheila O’Donnell + John Tuomey Lecture video 3.11.15 Current Work | Walter Hood Lecture video

3.23.15 Current Work | Marlon Blackwell and Rick Joy A conversation

5.18.15 Folly 2015 Overview of “Torqueing Spheres” and notable entries from the competition

Current Work | A Walk Through the University of Arkansas School of Architecture With Marlon Blackwell and Thomas Phifer 3.30.15 The Five Thousand Pound Life | Water Symposium video

5.26.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | On the Table Dinner discussion with Beth Whittaker, Andrea Soto & Alejandro Guerrero, and guests 6.4.15 Current Work | Peter Gluck, Marc Gee, Thomas Gluck, Charlie Kaplan, and Stacie Wong Lecture video 6.5.15 Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture | Ursula von Rydingsvard Lecture video 6.15.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | On the Table Dinner discussion with Neri Oxman, Gabriela Etchegaray & Jorge Ambrosi, and guests

4/6/15 Current Work | Sheila O’Donnell + John Tuomey with Kenneth Frampton A conversation 4.20.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, Aranda\Lasch; Manuel Cervantes Cespedes, MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES / CC ARQUITECTOS Lecture videos 4.27.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | On the Table Dinner discussion with Manuel Cervantes Cespedes, Ben Aranda & Chris Lasch, and guests 4.30.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | Brian Phillips, ISA; Roberto Rovira, Studio Roberto Rovira Lecture videos 5.7.15 2015 President’s Medal | Henry N. Cobb Photographs and citation from the 2015 President’s Medal Dinner; remarks by Neil Rudenstine, Merrill Elam, Mack Scogin, and Guy Nordenson; and an audio excerpt from Cobb’s 1986 Current Work lecture on “The Office Tower” 5.11.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | On the Table Dinner discussion with Roberto Rovira, Brian Phillips, and guests 5.14.15 Emerging Voices 2015 | Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi, AMBROSI | ETCHEGARAY; Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto, Atelier ARS°; Elizabeth Whittaker, Merge Architects Lecture videos

6.29.15 Current Work | David Chipperfield Lecture video

ON URBAN OMNIBUS urbanomnibus.net July 2014-June 2015

8.22.14 Forum | An Exhibit as Vast as the World by Jonathan Tarleton

7.2.14 Forum | REVS’ Underground Autobiography by Hannah Frishberg

8.25.14 Forum | Hunts Point | Memories of the Future by Melanie Crean 8.27.14 Under Annihilation’s Sign: Public Memory and Prospect Park’s Battle Pass by Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova 9.3.14 Architecture vs. Housing: The Case of Sugar Hill by Susanne Schindler 9.10.14 A Shared Life, from the 3rd Annual Urban Omnibus Writing Competition by Yen Ha 9.17.14 Debating Privatization: Southbridge Towers Votes by Charles Chawalko 9.24.14 Black Radical Weeksville by Jonathan Tarleton

7.9.14 Rings of Refuge: The Boxing Gym in a Shrinking City by Lucia Trimbur Forum | Fighting for Tenant Rights on the Lower East Side by Joshua Leon Forum | Wasted: The Future of New York’s Garbage by Alexander McQuilkin 7.10.14 Forum | Exploring and Collaborating on Shared-Use Mobility Services by Manasvi Menon 7.16.14 Precedents for Experimentation: Talking Libraries with Shannon Mattern and Nate Hill 7.23.14 A Commons of Unwanted Things, from the 3rd Annual Urban Omnibus Writing Competition by Frederica Hill 7.30.14 A Transit Agency for the Future by David Bragdon 8.19.14 Forum | Constantine Valhouli’s Amateur Cartography by Jonathan Tarleton Forum | Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile by Julian Palacio 8.20.14 311 Complainer, from the 3rd Annual Urban Omnibus Writing Competition by Keith Engel

Anderson Avenue at Shakespeare Avenue from the Urban Omnibus feature “Bronx Contours: A Photo Essay” | Kris Graves

9.29.14 Forum | SeaChange Down the Hudson by Oksana Mironova 9.30.14 Forum | Times Square Postmodern by Joshua Leon 10.1.14 Carnegie’s Gift: The Progressive Era Roots of Today’s Branch Library by Yael Friedman Forum | The Floating Library by Emily Schmidt 10.3.14 Subway Maps for Cities without Subways by Cassim Shepard 10.8.14 Schools of Architecture with Bruce Barrett

10.15.14 Living Los Sures, Past and Present with Christopher Allen, Aris Dilone, and Ramon Peguero

12.17.14 A More Resilient Neighborhood, Just Beyond the Grid by Aaron Reiss

10.17.14 Forum | Mandala Roundabout: Walking Columbus Circle with Karen Finley by Max Lauter

Forum | Housing Beyond the Market: Transatlantic Precedents by Susanne Schindler

10.22.14 Actionable Cartographies with Matt Knutzen 10.29.14 The Storm That Will Be: Protecting Public Housing in the New 100-Year Floodplain by Elizabeth Rush Forum | The Rise and Fall of Manhattan’s Density by Alexander McQuilkin 11.5.14 Bed-Stuy In Memoriam by Kristian Sanford Forum | You Are Now Entering An Active Urban Renewal Area by Jonathan Tarleton 11.12.14 Planning the Unplanned with Daniel Campo and Dylan Gauthier 11.19.14 Innovation and Neglect: Sea Rise and Sea Park East by Maura Ewing Forum | Reading Room: A Catalog of New York City’s Branch Libraries by Elizabeth Felicella 12.3.14 The Privatization of Prospect by Stephen Rustow 12.10.14 The Anatomy of Emergency with James McConnell Forum | Visible, Legible, Navigable: Graphic Design Meets Disaster Relief by Laetitia Wolff

1.7.15 Forum | On the First Six Years of Urban Omnibus: A Founding Editor’s Farewell by Cassim Shepard 1.14.15 Borderlands: Traveling the Brooklyn-Queens Divide by Joseph Heathcott 1.21.15 Mitigate, Design, Restore: A Conversation on Hydrology and Habitat with Eric Rothstein 1.28.15 Experimental Research Studio: Jamaica Bay by Catherine Seavitt 2.4.15 Unearthed: Alyssa Loorya on Urban Archaeology with Alyssa Loorya 2.11.15 Leaving the Sea: Staten Islanders Experiment with Managed Retreat by Elizabeth Rush Forum | Waterworks: Architecture and Landscape by Urban Omnibus 2.18.15 Where Chaos is Normal: How Times Square Operates with Damian Santucci Forum | Mobilizing Power: Street Vendors and Urban Resilience by Jonathan Lapalme 2.25.15 Preoccupied with Place, Musician Gabriel Kahane Plays the City with Gabriel Kahane

3.4.15 Melding Public and Private: The Partnerships Behind Your Neighborhood Plaza with Laura Hansen and Darma Diaz Forum | MoMA’s Uneven Growth Lives Up to Its Name by Jonathan Tarleton 3.11.15 The Tragic Poetry of Building Codes by Stephen Rustow 3.25.15 Beauty Within Darkness: Khalik Allah Captures 125th and Lex with Khalik Allah 4.1.15 The Bronx’s Lambert Houses and the Two Sides of Preservation by Susanne Schindler 4.8.15 The Right to Budget by John Surico 4.15.15 Nowhere but the Bronx: A Trail Marks Cultural History with Elaine Delgado and Christine Licata Forum | From the Ground Up: A Review of Mapping Brooklyn by Ian Veidenheimer 4.22.15 Maintaining NYCHA: Debunking the Myth of Unmanageable High-Rise Public Housing by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 4.29.15 Putting Health in All Policies with Marlon Williams Forum | Cast in India & Capital: A City Symphony at UnionDocs by Urban Omnibus 5.6.15 Schooled by the Community: Connecting Flushing Meadows Corona Park by Sam Holleran and José Serrano-McClain, with Esther Sánchez and Jason Chin-Fatt

Forum | Using Open Data to Strengthen Tenants’ Rights Activism by Chris Henrick 5.13.15 Exploring Northern Central Park: A History Told Through Rocks and Hills by Marie Warsh 5.20.15 Spanning Water, Rail, and Road: New York’s Iconic and Inconspicuous Bridges with Henry Perahia 5.27.15 Tune In: Soundscapes of New York by Anne Guthrie 6.3.15 Bronx Contours: A Photo Essay by Kris Graves 6.8.15 Forum | Staying Power: Organizing for Affordable Housing in New York City, Past and Present by Nick Juravich 6.10.15 “The scythe of progress must move northward”: Urban Renewal on the Upper West Side by Oksana Mironova 6.17.15 Old Maps, New Tricks: Digital Archaeology in the 19th-Century City by Leah Meisterlin and Gergely Baics 6.19.15 Forum | Past Preserving by Stephen Rustow Forum | There Goes The Neighborhood: The Supreme Court’s Threat to Fair Housing by Emily Schmidt 6.24.15 Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics by Shannon Mattern 6.29.15 Forum | Freshkills: Capturing Change by Mariel Villere

Southbridge Towers from the Urban Omnibus feature “Debating Privatization: Southbridge Towers Votes” | Jonathan Tarleton

Studio IK’s Torqueing Spheres at Socrates Sculpture Park, the 2015 Folly | Kordae Jatafa Henry

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Henry N. Cobb receiving the 2015 President’s Medal from Billie Tsien | Fran Parente

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2014 Beaux Arts Ball: Craft at Weylin B. Seymour’s, projection by 2 x 4 | Mercedes Noriega

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014-2015 President Billie Tsien Vice Presidents Annabelle Selldorf Leo Villareal Tucker Viemeister Kate Orff Maxine Griffith Michael Bierut Jorge Otero-Pailos Secretary Karen Stein Treasurer Nat Oppenheimer Directors Amale Andraos Stella Betts Vishaan Chakrabarti Walter Chatham Arthur Cohen Fiona Cousins Leslie Gill Frances Halsband Hugh Hardy Steven Holl Wendy Evans Joseph Rachel Judlowe Paul Lewis Frank Lupo Thom Mayne Joseph Mizzi Peter Mullan Gregg Pasquarelli Thomas Phifer Lyn Rice Mark Robbins Susan Rodriguez Eric Sanderson Ken Smith Michael Sorkin Calvin Tsao Claire Weisz

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