This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York.

Founded by Winka Dubbeldam in 1994, Archi-Tectonics pursues elegance and innovation in the exploration of both form and sustainability in projects such as the folded glass structure of the 497 GW Project in New York. The firm's international practice spans project types from residential design and commercial interiors to large-scale mixed-use towers-all exemplifying Dubbeldam's abiding concern with "three fields of investigation: armature, surface, and interface."

Recently completed projects include the Brewster Carriage House and the Vestry Building, both in Manhattan; the American Loft Tower, Philadelphia; a redesign of the ground floor of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; and residences in New York and Germany. In design or under construction are an orphanage and school in Liberia; the Xian Media Center in China; and the GHM hotel and condominiums in Philadelphia. Archi-Tectonics was recently awarded the commission for the Yulin Culture and Art Center, a multi-purpose cultural development in China, and is directing a collaborative crowd-sourced urban design for downtown Bogota.

This symposium will showcase design professionals, academics and not-for-profit strategists in a panel discussion over our community's response and strategies for resiliency stemming from Superstorm Sandy. Each presenter will discuss their organization's response for the first six months after the storm, then discuss their organization's strategy for resiliency as it relates to the constituencies that they serve.

Participants include: Illya Azaroff, AIA; Kevin Bone, FAIA; Timothy Boyland, AIA; Lance Jay Brown, FAIA; Susan Chin, FAIA; Robert N. Lane; Rachel Minnery, AIA, LEED AP; Thaddeus Pawlowski; and Mary Rowe

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Organized by Architecture for Humanity, the AIA New York Chapter Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. A program of Archtober. 

Giuseppe Terragni: The Palazzo del Littorio Project


Michael Bell is an architect practicing in New York. He is professor of architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where he is the founding chair of the Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials and the Director of the Master of Architecture program Core Design Studios. Bell's architectural design has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and his work is also included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His Gefter-Press House is featured in Kenneth Frampton's American Masterwork Houses of the 20th and 21st Century.

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