Center for Architecture (AIANY)

01/03/2025

📰 Media alert! 📥 🔔 Thanks to Interior Design Magazine for interviewing our own Peter Zuspan, AIA, a Co-chair of the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee and Principal of Bureau V Architecture! Learn about BVA’s early projects (including for Brooklyn’s National Sawdust), how Zuspan focused on the local community for the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, and what work he hopes to tackle in the coming years in the magazine's "10 Questions With..." column:

Founding principal Peter Zuspan reflects on Bureau V’s early projects and his dedication to supporting and engaging with the local artistic community.

12/05/2024

📺 Get ready for America ByDesign Architecture Season 2, featuring our very own Jesse Lazar, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director of AIA New York and the Center for Architecture! Lazar will provide viewers with an inside look at past AIANY Design Awards-winning projects and jaw-dropping architecture by AIA members.

America ByDesign: Architecture Season 2 is a magazine-style half hour television program exclusively showcasing some of the best of American architecture from AIA members, from awe-inspiring architectural homes on the water to buildings centered around sustainability and collaboration.

Watch our trailer and see full episodes online: https://bit.ly/41mEhsq

12/02/2024

⏰ Feeling a little behind on CEU credits at the end of the year? We've cooked up a special holiday treat for architects: Procrastinators' Days are here! ⌛ Plan your schedule and register now: https://bit.ly/3AUlZ6Y

AIANY's annual Procrastinators' Days (happening all day long Dec 5–6) is an important continuing education extravaganza for architects in New York. All registration closes December 4 at 9:00 am!

AIA Members (per 1-hour session): $12 with discount code
General Public (per 1-hour session): $36

11/27/2024

❓ ✍️ 💻 We want to know what you think about Oculus magazine, AIA New York's beloved membership publication since 1938! Today a quarterly magazine distributed to AIA members and subscribers statewide, the publication takes it name after the circular opening at the top of a dome, symbolizing “the function of this leaflet in shedding light on the activities of the Chapter.”

Take our five-minute survey for your chance to win two tickets to a signature ⚓ AIANY Around Manhattan Architecture Boat Tour 🛥️ with Classic Harbor Line ($232 value) >> https://bit.ly/49cJwg7

Tell us how you’re engaging with our content, what keeps you 📚 reading, and how we can better serve you in the future! Nearly all questions are optional, and we would be excited to hear from you in any capacity about your thoughts on this historic publication and how to carry its ethos into the future. 👩‍💻

11/26/2024

🏆 The 2025 AIANY Design Awards 🏆 are open for entry through Dec. 3! 📆 The program recognizes outstanding architectural design in New York and around the world. Start your entry: https://bit.ly/2QGufvz

11/07/2024

You're invited to join us Mon, Nov. 11 for 🌇 Tracing the Future: Affordable Housing in NYC 🌇, an Archtober discussion moderated by Metropolis Magazine editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal. Register now: https://bit.ly/4egl3Yo

New York City is currently facing overlapping crises as never before, with affordable housing being out of reach for many New Yorkers. We'll hear from Bernheimer Architecture and Magnusson Architecture and Planning, PC on efforts to increase affordable housing supply by allowing alternative solutions (office-to-residential conversions and accessory dwelling units, for example).

Speakers:
Fernando Villa, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Magnusson Magnusson Architects and Planning
Will Sheridan, AIA, Partner, Bernheimer Architecture

Image: NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence award winner Carmen Villegas Apartments by Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP). Image: Level 5 Visuals/MAP.

10/30/2024

We are incredibly proud and excited to share that last week at our Common Bond Gala—and thanks to the support of almost 1,000 attendees—we we raised nearly $1.2 million! These funds are critical in supporting the mission of the Center for Architecture and directly fund our scholarship programs for high school and college students pursuing a lifelong career in architecture. Together, our community came together to honor design excellence, advocacy, and preservation. The event honored:

🏆 Bernhard Tschumi, FAIA, FRIBA, SIA/FAS, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
🏆 Gotham Organization, accepted by David L. Picket, CEO
🏆 New York League of Conservation Voters, accepted by Julie Tighe, President
🏆 Michael Henry Adams

And recognizing our 2024 Scholarship Recipients:
🎓 Liberty Alexandria Chapman, MA, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
🎓 Catherine Moreno, BA, Pratt Institute
🎓 Chana Rhodes, BA, New York Institute of Technology��

Thank you to our sponsors, attendees, leadership, and staff for executing an evening our community will remember for years to come! We encourage you to make a donation to support the Center for Architecture and its scholarships: https://bit.ly/4hje7MV

09/05/2024

Don’t miss Azure Magazine’s multidisciplinary conference featuring a diverse series of keynotes, panels and workshops on climate change mitigation in architecture & design! See the full program and get your tickets now at conference.azuremagazine.com! Use promo code ARCH2024 to get a $100 discount.

Joining from out of town? Book your hotel room at extra special rates at Le Germain Mercer. Simply visit: https://bit.ly/AZURExLEGERMAIN.

08/22/2024

Interior Design Magazine and writer Athena Waligore asked the curators of our 'Constructing Hope: Ukraine' exhibition—Ashley Bigham, Betty Roytburd, and Sasha Topolnytska—to discuss the show's themes and components, as well as its message to the world.

Read the interview in "10 Questions With...": https://bit.ly/4dwSExo

Curators Ashley Bigham, Betty Roytburd and Sasha Topolnytska discuss the important message that the "Constructing Hope: Ukraine" hopes to impart on visitors.

07/01/2024

LAST CHANCE to participate in our five-minute survey! We're developing our next Strategic Plan, and we need your input! Help us advance the value and practice of architecture: https://bit.ly/3VaBSwh

All responses are anonymous! With your help, we will continue to advance the value and practice of architecture to promote just and sustainable communities.

06/25/2024

Read the Regional Plan Association's latest report on how policy-makers and housing advocates can conceive of missing middle density housing through zoning reforms, such as those proposed by the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity:

The new report, the second in a series, shows how the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity zoning reforms can help solve the region’s housing crisis.

06/21/2024

Dezeen Jobs has teamed up with Lebond Watches to offer jobseekers the chance to win one of six Swiss-made watches designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza.

06/20/2024

Thank you to The New York Times for this insightful review of our latest exhibition, Constructing Hope: Ukraine! Check out the article here: nyti.ms/3KYdiK9

"...Together, the artists and refugees produced small, tender, fragile models of these bygone houses, which fill the central gallery of the Center for Architecture now — one of so many new Ukrainian artistic endeavors that have reimagined culture as a practice of archiving against oblivion."

Don't forget to stop by, on view until September 3.

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.

06/14/2024

We recommend some weekend reading in the form of "The Diasporic Imagination of Nishan Kazazian" by Hrag Vartanian for Hyperallergic.

Lebanese-Armenian-American Nishan Kazazian, AIA, "... is interested in layering and complexity, creating objects that shy away from focal points, preferring to linger on the ways forms and planes fit together, even if awkwardly, an apt metaphor for displacement and finding home," writes Vartanian. Keep reading: https://bit.ly/45rIV8y

06/12/2024

06/12/2024

Architizer announces Winners in the 12th Annual A+Awards! Over 200 winning firms from 80+ countries represent a hopeful future for the profession, with emphasis on sustainable design, adaptive reuse, and emerging technology. Peruse this year's inspiring winners online and in print via Architizer.com.