You are here:
Home
News
2011
05
Center for Architecture in New York and Amsterdam’s ARCAM collaborate
Center for Architecture in New York and Amsterdam’s ARCAM collaborate
Architects, landscape architects and designers from both countries will share ideas
NEW YORK, New York, May 20, 2011 – The Center for Architecture and ARCAM are thrilled to announce the exhibition programs for Glimpses of New York and Amsterdam in 2040. The exhibition challenges ten architecture, landscape architecture and design firms to imagine an urban future that includes new waterside cityscapes, neighborhoods, and transit systems.
The exhibition will open in New York at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, on June 8, and remain on view until September 10. The show will also be installed in Amsterdam, on view at the Amsterdam Center for Architecture (ARCAM) June 17 until July 30.
Press are invited to the press preview, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10am-12pm at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place. RSVP to enemens@aiany.org. Members of the participating teams will be available at the preview, and by appointment, for interviews. Images available upon request; embargo on publication until June 8.
Follow the exhibition on Twitter at #glimpses
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
All programs are at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012. Programs, unless otherwise noted are $10 to the public; free to AIA members and students with valid ID.
Crossing Sustainability and Mobility, Lecture by Ton Venhoeven | |
|---|---|
Date: | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
Time: | 6-8pm |
Speaker: | Ton Venhoeven, founder/architect of VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism and the Chief Government Advisor on Infrastructure |
Organized by: | ARCAM in collaboration with Center for Architecture |
Description: | Ton Venhoeven will address the future of sustainable infrastructure and how mobility can contribute to a vibrant dynamic and sustainable urban development. Venhoeven CS, established by Ton Venhoeven in Amsterdam in 1998, is an innovative office for sustainable architecture, urban planning and infrastructure. In his position of Government Advisor Venhoeven advises the Dutch government on spatial quality in complex infrastructural projects and sustainable urban developments. |
Real Sustainability: New Buildings by SeARCH, Lecture by Bjarne Mastenbroek | |
|---|---|
Date: | Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
Time: | 12-1:30pm |
Speaker: | Bjarne Mastenbroek, Director and Founder of SeARCH |
Organized by: | ARCAM in collaboration with the Center for Architecture and Urban Progress |
Description: | Bjarne Mastenbroek, Director and Founder of SeARCH, will present recently completed projects by his Amsterdam firm, illustrating the office's design philosophy to closely align architecture with the urban and rural landscape. Bjarne Mastenbroek and Dick van Gameren won the prestigious Aga Khan Award in 2007 for their design of the Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also the winner of the Amsterdam Architecture Award, 2011. Current projects include a synagogue in Amsterdam, a conference center in Kopenhagen and a museum in Enschede. Bjarne chaired the Dutch Association of Architects in 2010-2011. |
Opening Reception | |
|---|---|
Date: | Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
Time: | 6-8pm |
Organized by: | Center for Architecture and ARCAM in collaboration with Urban Progress |
Description: | Celebratory opening reception. Free |
Glimpses of Practice: New York/Amsterdam | |
|---|---|
Date: | Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
Time: | 6-8pm |
| Speakers: | Matthew Bremer, AIA, Principal, Architecture in Formation PC, AIANY New Practices co-chair (New York) |
Organized by: | ARCAM in collaboration with the Center for Architecture and Urban Progress |
Description: | A panel of Dutch and New York architects will compare architectural practice in New York and Amsterdam and exchange ideas on the future of the practice. Members of the Royal Dutch Architecture League and American Institute of Architects will consider the future role of the architect and how practice is changing as a result of the global economic downturn and changing society. How will architecture practice develop as public commissions are losing power and private initiative is becoming more and more important? Is the role of the architect shifting towards process management? Will the architect of tomorrow be a generalist or a specialist? |
Rising Water and the City: Interdisciplinary Design Challenge? | |
|---|---|
Location | Center for Architecture |
Date: | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
Time: | 12-3pm |
| Speakers: | Mojdeh (Moji) Baratloo, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Urban Design Program, Columbia University |
Organized by: | Center for Architecture, ARCAM, the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, the AIA New York Chapter Design for Risk Committee and Urban Progress |
Description: | City and water are intensely connected everywhere in the world. Engineers, architects, planners and landscape architects will have to work together in order to create new cities on the water as well as new forms of water in the city. What new opportunities will the rising waters offer? Designers, architects and planners have to work together to identify new challenges and opportunities. Students and professors will address these questions of the new design challenge, as well as how design education and architecture schools can respond to and address these new challenges. This debate marks the opening of Swimming to Manhattan, an exhibition of Amsterdam Academy of Architecture student proposals for the Upper Bay of Manhattan, on view in the Center for Architecture June 8 – July 9, 2011. |
New York / Amsterdam 2040: Breathing, Eating, Making, Moving, Dwelling | |
|---|---|
| Location | Center for Architecture, |
Date: | Saturday, June 11, 2011 |
Time: | 11am-5pm |
| Speakers | New York designers: dlandstudio (Susanna Drake, invited), Interboro Partners (Georgeen Theodore, Daniel D’Oca and Tobias Armborst), Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) (Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg), W Architecture & Landscape Architecture (Barbara Wilks, invited) and WORKac (Sam Dufaux). Dutch designers: Barcode Architects (Caro van der Venne, invited), Delva Landscape Architects (Steven Delva, invited) / Dingeman Deijs Architect, Fabrications, Space & Matter (Sascha Glasl, Tjeerd Haccou, Marthijn Pool) and van Bergen Kolpa (Jago van Bergen, invited) |
Organized by: | Center for Architecture and ARCAM in collaboration with Urban Progress |
Description: | Exhibiting New York and Amsterdam architects and landscape architects will present their work, offering glimpses into the future of New York and Amsterdam by themes of five basic human activities: breathing, eating, making, moving and dwelling. These glimpses are starting points to project the future of the future – visions that will provoke dialogue regarding the potential of planning strategies. Respondents from the fields of government, academic and professional practice will reflect on these projected glimpses into 2040. A wrap-up panel among the theme respondents will address how the glimpses of the future impact the discussion of sustainable cities today, as well as lessons learned across the various approaches. |
Archiprix International - The Capital of Your World | |
|---|---|
| Location | Center for Architecture, |
Date: | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
Time: | 4:30-8pm |
| Speakers | Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, AIA, President, AIA New York and Helpern Architects |
Organized by: | Center for Architecture, ARCAM, Archiprix International and Urban Progress |
Description: | Every two years, Archiprix International highlights the best graduation projects in the world. University programs from around the globe are invited to select their best graduation plan in the domains of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture and submit it to Archiprix. The 2011 edition of Archiprix International carries 154 graduation projects from all continents. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the New York Guggenheim on June 9th 2011. In the week before, around 100 of the world’s selected best recent graduates will participate in the Archiprix design workshop, “The Capital of Your World” at MIT. In the workshop, twelve teams will rethink Manhattan through architectural and urbanist design. After an intense week of workshops, the teams will bring their designs to New York City to present and discuss them with prominent New Yorkers, including key government officials, architects and developers. |
GLIMPSES Symposium ‘Planning the Future of New York & Amsterdam’ | |
|---|---|
| Location | ARCAM, Prins Hendrikkade 600, Amsterdam |
Date: | Thursday, July 7 |
| Speakers | New York and Dutch designers |
Organized by: | ARCAM in collaboration with the Center for Architecture and Urban Progress |
EXHIBITION STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPATING TEAMS
The exhibition is divided into five “glimpses,” based on necessities of 21st century urban life. The roles of recreation (a section dubbed “Breathing”), food production (“Eating”), economic production (“Making”), transportation (“Moving”), and living spaces (“Dwelling”) are explored in the context of both cities. Within New York, firms focus their attention on recreation on the Hudson River (W Architecture), expanding the food network of Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn (workAC), commerce and development at the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn (Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL)), transportation in Long Island City (dlandstudio) and the residential development of Newark, NJ (Interboro Partners). In Amsterdam, designers focus on the development of the northern and southern IJ-waterfronts (Delva Landscape Architects / Dingeman Deijs Architect), examples of local food production in Amsterdam (van Bergen Kolpa), the Public Library as a centre for knowledge developing into a ‘public domain work space’ (Barcode Architects), South Axis Business District as a mobility hub with the first electric cars (Fabrications), and the Andreas ensemble as a high density housing estate within the city (Space & Matter).
This exhibition is the most recent in a long history of collaboration between Dutch and US partners in addressing urban water issues, and how we “live with water.” With a quarter of its landmass under sea level, the Netherlands has developed an internationally renowned strategy for water management, which they have shared with US communities from the Bay Area to the Louisiana Bayou.
Curatorial team: Marlies Buurman, ARCAM; Rosamond Fletcher, Center for Architecture; Maarten Kloos, ARCAM; Luc Vrolijks, Urban Progress
ADVISORY COMMITTEES
New York Advisory Committee:
Chris Beardsley, Executive Director, Forum for Urban Design
Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, AIA New York Chapter
David Bragdon, Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability
Hillary Brown, FAIA, Professor of Architecture, CUNY and Principal, New Civic Works
Mary Burke, AIA, IIDA, Vice President for Design Excellence, AIA New York Chapter
Margaret Castillo, AIA, LEED AP, President, AIA New York Chapter
Ferdinand Dorsman, General Director for Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Bonnie Harken, AIA, Co-chair, Waterfront Committee, APA New York Metro Chapter
Roland Lewis, President and CEO, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Margaret Newman, AIA, Chief of Staff, NYC Department of Transportation
Howard Slatkin, Director of Sustainability, NYC Department of City Planning
Amsterdam Advisory Committee:
Wienke Bodewes, Chief Executive Officer, Amvest
Jaap Huisman, Researcher and journalist, Writing in de Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland, SMAAK, and de Groene Amsterdammer
Bjarne Mastenbroek, Chairman, Royal Dutch Architecture League (BNA)
Tracy Metz, Journalist for NRC Handelsblad
Paul de Ruiter, Founder, Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter
Machiel Spaan, Head of the Department of Architecture, Academy of Architecture Amsterdam
Marcia Sookha, Independent consultant and Former Chairman of the Amsterdam Greenbuilding Taskforce
EXHIBITION STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPATING TEAMS
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
In New York:
June 8 – September 10, 2011
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York City
In Amsterdam:
June 17 – July 30 2011
ARCAM, Prins Hendrikkade 600, 1011 VX Amsterdam
Glimpses of New York and Amsterdam in 2040 is designed by Q Collective
Exhibition and related programs organized by ARCAM and the Center for Architecture in collaboration with Urban Progress
EXHIBITION SPONSORS
Glimpses is made possible with the support of the following sponsors:
Underwriters:
Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Netherlands Architectural Fund
Sponsors:
Priva
Proper Stok
The Center for Architecture is a destination for all interested in the built environment. It is home to the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation, vibrant nonprofit organizations that provide resources to both the public and building industry professionals. Through exhibitions, programs, and special events, the Center aims to improve the quality and sustainability of the built environment, foster exchange between the design, construction, and real estate communities, and encourage collaborations across the city and globe. As the city’s leading cultural institution focusing on architecture, the Center drives positive change through the power of design. For more information, please visit www.aiany.org.
ARCAM - Amsterdam Centre for Architecture was set up as a foundation in 1986 and concentrates its activities in Amsterdam and the surrounding area. ARCAM aims to reach the largest possible public in order to broaden architecture's appeal, while focusing on topical issues and developments in Amsterdam, so that the discussion about the future is constantly fuelled. ARCAM also serves as a coordination center and works with a large number of institutes to support and coordinate existing program and to initiate new activities. Operating out of an iconic René van Zuuk-designed building on Amsterdam’s waterfront, the Centre serves as an information point, exhibition center, and host to programs about architecture in Amsterdam and around the globe.
The Royal Netherlands Embassy / Consulate General in New York
For more than 400 years, the Netherlands and the United States have been joined by the values of freedom, justice and an entrepreneurial spirit. A vibrant economic force, the Netherlands is also the third largest investor in America and a reliable trade and investment partner to the U.S. The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Dutch Consulates General and Honorary Consuls in the U.S. promote strong bilateral relations between the United States and the Netherlands in the areas of peace and stability; international law; energy and climate; water management; international human rights; culture and creative industries. The Netherlands and the United States: Two countries, one spirit united by values, history and a vision of the future. More information: www.the-netherlands.org and Orange Alert
The Netherlands Architecture Fund implements various contribution program aimed at developing and exchange knowledge concerning the design disciplines and increasing interest in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. Each year the Fund supports a large number of national and international unique and innovative projects. A total of 213 projects were supported in 2009 for a total sum of over 5.4 million euro.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press contact: Emily Nemens
212-358-6126 enemens@aiany.org