GSD News Archive: May 2007
GSD Faculty and Student Sustainable Design Projects Featured
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Harvard Design Magazine sponsors Symposium at and about the InterActiveCorp headquarters (IAC) in New York City with Frank Gehry, IAC Architect; Mack Scogin, Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD; principal, Mack Scogin Meriill Elam Architects, Mack Scogin, and William Saunders, editor, Harvard Design Magazine
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New York University Selects Toshiko Mori Architect for Team to Devise Long-range Growth Plan
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Gold Medal: Edward Larrabee Barnes (MArch ’42)
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A winning vision for the Lower Don
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American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art honors GSD Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture P. Scott Cohen
photo: P. Scott Cohen, Visionary Award winner, Mordechai Omer, Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jeff Koons, Artist of the Year
In 2003 P. Scott Cohen won the international competition to design the new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which broke ground on May 15th and is slated for completion in 2009. Cohen’s design for the 195,000 sq. ft. Herta and Paul Amir Building received the Progressive Architecture Award and the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. According to the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Mordechai Omer, “Scott Cohen’s plan became the clear choice both in terms of architectural achievement and as a physical extension of the Museum’s philosophy. His sensitivity to our mission has resulted in a work of architecture that succeeds on numerous levels, masterfully balancing the curatorial standards we uphold with the growing programmatic needs of the community we serve.”
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GSD Professors Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Design Silver Spring (MD) Downtown CenterpieceFor Silver Spring's Downtown Centerpiece, Less Is More
By Roger Kay Lewis [Washington Post, May 12, 2007]
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Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of Eighth Annual National Design Awards
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Harvard Design Magazine awarded honor by AIA
[Harvard University Gazette, May 10, 2007]
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Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, (BArch ’65, MAUD '66) Awarded AIA Topaz MedallionRecipient known as distinguished educator, author and citizen architect
Professor and planner Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, was awarded the AIA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education at this year’s annual AIA conference held May 4-6 in San Antonio, Texas. The AIA presented the award jointly with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to architecture education for at least ten years, who teaching has influenced a broad range of students, and who has helped shape the minds of those who will shape our environment. A native New Yorker, Brown was educated at Cooper Union and Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris. His 38-year career is particularly notable for his intellectual leadership in academia, from Princeton University’s School of Architecture through his long tenure as a professor at the City College of New York’s School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, where he served as associate dean, chair and director for ten years. He currently serves as a special advisory working with a student team at the “1997 Mosta 2004 Urban Reconstruction Workshop,” in Bosnia, Hercegovina, and co-directing (with Robert Geddes, FAIA) “Crosstown 116: Bringing Habitat II Home from Istanbul to Harlem.” He has written numerous books and is distinguished in the realms of public discourse, seeking solutions to society’s needs through architecture, planning, and urban design.
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Marvin Malecha, FAIA, (MArch ’74) elected 2009 AIA PresidentGSD alumnus Marvin Malecha was elected 2009 AIA President at the recent National AIA Conference held May 3-5 in San Antonio, Texas. Malecha is Dean of the North Carolina State University College of Design.
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Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas honored as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
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Planning Magazine reviews Urban Planning Today, Harvard Design Magazine Reader, volume 3; “Star-studded set of contributors”
Urban Planning Today A Harvard Design Magazine Reader William S. Saunders, editor 2006; University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press website...
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Machado and Silvetti Associates Wins One of the AIA’s Top Ten Green Projects for 2007 and is a Winner in the Boston Society of Architects/AIA Sustainable Design Awards Program for 2007
image: Anton Grassl The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates (the firm of Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design and Co-chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design Rodolfo Machado and Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture Jorge Silvetti) has been awarded an Honorable Mention from the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE). It was displayed at the AIA Convention in San Antonio and is part of a traveling exhibit to be shown at several AIA State chapters. It is also posted on the AIA COTE website. PAAM has also been honored with a Sustainable Design Award from the Boston Society of Architect’s Sustainable Design Awards Program. According to the eligibility requirements, projects were selected based on “design excellence as manifested by contribution to an aesthetic compatible with sustainability,” among other factors. |
| BSA’s Parker Medal Honors Wellesley College Project Designed by the firm of Kajima Adjunct Professor in Architecture Mack Scogin
The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) and the City of Boston honored Wellesley College’s Lulu Wang Campus Center designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects with the prestigious Harleston Parker Medal. Established in 1923, this honor recognizes “the most beautiful structure built in the Metropolitan District Commission area in the past decade. |
OMA Rem Koolhaas, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design—featured project: Prada Epicenter, Beverly Hills, California
The Beverly Hills Prada Epicenter’s most remarkable feature is the absence of a facade; the entire width of 50 feet along Rodeo Drive opens up to the street, without a traditional storefront or glass enclosure, inviting the public to enter the building.
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s 9th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design goes to Weiss/Manfredi for Seattle Waterfront Project
Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to the Puget Sound waterfront. This is the first time the winning project has been located in the U.S. Sponsored by the School’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, the $50,000 prize will be presented on December 5th at the GSD. An accompanying exhibition and publication of a book about the winning project are also scheduled for the award ceremony.
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Alan Berger, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome Award-winning proposal targets land reclamation and urbanization in the Pontine Marshes in central Italy
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Alan Berger has won the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize for Landscape Reclamation and the Pontine Marshes. The Trustees of the American Academy in Rome, which announced the winners of the 2007-2008, 111th annual Rome Prize Competition, provide awardees with a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years. Berger’s Rome Prize Fellowship research extends his work on reclaiming despoiled and derelict places for productive reuse by examining the role of design and landscape in the reclamation of Rome’s environs. |
Miho Mazereeuw (MArch/MLA ’02) Receives Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship GSD Alumna will study post-disaster urban architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced that Miho Mazereeuw (MArch/MLA ’02) will receive the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture to study post-disaster urban architecture in three cities along the Ring of Fire, a zone of the most frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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“City in Suspension: New Orleans and the Construction of Ground,” by Felipe Correa, Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design, appears in the May issue of Architectural Design Underfoot, obscured from view, ground is the most fundamental material of construction and the urban landscape. As New Orleans has proved, we forget about it at our peril. Shaped by the mound, the levee and most recently the pump, the ground of the Crescent City was neglected and overlooked even in areas of new development. Felipe Correa describes how, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the thorough re-evaluation of the city’s ground is a prerequisite to urban reorganization. [Architectural Design, May 2007] |
| “One Gardener’s Almanac” by Lecturer in Landscape Design Peter Del Tredici asks, “Who Speaks for the Trees in times of climate change?” read article... (pdf) [House & Garden, May 2007]
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