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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
At the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
The Pairing:
Scott Marble, AIA, Founding Partner, Marble Fairbanks, and Faculty Member, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
David Benjamin, Principal, The Living, and Assistant Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Cocktail Design by: Toby Cecchini, Bartender and Author
Organized by: AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee and cultureNOW
Price: $15 for AIA members; $20 for non-members - one drink included
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Join us for a conversation with architects Scott Marble, Kenneth Frampton, and David Benjamin
How do you spend Friday evening? Do you join those who jam NYC’s cultural institutions or those crowds over populating film theaters? When it hosts a pair of NYC's most interesting and provocatively creative thinkers, the AIANY Center for Architecture – one of NYC's premiere cultural institutions – can certainly lift your spirits. This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without the appropriate beverage. We’ll provide a custom-crafted cocktail – one inspired by the architect's work and created especially for this event. Join us in growing the tradition of Delight Night in New York's Weekend Cultural Scene – Blight Night it is not.
David Benjamin is Principal of The Living and Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The Living brings new technologies to life in the built environment, integrating design innovation, sustainability, and the public realm. Clients include the City of New York, 3M, Airbus, and Miami Science Museum. Recent projects include the Princeton Architecture Laboratory (a new building for research on next-generation design and construction technologies), Pier 35 EcoPark (a 200-foot floating pier in the East River that changes color according to water quality), and Hy-Fi (a branching tower for the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 made of a new type of biodegradable brick).
Kenneth Frampton was born in the United Kingdom in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. After practicing for a number of years in the United Kingdom and in Israel, he served as the editor of the British magazine Architectural Design. He has taught at a number of leading institutions including the Royal College of Art, the ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and the Berlage Institute in The Netherlands. He is currently the Ware Professor of Architecture at the GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), Le Corbusier (2001), Labour, Work & Architecture (2005), and an updated fourth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History (2007).
Scott Marble is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks and a faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). The work of Marble Fairbanks is widely published internationally, has received numerous design awards and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2008, the MoMA commissioned their project, Flatform for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Their most recently completed project, Glen Oaks Library, was selected as both the Public Choice and the Editor’s Choice for American-Architects Building of the Year 2013. Scott recently completed a new book, Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design / Assembly / Industry published by Birkhäuser.
Toby Cecchini is a writer and bartender based in New York City. He has written on food, wine and spirits for GQ, Food and Wine, and The New York Times. His first book, Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life, was published in 2003. He is currently at work on his second book, a travelogue of spirits based on his travels for The New York Times' Living and travel magazines. He began bartending at the Odeon in 1987, where he is credited with creating the internationally recognized version of the Cosmopolitan cocktail in New York. He followed that with stints in several bars including Passersby, which he owned until 2008.
This program is presented in conjunction with the Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, AIANY Chapter 2014 presidential theme “
Civic Spirit: Civic Vision”
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