Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation announces their 2011 Alumni Weekend Event from April 15-17. Centered around the theme of "Smart Infrastructure: Negotiating the Future of Design", the event offers a weekend of networking, learning, and catching up with old friends over a series of panel discussions and receptions.
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SUMMARY OF THE EVENT (MORE INFO AT GSAPP WEBSITE)
ALUMNI KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Howard Slatkin '00MsUP, Director of Sustainability for the Department of City Planning, New York
Introduction by Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
1. Urban Infrastructure: Contemporary Investigations into City Politics, Futures, and Preservation
Kate Ascher, Adjunct Professor at the Wagner School at NYU
Styliani Daouti '05MsAAD, Founder and Principal at AREA (Architecture Research Athens)
Craig Dykers, Senior Partner/Director/Architect, Snohetta
Robert Lane '82M.Arch, Senior Fellow for Urban Design at Regional Planning Association; Partner, Plan & Process LLP
Deike Peters '95MsUP, Director, Urban Mega-Projects Research Group, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin and Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC
Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation
Moderator: David King, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University
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2. Communications Infrastructure: How New Media is Changing the Nature of Public Space
David Benjamin '05M.Arch, Director of the Living Architecture Lab, GSAPP
Frank Hebbert, Product Manager, Community Planning Tools, OpenPlans
Daniel Kidd '09M.Arch, Designer/Project Leader, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University
Shin-pei Tsay, director of the Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator: Troy Conrad Therrien, Creative Digital Consultant, Bruce Mau Designs
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3. Education Infrastructure: Discussing New York City’s Biggest Developers of Mind and Land
Maxine Griffith, Executive Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University and Special Advisor for Campus Planning, Columbia University
Eve Klein, Associate Vice President for Planning and Design, New York University
Philip Pitruzzello, Vice President, Manhattanville Construction, Columbia University
Meghan Moore-Wilk, Director of Space Planning and Capital Budget, CUNY
Moderator: Carol Loewenson, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP
TOURS:
Tour NYC infrastructure: Bring your friends!
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Gowanus Canal
Croton Aqueduct
Grand Central Station Terminal
NOTES:
NEW THIS YEAR: CES/Continuing Education Credits will be offered for Saturday’s panels!
We will have alumni work displayed digitally on Saturday, April 16th. Please share images of your current work! The submission instructions are below:
» Please submit 3 images maximum, in TIFF or JPEG format.Minimum size is 5" x 7" at 200dpi, RGB color.
» Please keep your images below 5 mb each if sending by e-mail, otherwise submit them on a cd at under 10 mb each and send the cd by mail.
» You MUST name your files with the following format: Firstname_Lastname_program_year_01.tif,...02.tif, etc. (ie: Lindsay_Dorrance_AAD_81_01.tif)
» Be sure to provide the name and location of the work.
Please send your work to:
LD2282@columbia.edu
or
GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011
Attention: Lindsay Dorrance
404 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Images will be shown looped in a display during the weekend. Some images may be edited or cropped for space. Improperly formatted images will not be used.
