Designs for Living: Historic Buildings - Back to the Future

Monday, 07/14/2008, 5:30–8:00pm Designs for Living: Historic Buildings - Back to the Future Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place The theme Architecture: Designs for Living is intended to represent the broad range of building typologies that shape our communities and urban design that defines our city. The theme is also envisioned as our response to the Mayor’s PlaNYC, which anticipates the need for sustainable growth to accommodate one million new residents. This is the seventh of 12 monthly programs by AIA New York Chapter committees that will explore current design directions that will form the “building blocks” for new growth envisioned by PlaNYC. A panel of four architects will explore their design philosophy and how it relates to working with historic buildings or within historic districts. Each architect will present recent projects with a focus on the process of working within a designated landmark context in New York City. We will also hear from Robert Tierney, Chair of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, whose oversight of designated structures and historic districts safeguard the city’s unique heritage, which are integral to maintaining the quality of life and instrumental in shaping future growth. WELCOME James McCullar, FAIA, President, AIA New York Chapter MODERATOR Robert Tierney, Chair, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission PANELISTS Paul S. Byard, FAIA, Partner of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects Creative and Preventive Paradigms in Landmark Regulation Michael Gabellini, FAIA, Gabellini Sheppard Associates “Burnishing History, Channeling Modernity” Michael Gabellini will present a selection of his studio’s historic restoration, renovation, and adaptive re-use projects worldwide, illustrating a reverence for historic architecture complemented by a thoroughly modern sensibility. Former Beaux-Arts residences in Europe, the Copacabana-turned-Nicole Farhi space in New York, and the newly reopened Rockefeller Center Observation Decks exemplify the pairing of old and new to create harmonic tension. Caterina Roiatti, Principal of TRA Studio TRA Studio's work in the NYC Landmark Districts, which include a range of projects from adaptive re-use of existing loft buildings, restorations and new building construction, has defined its own brand of contextualism, where the contradictions between the old and the new are the engine behind the creative design process. TRA’s recent projects include the restoration of 171 MacDougal, a loft building whose façade was almost obliterated, 44 Mercer Street, a unique combination of preservation and new construction, the Bond NoHo Hotel, a new building on an irregular site in a Historic District. Morris Adjmi AIA, Principal of Morris Adjmi Architects Morris Adjmi will discuss designing new buildings in historic districts. His approach embraces the essential characteristics of the context while interpreting them in an appropriate way. He will present four projects in New York City: The Scholastic Building (with Aldo Rossi), 408 Greenwich Street, 40 Gansevoort (The Theory Building), and 16 West 21 Street. Organized by: AIA Historic Buildings Committee Sponsored by: Champion: Studio Daniel Libeskind Supporters: Gensler; HumanScale; James McCullar & Associates Friends: Benjamin Moore & Co.; Costas Kondylis & Partners; Forest City Ratner Companies; Frank Williams & Associates; Hugo S. Subotovsky Architects; Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti; Mancini Duffy; Magnusson Architecture and Planning; Rawlings Architects; Ricci Greene Associates; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Syska & Hennessy; Trespa North America; Universal Contracting Contributors: Anchin, Block & Anchin; Calvin Tsao, FAIA; Consolidated Brick & Building Supplies; Cosentini Associates; Cross Construction Company; DeLaCour Ferrara Architects; Domenech Hicks Krockmalnic Architects; FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS; Goldfinger Foundation for the Visual Arts; Helpern Architects; IBEC Development; Levien & Company; Michael Zenreich, AIA; Monadnock/Capsys; New York Building Congress; Perkins Eastman; Plaza Construction; Porter & Yee Associates; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Roberta Washington, Architect; Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee; Shen Milsom & Wilke; Skanska USA Building; Strategic Development & Construction; Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Theo David Architects; Thornton-Tomasetti; Weidlinger Associates Price: Free CES LUs: 1.5, CES HSW: 1.5