New York Designs

The Architectural League is pleased to present the firms and projects selected for Threshold, the 2008 New York Designs juried lecture series. The series provides a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2008 New York Designs committee, comprised of Sunil Bald, Markus Dochantschi, Lynn Gaffney, Victoria Meyers, and Adam Yarinsky, asked entrants to consider what limits, opportunities, and compromises shape thresholds in the city. A threshold, as outlined in the call for entries, might be understood literally as a transitional space – that interfaces public and private; that bridges inside and outside; that connects nature and the city – or as a conceptual space of overlap between materials, disciplines, cultures, the client and architect, the past and future. Thursday, May 29 – 7:00 p.m. West Harlem Piers Park Barbara Wilks and Johannes Feder, Archipelago Best Pedestrian Route Richard Garber and Nicole Robertson, GRO Architects Slide Library, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks, Marble Fairbanks Bridge Underpass Light Installation, Brooklyn Linnaea Tillett, Tillett Lighting Design Karin Tehve, KT3D Admission is free for League members and $10 for non-members. League members may make reservations by emailing [email protected]. For further information, please call 212-753-1722 or visit www.archleague.org. Architectural League programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, NYC