Aug 14 2012

Preview Fall 2012 Architecture and Design Events

Coming up in fall 2012, there are several lectures featuring architects and designers, including:

• Tuesday, Oct. 9 - Ron Altoon, 6:30 p.m., NYIT de Seversky Mansion, Old Westbury campus (VIP dinner at 5 p.m.)
• Saturday, Oct. 13 - Sunday, Nov. 11 - Thesis Retrospective 1990-2012, Amatuzzo Studio Section, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Education Hall Center Gallery, Old Westbury campus
• Thursday, Oct. 18 - Preston Scott Cohen, 6:30 p.m., NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, Manhattan campus
• Tuesday, Nov. 6 - Todd Williams and Billie Tsien, 6:30 p.m., NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, Manhattan campus
• Thursday, Nov. 15 - Francois Roche, 6:30 p.m., Steelcase Inc., 4 Columbus Circle, 7th floor, New York City

Read a full list of 2012-13 architecture and design events.

Aug 02 2012

Architecture Students Return from India with New Insights

A team of NYIT students enriched their cultural awareness on a five-week educational trip from June 7 to July 17 in India, where they studied exemplary Modernist works by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn in the context of ancient rock-cut stepwells, traditional forts and palaces, and contemporary towers by leading international architecture firms.

Jul 18 2012

NYIT Alum Joins HGTV's Design Star All Stars Cast

Design Star favorite Tom Vecchione (B.Arch. '88) will compete for the second time on an all-star version of the popular reality TV show featuring a cast of creative types vying to win their own HGTV design show. Vecchione is a design director at Gensler, a global architecture and design firm in New York City. Tune in to the premiere of Design Star All Stars on Tuesday, July 31 at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Read more about Tom Vecchione in the Winter 2010 issue of NYIT Magazine.

Jul 17 2012

NYIT Architects Start Construction of Recycling Center

NYIT architects and engineers led by Assistant Professor of Architecture Tobias Holler are building a recycling center this month in Nosara, Costa Rica. They arrived in Costa Rica on June 30 and have already constructed some of the facility. The project began as a design contest among NYIT student teams in fall 2011. Since then, Holler and his team have raised $21,350 on kickstarter.com to fund their efforts. Read a blog about their activities in Costa Rica.

Jul 02 2012

NYIT Architect Nominated to AIA National Board

Burton L. Roslyn, adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture and Design, has been nominated to the American Institute of Architects National Board starting in 2013. An election in September will confirm his nomination. He is the president of Roslyn Consultants, LLC, a firm in Roslyn Heights, N.Y.

Jun 25 2012

Bocconi Competition Photo Album

View a photo album of NYIT's proposal for the Bocconi International Design Competition. The images portray the design of a campus extension for the L. Bocconi Business School in Milan Italy. Read more about the project.

Jun 05 2012

Meet Charles Matz

Traveling to one of the most remote plateaus in the world with hundreds of pounds of media equipment is all in a day's work for Charles Matz. The latest mission of NYIT's assistant professor of interior design is a geospatial mapping project in Harar, Ethiopia. The medieval city's historic center is a world heritage site designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Read more.

Jun 05 2012

Attend New Practices New York 2012 Exhibit

View work by Holler Architecture, run by Tobias Holler, assistant professor of architecture, on display from Thursday, June 14 to Saturday, Sept. 8 at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan. The exhibit, organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), features seven firms selected as AIA New Practices New York 2012, a biennial award recognizing and promoting innovative and emerging architecture firms in New York City. Much of Holler's work was done in tandem with his NYIT coursework. Attend the opening reception on June 14, 6-9 p.m. Read more.

May 29 2012

NYIT Architects Compete in International Design Contest

NYIT's School of Architecture and Design is one of two U.S. university programs—Harvard is the other—to compete in an invitation-only international design competition hosted by the L. Bocconi Business School in Milan Italy. The challenge faced by the six worldwide competitors (other invitees are based in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain, and Sweden) is to design a futuristic extension of the Bocconi campus in the industrial neighborhood Centrale del Latte. The NYIT team led by Adjunct Assistant Professor Giovanni Santamaria includes 2012 graduates from his Design VIII class—Arianna Armelli, Peter Cecora, Aurelija Jara, Talha Kirmani, Ishan Kumar, and Wagdy Moussa—as well as members from the School of Landscape Architecture at Kingston University in London, England, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milan, a partner on the school's May 2011 design proposal for Nuoro, a city in Sardinia, Italy. They will submit a design proposal on Thursday, June 7. Read more.

Explore Long Island Architecture on Film

Members of the NYIT community are invited to attend the New York premiere of Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island, on Thursday, June 7, 6-9 p.m. at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York City. The documentary film explores work by the region's best post-war architects and designers and features rare archival material and striking cinematography to highlight Long Island's underrated Modernist architectural treasures. It is a project of Design Onscreen - The Initiative for Architecture and Design on Film, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to producing, promoting, and preserving quality films on architecture and design. Among the architects and historians who provide commentary in the film are NYIT architecture professors Frederick Bentel and Frances Campani.
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