Archiprix International: The Capital of Your World

Type: EVENT
Date: 6/10/2011
Time: 4:30PM
Location: Center for Architecture
Address: 536 LaGuardia Pl.
                New York , New York

When: 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 10

Where: At The Center
  

Every two years, Archiprix International highlights the best graduation projects in the world. It does so with the aim of introducing the latest generation of talented designers to a broad public, of bringing the designers themselves into contact with one another. University programs from around the world are invited to select their best graduation plan in the domain of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture and submit it to Archiprix. The 2011 edition of Archiprix International carries 154 graduation projects from all continents. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the New York Guggenheim on June 9th 2011.

In the week before that, around 100 of the world’s selected best recent graduates will participate in the Archiprix design workshop “The Capital of Your World” at MIT in Cambridge. In the workshop, twelve teams will rethink Manhattan through architectural and urbanist design. Their radical speculations will focus on (1) a new typology for the skyscraper; (2) imagining a Manhattan without cars and (3) the future meaning of the civic waterfront. After an intense week of workshops, the teams will bring their designs to New York City. They will present and discuss them with prominent New Yorkers, including key government officials, architects and developers.

Schedule

4:30 - 4.55
Open house with display of team panels and coffee
(archiprix winners shown on screen powerpoint)

4:55 – 5.00pm
Welcome
Moderator Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute

5:00 – 5:20pm
Overview of workshop process and outcomes
by Alexander d’Hooghe

5:20 – 5:50pm
Presentations by the three winning teams

5:50 – 7:00pm
Moderated Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Planning & Sustainability/Public Spaces, NYC Department of Transportation
Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Roland Lewis, President, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, AIA, President, AIA New York

7:00 – 8:00pm

Informal discussion with workshop participants around their panels

Organized by the Center for Architecture, ARCAM, and Archiprix International.

Cost: free for members and students; $10 for non-members

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