Announcements
Valgora's Studio V Receives 2021 WAF Future Project of the Year
Alum Jay Valgora's (B.Arch. '86) Studio V Architecture receives Future Project of the Year for Silo City design at the 2021 World Architecture Festival.
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami: Hugh Hayden: Boogey Man
A special exhibition for Art Basel Miami 2021 by Hugh Hayden (B.Arch. '07) features a suite of monumental new works. Hayden's process results in dynamic, surreal, and critical responses to personal experience and social and cultural issues.
New Public Artworks for the City of Minneapolis Public Service Building
A ceiling sculpture by Lucito, the firm of Iroha Ito (M.Arch. '15) and Andrew Lucia, will be celebrated in a public art opening hosted by the City of Minneapolis on December 10.
The Top Urban Planning Books of 2021
Planetizen selects Sekou Cooke's (B.Arch. '99) Hip-Hop Architecture, which invites readers to compare b-boys to architecture and to imagine the kinds of built environments that would warrant such a description.
Edited by History of Architecture and Urban Development alums Vikramaditya Prakash (M.A. '89/Ph.D. HAUD '94) and Daniel Coslett (M.A. HAUD '09), the book has chapters by Labib Hossain (Ph.D. HAUD '24), and Assistant Professor María González Pendás.
Dallendorfer Named Director of Transportation at FXCollaborative
FXCollaborative recently announced that Stephan Dallendorfer (M.Arch. '94), a partner in the firm, has been named director of transportation. Dallendorfer led the projects Penn Station Central Concourse and the recent Penn Station Master Plan.
Tampa Museum of Art Announces Major Expansion Led By WEISS/MANFREDI
WEISS/MANFREDI, the firm of Michael Manfredi (M.Arch. '80), leads both a renovation of the museum's downtown campus currently underway, and a new three-story structure to a redeveloped site along the Hillsborough River.
Aaron Gensler Appointed Chair of Architecture at Woodbury School of Architecture in LA
Archinect profiles architect, educator, and thought leader Aaron Gensler (M.Arch. '14), an assistant professor and the new chair of architecture at Woodbury University–LA.
Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
Gabriel Ramos (M.F.A. '18) is part of an online and in-person group exhibition featuring work created in the four years since Hurricane Maria. Through Dec. 4 at University of South Florida–Tampa Contemporary Art Museum.
The 9th book by Janetta Rebold Benton (B.F.A. '67), a professor of art history at Pace University, is an overview of the fundamentals shared by visual arts across the globe. Released in softcover and available in seven languages from Thames & Hudson.
Art Alum Denise Eno Ernest Receives Arts Fellowship
Denise Eno Ernest (B.F.A. '85) was awarded the 2021 Emerging Professional Artist Fellowship in Painting by the Delaware Division of the Arts. An exhibition of Ernest's work will be shown at the State Office Building, Nov. 5–24.
Eye on Evanston: Thoughts on Design | Evanston Architect Stuart Cohen
The Evanston Roundtable notes that Chicago architect, author, and educator Stuart Cohen (B.Arch. '66, M.Arch. '67) received the American Institute of Architects' prestigious 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award on October 15.
Studio Archive Project: Use Your Words
Associate Professor of art Carl Ostendarp's work is part of an online group exhibition curated by JJ Manford (B.F.A. '06). Includes art alumni Erik den Breejen (M.F.A. '06), Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12), and former department chair Buzz Spector.
Harman Singh Dhodi (M.R.P '21) Wins National Planning Competition
Recent planning graduate Dhodi won the Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) Case Study Prize for his exit project Intra-Urban Split in Sanitation Provision: The Untended Plight of Urban villages in Delhi, India.
M.R.P. Alum Karina Ricks Joins U.S.D.O.T. Federal Transit Administration
Appointed Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration and Innovation in September, Karina Ricks (M.R.P. '98) will oversee a range of activities including mobility innovation, safety and testing, and bringing research into practice.
Artnet features Aiza Ahmed (B.F.A. '20) in a group show that challenges the patriarchal structures in modern society: Judith Has Arrived: Aiza Ahmed, Sanie Bokhari, Maya Varadaraj at Aicon Contemporary, on view through October.
Anna Warfield: All Things Being Blue
A solo exhibition in two parts hosted by the Schweinfurth Art Center and the Cayuga Museum in Auburn, New York, featured recent soft sculptural works by art alumna Anna Warfield (B.F.A./B.S. '18).
the other option is to slow down
A limited-edition artist book by Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), copublished by SCMA and Candor Arts, documents Williams's 2019 artist residency at Smith College. An exhibition of Williams's work opens in November at Smith College Museum of Art.
Architectural Record Celebrates the 2021 Women in Architecture Awards
Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) is honored as the New Generation Leader in Architectural Record's 2021 Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards. The architect/artist's installation work often probes the impact of race on the urban realm.
Amie Cunat: Petal Signals, September 8–October 23
Dinner Gallery in New York City presents an exhibition of eight new paintings by fine art alumna Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12). Both horrific and comedic, earthly and transcendent, Cunat’s new paintings present biomorphic forms, familiar yet foreign.
