Announcements
Merkurhuset in Gothenburg Wins the Kasper Salin Prize
Per Bornstein (M.Arch. '99) and colleagues received the award for their Merkur office building in Gothenburg from the Swedish League of Architects.
Society of Architectural Historians Announces the 2023 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellows
Annie Schentag (M.A. HAUD '12, Ph.D. HAUD '17) plans to use the award to visit Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Uruguay, countries that are currently reframing their interpretations of the historic built environment through preservation, planning, and heritage practices.
Women and Abstraction: 1741–Now
This exhibition, on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, encompasses works by more than 100 artists including five drawings by Jennifer Cecere (B.F.A. '73).
Cornelius Tulloch Receives the YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award
Cornelius Tulloch (B.Arch. '21), a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer, will receive an unrestricted award of $25,000.
Bruce D. Batkin (B.Arch. '76), 1953–2022
AAP Advisory Council Cochair Bruce Batkin (B.Arch. '76), valued leader and supporter, passed away on December 12.
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
Opening on November 23, this Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition includes Frances Gallardo's (M.F.A. '16) Aerosoles, which uses images at nanoscopic scale of dust collected in San Juan.
Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice
In this forthcoming book, AAP NYC Visiting Lecturer Erin Pellegrino and Jake Rudin (both B.Arch. '14) reassess the architecture profession and offer a toolkit for graduates and working architects to consider alternate pathways.
B+H appoints Patrick Fejér as CEO
Fejér (B.Arch. '97) plans "to lead B+H in new directions, exploring the breadth and diversity of our team's ability to produce thoughtful, ambitious design across sectors and all over the world," reports Canadian Architect.
Artist and Architect Amanda Williams Named Among 2022 MacArthur Fellows
Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built environment, received one of the prized $800,000, no-strings-attached awards.
ACSP Profiles 2022 Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning Winner
Nidhi Subramanyam (M.R.P. '14, Ph.D. '21), who received the award for her research covering governance and water infrastructures in Tiruppur, India, speaks about her work and future plans.
Dean Yoon Awarded 2022 World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci Award
J. Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts recognizing her extraordinary accomplishments as a leading architect and educator.
2022 ACADIA Design Excellence Award
ACADIA named Höweler + Yoon Architecture, cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), this year's winner. Yoon will deliver the second keynote of the 2022 ACADIA Conference.
Christine Heindl (M.F.A. '94), Maria Calandra (M.F.A. '06), and Erik den Breejen (M.F.A. '06) are featured in a group show at the Turn Gallery in New York City through October 20.
At the Intersection of Design, Development, and Community
Cory Henry (M.Arch. '12) will deliver a lecture on December 14 at the National Building Museum that considers the role of culture, history, and community concerns in design.
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation
Published by Routledge, author Ryan Ludwig (B.Arch. '06 ) explores how we can cope with, or adapt to, ecological crises by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world.
Höweler + Yoon, cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), will participate in this group exhibition, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Cooper Union.
Designing Peace at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on view through September 4, 2023
The exhibition designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture, the Boston-based firm cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
Explore an exhibition of work by Alan Saret (B.Arch. '66) on view 4/21–6/4 at Karma Gallery in New York City.
Industrial Obelisks: Smokestacks / Barcelona
This photography exhibition by Brian Rosa (M.R.P. '09) at The Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), Oliva Artés (also available online) aims to stimulate debates about industrial heritage, urban transformation, and the memory politics of redevelopment.
Winners of 2022 Architectural League Prize Respond to Design Complexities Rooted in Place
The Architect's Newspaper reports that Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Nathan Friedman (B.Arch. '09) are among the winners of this prestigious annual award, which recognizes visionary work by young practitioners.