December 5th Meeting - Meeting Location Change

ATTENTION!  For those of you who attended the City Hall Field Visit, our December 5th meeting will be held at DDC in Long Island City.  Sorry for any inconvenience!

Team Project Site Selection

Well everyone,

 in a very efficient manner the Team members have voted and selected our project site. 

The site of the 2012 Team 8 project will be

the development of a

 Waterfront Park

 at  

Newtown Creek in Long Island City Queens.

Everyone, start researching maps, history and data about the site.  Be sure to post all of your information on the blog.

And on behalf of all the Mentors, we would like to wish you and all of your families a heartfelt

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Announcements - City Hall Field Visit / Architecture College Fair

Our first site visit which will be to NYC City Hall is scheduled for this coming Monday November 28th.  We are to meet at the East entrance located along Park Row across from the Brooklyn Bridge.  We will be meeting at the entrance at 4:00pm SHARP!  Please be there at least 15 minutes early because you will have to pass through security.  This is an active construction site, hard hats will be issued at the door.  In addition, we ask that you please wear hard sole shoes.

Also, both the ACE Field Trip Permission Slip and the DDC Waiver must be completed by your parents prior to the field visit to be allowed onto the premises.  NO EXCEPTIONS!

Hope to see you all there!

Please see the map below!

In addition, as mentioned at the last meeting, the Center for Architecture is conducting a Architecture College Fair.  The event is FREE and all high school students and parents are invited.  Senior this is a must.  Freshman, sophomore and juniors take advantage of this event and get to know the process.

ArchSchools Confidential: Your Guide for

Admissions Success

When: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tuesday , November 29th

Where: At The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia

RSVP: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=3808
  

Event Description: 
Join us for a moderated discussion on the process of getting into Architecture School. We will hear from architecture students and the faculty who handle the admissions process.
Please come early and feel free to sneak a peak at the new ArchSchools exhibit highlighting student work from NYC area Architecture Schools, as well as speak to students / representatives from the various schools. This program is geared towards highschool students, their parents and College advisors.

5:00-6:15 
- ArchSchools Exhibit Viewing / School Fair / Meet and Greet
- Tables set up containing information from different schools
- Students / Administrators from schools at tables to talk about Student / Studio Culture / Admissions

6:15-6:30 
Welcome

6:30-7:30 
Moderated Panel (Discussion on the process of getting into Architecture School. We will hear from architecture students and the faculty who handle the admissions process)

7:30-8:00
Questions / Closing

Cost:
Free

Good Luck!!

FREE Event at the Center for Architecture

Attention Architecture Students!!!

Here is a great opportunity to get a glimpse into each of the architecture programs available at some of the most prestigious universities in the country.  The event is free and will be held at

AIA New York Chapter
536 LaGuardia Pl
NY, NY 10012
(212) 683-0023

You'll have the chance to hear about the different architecture programs from the Deans themselves.  See the announcement below.

Arch Schools 2011 Exhibition Opening and Deans' Roundtable

Date: Saturday, November 19, 6:00-8:00pm
Organized by: the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation
Sponsored by:
Friends: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Robert Dell Vuyosevich, AIA
Price: FREERSVP

The Center for Architecture’s seventh annual architecture schools exhibition showcases exemplary student work from 14 New York area schools: The City College of New York, Columbia University, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Institute of Technology, Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University. Join us to hear the schools of architecture Deans discuss current design directions in architectural education. They will also focus on issues of the public discourse of architecture and the legibility of architecture to the public.

George Ranalli, AIA, Dean, The City College of New York; Mark Wigley, Dean, Columbia University; Tony Vidler, Dean, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Kent Kleinman, Dean, Cornell University; Urs P. Gauchat, Hon. AIA, Dean, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Frank Mruk AIA, RIBA, Associate Dean, New York Institute of Technology; William Morrish, Dean, Parsons the New School of Design; Tom Hanrahan, Dean, Pratt Institute; Stan Allen, FAIA, Dean, Princeton University; Evan Douglis, Dean, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Robbins, Dean, Syracuse University; Robert Shibley, Dean, University at Buffalo (SUNY); Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, Dean, University of Pennsylvania; Keith Krumwiede, Associate Dean, Yale University
Moderated by Sarah Whiting, Assoc. AIA, Dean, Rice School of Architecture

Arch Schools 2011 is on view from November 19, 2011 - March 3, 2012. Exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation.

Our November 21st Meeting Announcement

Greetings everyone,  

Team 8 has selected our 2012 Project:

A Waterfront / Riverfront Park

Our Next Meeting will take place on Monday November 21st from 4 to 6 pm

in the 4th floor conference room

at the DDC Offices in Long Island City

Please start posting ideas, sketches and text on the blog.  Be sure to

bring your research to the next meeting. 

Here are a few suggestions:

NYC Department of City Planning Waterfront
American Society of Landscape Architect
US Department of Environmental Protection Superfund - Gowanus Canal or Newtown Creek
The Waterfront Center
The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
Queens West Phase II - ABB
Riverside Park South - Thomas Balsley
Brooklyn Bridge Park
City Deck, Green Bay Wisconsin
Park Design
Playground Design
History of Coney Island
NYC Parks and Recreation
Economic Development Corporation
Hunters Point South Redeveloment
PlaNYC
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Army Corp of Engineers
riprap
Pier and Pile Foundation
Caissons
Geotextile Membranes

Also Check these out:

-WPA 2.0 competition winner, Carbon TAP http://wpa2.aud.ucla.edu/info/index.php?/theprojects/winners/

-Hudson River Estuary project http://www.hudsonriver.org/hrif/

-Rising Currents (PS1 / MOMA study of sea level rising and impact on NYC) http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2009/12/01/rising-currents-two-weeks-deep/

See you here!!!

Newspaper Tower Results

Welcome to all of our new Team 8 Students!!

Nice work everyone! 

This is the first year Team 8 has attempted this activity and it was a great success. 

Team A was victorious topping out at a height of 6 feet 1 1/2 inches ( 73 1/2 in.) with only 10 sheets of the Queens Gazette.  All of you did great!

The Winning Tower!

November 7th Meeting Announcement

Greetings Team 8,

Please note that our next meeting is scheduled for

Monday, November 7th

from 4:00 to 6:00pm

We will be meeting in the 4th Floor Conference Room at the DDC Offices in Long Island City.

Please bring your research on our three Team Project choices:

Waterfront/Riverfront Park

History Museum

Underwater City

See you here!