Chairman
Daniel Rose
President
Marilyn Taylor
Vice Presidents
Hugh Hardy
Robert Yaro
Treasurer
Timur Galen
Executive Director
Lisa Chamberlain
Deputy Director
Loreal Monroe
Daniel Brodsky
Managing Partner, The Brodsky Organization
James Corner
Director, Field Operations
Timur Galen
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
Alexander Garvin
President & CEO, Alex Garvin & Associates, Inc.
Paul Goldberger
Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
Hugh Hardy
Principal, H3 Hardy Collaboration
Richard Kaplan
Co-Chair, J.M. Kaplan Fund
Paul Katz
Partner, Kohn Pedersen Fox
John C. Nelson, Esq.
Mitsui Fudosan
Daniel Rose
Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc.
Marilyn Taylor
Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Robert Yaro
President, Regional Plan Association
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| DIVERGENCE/CONVERGENCE | |
| Forum For Urban Design Spring Conference | |
| MAY 12 & 13, 2008 | |
  Divergence: New York's Creative Economy May 12, 6:00 PM New Museum Of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 Cocktails 6:00 PM Panel 6:30 PM Followed By Party Intersection: The Media Panel May 13, 2:00 PM Center For Architecture 536 LAGUARDIA PL. New York, NY 10012 Convergence: Urban Design Meets Sustainability May 13, 5:00 PM Embassy Suites New York 102 North End Avenue New York, NY 10282 Keynote Panel 5:30 PM Reception 6:45 PM Dinner and Discussion 7:45 PM |
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| Architect Magazine Cover | |
Gracing the February, 2008 cover of Architect magazine are Forum member Amale Andraos of WORK Architecture and Forum Board member Alex Garvin (as does Dan Wood, also of WORK). The trio were asked, along with a dozen or so other people, how they would invest $1.6 trillion, the estimated amount needed to repair and maintain America’s infrastructure over the next five years, according to a report published by Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young. Some of the answers were somewhat counterintuitive.
“We would spend less time fixing and more time dismantling America’s infrastructure,” said the WORK principals. “The 50-year suburban experiment in car culture is untenable in the face of climate change and projections of peak oil.”
Alex Garvin noted that the failure to invest in infrastructure isn’t just resulting in collapsed bridges, but causing opposition to additional real estate development. His solution? “I would use that money to create a public-realm endowment and offer the income from the endowment to communities to cover the cost of planning, design, and engineering …”
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| Urban Design Review Spring/Summer 2008 | |
| Cost: $5 | |
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The Forum for Urban Design is a gathering of practitioners. As architects, designers, planners and developers, our membership not only study the field of urban design -- they make it. If anyone needs to read the most important new books on the subject, our members do. If only you had the time! Urban Design Review is our attempt to help you find the time. Published twice yearly, UDR recommends books worth reading or at least knowing about, and steers you from those that are not.  |
In This Issue:
Architecture of the Absurd by John Silber/Reviewed by: David S. Morton The Warhol Economy Brandscapes Key Contemporary Buildings The Option of Urbanism Rivertown The Geography of Bliss The Warmest Room in the House Suburban Transformations Architecture or Techno-Utopia Q&A with |
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