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AIA New Jersey
Oct. 23-24, 2015
Hanover Marriott, Whippany, NJ
It's not to late to attend; the two day event starts this Friday.
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By Kimberly Bunn, 2015 AIA New Jersey President
2015 has been flying by, as I talk with AIANJ members around the state there are often comments regarding how fast the year has gone, or that we can't believe it is October. The good news is, most of our offices are busy with work. Our firms might not be back to pre-recession levels however most firms have an even workload level, this is promising news.
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AIA New Jersey
In our year end review of the 2014 activities of the AIA New Jersey Public Awareness Committee, we asked you to stay tuned for tools that will help you make a splash in the press. Below is the fourth in a series of articles that will help you in that regard. With your help, we hope to be able to leverage our strength in numbers to help promote architects, architecture and AIA-NJ.
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AIA New Jersey
The winners of The American Institute of Architects Look Up Film Challenge have been announced at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. A jury comprised of architects and media professionals selected three top prize winners and recognized seven additional films in themed categories. The public can view and vote on their favorite video to win the Public Choice Award here: ilookup.org/filmchallenge. Public voting will be open until Nov. 1.
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AIA New Jersey
Date:Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015
Time: 5-9 p.m.
Location: Renault Winery in the Florence Room
Presentation: AIA Fellowship: What it is, why it is and how to become a fellow
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Fast Company
If New Jersey is the new Brooklyn, then it's going to need better transport to Manhattan, according to resident Kevin Shane. The PATH train, which goes underneath the river, is overcrowded as it is (it carries 240,000 people every business day). And the Hudson ferry is too expensive, at $8 a ride. So what's the alternative? Shane says it's to build a new bridge across the river just for pedestrians and cyclists.
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CNN
It was the greatest World Cup upset in rugby history. In front of a 29,000-strong capacity crowd, rank-outsiders Japan toppled former world champions South Africa 34-32, resulting in scenes of jubilation that lasted long into the night. Triumph and — if you happened to be part of the traveling South African contingent — loss, are the elements that make for lasting sporting memories. But what of the actual structures that house such thrilling moments?
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Architectural Digest
Constructed in 1897 and rebuilt in 1916 by architects Hoppin & Koen with marble floors and gilded ceilings, Faircourt once was stuffed with antlers, potted palms, and mock antiques. (Astor called her former in-laws' taste "frightful.") By 2002, when the present owners purchased the storied estate, bats flew through the rooms at night and birds roosted in the dozen chimneys. Still the couple had hope, admiring how Selldorf had turned a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue into the Neue Galerie museum.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Two recent news items reveal that revolutionary advances in building technology are just around the corner. Both how we build and what we build may radically change within the next decade. These innovations have the potential to make construction safer and more affordable, as well as faster and more malleable. It used to take years for new technologies to make their way into practical applications and trickle down to the work site, but that window keeps getting narrower.
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The Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Conferences about architectural materials are largely consensus-based events. Organized by topic, lecture panels tend to reinforce agreed-upon themes such as the benefits of low-embodied energy or the anticipated proliferation of responsive materials. Yet at the Adaptive Architectures and Smart Materials Conference, held in Chicago, debate was privileged over consensus with regard to material approaches in design. After all, the burgeoning field of material technology is ever more complex, diverse, and uncertain, and requires architects to engage its many challenging themes in meaningful ways.
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The Wall Street Journal
Given all the venues for viewing ambitious architecture, do we really need the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, touted in press materials as "the largest international survey of contemporary architecture in North America?" The answer, counter-intuitively, is yes.
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Architizer
Collaboration has always been critical to completing any architectural project; every structure needs a designer, an engineer, a contractor, and of course, the client. Each member of the team brings their own expertise to their respective phase of the construction process. The ability to collaborate is becoming an increasingly important attribute in today's design world, now focused more and more on human-centered design, user experience research, and empathy for the user. Today's successful architects make a concerted effort to learn directly from the people they’re designing for, often integrating the client's creative ideas into the initial ideation phase.
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