Oculus - Winter 2015 - (Page 12)

(above) After the Heritage Ball, the celebration continued at the Center for Architecture's Party@theCenter. ©Sam Lahoz ©Sam Lahoz Center Highlights (left) Billie tsien, aia, Cofounder, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (center) was welcomed by AIANY Women in Architecture Committee members and AIANY leadership (l-r) Yinery Baezsolis; sandra Benjamin, aia, ncarB, leed aP Bd+c; Jane smith, aia, iida, asid; venesa alicea, aia, nOma, leed aP; and Jen stencel, aia, leed aP, for a breakfast leadership event at the Center. ©Center for Architecture (above) AIANY and the Center for Architecture welcomed more than 1,100 AEC professionals to the 2015 Heritage Ball at Chelsea Piers, honoring (l-r) adam d. Weinberg, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art; Deputy Mayor alicia Glen; david rockwell, faia, Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group; and Jed Walentas, Principal, Two Trees Management Company. ©Center for Architecture (right) The Best in Competition Award at "Bricks and Beverages: Professionals Build with LEGO Bricks" went to the Ancient Egyptian-style water tower designed by team Liar Liar Bricks on Fire ethan Wieseltheir and scott strenger. 12 Oculus Winter 2015 ©Center for Architecture ©Center for Architecture (left) (l-r): WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/ Urbanism founders michael manfredi, faia, and marion Weiss, faia, were joined by Julian Zugazogoitia, Director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, for the October installment of Cocktails & Conversations. (above) This year's J. Max Bond, Jr. Lecture, "Conversations: Community" by Phil freelon, faia, nOma, Managing and Design Director, Perkins + Will North Carolina (which acquired the Freelon Group in 2014), focused on design that brings excellence to everyday people. Reinventing Architecture: Design in a Digital World

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Oculus - Winter 2015

First Words Letter from Two Presidents
Letter from the Editor
Center for Architecture
One Block Over
Opener: Practical Attitudes
ICE in the River: Cornell Tech’s Center of Connectivity
Restoring – At Least Virtually – One of England’s Greatest Lost Buildings
At the Corner of Past and Present
The Design-Fabrication Dynamic
How Big Data is Reshaping Architecture
Architecture at the Digital Edge
3D for the Defense
Thinking Beyond the Flat Page
In Print
51-Year Watch
Last Words
Index to Advertisers

Oculus - Winter 2015