Libeskind to give a lecture downtown:.Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum , designer of the master plan for the World Trade Center Site, Santiago Calatrava, designer of the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub, and Michael Arad, co-designer of the Ground Zero Memorial, will join for the first time in a public panel discussion at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 18. The event, titled "Design: Ground Zero," is the major public event of a three-day national conference "Learning from lower Manhattan," presented by the American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA and its New York-Chapter. "Design: Ground Zero" will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. at the Borough of Manhattan Community College Founded in 1963, Borough of Manhattan Community College, or BMCC is one of six two-year colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the only one in Manhattan. (199 Chambers St.). Tickets for the event are $35 for the general public, $20 for students and senior citizens. They may be purchased in advance at www.aia.org/learningfromlowermanhattan, in person at the Center for Architecture (536 Laguardia Place), or by phone at 212-358-6126. The larger conference has been convened to evaluate how New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of has been rebuilding in the wake of 9/11 and to explore the implications of these efforts, not only for the city, but for the region and the nation as a whole. "Learning from Lower Manhattan" will take place at several locations throughout the borough, including the Ceter for Architecture (AIA New York's public gallery at 536 Laguardia Place), New York University's Kimmel Center, St. John's University and Borough of Manhattan Community College. In addition to lectures and panel discussions on issues of green design, public open space, planning/zoning for mixed-use communities and waterfront access, the conference will include more than a dozen architectural tours of lower Manhattan, including the ferry terminals, Battery Park City, Solaire, Tribeca and the East River waterfront; as well as a boat tour of New York harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey". led by Kent Barwick, president of the Municipal Art Society and Ray Gastil, director of the Van Men Institute. A walking tour of Ground Zero led by Robert Davidson, formerly chief architect of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. , will also be available. All events other than "Design: Ground Zero" require registration for the conference as a whole. |
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