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Thursday, February 9, 6pm
Old Buildings, New Designs’ Chuck Bloszies at the AIA/NY Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place in NYC.

The quest for sustainability will increasingly concentrate development in cities, resulting in architecture that will be a fusion of new and old forms, especially as policy incentives are implemented that encourage major additions to existing buildings. San Francisco architect Charles Bloszies, joined by Megan Carey of Princeton Architectural Press, will explore this topic as he presents case studies from his recently released book.

Friday, February 3, 2012, 7-9PM

Inside Prefab is a book launch event that celebrates the history and resurgence of prefabricated domestic interiors from a world of standardized serialism to one of endless variations on the occasion of the release of Inside Prefab: The Ready-made Interior, a new book by Deborah Schneiderman.

The event will showcase a series of presentations by designers, students and architects that address serialization and difference in a space of interiority. Presenters include: Karen Fairbanks, Ferda Kolatan, Britney Malave, Katelyn McKernan, Christopher Quiles, Ada Tolla, Allan Wexler and Deborah Schneiderman.

About the book
As an inherently sustainable and affordable building method, prefabrication has enjoyed a revival in recent years, attracting clients and architects alike. In Inside Prefab: The Ready-made Interior, Schneiderman turns her attention to a much-overlooked area of prefabrication: interior design. Offering a fascinating history of prefabricated interior design, followed by twenty-four contemporary case studies, the book includes projects by established architects, designers, and artists such as Shigeru Ban, Greg Lynn, and Atelier Tekuto, Andrea Zittel, among others, and up-and-coming firms. The richly illustrated case studies range from original designs for prefabricated interior walls, kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, and offices to complete prefabricated house interiors.

Copies will be available for purchase at Storefront during the event

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795
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After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design Book Launch

Parsons
Thursday, February 2
5:30-6:30pm
The Glass Corner (room 206), 25 East 13th Street

Please join editors Kent Kleinman, Lois Weinthal, and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, and guests Jonsara Ruth, Susan Yelavich for a discussion moderated by Anita Cooney about After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design. This critical collection establishes a new intellectual framework for interior design. Crossing boundaries into photography, animation film, philosophy, and even space travel, the works featured in this study document new theories and emerging practices. The discussion will focus on the original intent and future of the After Taste project.

PRODUCTION PREPRESS MANAGER

Princeton Architectural Press is looking for a multi-talented individual with excellent Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign skills to work as a Production Prepress Manager. The applicant should understand all aspects of book print production and will work closely with design and editorial to troubleshoot files and image problems to help produce printer-ready files for books. The position requires excellent technical skills as well as artistic sensitivity to the aesthetics of the project. Candidates must have a proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on the Macintosh platform. Knowledge of K4 and Abobe Digital Publishing Suite a plus.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

—Four-color retouching and image manipulation of photos and illustrations in Photoshop and Illustrator
—Reviewing files from the project editor and designer,
—Preparing tests of art and design elements, and reviewing tests and proofs. Recommending revisions to files or requesting replacement files that will eliminate or reduce anticipated print problems
—Preflighting and preparing final book files to send to printer
—Creating and archiving PDF versions of final book files

Email your PDF resume to prepressmanagerposition@papress.com. No phone calls, please

Come out tonight to Van Alen Books for the launch of Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park

Join the editors (Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand, Kate Orff), photographer Laura McPhee, and GSAPP’s Sarah Williams to celebrate the launch of Gateway.

The event starts at 7:00pm

Vist the Van Alen Institute website for more details.

Join PAPress tonight at 6pm at the New York Public Library to attend Architectural Explorations in Books. Speakers will be architect Tom Kundig (author of Tom Kundig: Houses 2), and Mark Rozzo (executive editor of Town & Country).

For more details visit the NYPL website.

The event is free and open to the public. Located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum. Doors open at 5:30pm.
Map and Directions

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tom Kundig: Houses 2

Pamphlet Architecture 28: Augmented Landscapes Smout Allen is available now

Super-Urban-Mega-Listic: An Evening with Smout Allen

Friday, January 20, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Studio-X NYC (map)
180 Varick St
New York, NY 10014

Join London-based architects Smout Allen and students from the Bartlett School of Architecture as they present interim student work developed with the help of a winter week spent exploring the hidden infrastructures, megastructural remnants, buried steam tunnels, and techno-ecological landscapes of New York City.

All are welcome to this open student crit; no RSVP required.

This event is a chance to talk type with two type fans!

Design and Style – Typography Sketchbooks – Steven Heller and Lita Talarico
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.

Free – Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
First come, first served

Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event.

Design historian Steven Heller and educator Lita Talarico, co-chairs of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, and designers Travis Cain, Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst, Esther K Smith + Dikko Faust (of Purgatory Pie Press), discuss the merits of the graphic designer’s typography sketchbook, a creative “work-out” space for generating ideas and drafting unique type that becomes synonymous with brands and institutions around the world. An unrestrained and idiosyncratic collection, the book Typography Sketchbooks includes work by boundary-pushing designers including Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segua, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal, Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Viktor Nubel, Peter Bilak, and Jean-Baptiste Levee.

Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provides fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.

Paula Scher MAPS
January 12 – February 18, 2012
Opening Reception: January 12, 2012 from 6 – 8 PM

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

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The interview

Tulsa, OK (KWGS) – On today’s Studio Tulsa, we offer a conversation with Avi Friedman, who is a Professor at the McGill School of Architecture. Friedman has written on “subjects ranging from construction technology to suburban planning and space management”—and his most recent book is The Nature of Place: A Search for Authenticity. It’s basically a book about the “good” places that we as human beings tend to seek out—those authentic, engaging, beautiful, and/or comfortable places that we most want to work, play, relax, socialize, dine, dwell, or simply be in. The author profiles sixteen such spots from around the globe, and in so doing explores, among other matters, the widespread rise of farmer’s markets, the disappearance of folk art from certain neighborhoods, and the relationship between cities and their natural environments.