DALE COHEN DESIGNSTUDIO - Key Persons
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- Professor of Design History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
From the curving lines of Thonet bentwood furniture and delicate Lalique glass to sumptuous jacquard woven textiles and Japanese-influenced graphics, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced extraordinarily beautiful objects. Professor Cheryl Buckley and a panel of experts will tell the story of the turn of the twentieth century - a time of shifting social and political mores- through a range of important design objects from Cooper-Hewitt's collection.
Author Christopher Rawlins will present a talk based upon his newly released book Fire Island Modernist, the first book to highlight the seductive seaside houses designed by Horace Gifford, a largely forgotten architect who died of AIDS in 1992. After years of research Rawlins has pieced together the life and career of this elusive and complex figure-a charismatic charmer who suffered from depression and attended business meetings in a Speedo.
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- Professor and Chair of Arhitecture, Pratt Institute
Dale Cohen is a unique creative voice behind a realm of interior design, merging architectural elegance and distinctive decor. She is trained as an architect and has spent the past 20 years specializing on interior environments, her work spans from the interior architecture (gut renovations including plumbing/electrical/audio visual/cabinetry, etc) to furnishings and art selection. A respected industry thought leader, Ms. Cohen is a sought-after speaker, a university adjunct professor, and has a career-long dedication to giving back to the architecture community.
Holding a degree in Bachelor's of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Architecture from Yale, Cohen's journey is marked by rich experiences. She honed her craft in revered architectural studios in France and the Netherlands, then returned to Yale's Construction Management department, overseeing Richard Serra's installation and the British Art Center's re-glazing. Transiting to education, she taught architectural design at UCLA and Woodbury University.
Returning to the East Coast in 2000, Cohen enriched her repertoire. At Ingrao, Inc. she applied her architectural skill to a 35,000 sq ft Greenwich home at Drake Design, followed by spearheaded Gracie Mansion's restoration under the Bloomberg Administration, as the team's Senior Designer and Team Lead.
Ms. Cohen's creations graced prestigious platforms including the Southampton Designer Showhouse and Holiday House Hamptons. Notably, she stood as the sole designer for the Watchcase Factory Art + Design Installation in 2016 commissioned by the developer Cape Advisors.
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- Co - Founder and Principle Design Director
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- Principal, Slade Architecture
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- Senior Design Manager - Customer Experience, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd
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- New York Chapter 2013 President
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- Creative Director, Principal, Gensler
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- Founder and Festival Director, Architecture & Design Film Festival ( ADFF )
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- Senior Vice President, Global Retail Development, National Basketball Association
Marion Weiss is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, based in New York City and the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her multidisciplinary firm operates at the nexus of architecture, art, landscape, and urban design, with projects ranging from the construction of new sites to the construction of furniture to inhabit and shape those sites. Her firm's Olympic Sculpture Park exemplifies this cross disciplinary design approach and the project has been recognized internationally through museum exhibitions and design awards. Time Magazine identified the park as one of the top 10 projects in the world, Barcelona's World Architecture Festival selected the project as winner in the Nature Category, I.D. Magazine awarded it the highest Environment Design Award, and it was the first project in North America to win Harvard University's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Encompasses
WEISS/MANFREDI received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award which acknowledged the distinct vision of the firm and was named one of North America's "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York. The firm was also honored with the New York AIA Gold Medal and the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, annually awarded to one individual or firm in the world each year. The firm's projects have been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Modem Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the National Building Museum, Harvard University, the International Landscape Architecture Biennale in Barcelona, and the Design Centre in Essen, Germany. Their first monograph Site Specific and the more recent WEISS/MANFREDI Surface/Subsurface were published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Her firm's Visitor Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden recently opened to the public. Other built work includes the Diana Center, a multi-use arts building at Barnard College whose design won a national design competition and a Progressive Architecture Award, establishes a new nexus for social, cultural, and intellectual life for both the campus and the city. The Diana Center also won the New York State AIA Best Building Award in 2010 as well as a National AIA Honor Award. WEISS/MANFREDI recently won a national competition to redesign the Washington Monument Grounds at Sylvan Theater. Other current projects include two new buildings for Novartis North America's headquarters; Hunters Point South Waterfront Park, located on the East River in Queens, New York; and the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Marion Weiss received her Master of Architecture at Yale University and her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. At Yale she won the American Institute of Architects Scholastic Award and the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. She has taught design studios at Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and since 1991 has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn School of Design where she is currently the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture.
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- Director for Design, New York University
Mehrdad Yazdani, Assoc. AIA, Design Principal, Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design
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- Co - Founder and President, Hariri & Hariri Architecture
https://www.facebook.com/events/336423423145612/ The architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio will present their book Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account (Damiani, 2013). Diller and Scofidio will be in conversation with Edward Dimendberg, Anthony Vidler, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, and Dana Polan Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University about Lincoln Center.
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- Staff Writer, Wired, Contributing Editor, the Architect 's Newspaper