RAMSA Partner Randy Correll will present "East Hampton, the Enduring Summer Colony" at the National Arts Club event on May 23, 2013. Mr. Correll will discuss RAMSA's contributions to preserving and reimagining East Hampton's architecture and culture, from repurposing colonial-era farm buildings to create a new town hall, to improving early 20^th century civic institutions—the East Hampton Library and Guild Hall—to reinterpreting a modernist artist's house studio for 21^st century living.

Robert A.M. Stern will be the featured guest for a conversation about Philip Johnson, his close friend and mentor, as part of the 50^th anniversary celebration of Johnson's Sheldon Museum of Art. Joining Mr. Stern in the Museum's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium will be architectural historian and author, Hilary Lewis. In addition to the evening discussion, Mr. Stern and Ms. Lewis will join William Stibor for a live broadcast of NET Radio's Friday Live Arts Magazine at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 10^th.

The Sheldon Museum of Art houses both the Sheldon Art Association collection, founded in 1888, and the University of Nebraska collection, established in 1929, together comprising more than 12,000 works of art in all media. This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art. The Sheldon Museum opened on May 16, 1963 and was constructed at a cost of $3 million, the most expensive building per square foot in the United States at the time.

Seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. More information is available on the Sheldon Museum of Art's website.

Photo by Daniel Mirer, danielmirer.com.

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will present the firm’s new monograph Evidence: The Work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects to the Washington Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. Evidence, which demonstrates that the firm has remained true to the fundamental principles of architecture over more than four decades of practice and an extraordinary range of projects, includes RAMSA's work for cultural institutions, commercial and residential developments, college and university buildings, and private residences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Brewer's design experience includes university, cultural, and hospitality projects, and he has particular expertise in traditional house design. His residential projects include homes in Seaside, Florida; Connecticut; Texas; New York City; and Long Island.  He has also designed the Ocean Course Clubhouse in Kiawah, South Carolina; the Perkins Visitor Center at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York; and the award-winning Fitness and Aquatics Center at Brown University.

The presentation is being held at the MAA Carriage House in Washington, DC. To register for the event, please contact Susan Sapiro. 

RAMSA Partner Graham S. Wyatt will present the Navy Yard Master Plan 2013 Update at quarterly meeting of The Carpenter's Company of the City and County of Philadelphia's. The plan envisions 13.5 million square feet of new development and $3 billion in private investment, emphasizing historic preservation, sustainability, high-quality workplaces, smart growth, notable architecture, and public parks. With this update, the Navy Yard will support more than 10,000 additional jobs over the next 15 years

The redevelopment of the Navy Yard is a public-private partnership of the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, Liberty Property Trust, and Synterra Partners. The design team included Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates for landscape architecture and Pennoni Associates for civil engineering.

The presentation is open to The Carpenter Company's members. To register, please contact Christy Thompson by April 10, 2013.  

RAMSA Partner Melissa DelVecchio will speak at the reunion symposium "Beyond the Drafting Board: 40 Year of Women at Notre Dame Architecture," a celebration of four decades of coeducation at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Sponsored by The Student Association for Women in Architecture and the ND School of Architecture, the symposium will gather recent graduates to reflect on their contributions to the field and their experiences at the school.

Ms. DelVecchio will also participate in a roundtable discussion "Professional Navigation," which will provide current students with practical guidance about how to be successful early in their careers.

Joining Ms. DelVecchio at the symposium will be Dean Michael Lykoudis, and pioneering alumnae Martha Lampkin Welborne '75, Toni Griffin '86, Sara Lardinois '95, and Marianne Cusato '97. To register for the event, please visit the Notre Dame Architecture Store.

RAMSA Associate William West will present “BIM Meets Collegiate Gothic” at the Traditional Building Conference in Norwalk, Connecticut.  He will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) software to represent the design of a complex project in a traditional architectural vocabulary; his presentation will take an in-depth look at the innovative combination of digital tools deployed in the recently completed construction documents for two new Collegiate Gothic residential colleges for Yale University.

The two colleges, comprising of more than 500,000 square feet of floor area and more than one mile of facade perimeter, require a high degree of variation in both massing and details in order to remain consistent with the architectural character that James Gamble Rogers established at some of Yale’s residential colleges in the 1930s. BIM did not merely help to create a more coordinated drawing set; it also presented opportunities to enrich the design and improve the documentation of traditional architectural elements.

Pre-register online now to get lower rates: $215 for a two-day registration or $159 for a one-day registration. View the full schedule for a complete list of speakers, seminar topics, and continuing education credits.

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will present the firm’s new monograph Evidence: The Work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Rocky Mountain Chapter's first major event of the year. Evidence, which demonstrates that the firm has remained true to the fundamental principles of architecture over more than four decades of practice and an extraordinary range of projects, includes RAMSA's work for cultural institutions, commercial and residential developments, college and university buildings, and private residences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Brewer design experience includes university, cultural, and hospitality projects, and he has particular expertise in traditional house design. His residential projects include homes in Seaside, Florida; Connecticut; Texas; New York City; and Long Island.  He has also designed the Ocean Course Clubhouse in Kiawah, South Carolina; the Perkins Visitor Center at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York; and the award-winning Fitness and Aquatics Center at Brown University.

The presentation is being held at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver Colorado. To register for the event, please visit here. 

RAMSA Partner Graham S. Wyatt will present "Building as Teaching Tool: Kohler Environmental Center at Choate Rosemary Hall" at the 2013 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Annual Conference. Joining Mr. Wyatt will be Joe Scanio, lead teacher at the Kohler Environmental Center, and Kathleen Lyons Wallace, Associate Headmaster and Dean of Academic Affairs at Choate Rosemary Hall. Their presentation will focus on RAMSA's recently-completed LEED Platinum Kohler Environmental Center at Choate Rosemary Hall, a 31,325-square-foot, academic and residential facility designed to achieve net-zero-energy. Attendees will learn how to bring together building, landscape, and curriculum to support an interdisciplinary course of environmental study.

Set in the midst of 268 acres of meadows, agricultural fields, second-growth forest, and wetlands, the Kohler Environmental Center accommodates cohorts of up to 20 students for a total-immersion environmental living experience. As students live at the center and take their classes and meals there, the building offers them control of their own environment; feedback from the building's monitoring systems enables them to teach themselves important lessons about how to live sustainably and responsibly.

More than 4,000 independent school leaders and colleagues will attend the 2013 NAIS Annual Conference in Philadelphia to celebrate the rich history, cutting-edge ideas, and the 50th anniversary of NAIS.  For more information and to register for the conference, please visit here.

RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen will participate in the plenary session, "Celebration Health: A 20-Year Retrospective," at the Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) 2013 Health Facility Summit in San Francisco, California.

Celebration is a showcase of innovation and excellence in health care. Celebration Health's reputation for delivering highly efficient, patient-focused, and cost-effective care has allowed it to support optimum health and wellness for patients with an emphasis on healing the whole person—mind, body and spirit. RAMSA was master planners for the new health care campus as well as the design architect for the first phase. Joining Mr. Whalen on the panel will be Charles Cole, President of HuntonBrady Architects, who designed the recent phases of the campus; Peter L. Bardwell of Bardwell + Associates, the project's health care facility planner; and Des Cummings, Excecutive Vice President of Florida Hospital, representing the client.

The panel discussion will explain the basis for the 20-year vision that led to the establishment of an innovative health care campus supporting the goal of realigning health care delivery from illness care to health generation; discuss how the organizational vision was translated into a multi-phased ongoing expansion and regeneration; and identify the key elements that have supported the successful maintenance of the organizational vision over multiple projects and project teams.

To register for the event, please visit the PDC SUMMIT 2013 site.

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will present the firm’s new monograph Evidence: The Work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, which demonstrates that the firm has remained true to the fundamental principles of architecture over more than four decades of practice and an extraordinary range of projects. RAMSA's work includes buildings for cultural institutions, commercial and residential developments, college and university buildings, and private residences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Brewer's design experience includes university, cultural, and hospitality projects, and he has particular expertise in traditional house design. His residential projects include homes in Seaside, Florida; Connecticut; Texas; New York City; and Long Island.  He has also designed the Ocean Course Clubhouse in Kiawah, South Carolina; the Perkins Visitor Center at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York; and the award-winning Fitness and Aquatics Center at Brown University. 

The presentation is being held at the RAMSA's Comcast Center. Completed in June 2008, the 57-story building is the tallest structure in Philadelphia, and was the tallest LEED Gold certified building in the US at its time of certification.

To register for the event, please visit contact Mary Anne Eves at (610) 566-2342 or at ffaphila@hotmail.com. 

Robert A.M. Stern will join Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel at the New-York Historical Society to discuss how architects can honor the past without neglecting the future. The program is organized in conjunction with the current exhibition The Landmarks of New York.

The Landmarks of New York explores the history of New York as revealed by its historical structures. The exhibition’s ninety photographs, including thirty newly donated by Ms. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, are critical documents that chronicle the city’s past from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

To register for the event, please visit the New York Historical Society's site.

RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen will present at the 2^nd China International Architecture Forum "A Very Beautiful Game Between Man-Made and Natural Structures," hosted by Xiamen Vanke Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.  Mr. Whalen's presentation, "Master Planning in China: A Way Forward," will include discussion of Heart of Lake, a 2,000,000-square-foot residential development featuring a diverse mix of residential types, including high-rise and mid-rise apartments, townhouses, and single-family villas for Vanke on Huxindao Island in Xiamen.

Mr. Whalen's experience includes two of the most influential planning projects of our time: the new town of Celebration, Florida, and plan and guidelines that revived the theater block of New York City's 42^nd Street, which won a 1999 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.

To register for the forum, please visit Vanke's website.

RAMSA will host a reception on December 7, 2012 as part of The Architectural League of New York's Fall First Friday Series.  Guests will gather for informal conversation and a behind-the-scenes look at the firm's recent and upcoming projects.

The First Friday series provides a monthly opportunity for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices, to see work on the boards, and to learn more about the offices’ organization and design process.  First Friday events are free and open to League members only, who may bring up to one non-member guest. Reservations required; please email rsvp@archleague.org. To become an Architectural League member, join here.

RAMSA Founder and Senior Partner Robert A.M. Stern was the featured guest at Inside the Business of Design: An Interview Series with Keith Granet, a six-part series at The New School in New York City. Each program features one-hour interviews with leaders in the design profession and discussed the ways these leaders created their successful design firms. Keith Granet, author of The Business of Design conducts the interviews.

Additional guests to be interviewed include Bjarke Ingels, Charlotte Moss, Thomas O'Brien, Mark Ferguson, and Bunny Williams in 2013.

To view Mr. Stern's interview, please visit here.

RAMSA Partner Melissa DelVecchio will moderate “Architects and the Clients of Design,” a panel discussion at the reunion conference, "Yale Women in Architecture," sponsored by the Yale Alumni Association and the Yale School of Architecture.  This first-ever conference celebrates the 30^th anniversary of the Sonia Albert Schimberg Award, and provides an opportunity for classmates and colleagues to re-connect and discuss the legacy of women architecture graduates from Yale as well as the current conditions in architecture and related fields.

Joining Ms. DelVecchio on the panel will be Cara Cragan, Senior Manager, Architecture, Commissions and Project Planning, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project; Anne Gatling Haynes, MBA Candidate, Sloan Fellows Program, MIT 2013; Lisa Tilney, Partner, Oxalis Development; and Faith Rose, Senior Design Liaison, NYC Department of Design and Construction. Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and Senior Partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, will open the conference on Friday evening.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects will celebrate the opening of our new representative office in Shanghai, China, at a reception at the Salon de Ville at the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on Thursday, November 29, 2012.

RAMSA currently has projects in Shanghai, Xiamen, Tianjin, Changzhou, Wuhan, Dalian, and Hong Kong. Our growing list of clients in China includes Vanke, Wheelock Properties, Wharf, Legend, and Sun Hung Kai.

RAMSA Partner Grant Marani is the Partner-in-Charge of the Shanghai Representative Office and Kayin Tse is RAMSA's representative. Additionally, RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen is the Partner-in-Charge of RAMSA's Representative Office in Beijing and Ching-Chyi Yang is the representative.

To attend the reception, please contact Mellisa Mao at rsvpshanghai@ramsa.com. 

RAMSA Partner Melissa DelVecchio will present “BIM Meets Collegiate Gothic” at the Traditional Building Conference "Building Well: Traditional Design, Materials, and Methods" in Chicago, Illinois.  She will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) software to represent the design of a complex project in a traditional architectural vocabulary. Her presentation will take an in-depth look at the innovative combination of digital tools deployed in the recently completed construction documents for two new Collegiate Gothic residential colleges for Yale University.

The two colleges, comprising of more than 500,000 square feet of floor area and more than one mile of facade perimeter, require a high degree of variation in both massing and details in order to remain consistent with the architectural character that James Gamble Rogers established for Yale’s residential colleges in the 1930s. BIM did not merely help to create a more coordinated drawing set; it also presented opportunities to enrich the design and improve the documentation of traditional architectural elements.

RAMSA Associate William West will co-present with Ms. DelVecchio.

On Sunday, November 4, 2012, Bronx Community College will dedicate A Sense of Place, a collection of twenty-two paintings by Bronx-born mural-artist Daniel Hauben commissioned for RAMSA's new North Hall and Library on campus. Commissioned by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York on behalf of the City University of New York, the paintings feature classic Bronx vistas and neighborhood street scenes, waterways and bridges, elevated trains, rooftops and BCC campus scenes.

Guests at the dedication will also be able to visit Creating a Sense of Place, an accompanying exhibit on view October 23 through November 29, 2012 at the Hall of Fame Art Gallery in Bliss Hall at Bronx Community College.  For more information and to RSVP by the October 31 deadline, please call (718) 289-5973 or email bronx.foundation@bcc.cuny.edu. 

RAMSA will create a very special elevator vestibule for The Hollywood Reporter's Design Hollywood at The Century, RAMSA's 885,000-sqare-foot residential tower in Century City, CA. Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and Related Companies, the designer showhouse will benefit the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at The Century in Century City, CA, and coincides with the publication of THR's first-ever Home Issue and "Top Interior Designers in Hollywood" list.

The Hollywood-inspired showhouse takes place in two grand residences on the 20th floor of the 42-story Century, each with its own private elevator vestibule and panoramic views that stretch from downtown Los Angeles, across the Hollywood Hills to the Pacific Ocean. Along with RAMSA, THR Design Hollywood at The Century will feature the work Joan Behnke, Tim Clarke, Waldo Fernandez, Trip Haenisch, Jane Hallworth, Kathryn M. Ireland, Todd Nickey & Amy Kehoe of Nickey/Kehoe, David Phoenix, and Marmol Radziner and Associates.

The showhousewill be open to the public on Fridays 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. from Friday, October 26 – Sunday, November 18. For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit www.thr.com/designhollywood. Complimentary parking will be available at The Century.

RAMSA Partner Graham S. Wyatt will present an inside look at the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center and how it fits into Southern Methodist University's Dallas campus – leading the campus in a modern direction but acknowledging its relation to the its history – on the occasion of the campus's 100^th anniversary.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center, a modern brick and limestone structure that complements the American Georgian character of the SMU campus, will house the Presidential archives, a museum, and a policy institute.  Currently under construction, the George W. Bush Presidential Center will open in the Spring of 2013.  The project is on target for LEED Platinum Certification.

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will participate in the panel discussion "Deconstructing the Mass Appeal and Continued Relevance of Traditional Architecture" at the symposium Reinvention: Designing for the Future, sponsored by Residential Architect. At the ninth annual Reinvention Symposium, panelists will discuss how architects may broaden their reach and their service beyond the privileged few and the appeal traditional forms have on home buyers, while also exploring the compelling arguments for building traditionally in the modern world.

In addition to Gary Brewer, the panel will include Stuart Cohen, FAIA, Cohen & Hacker; Julie Hacker, FAIA, Cohen & Hacker; and Donald Powers, AIA, Union Studio Architects.

To register for the conference, please visit here.

RAMSA Senior Partner Robert A.M. Stern will lecture at the 2012 Alumni Convocation at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.  Mr. Stern's presentation "Designing the Sacred: Architecture Meets Mission" will address the challenges of designing sacred spaces and focus on RAMSA's design for the Seminary's new Immanuel Chapel and the research involved, both local and worldwide, as part of the design process.

The new chapel, designed to complement the Seminary's collection of historic buildings, will reflect the restrained Virginia traditions of the campus's earliest buildings. Along with a new Welcome Center and a new motor court, the new Immanuel Chapel will welcome visitors with a broad, inviting portico, while it will greet those who approach from the campus with a terrace oriented to the campus grove

The lecture will be streamed live on the Seminary's website, and can be viewed here.

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will serve on the jury for athome magazine's A-List Awards. The third annual home design competition celebrates the best in interior design, architecture, and landscape design in Fairfield County, Connecticut.  Joining Mr. Brewer on this year's jury will be Peter Pennoyer of Peter Pennoyer Architects; Thom Filicia of Thom Filicia, Inc.; Victoria Hagan of Victoria Hagan Interiors; Celerie Kemble of Kemble Interiors; and others.

The awards presentation will be hosted by Eric Cohler of Eric Cohler Designs, and takes place Thursday, September 13, 2012 at Stamford Palace Theater.  The event will benefit Habiat for Humanity.

Tickets can be purchased here. 

RAMSA Partner Gary L. Brewer will be presenting at the AIA The Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) Symposium 2012, September 7-9, in Newport, Rhode Island. The three-day symposium, entitled “Elevating the Art of Residential Design & Practice,”  is open to all AIA and non-AIA members and will bring together architects from across the country to learn, share, and discuss the field of custom residential architecture. 

On Saturday afternoon, September 8, Mr. Brewer will present “Big House, Little House: Market Meets Demand,” focusing on the divide between modernist houses designed for "patron" clients and traditional houses designed for the middle market. 

Most architects prefer the aesthetics of modern design, yet the mass market favors traditional design. By focusing almost exclusively on high-end modernist designs, architects have not only limited their potential pool of clients, they also have abandoned traditional, middle-class housing, leaving mid-market house consumers without the support of architects, resulting in faux-traditional “McMansions.

Mr. Brewer argues that it's time for architects to return to serving the mid-market and its needs and preferences, rather than addressing exclusively the limited market of modern "patron" clients who commission one-of-a-kind residences. Although it is important to embrace all sizes and styles of houses, perhaps a leading factor determining style should be the homeowner’s house style preference.

The importance of the pattern book industry will be discussed:  its early beginnings, rise to popularity in the early 20th century, its sharp decline after World War II, with the advent of modern design, and the continuing efforts of some architects and companies—among them Southern Living and This Old House magazines—to bring well-designed houses to the mid-market.

Closing his presentation, Brewer will suggest that architects ought to pay more attention to houses other than patron houses—whether taking modern or traditional paths. Training and education, he advises, will play an important role in cultivating both an appreciation for traditional architecture among future architects and encouraging them to address mid-market house consumers.

On Sunday morning, Mr. Brewer will participate in a panel, “S,M, L Firms.”

To register for the conference, please visit here.

RAMSA Senior Partner Robert A.M. Stern will join Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel for the discussion “Honoring the Past Without Neglecting the Future: Opportunities for Creative Change," at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York.  Tickets are available for $5 for Parrish members and $10 for nonmembers.

The conversation is conjunction with The Landmarks of New York, an exhibition of 90 photographs of some of New York’s more than 1200 landmarks that follows on the publication of The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition: An Illustrated Record of the City’s Historic Buildingss. Both the book and the exhibition have been created and organized by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, author, television host and producer, preservationist, and civic activist.  Landmarks of New York has been touring museums, historical societies, and galleries throughout New York State since September 2011 and will continue to travel through June 2013, with related exhibits and celebrations in each venue showcasing local historic preservation efforts. The exhibition is sponsored by J.P. Morgan.

More information is available here.

Since the early 1980’s, Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been commissioned to design four new buildings at the University of Virginia, each contributing in its own way to the growth of this World Heritage Site campus.

RAMSA Partners Graham S. Wyatt and Preston Gumberich will present “Building Well in Mr. Jefferson’s Back Yard; From the Academical Village to Bavaro Hall,” the story of the firm’s contributions to the University of Virginia campus at the Traditional Building Conference in Boston.

Mr. Wyatt will place RAMSA's work at U.Va. in historical perspective, assessing the precedents for Jefferson’s designs and the arc of the campus’s development through the “Brown Decades” of the late 19^th century, the return to its roots in the early 20^th century, and the post-World War II construction boom leading to RAMSA designs for the Observatory Hill Dining Hall (1983), Sprigg Lane Dormitories (1984), and the new Colgate Darden School of Business (1996). 

Mr. Gumberich will follow with a discussion of the design of Bavaro Hall for the Curry School of Education (2010), focusing on the realization of traditional details in a contemporary construction environment and sustainable design features of this LEED Gold-certified building.

RAMSA Partner Robert A.M. Stern will join Henry Urbach, Director of the Philip Johnson Glass House, for The Glass House's Conversations in Context series on July 19, 2012.

In its second year, The Glass House's of Conversations in Context offers visitors the opportunity to join a leader in architecture, art, landscape, history or design for an evening tour of the Glass House campus followed by an intimate conversation and reception on the historic property. Since the 1940s, The Glass House has served as a place of inspiration, education and conversation across creative disciplines. Its 49-acre landscape, 14 architectural structures and world-class art collection continue to draw members of an international creative community to participate in its rich story.

Tickets are now available.

View  films and learn more about the 2011 inaugural season of Conversations in Context.

RAMSA Partner Alexander P. Lamis will be interviewed by Josh King, Founder of PoliOptics – a segment on the POTUS (Politics of the United States) Channel on XM Sirius Satellite Radio.  Mr. Lamis will join Michael Quinn, President and Chief Executive of the American Revolution Center (ARC) in a discussion about the new Museum of the American Revolution to be built in Philadelphia, PA. The ARC, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, is establishing the Museum of the American Revolution to house its distinguished collection of Revolutionary War-era treasures. 

"PoliOptics" focuses on the theater of politics, with host Josh King taking his audience behind the scenes of Washington political stagecraft. The segment will air three times throughout the day.  More information is available at POTUS Channel for XM Sirius Satellite Radio.

At the Providence Preservation Society's annual award ceremony to be held at Brown University's Nelson Fitness Center, Gary Brewer, RAMSA Project Partner for the building, will talk about its design and the role of traditional architecture on Brown's campus.  The Society will honor Brown's President, Ruth Simmons, for her role in shepherding numerous renovation and restoration projects on the campus.

Tickets to the event can be purchased here.

At the twentieth annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen will present "The Paradox of Emerging Cities." The presentation will discuss of Heart of Lake, a two-million-square-foot high-density garden suburb on Huxindao Island in Xiamen, a major coastal city in southern China. This planned pedestrian community adapts traditional Chinese and Mediterranean architecture to local culture, climate, and technology; it also incorporates sustainable design practices.

CNU 20 will focus on how New Urbanist practices, principles, and applications can address the extraordinary economic upheaval of recent years that has brought an end to the readily available capital and supercharged growth that fueled a “bigger is better” approach, and advance high quality urbanism through a more incremental, attainable, “small is beautiful” approach. The CNU engages in its mission of excellence by generating new ideas about development, implementation, education, coding, sustainability, and problem-solving using New Urbanist principles.

RAMSA Partner Gary Brewer will speak at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain on May 2, 2012.  “Arcadia for Everyone:  The Rise and Fall of the Garden Suburb” will cover significant examples of design responses to unplanned sprawl.  Presenting European and American projects from Ebenezer Howard's Garden City to Seaside and Celebration, Florida, Gary will describe the impact that density, a mix of uses, pedestrian activity, codes, building quality, and other issues have on the experience of the modern town. He will conclude with a discussion of pattern book houses including examples from his own work.   

“Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House,” a Checkerboard Films production, will screen twice at Chicago’s Architecture & Design Film Festival.  In the film, Mr. Stern explains why apartment buildings of past decades appealed to so many affluent city dwellers and the lessons learned by examining the apartment houses' design and construction.  He also provides an in depth account of the influences and inspiration behind the design of 15 Central Park West, one of the most successful residential buildings to rise in New York in decades.

The Architecture & Design Film Festival is the nation’s largest film festival celebrating the creative spirit behind some of the world’s most remarkable architecture and design.  The festival features talk-backs (Q & A?) and panels with industry leaders, book signings, and two days of architectural driving tours sponsored by Audi.

RAMSA Partner Gary Brewer will present at the Seventh Annual Design Leadership Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, April 12.  Mr. Brewer will trace the history of published house plans (pattern-books) and offer a comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from the 1700s to the present. The summit, running from April 11-14, will assemble principals of leading architecture and design firms to galvanize ideas and actions through seminars, tours, and networking.  The Design Leadership Summit was founded and is hosted by Peter Sallick of Design Investors and Keith Granet of Granet & Associates. This year's theme is “Defining and Discovering Value.”  RAMSA Partner Roger Seifter will also attend the Summit.

Alexander Lamis will speak on “The Architect’s Vision” panel at the 2012 Architectural Digest Home Design Show discussing how he and his colleagues are creating total environments, embracing the design of buildings and also furnishings.  Mr. Lamis will also introduce RAMSA’s New York Home Collection at Booth 709.

Alexander Gorlin will be on the panel with Mr. Lamis.  Julie Iovine, Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, will moderate.

The 11^th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show 2012 will bring together design professionals and feature exhibits from nearly 400 premium brands; a keynote presentation by Margaret Russell, Architectural Digest’s Editor-in-Chief; design seminars; cooking demonstrations and tastings; complimentary on-on-one design consultations; and more.  For tickets to the show, please go to: https://www.microspec.com/tix123/eTic.cfm?code=ARCH2012

RAMSA has designed and donated a robe to CELEBRATE: THE WEARABLE, Architecture and Design Museum's live auction and fundraising gala.  The robe is modeled on the traditional flowing wide-sleeved boubous worn by men in West Africa, interpreted in two fabrics from Robert A.M. Stern Architects' 2011 collection for C.F. Stinson, one evoking basketweave construction and the other inspired by Malian masonry walls. 

CELEBRATE: THE WEARABLE brings together design leaders and creative thinkers from around the country.  This year the festivities will consist of a runway show and live auction of wearable creations.

The robe was designed by RAMSA Partner Daniel Lobitz.

RAMSA Partner Daniel Lobitz will take part in the panel discussion "Driving Principles of Museum Design: Civic Participation and Curatorial Responsibility" at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museum's 8^th annual symposium.

Urban museums share goals of inviting physical presence, programmatic openness to the community, and curatorial responsibility. Presenting the Museum for African Art as a case study, Mr. Lobitz and representatives from the Museum will describe the design of a new museum that will display, preserve, and interpret important art and at the same time serve as a gathering place for a vibrant local and global cultural community.

Joining Mr. Lobitz on the panel will be the Museum's Deputy Director & Chief Operating Officer, Kenita Lloyd; Curator for Contemporary Art, Lisa Binder; and Director of Development & Theater Programs, Marietta Ulacia.

Paul L. Whalen will  present a lecture on "High Rise Living - New York and Beyond" at the National Arts Club, discussing examples of his signature apartment houses across the country and in Asia.  The National Arts Club, dedicated to encouraging awareness of and interest in the built environment and educating the community about buildings and their designers, occupies the landmarked Tilden Mansion (Calvert Vaux, 1885) on New York's Gramercy Park.

More information can be found on the National Arts Club website.

Grant Marani will be a panelist at the New York Green Build Solutions Forum, which will provide a platform to build greater awareness of Australia's Green Building capability. The seminar is part of G’Day USA’s Australia Week, and will be held at the Palace Hotel, 455 Madison Avenue, New York, New York.

More information about the seminar can be found at G’Day USA’s website.

Robert A.M. Stern will give Drexel University’s Farajollah & Maryam Badie AARFA lecture in Architecture, sponsored by Drexel’s Department of Architecture + Interiors. 

More information about the lecture series can be found on Drexel's website.

Robert A.M. Stern will participate in "Zoning The City: Addressing New York City’s 21st Century Challenges, " a day-long conference designed to cultivate new thinking about zoning as a governmental tool to help New York compete globally, to offer economic and social opportunities for all its citizens, to ensure a sustainable environment, and to enhance the public realm the 21st century.

Co-chaired by New York City Planning Department Director Amanda Burden and Harvard University Professor Jerold S. Kayden, and sponsored by the New York City Department of City Planning, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College, the conference will feature prominent experts who will describe the challenges facing New York City and the role zoning should and should not play in meeting them.

For more information about the conference, please visit the Zoning the City web site.

RAMSA Partner Meghan McDermott will be on the panel, “Reflections on 25 Years in Real Estate: Density, Sustainability, and Global Finance," part of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation “Real Estate Development Program: 25th Anniversary Celebration Weekend.” The panel of architect and design professionals will discuss sustainability and environmental aspects of real estate development.  Other panel discussions will address density and the built environment as well global finance.  A cocktail reception will follow the symposium.  The symposium is organized by Kate Ascher, the Milstein Professor of Urban Development at the GSAPP.

For more information and tickets to the symposium, please visit the Columbia GSAPP web site.

Reconsidering Postmodernism, a two-day conference sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and the Schools of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami, will gather leading scholars, practitioners, and critics for a rigorous round of lectures, film tributes, and panel discussions.  The themes of the conference—the historic significance of Postmodernsim, its impact on design education and public taste, theoretical underpinnings, contemporary appraisal, lessons learned and lessons forgotten—will illuminate Postmodernism’s overall cultural impact.

RAMSA Partner Gary Brewer, who conceived and organized the conference, will give opening remarks on Friday, November 11 at 9:00 am.  Robert A.M. Stern will be participating in the panel discussion “Postmodernism: Looking Back” on November 11 at 6:45 pm.

For more information about the conference, please visit the ICAA web site.

On November 3, 2011 Alexander Lamis will participate in the “Crossing Into Product Design” panel at Architectural Record’s “Innovation Conference 2011: Crossing Borders and Disciplines.” He and architects Nicholas Holt and Hilary Sample will discuss how their firms got involved in the product design, how product design influences their architectural projects and vice versa, what major challenges their firms have faced entering the product design market, and what new technologies and skills they have developed by expanding into the area of making “things.”

Architectural Record Innovation Conference 2011 will bring together design professionals who demonstrate, through case studies, how they have effectively crossed boundaries and disciplines to increase their impact on the built environment.  

To veiw Mr. Lamis's presentation, please visit the Conference web site.