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.

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.

At the twentieth annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), RAMSA Partner Paul Whalen will present "City Beautiful Meets Ville Radieuse in China." The presentation will compare the principles of Burnham’s City Beautiful movement and Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse, and discuss how they may inform urban and town planning projects in 21^st-century China.  Sustainable design practices will also be discussed. 

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.