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The outgoing dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) discusses the thinking behind his experimental legacy. In September, Mark Wigley, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), announced that he would step down from his position at the end of the academic year, in June 2014. Wigley, who has a B.Arch. (1979) and a Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, assumed the deanship in 2004. Since coming to the United States in the late 1980s, Wigley has produced a series of provocative books and exhibitions on

Image courtesy FAR ROC A street view from White Arkitekter's winning proposal for the FAR ROC design competition. Stockholm-based architectural practice White Arkitekter has been selected as the winner of the two-phase "For a Resilient Rockaway" (FAR ROC) design competition, organized by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, among others. The competition brief, launched in April, asked designers to develop ideas for a new mixed-use, mixed-income, sustainable, and storm-resilient community on an 80-acre site on the Rockaway Peninsula, one of the coastal sections of

While victims struggle to rebuild, architects plan for the next Big One.

The dean of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture talks to RECORD on the occasion of his first midterm review. Photo © J. Seo Michael A. Speaks Earlier this year, Michael A. Speaks took over as dean of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. As dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky, Speaks focused his school's energy into a series of multi-stakeholder community revitalization projects, not unlike the legacy left by his Syracuse predecessor, Mark Robbins, whose tenure was defined by numerous efforts to revive the Rust Belt city. On the occasion of Speaks's first midterm review, he spoke

An exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design spotlights the craft behind digitally fabricated art, architecture, and design.

Frieze Projects performance by Lili Reynaud-Dewar Greek architect Andreas Angelidakis has a penchant for designing exhibitions that are all-encompassing experiences. For the show The System of Objects, on view at the Deste Foundation in Athens through November 30, the Sci-ARC and Columbia alum curated a hybrid art and design exhibition from the vast holdings of mega-collector Dakis Joannou and then designed a maze-like warren of interior spaces for the work to inhabit. “There is a sense of a theme park,” he said just after the opening in May. “People tell me that they get lost, both literally—they don’t know where

A team from the Vienna Institute of Technology, competing in the U.S. for the first time, took home top honors in the Department of Energy’s sixth Solar Decathlon.

The BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai. It’s been quite the ride for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and German automaker BMW Group: two years ago the organizations embarked on a global road trip to document how people think about the challenges their cities face, and brainstorm solutions. The results were unveiled last week in Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Part policy think tank, part happening, part forum, the Lab set up a pop-up space in which residents of three cities—New York City, Berlin, and Mumbai—could

Photo courtesy Wikipedia Creative Commons An aerial view of Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, shows its context within an oval campus, surrounded by seas of parking lots. Ever since the Eero Saarinen–designed Bell Labs building in central New Jersey closed six years ago, its fate has hung in the balance. Now the iconic edifice that was once the site of enormous technological innovation will re-emerge as a civic center for the surrounding town of Holmdel. Photo © Ezra Stoller/Esto The atrium of the building, as it looked when it was completed. Somerset Development purchased the 1.9-million-square-foot building and the

A small number of very large high-profile projects have long dominated construction starts for arenas and stadia—a fact that accounts for the erratic performance of the sports facilities market. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].