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NYU Steinhardt School Featured in Interior Design

LTL Architects' renovation of seven contiguous floors of the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human  Development is featured in the March issue of Interior Design. In addition to providing a cohesive identity for three of the Steinhardt School's core programs, the project also addresses the shifting programmatic needs of a major academic organization and provides infrastructural upgrades for three aging buildings to meet LEED Gold standards. Read the article here. 

David J. Lewis to participate in AFTERTASTE 2015

AFTERTASTE, The internationally renowned symposium on Interior Design at Parsons, asks in its 9th edition, "How can we promote and develop imaginations that can envision and create interiors for an unknown future, rather than being beholden to the past? How can we cultivate the unknown in a culture increasingly defined by big data and digital devices of distraction?" David J. Lewis will serve as interlocutor, engaging colleagues in an animated exploration and discussion on imagination. The symposium is organized by Jonsara Ruth, Catherine Murphy and Elizabeth Parker. Click below for more information. 

Train Terraces Featured in Long Island Index 2015 Report

The Long Island Index 2015 Report by HR&A Advisors presents the economic implications of Long Island-wide initiatives that could address some of the region’s most intractable issues. In the report, HR&A cites LTL's design, Train Terraces, as a new model for dense, mixed-use development in Long Island downtowns. Train Terraces was originally generated as part of the Build a Better Burb: ParkingPLUS design challenge, and is presented here as a prototype for development across Long Island. The design proposes programmatic densification around the Long Island Rail Road, taking the form of an intermodal transit hub integrated with public, commercial, technological, and residential spaces. 

Online: Structures of Coastal Resilience - The Amphibious Suburb

The Structures of Coastal Resilience (SCR) website and The Amphibious Suburb project page are now live, and LTL's Amphibious Suburbs project was featured on the cover of Discovery: Research at Princeton. SCR is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation to develop innovative designs for coastal flood resilience. LTL's proposal can be found at The Amphibious Suburb project page, and the whole SCR project is presented in detail at structuresofcoastalresilience.org.

For more information on the interdisciplinary design and research team, read "Resilient Shores," published in Princeton University's research magazine, Discovery.

LTL Presentation of The Amphibious Suburb: Atlantic City, NJ

LTL Architects will present "The Amphibious Suburb: Atlantic City, NJ" on Tuesday, November 25, 5:30 – 8:00 PM at AIANY Center for Architecture in a conference about the work of Structures of Coastal Resilience (SCR). The Amphibious Suburb is one of four SCR design projects supported by The Rockefeller Foundation to address rising sea levels in coastal cities.

See this article for more information about the project, and click below for more details about the presentation. 


David J. Lewis to Moderate Luminous Talks 3 at Parsons

David J. Lewis will moderate a discussion today between architects, designers and scholars, in a symposium exploring the dynamic potential of environments in which both natural and artificial forms of light activate interior space. Speakers include Jeffrey Schnapp of Harvard's metaLAB, Adam Yarinsky of Architecture Research Office, and Kevin Dowling of 4moms designers. The discussion will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 at Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th Street, NYC. 


David J. Lewis, Lecture, Thursday 6:30pm at Seattle Public Library

On Thursday, October 30, David J. Lewis will speak at the Seattle Public Library as part of Space City Seattle's lecture series dedicated to the discussion of architecture, art, and urbanism. The lecture will make the case that in our age of digital distraction, architecture is in a unique position of reasserting physical and public space as a necessary stage for dialogue and engagement.

ZDF Documentary Short: Responses to Climate Change in Urbanism and Architecture

The German television station ZDF has produced a documentary examining the United States' response to storms in the Northeast such as Irene and Sandy, and emerging approaches to dealing with climate change in urbanism and architecture. The short is part of their Planet E Series, focusing on climate change. Journalist Klaus Prömpers interviewed Paul Lewis about LTL's projects, Water Proving Ground from MoMA Rising Currents, and Structures of Coastal Resilience, which are featured in the documentary.

 


David J. Lewis to give Keynote Lecture at AIA Central States Conference

As the chair of the 2014 AIA Central States Design Awards jury, David J. Lewis will give the closing keynote lecture at the regional conference in Springfield Missouri on Friday, October 24th. The conference will focus on architectural collaborations between multiple disciplines. Click below for more information on the conference website.

Opening: Brown Institute for Media Innovation

Tuesday, 9/16: The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University's School of Journalism had its official opening in its newly renovated space, designed by LTL Architects. The Institute was established in 2012 with a generous endowment gift from longtime Cosmopolitan magazine editor and author Helen Gurley Brown and her husband David Brown, a graduate of both Stanford University and the Columbia School of Journalism.  The Institute's mission is to function as a platform for developing new forms of journalistic media for an increasingly "networked, digitized world."