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Who was on the jury?
Julie Bargmann
Landscape Architect and Professor of
Landscape architecture at the
University of Virginia
Julie Bargmann is nationally recognized as an innovative designer with
over 15 years of experience in the building of regenerative places and
in research-based graduate design education. Her on-going design research
Project D.I.R.T. (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain) focuses on
the cultural and ecological potential of working with complex processes
of reclaiming industrial sites. As Associate Professor at the University
of Virginia School of Architecture, Bargmann explores emerging technologies
of remediation as the students invent design alternatives for evolutionary
transformations of contaminated communities. At her small design practice
D.I.R.T. studio, Bargmann collaborates with engineers, scientists, architects
and artists on industrial and urban landscapes across the country. Projects
range from the revitalization of Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant
to redevelopment of a ConEdison power plant on the East River of Manhattan.
Currently Bargmann is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
on reuse and remediation design frameworks of Superfund sites along with
completing a Graham Foundation Grant supported publication "Toxic
Beauty" forthcoming from Princeton Architecture Press.
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Director of Manhattan Office,
New York City Department of City Planning
In October, 2002, Vishaan Chakrabarti, AIA, was appointed Director of the
Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning. A key member
of the Department's executive staff responsible for fulfilling the agency's
mission in Manhattan, Chakrabarti advises the Mayor's Office and the City
Planning Commission on planning issues throughout the borough, manages
the thirty-person team constituting the Manhattan Office, and acts as the
primary liaison to a wide range of stakeholders including elected officials,
community organizations, major institutions, and private sector entities
on matters of urban design, land use, and economic development.
Chakrabarti leads the City's urban design effort for the redevelopment
of Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11. Other major initiatives he is currently
directing include Hudson Yards, a forty year plan for the redevelopment
of the far West side of Manhattan representing 360 acres of new commercial,
residential and open space development; the redevelopment of the High Line,
a 1.5 mile abandoned elevated railway, as a new linear park; and a river
to river master plan for Harlem's 125th Street corridor including a major
new presence for Columbia University.
Prior to joining the Department of City Planning, Chakrabarti had been
an Associate Partner for the New York Office of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill,
LLP, where since 1996 he managed numerous architecture and urban design
projects worldwide including the new headquarters for the New York Stock
Exchange.
Chakrabarti holds a Master's degree in Architecture from the University
of California at Berkeley, a Masters degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and dual Bachelor's degrees in Art History and
Engineering from Cornell University. He is also a Registered Architect
in the State of New York.
Chakrabarti is a David Rockefeller Fellow, a Crain's "40 under 40," is
involved in numerous civic organizations, and frequently publishes, lectures,
and serves on design juries. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Maria
Alataris, who is also an architect, and their son Evan.
John Lee Compton
Co-Chair Chelsea Preservation
and Planning Committee, Manhattan Community
Board No. 4
John Lee Compton is Co-Chair of the Chelsea Preservation & Planning
Committee of Manhattan Community Board No. 4, President of the Council
of Chelsea Block Associations and a member of the Executive Committee of
the Chelsea Waterside Park Association. He has lived in Chelsea since 1987.
He also is a co-founder and the CEO of BioAgriCultural Enterprises, LLC,
a member of the Executive Committee of the NYS Biodiversity Research Institute,
and a former member of the Board of Directors of the NY Biotechnology Association.
Lynne Cooke
Curator, Dia Art Foundation
Lynne Cooke is the Curator at Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1990 to
present), and a writer and lecturer on contemporary art. B.A., Melbourne
University; M.A., Courtauld Institute of Art; Ph.D., London University.
Lecturer, History of Art Department, University College, London University
(1979-89); visiting lecturer, Visual Arts Department, Syracuse University
(1987) and Graduate Sculpture School, Yale University (1990, 1992, 1998),
School of the Arts, Columbia University. Co-curator, Aperto, Venice Biennale
(1986); co-curator, Carnegie International (1991). Artistic director, Biennale
of Sydney (1996). In addition to ongoing exhibitions at Dia Center for
the Arts, she has curated exhibitions at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol;
Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London; Third Eye Center,
Glasgow; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The American Center, Paris;
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen; Dia Center
for the Arts, New York; Arkipelag, Stockholm; Galerie für Zeitgenössische
Kunst, Leipzig; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and elsewhere. She
has written widely about contemporary art in exhibition catalogues including
Ann Hamilton (Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1995), Louise Bourgeois
(Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1999), Gary Hill (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
1993), Rebecca Horn (Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 1997), Richard Serra
(Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1997), Andreas Gursky (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf, 1998), Douglas Gordon (Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
1998), Louise Bourgeois (Reina Sophia, Madrid), and Roni Horn (Phaidon,
London, 2000). She writes regularly in Burlington Magazine, Parkett and
other art journals. Currently co-curating Forward in Brussels. Most recent
exhibitions at Dia: Jo Baer, the Minimalist Years 1960-1975, Rosemarie
Trockel, Spleen.
Steven Holl
Architect
Steven Holl founded Steven Holl Architects in New York in 1976. SHA is
a design-oriented office, with a current staff of 25. The firm has been
recognized internationally with numerous awards, publications and exhibitions
for quality and excellence in design. Currently, our competition-winning
design for the 165,000 sf Expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
in Kansas City, has begun construction to be completed in 2004. At the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, our 195,000 sf Undergraduate Dormitories
completed construction in September 2002. The Whitney Waterworks Park and
Water Treatment Facility in Hamden, Connecticut began construction in Spring
2002. Other current projects include a new marina development in Beirut,
Lebanon, and a new building for the Department of Art and Art History at
the University of Iowa. Steven Holl is a tenured faculty member at Columbia
University where he has taught since 1981. Other professional affiliations
include NCARB, American Institute of Architects, American Association of
Museums, Honorary Whitney Circle, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the
International Honorary Committee, Viipuri Library, Alvar Aalto Foundation.
In July 2001 Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America's Best Architect,
for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." Most
recently Steven Holl was honored by the Smithsonian Institution with the
2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture.
Murray Moss
Owner, Moss
Murray Moss began his career as a professional actor in the United States
and Great Britain after his studies at Columbia University and at New York
University, School of Arts. In 1978, in collaboration with Dutch designer
Ronaldus Shamask, Moss launched the fashion label Moss Shamask, Ltd., which
became known for its architectonic, structural designs long before such
thinking in clothing came into vogue. Moss Shamask rapidly expanded to
include broad manufacturing of women's and men's fashions, international
distribution and licensing. In 1991, the company's trademarks and trade
names were sold. With the opening of the Moss shop in 1994, in SoHo, Murray
Moss was able to infuse basic principles of his previous careers into all
aspects of the store -- to dramatic effect. Both a sense of theatre and
a sensibility reminiscent of experimental fashion characterize the shop,
which presents a highly edited selection of current products created by
designers (often discovered by Moss) from around the world. Like an editor
or a curator, Moss changes the presentation of products almost daily, keeping
the store fresh and current with new ideas. Moss is more influential and
successful than most museums for ideas and inspiration. "You go to
learn something, not just buy something," Donald Albrecht, senior
curator of design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum said in a recent
article. "Murray brings the museum to the store." Moss currently
sits on the Boards of Trustees of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, and the Design Industries Foundation Fighting
AIDS (DIFFA). He is also a frequent guest lecturer at world-renowned art
academies and universities. In May 2000, Moss was awarded the House Beautiful "Giant's
of Design" Award., and was recently awarded the 2002 Chrysler Design
Award and the 2002 Russel Wright Award. Moss currently resides in New York
City with his business and life partner, Franklin Getchell.
Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Chairman, Skidmore Owings and
Merrill
Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, is an architect and urban designer whose projects
focus on bringing design excellence to the public realm. She currently
leads SOM's efforts in metropolitan transportation design including the
new International Air Terminal at JFK Airport, the expanded Continental
gateway at Newark Airport, and the redevelopment of Penn Station at the
Farley Building. A noted urban designer, she is also involved in plans
for Governor's Island, Columbia University, Lower Manhattan, reclaiming
the East River site of Con Ed's Waterside plant, downtown sites in Washington,
DC, and the Westside Yards. Ms. Taylor spent her first years with the firm
in the Washington, DC office where she participated in projects including
Hilton Head Island, the Great Mall, and the Northeast Corridor Improvement
Project, a $2.5 billion Federal initiative to improve passenger rail service
and the stations and station areas between Washington, DC and Boston. She
then moved to New York to lead the Urban Design and Planning practice,
where she has been involved in projects such as Riverside South, Tribeca
Bridge, Route 9A, Transitional Housing for the Homeless, Columbia University
East Campus, Chase Metrotech, and north-end residential strategies in Battery
Park City. Her projects beyond New York City range from Providence Capital
Center in Rhode Island, Celebration New Town in Florida, and the New Jersey
Center for the Performing Arts, to Canary Wharf in London and EuroDisney
in France. She also led the team that produced the award-winning Transit-Friendly
Land Use Planning, a manual for citizens and municipal officials throughout
New Jersey. Since 1985, Ms. Taylor has brought the skills of urban design
and architecture to a number of airport and transportation projects, culminating
in the establishment of "SOM Airports", a planning and design
practice addressing passenger-serving facilities at major transportation
centers. Ms. Taylor is very active in civic activities in New York, and
serves on the boards of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and the Institute
for Urban Design. She is currently serving as Chairman of the New York
Building Congress. She is Past President of the New York Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects, and has also chaired the AIA's national
Regional and Urban Design Committee. In 1995 she was selected as a David
Rockefeller Fellow of the New York City Partnership, spending a year studying
the city's public policy issues and strategies. In 1998 she was honored
as the CREW Woman of the Year, and she has been twice named to the Crain's
List of Most Influential Women. She frequently lectures and serves on juries.
Ms. Taylor was educated at Radcliffe College, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley. She is married
to Brainerd O. Taylor, an urban designer and transportation planner, and
has two children. Ms. Taylor holds the position of SOM Chairman, a two-year
term, which began on October 1, 2001. Ms. Taylor is the first woman to
head the firm. In addition to her leadership on many of SOM's most urban
and complex projects, as Chairman, Ms. Taylor will assume responsibility
for SOM's strategic vision and direction.
Signe Nielsen
Landscape Architect and Urban
Designer
Signe Nielsen brings extensive experience to the field of landscape architecture.
She has designed and supervised the construction of over $185 million worth
of projects including private estates, waterfront parks, large campuses,
urban transportation improvements, and corporate facilities in the United
States and abroad. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects,
Ms. Nielsen's design work has received awards from the Art Commission of
the City of New York, the ASLA, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission,
and the New York State Association of the American Institute of Architects.
Her work has been published in the periodicals Progressive Architecture,
Architectural Record, and Landscape Architecture and in the books International
Landscape Design, Designing the New Landscape, and Yearbook of Landscape
Architecture, among others. Exhibits of her work have been shown in New
York, Washington DC and Chicago. Born in Paris, Ms. Nielsen holds degrees
in Urban Planning from Smith College; in Landscape Architecture from City
College of New York; and in and in Construction Management from Pratt Institute.
Prior to forming Mathews Nielsen, Ms. Nielsen worked with such distinguished
design firms as Quennell Rothschild Associates, M. Paul Friedberg and Partners,
and Doxiadis Associates in Athens, Greece. Ms. Nielsen, principal of her
own design firm for 20 years, also directed a landscape construction and
maintenance firm for 10 years. Ms. Nielsen has been a speaker and juror
for events sponsored by many professional and educational organizations
and served as a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts. She
is currently a Professor in both the graduate and undergraduate Schools
of Architecture at Pratt Institute and has been a faculty member at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology and City College School of Architecture.
Ms. Nielsen is a registered landscape architect in New York, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maryland and holds a Council of Landscape
Architectural Review Boards certificate.
Bernard Tschumi
Architect, Dean of the Columbia
University Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation
Bernard Tschumi is an architect and educator. First known as a theorist,
he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture
and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983,
he won the prestigious competition to design the Parc de la Villette, a
125-acre, $300-million public park containing dramatic buildings, walkways,
bridges, and gardens at the northeast edge of Paris. Tschumi established
his Paris office in 1983, followed by the New York office in 1988. Today,
projects that are completed or under construction include Le Fresnoy National
Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France (1997); Columbia University's
Lerner Hall Student Center (1999); Marne La Vallée School of Architecture,
Paris (1999); the Interface Flon, a bus, train, and subway station and
pedestrian bridge in Lausanne, Switzerland (2001); a 8,000-person/70,000-square-foot
Concert Hall and Exhibition Complex in Rouen, France (2001); and the 100,000
square-foot Florida International University School of Architecture in
Miami, Florida. He was one of the three international finalists selected
by The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1997 to design its new expansion.
He is currently designing the Museum for African Art in New York, the New
Acropolis Museum in Athens, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paolo,
which were all winning entries to international competitions, as well as
building in Cincinnati and Geneva, Switzerland.
A permanent US resident who holds both French and Swiss nationalities,
Bernard Tschumi came to the United States in 1976. Tschumi studied in Paris
and at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland,
from which he received his degree in 1969. He taught at the Architectural
Association in London (1970-79), the Institute for Architecture and Urban
Studies in New York (1976), Princeton University (1976 and 1980) and the
Cooper Union (1981-3). He has been Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988
to 2003.
Tschumi is a member of the Collège International de Philosophie
in France and the recipient of many distinguished honors, including the
Légion d'Honneur, and the Ordre des Arts et Lettres. He was awarded
France's Grand Prix National d'Architecture in 1996, as well as awards
from the American Institute of Architects and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Robert Hammond
Director and Co-Founder, Friends
of the High Line
Reed Kroloff
Competition Advisor
Reed Kroloff is an independent architectural consultant and commentator
based in Washington, DC. He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Architecture
magazine. Under his direction, Architecture garnered more awards for editorial
and design excellence than any magazine of its type, and quickly became
the leading design publication in the nation. Prior to joining Architecture
in 1995, Mr. Kroloff taught at Arizona State University (ASU), where he
remains a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Architecture. At
ASU, he received the first-ever Award for Academic Excellence from the
Arizona chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Kroloff serves
on numerous boards and advisory councils, ranging from the Dean's Council
at the University of Tennessee to the Register of Peer Professionals of
the United States General Services Administration. Mr. Kroloff counts among
his clients the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the University of Connecticut,
the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Vivendi Universal. He writes and
lectures widely, and is a regular visiting critic at architecture schools
and professional organizations across the country. Reed Kroloff holds degrees
from the University of Texas at Austin and Yale University, and has practiced
architecture in Texas and Arizona.
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