Architects: Meet The Cultural Luminaries On Our A+ Awards Jury!

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The Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed museum in NYC. Photo via Wikipedia.

Architects! Only eight days left to submit your project — or projects — for the A+ Awards. We’ve documented some of the many reasons why you’d be crazy not to apply: amazing media exposure, getting your work seen by the industry’s leading developers and clients, and big-name partners Wall Street Journal, GOOD, Huffington Post, and Cool Hunting.

But just in case you need more convincing … our illustrious jury includes big-name curators from the world’s top art, design, and architectural institutions. We’re talking NYC’s Museum of Modern Art, the Philip Johnson Glass House, and the Guggenheim. Seriously. Click through to see the amazing cultural leaders who will be evaluating your work!

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MoMA’s Bauhaus show, organized by A+ juror Barry Bergdoll. Photo: courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art

Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelli is senior architecture and design curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She is also the museum’s director of research and development, a position created just for her. Read our Q&A with Paola here!

Barry Bergdoll
Barry Bergdoll is a professor of architectural history at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson chief curator of architecture and design at MoMA.

Ole Bouman
Ole Bouman is the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

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The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. Photo: courtesy of Storefront

Eva Franch Gilabert
Eva Franch Gilabert is director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. The architect, researcher, and teacher also founded the solo practice OOAA (Office of Architectural Affairs).

Pedro Gadanho
Pedro Gadanho is an architect, writer, and curator for contemporary architecture at MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.

Cathy Lang Ho
Cathy Lang Ho was the commissioner and curator for the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012). She is the founder and former editor in chief of Architect’s Newspaper and sits on the board of the Institute of Urban Design.

Andres Lepik 
Andres Lepik is director of the Munich museum. He is a former Loeb-Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a former curator at MoMA.

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Philip Johnson’s Glass House. Photo: courtesy of the National Trust

Reed Kroloff
Reed Kroloff is the director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and an independent architectural consultant and commentator.

Terence Riley
Terence Riley is a former curator at MoMA and former director of the Miami Art Museum. He is a founding partner of K/R (Keenen/Riley, 1984), an architectural studio known for its designs for art museums, galleries, artists and collectors.

Mark Robbins
Mark Robbins is executive director at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Mark’s own photographic work is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the former dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University.

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 NYC’s New Museum. Photo: courtesy of the New Museum

Henry Urbach
Henry Urbach is director of the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was formerly curator of architecture and design at the SFMoMA.

Karen Wong
Karen Wong is deputy director at the New Museum in New York City. Check out her amazing series of A+ juror profiles for Architizer!

David van der Leer
David van der Leer is the architecture and urban studies curator at BMW Guggenheim Lab. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Domus, The Architect’s Newspaper, Azure, and PIN-UP.

BMW Guggenheim Lab Heads To Mumbai

After New York and Berlin, the urban think tank-slash-community center will open in the sprawling city of Mumbay for six weeks from December 9 to January 20. Presented in collaboration with the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will offer free public programs and projects throughout the city under the theme “ME=WE”

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BMW Guggenheim Lab To Launch In Mumbai!

images © BMW Guggenheim Lab

The BMW Guggenheim Lab has hit the streets of New York and Berlin and is heading to Mumbai in December with some awesome pop-up public programs and projects. Presented in collaboration with the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the Lab will feature free programs at the museum and at multiple sites throughout the city. Part urban think tank, part community-gathering center, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is a global initiative that gets people involved and inspired in urban planning, art, and ideas that will better their environment and community. The Mumbai Lab will also include film screenings, activities, tours, talks, and design projects for everyone to enjoy. Read more!

The lab has recruited a local dream team to help implement the public programs in Mumbai. Trupti Amritwar Vaitla is an architect and urban planner currently researching improved public spaces and sustainability in Mumbai. Aisha Dasgupta is a demographer from the UK who focuses on reproductive health and family planning. Architect Neville Mars has also joined the team for urban growth research, and Mexican artist Héctor Zamora helps communities grow and interact with public mural projects.

Tokyo-based architects Atelier Bow-Wow have designed a structure unique to Mumbai’s character for the main lab station. Modeled after the Indian mandapa, a raised outdoor pavilion traditionally used for celebrations, the bamboo structure will be situated under a canopy of trees in the gardens of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. A smaller structure will also travel to sites throughout the city.

The program begins December 9, so keep your eye out for this incredible, interactive venture.

BMW Guggenheim Lab To Launch In Mumbai!

images © BMW Guggenheim Lab

The BMW Guggenheim Lab has hit the streets of New York and Berlin and is heading to Mumbai in December with some awesome pop-up public programs and projects. Presented in collaboration with the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the Lab will feature free programs at the museum and at multiple sites throughout the city. Part urban think tank, part community-gathering center, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is a global initiative that gets people involved and inspired in urban planning, art, and ideas that will better their environment and community. The Mumbai Lab will also include film screenings, activities, tours, talks, and design projects for everyone to enjoy. Read more!

The lab has recruited a local dream team to help implement the public programs in Mumbai. Trupti Amritwar Vaitla is an architect and urban planner currently researching improved public spaces and sustainability in Mumbai. Aisha Dasgupta is a demographer from the UK who focuses on reproductive health and family planning. Architect Neville Mars has also joined the team for urban growth research, and Mexican artist Héctor Zamora helps communities grow and interact with public mural projects.

Tokyo-based architects Atelier Bow-Wow have designed a structure unique to Mumbai’s character for the main lab station. Modeled after the Indian mandapa, a raised outdoor pavilion traditionally used for celebrations, the bamboo structure will be situated under a canopy of trees in the gardens of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. A smaller structure will also travel to sites throughout the city.

The program begins December 9, so keep your eye out for this incredible, interactive venture.

The Week in Events: desigNYC, Sacred Spaces, and More

September must be architecture’s most unproductive month. Inversely, September must be boxed wine-makers’ most productive month. We’ll compile the many parties, openings, and events happening for the rest of the month every Monday. Please note, this is a very East Coast-centric list, so send us your global events and we’ll add them in. Here’s this week’s agenda:

Monday September 12

GOOD Design NYC with By the City/For the City Competition at The Museum at Eldridge Street (12 Eldridge St.)

Tuesday September 13

Sacred Spaces in Profane Places opens at Storefront for Art and Architecture (97 Kenmare Street).

Conflict/Cities: Simon Norfolk and Noah Shachtman in Conversation at Studio-X NYC.

Wednesday September 14

desigNYC‘s annual exhibition opens with a party at GD Cucine (227 West 17th Street; between 7th and 8th Avenue).

Thursday September 15

Urban Design Week Launch Party at the BMW Guggenheim Lab (Houston and 2nd Avenue, Manhattan).

Friday September 16

Park(ing) Day. There are events all over the country to be found here.

Harvard GSD’s A Roadmap to Sustainable Infrastructures & Green Cities Conference.

Saturday

Book Launch and Roundtable: Landform Building, Edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade at the BMW Guggenheim Lab (Houston and 2nd Avenue, Manhattan).

BMW Guggenheim Lab invites you to a talk with architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

BMW Guggenheim Lab design architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Co-Principal of Atelier Bow-Wow, discusses the importance of behaviorology and the crucial role that architecture can play in giving back a sense of autonomy of spacial practice to citizens.

The event will take place today, between 7 and 9pm at the , located in First Park, Houston and 2nd Avenue, .