POSTED 01.30.2012
AIANY NAMES SEVEN YOUNG FIRMS AMONG 2012 NEW PRACTICES
Seven young and creative architecture firms were named as recipients of AIANY's New Practices New York awards for 2012. Now in its fourth iteration, the biennial award established in 2006 and sponsored by Hansgrohe "honors firms that have utilized unique and innovative strategies, both for the projects they undertake and for the practices they have established." This year's New Practices honorees are SLO Architecture, Holler Architecture, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, Marc Fornes and the Very Many, Formless, The Living, and Christian Wassmann. Winners will be featured in an exhibition opening June 14 at the Center for Architecture, participation in the AIA national convention, and, of course, a free subscription to The Architect's Newspaper (the competion's media sponsor).

Those marked with an asterisk (*) below are alumni of the Master of Architecture Programs at Princeton University School of Architecture: SLO Architecture (Alexander Levi and Amanda Sachs*) Holler Architecture (Tobias Holler) Abruzzo Bodziak Architects (Emily Abruzzo* and Gerald Bodziak*) Marc Fornes and the Very Many (Marc Fornes) Formless (Garret Ricciardi* and Julian Rose*) The Living (Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin) Christian Wassman

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2011–12
SPRING TERM

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Spring Term Classes begin
Studio Presentations -- Undergraduate, 1:30 pm, N107
Studio Presentations -- Graduate, 1:30 pm, Betts Auditorium
All School Meeting, 4:30 pm, Betts Auditorium

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
LECTURE SERIES: CONSTRUCTED ATMOSPHERES, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
The Air on Other Planets
- Sean Lally, Founder: WEATHERS / Sean Lally LLC. Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Architecture
and
Contingent Phenomena
- Michelle Addington, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design, Yale School of Architecture

MONDAY, MARCH 5
DEAN'S LECTURE, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
Ant Farm: Then and Now
- Chip Lord, Professor Emeritus, Film & Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Founding Partner of Ant Farm
Atelier Lecture, In Collaboration with the Program in Visual Arts

MONDAY, MARCH 12 – FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Midterm Exams

SATURDAY, MARCH 17 – SUNDAY, MARCH 25
Spring Recess

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28
LECTURE SERIES: CONSTRUCTED ATMOSPHERES, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
- Stefano Boeri, Principal, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Milan; Editor-in-Chief, Abitare
and
- Hiroshi Sambuichi, Sambuichi Architects, Hiroshima

MONDAY, APRIL 9
SPRING OPEN HOUSE
OPEN HOUSE LECTURE, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
- Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal and Founder, Studio/Gang/Architects, Chicago

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
LECTURE SERIES: CONSTRUCTED ATMOSPHERES, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
- Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda, Principals, Amid.cero9, Madrid
and
- Laurent Stalder, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
LECTURE SERIES: CONSTRUCTED ATMOSPHERES, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
Air in Motion. 5 Works
- Iñaki Ábalos, Principal, Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos, Madrid
and
Sublime Atmospheres: Architecture and Vertigo
- Michael Jakob, Professor of History and Theory of Landscape, Hepia, Geneva

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
LECTURE SERIES: CONSTRUCTED ATMOSPHERES, 6 pm, Betts Auditorium
Weather Architecture
- Jonathan Hill, Director, MPhil/PhD Architectural Design, Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
and
Rooms, Parks and Stages
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Artist, Paris/Rio de Janeiro

MONDAY, MAY 7 – TUESDAY, MAY 15
Reading Period

TUESDAY, MAY 15
Dean's Date

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 – SATURDAY, MAY 26
Spring Term Exams

THURSDAY, MAY 24 – FRIDAY, MAY 25
Spring 2012 Thesis Final Public Review, 10 am, Gallery

SUNDAY, JUNE 3
Baccalaureate Sunday

MONDAY, JUNE 4
Class Day
Architecture Awards Ceremony, 2:30 pm, Betts Auditorium
Hooding Ceremony for Graduate Students, 5 pm, McCarter Theater

TUESDAY, JUNE 5
Commencement Day, Class of 2012