Maria Aiolova appointed Academic Director for Global Architecture + Design, CIEE

August 30, 2013 . For Immediate Release

Maria Aiolova, Co-founder of Terreform ONE and Chair of the ONE Lab New York School for Design and Science, has been appointed Academic Director for Global Architecture and Design of CIEE, the world leader in international education and exchange. Aiolova is an award-winning educator, architect, and urban designer. She has developed new interdisciplinary study abroad programs for U.S. college and university students focused on exploring the creative uses of technology in design. Through the resulting Global Architecture and Design programs, students now have the opportunity to study with faculty who are leading experts in the field; complete hands-on design projects with the potential to positively impact future generations; and work in state-of-the-art studio space located in architecture and design hubs.

Beginning in Spring 2014, Global Architecture and Design will be offered to advanced architecture and design students as a semester program at CIEE Study Centers in Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic. A four-week version of the program will be offered in New York City in summer 2014. This interdisciplinary study abroad program is open to U.S. College and University students focused on exploring the creative uses of technology in architecture and design using the host city as a living laboratory.

The Global Architecture and Design program seeks to generate a new platform for distributed knowledge and collective action. It is designed around the idea that in the future, cities will grow to be self-sufficient in their critical necessities through massive public works and infrastructural support. With the help of today’s experts and innovators in the fields of architecture, material science, urban design, and civil and environmental engineering, students will study the emerging discipline of global “urbaneering” from an interdisciplinary perspective.  Students will study and design projects that optimize, conserve, or reuse natural and built resources, provide healthful environments for occupants, and reduce the environmental impacts of the build environment on future generations.

According to CIEE President and CEO James P. Pellow, “The quality of CIEE’s study abroad programs is our number one priority. By working with the leader in research and education into the crossover of design and science, we can offer architecture and design programs that meet the unique academic requirements and needs of today’s students.”

Visit http://www.ciee.org/study/architecture-design 

CIEE 
A nonprofit, non-governmental organization, CIEE is the world leader in international education and exchange. For 65 years, CIEE has helped thousands of students, professionals, and educators gain the knowledge and skills necessary to live and work in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world by offering the most comprehensive, relevant, and valuable exchange programs available. Today, CIEE offers more than 200 study abroad programs for U.S. college and university students in more than 40 countries and 60 cities worldwide.

Welcome to the Board of Directors, Pat Sapinsley

Pat Sapinsley, CEO, is a LEED AP architect, and Co-Chair of the Committee on the Environment of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In that capacity, she has worked with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning to modify and implement the Energy Code and further the goals of the Greater Greener Buildings Plan. She is an active member of the US Green Building Council and Urban Green, and a Board Member of Green Light New York. She is an Advisor to Honest Buildings and President of Build Efficiently, LLC which seeks to further the deployment of energy efficient strategies for buildings.

Ms. Sapinsley was recently named a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. There, Ms. Sapinsley will assist in translating biologically-inspired technologies into commercial products through collaborations with clinical investigators, strategic corporate entities, and venture capital investors. 

Prior to starting Build Efficiently, she was Venture Partner at Good Energies, a leading global venture capital firm in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry, which at the time focused on investments in solar and wind as well as energy efficiency and green buildings. Ms. Sapinsley monitored developments in green building technologies, performed due diligence and industry analysis of energy efficiency start-ups leading to investments in portfolio companies. 

Starting in 1982, Ms. Sapinsley was a principle of Sapinsley Architecture. The firm won awards from numerous architectural organizations and publications, including the American Institute of Architects and the Architectural League. Previously, she worked for both Richard Meier and Partners and for Croxton Collaborative Architects. 

A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch.) she also holds a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College. She is a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council.

Designboom, Terreform ONE, Fab Tree Hab

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/fab-tree-hab-is-a-living-graft-prefab-structure-by-terreform-one/

Nurhan Gokturk, Director of Innovation at Terreform ONE

Nurhan Gokturk is an artist and urban designer working in New Orleans and New York City. He received his Master Degree from Harvard Design School and his Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. Additionally he is a partner at Planetary ONE where he has been a leader in various projects on urban design including, "Super Docking". Nurhan founded Hometime L.L.C. which he introduced and developed the first New Orleans style modular home. He then conceived of Project2020, an initiative ot develop 2,020 modular homes as infill strategy on blighted and abandoned lots. Previously, he held the positions of a senior designer at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and at Kohn, Pederson and Fox both in NY. Most notably, Nurhan has been interviewed on NPR for "Dog days of Summer". He has been featured in Metropolis Magazine, and awarded Gambit's Top 40 under 40 in 2004. See his drawings at: Drawings and Projections

Director of Science at Terreform ONE, Oliver Medvedik, Awarded Visiting Professorship at The Cooper Union

Dr. Oliver Medvedik, Sandholm Visiting Professor of Biology and Bioengineering and Assistant Director of the Maurice Kanbar Center for Biomedical Engineering at The Cooper Union.

Brooklyn Navy Yard/Terreform ONE Reception

The Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Relations Office and co-hosts Mitch Joachim (MAUD ’02) and Maria Aiolova (MAUD '02), Co-Founders, Terreform ONE, invite you to a private GSD reception at the temporary New Lab. The New Lab, currently being developed by Macro Sea, will be an 84,00 square foot facility that fosters innovation in design, prototyping, and new manufacturing. Our reception will take place in the New Lab’s temporary Beta site, with a view of the new building under construction.
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/about/gsd-external-relations/alumni-events/index.html#brooklyn_newlab

ONE Lab Final Review at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Welcome to Sanford Kwinter, Appointed to the Board of Directors at Terreform ONE

Sanford Kwinter is the Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program and Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a writer and editor who holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He has taught at MIT, Columbia and Rice universities as well as at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, the Architectural Association in London, and the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He was cofounder and editor of the journal ZONE and Zone Books for 20 years. He has written widely on philosophical issues of design, architecture and urbanism, science and technology and was an editorial member of the ANY conferences and publications in the 1990s as well as of the journal Assemblage. He is the author of over a hundred and fifty articles in a dozen languages. His books include Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (MIT Press, 2001), Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture (Actar, 2008) and Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium and the forthcoming Soft Systems on the life sciences and and their impact on design. He writes frequently on the work of young and emerging practitioners in the nascent and transdisciplinary field of experimental spatial practice. He most recently curated a Harvard University-wide exhibition of art, design and the public domain entitled "The Divine Comedy." He is currently at work on a book on paleo-ecology and the origins of form.

Christian Hubert, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Terreform ONE

Christian Hubert is an educator, architect and writer based in lower Manhattan, whose work walks the border between art and architecture in the exploration of space, light, and material. He is currently an Associate Professor at Parsons the New School of Design. He is the founder of Christian Hubert Studio, which specializes in the design of gallery spaces, artist residences, and art and culture institutions. During the early 1980's he taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and was elected to the fellowship of the Institute in 1982. During the same period, he designed lofts for artists including David Salle and Francesco Clemente, as well as several exhibitions at the Whitney Museum. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Hubert worked and taught in Los Angeles, where he was president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. He has taught extensively on the East and West Coasts of the U.S., as well as in Canada, and his lower Manhattan office serves as an outpost of the PhD Architecture program at the University of Delft. Mr. Hubert received a B.A from Columbia and a M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
http://www.christianhubert.com

Studies: Bio City World Map of 11 Billion People, Bioinformatics Beyond Buckminster Fuller

This is an installation of the projected world population density in the next 100 years. It has been modeled by combining all the world cities together as one continuous growth system. As human population expands, we see it as one single macro city spread across the continents. We argue that most nations cannot view the effects of planetary population density thru the lens of just one city or region. Instead we aim to reveal the long range effects of massive human population in areas of present and future urban intensity.

New Executive Editor at JAE

Terreform ONE Board Member, Marc J. Neveu, Named Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education.

See more at: http://www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-news/read/read-more/acsa-news/2013/07/05/marc-j.-neveu-named-executive-editor-of-journal-of-architectural-education#sthash.9Ej91Oyr.dpuf

reSITE Conference in Prague

Maria Aiolova on imagination.

Enrique Penalosa, the former mayor of Bogota together with Alex Washburm and Martin Barry.

Winy Maas of MVRDV.

reSITE is an international festival about collaborative design partnerships for more livable cities.http://resite.cz/en/

Terreform at Governors Island LMCC Gallery

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Arts Center at Governors Island, The Gallery at Building 110, Terreform ONE: Urbaneering Governors Hook - Resilient Waterfront Infrastructure.
http://govisland.com/html/visit/calendar.shtml

World Science Fest

Terreform ONE at the World Science Fest Innovation Square 2013.
http://worldsciencefestival.com/events/innovation_square2013/wow

Social Design Studio in Vienna

Maria Aiolova led a workshop on Smart Cities in China at the Social Design Program, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. Social Design -- Arts as Urban Innovation

Terreform ONE at New Lab Beta, Brooklyn Navy Yard

"...The loftlike space, known as New Lab, is to be unveiled by local and state officials on Thursday... The idea driving the project was to bring together a variety of creative people and have them share equipment, like laser cutters and three-dimensional printers, that would be too costly for them to rent or buy on their own. David Belt, the developer of New Lab, said he hoped to do for manufacturers what the M.I.T. Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., had done for technology researchers..." NY Times, May 8, 2013

 NY1: "New Lab" Brings Green Manufacturing To Brooklyn Navy Yard