The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) honored three SOM projects with four awards in the 2017 Design Excellence Awards. The AIA announced this year’s winners at the 2017 Designight awards ceremony on Friday, October 13th. The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy demonstration project, or AMIE 1.0, won the Honor Award in the Divine … Continued
On Tuesday, October 31st, SOM Design Director Javier Arizmendi and Managing Director Steven Sobel will present at the Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The two will discuss their work on the San Diego Central Courthouse for the Superior Court of California. Joining Arizmendi and Sobel will be Clifford Ham, Principle Architect for … Continued
On Wednesday, October 25th, William F. Baker, SOM Structural and Civil Engineering Partner, and Mark Sarkisian, SOM Structural and Seismic Engineering Partner, will speak at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Their presentation, titled “The Engineering of Architecture” is ?part of the 2017 Dean’s Lecture Series. Baker and Sarkisian will discuss the design philosophies … Continued
On Wednesday, October 18th, SOM’s Jennifer Pehr will take part in a panel discussion hosted by Urban Design Forum. Titled “Transform or Tear Down?”, the discussion centers on the question of how New York City’s arterial roadways can be repurposed to enhance the public realm. According to the Urban Design Forum, New York’s major thoroughfares carry more than 700,000 … Continued
In the second essay in a five-part series for Casabella on Gordon Bunshaft, architectural historian Nicholas Adams examines the First City National Bank Building and Pavilion. Designed by SOM in 1960, the Houston bank represents the firm’s commitment to redefining its design aesthetic at a time when glass-walled International Style buildings were criticized as “skin and bones.” … Continued
In the third essay in a five-part series for Casabella on Gordon Bunshaft, architectural historian Nicholas Adams examines the Travertine House (also known as the Bunshaft Residence). Completed in 1963, the Long Island weekend getaway served as a gallery of sorts for Bunshaft’s extensive collection of sculpture and painting. The building’s grounded, practical form illustrated Bunshaft’s unromanticized … Continued
On Wednesday, November 1st, SOM and MAS Context, a Chicago-based urbanism journal, are hosting a panel discussion in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The event coincides with the 2017 release of MAS Context’s thirty-first issue. Through essays, photographs, and interviews, the issue explores the development … Continued
In honor of World Architecture Day, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden invites visitors to celebrate the genius of modern design with a day of free donuts and unconventional architecture tours. Known affectionately as the “Brutalist donut,” the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. is one of the most well-known examples of the Brutalist architectural movement, … Continued
On Thursday, September 14th, SOM Design Partner Scott Duncan will speak at the 2017 Thailand Real Estate Summit in Bangkok. At the summit, Duncan will participate in a “fireside chat” on designing iconic towers in dense urban centers. Duncan will be joined by Liam Aran Barnes, Editor in Chief and Head of Publishing for Property Guru, the … Continued
On Wednesday, October 4th, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA NY) will host a panel discussion titled “Displacements_Capital.” The event, part of the Global Dialogues Continuing Education Series?, centers on the transformation of residential design in New York City. SOM Director Chris Cooper? and other panelists will discuss the rapid growth of the … Continued