The AIANY Board of Directors recently issued a powerful statement calling on architects to no longer design spaces of incarceration. Read the full statement here.
Our founding partner, Karen Fairbanks, is a member of the AIANY Board of the Directors, and she notes that this call to architects is a first step in the work of the AIANY to address this unjust system. Link to related resources can be found here.
Marble Fairbanks is currently featured in the The New York Times article, “Building Public Places for a Covid World.” Excerpts from Karen’s interview on the important role libraries play in fostering and supporting community are included and the Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center is touted as a, “place that helps us thrive.” Glen Oaks Library and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are also featured as spaces that engage and activate community.
Karen Fairbanks spoke at American Libraries Association’s Annual Conference in Washington DC on Monday. Karen was joined by Scott Bass, Provost Emeritus and Professor at American University, Nancy Davenport, University Librarian at American University, and Jen Brown, Dean of the Library and Academic Information Services at Barnard College, to talk about the role of the library in supporting student success on campus from three different perspectives. The panel was sponsored by the Buildings for College and University Libraries (BCUL) Committee at ALA.
Marble Fairbanks has completed construction documents and bidding for POTS and the project is scheduled to start construction in the Spring of 2019. The new building addition will add 50% more space to POTS existing facility and much-needed workspace and educational space
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) recently published Built by Women Manhattan 2018 Map, distributed at the AIA Convention in New York City. The map features over 70 projects based exclusively in Manhattan that were designed, engineered, or developed by women. Marble Fairbanks’ renovation and addition at Columbia University, the Toni Stabile Student Center, is included!
Support BWAF and buy a copy of the map here.