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Gingerbread City Offers Climate Change Message

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Check out Sulan Kolatan and my comments on this Yahoo News Video about how projects, such as our Raindrop Art Museum, send a message about tackling climate change. We are delighted to join over 50 architects who together created a room of exuberant gingerbread projects for the exhibit at Gingerbread City NY at the South Street Seaport.

Layers at 2023 Venice Biennale Wins Multiple Design Awards

December 8, 2023

We are thrilled that “Layers” our installation at the Time Space Existence Exhibit at the 2023 Venice Biennale has won multiple design awards including Interior Design’s Best of Year and Re-Thinking the Future 3rd Award. Thanks to the jurors who saw value in our installation!

LOUISE HAS BEEN INVITED TO BE PART OF COLUMBIA GSAPP “AFFIRMATIONS”

September 11, 2023

Louise is delighted to have been selected as a one of the Cohort of Respondents for AFFIRMATIONS, Columbia GSAPP’s 8-month series of discussions curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs. The program will affirm and interrogate how to think and redesign the built environment at the intersection of climate, ecological, societal, bodily, and technological crises and defiance. Let the conversations begin!

Efthalia Rentetzi Discusses Layers, Our 2023 Venice Biennale Project in Juliet Art Magazine

July 13, 2023

We really appreciate Efthalia’s insightful comments in Juliet Art Magazine about Layers, our recent installation at the 2023 Venice Biennale. We are delighted that she is intrigued with our solutions-based approach to some of the most pressing global issues of de-carbonization, ancestry and public participation with art. Check out the article “A Critical Reading of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale

DESIGN LEADERS ON THE FRAME AWARDS

March 3, 2023

Louise is delighted to join a diverse group of jurors hailing from all over the world for the March FRAME Awards. The conversation should be lively!

INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE “BEST IN DESIGN, 2022 ANNIVERSARY EDITION” CELEBRATES OUR DERFNER JUDAICA MUSEUM

September 15, 2022

Thanks to all for selecting The Derfner Judaica Museum as a “Best of Design Project” for the Interior Design Magazine Best in Design 2022 Anniversary Edition. This accolade not only speaks to the aesthetics of our project, but also acknowledges the significance of our approach to open up museums to diverse populations, shining a spotlight on our efforts to expand the limits of universal design.

OPEN THE BOX SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLAN AWARD 2022

August 6, 2022

How exciting to have our project “Open the Box” to be a shortlisted project for THE PLAN Award 2022 special project category. THE PLAN Award is an annual international prize that recognizes excellence in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. Link here: THE PLAN Award

10 Key Architects on the 2022 A+Product Awards Jury

April 26, 2022

We are delighted to report that Louise has been invited to join the “10 Key Architects on the 2022 A+ Product Awards Jury.” Please click on the link to see Architizer’s post describing the juror’s bios. How exciting it will be to evaluate the newest architectural products on the market today, hopefully bringing sustainability to a whole new level.

Epic Mentor Guide

March 16, 2022

Today is the day that you can celebrate Women’s History Month 2022 by purchasing your copy  of The Epic Mentor Guide. I am truly honored to have my words about the field of architecture included in this momentous book. Special thanks to Illana Raia for bringing together young women and girls and the voices of brave, brilliant inspiring female leaders in STEM, art, business, athletics, space travel etc. Tap this link to listen to Illana speak about the book on the TODAY Show.

Kean lecture

November 3, 2021

What a delight to be invited to lecture at Kean Michael Graves CollegeSchool of Public Architecture. The Architecture School at Kean university is in New Jersey. Founded in the spirit of the noted architect, Michael Graves,
Kean’s mission is to take architecture to a wider public audience.

The students truly seemed to appreciate Louise’s thoughts about “Architecture of Art + Conscience. They also enjoyed an animated conversation at dinner after the lecture. What an intelligent and diverse group!

Thank you, Nina Rappaport, for making this all happen.

AIANY Cocktails and Conversations: Louise Braverman and Martha Thorne

June 4,2021

Louise was delighted to participate in this special event, part of the Cocktails & Conversation series sponsored by the AIANY Center for Architecture, a sequence of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, or architectural historian to discuss current architectural topics and process.

Louise’s team has participated in the renowned Venice Architectural Biennale since 2012, and their work is part of the 2021 Biennale opening on May 22nd with the theme “How Will We Live Together?”. Her experience creating these environmental installations in Venice has added insight to the evolution of the built work of her firm, establishing an ongoing reciprocal relationship between architectural concept and architectural reality.

In this conversation with Martha Thorne, current dean of the IE School of Architecture & Design in Madrid, Spain and former Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize since 2005, Braverman reflected on the impact of the Biennale on her practice and the shaping of exhibitions and installations responding to global themes.

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