Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 24, 2006|Volume 34, Number 23

Event will examine redevelopment
of the waterfront in three cities

Architects, planners and developers will meet Friday-Saturday, March 31-April 1, for a symposium at the School of Architecture on the redevelopment of significant waterfronts in three major cities -- London, New York and Toronto.

Titled "On the Waterfront," the symposium will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday with introductory remarks by School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern and by Professor Alexander Garvin, former New York City planning commissioner and director of planning for both the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics.

The keynote address, "Urban Cinderella: The Working Waterfront," will follow. The featured speaker will be Robert Bruegmann, professor and chair of the School of Architecture and the Program in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

There will be sessions devoted to Toronto and London on Saturday morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. In the first, a panel comprised of urban planner Christopher Glaisek, architect Bruce Kuwabara and developer Alan Vihant will look at the development of Toronto's Lake Ontario waterfront. In the second, which will be devoted to the redevelopment of the Thames River in London, the panelists will be Richard Burdett, the Centennial Professor in Architecture and urbanism director at the London School of Economics, and director and Urban Age adviser to the mayor of London; Malcolm Smith, director of urban design at the firm Arup; and Sir Stuart Lipton, chair of the development firm Stanhope PLC and currently the Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow at the Yale School of Architecture.

The afternoon session on Saturday, which begins at 1:30 p.m., will focus on the development of the Queens West waterfront in New York City. Panelists will be Joseph B. Rose, a principal of Georgetown Partners and a former chair of the New York City Planning Commission; Thom Mayne, an architect with the firm Morphosis; and Henry Elghanayan, a principal of Rockrose Development Corporation.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Hastings Hall of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St. Reservations are required. Call (203) 432-2889 or e-mail: archevents@yale.edu.

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