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Newsletter of the Salvadori Center - Fall 2006 |
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Most Successful Benefit Ever - Thanks to the generosity of almost 200 donors, the Salvadori Center celebrated its most successful fundraiser on May 2 at the Citigroup Atrium on East 53rd Street. Honorees included Eric Hadar for Business, Cesar Pelli for Design, and Mysore Nagaraja for Public Service. Special thanks go to Eric Hadar and his staff, whose efforts helped the Center raise almost half its total contributions. We also want to express our gratitude to our Keystone Patrons, those who contributed $10,000 and more to support the Center’s programs:
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Robert Selsam of Boston Properties and chairman of the Salvadori Board of Directors presents Eric Hadar of Allied Properties Inc. with his award for Business. |
Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust presents Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects with his award for Design. |
Peter Kalikow, chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, presents Mysore Nagaraja of the MTA Capital Construction Co. with his award for Public Service. |
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Students Re-Design the NAC Plaza - Each year the Center sponsors an all-day design competition, or “charrette,” on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY). This year’s event took as its focus the plaza in front of CCNY’s North Academic Center, or the NAC Plaza, as it’s known. Almost 120 students and 25 volunteer architects and engineers gathered in the college’s Great Hall on May 16, 2006, to re-design the Plaza in ways that would make it warmer and more welcoming to the college’s diverse student population. Here are some of the ideas they came up with: | ||
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Flags of countries, to signify the diversity of the people on the campus. |
Water (in fountains and brooks), to symbolize the flow of knowledge and ideas. |
Bridges, as a sign of connection. |
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Trees and green space, as a way to promote calmness and peace. |
Cafés, to encourage people to meet, talk, sing, and share. |
Arches, as a way to welcome people to the campus. |
 Salvadori Lesson Plans Now Available - “Lessons from the Salvadori Classrooms” is now available on the Salvadori Center website. Go to http://www.salvadori.org and click on the link to “Lesson Plans.” The lesson plans, developed over two decades, integrate architec ture and engineering into the core subject areas of the curriculum: science, social studies, language arts, visual arts, and mathematics. Visitors can “test drive” five free lessons. Teachers who have attended the Salvadori Educators’ Institute or been mentored by the staff can obtain a log-in key that allows them access to the sixty lessons available on the site. All this was made possible by support from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hebrew Technical Institute, and the Smart Family Foundation. |
 Professional Development for Teachers - The Salvadori Educators’ Institute works with first-time and veteran Salvadori teachers to help them master the Salvadori pedagogy. The Institute will run two sessions this year. Session I is a graduate-level course titled “Enhancing the Teaching of Mathematics,” to be co-taught by Executive Director Lorraine Whitman and Jonathan Katz of the Institute for Student Achieve ment. The course runs July 5 to August 1 and meets Monday through Thursday from 8:30 to 11:05 AM at CCNY. If interested, send an email to thecenter@salvadori.org Session II is a two-week session running August 7 to 11 and August 14 to 18. Through intense and enjoyable hand-ons projects, participants learn how to use architecture and engineering to teach material from any and all subject areas. An application can be found on the Salvadori website (http://www.salvadori.org). Or email the Center at thecenter@salvadori.org |
 Salvadori Goes National - Over the next three years, the Center will collaborate with the American Society for Civil Engineers to run the Salvadori Educators’ Institute in selected schools in Washington DC and Boston. This represents a significant expansion of the Center’s teaching programs outside the New York City metropolitan area. Architect-educator Patricia Shuford will oversee the teaching and administration of the program. |
 Salvadori Goes Green - “Green energy” has long been a focus of the Salvadori pedagogy, from green roofs to energy-conserving architecture to active and passive solar design. Assisted by an $18,000 grant from KeySpan Foundation, along with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Center is working with two classes of fifth-grade students at The Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens, to build a 200-s.f. active solar-powered greenhouse on the school's roof-top garden. Originally scheduled for Earth Day but postponed because of rain, the “greenhouse raising” will take place on an equally appropriate date: June 21, the summer solstice. Bright Power, Solar Energy Systems, and SunWize Technologies have provided invaluable technical support. |
 Board Support for a Salvadori Student - The year 2003 saw the opening of the Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies (PNA). The Salvadori Center had been instrumental in establishing PNA, in collaboration with Institute for Student Achievement and New Visions for Public Schools, among others. Recently, Alex Gomez, who had been in PNA’s initial class of 9th graders, was accepted into the prestigious Harvard Summer School Secondary School Program. To help him accept this unique opportunity, the Salvadori Center Board of Directors raised over $5000 to cover the costs of room, board, tuition, transportation, and incidentals. |
 Morgan Library and Salvadori Center - As part of the celebration of its Renzo Piano-designed expansion, the Center is working with the Morgan Library & Museum to offer workshops on the building’s architecture. Second- and fourth-graders will go on scavenger hunts for architectural elements and design façades connected to the three doors of the Museum, each of which reflects a particular historical era: 1906, 1928, and 2006. |
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The Salvadori Center, c/o City College of New York, Wingate 02, New York NY 10031
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