What a magical evening with @syr_arch alum in Seoul. After a wonderful dinner at a nearby restaurant, we walked to the home of @syr_arch alum Yun Sang-koo (B.Arch, M.Arch) eldest son of former Korean president Yun Po-Sun, where we shared drinks and food and had an engaging discussion about our plans in Korea. Thank you to all our alum who came to the dinner and who support our school and university.
Always a treat to visit the @dwight_seoul and meet their talented students! Thank you to Kaleena Carter, Director of University and Career Counseling, Dwight School Seoul. And thank you to all the students for making our visit so engaging and enjoyable. @syr_arch@parkdaekwon
Great for me and @parkdaekwon to see our students in Seoul who are participating in our school exchange with @ewha.w.univ and to visit with them the wonderful @hermes exhibition featuring live demonstrations by their world class artisans. @syr_arch@the_chongdotcom@cate_spades
Great to spend time with old friends and colleagues @sciarc on Monday. Planning some exciting collaborations for Fall 2024. Stay tuned. @syr_arch design always by @commonnameny
@syr_arch student Aidan Turner ‘25, founder of @graterthings is Redefining Comfort this Friday Dec 01 at his clothing brand’s pop up shop in the Launchpad at Bird Library! Stop by anytime from 9am-6pm this Friday to check out all of the brand’s newest styles and collaborations with student run charities. Grater Things is a student run clothing brand dedicated to enjoying your journey to success!
The Financial Times of London published a very nice story this weekend, "Where geniuses scrawled," by Helen Barrett, featuring my own work desk as well as desks that belonged to luminaires such as Joan Didion, Sir Michael Caine, Sir Roger Moore, John le Carré and others. Of course I am not the genius who scrawled on this desk. That genius is instead Marcel Breuer, who designed and worked on it for many years prior to me receiving the desk in 2019 from Judith Papachristou, widow of Tician Papachristou, an internationally known modernist architect and author who worked alongside Breuer for more than a decade.
In 1976, Breuer retired from active practice. He passed away five years later, at the age of 79. Tician Papachristou, a partner in Marcel Breuer Associates, was given Breuer’s personal desk from the firm. The desk remained in the Papachristou family home in Sheffield, Massachusetts for many years thereafter. In 2019 Judith Papachristou contacted Syracuse University through architect Bruce Fowle ’60, Syracuse Architecture alumnus, to see whether there might be interest in the desk. Given the reputation of Syracuse Architecture and the connection to Breuer—he began donating his papers to Syracuse University beginning in the late 1960s—she believed that the University would provide the right home for the desk. The Marcel Breuer Papers, housed at Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), collects more than 60 years of work from every phase of Breuer’s long and distinguished career.
I feel very lucky that I am able to continue to use this remarkable desk and that many of our students, alum, faculty and parents have been able to visit and see the desk in my office and share this wonderful story.
Special thanks to Traci Washburn, Syracuse Architecture Assistant Dean for Development, who was instrumental in obtaining the desk.
See here a link to the Financial Times Weekend story, "Where geniuses scrawled," by Helen Barrett (25 November, 2023):
https://lnkd.in/gHi-byjN
Open now at the Everson Museum of Art, "A Little Bit of Syracuse," produced by @syr_arch students and curated by Li Han and Hu Yan, founders of renowned Beijing-based @drawingarchitecturestudio / Graphic design by @commonnameny . Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, ten Syracuse Architecture students developed an artistic tableau of the city, which features an eighty-foot scroll drawing and eighty hand-made models of local buildings. The exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. @syr_gsa
@levis@syr_arch 150 Special Edition Denim Jacket! Presented to me at @syr_arch AIA reception at @levis incredible ideas / fabrication lab, Eureka! Celebrating 150 years of @levis 501 and 150 years @syr_arch ! Wonderful to see so many @syr_arch alum and current students in SF! Thank you to the spectacular @jsep69 and entire @levis team for hosting and to @tc_washburn and Sherry Hayes for organizing. All patches designed @commonnameny
