AIA Staten Island 1000 South Ave, Suite 104 Staten Island, NY 10314 718.987.3729 www.aiasiny.org August 16, 2021 Re: Election of 2022 – 2024 Executive Board AIASI Members, As we approach the end of the summer the time is upon us to begin thinking about the Executive Board and elections. The current Executive Board will end…
The AIASI Executive Board is pleased to announce that Nell Taranto has been formally installed as the new AIASI State Director. Mrs. Taranto is a Staten Island resident and Associate Principal at the firm of Carlton Architecture, PC where she has worked since 2011. Mrs. Taranto was formally introduced during a virtual ceremony hosted by…
Bill Veto! The American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS) wrote to Governor Cuomo to declare their strong opposition to bill (S.6686/A.7945-A) and requested his disapproval of this legislation. This bill would have allowed contractors, sub-contractors, and materialmen to make a claim for any delay, disruption, interference, inefficiencies, impedance, hindrance or acceleration in the…
Architecture is, at its essence, the making of shelter and, therefore, essential to society. Both Architecture with a capital “A” and architecture with a lower case “a,” encompassing most of the buildings we inhabit daily, are equally important. Let’s take the Cape Cod-style house as an example. As its name suggests, this type structure originated…
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The most basic definition of a neighborhood is the generated social interaction among people living near one another. Neighborhoods are a social unit larger than households and not directly under the control of a government structure. New York City is mostly a mosaic of neighborhoods. Although they have changed a great…