LongHouse Reserve Winter Benefit at Hearst Tower

LONGHOUSE RESERVE CELEBRATES
ARCHITECTS JAMES CARPENTER AND TOSHIKO MORI
AT HEARST TOWER DURING WINTER BENEFIT

On February 21, 2019, LongHouse Reserve will honor husband and wife architects James Carpenter and Toshiko Mori at the organization’s winter benefit on the top of the Hearst Tower in New York City (300 West 57th Street, floor 44). Toshiko Mori is being honored for her architecture and support of education. Architectural guru Paul Goldberger will introduce her. James Carpenter will receive an award for his use of light in architecture. He will be introduced by LongHouse Reserve founder Jack Lenor Larsen.

Magnificent views of New York City from the 44th floor will be the evening’s backdrop. The cocktail reception, with a view of Central Park, will take place at 6pm. At 7pm Paul Goldberger will lead a conversation on design, and the awards ceremony will take place after. At 8:30pm, guests will join in an intimate dinner (Please note: seating is limited).

Guests will be able to view one of James Carpenter’s works Ice Falls (2006), a glass water feature located in the lobby of Hearst Tower. Guests will be immersed in the sublime experience of sound and light. Ice Fall (2006) is described as, “Transform[ing] the building’s threshold into one of the most extraordinary public spaces in New York. Beyond the sheer visual and audible pleasure, the Ice Falls becomes an ecological cooling device as the water is cooled to a temperature well below the ambient room temperature, condensing humidity in the air on its surface, while radiating cooler air to produce a more comfortable environment” (source: James Carpenter Design Associates Inc.).

Jamie Carpenter cannot be called just an architect - he is a magician who through science and engineering brings light and life to otherwise inanimate buildings. He founded his cross-disciplinary firm in 1979 and is currently applying his unique aesthetic here on an Art Wall at Hudson Yards and in Denmark at the Bornholm Museum.

Toshiko Mori can’t just be referred to as just an architect as she has shared her visions on the highest levels, as the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and as a member and former chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design. Her projects span the globe from Brooklyn to Senegal.

Ticket Levels:
$15,000 - Benefactor Table: Reception, dialog and private dinner with table for 10, at Hearst's ON FORTY l FOUR
$1,500 - Benefactor: Reception, dialog, private dinner, preferred seating at Hearst's ON FORTY l FOUR
$750 - Patron: Reception, dialog, private dinner at Hearst's ON FORTY l FOUR
$200 - Friend: Reception, dialog

You can buy tickets and table by following this link:
https://www.longhouse.org/collections/tickets/products/the-longhouse-winter-2019-benefit

About LongHouse Reserve:
LongHouse Reserve encourages living with art in all forms. Founded by Jack Lenor Larsen, its collections, gardens, sculpture and programs reflect world cultures and inspire a creative life. LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre reserve and sculpture garden located in East Hampton, NY.

About the 2019 Honorees:

Toshiko Mori
Toshiko Mori has been named to Architectural Digest's 2019 AD100 list, which honors the world's top talents in architecture and design. She is principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, which she established in 1981 in New York City. Mori taught at the Cooper Union School of Architecture from 1983, until joining the Harvard GSD faculty with tenure in 1995. Mori has taught courses on the tectonics of textiles, materials and fabrication methods in architecture, structural innovations, and the role of architects as agents of change in a global context.

Toshiko Mori Architect’s current work includes public New York City theater and library projects, a park visitor center in the Bronx, the Hudson Yard Park and Boulevard, and subway canopies. Mori designed institutional projects for Brown University and Syracuse University, and is part of the design team for New York University’s masterplan. She also designed the award-winning Visitor Center at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House compound in Buffalo, NY, as well as the Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems for Syracuse University. Residential projects include work in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Mongolia and Taiwan.

She has contributed to various publications, and edited a volume on material and fabrication research, Immaterial/Ultramaterial. A monograph of her work, Toshiko Mori Architect, was published by Monacelli Press.

James Carpenter
James Carpenter Design Associates (JCDA) is a cross-disciplinary design firm working at the intersection of art, engineering and the built environment. Led by James Carpenter, the firm is recognized for its distinctive use of natural light, which serves as the foundation of its design philosophy.

JCDA brings a luminescent artistic sensibility to its designs, leveraging glass to mediate a dialogue between interior and exterior space, and to exploit the performative aspects of natural light. This approach is evident across its practice, including such major cultural projects as the Israel Museum’s expansion and campus renewal project in Jerusalem (2005-2011) and the recently opened Museum at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis (2010-2018). Major private projects, including the Gucci Japan Flagship building in Tokyo (2003-2006) and the Ice Falls water feature in the Hearst Tower (2002-2006), also create a layered, dynamic experience of the built environment through the spatial articulation of glass and light.

JCDA has been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Environmental Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the American Institute of Architects Honor Award. Mr. Carpenter received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004 and "The Daylight Award" from the Villum and Velux Foundations in 2010.

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