Albanian Americans in Architecture, Construction and Engineering, Inc.

Join AAACE this Thanksgiving season for an evening of gratitude, networking, and professional growth. This event will bring together many professionals from across the architecture, construction, and engineering sectors to celebrate our achievements, foster connections, and discuss future collaborations. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’ll recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the industry and to our community. The evening will feature open networking sessions, and opportunities to engage with mentors, peers, and aspiring young and seasoned professionals. Together, let’s celebrate our community’s accomplishments and lay the foundation for a thriving future. We'd like to thank our Platinum Sponsors Royal Concrete and Masonry Corp and Three Studio Architecture And Engineering D.P.C. for the continuous support. Date: November 20th, 6pm - 10pm Location: Brickyard Craft Kitchen & Bar, Park Place, New York, NY, USA 23 Park Place New York, NY 10007 Book your tickets now! https://lnkd.in/eKWiYpsB

Join AAACE this Thanksgiving season for an evening of gratitude, networking, and professional growth. This event will bring together many professionals from across the architecture, construction, and engineering sectors to celebrate our achievements, foster connections, and discuss future collaborations. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’ll recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the industry and to our community. The evening will feature open networking sessions, and opportunities to engage with mentors, peers, and aspiring young and seasoned professionals. Together, let’s celebrate our community’s accomplishments and lay the foundation for a thriving future. We'd like to thank our Platinum Sponsors Royal Concrete and Masonry Corp and Three Studio Architecture And Engineering D.P.C. for the continuous support. Date: November 20th, 6pm - 10pm Location: Brickyard Craft Kitchen & Bar, Park Place, New York, NY, USA 23 Park Place New York, NY 10007 Book your tickets now! https://lnkd.in/eKWiYpsB

Join AAACE this Thanksgiving season for an evening of gratitude, networking, and professional growth. This event will bring together many professionals from across the architecture, construction, and engineering sectors to celebrate our achievements, foster connections, and discuss future collaborations. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’ll recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the industry and to our community. The evening will feature open networking sessions, and opportunities to engage with mentors, peers, and aspiring young and seasoned professionals. Together, let’s celebrate our community’s accomplishments and lay the foundation for a thriving future. We'd like to thank our Platinum Sponsors Royal Concrete and Masonry Corp and Three Studio Architecture And Engineering D.P.C. for the continuous support. Date: November 20th, 6pm - 10pm Location: Brickyard Craft Kitchen & Bar, Park Place, New York, NY, USA 23 Park Place New York, NY 10007 Book your tickets now! https://lnkd.in/eKWiYpsB

LAST CALL! Few limited seats left. Can't wait to see you all this Wednesday! With thanks to our guest speaker Ersela Kripa and our AAACE organizers Rezarta Pilafi and Jona Noka ??

NEW DATE AND VENUE! We are happy to announce our next event: Ersela Kripa, Albanian-American architect and?founding partner of AGENCY, on the topic of: Architectural Agency. Ersela Kripa is a Professor, and Associate Vice Provost at Texas Tech University, where she is also the Director the Huckabee College of Architecture – El Paso, and Director of Projects at the research center POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies). Ersela is a registered architect and founding partner of AGENCY. Her practice, AGENCY, co-directed with Stephen Mueller, is an architecture and design research practice leveraging spatial design and information to counteract nascent forms of global and urban inequality. Join us in a conversation with Ersela Kripa, Albanian-American architect and?founding partner of AGENCY, on the topic of: Architectural Agency. Ersela Kripa is a Professor, and Associate Vice Provost at Texas Tech University, where she is also the Director the Huckabee College of Architecture – El Paso, and Director of Projects at the research center POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies). Ersela is a Registered Architect and founding partner of AGENCY. Her practice, AGENCY, co-directed with Stephen Mueller, is an architecture and design research practice leveraging spatial design and information to counteract nascent forms of global and urban inequality. RSVP Required! Date & Time: Wed October 2nd, 2024, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Porcelanosa - NYC 202 Fifth Ave New York, NY 10010 Light refreshments will be provided. Eventbrite link is refreshed below, all existing RSVP's are valid! We only ask that you re-enter your ticket info on the new event link under the free Previous RSVP ticket option. Thank you, https://lnkd.in/e47hXnKw

ATTENTION PLEASE - Due to unexpected last-minute changes in our guest speaker's schedule, we have to POSTPONE this event to sometime in October - apologies for any inconvenience. Stay tuned for new date and location announcement. Still very much looking forward to the lecture and to seeing you all there. Cheers!

Reminding everyone of this exciting event next week. Get you tickets now if you are planning to attend as venue seating is limited and it will sell out. See you all there!

We are excited to announce our next event on September 18th, 2024 at 6:00 pm: "Ersela Kripa: Architectural Agency" ? Kripa's book FRONTS: Military Urbanisms and the Developing World (AR+D, 2020), co-authored with Stephen Mueller, compiles origi-nal urban research and analysis, revealing a growing geography of code-pendence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world which it increasingly incriminates. Ersela Kripa is an Associate Professor, and Associate Vice Provost at Texas Tech University, where she is also the Di-rector the Huckabee College of Archi-tecture - El Paso, and Director of Proj-ects at the research center POST (Proj-ect for Operative Spatial Technologies). Ersela is a registered architect and founding partner of AGENCY. Her awards include the Rome Prize in Archi-tecture, the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Emerging Voices award from The Ar-chitectural League of New York, the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and MacDowell, among others. Ersela holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP Born and raised under communist dictatorship in Albania, Erse-la's work is particularly focused on un-covering the machinations of the securo-cratic regimes that surveil and control?public lives.? Her practice, AGENCY, co-directed with Stephen Mueller, is an architecture and design research practice leveraging spatial design and information to coun-teract nascent forms of global and urban inequality. Located on the US/-Mexico border, their work engages emerging publics in protracted, conflict-ual contexts by consistently shifting the narrative, developing methods to identi-fy, appropriate, and subvert subpercep-tual urban and atmospheric phenomena that violate human rights. RSVP Required! Date & Time: Wed September 18th, 2024, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Brickworks Design Studio - NYC 445 Fifth Ave New York, NY 10016 Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eztR967i As always AAACE would like to thank our Platinum Sponsors for making our events possible ?? : Royal Concrete and Masonry Corp and Three Studio Architecture And Engineering D.P.C. Also thanks to our friend Tai M. and IIBEC Metro New York Chapter for the collaboration.

Steven Holl Architects unanimously won the competition for Tirana’s new large convention center and hotel, Expo Albania. The project originates from an artistic approach, guided by artist Agnieszka Kurant, as a version of her “End of Signature”. The artist will collect signatures from local communities and fuse them into a single line, unfurling across the landscape. Traversing the rectangular volumes of the exhibition center, the line will fluidly shape the CLT roof trusses. The project aims for the highest ecological standards with geothermal heating and cooling and innovative white solar shingles to maximize natural energy. A large pool of rainwater and gray water will characterize the public space. The exhibition park will reuse excavated earth to create mounds that will serve as acoustic barriers. The adjacent hotel will celebrate the ancient Albanian wine culture. The winning team includes Steven Holl Architects, Agnieszka Kurant, Atelier 4, Atelier Markgraph, Stoss, and Arup.

Join us on Thursday, May 2nd for happy hour on Bowery Street, NYC. https://lnkd.in/eFNeEYxB