ALEX GALAN | DATE 1/19/2011

Holcim Awards, Public Architecture, Metropolis Books at the Four Seasons Restaurant

On Tuesday January 18th New York's architecture community joined John Peterson and John Cary at the landmark, Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons New York in the Seagram building to honor Public Architecture and celebrate their new book The Power of Pro Bono, published by Metropolis Books. The evening's sponsor, Holcim, highlighted their awards program which is giving two million dollars this year alone to sustainable projects. Applications are being accepted until March 23, 2011. For more information visit www.holcimawards.org. In addition, guests at the launch included Columbia's Mark Wigley, Princeton's Beatrix Colamina, Architectural League's Anne Reiselbach, Storefront's Eva Franch, and architects Charles Renfro, Monty Freeman, Anne Nixon and principals from Weiss Manfredi, SHoP Architects, and Marpillero Pollak.

John Peterson, Founder and President of Public Architecture and John Cary, Co-Editor of the Power of Pro Bono.

Paul O'Connor of Holcim Awards and Susan Szenasy, Chief Editor of Metropolis Magazine.

Rosalie Genevero, Executive Director of The Architectural League of New York, Diana Murphy, Publisher of Metropolis Books and Anne Rieselbach, Program Director of the Architectural League of New York.

Architect Charles Renfro and Mark Wigley, Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture.

Eva Franch, Director of The Storefront Gallery and architect Monty Freeman.

Architects Randy Goya, Ann Nixon and Christian Volkmann.