February 21, 2019
6:00 – 10:00pm

HEARST TOWER
300 West 57th Street
New York, NY

The 2019 LongHouse Winter Benefit will honor James Carpenter and Toshiko Mori with the LongHouse Award for their outstanding achievements in architecture and design.

Evening Highlights:
6:00:    Cocktail Reception
6:45:    LongHouse Award Presentation to James Carpenter and Toshiko Mori with dialog and presentation
8:30:    Dinner at ON FORTY l FOUR Restaurant at the Hearst Tower

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

https://www.longhouse.org/collections/tickets/products/the-longhouse-winter-2019-benefit

About our 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.

Toshiko Mori – photo by Ralph Gibson

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

James Carpenter

All sales are final. As this event benefits LongHouse Reserve, no refunds or exchanges will be issued. Tickets are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. This event is rain or shine. The LongHouse Reserve  is committed to providing accessible programs and services for all patrons and artists with disabilities. For further information about any accessibility issues or needs, please contact us at 631 329 3568 or email us at events@longhouse.org