Return to Fire Island Pines: A Curated Architecture Tour and Reception

Event Pass Type	Price	Quantity
In-Person - Student with Valid ID	$75.00 USD	0 1 2 3 4
In-Person - General Public	$145.00 USD	0 1 2 3 4

Join the AIANY Committee on Residential Architecture this summer as we return to Fire Island Pines for a new survey of contemporary island architecture curated by BoND Architecture, a New York-based firm with projects in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, Fire Island, and the Hamptons. The day-long outing will explore techniques of placemaking on this wholly distinctive community and the construction challenges faced when building within fragile and endangered island landscape.

The program will include a walking tour presenting an overview of the island’s unique history, tours of four private residences—examples of recently restored and renovated historic homes plus new and ongoing residential construction projects—and will conclude with an open-house reception. John Dempsey, President of Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society (FIPHPS); Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, Founders of BoND Architecture; and Juan Pablo Mendez-Ruiz, Project Engineer at TYLin, will be our guides. 

“Improvising is the name of the game where an aging and idiosyncratic housing stock is coupled with unrelenting weather conditions and the hurdles of ferry deliveries,” writes Architectural Digest when describing BoND’s work on Fire Island Pines. “When the louvered windows of their clients’ Bates house needed replacing, BoND found that the only known remaining American manufacturer had closed, forcing them to scour the globe for a new source.”

Regarding building on Fire Island Pines, Dvir and Rauchwerger say: “You have to love it. You are committed to the island’s future and its past.” Come see how the relationship between an idealized vision of sea-side regionalism and non-nuclear family compounds plays out in this rugged landscape and provocative location.

Note: Return to Fire Island Pines will leave from Harbor Walk on the island side of the ferry. All must take a ferry from Sayville, New York to arrive at the starting point. A limited number of ride shares to and from the Center for Architecture to Fire Island Pines Ferry Terminal can be arranged upon request.

Curators:
Noam Dvir, Co-founder and Principal, BoND Architecture
Daniel Rauchwerger, Co-founder and Principal, BoND Architecture

Speakers:
John Dempsey, President, Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society
Juan Pablo Mendez-Ruiz, Senior Engineer, TYLin

About the Speakers:
Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger are the Founders and Principals of BoND Architecture. Based in New York City, BoND is a full-service design firm with a focus on fashion and art-world projects, retail and workplace environments, and unique high-end residential projects. Partners in practice and life, Dvir and Rauchwerger founded the office in 2019. Current projects are primarily located in New York City, in addition to Fire Island, Portland, Miami, California, upstate New York, and the Hamptons.

John Dempsey is the President of Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society (FIPHPS). Fourteen years since the historical society was first established, the organization has grown to offer a wide variety of engagement events for the public interested in learning more about the community’s rich history. FIPHPS partners with island architecture preservation organizations and the National Park Service (which oversees a portion of the island) to create events, programs and walking tours of notable homes in the neighborhood.

Juan Pablo Mendez-Ruiz is a Project Engineer at TYLin, a global engineering and advisory firm. TYLin plans and designs infrastructure solutions that connect and elevate communities. That means enhancing conventional designs with smarter, more equitable, more resilient systems, stewarding precious resources with more sustainable solutions, and solving clients' unique challenges with innovative and technically advanced approaches.

Sponsored by:
The Hudson Company