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RECORD Recommendations: Prominent exhibitors at the 2008 Venice Biennale and RECORD’s editors reveal their favorite Venice destinations. They direct readers in town for the exhibition to everything from restaurants and hotels to buildings and beaches. Image courtesy Penezić & Rogina Architecture |
2008 MAK Architecture Tours Focusing on John Lautner
Los Angeles
September 14, and October 12, 2008
The MAK Center’s annual architecture tour is to focus on the work of John Lautner as a complement to the exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner on view through October 12th at the Hammer Museum. The Lautner tours will provide a rare opportunity to experience stunning residential works by this maverick architect. Call 323/651-1510, visit www.makcenter.org, or email office@makcenter.org.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Minneapolis
September 14, 2008 - January 4, 2008
The short but prolific career of Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen, whose masterpieces of 20th-century design include the soaring Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the TWA Terminal at New York’s JFK Airport, are showcased in his first major museum retrospective. At Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Call 612/870-3131, visit www.walkerart.org or www.artsmia.org.
Palladian Ireland: Great Country Houses of Northern Ireland & The Republic
Ireland
September 20-27, 2008
The leading architect of Palladian country houses in Ireland was Sir Edward Lovett Pearce, who provided interior details at Castletown and the design for Bellamont Forest, c. 1730, among other work. He developed a style that combined baroque inventiveness, movement and boldness with the somberness of the English Palladian style. These and other outstanding Irish Palladian country houses will be viewed during the tour that the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America is pleased to offer in celebration of the quincentenary of the birth of great Italian architect Andrea Palladio. Call 800/390-5536 or contact@classicalexcursions.com.
Frederick H. Evans: A Logical Perfection
New York City
October 6-November 7, 2008
This exhibition will survey both Evans’s architectural work and his landscapes. More than two-dozen platinum prints from 1890 to 1910 will be presented. Many of the prints will be on view in the United States for the first time. Among the major highlights of the exhibition will be Evans’s well-known cathedral interiors including his iconic Wells Cathedral: A Sea of Steps, 1903. In 1906, Alfred Stieglitz introduced Evans’s photographs at his seminal 291 Gallery in New York, and said that Evans “stands alone…as the greatest exponent of architectural photography.” Call 212/794-2064 or email info@sunpictures.com
NEW YORK ARCHITECTS AND THE ORDOS 100
New York City
October 11–November 26, 2008
The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, where one hundred emerging architects from around the world were each invited to design an approximately 10,700 square foot villa on lots ranging from a quarter to a half acre. This exhibition of the designs by the eleven New York-based architects working in Ordos will explore the unique process of the undertaking and provoke a conversation about the role that design is playing in the development. Contact wessner@archleague.org
Ancient and Modern Architecture of China Tour
Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai
October 15-October 25, 2008
The tour focuses on the expressive beauty of traditional Chinese architecture and the cosmopolitan ambience of her modern architecture. The tour brings travelers to Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai, optional extension trips are available. Visit www.aia.org.
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding New York City
New York City
October 16, 2008 - January 30, 2009
The exhibition is a multi-disciplinary investigation of democracy as a consumer brand. Timed to coincide with the final stages of the American presidential elections, the exhibition also seeks to reflect on electoral process in this country. At the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. Visit www.parsons.newschool.edu.
Subconscious City
London
October 17- November 15, 2008
With Subconscious City, Carlos Amorales explores his own recurring dream of finding himself lost in a city. The artist draws a parallel between the generic megalopolis and an individual’s subconscious as Carl Jung delineates in his writings about archetypes. Carlos Amorales (b. 1970) lives and works in Mexico City. His work is in some of the most visionary public and private collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London. Email cwalsh@brunswickgroup.com.
Descours: a Free Architecture and Art Festival
December 8-14, 2008
New Orleans
This December, downtown New Orleans will showcase DesCours, a seven-day, contemporary architecture and art event that explores hidden spaces through the newest in design and technology using new media and interactive installations. Sixteen internationally recognized architect and artist teams of three to five people per team have been invited to transform familiar and hidden spaces in Central Business District lobbies and throughout the French Quarter. The event is presented by AIA New Orleans. Visit www.aianeworleans.org or call 504.525.8320
Atelier Bow-Wow
Los Angeles
February 5-April 5, 2009
Tokyo-based architecture studio explores the use and function of space within urban environments. As working architects in Tokyo, Atelier Bow-Wow developed the term "pet architecture" a style of small, ad hoc, multi-functional structures that make the most of limited space. For over 10 years, they have also created "micro public spaces" within the framework of art exhibitions. The project will expand on the possibilities of a gallery space to relate to its surroundings and the urban environment. This is Bow-wow's first solo exhibition in the U.S. At the Gallery at Redcat. Visit www.redcat.org or call 213/237-2800 for more information
Indoors/Outdoors: Can We Live Sustainably?
Chicago
Through September 5, 2008
The first of the Home Series, which examines the construction of the home from the perspectives of sustainability, family life, and race. At Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Call 312/922-3432 or visit www.architecture.org.
Green with Desire
Chicago
Through September 5, 2008
This exhibition explores the relationship between the emotional and physical components that make up our homes. A large-scale evocation of a house, along with eight case studies of Chicago-area housing types, examine the meaning and consequences of our expectations—such as comfort, convenience, and affordability. Our apartments and houses were designed to fulfill these expectations, rather than conserve resources and reduce waste. Are Chicagoans ready to add ‘green’ to their desires? At the Chicago Architecture Foundation. For detailed information call 312/922-3432 or visit www.architecture.org.
Ecotones: Mitigating NYC’s Contentious Sites
New York City
Through September 6, 2008
The projects in this exhibition show how sustainable practices, specifically, the collecting, cleansing, and reclaiming of water, can be used to mediate conflicting circumstances, integrating technical solutions with the social and cultural considerations that make for vibrant urban spaces. At the Center for Architecture. Visit www.aiany.org/calendar/event.
Naomi Leff: Interior Design
New York City
Through September 13, 2008
The exhibition will be the first to explore the work of Naomi Leff (1938–2005), and will include photographs, furniture, and objects from her personal collection and video presentations devoted to signature projects for companies such as Polo/Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani. At Pratt Manhattan Gallery. For further information, visit www.pratt.edu/exhibitions.
Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Study Center
New York City
Through September 14, 2008
The Dymaxion Study Center will display over four hundred volumes of books by and about visionary inventor and theorist, Buckminster Fuller, whose work has influenced generations of architects and environmentalists. At the Center for Architecture Dymaxion Study Center. Visit www.aiany.org.
Prestige or Paradise - Museum Architecture in the 21st Century
Humblebaek, Denmark
Through September 14, 2008
Why has the building of museums all over the world taken on the character of prestige projects? Which tendencies in museum architecture are the most important right now? Where are the museums heading in the coming decades? These are some of the themes this exhibition attempts to illustrate by presenting a great number of the world’s ongoing or future museum projects - as told through assemblages, models, photographs, films, animations, and other visual media. At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Call 454 919 0719 or visit www.louisiana.dk.
Iconic Finds Holland
Boston
Through September 19, 2008
M2L's Boston showroom, located at 104 Boylston Street will be displaying a visual timeline of Dutch design over the last century. The exhibit, which is on view Monday-Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm, will feature iconic pieces from manufacturing stalwarts including Rietveld, Gispen, Arco, Montis and Artifort. Email info@novitapr.com or visit www.m2lcollection.com.
South Street Seaport - Re-envisioning the Urban Edge
New York City
Through September 27, 2008
This competition encouraged participants to envision new connections, both material and metaphoric, between this richly historic neighborhood and Manhattan’s contemporary urban fabric. At the Center for Architecture. Visit www.aiany.org.
Visualizing a New Los Angeles: Drawings of Carlos Diniz, 1962-1992
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Through September 28, 2008
The architectural renderings of Carlos Diniz explore how architecture and new developments changed the self-representation of the city of Los Angeles during its most formative years. The show documents how Diniz was called upon to envision large-scale projects throughout Southern California that progressively transformed the scale, the texture, and the character of the postindustrial city of Los Angeles and its suburbs, and established the design terms of wholly new ones. At Edward Cella Art+Architecture. Call 805/962-5900 or visit www.edwardcella.com.
Campana Brothers Select
New York City
Through September 28, 2008
As guest curators in the "Selects" exhibition series devoted to rotations of works from Cooper-Hewitt's permanent collection, the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana mine the museum's collection for works that blend unexpected media, layer varied forms and weave intricate patterns and lines. The exploration of interwoven materials and ideas is the binding thread of the Campanas' work, and the exhibition will include a new piece designed by the brothers specifically for the museum's permanent collection. In the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery. Call 212/849-8420 or visit www.si.edu.
MAK UFI
Los Angeles
Through September 30, 2009
Funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the MAK Urban Future Initiative (UFI) is a fellowship program in which cultural researchers from diverse nations will come to Los Angeles for two months, live in the exemplary L.A. modern Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R. M. Schindler, 1936) and pursue a research topic related to urban phenomena. Fellows will come from nations that are under-represented in the Los Angeles discourse; the MAK Center will work closely with them to create a meaningful cross-cultural exchange. The goal is to generate concepts for the urban future by stimulating dialogue and mining both Los Angeles and international resources. At MAK Center for Architecture. Call 323/651-1510 or visit www.makcenter.org.
Cosmic Communist Constructions
Chicago
Through October 3, 2008
The exhibition, described as ‘startling’ and ‘idiosyncratic,’ consists of 48 photographs of Modernist buildings that were designed and built behind the iron curtain during the 1970s and 1980s. A map of the building locations is also included in the exhibition. French photographer Frederic Chaubin documented the structures during a five-year period. At the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF). For further information visit www.architecture.org or call 312/922-3432.
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
Los Angeles
Through October 12, 2008
An exhibition of an aesthetic, philosophical, and social visionary, Lautner made buildings that continue to amaze architects and patrons alike with their formal variety and freedom, their structural originality and their sculptural force. Lautner’s work has come to represent some of the most important examples of architecture in Southern California. At the Hammer Museum. Call 310/443-7000 or visit www.hammer.ucla.edu
April Greiman: Does It Make Sense?
New York City
October 20-December 13, 2008
One of the first American designers to embrace digital technologies, Greiman has explored the intersection of art, design, and architecture for more than a quarter century. The School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors April Greiman with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. At SVA. Call 212/592-2010 or visit www.sva.edu.
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
New York City
Through October 20, 2008
Comprising both a survey of the past, present, and future of the prefabricated home and an outdoor building project, this exhibition places equal emphasis on the process of architectural design and production and its actual end result. On the sixth floor, eighty-four architectural works spanning 180 years are represented through films, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, and other materials. In the Fifty-fourth Street lot adjacent to the museum, visitors can explore five prefabricated homes that were specially commissioned for the exhibition and assembled on site. At the Museum of Modern Art. Call 212/708-9400 or visit www.moma.org.
Young Architects Program 2008
New York City
Through October 20, 2008
The Young Architects Program, jointly presented by MoMA and P.S.1 each year since 2000, enables emerging architects to design creative interpretations of P.S.1’s large entrance courtyard, with the winning entry serving as the backdrop for the summer music series Warm Up. This installation presents the top five competition proposals-by MATTER PRACTICE, THEM, su11, and WORKac (all from New York); and MONAD Architects (Miami). At the Museum of Modern Art. Call 212/708-9400 or visit www.moma.org.
Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa
Montreal
Through October 26, 2008
An exhibition featuring recent architectural projects that propose new approaches to living in urban environments. At the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Call 514/939-7000 or visit www.cca.qc.ca.
Estudio Teddy Cruz Practice of Encroachment: From the global border to the border neighborhood
New York City
Through October 25, 2008
Teddy Cruz’s architectural studio, located at the San Diego-Tijuana border, has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations for using the neighborhood as a site of experimentation in order to research new forms of affordable housing and social density. The exhibition will elaborate on the realization that no advances in socially and environmentally sustainable building design can occur without reorganizing the existing political structures, economic resources, and social capital that can produce alternative systems for habitation. At PARC Foundation Gallery. Call 212/254-5445 or visit www.theparcfoundation.org.
Intentions: Enrique Norten
Monterrey, Mexico
Through October 26, 2008
An exhibition featuring the work of Enrique Norten, whose firm, founded in 1986, TEN Arquitectos, characterizes itself by favoring modernity and at the same time making use of tradition, both in small-scale projects such as furniture designs to entire living, commercial and urban spaces. At the Museo de Arte Contemporeaneo de Monterrey (MARCO). Visit www.marco.org.mx.
Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
New York City
Through October 27, 2008
Rem Koolhaas’s watercolor Plan of Dreamland (1977), a recent acquisition, is the point of departure for this presentation of selections from the Architecture and Design collection. Also featured are works by Raymund Abraham, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Hans Hollein, and other well-known contemporary architects. Finally, the display presents a number of new acquisitions, including works by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Diller + Scofidio, and Simon Ungers. At the Museum of Modern Art. Call 212/708-9400 or visit www.moma.org.
Farnsworth House Bus Tour
Chicago
Through October, 2008
Significant works by master architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are featured in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Farnsworth House Plus by Bus tour. For further information visit www.architecture.org or call 312.922.3432.
Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection
New York City
Through November, 2008
This installation of recent acquisitions, many of which are on view for the first time, represents the diversity found in contemporary design practice, with a focus on the latest innovations in architectural, industrial, and graphic design. Highlights include videos and drawings of Diller + Scofidio’s ephemeral mist construction, the Blur Building. At the Museum of Modern Art. Call 212/708-9400 or visit www.moma.org.
New York NOW
New York City
Through December 2008
New York NOW celebrates the diversity of the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture membership by displaying non-juried submissions of member projects. The exhibition will include works of all scales: small, large, commercial, residential, public, private, interiors, historic preservation, engineering, landscape, and urban design.
The exhibition presents the depth and breadth of professional activity and the variety of its impact. The resulting dialogue between different practitioners encourages a deeper understanding of what is happening in the New York architecture and design world now. At the Center for Architecture. Call 212/683-0023 or visit www.aiany.org.
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Chicago
Through January 4, 2009
An exhibit that showcases Michelle Kaufmann’s functioning three-story sustainable “green” home—built on the Museum’s east lawn—that will be outfitted with amazing technologies for the 21st century and a variety of environmentally friendly materials. This marks the first time that a museum has built a fully functioning exhibit home of this kind on its grounds. At the Museum of Science and Industry. Call 713/684-1414 or visit www.msichicago.org.
Vertical Cities: Hong Kong/New York
New York City
Through February 2009
Examining the evolving identities of the worlds’ most strikingly similar vertical
cities, the exhibition uses photographs, film, architectural drawings, maps,
and large-scale models to convey Hong Kong’s character: its iconic
skyline, a crowded commercial core with multi-level traffic, a
network of pedestrian bridges, and vertical shopping malls. The
unifying theme is density, exemplified by the city’s uniquely slender
towers on tiny lots, or the monumental apartment blocks of 50 to 60
stories or taller, multiplied by the dozen in New Town housing
estates in the New Territories. At the Skyscraper Museum. Call 212/945-6324 or visit www.skyscraper.org/verticalcities.
Chicago: You Are Here
Chicago
Ongoing
This new permanent exhibit includes a scale model of downtown Chicago, along with images, artifacts and video presentations, encouraging visitors to explore the architecture, infrastructure and environment of Chicago. At the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Call 312/922-3432 or visit www.architecture.org.
Transforming LACMA
Los Angeles
Ongoing
This installation is comprised of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop drawings, studies, and models-all of which chronicle the development of a master plan and early building designs for LACMA. At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Call 323/857-6000 or visit www.lacma.org.
ReThink/ReDesign/ReCycle
Chicago
Ongoing
The ongoing exhibition Competition: Public Process for Public Architecture will be updated with the display of more than 100 entries for the competition to design on-street recycling bins created by members of the City of Chicago and the AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum. At the CAF’s CitySpace Gallery. Call 312/922-3432 or visit www.architecture.org.
The Design Build Architect Conference
Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami
September 6, 2008, October 11, 2008, January 17, 2009, and March 28, 2009
The Design Build Architect Conference is a program developed for architects by architects. The conference strives to motivate design professionals to achieve greater degrees of success through the addition of deliverables. Incorporating ‘build’ services into an existing design practice has the potential to better serve the client, fortify the practice, and revitalize the role of architect. At Harvard University, Northwestern University, Georgia State University, and Florida International University. For more information visit www.TheDesignBuildArchitect.com.
Urban Waterfront Revitalization Conference
Bremerton, WA
September 10-12, 2008
Community leaders and experts from across North America will convene for the city’s first conference of its kind. Attendees will meet and learn from community leaders, port officials, project planners, private developers, state officials and other community leaders from American and Canadian cities. For more information about the conference and how to register, visit www.ci.bremerton.wa.us and click the Urban Waterfront Revitalization tab.
Schools for a Flat World
Helsinki, Finland
September 11-13, 2008
This conference, presented by the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education will explore how school designers can better respond to the global market. Visit www.aia.org/cae.
Buckminster Fuller Symposium
New York City
September 12-13, 2008
In conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller:
Starting with the universe on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art June 26-September 21, 2008. Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century. At the Cooper Union, the Great Hall. Call 212/353-4195 or visit www.cooper.edu
Promosedia 2008: The 32nd International Chair Exhibition
Udine Fiero, Italy
September 13-16, 2008
Open to the trade only, the 32nd International Chair Exhibition will bring interior designers, architects, buyers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, and journalists from over seventy countries. At the Udine showgrounds. Visit www.promosedia.it.
Greening the Iron Ribbon: Redefining the Northeast Corridor
New York City
September 16, 2008
The Northeast Megaregion with 50 million people is expected to add 18 million new residents in the next generation. Will the new growth be sustainable transit oriented development or will it be characterized by energy dependent exurban development that further erodes the natural environment and contributes to global warming? The conference will discuss and help identify new paradigms for development and sustainability that will redefine our region for years to come. 5 CES LUs and 5 CES HSW available. Visit or call 212.358.6121
2008 Green Building & Energy Efficiency International Conference
Shanghai, China
September 18-19, 2008
McGraw-Hill Construction and the Shanghai Green Building Council host this international conference, which features China’s top policy makers on Green Building, leaders from USGBC and WorldGBC, multinational commercial owners, major local developers, and leading architectural design firms. The 2-day conference offers an opportunity to learn from important personalities in green building and insights on market development as China embraces Green. Visit construction.com/events/GreenBuilding/Default.asp
Integrated Project Delivery
San Francisco
September 23 and October 22, 2008
This series continues to examine the different facets of Integrated Project Delivery highlighting how architects can be leaders during project delivery. At AIA San Francisco. Visit www.aiasf.org.
American Society of Landscape Architects ( ASLA ) 2008 Annual Meeting and EXPO
Philadelphia October 3-7, 2008
Featuring the world’s leading experts in landscape architecture, the meeting includes over 120 sessions and 450 exhibitors. Connect with authorities leading the next generation of sustainable design and find out how the landscape architecture profession melds environmental, social, and economic health through green infrastructure. At the Pennsulvania Convention Center. Visit www.asla.org.
Innovations and Collaborations in Affordable Housing
Phoenix
October 4-6, 2008
A symposium focusing on the innovative and collaborative processes that have been used to address the current crisis in housing affordability. The symposium will be followed by a half-day of tours to housing sites around the city. Visit www.aia.org/housing.
Masters of Light: A Conference of the AIA Interfaith Forum of Religion, Art, and Architecture
Rome, Italy
October 10–18, 2008
Join AIA IFRAA for a study tour of the world’s most significant religious capital. Attendees will experience first hand the masterworks of Bernini and Borromini, as well as those of such contemporary masters as Renzo Piano and Richard Meier. Among the many sites, tours will include: St. Peter’s, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, The Pantheon, The Church of Sant Ivo, Parco Della Musica, S. Maria della Victoria and Dio Padre Misericordioso. Visit www.aia.org/ifraa.
Leveraging your Resources: Doing More with Less
Chicago
October 14 - 17, 2008
The focus of the 2008 AIA Practice Management conference will be Leveraging Your Resources. This conference will provide tangible resources and take-home tools, using actual spreadsheets, databases, and management skills created through hands-on sessions and workshops. These tools will be geared toward small and mid-sized firms but will be scaleable for the larger firm platform. Visit www.aia.org for additional details.
DESIGN HOTELS£ FUTURE FORUM: Human Design
Berlin
October 15-17, 2008
The fifth annual Future Forum will once again connect leading talent in the design, art and architecture communities with great minds from the hospitality industry. Themes discussed this year include design that appeals to the human wish for identity, uniqueness, status and luxury (“Design as Art”), and design that strives to be sustainable and address the needs and problems that afflict our society as a whole (“Conscious Design”). The event will include multidisciplinary symposia and workshops. Visit www.designhotels.com/futureforum for more information.
LEARNING FROM HONG KONG
New York City
October 16, 2008
Using the Venturi and Scott-Brown model of Learning from Las Vegas, this program will examine Hong Kong's extreme density and development model of transit and towers and asks: What can New York learn? This session will bring together the RPA's constituency of professionals in the business community, planners, public officials and academics for a high-level discussion of transit-based economic and urban development. Organized by the Skyscraper Museum.
DEBATING DENSITY
New York City
October 17, 2008
Developers love density: urban activists generally decry it. Government officials try to find a balance between revenues generated by private development and the high costs of infrastructure and public amenities. Does density pay? Or does it cost? Hong Kong and New York leaders from development, design and government will discuss the private and public infrastructures that allow the city to function at its extreme levels of density. Organized by the Skyscraper Museum.
DESIGNING DENSITY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
New York City
October 18, 2008
In Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas admired Manhattan's “culture of congestion." Hong Kong has had the most densely- inhabited districts in the world, first by lack of regulation, then by design. An afternoon of discussion among academics and architects examines concepts of density and extreme urbanism in theory and practice. 2.5 CEUs available. Organized by the Skyscraper Museum.
Istanbul Design Week 2008, the New Frontier of Design
Istanbul
October 16-20, 2008
Istanbul Design Week 2008 will see exhibitions, workshops, conferences as well as day and evening events. At the Golden Horn.
National Design Week
New York City
October 19-25, 2008
Cooper-Hewitt’s annual National Design Week celebrates the roleof design in everyday life by offering free admission to all museum visitors throughout the week. It includes a series of programs for educators and the public at the museum and online. Visit www.cooperhewitt.org.
Heritage Ball 2008: Take Five: 5 Years + 5 Hours of Dancing
New York City
October 30, 2008
Honoring Studio Daniel Libeskind, MaryAnne Gilmartin, Comm. Shaun Donovan, and The Robin Hood Foundation with Dinner Chair Aby Rosen. For further information visit www.aiany.org or www.cfafoundation.org.
Masters of Space and Light
Rome, Italy
October 2008
The study of space and light in sacred spaces is the theme of the upcoming AIA Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture in Rome. This theme will be explored in seminars led by well-known architects, theologians, and architectural historians and will be augmented by guided tours of contemporary and historic Roman religious architecture of international significance. Tour locations will be selected from among the most famous sites in Rome and vicinity. Possibilities include historic sites such as Bernini's San Carlo of the Four Fountains or the Pantheon, as well as noted recent projects including Mier's Jubilee church and Piano's Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church. Visit www.aia.org/ifraa.
The 7th annual Fire Station Symposium and Fire Station Design Awards Program
Charlotte, N.C.
November 3-5, 2008
This symposium is staged by the Fire Industry Equipment Research Organization (F.I.E.R.O.) offering an array of topics, speakers, and exhibitors. For further information and entry details on the awards program, visit www.fierofirestation.com.
Justice Architecture: Sustainability / Design / Delivery / Practice
San Francisco
November 5-8, 2008
The conference will address a broad spectrum of issues that affect the planning, design and delivery of justice facilities. Through presentations that are related to the conference theme, conference participants will explore the sustainability, design, delivery and practice. For further information, visit www.aia.org/aaj.
Healthcare Design 08
Washington, D.C.
November 8–11, 2008
This conference is devoted to how the design of responsible built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and in the future. Visit www.aia.org/aah.
GEOSCAPE 2008: International Conference Living landscape: memory, transformation and future scenarios
Czech Republic
November 10-11, 2008
Landscape modeling has become a phenomenon studied from different points of view by all disciplines dealing with a landscape. This interest is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding to the matter, but also by the actual demands of the postindustrial society in the 21st century, which result from necessity to stabilize the damaged natural ecosystems on one hand, and to find effective ways of landscape exploitation on the other. Conference Sessions/Topics include the ecological aspect of spatial-functional landscape heterogeneity; economic and social transformations: impacts to regional scale; perception of social changes; and landscape modeling and GVIS. Visit www.conference.geoscape.cz.
International Icon Expo: Concrete Exposition
Indianapolis, Indiana
February 26-28, 2009
At the Indiana Convention Center. For more information about Icon Expo 2009, please visit www.iconexpo.org
47th International Making Cities Livable Conference on True Urbanism: Cities for Health and Well-Being
Portland
May 10 – 14, 2009
Call for Papers Deadline: October 15, 2008
An international conference for city officials, practitioners and scholars in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, transportation planning, health policy and social sciences from many parts of the world to share ideas, and establish working relationships. For more information, visit www.LivableCities.org.
National Green Builders Products Expo (NGBPE)
Las Vegas
May 27-29, 2009
The “Business-To-Business” Builders Expo For Green Building Products Only. The National Green Builders Products Expo is a pure trade-to-trade only event. We are bringing the buyers to the manufacturers & providers of goods and services related to the initial building, remodeling, rehabilitation, or renovation of buildings, green initiative commercial & industrial structures, as well as single & multi-family housing. Contact: Bentley International Group, Inc. 800/859-9247, info@bentleyintl.net or www.NGBPE.com
National Preservation Institute: Professional Seminars in Historic Preservation & Cultural Resource Management
Various locations
Ongoing
Various seminars with distinguished faculty highlighting state-of-the-art practice in important areas of historic preservation, protection, and interpretation of historic, archaeological, architectural, and cultural resources. For more information, call 703/765-0100 or visit www.npi.org.
Call for Presentations: AIA 2009 National Convention
Deadline: July 1, 2009
We are encouraging speaking submittals from the nation’s brightest and most articulate thought leaders to spur discussion about the convention theme: “The Power of Diversity: Practice in a Complex World.” Special consideration will be given to individuals who are on the cutting edge of design, building performance, practice, leadership, collaboration, research, technology, training or mentoring. Details and contact info at http://www.aia.org/conted_convention
The Richard H. Driehaus Prize
Deadline: September 15, 2008
The nomination is now open to the public. All interested parties — practicing architects, firms and their representatives, as well as industry leaders, architectural students and classical enthusiasts — are encouraged to submit nominations for consideration for the 2009 laureate. The $200,000 Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding architect or firm whose work applies the principles of classicism, with respect to sustainability, to the built and natural environment. It is the largest unrestricted prize of its kind. Visit www.driehausprize.org.
Roanoke Urban Effect 2008 Design Competition
Registration deadline: September 30th, 2008
A design competition which focuses on three specific areas of the city of Roanoke, VA and challenges design professionals and students to create new environments that will transform the current urban landscape. Applicants will explore the city’s potential by creating unique urban and architectural designs that enhance the best qualities of Roanoke and create positive impact on three specific areas of the city: the Roanoke City Market, The Crossing, and Reserve Avenue/Roanoke River. For more information on the competition visit www.roanokeurbaneffect.org.
GSA Design Awards 2008
Deadline: October 15, 2008
The U.S. General Services Administration’s 2008 Design Excellence and Construction Excellence Awards invites entries from individuals and firms that have worked on GSA-sponsored projects during the past five and a half years. Awards will be presented in March 2009. Call 202/219-1086 or visit www.gsa.gov.
2008 National Student Design Competition
Deadline: November 3, 2008
The third annual national student design competition will challenge students to learn about building materials, specifically architectural aluminum building products and systems, in the design of a library. The competition is open to all students of architecture and design in North America. Participants will be required to research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing a library for the 21st Century that serves the selected site and community. As publicly funded buildings, libraries need to be as energy efficient as possible, so participants will be challenged to design a facility utilizing the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building standards. Visit www.aias.org or www.kawneer.com.
2009 Palladio Awards
Deadline: November 14, 2008
The eighth annual competition recognizes outstanding work in traditional design for commercial, institutional, public and residential projects. For more information, go to www.palladioawards.com.
32nd Annual SOURCE Awards: National Lighting Design Competition
Deadline: January 1, 2009
The competition is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers, and consultants who have used Cooper Lighting fixtures in a completed interior or exterior lighting design project. Call 630/513-8625 or visit www.cooperlighting.com.
Design for the Children Competition: Pediatric Health Clinic
Deadline: January 15, 2009
Open to students and professionals, this international design competition asks participants to explore the potential of future pediatric and prenatal clinics for East Africa. Entry is free and our goal is to use the winning design as the base for a pediatric and prenatal health center in Rwanda. Visit www.designforthechildren.org for additional information and registration.
Energy Value Housing Award
Deadline: July 11, 2008
The EnergyValue Housing Award (EVHA) is the nation's preeminent energy efficiency award honoring builders who voluntarily incorporate energy efficiency into all aspects of new home construction. Builders submit detailed applications in any of five categories (Affordable, Custom/Demonstration, Factory-Built, Multifamily, Production) in one of three climate regions (Cold, Moderate, Hot). A panel of industry experts evaluates the applications and selects winners based on Energy Value, Design, Construction, Marketing and Customer Relations, and Energy Programs. Visit www.nahbrc.org/evha.
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