http://www.uia2011tokyo.com/en/

2010 International Conference and Education Symposium
Sohrab Vossoughi, IDSA, Conference Chair
August 4-7, 2010
Hilton Portland and Executive Tower
Portland, OR

http://www.idsa.org

GLOBAL CHALLENGES: ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS
Few career paths inherently aspire to advance the conditions of populated environments like those idealized in architecturally-related professions. In celebration of Architecture Week 2010, product leaders, design professionals, and academics will gather next Spring in Chicago - a global leader in architectural excellence and innovation - for the 1st annual Global Convention and Exposition on Architecture. Sponsored by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Architecture Today LLC, this gathering presents a unparalled opportunity to experience the latest technologies, learn about professional organizations, market your qualifications to corporate firms and even compete on a world stage. What better venue to convene on architecture than on the world-renown Miesian-influenced campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology located in the conveniently accessible, world class city of Chicago? Join us April 15-17, 2010 for what promises to be the architectural event of the season!

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PRODUCT EXHIBITIONS
PROJECT EXHIBITIONS FROM PROFESSIONAL DESIGN FIRMS
INFORMATIONAL EXHIBITS FROM PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
CREDITED WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
COLLEGE FAIR FEATURING DESIGN SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE
MOCK FIRMS AND PROFESSIONAL DESIGN COMPETITIONS
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TOURS, A FIRST EVER ARCHITECTURE RACE AND MORE!

OPPORTUNITIES EXIST FOR THE FOLLOWING:

VARIOUS LEVELS OF SPONSORSHIP
VENDOR EXHIBITS
TEACHING SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
JURORING ON THE AWARD COMMITTEE

Contact

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Venue

The campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology
College of Architecture
3300 S. Federal
Chicago, IL 60616

The 5th Annual Graduate Student Symposium
In conjunction with the Roth-Symonds Lecture

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Saskia Sassen
Columbia University & London School of Economics

Yale School of Architecture
April 15-16, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS
This symposium, Positioning Global Systems, explores the relationship between networks and locality in the built environment.

New innovations in communication and information technologies form the basis of an expanding virtual geography. Yet the physical manifestations of our interfaces with these systems are often less considered. While contemporary architecture looks towards ways to model the global, our heightened perceptions of geographical specificity instead call for new visions of local articulation. Popular mobile GPS applications, for example, allow us to directly interact with our environments through a play of social, and even cultural, databases.

Through similar narratives of the local, this symposium seeks to reposition our broad and often vague definition of the global.

Participants are invited to submit proposals for papers that investigate a broad range of themes around this topic, including:

Networks and Actors
How does our interaction within globally dispersed networks, such as information, capital, media, and politics, materially structure our local collective and individual identities?

Perception
How is our shared overlap of information, landscape, and technology expressed through evolving understandings of local environments?

Representation
How do representations of our environment, while deployed across larger socioeconomic and cultural systems, give form to our conceptions of territory, statehood, region, and enclave?

Contributions are sought from a wide range of disciplines. Positioning Global Systems aims to bring together efforts from the fields of architecture, art history, sociology, human geography, science, cartography, media studies, political science, and history.

The symposium will open with a keynote address by Professor Saskia Sassen, a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Sassen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities. An eminent scholar in globalization, economics and labor, network technologies, and the nation-state, her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Sassen established the term “global city” in her benchmark text The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 1991), which positioned her at the fore of globalization theory. Her more recent books include Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006), Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects (Routledge 2007), and Digital Formations: IT and New Architects in the Global
  Realm (Princeton University Press 2005).

After the student paper presentations, members of the Yale School of Architecture faculty will provide responses.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Interested graduate students should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a curriculum vitae. Each proposal should clearly articulate the subject matter and its relevancy to the symposium’s theme. All submissions shall be received by Friday, January 8, 2010.

Successful candidates will be notified by the middle of January. Initial drafts of papers for a 20-minute presentation will be due on February 26, 2010. Final drafts will be due by March 29, 2010.

Email to: david.sadighian@yale.edu

Featuring approximately one hundred works, Picasso: Themes and Variations explores Pablo Picasso’s creative process through the medium of printmaking, tracing his development from the early years of the twentieth century, with depictions of itinerant circus performers in the Blue and Rose periods, to his discovery of Cubism. The exhibition follows his evolving artistic vision through decades of experimentation in etching, lithography, and linoleum cut, demonstrating how each technique inspired new directions in his work. A focus on specific themes demonstrates how Picasso’s imagery went through a constant process of metamorphosis. Printmaking, in particular, allows this fundamental aspect of his art to become vividly clear, since various stages in building a composition can be documented. One series of lithographs shows Picasso progressing, step-by-step, from a realistic depiction of a bull to one that is completely abstracted in simple, schematic lines. Other examples reveal changing interpretations of the women in Picasso’s life, as they became the subject of his art and the catalytic force behind his creativity.

In conjunction with this exhibition, MoMA will launch a major online project featuring its collection of over one thousand etchings, lithographs, and linoleum cuts by Picasso, allowing this extraordinary group of works to reach a global audience. Digital images of these prints will be available online and, in many cases, will be accompanied by interpretive texts.

MoMA

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/contemplating-the-void

The TED2010 experience will include:

• A fast-paced, highly curated 4-day stage program featuring TED’s famous 18-minute talks, plus music, comedy, dance, short talks, video interludes and other surprises
• TED University: The hugely popular, pre-conference sessions where attendees share their areas of expertise, from “How to negotiate a term sheet” to “How to break a board with your bare hands.”
• Immersive evening events (including the TEDPrize Gala) designed to extend the conference experience and facilitate conversation
• Art exhibits, tech demos, test drives, and other immersive on-site experiences
• Caffeine-fueled conversation breaks, where attendees and speakers develop ideas between sessions
• Our unique simulcast room, where you can watch the entire conference in an informal setting—on couches, beds, beanbag chairs; while blogging, tweeting, eating ...
• The famous TED gift bag, free to all attendees and filled with complimentary goodies
• Online tools for connecting with other attendees, before and after the conference
• TED Book Club mailings, five times each year

http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/

WORKSHOPS
5th - 6th, February 2010

Workshops include Paneling Tools with Rajaa Issa, Rhinoscripting with Marc Fornes, and Grasshopper with Andrew Payne. All workshop sessions are certified by the AIA for CES credits. Administration of these credits will occur at UT Arlington, School of Architecture.

LECTURES

AXEL PAREDES
Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala
DESIGN RULES
Wednesday 02/03/09, 4:30PM University of Texas Arlington School of Architecture Auditorium

SCOTT MARBLE
Marble Fairbanks / Columbia GSAPP, NYC
DESIGNING PARAMETERS / DESIGNING ASSEMBLIES
Thursday 02/04/09, 7:30PM DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

EXHIBITION

Partial Architectures
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OPENING: Friday, 02/05/10

TEX-FAB

This is an invitation to be a part of a series of events concerned with designing for children with focus on ‘play’ and ‘learn’:

The major events during the week are:

1. Design Education Meet (2-3, February 2010)
2. International Design Conference (4-6, February 2010)
3. Exhibition of projects on ‘Design for Children’ (2-6, February 2010)

http://www.designingforchildren.net

tickets £8, £5 concession to book please visit http://www.architecture.com/programmes

OPEN:POLAND
Architecture and Identity
In association with Arup
A major exhibition and talks programme as part of Polska! Year 2009 – May 2010 A cultural programme co-ordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute

8 Fitzroy Street, London W1

At contractworld.congress some of the best-known and most highly regarded architects and designers of our time will be talking about the latest developments and trends in designing Offices, Hotels and Shops. In addition to these three standard categories, the Congress boasts a fourth topical category, which alternates from year to year. This year’s topical category is Change of use/Conversion, which focuses on the transformation of existing buildings on the basis of new concepts or fundamental reconstruction work.

contractworld.exhibition - communication between architects and manufacturers

contractworld - an international forum for architecture and interior design - provides companies in the furniture, lighting an floor covering sectors with first-class opportunities to showcase their products, concepts and future-focussed ideas within an exclusive setting.
contractworld affords a complete overview of contracting for office, hotel and shop interiors.

contractworld is geared towards highly professional, high calibre target groups: architects, interior designers, interior decorators, planners, building developers and other professionals for whom this forum serves as a unique summit.

contractworld is sponsored by leading international professional associations representing architects and interior designers. These organizations will also be represented at the event.

http://www.contractworld.com

James Corner, the founder and director of Field Operations, will present his firm’s recent and current work, which includes the development of Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the transformation of the High Line. Landscape architect Kate Orff will moderate a conversation with Mr. Corner following his presentation.

Field Operations, based in New York City, is a landscape architecture and urban design practice, comprising 35 professionals, many with cross-disciplinary backgrounds in landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, and communication art. Field Operations’ mandate is to create “intelligent, high-quality design solutions for cities, landscapes, and public spaces.” The practice works collaboratively with some of the world’s leading architects, planners, engineers, ecologists, and artists, including Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Renzo Piano, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Tomato, and Olafur Eliasson.

Field Operations’ expertise is reflected in a diverse range of projects, from the design of entire sectors of cities to intimate garden spaces; the design of large public parks and urban spaces to housing and mixed-use urban developments; the reclamation of landfills, derelict brownfield sites and other post-industrial landscapes for new public uses and private development; to the preservation of large-scale natural resources.

Current projects include transformation of the 2,200-acre landfill site Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into what will be one of the world’s largest urban parks; the High Line in New York City; the transformation of 83 acres at the heart of San Juan, Puerto Rico into a 7-million sf state-of-the-art Science City; the Busan Civil Park on the site of a former US Army base in Busan, Korea; the 925 acre Lake Ontario Park on the Toronto waterfront; the Botanical Garden of Puerto Rico; a 4-million sf urban redevelopment project, with 20 acres of public open space, in Westport, Baltimore; the transformation of a former penal farm into a 4,500-acre urban park in Memphis, Tennessee; a new waterfront city in Chuncheon, Korea; a master plan for the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus; and the master plan of the 40-acre Great Falls Park in Paterson, New Jersey.

The work of James Corner and Field Operations has been recognized by the New York City Arts Commission Award for Excellence in Design; the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Design; the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Design Innovation; the Architectural League of New York; and other professional design awards and prizes. The firm’s work has been published and exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale; the Lisbon Triennale; ArchiLAB, Paris; the Royal College of Art, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

James Corner is also chair of and professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He received his Bachelor of Arts in landscape architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, England and his Master of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets at http://www.archleague.org > events from December 2 until noon of the day of the program.

Co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

During the week of December 7-13, this free, public event invites locals and visitors to view New Orleans historical spaces in a new way. The private courtyards, vacant buildings, and rooftops will be activated with an eclectic variety of site responsive installations by artists including Sadi Brewton, Marshall Brown + Dana Carter, Felipe Correa of the Somatic Collaborative, Gregoire Diehl of Smoothcore, Hiroyuki Futai of F-TAI Architect, Mary Hale, Jennifer Hiser, Tiffany Lin + Mark Oldham, Leah Nanpei + Koko Hovaguimian of nan.ko studio, Virginia San Fratello + Ronald Rael of Rael San Fratello Architects, Junji Watanaabe, and Jimmy Stamp + Sergio Padilla.  These artists represent cities from seven US states, including two teams from New Orleans, and the international cities of Tokyo and Paris.  The installations will be paired with nightly changing entertainment by musicians and a total of three public parties will be held to commemorate the start, midpoint, and end of the event.

DesCours goes beyond traditional art mediums to explore creativity, culture, and expression within urban settings.  “With DesCours now in its third year, we are looking forward to increased exposure and awareness for this event, and the highest caliber of unique installations from top designers as we uncover more hidden spaces for the public to see.”, said Melissa Urcan, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects New Orleans Chapter (AIA New Orleans). “While DesCours is a great means of cultural outreach within the city, it also showcases the unique architectural identity of New Orleans and puts our city on the map with other major art destinations worldwide.”

AIA New Orleans is presenting the event in partnership with the Downtown Development District (DDD), the City of New Orleans, and numerous private businesses, organizations, and individuals.  DesCours is recommended to be viewed either on foot or by use of bicycle, and will have self-guided and docent-led tours leaving from the new Center for Design on Lee Circle on a nightly basis during the event.  More information can be found on the website, http://www.descours.us.

Werner Sobek, founder of Werner Sobek Engineering and Design will present the 3rd Annual Franzen Lecture for Architecture and the Environment. The lecture is given by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment. The annual lecture was created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. Toshiko Mori, principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, will introduce and frame Sobek’s presentation by identifying current issues in the intersection of architecture and the environment and will moderate a discussion following his lecture.

Werner Sobek is the Mies van der Rohe Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and head of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart, where he studied architecture and structural engineering. As successor to architect Frei Otto and engineer Joerg Schlaich, Werner Sobek is an advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and engineering both in training and professional practice.

While the ILEK specializes in the research of new materials and new concepts for lightweight and adaptive structures, Werner Sobek’s office is one of the world’s leading engineering consultancies with offices in Stuttgart, Cairo, Dubai, Frankfurt, Khartoum, Moscow, and New York. The work of Werner Sobek is defined not only by its engineering and emphasis on sustainable systems but by a rigorous application of design. Founded in 1992, the studio’s emphasis lies on lightweight load-bearing structures, high-rise buildings, transparent facade systems, and special structures in steel, glass, titanium, textiles, and wood.

The works of Werner Sobek have been awarded numerous awards and distinctions, including the DuPont Benedictus Award, the European Gluelam Award, the Fritz Schumacher Award, the iF Design Award, the SEAOI Structural Engineering Award, AIA awards of the American Institute of Architecture, the Hugo Haering Award, the Fazlur Rahman Khan Medal, and the UIA’s Auguste Perret Prize.

Toshiko Mori is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. She is principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, which she established in 1981 in New York City.

In 2005, she received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Medal of Honor from the AIA New York Chapter. She is Vice-Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Designing Complex Systems for the World Economic Forum.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets at http://www.archleague.org > events from November 25 until noon of the day of the program.

Co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The event will run in two parallel streams: one stream will feature training in GenerativeComponents and Grasshopper, while the second will be a workshop where participants have the opportunity to propose and work on individual design projects using a variety of software platforms. Both streams will offer participants close interaction with tutors from practices and universities known for their accomplishments in computational design and analysis, and complex geometry. Additionally, the stream featuring GenerativeComponents and Grasshopper will feature tutors from the companies behind each platform, Bentley and McNeel.

Those working on individual projects will need to be proficient in their chosen platform but can draw on tutor’s skills in various technologies for instance Processing, C++/OpenGL, RhinoScript as well as tutors’ expertise in complex problems of geometry, structure, algorithms, and analysis.

Participants will be able to change streams as it suits the development of their work.

In the evenings, participants can attend presentations demonstrating the latest projects and research in computational architecture and engineering.

To register please visit: http://www.smartgeometry.org

The deadline for applications is November 15th.

The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss the implications of metaphor for architecture and urbanism, both from a theoretical and a historical point of view. The goal will be to explore the term, to open future perspectives, to understand the difference between metaphor and analogy as well as to consider the differences between metaphors about and metaphors in architecture/urbanism.
Architecture, like urbanism, is never neutral. Both disciplines are always in search of legitimacy outside their disciplinary borders: they push and question their limits “from inside” or are affected “from the outside” and try to understand this challenge to their limits. Metaphor, as an instrument of translation, appears to be fundamental to understanding the “transitional” nature of architecture and urbanism. In this regard, Peter Collins’ Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture (1965), is interesting in that it identifies four major analogies that influence architecture: biology, mechanics, gastronomy and linguistics. It is revealing, that Collins speaks of analogies and not metaphors.
At the same time, advances in programming and the application of algorithms in design in architecture and urbanism, question the nature and role of architecture. One of the most powerful and reoccurring metaphors being the biological metaphor. 

The conference will last three days and will focus on three main topics: Metaphors as instruments of knowledge, metaphors in projects and metaphors in discourse. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and at the end of each day, a round-table discussion will connect the different presentations.
Unless specified, papers will be presented in English. Synopses of the papers will be available in both French and English during the conference.

The conference is organized by Andri Gerber, École spéciale d’architecture de Paris, in collaboration with the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris. The conference is generously supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

A selection of participants:
Gernot Böhme (Darmstadt),
Paul Virilio La Rochelle),
Andreas Tönnesmann (Zürich),
Stefano Boeri (Venezia),
Elisabeth Bronfen (Zürich),
Georges Teyssot (Laval)

Contact registration : Amina Chady / achady@esa-paris.fr / T : 00 33 1 40 47 40 24 / F : 00 33 1 43 22 81 16

http://esa-paris.fr/

£8, £5 concession to book please visit http://www.architecture.com/programmes
This talk takes place at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change
Sponsored by Gleeds
A series of talks that brings together visionary thinkers and innovative practitioners from a range of disciplines to provide a forum for engaging with some of the key issues affecting the built and natural environment now and in the future.

This year’s award winner, Charles Correa, discusses his work and issues of architecture, low-income housing and urban planning in India. Correa is one of India’s pre-eminent architects and widely recognised for his outstanding contribution to architecture, having received the Royal Gold Medal in 1984. He is also a planner, activist, teacher and theoretician whose projects include, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Ahmedabad, the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh and housing projects and townships in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
Chaired by Charles Jencks, designer, author and broadcaster.

RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

£8, £5 concession to book please visit http://www.architecture.com/programmes

Andrew Whalley, partner in charge of Grimshaw’s New York office, will present the firm’s recent and current work, including EMPAC (The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) at RPI in Troy and the Fulton Street Transit Center.

Founded in 1980 by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Grimshaw is an international practice with permanent offices in London, Melbourne, and New York. Grimshaw’s worldwide presence and commitment to sharing resources between offices allows the firm to approach each project with a collective knowledge base and shared aesthetic. Each city’s workforce is made up of a balanced mix of staff originating from the London office and staff who have joined the firm in each city; this blend ensures the continuity of Grimshaw’s design culture while enabling the firm to respond to uniquely local contexts. The firm’s work has been the recipient of numerous AIA, RIBA, and World Architecture awards and has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.

Grimshaw established the New York office because “our contextually sensitive design culture demands geographical and cultural knowledge. We believe that our best architectural responses are created when we understand the wider context within which our designs take shape, and when we are able to interact with clients, sub-consultants, and peers on a frequent and personal basis.”

Andrew Whalley has been an instrumental part of Grimshaw since the earliest days of the practice, and has been Partner in Charge of projects in diverse sectors including education, performing arts, transportation, and workplace. His award-winning projects include the International Terminal at Waterloo, the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the redevelopment of the historic Paddington Station in London. He is currently Partner in Charge of Grimshaw’s New York office, which is one of eight architectural practices selected for major public projects under Mayor Bloomberg’s design excellence program. The New York office’s current portfolio ranges from the renovation of the 1939 Aymer Embury New York Pavilion as part of a redevelopment of the Queens Museum of Art, to the new Fulton Street Transit Center, part of the regeneration of downtown Manhattan. The Industrial Design Group recently completed the New York street furniture contract. Whalley oversees all live projects in the A
mericas.

In the education and cultural arts sector, Whalley has been involved in a range of projects including state of the art science facilities for the Danforth Science Center; the strategic plan for the Royal College of Art in London; EMPAC; and is currently working on the Masterplan for NYU and the new Miami Museum of Science.

Whalley has taught at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College’s Industrial Design Department, the Architectural Association, University College London, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Pennsylvania. Whalley received his B.Arch at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and studied at the Architectural Association.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets at http://www.archleague.org > events from November 17 until noon of the day of the program. Co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

2009 is the 50th anniversary of the Icsid Congress. This year’s Congress will not be “just another Congress” and the agenda goes beyond industrial design. The Congress will directly address today’s global challenges which will shape the world of 2050, including issues around agriculture, climate, education, health and mobility.

Unlike conventional events which tend to feature one-to-many speaker sessions, the 2009 Icsid Congress will involve both keynote speakers, studio design leaders and delegates working together to chart a better future through design. The event itself embraces the future by featuring “Design2050 Studios”, inter-active and participative mini-symposia, led by world-renowned creative experts, including Chris Bangle of Chris Bangle Associates, and Stefano Marzano of Philips Design. In the months leading to the Congress, each of the design leaders will head a team of four to six individuals from multi-discipline backgrounds in various parts of the world to create a Design2050 proposition, by imagining, conceptualising and visualising a desired future.

Each Design2050 Studio will present, discuss and then refine their envisioned scenarios in partnership with delegates during the congress. The global public will also be able to contribute to inventing the future during open “ringside crowd-sourcing” sessions, and on-line social media forums.”

http://www.icsidcongress09.com

Theater 1 Gallery
Theater 2 Gallery
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
Museum Lobby

This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton’s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawing through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.

The gallery exhibition focuses on work generated during the process of conception, development, and production of his films, and will cover Burton’s realized and unrealized projects. It will include works on paper and sculpted in various mediums, as well as work in digital and moving-image formats such as concept art, production designs, drawn and painted animation art, 3-D models, puppets and maquettes, script treatments, storyboards, screen tests, other audio-visual components, and examples of his work as a graphic artist for non-film projects. Burton’s films include Vincent (1982), Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (as producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), and Sweeney Todd (2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

MoMA

Please join our finissage and discussion, lead by Mohamed Sharif who currently serves as President of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (LA Forum) on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm.

Where: ARENA 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 90405

http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com

For more information and to purchase tickets: http://designguide.com/eblast/architects_reaching_out.htm

The modern development of the south Moravian town Zlín is closely connected with Baťa shoe factory. From 1923 to 1938 the entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa and his stepbrother Jan Antonín extended Zlín like a huge laboratory for collective life and work. According to the designs of František Lydie Gahura – a former associate of Le Corbusier’s – a “factory in the countryside” with spacious open areas, housing estates as well as cultural and social facilities was developed on a planning grid of 6.15 m x 6.15 m. Baťa combined clever entrepreneurship with Fordian mass production of shoes and social experiment. This sole worldwide example of a town erected according to strictly functional principles has been studied and admired as a showcase by modern architects and politicians of all kinds alike. The exhibition shows the Czech sample town by means of plans, photos, films and models.

An exhibition by the Architekturmuseum der TU Munich, the National Gallery in Prague and the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín.

The exhibition is part of “A Utopia of Modernity: Zlín”, a project by Zipp - German-Czech Cultural Projects, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Website

Los Angeles’ Architectural history is deeply ingrained with technological, material, formal and cultural experimentation. Explorations including Wright’s textile blocks, the fabrication techniques of Charles and Ray Eames, and Gehry’s formal and material developments have all pioneered new territory for the discipline of architecture.

Today’s Pioneers continue westward expansion armed with a range of interests unique to the contemporary moment. This series will zoom in on a group of practitioners whose research at the margins of the discipline is expanding the architectural designer’s territory for play. From advanced technology to cultural aesthetics, a dizzying array of new trajectories is quickly taking shape. For these designers research is a practice based, not a project based activity. The cultural value of this approach is that it offers disciplinary intelligence without the shackles of sensibility.

For more information visit the LA Forum website: http://www.laforum.org

Co-sponsored by the Columbia University School of the Arts. Cross-disciplinary dialogue on materials and artistic and architectural practice with HEATHER ROWE, Columbia SoA alum, and MICHELLE FORNABAI, Columbia GSAPP.

Free and open to the public
RSVP: gdb2106[@]columbia[dot]edu

Studio-X
180 Varick Street, STE 1610
Between King and Charleton Streets
212 989 2398

[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]

THEMES | TEMAS
• Professional Education for International Practice in Architecture
• International Accreditation

In the international threshold city of Miami, Florida, Bienal Miami + Beach 2009 invites
Deans of Architecture from across the Americas to take part in a unique conversation
on architecture education and global practice. We propose to advance vigorous
discussion on a range of topics: Professional design curricula; opportunities for
research and collaboration in an international context; the preparation of students for
global practice; and international models for accreditation.

In advance of the meeting we invite conference participants to contribute representative
examples of the work of their programs to an exhibition centered on design
education in the Americas. Presentations and a roundtable discussion will introduce
attendees to the range of work produced by professional design programs in our
hemisphere. Bienal Miami + Beach will publish proceedings of the meeting including
illustrations of all the exhibited work.

Many buildings are recognized by their façades more than their spatial qualities and this highlights the obvious role of a façade beyond its purpose to keep out the elements of nature.  As Marc Simmons puts it,  “Beyond its functional role, the façade is a signifier that evokes thoughts about what the building is about.”

Front is a cross-disciplinary group of creative individuals with professional backgrounds in architecture, structural engineering and mechanical engineering.  The firm provides design and technical consulting services through intensive collaboration to realize innovative projects and responsible design.  Front has been involved in a series of innovative projects including the Seattle Central Public Library with OMA; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art with Sejima Nishizawa Associates; the Walker Art Center expansion with Herzog de Meuron; and the Morgan Library & Museum expansion with Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Simmons is a faculty member at the Princeton University School of Architecture, and holds both Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Architecture degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada.  His specialist façade knowledge and experience in custom curtainwall and hybrid cladding system design is built upon previous work at Foster and Partners, Meinhardt Façade Technology, and the structural gall and façade consulting group at Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners in New York.

The Nabih Youssef Lecture on Structural Design Innovation endowment, funded by USC Architectural Guild Life Member Nabih Youssef, provides support in perpetuity for a lecture to be given by a distinguished structural designer.

Lectures are free and open to the public.  They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus.  No reservations are required.  Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.

USC School of Architecture

The goal of ARCHILD Congress is sharing the theoretical and practical experiences about city and architectural cultural works.

The congress will include oral and poster presentations of the ARCHILD working groups, in plenary format.

http://www.archildworld.org

Chaired by Vicky Richardson, Editor, Blueprint Magazine.

£8, £5 concession to book please visit http://www.architecture.com/programmes

OPEN:POLAND
Architecture and Identity
In association with Arup
A major exhibition and talks programme as part of Polska! Year 2009 – May 2010 A cultural programme co-ordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute

8 Fitzroy Street, London W1

Join us in November as nationally and internationally recognized industry leaders team up with the Northeast’s best to share their expertise in over 200 workshops, sessions, symposiums and tours at the 25th annual Build Boston, November 18-20, 2009.

The professional development program focuses on a range of issues that are timely and of special interest to the building industry including energy, building technology, firm management and profitability, urban design, preservation, interior design and more.

Build Boston also features the largest design and construction industry exhibit hall in the Northeast. Visit more than 250 booths filled with the nation’s leading suppliers of building technologies, products and services while getting a glimpse at new products being debuted at the show.

For more information, go to http://www.buildboston.com.

What is the future of New York City’s Garment District?

MAGDA ABOULFADL, Member, Manhattan Community Board 5
BARRY DINERSTEIN, Senior Planner, New York City Department of City Planning
STAN HERMAN, Former President, Council of Fashion Designers of America
PATRICK MURPHY, Head of Fashion/Retail Growth Initiatives, New York City Economic Development Corporation
BARBARA RANDALL, President, Fashion Center Business Improvement District

Moderated by VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI, Director, Real Estate Development Program and Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development, Columbia GSAPP

Sponsored by DRY Soda Co.

Free and open to the public
RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu

Studio-X
180 Varick Street, STE 1610
between King and Charleton Streets
1 train to Houston Street

[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]

Tuesday, November 17
6:30 pm
Room 3-133
Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the public art agency Creative Time, New York, where he has organized such projects as Paul Chan’s monumental Waiting for Godot in the streets of New Orleans (2007), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008) in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory, the roving cross-country discussion platform It is What it Is: Conversations about Iraq by artist Jeremy Deller, and PLOT09, which brought a number of art encampments to Governor’s Island, NY. Prior to this, Thompson was Curator at MASS MoCA, where his massive exhibition The Interventionists looked to contemporary art engagements across the social sphere — including conferences, nomadic housing, free taxi rides, media detournement, and shoplifting.

Thompson will discuss his book Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production. Borrowing from his experience as an activist and curator, Thompson discusses the difficulties and potentialities of producing meaning under a neoliberal information economy.
The Fall 2009 HTC Forum, Producing Geo-Politics, considers creative production within geo-political systems. HTC Forum events are free and open to the public. Organized by the History, Theory, and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art at MIT with the generous support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund. For information about this and other forum events, please contact: htc@mit.edu.

International Symposium
Co-Conveners Ole W. Fischer & Elli Mosayebi
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Saturday, November 14th 2009, 10am – 6pm

Even within a global world there persist local forms of knowledge and practices that lead to differentiation. This may seem obvious, yet what does this mean for the theory and practice of architecture? Like the fine arts, architecture shows a long record of supranational periodization. And with the prevalence of modern architecture the discipline became a true agent of Western culture on a global scale. On the other hand local agents including the networks of clients, as well as legal, technologic and economic factors, combined with the collaboration of builders and craftsmen, shape local specificities which are enhanced by the dominance of certain “ideas” or “topics”, such as “construction” and “materiality” in the case of contemporary Swiss architecture.

Today with the dissolution of national boarders (within Western societies) and the emergence of a global market for architectural design, we would like to re-address the ideological framework of the „National,“ challenging what terms such as „Swiss“ or „American“ mean with respect to (the discipline of) architecture and the built work. How are these preconceived notions of National differences related to architectural thinking? – From our observations there are alternative ways to pose an architectural “question” or “theme” that precede the actual design work and building production, something like an (implicit) idea of architectural action. In this case it would be possible to identify different “theories of practice” (similar to Le Corbusier’s “l’art de produire”). As an example, the emphasis on construction, materiality and sensual effect differs from diagrammatic and parametric design methods. Both result in alternating concepts for teach
ing and research.

In order to challenge this working hypothesis on various “theories of practice” and their relation to the contested terrain of the “National” we bring together practitioners and educators from Switzerland (ETH, EPFL) and the US (Harvard GSD/MIT) to open a dialogue on parallels and differences of the production, reflection and education of architecture:
Speakers:
•  Dieter Dietz (UNDEND / EPF Lausanne)
•  Harry Gugger (Herzog & de Meuron / EPF Lausanne)
•  Inès Lamunière (dl-a / EPF Lausanne)
•  Daniel Niggli (EM2N / ETH Zurich)
•  Marcel Meili (Meili Peter Architects / ETH Zurich Studio Basel)

Respondents:
•  Danieller Etzler (SHoP Architects NYC / Harvard GSD)
•  Mark Jarzombek (MIT HTC)
•  Michael Meredith (MOS / Harvard GSD)
•  Ingeborg Rocker (Rocker-Lange Architects / Harvard GSD)
•  A. Hashim Sarkis (Hashim Sarkis / Harvard GSD)

Organization, Introduction and Moderation: Elli Mosayebi (EMI / ETH Zurich) & Ole W. Fischer (O.W. Fischer / Harvard GSD/RISD)

Free and open to the public!
RSVP: swissarchsymposium@gsd.harvard.edu

Thanks to the support of the ProHelvetia Foundation Bern, Swissnex Boston, and to Harvard GSD, Harvard European Design Circle and GSD Culture Club.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/index.html

Some fifteen years have passed since Rem Koolhaas claimed that "If there is to be a 'new urbanism' it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence but [on] the staging of uncertainty." "To survive," Koolhaas continued, "urbanism will have to imagine a new newness."

In the intervening decade and a half while the collective weight of the world's largest cities has grown by almost 150 million people, urban designers and architects have remarkably ceded the planning and invention of cities to panoply of other interest groups and professionals. When called to action, many of the urbanists and architects who remain committed to the arena of city making now retreat to historical models of urbanization in favor of innovation or novelty.

Organized by SCI-Arc's Future Initiatives program, the Other New Urbanisms Symposium will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of innovative and contemporary approaches to city making. As the second in a series of planned SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI) symposia, this event aims to broaden the discussion of the "new" in urbanism, with the hope of discussing a range of contemporary approaches to urban design that integrate new attitudes towards cultural production, aesthetics, and ecology.

The event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. The symposium will also be broadcast live at www.sciarc.edu/live

PRESENTATIONS

David Fletcher
Principal, Fletcher Studio Landscape Architecture + Urban Design
Faculty at California College of the Arts

"The expansive embankments that cradle many urban freeways represent one of the greatest untapped spatial fragments of the contemporary built environment. This conceptual proposal explores the radical transformation and reuse of these spaces, and others like them, to create vibrant live-work agricultural villages which operate in metabolic symbiosis with productive urban landscapes. The Terrabank Village would provide a structural alternative to the missions and homeless shelters in downtown LA—transforming a cycle of passive dependency into a cycle of active empowerment. In this system, operative landscapes and programmatically flexible live-work units function to metabolize contaminated water, organic waste, industrial excess, and other recyclable materials from the surrounding city while generating food, shelter, green jobs, and sustainable revenue. As a Terrabank grows more productive and dense over time, its fate rests on its ability to establish strong cultural and economic ties to its host community by providing inclusive and valuable amenities, public spaces, and economic opportunities."

Andrew Zago formed Zago Architecture in 1992. He worked in Los Angeles and New York, where he was the founding director of the master's program in architecture at the City University of New York. Aside from his architectural projects, he also creates autonomous studies, mostly in the form of drawings and assemblages. While still completing buildings, he is currently experimenting with film and digital processing to explore urban and spatial analysis within the context of Detroit, his native city.

RESPONDENTS

Orhan Ayyüce
Architect, senior editor and architecture critic for Archinect, Los Angeles
Columnist for Arkitera, Istanbul
Born in Izmir, Turkey. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Graduate of Sci Arc, 1981.

The articles, reviews and interviews by Orhan Ayyüce are regularly published in many leading architecture websites, magazines, newspapers and design blogs throughout the world and translated to different languages. Along with his writing and architectural practice, he is a part time faculty at Cal-Poly Pomona architecture department and regularly interacts with students as a guest critic at local architecture schools.

Sylvia Lavin
Chair, Ph.D. in Architecture Program, UCLA
Professor of Architectural History and Theory, UCLA

A Professor and Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD programs at UCLA, Lavin has served as visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and elsewhere. Lavin's next books The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity and Kissing Architecture are forthcoming. With Hi-C, a design/research collaborative she founded at UCLA, Lavin is currently curating two exhibitions: Craig Hodgetts, Playmaker - which opened at ACE Galleries, Los Angeles in October; and Take Note which opens at the CCA, Montreal in February 2010.

MODERATORS

David Bergman
SCIFI Coordinator
Principal, MR+E

Peter Zellner
SCIFI Coordinator
Principal, ZELLNERPLUS

Free and open to the public.

http://www.nysid.edu

Cumulus 38° South is more than a hemispheric shift in location. We will explore the landscape of design and examine how it contributes to the world around us. Current problems and future problems are layered and complex. They make new thinking, new processes, and new knowledges necessary across disciplinary boundaries.

Cumulus 38° South invites educators, practitioners, and researchers to join our cross-disciplinary conversation, “How can design as a discipline transcend boundaries, shift thinking, and evolve to meet the needs of our future?”

Four main conference themes include:

• Transcending disciplinary boundaries, creating new practices, processes and knowledge
• Transitions in art + design education, balancing teaching, learning and research
• Shifts in art + design practice and technology, defining new ways of working
• Repositioning art + design’s role in society, a catalyst for social change

http://www.cumulus09.com

Malcolm Holzman has been fascinated with and drawn towards materials throughout his professional life, from his early partnership in Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Architects to his current practice with Holzman Moss Architects. Many of his over 120 completed buildings exhibit innovative and surprising applications of glazed tile, glass, metal, wood, and clay recycled, appropriated, reinterpreted or rescued outright from the “spoil pile” or “bone yard” along with a wide assortment of unconventional materials ranging from abandoned subway kiosks to cattle trailer panels.

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY College
141 Convent Avenue @ 135th Street
Free Admission. For more info: http://events.cuny.edu/eventDetail.asp?EventId=24439&CollegeId=6&CategoryId=2

In 2008, entrepreneur Cai Jiang commissioned emerging designers from around the world to develop a new cultural district in Ordos that exemplifies innovative and sustainable architectural design.  The Ordos Project features a concert hall, retail district, art museums and Ordos 100‚Äî100 villas designed by 100 architects selected from 27 countries.

ORDOS NOW highlights key cultural buildings and 11 residential villas, each addressing different contextual and cultural responses, fabrication and materiality techniques, and sustainability issues.  Architectural works are represented by Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design (Los Angeles), Cannon Design (Shanghai), MADA s.p.a.m. (Shanghai), ZEROLABOFFICE (Shanghai), Office dA (Boston), IwamotoScott (San Francisco), LTL Architects (New York), Lyn Rice Architects (New York), MOS (New Haven), *multiplicities (New York), OBRA Architects (New York), Preston Scott Cohen (New York), Slade Architecture (New York), and Toshiko Mori Architect (New York). 

For more information, please visit http://www.ordosnow.com.

This exhibition is made possible by Cannon Design.

Come spend a day with Kenya Hara, Japan’s most respected thinker and prolific designer, as he shares about these very subjects of HAPTIC, SENSEWARE, MUJI, and Emptiness, in his inaugural lecture in Singapore.

Venue : The Singapore Airlines Theatre, LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940

Start date : 12 Nov 2009

Start time : 9am

Ticketing by SISTIC
http://www.sistic.com.sg/cms/events/index.html?contentCode=kenya1109

Info at http://www.autumnschool.asia

Contact at contact@autumnschool.asia

“Making with…” is Roche’s way of describing their research into a critical experience of architecture through a mutation of contextual parameters. Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning and morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory. Experimental and inventive, the architecture of R&Sie(n) seeks to be profoundly critical; an architecture that is articulated as multiple narrative apparatus and relationship strategy made of substances from each situation.
François Roche has taught at the Bartlett School in London; Vienna University of Technology; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona; École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris; University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Columbia University, NY.  He has lectured the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Architectural Association School of Architecture, London; the University of California, Los Angeles and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Their projects have been exhibited at Columbia University, NY, 1999-2000; University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2000; ICA, London, 2001;  Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004;  Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004;  MAM/Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2005 and 2006; MIT’s Media Lab, Cambridge, 2006; Tate Modern, London, 2006; Orléans/ArchiLab International Architectural Conference, 1999, 2001 and 2003.  R&Sie(n) were among the architects selected by France for the 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale.

François Roche holds the AC Martin Visiting Professorship in Architectural Design Chair.  This endowment stands as a lasting tribute to the Martin architectural legacy, and to their outstanding leadership.  The endowment funds a distinguished visiting faculty member whose teaching will instill the philosophical leadership of the various design disciplines of the architectural team and help young students uphold the ideals of the Master Builder.

Lectures are free and open to the public.  They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus.  No reservations are required.  Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.

USC School of Architecture

The aim of the symposium is to exchange knowledge and experience by Brazilian and Dutch specialists on this subject.

The symposium is open for architects, urban planners, engineers, and other professionals involved in social and low-cost housing as well as for students in these fields.

http://www.designandbuildbrazil.net/

Contributors include: Deptford Creekside Charrette Team, Studio Sergison at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland, East, Witherford Watson Mann Architects, David Kohn Architects.

http://deptfordupdate.org/

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, The Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., with the support of the Yale University School of Architecture.

Museum of the City of New York

This event is subject to change.

£8, £5 concession to book online please visit http://www.architecture.com/programmes

International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change
Sponsored by Gleeds
A series of talks that brings together visionary thinkers and innovative practitioners from a range of disciplines to provide a forum for engaging with some of the key issues affecting the built and natural environment now and in the future.

RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

November 10, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Chalmers Design Centre, Teknion Lounge and DX Studio (Design Exchange)                           

Free Admission

Parallel Nippon focuses on 110 representative architectural specimens selected from among buildings constructed primarily in Japan in the 10 years from 1996 to 2006, presenting them against the backdrop of Japan’s socio-cultural environment.  The exhibit retraces how Japan’s architectural scene has answered with fine-tuned designs to the demands of the age amid the transition from the period of the Japanese speculative “bubble” economy to the post-bubble period.  Parallel Nippon is built around the idea of contrast: expanding metropolises versus local communities plagued by declining birthrates, grand cultural facilities with an international focus versus small but sensitive community facilities for local children or for the local elderly, and so forth.

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Introduction by:

Dominique Boudet, editor–in-chief of the French architecture journals Le Moniteur and AMC, and creator of L’Equerre d’Argent, one of France’s most prestigious architecture awards.

Access is free and open to the public, but capacity is limited.

Free and open to the public
RSVP: gdb2106[@]columbia[dot]edu

Studio-X
180 Varick Street, STE 1610
Between King and Charleton Streets
212 989 2398

[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]

Tuesday, November 10
6:30 pm
MIT Room 3-133
The European Union is generating a new transnational political geography in Europe that raises a number of questions about the internal dynamics and role of cities in cross-border networks. Focusing on Zagreb – a city currently transitioning into the EU and with more than 150 years of experience of operating in conditions of instability and within transnational political structures – Blau examines how such conditions create opportunities for architecture, and generate new forms of practice and techniques for city making.
The Fall 2009 HTC Forum, Producing Geo-Politics, considers creative production within geo-political systems. HTC Forum events are free and open to the public. Organized by the History, Theory, and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art at MIT with the generous support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund. For information about this and other forum events, please contact: htc@mit.edu.

Join us in exploring and celebrating the work of Washington architects!
In this era of change, how do architects remain inventive, agile and break out of professional boundaries? AIA Seattle invites the architectural and broader community to experience creative solutions and resourceful projects that celebrate design excellence in these exciting and challenging times. Join us for the 2009 AIA Seattle Honor Awards for Washington Architecture and help us explore and celebrate the work of those shaping our built environment.

Elizabeth K Meyer FASLA will lead a vivid and provocative conversation about the elegance and sustainability of our region’s architectural work with jurors Teddy Cruz, Nigel Dancey RIBA, and Mark Rios FAIA FASLA.

The 2009 AIA Seattle Honor Awards presentation features a performance by composer, musician, and visual artist Paul Rucker. This performance is sponsored by SSA Acoustics.

The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor

This retrospective, presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin; Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; and Klassik Stiftung Weimar), is the first comprehensive treatment of the Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938 and the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades. With a wide diversity of objects, including examples of industrial design, furniture, graphics, film, photography, book design, weaving, theater, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition will highlight the school’s revolutionary ideas of artistic education and production, as well as its enduring influence. Several of the key objects in the exhibition have never been shown in the U.S. Representing an innovative pedagogical approach, works by Bauhaus masters such as Walter Gropius, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Itten, and Paul Klee will be joined by little-known student work created in the school’s workshops. Other important themes that will be explored in the exhibition and catalogue are the school’s strategy of self-promotion, its connection with industrial production and commerce and the question of authorship. After the exhibition is presented at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in summer 2009 for the ninetieth anniversary of the school’s foundation, the show will travel to New York during MoMA’s eightieth anniversary year.

The exhibition is organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design; Andres Lepik, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design; and Dara Kiese, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

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Forge new strategic partnerships and explore the latest in sustainable strategies and best practices to lead your organization to success.

Get the inside view on the hottest topics, trends and technologies at the premier green business event focused on creating new opportunities through sustainability.

Explore Product Innovation & Design for Sustainability, How Leading Fortune 500’s are Implementing Sustainability for Growth, The State of Green Venture Capital and Branding for Green Business.

Discover the The Latest in Social Media, The Future of Hybrid Cars, Going Green Globally, What’s Hot/Not in Green Business, Clean Tech Innovators and more.

Opportunity Green offers Two Full Days of Ground Breaking Panels, Case Studies and Hands-Ons Workshop Sessions showcasing successful sustainability strategies, emerging best practices, and leading edge product and service solutions.

Opportunity Green

Subways cars as eco-urban classrooms: meet the exhibition organizers from the Urban Landscape Lab and MTWTF and tour the MTA No. 7 line in this weekend open house, from noon-6pm, at Studio-X.

“Safari 7 Reading Room” is also open to the public Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm, through December 31st.

Free and open to the public

Studio-X
180 Varick Street, STE 1610
Between King and Charleton Streets
212 989 2398

[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]

On November 7, 2009, the Institute for Urban Design will host a day-long event titled Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have a Future? The symposium will examine the effects of the global recession on large-scale developments and the ramifications of the re-emergence of megaprojects.

Astoundingly, this era of economic contraction has brought progress in environmental policy at local, national, and international levels. As megaprojects like New York City’s Atlantic Yards and the UK’s “eco towns” slow down, stall, and even stop, local and national leaders are rethinking the nature of these projects with respect to social and environmental sustainability. Historically, megaprojects have been controversial. Although there have been outright failures, megaprojects can offer opportunities for great urban renewal. Our panels of experts will examine how market mechanisms enable megaprojects, what characterizes their success, and why, how, and if megaprojects have a future.

The symposium is organized in three sessions: in the morning two panels will discuss Megaprojects in Suburbs and Megaprojects as New Towns; in the afternoon we will look at Megaprojects in the Dense Metropolis.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: DO MEGAPROJECTS HAVE A FUTURE?

Symposium organized by the Institute for Urban Design with the support of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Saturday, November 7th, 2009
The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
Free admission

9:30 am
Welcome: Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design
Opening Remarks: Anthony Vidler, Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union

10:00 am – 11:30 am

MEGAPROJECTS IN SUBURBS
Lawrence Levy, Executive Director, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
David Manfredi, Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects
Myron Orfield, Professor of Law; Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota
Tom Suozzi, Nassau County Executive (TBC)
Moderator: June Williamson, Associate Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York / CUNY

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
MEGAPROJECTS AS NEW TOWNS
Chris Corr, Regional Chair, Planning, Design and Development, AECOM, Florida
Tom Jost, Director of Urban Planning, ARUP, New York
Emily Talen, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
James von Klemperer, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects
Moderator: Robert Fishman, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
MEGAPROJECTS IN THE DENSE METROPOLIS
Keynote: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President

Vishaan Chakrabarti, Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development; Director, Real Estate Development Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University
Susan Fainstein, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School
Thom Mayne, Founder, Morphosis Architects
Moderator: Peter Grant, The Wall Street Journal

http://www.ifud.org/arrested-development/

On November 7, 2009, the Institute for Urban Design will host a day-long event titled Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have a Future? The symposium will examine the effects of the global recession on large-scale developments and the ramifications of the re-emergence of megaprojects.

Astoundingly, this era of economic contraction has brought progress in environmental policy at local, national, and international levels. As megaprojects like New York City’s Atlantic Yards and the UK’s “eco towns” slow down, stall, and even stop, local and national leaders are rethinking the nature of these projects with respect to social and environmental sustainability. Historically, megaprojects have been controversial. Although there have been outright failures, megaprojects can offer opportunities for great urban renewal. Our panels of experts will examine how market mechanisms enable megaprojects, what characterizes their success, and why, how, and if megaprojects have a future.

The symposium is organized in three sessions: in the morning two panels will discuss Megaprojects in Suburbs and Megaprojects as New Towns; in the afternoon we will look at Megaprojects in the Dense Metropolis.

The symposium will be the basis for the second publication in the Institute for Urban Design’s Notebook series. For more information on The New York 2030 Notebook: http://ifud.org/new-york-2030-notebook

Speakers:
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development; Director, Real Estate Development Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University
Chris Corr, Regional Chair, Planning, Design and Development, AECOM, Florida
Susan Fainstein, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Robert Fishman, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan
Peter Grant, The Wall Street Journal
Tom Jost, Director of Urban Planning, ARUP, New York
Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design
Lawrence Levy, Executive Director, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School
David Manfredi, Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects
Thom Mayne, Founder, Morphosis Architects
Myron Orfield, Professor of Law; Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota
Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President
Tom Suozzi, Nassau County Executive
Emily Talen, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Anthony Vidler, Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union
James von Klemperer, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects
June Williamson, Associate Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York / CUNY

http://ifud.org/arrested-development