September 2004
New York
Last RIBA-USA International Committee Meeting with
the AIA before next month’s conference on the International
Contract:
“The Value of International Collaboration: The Realities
of Moving Into New Markets“
DATE: 9th September
Venue: Center for Architecture LaGuardia Pl (See calendar
date Oct 4th 2004)
Members are urged to attend and help with last minute details
of the program, contact Jonathan Wimpenny wimpenny@rcn.com
New York
Venue: British Consulate NYC
DATE: 9th September
The RIBA-USA NY Chapter welcomes the newly arrived The British
Consulate General Sir Philip Thomas KCVO CMG to New York.
For further details contact: Jonathan Wimpenny wimpenny@rcn.com
New York
UK Sculptor, Rachael Whiteread, exhibits in New York
September 10, 2004-February 20, 2005
"Design Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel
Whiteread"
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
for further details phone 212/849-8400, www.cooperhewitt.org
New York
Learning From Lower Manhattan Symposium.
September 17-19, 2004
NY Chapter Member, John Belle FAIA RIBA addresses AIA Symposium
on Rebuilding Downtown NY "Learning From Lower Manhattan"
Symposium. John Belle RIBA FAIA, NY Chapter member will be
addressing the Symposium on Saturday September 8th 10am -
midday. Location: The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia
Place, New York, NY 10012
For further details see:
http://www.aia.org/learningfromlowermanhattan/schedule.asp
MEN FROM MARS
RIBA-USA NY Chapter Lecture in New York
DATE: 30th September
Venue: The Center for Architecture
LECTURE: Men from Mars: Connell Ward Lucas;
Radical English Modernists of the 1930s.
Prompted by the visit to New York of the UK architectural
historian, Dennis Sharp, the RIBA-USA NY Chapter is hosting
an event to honor the contribution he has made over many decades
in the field of architectural criticism and publishing.
His latest book concentrates on the Early British Modernist
Architects and members of the MARS Group; Connell Ward Lucas.
This monograph will be published at the end of 2004. Interestingly,
a talk on this subject will be no “dry historical talk” as
Mr. Sharp is also a practicing architect in the UK and has
been involved in restoring the work of these early British
International Modern Pioneers (two years ago he completed
the work on the first private project of Colin Lucas in Buckinghamshire).
He will also be highlighting the work of other contemporary
UK architects, less well known in the US, who are also interested
in the reappraisal of the modernists’ building techniques
and restoration (John Winter, Tony Fretton, Avanti Architects
for example).
For further details and time of lecture contact Jonathan
Wimpenny at wimpenny@rcn.com
Boston
Foster Exhibition - Museum of Fine Arts.
Through January 2005
Exhibition The collaboration between the MFA and Foster and
Partners on the transformative Master Site Plan project has
led the Museum to organize an exhibition of Foster and Partners’
most celebrated projects. Foster and Partners will be on view
from September 22, 2004 through January 20, 2005 in the Henry
and Lois Foster Gallery and the West Wing Galleria. The focus
of the exhibition will be the examination of Foster and Partners’
sensitive incorporation of modern architectural elements within
important historical buildings, brought to life through models,
drawings and design plans of projects including: the New German
Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin; the Great Court at the British
Museum, London, UK; and Carré d’Art, Nimes, France. Visitors
will get a sense of the philosophy of Foster and Partners
and how it applies to the Museum’s Master Site Plan. Along
with architectural renderings, the exhibition will include
interactive computer programs, photographs of Foster and Partners’
buildings as well as its studio.
