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Thursday, June 18th 2009
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – BAY AREA CHAPTER
Initial Meeting!
Click here for the flyer.
RIBA-USA is pleased to announce its formation of the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – BAY AREA CHAPTER. Please join us at the first business meeting on. Thursday, 18 June 2009. The meeting agenda will include: Discussion of the Goals for the Chapter, Fundraising and, Sponsorships, Professional Development, Membership, Nominee for Election to the Board, Bring your creative ideas to discuss. The first meeting will be held at..

Richard Neutra FAIA - Schiff House 1937 at 2058 Jefferson Street San Francisco, CA at 6:00 PM. Refreshments will be served. (The cross streets are Baker and Broderick in the Marina Area and there is ample free street parking). Please feel free to forward this to our fellow RIBA colleagues who might have not been included. For other details or information contact Chad Overway AIA, RIBA; chad@overwaypartners.com 415.987.8059

Wednesday June 3, 2009    8:45am-- 5pm.
LANDMARK WEST SEMINAR ON GREEN BUILDING
Hunter College, Lang Auditorium--695 Park Avenue @ 68th Street,
North Building.
a seminar on Green Building, Energy Efficiency and Existing Buildings
For Coop Board Members, Real Estate Brokers, and others Interested
7 1/2 hours NYS Real Estate License Continuing Education Credits Offered

24-28 June & 1-5 July 2009
Wales in Washing ton
For those of you planning a trip to Washington this summer, please find attached a list of many of the major events taking place in the festival to promote Wales in Washington, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Wales Smithsonian Cymru). 
See attached PDF (LINK) For updates on the program check www.wales.com

8th - 12 June 2009
OPPORTUNITIES IN A LOW CARBON ECONOMY
Miami FL and Atlanta GA
UK TRADE & INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
See the attached PDF for further information. Click here.
Deadline to confirm participation is Tuesday, May 12th for this conference in june !

Friday, 19th June 2009
ZAHA HADID IN CHICAGO
Opening of the Burnham Pavilions in Millennium Park

Hadid’s curvilinear pavilion will be constructed out of fabric stretched over an aluminum frame. The tent-like form has been designed to be collapsible and easily re-installed. The goal is that after its debut in Chicago, the Hadid pavilion will travel to other locations (and other party places)..Ed.


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Monday, 1st June 2009
STRAGEGIC CITIES
Why some cities can build their visions, why most don’t
When: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM MONDAY, JUNE 1
Where: At The Center for architecture
Internationally-acclaimed urbanist Jeb Brugmann presents the central thesis of his new book Welcome to the Urban Revolution. As the world organizes into a global urban system, very local development outcomes rapidly create new global opportunities or crises. The significance of urban place has never been greater. But the multiplication of influences on local development through that global city system also reduces the efficacy of jurisdictions and local planning. Exploring two decades of urban best practices, Brugmann proposes a new practice—“urban strategy”—and uses its elements to explain why cities like Barcelona, Chicago, Curitiba, and Vancouver have been so successful in shaping their growth and/or overcoming local crises.

Wednesday, 3rd June2009 @ 6.00pm
DESIGN WINNERS SYMPOSIUM – PROJECT WINNERS
Wednesday, 06/03/2009, 6:00–8:00pm Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
CES LUs: TBD, CES HSW: TBD

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 2009 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
NEW PRACTICES SAN FRANCISCO
Exhibit Opening 4th June 6.00pm Center for Architecture

New Practices San Francisco is the 2009, West Coast premiere of AIA New York's annual portfolio competition and exhibition. New Practices San Francisco is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies - both in projects and practice. The New Practices program was launched in 2005 by AIA New York to showcase promising new architectural firms.New Practices San Francisco will be on view at the Center for Architecture from June 4, 2009 through September 19, 2009. It will then be on view at the Center for Architecture & Design, San Francisco, from November 12, 2009 through January 29, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of programs organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with New Practices Committee and AIA San Francisco, including the Winner's Symposium on June 5, 2009.
Exhibition Design: Matter Practice, 2008 New Practices New York winning firm.
For more information on the NPSF program and exhibition, please visit the New Practices San Francisco web site.
Organized by: AIA New York, AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture FoundationPresenters: AIA New York Chapter, Center for Architecture, AIA San Francisco Chapter, and Center for Architecture + Design

Friday, June 5th 2009 5-8pm
Paul Rudolph Exhibition
Open House: Opening Reception
FRIDAY evening June 5 visit SPACED exhibit of Paul Rudolph drawings for New Haven Government Center at MODULIGHTOR 246 East 58 St. (212)371-0336 a fabulous Rudolph design hosting an open house Go to www.paulrudolph.org  (Modulightor at left) for details.

Monday, 8h June 2009
FIT CITY – PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THRO’ DESIGN
When: 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM MONDAY, JUNE 8
Where: At The Center FOR Architecture, La Guradia Place
Public officials, health professionals, architects, developers, and design professionals will speak on how building design and urban policy decisions increase physical activity and help to prevent chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and asthma.
The conference will present the new New York City Active Design Guidelines. Jointly developed by the Departments of Design and Construction, Health and Mental Hygiene, Transportation, and City Planning, the Guidelines will advise architects, designers, and planners on how to incorporate physical activity-promoting design components into their projects.
Public officials, health professionals, architects, developers, and design professionals will speak on how building design and urban policy decisions increase physical activity and help to prevent chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and asthma.
Keynote speakers:  Professor John Pucher, Rutgers University, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy;
Dr. Gayle Nicoll, Chair of Department of Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio
Other speakers include: DOHMH Commissioner Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH; DDC Commissioner David Burney, FAIA; DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan; DCP Commissoner Amanda Burden, FAICP

Wednesday, 10th 2009, 6:30–8:00pm
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WRITING Wright, women & narrative
Honoring Taliesin Fellow Lois Gottlieb, this special evening program features the premier of "A Girl is A Fellow Here: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright", a new 15-minute documentary film produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. A panel discussion follows exploring definitions of architectural genius in which collaboration, in general, and women, in particular, assume greater stature in the remarkable history of Frank Lloyd wright and in the rich history of American architecture.
Speakers: Moderator Sarah Williams Goldhagen, the New Republic. Participants Carol Gilligan, New York University; Beverly Willis, FAIA; Gwendolyn wright, Columbia University
Organized by: Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Beverly willis Architecture Foundation
Location: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, New York
Member Price: $7 Nonmember Price: $10 Guggenheim Box Office (M-F;1-5 pm) or
Telephone: 212.423.3587 Contact: www.guggenheim.org/PublicPrograms

Friday, June 12,2009 5-8 pm
FLW Exhibition Opening: Opening Reception
Lithographs from 1910 Wasmuth Folio
Limited Edition Prints of Drawings from Taliesin Archives
On view from Saturday, June 13-August 22, 2009
SPACED: Gallery of Architecture 31 West 26 Street, 6th Floor (212) 213-1720
Judith York Newman  Architect / Director Call to verify hours or arrange appointment.

Wednesday, 13th June 2009
FAMILY DAY - EXPLORING GOVERNOR’S ISLAND
(Raindate June 20th)
In partnership with openhousenewyork
When: 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 13
Where: Meet at the Governors Island Ferry in the Battery Maritime Building at 9:45 AM for the 10 AM ferry. This historic ferry terminal is just to the northeast of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The Governors Island ferry departs from the northernmost slip of the Battery Maritime Building.
Meet at the ferry located in the Battery Maritime Building and take a ferry ride to Governors Island. Explore the island and take part in a skyline drawing activity. Governors Island is home to a variety of historic architecture (including two forts!) and some of the most impressive NYC views. We encourage you to bring a picnic and stay on the island for the afternoon to enjoy the weekend-long celebration FIGMENT: a free, annual celebration of participatory art and culture that transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork.(www.figmentnyc.org)
Family Days are designed for children ages 5 - 13 accompanied by an adult.
$15 per Family of Four; $5 per additional guest

Sunday (Flag Day) 14th June 2009
BOAT TRIP ! UP THE HUDSON RIVER ON THE JOHN JAY HARVEY FIREBOAT

All members are invited to join us on the Fireboat for a long (all day) trip up the Hudson River to Newburgh NY. Bring the kids. BarBQ and photograph the majestic scenery as we sail on this classic 1930’s NYC Fireboat up the Hudson River. Once in a lifetime as they say!
Contact Jonathan Wimpenny for tickets and further details; wimpenny@rcn.com 

Friday, 15th  June 2009
OPENING SUMMER BENEFIT FOR THE HIGH LINE
Friends of the High Line's Opening Summer Benefit on Monday, June 15, marks the culmination of 10 years of efforts to save, preserve, and open the High Line as a New York City park. This year's benefit will include the First Party on the High Line, presented by Calvin Klein Collection. Dinner tickets, which include admission to the First Party on the High Line, are $1,000 (limited quantity available), $2,500, or $5,000. Tables start at $15,000.
Dinner begins at Pier Sixty at 6:00PM, followed by the First Party on the High Line.
For more information, please contact Alicia King at (212) 206-9922 x124, or via email at alicia.king@thehighline.org.

May 15th – August 23rd 2009

EXHIBITION
Frank Llyod Wright; From Within Outward
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, The Solomon R Guggenheim celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition “Frank Llyod Wright; From Within Outward”
See Attached Press Release for further details

Tuesday, 16th June 2009
WALKING TOUR
Sacred sights of the West Side
Landmark West have organized this walking tour with Mosette & Herb Broderick.
6.00pm – 8.00pm (rain or shine)
For tickets ($20) phone 212 496 8110

Wednesday, 17th June 2009, 6:00–8:00pm
HIGH PERFORMANCE DESIGN FOR TODAY & TOMORROW
Center for Architecture, LaGuardia Place
Syska Hennessy Group’s High Performance Design experts and engineers provide architects and owners design expertise to support the implementation of sustainable strategies for both new and renovation projects. This dynamic presentation will focus on our experience with integrated design, the progression of the sustainable movement and lessons learned from designing low and zero energy buildings
Free I LEU credit

Wednesday 17th June
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION
NETWORKING EVENT
June 17
Meet the Real Estate Industry- 
Networking with Exhibit tables
Club 101, 101 Park Ave, NYC
For further details and tickets see:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/311385362

Saturday June 20th 2009 11.00am
THE GUGGENHEIM
Place & Time in a Global Context
Free with museum admission at the Guggenheim NY
This lecture by Gail Satler expands upon Wright’s ‘destruction of the box’ to explore how the grid becomes thetension between individual and collective identity. In this way, the Guggenheim reflects the essence of what makes a work relevant especially in the international city of New York.

Monday, 22nd June 2009 6:00pm to 8:00pm
THE CARRY ON FILMS AT BAFTA-USA EAST, NYC

Hosted by Jim Dale and the St Georges Society
Come regale at tales of the Carry On Days with our own Jim Dale, and Richard Ross, who has written extensively about the films, and watch his highlighted reel!
The Carry On films are known as ‘more representative of the real Britain than any Ealing Comedy’ and ‘make the Farley Brothers ‘comedies’ look like models of restraint’.  Come and enjoy this very British event alongside BAFTA members!
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South
For tickets Contact wimpenny@rcn.com

Monday, 22nd June 2009
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION
GOLF OUTING Cllick for flyer
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM (ET) White Plains, NY
For further details and tickets see:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/311385362

Tuesday, 23rd June 2009, 6:00–8:00pm
BOOK TALK AND SIGNING
Scott Johnson, author of TALL BUILDINGS; Imagining the Skscraper
The skyscraper, whatever it may be as physical fact, looms large in our lives and as a figment of our imaginations carries with it ideas of wealth, ambition, and dominance. The image of the skyscraper has been made and remade in the news, in literature and film, and now in all forms of our now global media. Paradoxically, as the building type continues to become more complex and is designed to address fundamentally different cultural conditions, the image, that is to say, the idea, of the skyscraper in the public mind seems to become simpler, more omnipresent, and more consumable. Organized by: The Skyscraper Museum
Location: The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, NY, NY 10280
Price: FREE Telephone/Fax: 212.945.6324/212.732.3039


Monday, 25th & Tuesday, 26th June 2009
CONFERENCE Environment and Sustainability

Event: Convergence on Zero: Carbon, Climate & Energy presented by the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales (WWC)
Date and Time: 25 June and 26 June, 10.00am-5.00pm
Location: Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The Zero Carbon Transition Conference brings together leading thinkers from Wales to focus on the challenges set by the three big issues of our time: climate, energy and economics. The conference will make the case for rapid decarbonisation across all sectors and will explore the policies and technological tools we have at our disposal to make this transition happen.
Find out more about Zero Carbon Transition  www.wales.com/smithsonian

CLOSING-June 29, 2009
BRÜCKE: THE BIRTH OF EXPRESSIONISM
IN DRESDEN AND BERLIN, 1905-1913
This exhibition features more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by the pioneering artists’ group known as Brücke. With their emphasis on vivid color and emotional directness, the Brücke artists gave birth to German Expressionism. The exhibition is organized by Reinhold Heller, an internationally recognized scholar in the field. It is on view at the Neue Galerie from February 26 through June 29, 2009. It is the first major museum exhibition devoted to these artists ever held in the United States.
For Further Details see www.neuegalerie.org


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NEW HAVEN CT
JUNE JULY AUGUST
11 June 2009 - 23 August 2009
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879
This exhibition looks at four works by the French sculptor Jules Dalou executed during his British period. At the Yale Center for British Art...
This exhibition looks at four works by the French sculptor Jules Dalou executed during his British period. Living in exile in London in the 1870s, Dalou found his niche among the English aristocracy with the support of the Countess of Carlisle at Castle Howard, creating a series of intimate statuettes on the theme of modern womanhood. Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.