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1. NEWS
2. NEW YORK EVENTS
3. LOS ANGELES EVENTS
4. NEW ENGLAND EVENTS
5. PHILADELPHIA EVENTS
6. SAN FRANCISCO


NEWS

Monica Pidgeon Hon FRIBA, 1913-2009
Monica Pidgeon Hon FRIBA, Hon AA Dip, former editor of Architectural Design and the RIBA Journal, was a major figure on post war architectural scene. She was a member of the MARS (Modern Architecture Research) Group, taking part in CIAM (Congres International d’Architecture Moderne) and its breakaway group Team Ten with Alison and Peter Smithson, Aldo van Eyck and George Candilis. In the 50s and 60s Architectural Design became the mouthpiece of Team Ten

World Architecture Festival
Barcelona 4-6 November
For Further information see:www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/

SUPPORT THE BRITISH MEMORIAL GARDEN + WIN A TRIP TO THE UK
Buy a ticket for our 2009 Holiday Raffle for the British Garden, to be drawn at the Victorian Celebration reception in India House Club following the tree lighting and caroling in Hanover Square on December 7, 2009. Prizes include a week at the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales, round-trip Business Class tickets on British Airways New York-London and exquisite votive candle holders in a British Garden design from renowned designer Christopher Quaile at Halcyon Days.
Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100. Purchasers need not be present to win
/www.britishmemorialgarden.org/

Baltimore, MD
21-24, October 2009
Traditional Building Exhibition & Conference 2009
Baltimore Convention Center
Twice a year the Traditional Building Exhibition & Conference (TBEC) gathers over 4000 professionals and enthusiasts engaged in new traditional construction, renovation, and preservation of historic buildings and places. This fall, at the Baltimore Convention Center, TBEC will offer the largest, most comprehensive learning and networking event for professionals and enthusiasts involved in historic restoration, rehabilitation, and traditional building. Join your peers: architects, building owners, facilities managers, general contractors, custom builders, restoration/renovation specialists, trades people, planners, developers, interior designers, landscape architects, and suppliers for seminars, workshops, architectural tours, craftsmanship demonstrations and unique product exhibitions. Earn 24 Continuing Education Credits. The ICA&CA will be represented by its Mid-Atlantic Chapter
For detailed information or to register for the conference, visit Traditional Building Show or call toll free (866) 566-7840.

Miami FL
October 31 to November 03, 2009
HEALTHCARE DESIGN.09
Gaylord Palms Resort Hotel & Convention
6000 W Osceola Parkway
Orlando, FL, USA
The HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference is devoted to how the DESIGN of responsibly built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future. The conference has quickly become the industry's best-attended and most well-respected conference on evidence-based design for healthcare.

DESIGN SANTA FE
October 1-3, 2009.
Santa Fe Interior Designers Present (SFIDP) is pleased to present DESIGN SANTA FE 2009, a three-day event taking place at various venues throughout the City of Santa Fe on
DESIGN SANTA FE events include a Home Tour, Design Dialogue and Luncheon, and a special "Ride the Train to Great Design" Rail Runner Guided Home Tour; as well as parties and events hosted by local and regional businesses.
For further information see: http://santafeinteriordesignerspresents.com/

Washington DC
OCTOBER 2009
10/15/09 + 10/16/09
OUTLOOK CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE
Join us in Washington for the 71st annual Outlook Executive Conference taking place on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16 at the Capital Hilton, Washington, DC.
Get a first-hand view of industry trends and the economic forecast that will affect the construction industry in 2010. This Conference will give you the vital information you need to plan for business success in the year 2010 and beyond.
http://www.construction.com/events/Outlook2010/


NEW YORK  (Back to top)

Thursday, October 1st 2009: 6:30-8 pm
Skyscraper Museum
Book Signing & Talk: Anthony Flint WRESTLING WITH MOSES:
How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. But consummate power broker Robert Moses saw things differently: neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village were in need of “urban renewal.” Notorious for exacting enormous human costs, Moses’s plans had never before been halted–not by go See: www.skyscraper.org/

Tuesday, October 6th 2009
Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H, New York Book Launch Panel and Reception.
At the Cooper Hewitt, Registration required, info here: http://projecthdesign.org/rsvp_oct6_ny.html

Wednesday, October 7th 2009: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Exhibit Opening: New York Now
Where: Village Trattoria, 135 West 3rd Street (near 6th Ave)
The AIA New York Chapter / Center for Architecture takes over the West 4th Street subway station with our member showcase, New York Now!
New York Now will include works of all scales and types – small, large, commercial, residential, public, private, interiors, historic preservation, engineering, landscape and urban design – presenting the scope and quality of work being done by Chapter members in New York City today.

Thursday, October 8th 2009
Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885 – 1935 ~ Lecture
Join author and architectural historian, Michael C. Kathrens, for an enlightening description of the architectural and social development of Newport, the nexus of wealth and fashion at the end of the nineteenth century. To accommodate their entertaining in “cottages” that ranged from thirty to seventy rooms, Newport’s elite engaged the country’s most accomplished architects. This period is the subject of Mr. Kathren’s new book Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885 – 1935 (W.W. Norton, January 2009). For Further Details See: http://www.classicist.org

Thursday, 8th October 2009: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
AIA ANNUAL HERITAGE BALL
Join the AIA NY Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation for their annual black-tie gala. Tickets and reservations only
Where: Chelsea Piers, Pier Sixty
Cocktails begin at 6pm
Honoring: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Robert Silman, Hon. AIA Commisioner Adrian Benepe
The Make It Right Foundation
With Laurie Beckelman, Hon. AIA, Dinner Chair
Event website: http://www.aiany.org/heritageball

Thursday, October 8th: 9.00pm – 2.00am
2009 Party @ the Center for Architecture. La Guardia Place
Tickets: (includes open bar)

FREE with purchase of ticket to Heritage Ball

$25 in advance (Tickets will be available online beginning September 8)

$40 at the door
Transportation will be provided from Chelsea Piers to the Center for Architecture for Heritage Ball attendees. Please Note: All guests must be 21 years of age or older. IDs will be checked upon entrance. For more information about Heritage Ball including how to make a dinner reservation see www.aiany.org

Friday, 9th October 2009
The Guggenheim
Exhibit - Anish Kapoor; Memory

Memory, 2008
Constructed in Cor-Ten steel, Dimensions: 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48 meters (yes meters!) – A must see from Kapoor now installed in New York at the Guggenheim
Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim

Saturday, 10th October 2009
LANDMARK WEST
GREEK FEAST “UNSUNG HEROES OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE”
Join us for Awards ceremony to honor the efforts of those individuals and Institutions who help to advance the cause of preservation 7pm-9pm at La Palestra 11 West 67th Street
Tickets start at $50

Monday, October 12 - 14, 2009  AXA Center
The IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (ITARC)
The IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (ITARC) is the premier IT architect educational event of the year. Co-sponsored by the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and the IASA New York chapter, this conference will take place October 12-14, 2009 to provide high-level, professional education and training for the fast-growing and ever-changing IT architecture community.
Visit event website

Wednesday, October 14, 2009: 8:45 a.m.-- 5:00 p.m.
An Architectural  and Zoning Toolkit
to Enhance your Skills in a Changing Economy
For Real Estate Brokers, Architects, Co-op Board Members and other Community Members
7.5 hours NYS Real Estate License and  7.5 AIA/CES LU’s
Call (212) 496-1714 to register. $65, includes coffee. Special nonprofit, student and senior rates available. You may pay by check or credit card. Working lunchtime seminar will be held on-site. Please send payment to: LANDMARKWEST! 45 West 67th Street, New York, NY  10023.

Thursday, October 15th 2009: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
2009 Rosenblatt Lecture with Vishaka Desai:
“The Role of Museums in 21st Century Asia”
CES LUs 1.5; HSW 1.5
Where: At The Cente for Architecture La Guardia PLacer
 While created as western institutions in the 18th century, art museums have been firmly implanted on the Asian soil for more than a century. They were initially seen as symbols of colonial power or westernization process of a country but today, as Asia rises in importance in the geo-political and geo-economic world order, art museums are beginning to play a different role.
The current explosion in museum building in China and a nascent development of private museums in India indicate new aspirations on the part of the public and private patrons. In this illustrated lecture, the focus will be on the changing role of museums in Asia – especially in China and India – with a special emphasis on both forms and function.

Friday, October 16, 2009–April 4, 2010
Exhibit - Design USA: Contemporary Innovation – Cooper Hewitt Museum

Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/Design-USA/

Friday, October 16th & Friday, October 23rd 2009: 11.00am
2Art, Architecture and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim

In honor of its 50th Anniversary, the Guggenheim has produced a documentary film on the history of its building, collections, exhibitions, and the development of its international network. The 27-minute film combines archival materials—including talks given by Solomon Guggenheim and Frank Lloyd Wright—with contemporary footage featuring artists, art historians, architects, architectural historians, and curators.
11 a.m.–5 p.m. New Media Theater Free with museum admission.

Friday, October 23rd – Friday December 4th 
ARCHITECTURE AT COOPER 1859-2009
When: 12:00 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 - 12:00 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
Where: The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St., 2nd floor, New York,
First public exhibition of recently discovered blueprints and drawings by architects Leopold Eidlitz and John Hejduk Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009 traces the succession of Cooper Union's architecture, beginning with its landmarked, 19th century brownstone Foundation Building designed by Frederick Petersen--extensively renovated by Leopold Eidlitz in the 1880s and 90s; transformed internally in 1975 by John Hejduk; and restored externally in 2002--to its new academic building at 41 Cooper Square designed by Thom Mayne, completed in 2009. The exhibition also examines how the education of architects, beginning with the first drawing classes of 1860 to the five year undergraduate professional degree program and post-professional master's program, has been reflected in the careful design and re-design of the school's buildings. For the first time, recently discovered blueprints of the Foundation Building from the Leopold Eidlitz reconstruction work in the 1880s and design phase blueprints from the 1975 John Hejduk renovation will be on public display. Architecture at Cooper 1859-2009 also features works and historic artifacts including an original, rare drawing fragment of the Foundation Building by Petersen; a digital reconstruction of the architectural evolution of the Foundation Building, images of student exhibitions; and publications from 1965 to the present demonstrating the development of the Chanin School's pedagogy, which has influenced the study and teaching of architecture worldwide. A comprehensive timeline traces themes from 1859 to the present, linking the development of The Cooper Union's buildings, programs and pedagogy across its rich 150-year history. Event website: http://www.cooper.edu


LOS ANGELES  (Back to top)

Los Angeles CA
OCTOBER
28/10/09
Yung Ho Chang: The Other Project
One of China's most accomplished contemporary architects and the founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University, Yung Ho Chang is Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Masters of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the U.S. for 15 years before returning to Beijing to establish one of the first independent practices in China, Atelier FCJZ Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Los Angeles, SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, 960 East 3rd St., free entry


NEW ENGLAND  (Back to top)

New Haven. CT
Thursday, 22nd October 2009: 6:30 pm
YSOA: Vikram Prakash "Modernism Unbound: The Chandigarh Lab Project"
A lecture by Vikram Prakash presented in cooperation and partnership with the Yale South Asian Studies Council.
Location: Paul Rudolph Hall, Yale School of Architecture
Price: Free


PHILADELPHIA  (Back to top)

Monday, 19th October 2009: 6:00 pm
PennDesign: Eelco Hooftman "LAND/SCAPE/ARCHITECTURE"
A lecture by Eelco Hooftman, Partner at GROSS.MAX in Edinburgh, UK
Location: Meyerson Hall, B3, PennDesign
Price: Free

Wednesday, 21st October 2009: 06:00PM
2009 6th Annual Professional Design Awards
Knowlton Mansion 8001 Verree Road Philadelphia, PA 19111 US
For further Information see: http://sararchitects.org/pennsylvaniacouncil.aspx

SAN FRANCISCO  (Back to top)

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H, New York Book Launch Panel and Reception.
At the Cooper Hewitt, Registration required, info here:
http://projecthdesign.org/rsvp_oct1_sf.html

Tuesday, October 20-22nd 2009
The Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
Real estate development and construction is grinding to a halt. A growing number of companies are shifting their building facilities and portfolio focus to sustainable retrofits as the most viable cost saving and revenue enhancing option. To identify tactical ways to capitalize on this evolving market, industry executives must implement a new real estate strategy surrounding sustainability that clarifies how to assess and value the residential and commercial buildings sectors
See: http://www.sustainablebuildingsseries.com