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1. NEWS 2. NEW YORK EVENTS 3. LOS ANGELES EVENTS 4. SAN FRANCISCO 5. NEW ENGLAND EVENTS 6. MID WEST 7. PHILADELPHIA EVENTS NEWS MIAMI - RIBA-USA events in Miama June 2010 Photograph Album Docent Tour of the Wolfsonian RIBA-USA AGM 2010 SAN FRANCSCO British Architects unite for Bay Area Chapter http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/01/SBLE1D69BD.DTL July (ongoing) MOMA – Young Architects Program This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five teams, chosen among emerging design talents, enter project proposals for a temporary installation in the courtyard of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The winning design houses P.S.1’s summer Warm Up series. Together, the five teams represent a slice of today’s most innovative design work. This year’s participants were Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of Solid Objective – Idenburg Liu (Brooklyn, New York), the laureates of the competition; BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen, Denmark); EASTON+COMBS (Brooklyn, New York); FREECELL (Brooklyn, New York); and William O’Brien Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts). http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1081  NEW YORK (Back to top) Sunday, July 17, 2010 Around Manhattan: Official NYC Architectural Tour When: 2:15 PM - 5:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 17 and July 31st Where: Meet at Chelsea Piers, near 22nd St on the Hudson River (Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.) Step aboard the teak decks of the Manhattan, an elegant, 1920s style yacht, for a leisurely 'round-Manhattan architecture tour, hosted by members of AIA New York. Experience a comfortable and unique round-Manhattan trip through the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers. Sit back and enjoy the gorgeous 360-degree view of the island from the climate-controlled and enclosed back-deck observatory or wander to the outer decks for fresh air & sunlight with a glass of wine in hand. (Guests are treated to a complimentary beverage from the bar & light hors d' oeuvres.) Tickets $75 http://www.zerve.com/amp/view_activity.php?activity_id=2516&event_id=566118 Wednesday July 14th , 2010 (Rain Date Thurs 15th July) Annual Summer Garden Party The private Garden at 120 East End Avenue (enter on East 85th Street) $40 per person Open Bar, Hors D’Oevres & Music Reservations required http://www.stgeorgessociety.org/pdf/GardenParty10.pdf July 15 – Oct 23 New Practices New York  Center for Architecture, LaGuardia Place New Practices New York 2010 is the third juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform for recognizing and promoting new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies - both in the projects they undertake and the practices they have established. Distinguishing this award from others given to new and young practices For details see: www.aiany.org CLOSING! Monday, July 26th, 2010 MOMA – The New Typography  In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. Taking his lead from currents in Soviet Russia and at the Weimar Bauhaus, the designer Jan Tschichold codified the movement with accessible guidelines in his landmark book Die Neue Typographie (1928). Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Reclaiming NYC for the Pedestrian When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 Where: At The Center fro Architecture Introduction: Walter Hook, Executive Director, Institute for Transportation Development & Policy Speaker: Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Dept. of Transportation. Wednesday July 28th, 2010 - 6pm Tour: Louis Kahn's Trenton Bath House New York/Tri-State members and friends have been invited to join a media tour of the newly restored Trenton Bath House and Day Camp Pavilions. These landmark buildings, designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) for the Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley, opened in 1955. The restoration project, led by Princeton, NJ-based architecture firm Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC (FMG) with landscape architecture by Heritage Landscapes, has returned this milestone of Modern architecture to Kahn’s original vision. The program will include a presentation of the history and restoration of the Bath House and an in-depth tour. Members of the restoration team including principals Michael Mills and Michael Farewell of FMG, along with representatives of the clients, Ewing Township and Mercer County, and the landscape architect for the restoration will be present. Transportation to and from Manhattan and lunch will be provided. Registrants will be notified of the departure point prior to the tour. $50 per person. Space is limited. To purchase tickets http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=2024 JULY 2010 (CLOSING AUG 1) Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey (CLOSING AUG 1) At the Morgan Library  Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are being presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio's design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty. Palladio's work has significantly impacted American architecture from colonial times to the present day. Focusing on the artist's original drawings and following the trajectory of his ideas, the show also traces the story of American Palladianism. The drawings are supported by numerous architectural models. Three large examples—the Pantheon, Villa Rotunda, and Jefferson's unrealized design for the White House—programmatically illustrate the journey from Rome to America. Smaller models along with rare architectural texts and pattern books, through which Palladio's ideas were primarily transmitted, reinforce the themes of the exhibition. The exhibition is organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust, London, in association with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, and The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Models by Timothy Richards. The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Regione del Veneto, Dainese, RIBA Library Trust Fund, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, British Architectural Library Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Center for Palladian Studies in America, William T. Kemper Foundation, and Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation. LOS ANGELES (Back to top) July 11th , 2010 Rosa Lowinger: Cuban Modernism Spare, geometric, and light as air, Cuban architecture of the 1940s and 1950s arose directly out of the international modernist style. By looking at buildings such as Max Borges’ Tropicana Cabaret as well as examples of domestic architecture, we will see how Cuba’s use of the international style was directly related to its political and social milieu at the time. Location: Museum of Latin American Art Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Price: $10 Members; $15 Non-Members SAN FRANCISCO (Back to top) Friday, 9 July 2010 An evening at the Museum Join us at the de Young Museum on for a tour of the Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay,   The evening will start in the lobby of the Museum at 6pm with a tour of the exhibit, then music in the main space until 8:45pm. Discounted Museum tickets are available at the door. No need to RSVP, just show up. Hope to see many of you there! Monda,y 12th July, 2010 thru Wednesday21st July 2010 Biodynamic Structures At the California College of the Arts, ‘Biodynamic Structures’ will explore active systems in nature, investigating biomimetic principles in order to analyse, design and fabricate prototypes that respond to electronic and environmental stimuli. For further details see - www.aaschool.ac.uk/sanfrancisco TBD, July 2010 – 4pm Summer cookout – Location TBD NEW ENGLAND (Back to top) MID WEST (Back to top) PHILADELPHIA (Back to top) |
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