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NEWS

WASHINGTON D.C.
Saturday, 16th October
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey
Exhibition at the National Building Museum
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see some of the most important drawings in the world of architecture—thirty-one, 16th-century works from the hand of the Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio. These illustrations link the splendor of ancient Rome to the power and wealth of the Venetian Republic and, ultimately, to the symbols of our American democracy
For further details see:
http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/palladio-and-his-legacy.html

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CLOSING!
The Rise of Wall Street at the Skyscraper Museum NYC
The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place New York, NY 10280
THE RISE OF WALL STREET charts the architectural evolution of one of the world's most famous locales. "Wall Street" is a broad metaphor for the American center for global finance and a real place with an inordinately rich history layered into every lot of its nearly half-mile length, stretching from Trinity Church on Broadway to the East River.From colonial times, when the first bastions were erected to mark the edge of town, Wall Street has been continuously transformed, both in function --from commercial and residential to financial --as well as in scale. Row houses were replaced by low-rise banks, then massive high-rise office buildings. The skyscrapers that line Wall Street today represent the climax species of an intense urban process that the exhibit documents with graphics of successive buildings on a given site since 1850. These "Vertical Wall Street" images dramatically illustrate the cycles of growth that shaped the financial district over time, charting both the evolution from small to tall and the growing girth of buildings enabled by new technologies and slow, but savvy site assembly.
Event website: http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/WALL_STREET/wall_street.htm

Friday, 1st October 2010- January 9, 2011
CHAOS AND CLASSICISM: ART IN FRANCE, ITALY, AND GERMANY, 1918–1936
at the guggenheim

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. It will examine the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi; and the functionalist utopianism at the Bauhaus as well as, chillingly, the pseudobiological classicism, or Aryanism, of nascent Nazi society. This presentation of the vast transformation in French, Italian, and German contemporary culture will encompass painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and the decorative arts. This exhibition is curated by Kenneth E. Silver, guest curator and Professor of Modern Art, New York University, with Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early-20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Karole Vail, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Helen Hsu, Curatorial Assistant, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

CLOSING!
Monday, October 11th
MOMA – Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront
MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation’s largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Though the national debate on infrastructure is currently focused on “shovel-ready” projects that will stimulate the economy, we now have an important opportunity to foster new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City's harbor and coastline. As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city’s remarkable pool of architectural talent is available to focus on innovation.

October 3rd – January 3rd 2011
MOMA – Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement
Architecture can be a powerful means to change social conditions. Small Scale, Big Change presents eleven noteworthy projects, either built or currently under construction, in underserved communities around the world. The architects featured in the exhibition confront inequality using the tools of design. They engage social, economic, and political conditions, developing post-utopian architectural interventions that begin with an understanding of and deference to a community. Without sacrificing a concern for aesthetics, the architects develop projects that reveal a specificity of place; their architectural solutions emerge from close collaboration with future users and sustained research into local conditions. Small Scale, Big Change focuses on the process and final product, displaying materials that illustrate the complex and careful development of a design. These outstanding projects—including schools, community centers, housing, and infrastructural interventions—reveal an exciting change in the longstanding dialogue between architecture and its community, wherein the architect’s roles, methods, and responsibilities are dramatically reconsidered. Here, the architect is as much a moderator of social processes as a designer of a structure.

Saturday, 18th October thru Wednesday, 22nd, October 2010
INTEROP - Javits Convention Center
Learn about recent innovations in the most comprehensive IT conference available. Key topics include: Cloud Computing Virtualization Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT Information Security and Risk Management Wireless and Mobility Networking Storage Video Conferencing Application Delivery 2.0 VoIP and Unified Communications
For further details see: http://www.interop.com/newyork/ 

Thursday, 28th October 2010 - 8am
Professional Women in Construction Developers Forum
Location: Yale Club
Address: 50 Vanderbilt Avenue   New York , New York


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TBD, October 2010
British Architects in the Bay Area event
Location & Time TBD


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Wednesday, October 6th , 2010 - 6:30 pm
Richard Sennet: Sociologist
This engaging speaker grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green public housing complex, nearly became a classical cellist, and was drawn to sociology after sustaining a hand injury. Sennett brings a unique perspective to the design of buildings and cities. His groundbreaking books have focused on the relation of the human body to the architecture of the city and how people move through - and use - urban spaces. Part of the Urban Habitat Chicago Lecture Series.
Location: J. Merlo Branch of the Chicago Public Library


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