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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 EVENT NEWS WASHINGTON D.C. Thursday, 16th September2010 - January 9th 2011 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 NEW YORK (Back to top) 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. Friday, October 1st - 9th Jannuary Exhibition: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York Location: Full rotunda and all ramps; Annex Levels 5 and 7 Preview: Thursday, September 30, 10 am–1 pm The exhibition presents works by established masters of the period, including Georges Braques, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Dix, Fernand Léger, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Pablo Picasso, Gio Ponti, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and August Sander, as well as works by artists lesser known outside of their home countries, such as Julius Bissier, Felice Casorati, Achille Funi, Marcel Gromaire, Auguste Herbin, Anton Hiller, Heinrich Hoerle, Ubaldo Oppi, and Milly Steger. Many works included in Chaos and Classicism have never before been shown in the United States Saturday, 2nd October 2010 11.30am – 5.00pm Usonian House Tour Join CFA for an insider's tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Homes led by Roland Reisley, original Wright house owner and author of "Usonia, New York: Building a Community With Frank Lloyd Wright" Ticket includes bus transportation to and from Usonia, boxed lunch and a tour of four Usonian Houses: Reisley House, Cooper House, Serlin House and Resnick House. $150/person ($50 tax-deductible) All proceeds benefit youth and family program at the Center for Architecture. Advanced registration is required by September 1st, 2010. For reservations and donations, visit Schedule: 11:30am - Bus departs Center for Architecture 12:30pm - House Tour Begins 3:30pm - Bus Departs Usonia and returns to Center for Architecture For more information visit www.cfafoundation.org or call 212-358-6136 Sunday, 3rd October 2010 Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement At The United Nations October 3rd – January 3rd MOMA This exhibition presents eleven architectural projects on five continents that respond to localized needs in underserved communities. These innovative designs signal a renewed sense of commitment, shared by many of today’s practitioners, to the social responsibilities of architecture. Though this stance echoes socially engaged movements of the past, the architects highlighted here are not interested in grand manifestos or utopian theories. Instead, their commitment to a radical pragmatism can be seen in the projects they have realized, from a handmade school in Bangladesh to a reconsideration of a modernist housing project in Paris, from an apartheid museum in South Africa to a cable car that connects a single hillside barrio in Caracas to the city at large. These works reveal an exciting shift in the longstanding dialogue between architecture and society, in which the architect’s methods and approaches are being dramatically reevaluated. They also propose an expanded definition of sustainability that moves beyond experimentation with new materials and technologies to include such concepts as social and economic stewardship. Together, these undertakings not only offer practical solutions to known needs, but also aim to have a broader effect on the communities in which they work, using design as a tool. Sunday, 3rd October 2010– 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. Monday, 4th October 2010 Professional Women in Construction – Golf Outing Event location: Elmwood Country Club, White Plains NY October 4, 10am Registration + Brunch -- Shotgun T off at 11.30am. Cocktails at 5pm T:212.486.7745 - F:212.486.0228 pwc@pwcusa.org - www.pwcusa.org Monday, 4th October 2010 Better City / Better Life; Healthy & Sustainable Urbanization At The United Nations Monday October 4th 2010 9.00am – 5.00pm Following up on the World Urban Forum, AIA New York and the Sustainable Urbanization Consortium, at the invitation of UN-Habitat, will conduct a similar conference at the United Nations on UN-Habitat Day. Presented in cooperation with the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene the symposium will address the need to merge the objectives of sustainable development and a healthy population, with an eye to reducing chronic and infectious diseases through design intervention. Speakers: Ernest W. Hutton, FAICP, Lance Jay Brown FAIA, & James McCullar, FAIA Tuesday 5th October 2010 8.30am – 10.00pm Conversations about Public Architecture Center for Architecture, La Guardia Place The Queens Borough Public Library system and the NYC Department of Design + Construction provide much-needed civic structures characterized by design quality and construction excellence. Architects in leadership positions make decisions on design service procurement, project scoping and execution that create sustainable and exemplary buildings. Two such leaders are Peter Magnani, QBPL Director Capital Program Management/Facilities Planning and David Resnick, DDC Deputy Commissioner. Their conversation will be moderated by Michael Plottel, AIA and Anna Torriani, AIA from the AIANY Public Architecture Committee Thursday, October 7th 2010 Center for Architecture Annual Party This festive Heritage Ball after-party, which features drinks, music and dancing, packs the Center for Architecture until late into the night. Music by DJ Stylus and DJ Shaky, and a special live performance by Boston based band Mystery Roar, $25 advance / $40 door. Open bar. Tickets available www.aiany.org Guests must be 21 years or older to attend Saturday, 9th October 2010 10-10-10 IMAGE.ARCHITECTURE.NOW  SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, WOODBURY UNIVERSITY In celebration of Julius Shulman’s 100th birthday, the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University presentsa symposium and exhibition exploring intersections between photography and the built environment. SYMPOSIUM PANEL DISCUSSIONS 3-6 PM $15 prepay or at door (seating is limited) Two provocative panels moderated by architect Neil Denari and historian Kazys Varnelis featuring architects and photographers in conversation. Emceed by Frances Anderton, host of DnA on KCRW. Distinguished panels include: • Iwan Baan, photographer • Livia Corona, photographer • Sze Tsung Leong, photographer • Frank Escher, architect • Sharon Johnston, architect • Linda Taalman, architect • Sylvia Lavin, curator and critic EXHIBITION OPENING 6-9 PM Free and open to the public Curated by Audrey Landreth, exhibition design by Victor Jones Free and open to the public Curated by Audrey Landreth, exhibition design by Victor Jones An exhibition of 10 photographers whose work illuminates a range of explorations into documenting the experience of space. What does the building feel like? What kind of light and shadow does it embrace and cast? How are buildings etched into our memory in a visceral way? Through an individual's eye, nothing is ever quite objective. It is on some level an emotional response and reaction. All that is built or demolished shapes not only the physical landscape, but the human experience as well. Large and small, architecture seeps into a person's being in a profoundly intimate way. IMAGE.ARCHITECTURE.NOW showcases distinct artistic visions from the grand and glorious to the poignant and devastating. Sunday, October 10th 2010 -- 6.30- 8.00pm Kieran Timberlake Lecture at Center for Architecture KieranTimberlake, an architectural firm based in Philadelphia, is a recognized leader of the “green” architecture movement in the U.S. As this film illustrates, its founders, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, have been developing innovative means to combine sustainable design principles with off-site construction for the mass customization of houses. The firm’s Loblolly House, built in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland in 2007, and the Cellophane House, a specially commissioned design, executed for an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 2008, serve as outstanding examples of the firm’s research-based approach. The film takes the viewer on a tour of the small, elegant Loblolly house, named for the pines indigenous to the area, and demonstrates how the architects employed an aluminum scaffold system and off-site fabricated floor and ceiling panels (called ‘smart’ cartridges) to distribute radiant heating water, ventilation, and electricity throughout the house. 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. Thursday 14th October 2010 – 17th
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