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NEWS


Friday May 13th 2001. 9:00 AM
RIBA-USA AGM in New Orleans

The Pisces Room
Audubon Aquarium

One Canal Street, New Orleans
On the second floor of Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, the Pisces Room offers a coveted view of the Mississippi River and Woldenberg Riverfront Park through its wall of windows Members who anticipate joining us in New Orleans and wish to book an hotel room (discounted rate) should contact Jonathan Wimpenny:  wimpenny@rcn.com

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Platinum Sponsors for New Orleans AGM

UK Rooflight Co and US Mechoshade Systems partner with RIBA-USA for the RIBA-USA events in New Orleans on May 13th 2011
Thank you!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE DAY

09-AM
RIBA-USA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Chaired by Jonathan Wimpenny AIA RIBA
The RIBA-USA welcomes RIBA President Ruth Reed!

10-AM
Keep it Legal, Protected and Profitable – RIBA-USA Symposium
An RIBA-USA presentation.

Attorney Cynthia G. Fischer will discuss the business of practicing architecture in the United States. Ms. Fischer will address legal considerations, such as choice of entity, contracts, and relationships with employees, clients and other professionals. There will be discussion of typical pressure points on a construction project and suggested ways of avoiding or limiting risks, as well as a description of available modes of dispute resolution.
Cynthia Fischer is a business partner at the law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. She serves as general corporate counsel and as a business advisor to U.S. and international architecture and engineering firms. Ms. Fischer is the Secretary of RIBA-USA.
AIA CES LU 1

11-AM
BIRDS AND ARCHITECTURE
Christine Sheppard PhD, American Bird Conservancy
2 AIA CES

2-PM
DAYLIGHTING 1AIA CES
William Maimann, Mechoshade Systems

3-PM
LIGHT FROM ABOVE, PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
Val King and Paul Herbert The Rooflight Company
1AIA CES

7-PM to 10-PM
Reception: THE BIRD IS THE WORD FOR ARCHITECTS
BIRD SAFE ARCHITECTURE FUNDRAISER
the zoological Lighting Instutute

As we all know, birds are an integral part of the environment; without birds life ceases. Biodiversity is a crucial component of architectural sustainability in need of attention. Birds disperse seeds, pollinate soils, eliminate pests and fertilize soils. Yet over a billion birds are killed each year in the US due to preventable collisions with buildings. Through your help in raising awareness, we can "SAVE A BILLION BIRDS". This evening has been made possible by generous support from the UK Rooflight Company, Arnold Glass and Mechoshade Systems. Join us for an evening of good music, good food and the fantastic surrounds of the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas! For Dinner and Reception:
http://saveabillionbirds.eventbrite.com/
For Reception Only: http://saveabillionbirdsreception.eventbrite.com/

RIBA-USA Annual General Meeting Minutes. Click here to read.


OTHER NEWS

Van Alen Institute Announces a Call for Design Ideas
ENTRIES DUE MAY 21ST


NEW YORK  (Back to top)

Sunday, 1st May 2011 - 11am
Walking Tour of the Bowery
Come join us for the first of a series of tours throughout 2011, highlighting our Six to Celebrate neighborhoods. On May 1, we will tour the Bowery, one of Manhattan’s oldest thoroughfares, stretching from Cooper Square to Chatham Square.  The area has a fascinatingly rich history, ranging from a fashionable shopping and residential neighborhood at the end of the 18th century, to a bustling center of dry goods, hardware and other specialty stores, to an entertainment mecca and later the notorious “skid row” in the 20th century. In recent years, the mix of historic structures along the street has been threatened by high-rise development.
This tour will be led by architectural historian Kerry Culhane, author of the successful National Register nomination for Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District and the forthcoming Bowery Historic District nomination. A member of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors will also attend the tour to talk about their ongoing preservation efforts.
Location: Meeting location and directions for this tour will be provided upon registration. Tours generally last approximately two hours.
Fee: $10 per person/$5 for Friends of HDC, Seniors and Students.
http://hdc.org/6tocelebrate-tour-bowery.htm

Wednesday, 4th May 2011 - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The English Ball
Gustavino’s, New York
This year’s English Ball will honor Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry Group plc
Ms. Ahrendts is the first America-born CEO of a major British firm, and only the second woman, to receive the Society’s Medal of Honor since it was established in 1996. A recipient of an honorary degree from her alma mater in 2003, Ms. Ahrendts was named as one of the 50 Women at the Top by The Financial Times in 2010, one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes Magazine (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010) and as CNBC's European Business Leader of the Future (2010). She sits on the Business Advisory Group to the UK Prime Minister For Tickets & further information see: http://www.stgeorgessociety.org/ball.php

Monday 9th May 2011 - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Oculus Book Talk: Christopher Benninger, Letters to a Young Architect
Where: At The Center for Architecture
Born an American, celebrated in India as a leading architect and urbanist, Benninger possesses a sense of timelessness that spreads across oceans and over mountains. Letters to a Young Architect is a sensitive memoir of his life in India and his personal concerns about architectural theory and contemporary urban issues. The book represents a mature reflection of the lessons he learned along his journey. Through the medium of articles and lectures presented over the past decade, a lucid collection of essays emerges to testify to the commonality of mankind’s condition.

Wednesday May 11th  7.00pm – The Strand Bookshop

Unimark International, formed in 1965, was a new kind of design firm, one that sought to wed American marketing know-how with European modernist design. Over the course of a decade it transformed graphic design and corporate identity, creating a new paradigm of how design and business worked together. Among its major clients was the New York City Transit Authority for whom it created a new subway sign system between 1966 and 1970 and the system's first schematic map in 1972.
Jan Conradi, author of Unimark: The Design of Business and the Business of Design, and Paul Shaw, author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System will discuss modern design, sign systems, the New York City subway and Helvetica.

Closing Saturday, 21st May 2011
Jugaad Urbanism Exhibition
At the Center for Architecture
Exhibition and related programs are organized by AIA New York in collaboration with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the India China Institute at The New School , the Indo-American Arts Council and the Society for Indo-American Engineers and Architects.
Jugaad Urbanism is supported by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday 24th May 2011 - 6:30pm
Lipkins Residence, Fire Island Pines, NY. Horace Gifford, 1970.
Photo: Michael Weber

Sketches in the Sand: The Beach Houses of Horace Gifford
May 24th  6.30pm – Knoll Showroom, 76 Ninth Avenue (at W15th St)
The mid-century architecture of the Hamptons is well documented, but Fire Island’s many first-rate homes have eluded critical attention. Horace Gifford, a protégé of Louis Kahn and Paul Rudolph, led the modernist transformation of Fire Island, designing 70 homes across the island and 30 more further afield. Christopher Rawlins, a practicing architect and writer, will present a preview of his upcoming Horace Gifford monograph, to be published by Princeton Architectural Press For Further details see: http://www.docomomo-nytri.org/event/141/

Closing Monday, 30th May - 2011
Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture

Le Corbusier, Ceci n'est pas l'architecture, drawing from Buenos Aires Lecture, 1929. Courtesy MoMA Exhibition. Through May 30 Presenting a selection of models and drawings acquired by the Department of Architecture and Design since 2005—the vast majority on view for the first time—“Building Collections” underscores the rationale and motives of collecting architecture at MoMA. The exhibition is organized around several themes, including ornament and abstraction, modernist urbanism and utopias, Latin American Modernism, the revival of Berlin architecture since reunification, and the role of process in architecture since the digital revolution. Featured works date from 1890 to the present, and represent such diverse figures as Louis Sullivan, Le Corbusier, Bodo and Heinz Rasch, Jean Tschumi, Ant Farm, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Sauerbruch Hutton, Barkow Leibinger, UN Studio, and Seung H-Sang.



LOS ANGELES  (Back to top)

MAK Exhibition – NY – LA Migration
CLOSING August 1st – (Part 2)
MAK Center Presents Two-Part Exhibtion, 91 92 93, With the Schindler House as the Backdrop
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House recently premiered the first half of a two-part exhibition, entitled 91 92 93 . The exhibition, presented in January and May, will examine the creation of an aesthetic idiom through key projects of the early 1990s with the migration of artists from New York to Los Angeles. Part one of the exhibition serves as a performative aspect, with the residence of Warren Niesluchowski, longtime assistant to Alanna Heiss of P.S. 1 in New York City. His piece will continue exploring concepts first presented in Simon Leung’s installation Warren Piece (in the 1970s) –which will be shown in part two of the exhibit–as a modern chapter in the enigmatic figure’s life.
Part One: January 4 to February 14, 2011
Part Two: May 11, 2011 to August 1, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO  (Back to top)


NEW ENGLAND  (Back to top)

Exhibition: February 7- May 6 Symposium: February 17- 19
Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment
Homage to legendary architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Kevin Roche dominates the calendar at Yale School of Architecture, as the Gallery of Paul Rudolph Hall opens a retrospective exhibition of his work, “Architecture as Environment.” To complement the exhibition, the school is hosting a two-day symposium, “Thinking Big: Diagrams, Mediascapes, and Megastructures” (February 17–19), at which architectural historians, theoreticians and practitioners will explore architecture as an interconnected part of a larger whole, an approach identified with Roche. A key event of this symposium will be a conversation on February 18 between Roche and architectural critic Paul Goldberger, a Yale alum.
Yale School of Architecture Registration required
http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/events/symposia

Saturday 14th May 2011
New Canaan Historical Society
Modern House Day Tour + Symposium: Seeing Modern
The New Canaan Historical Society has announced its 2011 house tour and symposium. These every-other-year events are all-day affairs that take participants deep into the delights of Modern architecture through presentations, discussion and guided visits to a selection of New Canaan’s prime examples of the period. Among the speakers at this year’s symposium are: Benjamin Critton, Hilary Lewis, Richard Friswell and Victoria Lyon. The house visits include mid-century examples designed by John Black Lee, Elliot Noyes, Alan Goldberg, Landis Gores and Hugh Smallen and more contemporary houses/additions by Kengo Kuma, Toshiko Mori and Specht Harpman.
The Society’s first Modern House Tour in 1949 attracted more than 3,000 self-guided visitors over a weekend. “Modern” was really big back then. Tours are now docent guided and via mini bus. The 2004, 2007 and 2009 tours sold out. This year’s Modern House Day is limited to 200 attendees. Tickets benefit the Society’s preservation program and will be priced at $295, which includes breakfast, symposium, exhibit, lunch, transportation to all tour houses and cocktail reception (portion tax deductible).
Full details as well as registration information will be available on the Historical Society’s website soon under “special events.” http://nchistory.org/
We’ll also include more details in next month’s DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State email news.


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