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2. NEW YORK EVENTS
3. LOS ANGELES EVENTS
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6. MID WEST
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8. MID ATLANTIC EVENTS
9. PHOENIX EVENTS

NEWS

RIBA Council Election Results
Dr James Karl Fischer (US Region) wins second term with Nela De Zoysa (Sri Lanka)

Dr. James Karl Fischer -- RIBA-USA members welcomed the news of this year’s RIBA Elections for Council when they heard this week that Dr James Karl Fischer will be representing overseas members on Council for a second term. Indefatigable and persistent, James has been a vanguard for RIBA-USA interests and members worldwide.

Nela De Zoysa won her first term as the second overseas representative on council. As speaker at the RIBA-USA Annual General Meeting in New Orleans this year, she expressed her firm commitment to voicing the interests of RIBA members abroad.
Nela is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and her vast experience covers the areas of Design, Design Development and Construction Management, and ranges from Banks, Educational Buildings to Commercial Complexes, Hotels, Sport Complexes, Personalized Housing, Projects of Renovation and Conservation and Interior Design.


Washington DC Visit for ANGELA BRADY RIBA President Elect CANCELLED
Angela Brady will be speaking in Washington DC on the 14th October.
All members are urged to attend to welcome her as RIBA President.
Her talk is titled “Bringing Architecture to the Public”


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Sunday, 16th October, 11:00am–3:00pm - CANCELLED
OHNY at Kips Bay Towers
DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State is collaborating with the Kips Bay Towers board to co-sponsor tours of the complex as part of Open House New York Weekend 2011. This is a rare opportunity to visit the three-acre private garden, not ordinarily open to the public. DOCOMOMO docents will lead tours of the site and interpret its significance.
Designed by I.M. Pei & Associates for legendary developer William Zeckendorf Sr., this innovative residential complex is among New York's most significant of the postwar era in terms of both architecture and planning. Completed in 1963 and originally named Kips Bay Plaza, this was Pei’s first major project built in New York City and one of the most important of his early career. Zeckendorf was hand picked for this three-block Title 1 urban renewal project by Robert Moses. Sunday October 16, 11:00am–3:00pm www.ohny.org

Tuesday, 4th October 2011
David Adjaye Lecture in NYC – Evolving Art & Exhibition Spaces
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 At The Center for Architecture
The 5th Annual Rosenblatt Lecture on Museum Design features David Adjaye, OBE, who will explore the evolution of design for museums, spaces for art, and cultural institutions. Mr. Adjaye will illustrate the creation of specific, singular experiences inside a number of his firm's recent civic projects. Celebrating the complex relationship between art and architecture, these projects are often urban catalysts, integrating art into a wider cultural context.

Monday, 17th October 2011
Checkerboard Film; “Vincent Scully, An Art Historian Among Architects”
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 At The Center for Architecture
This film explores the phenomenon of Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven, where he was born, and to Yale from the time he entered as a freshman in 1936 to the present. It follows the arc of his interests in classical art and architecture to American architecture, historic preservation, and urban design in the 20th Century. A number of architects and former students contribute to this dialogue, including David Childs, Andres Duany, Peter Eisenman, Paul Goldberger, John Hale, David McCullough, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Robert A.M. Stern, and Robert Venturi.

Tuesday, October 20th 2011
James Stirling Lecture: Gerald Frug
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 At The Center for Architecture
Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is a lawyer and legal scholar with particular interests in local government law and legal theory. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., and as Health Services Administrator of the City of New York before he began teaching in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. He has written extensively on city and state relations, decentralization, and transportation in the United States and internationally. Professor Frug’s specialty is local government law, a subject he has taught for more than twenty-five years. He has published dozens of articles on the topic and is the author, among other works, of a casebook on Local Government Law (5th edition 2009, with David Barron and Richard T. Ford), City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation (Cornell University Press 2008, with David Barron), and City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls (Princeton University Press 1999).
The James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City is a competition established in 2003 to create a unique forum for the advancement of new critical perspectives on the role of urban design and urban architecture in the development of cities worldwide. It was conceived in homage to architect James Stirling, who believed that urban design is integral to the practice of architecture and a vital topic for public debate. The Stirling Lectures competition is a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The lecture has also been presented at the CCA and the LSE. Organized by the Center for Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Monday 31st October
American-Scottish Foundation Energy Forum 2011
The Future of Energy in America and Scotland:
The Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
SUNY Global Center, 115 East 55th Street,
(bet. Park Av. and Lexington Av.), New York

Agenda
8.00 am            Registration and Refreshments                 
9.00 am            Welcome
                         Alan Bain, President Emeritus, American-Scottish Foundation  
9.05 am            Introduction: Morning Chair
                         Alan Capper, President, Foreign Press Association of New York
9.10 am            Renewing New York
                         David Bragdon, Director, Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, New York City 9.30 am            Who will pay for the green economy? How can we stimulate investment                          and reduce corporate risk in fragile financial times?
                         Olivia Fussell, President, Carbon Credit Capital
                         William Bumpers, Environmental Partner and head of the global Climate Change                         practice, Bakers Botts LLP
                        Giles Ruck, Chief Executive, Scottish Community Foundation
                        Ann Kayman, Principal, NYG Green Partners LLC
10.15 am          Morning Break
10.45 am          Towards a Low Carbon Economy – A Case Study. Why Scotland wants                          to be a world leader in renewable energy 
                        David Wilson, Director of Energy, The Scottish Government
                        Andy McDonald, Senior Director, Renewable Energy & Low Carbon                         Technologies, Scottish Enterprise
11.30 am          How will energy leaders fuel the future?  How energy companies in New                          York and Scotland are harnessing technologies, and tackling the environmental                          agenda. Lord Smith of Kelvin, Chairman, Scottish and Southern Energy, and                         The Weir Group PLC
                        Khalil Shalabi, Director, Power Resource Planning, New York Power Authority                        (NYPA)
12.15 pm          Networking Lunch
1.30 pm            Smarter Cities: New York talks to Glasgow.  How energy efficiency,                          building sustainability, and transport can contribute to cleaner, greener cities                         Richard Bellingham, Deputy Director, Senior Research Fellow, Energy Policy,                         Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde
                        Ernest Tollerson, Director, Environmental Sustainability and Compliance,                         Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA)
                        Chair: Ann Kayman, CEO, New York Grant Company, and Principal, NYG Green                         Partners LLC
2.15 pm            Energy in America: What the Papers Say
                        Ed Crooks, US Energy and Industry Editor, Financial Times  
2.30pm             Making the Case: Advocacy and Action for Greener FuturePete                          Grannis, First Deputy Comptroller, State of New York, and former                         Commissioner of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
                        Carl Arnold, Sierra Club, Atlantic Chapter; NYC Group Executive Committee;                         State Chapter Executive Committee; Atlantic Chapter Task Force
                        Daniel Steinway, Partner, Baker Botts LLP
                        Chair: Ed Crooks, US Energy and Industry Editor, Financial Times
3.15 pm            Afternoon break
3.30 pm            Town Hall Debate – The Future of Energy in America and Scotland:
                        The Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
                        Chair: Ed Crooks, US Energy and Industry Editor, Financial Times
4.30 pm            Closing remarks
4.45 pm            Cocktail Reception
5.45 pm            Departures
This program is subject to change. American-Scottish Foundation, 2011


LOS ANGELES  (Back to top)

Saturday, 1st October 2011
Exhibition Opening
Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
A+D Museum Address: 6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles , California
This exhibit uses Eames words to focus on the lesser-known aspects of their lives, revealing their appreciation of the value of humble objects and useful tools. Their insights about the simple pleasures of daily life will be illustrated with objects and materials available during their lifetimes and contemporary examples form the world around us.


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You are invited to a special presentation on October 27, 2011.

"Legoretta and Flad – An architectural adventure (including the Chiron Building)"
with John Mickow, Principal of Flad Architects, San Francisco

Ricardo Legorreta established his own practice, Legorreta Arquitectos, in Mexico City in 1964. He emphasizes the "wall culture" of Mexico including the supremacy of solids over voids, the use of color to enclose wall space, and the South American preference for privacy. Legorreta has designed a diverse group of buildings and, although different in scale, they all achieve a supreme blending of space, light and color. In Emeryville, the Chiron Building, is an example of several collaborations of Legorreta Arquitectos with Flad Architects. John Mickow, Principal of Flad, will be describing the process that has madethis partnership so successful during this special evening tour and talk at the building. The landmark is now under the careful custodianship of Novartis staff who maintain the quality and original style as the building morphs to meet their evolving needs.

Location & Time:
Novartis, Emeryville, (the former Chiron Building)
5300 Chiron way, (53rd Steet Emeryville), CA 94608 (Between Hollis and Horton)
5:00 pm: Tour and discussion start in the lobby of the Chiron Building

RIBA-USA Members $10Friends $15
(payment at the door or PayPal – go to RIBA-USA.org
press the ‘Donate’ button – fill-in the message box with the event and press ‘pay’)
Please join us afterwards for dinner at Buccis, 6121 Hollis Street Emeryville.

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New Haven CT
Thursday, 27th October 2011
Buckminster Fuller Film – The Last Dymaxion
Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Yale School of Architecture
Address: 180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, New Haven , Connecticut
http://www.architecture.yale.edu/


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PHILADELPHIA  (Back to top)


MID-ATLANTIC  (Back to top)

Friday, October 14th  2010
THE BRUNEL COMPETITION AWARDS CEREMONY
The BRUNEL competition is held every three years as authorized by the Watford Group of Railway Designers, a group founded at Watford  England 45 years ago by the British Railway Board. A more detailed  history of the Group can be found at www.watford-group.com.  Supporting the competition in 2011 are the International Railway Union (UIC) and the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
The awards ceremony will take place in Washington on October 14, 2011


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