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ARB Elections 2012
Note: Voting period closes 1st March 2012
ARB has appointed an independent body, Electoral Reform Services (ERS), to oversee the election.  ERS will be sending out the ballot material at the end of January.  The pack will contain everything you need to vote in the elections, including the voting paper and details on how to cast your vote which you can either do online, or by post. The following are standing (only 7 of the 24 can be elected): Professor Richard Parnaby Mr Patrick Inglis Mr Rob Tate Ms Ruth Brennan Mr Alun Reginald Nicholas Mr Simon Jonathan Potter Mr Alan Cook Mr Gordon Alexander Gibb Mr Bernard Stewart Wyld Mr Manos Stellakis Mr Andrew Mortimer Miss Lisa Manidipa Basu Mr Hans G Eisner Mr John Assael Mr Brian Godfrey Mr Mark Westcott Mrs Pam Cole Mr Michael Cummings Mr Roger Shrimplin Mr Tom Young Ms Susan Ware Mr Alex Wright Mr Kirk Ray Morrison Miss Azar Djamali

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Monday, 12th March 2012 - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Book Talk: The United States Capitol & the Coming of the Civil War
at the Center for Architecture
Guy Gugliotta will present his book Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War.
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From the nine million pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President’s Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the modern U.S. Capitol is also the history of America’s most tumultuous years. As the new Capitol rose above Washington’s skyline, battles over slavery and secession ripped the country apart. Ground was broken just months after Congress adopted the compromise of 1850, which was supposed to settle the “slavery question” for all time. The statue of Freedom was placed atop the Capitol's new dome in 1863, five months after the Battle of Gettysburg.
In Freedom’s Cap, the award-winning journalist Guy Gugliotta recounts the history and the broader meaning of the Capitol building through the lives of the three men most responsible for its construction.

Friday, 2nd to Sunday, 4th 2012
Historic Districts Council’s 18th Annual Conference
The Great Outside: Preserving Public and Private Open Spaces
The Historic Districts Council’s 2012 Preservation Conference will focus on significant open spaces and landscapes in New York City, including public parks, plazas, parkways, yards, planned communities and public housing. Participants will examine a variety of issues such as development history, current threats, preservation efforts and future use. For more information please visit www.hdc.org  or call 212-614-9107

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Wednesday, 14th March 2012 at 7.00pm
Lecture by Thom Mayne: What’s Next?
SCI-Arc 960 East 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA, 90013 USA
Thom Mayne is founder and design director of Los Angeles-based Morphosis. He founded his firm in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research. He is a founding faculty member of SCI-Arc and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010, appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 2009, and honored with the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Gold Medal in 2000. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 26 Progressive Architecture Awards and over 100 American Institute of Architecture Awards. Morphosis works have been published extensively and the firm has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and 25 monographs. 7 PM.

Wednesday 21st March 2012 - at 7.00pm
Lecture by Antony Vidler: James Frazier Sterling: Notes from the Archive – Crisis of Modernism SCI-Arc 960 East 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA, 90013 USA
Anthony Vidler, a historian and critic of architecture, is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. Trained in architecture at Cambridge University in England, with a PhD in history and theory from TU Delft, he was a member of the faculty of the Princeton University School of Architecture from 1965 to 1993, serving as the Chair of the Ph.D. Committee, and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies. 7 PM


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