Subject: Boston Architectural College Invites you to: Louis I. Kahn, Beyond Time and Style
Friday, October 12, 2007
Fwd: Boston Architectural College Invites you to: Louis I. Kahn, Beyond Time and Style
Subject: Boston Architectural College Invites you to: Louis I. Kahn, Beyond Time and Style
Fwd: Kara Walker Exhibit
Subject: Kara Walker Exhibit
Alright, I promise to stop filling your inbox with a bunch of stuff, but I gotta pass this on for any and all who might be interested and anyone remotely close to the New York Area. I don't want to annoy you guys with a constant flood, but really... I can't help it that I am fortunate enough to know such brilliant, attractive, and urbane people (wink). Click on the link below. Take it easy.
Aisha
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
"Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" is "an exquisite, implacable, loose-cannon retrospective," Holland Cotter writes. "Brilliant is the word for it, and the brilliance grows over the survey's decade-plus span." The African-American artist, whose hand-crafted, 19th-century style silhouette mural made her an art star at 25, creates panoramas, drawings, collages, text pieces and shadow puppet film animations, "about race first and last." Cotter writes: "The consistency of the imagery — hapless 'masters,' uppity 'slaves,' tragic-comic violence, uncensored sex — is one reason the show feels so concentrated and absorbing. Once you're in it, you're really in it. You can't just stroll through. Also, Ms. Walker's style is magnetic." If she retired today, he says, "she would leave behind one of the most trenchant and stirring bodies of art produced by any American in the past 15 years." Don't wait: see it at the Whitney this weekend.
"Don't be mad at me! I was born with these powers, I didn't ask for them."
Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Student Works : project_KHAYELITSHA
Student Works : project_KHAYELITSHA
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=65752_0_23_0_C
Jay A. Lee, AIA, NOMA
eelaj@aol.com 617-669-2486
even small changes have a big impact
eelaj@aol.com 617-669-2486
even small changes have a big impact
Fwd: Roxbury Open Studios this weekend and other Tours
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African American Architect
Subject: Interesting blog in AIArchitect
Richard, I thought this blog summed up quite well a lot of the issues re. African American architects and our profession. Could you circulate it to the Board and maybe even include a link in Currents?
Hubert
Hubert Murray AIA RIBA
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Fwd: ARE Graphics Divisions seminar is October 13
Subject: ARE Graphics Divisions seminar is October 13
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| Sign-up now for October 13 Graphics Divisions seminar Massachusetts College of Art's Tower Auditorium 621 Huntington Avenue, 1st Floor Saturday, October 13, 8:30 am-5:00 pm architects.org/aresuccess Registration deadline: Wednesday, October 10 This 8-hour comprehensive review of the three Graphics Divisions of the ARE is sponsored by the ARE Success Teams program. The presenters for the seminar are Robert Elfer, NCARB and Bob Wise AIA, who have led similar sessions at the 2006 and 2007 AIA Conventions. The seminar provides an in-depth analysis of preparation recommendations, test-taking strategies, fatal errors, and timesaving techniques. The lecturers will discuss what candidates must know to pass the examination, ways of improving scores, and the best approach for developing a logical, passing solution to each vignette. Attendees may attend individual sessions, and also have the option of purchasing mock exams to take home, solve, and return to the lecturers for grading and comments. For complete details and registration visit architects.org/aresuccess or download the registration form . Questions? Contact Andrew Baldwin (617-951-1433 / abaldwin@architects.org) at the BSA. | ||||
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Fwd: Sign-Up for Greenbuild 2008 Sub-Committees
Subject: Sign-Up for Greenbuild 2008 Sub-Committees
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Fwd: BAYREP Benefit - Co-Host Opportunity - BosNoma & BAF
Thursday, November 8, 2007 6:00-9:00pm
Saint – 90 Exeter St, Boston (Back Bay)
Appetizers, cash bar.
$20 until November 5
$30 after November 5 and at the door
Free for all Sponsors' employees. Please RSVP with your name & company to rsvp@bayrep.org
All Contributions are tax-deductible.
Sponsorship levels from $100 to $1,000+
Boston Area Young Real Estate Professionals (BAYREP) is a networking organization representing individuals from a diversity of sectors. BAYREP is run by volunteers and is organizing this event as a contribution to the community.
Having trouble with the links? Visit:
Fwd: REMINDER, BSA Urban Design Com Mtg, Thurs. Oct 18 5:30pm @ BSA
Subject: REMINDER, BSA Urban Design Com Mtg, Thurs. Oct 18 5:30pm @ BSA
BSA Urban Design Com Mtg, Thurs. Oct 18 - 5:30pm @ BSA 52 Broad Street
Manuel Sanchez-Ruiz, Principal at Sasaki Associates will present:
Nov. Urban Design meeting on Wednesday Nov 14 noon at Build Boston
Sign up for meeting # B26 (no charge but you must register) –
Please put this date (Nov 14) in your calendar
This month:
Caohai North Urban Shore, Kunming, China
Caohai North Urban Shore, Kunming, ChinaReminder Regular Day + LocationManuel Sanchez-Ruiz, Principal at Sasaki Associates - will present:
BSA Urban Design Committee Meeting,
Thursday Sept 18, 5:30pm @ BSA 52 Broad Street
This is our usual 3rd Thursday meeting
We will meet at the BSA offices this month
52 Broad Street, 5th floor, Boston
Yes! Once again we invite you to hear an interesting topic;
catch up on the Urban Design activities in
Boston and have a FREE supper.
Please call the receptionist at the BSA - 617 951-1433 x221 to RSVP
so we will have enough food
Thursday Oct. 18 Don't miss it !
Known as China's "eternal spring city," Kunming has a temperate climate year
round, picturesque scenery, and a population of 4.5 million people. As it
emerges as a gateway to western China and countries to the south such as
Thailand and Vietnam, Kunming is poised for major growth. As part of three
major projects in the city, Sasaki undertook the urban design for this
comprehensive high-end residential, cultural, and entertainment development
on the north shore of the city's nearby Dianchi Lake.
Sasaki and client Shui On applied sustainable principles to the planning and
design of the complex project on 485 hectares. The plan integrates native
vegetation and open space with an environmentally responsive transportation
infrastructure connected to the city and region's existing roadways. It
dedicates about 87 hectares of the total site to a mix of high, medium, and
low-density housing and about 29 hectares to cultural facilities such as
museums, theaters, an amphitheater, and an artists' community. It also
envisions a "retail village" featuring a pedestrian street with narrow
canals and small alleys lined with shops. Other uses include an office park,
a research and development campus, hotels, recreational areas, and a golf
course.
One of the key elements of the plan is to thoroughly restore Dianchi Lake,
which has been severely polluted. The plan calls for a short-term strategy
of creating a lake "cell" isolated from the rest of the lake and filling it
with clean water. Once the lake has reached a level of recreational
cleanliness, the lake cell and the lake will be combined. This ecological
regeneration is aimed, ideally, to parallel the urban rebirth caused by the
Caohai North Shore urban planning initiative.
Manuel Sanchez-Ruiz is an Urban Designer with over twenty years of
experience in large land-planning and urban master planning projects, both
domestically and internationally. His expertise in design includes new
communities, mixed-use districts, campus plans, and waterfronts. Manuel
previously worked in architectural and urban planning capacities in his
native Colombia and in Mexico, and with another Boston firm. He joined
Sasaki in 1996.
Manuel's practice has included a visionary framework for the urban center of
Foshan, a historic city in China's Pearl River valley; a canal district in
Puerto Rico; the Stamford, CT waterfront; Caohai North Shore in Kunming
China, where he is overseeing the transformation of one of the world's most
polluted lakes into a vibrant, mixed-use urban neighborhood; and Thu Thiem,
a 700-hectare peninsula located just across from Ho Chi Minh City's central
business quarter. He also master planned Southwood, near Tallahassee,
Florida, a major new community that combines proximity to university and
research facilities with a celebration of Florida vernacular architecture.
Nov. Urban Design meeting on
Wednesday noon at Build Boston
Sign up for meeting # B26 (no charge but you must register) –
Please put this date (Nov 14) in your calendar
Fwd: BAC News October 5th, 2007 Part 2
Subject: BAC News October 5th, 2007 Part 2
"Come join in on Harvard's Second Pechakucha Night at the GSD, Oct 12th.
Instead of just beeing an internal GSD-only event, it will aimed at the entire Boston Design community, so I want to invite to join in and give a brief lecture the likes of which you may have never given before at the GSD. It's about much more than architecture, too - practitioners in Graphic Design, Product Design, Urban Design and everything in between are encouraged to participate.
If you didn't already know about it, PechaKucha is an informal, open format of presentation that seems like an ideal way to showcase not only the extraordinary achievements of the GSD community, but also the amazingly talented people in the Boston area. Instead of just a workshare presentation, we would love to hear from a lesser known side of your designer selves.
What that is, we leave to you. You may be familiar with the diabolical format Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein came up with for PechaKucha: 20 images (jpegs
1024x768) x 20 seconds each. The slides appear automatically, so there's no stopping or going back.
Add to that, you and a microphone. It's quick, diverse, inspiring and most of all, fun. This PechaKucha Night will be a big party.
We would like to have 15 presenters comprised of Students, Faculty and Professionals from the Boston area to show what they love or what they love to do in that unique PechaKucha way.
If you will be in town and are interested in revealing a bit of your designer's alter-ego, please contact Brett Stilwell at brettstilwell - at - gmail.com or Ivan Shumkov,
Alumni representative for Student Forum. His email is: ishumkov - at - gsd.harvard.edu."
WOODSHOP
Fall 2007
OPEN SHOP HOURS
MON Furniture Studio Only
WED 7:00 To 10:30 PM
THUR 6:00 TO 10:00 PM
SAT 9:00 TO 5:00 PM
SUN 12:00 TO 5:00 PM
*Safety lectures are held at 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM on the first Saturday of each month while classes are in session. All new students must attend this lecture before using the Wood Shop.
For more information, please call the wood shop at 617-585-0207
Fwd: Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, 18-20 January 2008
Subject: Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, 18-20 January 2008
Dear Colleague,
13 October 2007 is the proposal deadline in next round of the call for papers
for the:
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
Northeastern University, Boston, USA 18-20 January 2008
http://www.Technology-Conference.com
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the
various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between
technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in
scope, meeting points for technologists with a concern for the social and social
scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not
exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference
will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by
practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite
you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Papers submitted for the
Conference proceedings will be peer-refereed and published in print and
electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and
Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual
registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for
refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as
well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short
abstract) is 13 October 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of
submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal
submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.Technology-Conference.com.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us
in Boston in January 2008.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Marcus Breen
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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If you have any inquiries about this conference, please send them by reply to
this email. All emails are answered in person by one of our conference
administrators within two working days.
Note: If you wish to be removed from this notification list, please inform us by
reply.
Fwd: Disaster Design Competition...and museum questions
Subject: Disaster Design Competition...and museum questions
Found out about this from a colleague at work...sounds fascinating, eerie, and provident. Just passing on info, if any of you submit please let me know.
Aisha
P.S.
Speaking of New York has anybody been to the new MOCADA yet? I haven't been since the renovation and I was wondering how it was. Do I smell a weekend trip? Any takers?
Stan, I thought this may be another good museum contact for you (and all of us struggling artists really). Check it out. http://www.mocada.org/. Hope to talk with you soon.
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