May 17The Metropolis Conference @ ICFFJavits Center, New York City Are you reinventing yourself? Your practice? If you’re a designer, architect, business owner, manufacturer, or educator, you’re looking for inventive ways to navigate the new economy. On this day you’ll get useful insights into what other creative people are doing. Be part of this timely conversation! Click here for the full schedule.
OngoingWonderbrandsA strong visual identity is the key to presenting your brand successfully. Once again, Metropolis will gather design professionals to discuss the ever-evolving secrets to the language of branding. Is architecture is becoming the next Wonderbrand? Stay tuned for details…
Through March 21Pier 94, New York City The ninth annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show offers a true lifestyle experience with stylish solutions for the home, entertainment ideas, and shopping all under one roof. Enjoy entrée to special exhibits, educational seminars presented by theNew York Times, cooking demonstrations, an eco-friendly design conference, and complimentary design consultations, all included in the price of admission. www.archdigesthomeshow.com
March 22—May 12Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts Erratics proposes a speculative genealogy of rock-based landscape architecture, featuring work associated with Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. This array of sites, scales, and approaches is paired with a presentation of projects by Montreal-based Claude Cormier, an emerging international voice and the principal of Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes, one of Canada’s leading landscape architecture firms. www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/exhibitions/
Through April 18The Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This exhibition brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists—with an emphasis on artists living in France—whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality. The exhibition is inspired by the theoretical architecture of Yona Friedman, whose ideas were disseminated in the aftermath of World War II and have influenced subsequent generations. arts.uwm.edu/inova; www.frac-platform.com
May 10—May 12Chicago The IIT Institute of Design’s 9th Annual Design Research Conference (DRC) will be held at the Spertus Institute in downtown Chicago. It will feature exceptional international speakers and opportunities to spend time with our brilliant community of designers, planners, researchers, educators, students, managers and executives concerned with understanding people. www.designresearchconference.org
Through March 26MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles This large-scale urban exhibition debuts new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles. Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California’s conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard, interpreting its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as both an idea and media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism, and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s. howmanybillboards.org
Through April 4Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford presents a solo exhibition of his works on paper. Each piece was created from community-oriented billboards, signs, and advertising posters removed from fences in the artist’s neighborhood. His densely layered, large-scale paper collage and décollage works are canny abstractions, layered with paint, twine, and glue, their surfaces worked and reworked with subtractive processes like sanding. Within the process of creating them, Bradford becomes builder, archaeologist, and cartographer filtering the visual manifestations of migrant communities and merchants. www.aspenartmuseum.org
April 8—September 6Canadian Centre for Architecture This exhibition presents three projects dealing with the idea of an adventurous journey that started 40 years ago, after the mission to the moon in 1969: the now legendary project by Alessandro Poli and Superstudio for a highway to connect the earth and the moon; Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan’s design of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Administration Building for NASA that challenges existing models for housing scientific research and proposes a new type of physical environment to facilitate a collaborative research process; and Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn’s research and design project for new terminals on both the earth and the moon, which will connect travelers between the two locations. www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions
April 11—April 16 Frankfurt, Germany
The world’s leading trade fair for architecture and technology. www.light-building.com
Submission Deadline: March 31SMIBE welcomes moving-image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. SMIBE invites creative professionals, college and university students from architecture, landscape, art, industrial design, interior design, motion graphics and film to produce a three-minute, engaging, and entertaining moving-image story about about memorable characters and the infrastructures in their lives.
Submissions should not exceed three minutes in duration and can be produced in any motion image medium. Entry is free. Ten finalists will be chosen. www.smibe.org
Submission Deadline: April 16Through a juried competition, Suburbia Transformed, One Garden at a Time will assemble contemporary projects achieving the goal of exploring green technologies within the context of the aesthetics of human landscape experience on small residential sites. The emphasis is on how emerging sustainable strategies and tactics are used to create human landscape experiences that are beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and which might serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time. jamesrosecenter.org/competition/index.html
March 24—March 26Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
Every two years, over 10,000 professionals from 70+ countries come together at GLOBE for three days of sessions presented by world-renowned sustainability experts. The conference works to survey leading-edge environmental innovations and participate in unparalleled global networking opportunities. Topics
explore environmental goals such as corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon management, clean energy, sustainable finance, and greener cities. Special subthemes for GLOBE 2010 include: clean technology, water, a spolight on retail, and Auto FutureTech.
www.globe2010.com/
March 24—March 27The Westin, Atlanta IDEC is the one place that everyone
gathers to talk about teaching, research
and service in the interior design field. The conference will include informational lectures, teaching workshops, networking events and a student design competition.
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