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December 2, 2008Sustainability: Italian Style @ Living the Italian House in SohoThe final panel for Living the Italian House in Soho will focus on green initiatives and how Italian design companies are becoming more ecologically responsible in their products and manufacturing processes. This panel will be moderated by Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis. Panelists will include Peter Kercher of the Italian Association for Industrial Design and Kendall P. Wilson, founder of Envision, a Washington, D.C.-based multidisciplinary design firm with a focus on sustainability and smart design. 6:00 P.M., 172 Mercer Street, NYC. http://www.livinglombardy.it December 8, 2008New Snapshots: Seen & Heard @ GreenbuildMetropolis editor in chief Susan Szenasy presents the second in the series of Davis & Warshow Show Snapshots. Please join us as she shares insights from the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Class Credits:0.1 CEU Credit. 6:00 p.m., Davis & Warshow Soho, 96 Spring St @ Mercer, 3rd Fl. RSVP by December 3rd: Veeder+Perman 212.966.3759 x206, dwevent@veederperman.com 
November 24, 2008Wanted: Power; Location: Anywhere but HereAs the country’s appetite for energy continues to grow, there is a consensus that we need more power plants and transmission lines to meet this need. The problem is few want a nuclear power plant, wind farm or solar array field, or even transmission lines in their backyard. 6:30-8:30pm. National Building Museum, Washington DC. http://www.nbm.org/about-us/publications-news/media-advisory/for-the-greener-good-fall.html Through November 25, 2008The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Everyday LivingEero Saarinen, famous for designing the St. Louis Gateway Arch and Virginia’s Dulles Airport, cemented his place in American popular culture with his conceptions for home and office furniture which became icons of style during the 1940s and ‘50s. Find out more about his life and learn about some of his most celebrated pieces of furniture — including the Tulip Chair and the Womb Chair. Virginia Center for Architecture, Richmond, VA. http://www.virginiaarchitecture.org 
Through November 21, 2008Boom Towns! Chicago Architects Design New WorldsAs recently as the 1970s, the port city of Shenzhen, China, was a fishing village with 25,000 inhabitants. By 2005, more than 8,000,000 people were making it their home. In the city of Abu Dhabi, the first paved road wasn’t completed until 1962, and traditional mud-brick huts still lined the streets. Today the average net worth of the citizens of Abu Dhabi is in the millions. Chicago-based architects are playing a significant role in the design of new environments for nations with heightened expectations. Iconic works of Chicago architecture, such as Burnham & Root’s 1891 Masonic Temple and Adler & Sullivan’s 1894 Chicago Stock Exchange Building are presented. Against this background, the exhibit features the architecture of explosive growth by internationally renowned architecture firms—including Murphy/Jahn in Thailand, Studio/Gang in India, Ben Wood/Studio Shanghai in Shanghai, Goettsch Partners in Abu Dhabi, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in China and the Middle East. Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago. http://www.architecture.org Through November 21, 2008Boom Towns!The exhibition explores similarities and differences in the architectural responses to boom conditions in two centuries and cities. The exhibit includes photographs, drawings, graphics, models and videos that encourage visitors to travel between eras and continents in order to consider how international networks of architects transform dynamic societies. Boom Towns! is composed of pairings of iconic works of architecture from late 19th-century Chicago with parallel works in today’s China and the Middle East. Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, IL. http://www.architecture.org 
Through December 13, 2008The Wizard of OzThis exhibit takes L. Frank Baum’s popular novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as its starting point to examine the relationship between art and literature, our idea of home and place, as well as the cultural and social fabric of America itself. The participating artists in the exhibition either present a new piece that has been especially conceived in response to the novel, or an existing work that relates to a theme or topic outlined by the narrative. The artworks on view encompass sculpture, film, video, drawing and photography and explore the serious and playful, notions of dislocation, home, utopia, fairies, mortality, machines, illusions, good vs. evil, witches, anxieties, family and poverty. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA. http://www.wattis.org/ Through December 14, 2008Grass Roots: African Origins of an American ArtThis exhibition traces the histories of coiled basketry in Africa and America and explores the evolution of the ancient art. Featuring baskets from the low country of South Carolina and Georgia as well as from diverse regions of Africa, the exhibition traces the story of coiled basketry from the domestication of rice in Africa, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, and then into the present day. J Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX. http://stark.tamu.edu/ 
Through April 7, 2008Panorama of Portuguese Contemporary CreationThe history of the Grand Duchy is closely related to that of immigration. The Portuguese community accounts for almost 40% of the foreign community and constitutes 14% of the population of Luxembourg. Perfectly integrated, this community, including its younger generation, preserves a strong relationship with its country of origin. This exhibition explores the different generations of the Portuguese artistic scene. Through various media—photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation—the exhibition paints with broad features the portrait of a creative and dynamic country with which Luxembourg maintains a close relationship. Fondation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. http://www.mudam.lu Through November 23, 2008Uneternal CityThis exhibition verifies new instruments for the transformation of the contemporary city, looking for a different urban planning that does not start from an abstract plan on the table, but is able to grow and develop like a benevolent virus, deforming what already exists. The projects in the exhibition focus on peripheral areas that are not a clearly defined space between city and countryside, territories without form, residues of natural landscape that interrupt dense physical and human fabrics. 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy. http://www.labiennale.org/it/architettura/mostra/it/79113.html 
DEADLINE: November 7, 2008 (Registration)DEADLINE: November 21, 2008 (Submission)Cleveland Design Competition - Project 2008: interPLAYAn open, anonymous, single-stage, ideas competition founded as a tool for generating ideas around under-utilized sites and showcasing the talent of emerging designers on Cleveland’s built and unbuilt environment. This competition challenges entrants to propose active and passive recreation along an existing multipurpose path that connects Cleveland’s west side neighborhoods to Edgewater Park and Lake Erie. Entrants must design an intergenerational playscape that activates the residual space around the pathway; enhancing one of Cleveland’s few pedestrian connections to the lakefront. http://www.clevelandcompetition.com DEADLINE: December 1, 2008 (Submission)The 2009 International Architecture AwardsAn award to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built around the world by the most important architects, landscape architects and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally. This award gives an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public worldwide. All submissions must be the work of international architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for projects both in their respective countries and abroad. U.S. architecture firms headquartered inside or outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built, or to be built, in the U.S. and around the world. http://chi-athenaeum.org/intarch/index.html 
Through October 15, 2008Design Hotels™ Future Forum: Human DesignThe fifth annual Future Forum connects leading talent in the design, art and architecture communities with great minds from the hospitality industry. Hoteliers, developers, journalists, investors, architects, designers, restaurateurs and consultants come together to broaden their perspective on the ever-expanding hospitality world. This year’s forum explores the relationship between human beings and design. This expansive topic will be discussed within the context of two design developments: Design appeals to the human wish for identity, uniqueness, status and luxury (“Design as Art”), but it also strives to be sustainable and address the needs and problems that afflict our society as a whole (“Conscious Design”). Berlin, Germany December 29, 2008—January 1, 2009Forum 2008: Energy—American Institute of Architecture Students Annual ConventionFORUM is the global gathering of architecture and design students and the annual convention of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). This educational event offers students the opportunity to learn about issues facing architectural education and the profession, to meet other students and professionals with common interests, and to interact with today’s leading architects, designers and those making a difference in the world through architecture. Forum will explore not just issues related to sustainability and “green” design but also the “energy” of great architecture. Students and emerging professionals are invited to join in this conversation. Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, CO. For more information, please visit:
December 8, 2008New Snapshots: Seen & Heard @ GreenbuildMetropolis editor in chief Susan Szenasy presents the second in the series of Davis & Warshow Show Snapshots. Please join us as she shares insights from the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Class Credits:0.1 CEU Credit. 6:00 p.m., Davis & Warshow Soho, 96 Spring St @ Mercer, 3rd Fl. RSVP by December 3rd: Veeder+Perman 212.966.3759 x206, dwevent@veederperman.com March 29, 2009—March 31, 20092009 Environments for Aging ConferenceA comprehensive three-day experience, during which attendees and presenters will explore and share new ideas for creating attractive and functional living environments that meet the unique needs of the aging population. This conference is for architects, owners, developers, facilities managers, design professionals, product manufacturers, and government officials, working in the environments for aging industry. Boston Copley Marriot, Boston, MA. |
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