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CED LECTURE SERIES
Frederic Schwartz: THINK: Global
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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7:00 pm
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112 Wurster Hall
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Frederic Schwartz is an award winning architect and planner with particular expertise in affordable, sustainable housing. He is the recent winner of the Guangzhou International Master Plan competition and was also selected by the citizens of New Orleans and the New Orleans City Planning Commission to re-plan one third of the city for 40% of its post-Katrina population. Schwartz is credited with changing the course of post-9/11 planning in New York City through his work, which facilitated an open site for the 9/11 memorial and a way to repair the city’s skyline.
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CED LECTURE SERIES
Shane Coen: The New Landscape of Collaboration
October 12, 2009
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7:00 pm
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112 Wurster Hall
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During the past fifteen years, Coen + Partners has received over twenty design awards and has been recognized by AIA, ASLA, the Committee on Urban Environment and influential publications such as The New York Times, Metropolis, and Dwell. Coen + Partners received a Progressive Architecture citation in 2003 for Mayo Plan #1. This citation, given for the radical interpretation of a standard subdivision plat, is only the second time a landscape architecture studio has won the prestigious P/A award in its fifty-plus year history. Principal Shane Coen also received the Special Award for Collaborative Work in 2006 from the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Chapter.
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LECTURE
Tom Buresh: Department Chair Candidate Presentation
Monday, October 19, 2009
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1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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104 Wurster Hall
The Department of Architecture faculty/chair search committee has announced its schedule of presentations by the candidates for the position of department chair. All college faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
Tom Buresh is Professor and Chair of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He has served as associate dean of academic affairs, and has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, Rice University, UC Berkeley, the University of Melbourne, SCI-Arc, and UCLA.
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EXHIBITION
Environmental Design/A New Modernism: 50th Anniversary of the College of Environmental Design, 1959–2009
September 25 – December 22, 2009
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Volkmann Reading Room, Environmental Design Library (210 Wurster Hall)
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CED is unique not only because it was one of the earliest colleges to combine architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and the decorative arts, but also because it emphasized the important role of the social, natural, and physical sciences in informing teaching, practice, and research. Wurster Hall, completed in 1964, has become the emblem of the founders’ vision where, in 2009, it continues to emerge anew. The exhibit focuses on seminal moments from 1959 to 2009 using original material from the Environmental Design Archives, the Environmental Design Library, the Bancroft Library, the University Archives, IURD and CEDR, and private collections.
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Cultivating Justice, UCLA Magazine, 1 October 2009
Dept. of City & Regional Planning Ph.D. student Alvaro Huerta has just about done it all: from organizing hunger strikes to writing stories for children. After growing up
in East Los Angeles he graduated from UCLA in 2003, and then in 2005 he won the Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award for creating the Gardener Leadership Development Project.
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Fast Forward: Project H, Metropolis, 16 September 2009
Emily Pilloton (B.A. Arch '03) did not like the direction the design field was taking, so she decided to do something about it.
She started Project H to challenge the design world to take the product out of product design for a second and deliver results and impact rather than form and function.
Photo: Becka Lynn, Metropolis |
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Past and present strike a balance, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 September 2009
The most recent projects of Peter Pfau (B.A. Arch '80) and Dwight Long (B.A. Arch '88), principal architects at San Francisco firm Pfau Long Architecture, contrast past and present in San Francisco. It is one of the too few firms in the Bay Area, says John King, that are equally adept at restoring historic buildings and designing strong contemporary ones that feel like they belong in this region so protective of its past.
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The limits of soft cultural power, The Economist, 10 September 2009
Francesco Bandarin (MCP '77), who runs the UNESCO World Heritage Center, an agency responsible for preserving the most historic sites in the world, has a fondness for old cities that are evolving. He talks to The Economist about the new report by the World Heritage Committee and his belief that cities must develop in ways that cater to present needs but also respect and integrate the past.
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Performance Capture Studio, Architectural Record, September 2009
Due to size of their Performance Capture Studio, Steven Kanner (M. Arch. '80) and Lorcan O’Herlihy worked together to renovate the two former aircraft hangers. The studio will be used by ImageMovers Digital to make films, and, as Architectural Record says, they captured the energy and creativity of filmmaking for people whose job is to make films.
Photo: Frank Oudeman, Architectural Record |
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