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25 February 2009 | CED e-news

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LECTURE - Ecology . Design . Synergy

February 25. | . 7pm - 9:30 pm. | .112 Wurster Hall

Stefan Behnisch, architect and principal of Behnisch Architekten, will give a lecture. A related exhibition of his work is on display from February 25 to March 20 in the Wurster Gallery, 108 Wurster Hall. An opening reception takes place Wednesday, February 25, at 8 p.m. following the lecture. For more info, visit CED online.

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LECTURE - Daring To Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs And Reports From The Field

March 2 . | . 7 pm - 8:30 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall

Anne Whiston Spirn, is professor of landscape architecture and planning at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Her new book, Daring to Look, presents unpublished texts and photographs by the great photographer Dorothea Lange, who employed images and words, to record people and landscapes, and also to discover and to explore ideas. For more info, visit CED online.

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LECTURE - Constructing the Ephemeral

March 4 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall

James Carpenter is principal of James Carpenter Design Associates in New York, Carpenter/Lowings, Architecture and Design in London and Carpenter Norris Consulting in New York. This lecture is the 2009 Richard Keating Lecture, part of the Spring 2009 Architecture Lecture Series. For more info, visit CED online.

LECTURE - Building City | City Building

March 11 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall

Scott Johnson and William Fain are principals of Johnson Fain Architects in Los Angeles and 2009 Friedman Visiting Professors at CED. This lecture is part of the Spring 2009 Architecture Lecture Series. For more info, visit CED online.

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EXHIBIT - Timescapes: California from the Air

California Science Center, Los Angeles

The exhibit is based on the book Timescapes: California from the Air by Barrie Rokeach (M.A. Design '74) and 2008 Distinguished Alumni. The exhibit opens with one of the most popular shots from the book, the blue Sierra peaks near Buckeye Pass. At eight feet tall, the photo makes you feel as though you're soaring at over 12,000 feet in the air. Rokeach took the photo on a wintry day while piloting a small Cessna, getting an angle that few have ever seen. For more info, visit the California Science Center.

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EXHIBIT - Observing Exhibition at the Exploratorium

February 12 - March 19. . | .The Exploratorium, San Francisco

Cris Benton, professor of architecture, participates in the Observing Exhibition, which features works in progress that investigate ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing changes in the San Francisco Bay Area landscape. Benton will be part of the exhibit with his project called Hidden Ecologies. For more info visit The Exploratorium.

EXHIBIT - Creative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception

February 26 - March 26. . | .Tillie Lewis Theater, Stockton

The exhibit presents art from blind and visually impaired artists working in a variety of mediums. The concept of the exhibition is to illustrate the influence of vision, physically and perceptually in the artists' creative process. For more info visit, San Joaquin Delta College.

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EXHIBIT - Gyongy Laky solo exhibition

March 14. . | B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

Gyongy Laky (M. A. Design '71)will have an exhibit at the b. sakato garo gallery in Sacramento, CA. The reception will be held March 14 from 6 pm to 9 pm. For more info, visit the gallery exhibitions website.

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In the News

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Project Portfolio - Inner-City Arts, Phase II, Architectural Record, February 2009
Michael Maltzan, 2006 Friedman Visiting Professor, is featured in this article about Inner-City Arts, the home for the nonprofit organization, which provides art education to K-12 students. Despite being located near Los Angeles' Skid Row, Maltzan uses walls and courtyards that to combine protection, learning and connection.

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Thank You, Come Again, Metropolis, February 2009
This article is about a new men's health clinic in San Francisco designed by Cass Calder Smith (M.Arch '92). The Turek Clinic features floor-to-ceiling windows, clinical areas painted stark white and a semen-sample room that is dimly lit and decorated with Playboy covers.

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The Moss Room, Metropolis, February 2009
In the California Academy of Sciences basement, the Academy cafe and Moss Room provides museum visitors a new experience in dining. The space was a collaboration among a team of designers, architects and the restaurant owners. This team includes Cathy Simon, FAIA of SMWM and Friedman Visiting Professor in 1994.

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Assessing affordable housing in the Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 February 2009
John King writes about the future of affordable housing in the Bay Area and focuses on the works of non-profit developers. Carol Galante (M.C.P. '78) is quoted in the column as president of Bridge Housing, a nonprofit organization that has built 8,800 units of affordable housing in the past 25 years.

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Open-Ended Learning, Metropolis, February 2009
This article focuses on innovative designs for schools around the world. Kevin Daly (B.A Arch '80) of Daly Genik Architects is featured in this section for his work on the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles. Daly collaborated with the Pueblo Nuevo Development to build an elementary, a middle and high schools as well as a preschool and nonprofit dance studio.

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The Postwar Legacy of Architectural Research, Journal of Architecture Education, January 2009
Avigail Sachs is a current Phd candidate in Architecture and has recently published two articles, Marketing Through Research: William Caudill and Caudill, Rowlett, Scott in the Journal of Architecture and The Postwar Legacy of Architectural Research in the Journal of Architecture Education. The first article is about the partners of Caudill Rowlett Scott, a post-Second World War architecture firm and its innovative marketing and business strategies. The second article contributes to the current discussion of design as research by examining the ideological basis for the enthusiastic pursuit of scientific research in architecture in the postwar period.

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