St. James Architectural Tour

St. James Architectural Tour

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

17514 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107

3pm

Mr. Tim Barett, architectural historian, will be giving a tour and presentation on St. James before St. James is closed by the Cleveland Catholic Diocese. This is a follow up tour to an April Tour that drew an estimated 500 visitors.

Come see a part of our architectural and cultural identity before it is lost forever.

Bring a camera.

Cleveland.com article

Roadtrip (5)! University of Detroit Mercy SoA Lectures

University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture 2009-10 Lecture Series

The University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture is pleased to present this year'sfunded lecture series entitled "National Exchange + Regional CO-Labor". This series will focus on regional economies, national networks and multi-disciplinary approach to design as a operative wor(sic).

Amy Green Deines, AIA Assoc.

Chair, Lecture Series

Associate Professor

Rossetti Lecture

October 7 Gino Rossetti, Rossetti Associates, UDM Alumni

"40 years of fun"

Reception and Exhibition @ 5:00 @ Genevieve Fisk Lerenger Architecture Center

GLFEA Lecture

In Collaboration with Cranbrook Academy of Art + NOMA Detroit Lecture

November 13 Walter Hood, Hood Design, Oakland, California

"Urban Landscapes + Provocations"

NOMA Reception @ 5:00 @ Genevieve Fisk Lerenger Architecture Center

Gensler + Master of Community Development Program Lecture

January 13 Design Center Panel and Lecture, Cleveland + Detroit

"Design Centers as Operative Change"

Participants:

Detroit Collaborative Design Center, Dan Pitera, Director

Cleveland Urban Design Center, Terri Swartz, Urban Planner

Detroit Community Design Center, Craig Wilkins, Director

HOK Toronto Lecture

February 10 Evan Webber, HOK Toronto

Toronto, Canada

"Transposed Experience, the necessity of autobiography?"

Dichotomy Lecture

in Collaboration with Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design

March 25 Julie Snow

"Title"

Lecture @ 7:00 p.m. | Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design Auditorium, A-200, 1.800.CALL LTU

University of Detroit Mercy

Faculty Lectures

Stephen Vogel, September 18

Allegra Pitera, October 9

Amy Deines Green, November 20

Noah Resnick, December 4

Wladek Fuchs, February 26

Lectures begin @ 6:00 p.m. and take place in the Genevieve Fisk Lorenger Architecture Center in the School of Architecture, unless otherwise noted. The lecture space is located in the Warren Lorenger Building on the McNichols Campus at the corner of Livernois and McNichols. Use the Livernois Campus Entrance.

Continuing education credits are offered for these events. For more information, please call the UDM School of Architecture at 313.993.1532 or visit our website at arch.udmercy.edu

Pecha Kucha Night, Cleveland: Vol V.

Pecha Kucha Night Cleveland Vol. V.

Friday, September 25th, 2009

@ Subway/Streetcar Level of the Detroit Superior/Veteran's Memorial Bridge

8.20pm

Free

Join us for PechaKucha Night's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY in Cleveland in the Catacombs and Entire Span of the Subway/Streetcar Level of the Detroit Superior Bridge. On Friday, September 25th, 2009, at 8:20pm, PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 5 helps kick off the TWO DAY “2009 Bridge Project” (http://www.cudc.kent.edu/blog/?p=522). Photos of where the event will be taking place can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkncleveland/. One of the main entrances, and location of PechaKucha Night, is located in the Northeastern parking lot at the Cuyahoga County Engineers Office (on the Superior Viaduct across from SPACES Gallery). While presentations do not start until 8:20pm, we encourage you to show up at least an hour early to experience all that the 3112 foot long bridge , built in 1918, has to offer. 14 local creatives will present their work, ideas, and obsessions in a series of short presentations on art, fashion, food, architecture, film, furniture, music, and photography. Space will be tight so be sure to come early and enjoy a few beverages prior to being inspired, influenced, confused, provoked, and probably slightly intoxicated by the wonderfully variegated topic mix. Keep an eye on the list of presenters - we will be updating it over the next few weeks. If you are interesting in presenting at a future PechaKucha Night, have a venue idea, or just questions in general, please contact us at pkncleveland@gmail.com. See ya on the 25th! Cheers, Mike Christoff & Raseem Parker pkncleveland@gmail.com

This is part of the http://www.clevelandbridgeproject.com/ and you should all come and check it out not only because it is fun but if you don't then everyone you know will be talking about really cool stuff and you will have to stand off to the side and just sort of nod and grunt like you know what is going on but deep down you feel alone and slightly afraid and suddenly hungry for burritos.

True story.

BridgeProject: Where the West Side meets the East Side! Will there be any survivors!?!

BrdgeProject

Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th, 2009

on THE Detroit-Superior Bridge (Lower Level)

2433 Superior Viaduct

Friday: 4pm - midnight

Saturday: 12noon - midnight

The Bridge Project is a collaboration between Ingenuity, Pop Up City | KSU Urban Design Collaborative and All Go Signs, with participation by Cleveland Public Art, the Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization, and many others. For more information, please call 216.357.3437.

Schedule of FUN

Directions:

Access:

Eastern Entrance: W10 & W Superiror – above the RTA waterfront line stop in the Flats.

Western Entrances: 2 from the County Engineer parking lots on the Viaduct & 1 at Massimo da Milano at W25 & Detroit.

Roadtrip (4)! University of Pennsylvania Design Fall Lecture Series

PennDesign has posted their fall lecture series (actually a while ago but I have been slow on the uptick, sorry!) and while I fear this school falls outside my Cleveland drivable radius I find no reason that I can't plan a nice trip to Philly that happens to coincide with some fun lecture. Planning to learn while on vacation, we are completely shattering the image of architect as non-geeks now, aren't we? (wait, did that image exist?)

DISCUSSIONS

IN LEADERSHIP:

THOUGHT,

POLICY,

DESIGN

fall

2009

THOUGHT

POLICY

Wed 09 sept 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson Upper Gallery

JON CALAME

Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast,

Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

Minerva Partners

Mon 21 Sept 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson b1

Stephen Kieran

Dwelling

Kieran Timberlake Associates

Thu 24 sept 2009 / 5:30PM / Meyerson B3

NINA KATCHADOURIAN

Fine Arts Senior Critic

TH U 01 Oc t 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson b1

TRENT LETHCO

Reshaping the City: New Visions for Urban Transport

Arup

Mon 12 Oc t 2009 / 6:00 pm / Meyerson Upper Gallery

João Gomes da Silva

Recent Work

Atelier Global; sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Wed 14 Oc t 2009 / 5:30pm / Meyerson Upper Gallery

JOHN YAU

Visiting Fine Arts Critic

Thu 15 Oc t 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

ELEN DUNHAM -JONES

Retrofitting Suburbia

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mon 19 Oc t 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B3

EEL CO HO FTMAN

LAND / SCAPE / ARCHITECTURE

GROSS.MAX

Thu 29 Oc t 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

Paolo Bürgi

The Landscape Project:

Between Rediscovery and Intervention

Studio Bürgi

Thu 05 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

FUMIHI KOMAKI *

Maki and Associates

Wed 11 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / AIA Philadelphia, 117 South 17th ST , Suite 200

RANDAL MASON

The Once and Future New York:

Historic Preservation and the Modern City

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Thu 12 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

GARY LAWRENCE

Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience:

Preparation for a Chaotic Climate Future

Arup

Mon 16 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

Geoff Manaugh

The Turbulence Biennial

BLDGBLOG, Wired Magazine

Thu 19 Nov 2009 / 5:30pm / Meyerson B3

OLAF BREUNING

Visiting Artist

Thu 19 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

JOSEPH RYKWERT

What Makes Your Eye Judicious?

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Mon 30 Nov 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson Upper Gallery

JERY VANEYCK

West 8: Urban (and) Landscape

West 8

Thu 03 dec 2009 / 5:30pm /Meyerson B3

DAVID HUMPHREY

Visiting Artist

Thu 03 dec 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE *

IPD Seminar

MIT Media Lab

Mon 07 dec 2009 / 6:00pm / Meyerson B1

DAVID LEATHERBAROW

Sense and Non-Sense in

Contemporary Architecture

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

much prettier lecture list (pdf)

2009 PARKing Day Cleveland Recap

So another PARKing day has come and gone.

In local news the Cleveland PARKing Group did indeed set up a nice little park on Prospect Ave. and East 4th. The above photo was taken minutes after a Cleveland Peace Officer driving a Downtown Cleveland Alliance truck informed us that we were violating some law. Not seen in the photo are the two solar cookers we put together and some other accoutrement that was to be added to spice up the party. Next year.

The officer whom asked us to vacate wasn't sure which law(s) we were violating was but he was getting antsy and in my experience an "antsy" official who believes he is doing "the right thing" and happens to be "armed" gets you right about to the point where you have to weigh whether you had anything to do for the rest of the weekend or your willingness to pack it up and say "yessir, right away sir, you're the boss sir". The information we were given was that street parking spaces are not to be occupied by pedestrians and that we were a "distraction" (I don't know to whom or what...).

An interesting sidenote, the vast majority of passerbys (80%) were really excited/happy/supportive of what we were doing and appreciated the effort. Of those quite a few mentioned that their only concern was that the city may not approve (of sitting in a park? No one was 100% clear on that). What was clear was that a better understanding of what the rules and regs are are necessary and in hindsight other action should be taken.

Summation:

There is a lot of hesitancy to do things outside of some strangely construed "comfort zone", not that sitting on some grass is really all that outstanding but to quite a few citizens and this particular police officer this event was. This causes hesitancy of action that is truly unnecessary. If some action that causes no harm and violates no law is undertaken then the only risk is of being asked (politely at first) to cease. Fine. This doesn't mean that every nuance of action to be accomplished has to be ordained under an umbrella of fear, it means that the boundaries are a flexing item to be bent and pushed and discovered. We were asked to pack it up and leave which this time we did. No harm, no foul.

I did learn though that for events such as PARKing day I will have to clear the following weekend so that I can safely inquire as to what the possible legal infraction is, what charge shall be levied and what the possible punishment would be so as to actually discover where the boundary of legality is. Last year the parking officer had no problem (nor this year when one walked past us) so without actually receiving the citation I am unsure as to which law we were violating. I asked the officer and he was unsure, which should have been a dead give-away that no citation was going to be issued, instead there was just some "badge-bullying".

Next year I will plan better and if a citation is issued I will share with the class just which really stupid law happens to be in the books. If the officer was under the impression that legal action was taking place which really wasn't then I truly feel sorry for him. Either his procedure manual was unclear or his instructions were, either way I am sure he had much more pressing matters then a bunch of dummies sitting on some lawn chairs.

Now if it was Sunday and there was a home Browns game we could have been sitting anywhere and probably drinking beer but that whole dichotomy is a discussion for another day.

Oh, if anyone knows which possible laws were being broken, we would love to know. Seriously. Knowing is half the battle.