Wednesday, December 15, 2010

More Winter Cycling Tips


Just a simple reposting of some tips and whatnot for winter cycling. First off, after the downtown cluster-muss that was last Wednesday's exodus from downtown Cleveland (in which a cyclist and I [a pedestrian] were feeling smug as we hurried to our appointments, passed all the stopped cars), I would suggest that a lot more denizens would be open to alternative transportation. I would love to see the transit rail figures for that evening as well. (By the was I did get stuck in auto traffic, 90 minutes to travel 1500' max., yay). Regardless, biking in winter (much like walking around in winter or even driving in winter) is much easier with a little awareness as well as some proper equipment (such as warm clothing!).

Winter riding safety tips

Courtesy of Shah Mohamed, bike educator at the Evergreen Brickworks, where he teaches workshops on safe winter cycling

Ride slower

Give yourself up to double the time to get to your destination. A slower, more controlled pace gives you more ability to react and recover. You should also allow more space between you and other cyclists.

Anticipate stops

Braking will be more difficult in icy conditions, especially if snow cakes on to your wheels or brake pads. Anticipate stops by gradually reducing speed and giving yourself twice the stopping distance than you normally would.

Be aware

You should be checking over your shoulders two to three times more often when riding in the winter, and in general should be more aware of your surroundings.

Reduce tire pressure

Drop tire pressure by 10 to 20 PSI (pounds per square inch). “It does slow you down,” Mohamed says. “But it gives you way better traction.”

Turn safely

In particularly snowy or icy conditions, lateral force will not take as strongly to the road, so make sure to slow down and turn with as much of your weight on top of the bike as possible (as opposed to simply leaning into turns). For left turns in busy intersections, Mohamed recommends getting off the bike and crossing by foot.

Know the conditions

Pavement conditions will change day to day — depending on factors like snow, rain and frost— and will change how you ride. Have a look at the weather before you go out and be prepared to adjust your speed and travel time.

There are more tips for equipping your bike and of course you can visit Toronto's Cold Weather Cycling Guide. They must know about snow, they are in Canada!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

ODOT Public Meeting - Take Two! Wednesday 12.15

ODOT meeting
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
5-8pm

ODOT's "Aesthetic Details" meeting (which was canceled yesterday due to weather) has been rescheduled for Wednesday Decemeber 15th, from 5-8pm.

I am just going to copy and paste to avoid any snarky comments because believe me, I have a ton in my head right now.

Visit www.innerbelt.org to vote on bridge details, voting closes Wednsday, December 15th, immediately after the public meeting. You may also want to attend the public meeting to vote and ask questions. Members of the design build team and ODOT will be in attendance to answer your questions.

Friday, December 03, 2010

The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn't Learn in Architecture School

Most architects take themselves way too seriously. There is some understanding in this. Quite a bit of their business is directly tied into the image they create about themselves. The problem is in discovering where the fantasy ends and reality begins and what this means to your own position in the firm.

Guy Horton and Sherin Wing recently authored a companion to the wonderful "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School" entitled "101 Things I Didn't Learn in Architecture School" which centers mostly on taking the preconceived notions collected during studio classes and applying them to the "real world".

One main thread, that I feel is important in reiterating, is that there is life outside the office and it is dreadfully important that a balance is maintained. Also, it is a fun read, albeit slightly depressing when you start to analyze what it means about your own life.

Darn it.

via the non stop fun of archdaily

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

2011 Best Arch Schools in the US


We Americans love our rankings. Most fuel efficient or fastest car. Biggest house. Largest burritos.

For those of us who went into school thinking "Hey, I think architecture is neato" (which was probably the extent of our diligence into understanding what we were getting into) I wonder which is the representative population of students researching which particular school was "best" and not just "affordable" or "cheap" or had a proper "male to female" or "proximity to bar" ratio. I mean, if any of us had proper role models (ie. parents in the business) we surely wouldn't have gone and done something so tremendously stupid as to follow their footsteps, now would we? No, we would have gone into something respectable such as banking or lawyering or buying and selling lawyers or perhaps smuggling illegal substances in vans (which probably has better health insurance). Regardless, we decided to become "architects" which means a tremendous amount of schooling, then some interning and of course all the tests and requisite licensureship and continuing education which or course turns every practitioner into a well rounded and intelligent architect (can you hear my chortling?).

Well, to help the burgeoning architects out, there is a racket in place which helps determine the best national schools based upon some rather interesting (which is a word used to describe things that are neither liked nor disliked) assumptions. I am referring to DesignIntelligence's most recent America's Best Architecture & Design Schools 2011, which has placed UMich at #1 this year beating out some school called Harvard.

I have concerns that the overall goal of a "good school" is that an architecture school's primary goal is to first "prepare students for professional practice" (as described by DesignIntelligence). Sure, it sounds great, but what the hell does it really mean? Are the schools creating problem solvers with good communication skills, ethics and morals, passion for design or simply computer skills? Are these things exclusive?

Like most ratings most of the data can mean whatever you want it to, and while I may agree with Foster's sentiment that school is one of the most formative places for young architects I would speculate that "you get out what you put in", rather then "you get out what is shoved in your face". If the student's are not interested, no amount of fantastic guest lecturers or 7 axis robotic arms will entrall them.

However if the competition to get in to the institution is a little higher, you may find that your student population feels they have more to lose via a little complacency and therefore raise the bar of the program. Which isn't a bad thing at all.

Like all school rankings the best advice is to go out and visit the programs. Look for a well rounded curriculum (if you have no idea in which to specialize yet, who at 18 years old did?), in a comfortable environment with good opportunity for travel and exposure. Look at past lecture series, see if any professors have published or built anything you have heard of and liked. Talk to former and present students (remember the grass is always greener) and be aware that even though your undergraduate work begins at one school, your graduate work can always move you someplace else.

As for rankings, I look at portfolios and interviews more then simply what school a student went to. I also know that higher tuition costs usually equate to higher pay needs, however the student's exposure to lectures, educators and programs may make them worth it. There is no silver bullet. If we were all the same the whole country would look like, well, South of Charlotte NC, and no one wants that.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Why do you live in Cleveland?

In a rather surreptitious turn of events WCPN (the local National Public Radio Station - or as most in Ohio call it, Hippie Liberal Media - kidding! Or am I?) aired a piece on their daily local morning show called "The Sound of Ideas"entitled "The Soul of Northeast Ohio Communities" which simply asked, what are the local assets that the region currently contains? The basis of the conversation is the results of a three year Knight Foundation study.

Also as part of my inbox I received an email entitled "Why do you love the place you live?" (Grist) which utilized the results of a recent Gallup Survey entitled "Soul of the Community". If I could pull a quote from the Grist Article of the poll:

Year after year, what comes to the top of the list is not economic opportunity or other "practical" factors -- but instead the things that are much more intangible and yet still deeply felt. Things like friendliness and beauty:

Social offerings are the top driver of attachment in 2010, not only across all 26 communities, but also in every community individually. This includes the availability of arts and cultural opportunities, availability of social community events, the community's nightlife, whether the community is a good place to meet people, and whether people in the community care about each other.

A community's openness is the second most important factor to residents. This is regarding whether residents view their communities as good places for different groups, including older people, families with children, young adults without children, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, gays and lesbians, and young, talented college graduates looking for work.

A community's aesthetics -- in terms of its overall physical beauty and the availability of parks, playgrounds, and trails -- is the third most powerful driver of community attachment. A community's education offerings are the fourth most important driver, which include ratings of local colleges and universities and public K-12 education.

Which is a rather interesting thought. So I come back to the original question, "Why Cleveland?" Sure, its cheap to live here and there are some great restaurants, and the lake is fun, the parks are fantastic and there are some really amazing neighborhoods and tons of potential. But is that enough? Is it?

-ps, Sound of Ideas still has Multhrop's photo, which makes me sad, I don't mind the new guy, but I had grown to really like good ol' Dan.


Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Connecting Cleveland: Beyond the Burnham Plan Charrette

I posted this rather late, as I am of the opinion that no one in Cleveland goes to anything if they have too much time (more than a week) to plan ahead. However if you come on down the charrette you may get the opportunity to work with me as I will be one of the many talented and good looking facilitators that will be helping herd the masses at this public event. I think mostly I am just there to hand out papers and google how to spell words.

Tuesday, November 30th
noon - 7pm
Cleveland Public Library, Stokes Wing, Room 218

The Cleveland Group Plan Commission invites you to participate in a design charrette to develop a unified vision for Downtown Cleveland built around signature public spaces and the connections and opportunities that link development projects from the Cuyahoga River, the proposed downtown Cleveland Casino, across Public Square to Malls A, B, C and the new Medical Mart and Convention Center, and onward to the lakefront.

The charrette will be held on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from Noon until 7pm in Room 218 East/West of the Cleveland Public Library. Take the elevators in the Louis Stokes Wing to the Second Floor (business department) and turn left.

This charrette is an afternoon-long work session, facilitated by theCleveland City Planning Commission, ParkWorks and the Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. The event is being organized in collaboration with the Cleveland chapters of the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Planning Association.

Your participation is critical to the success of this work. Ideas and recommendations from the Connecting Cleveland charrette will be incorporated into the downtown connections plan being prepared byLMN Architects and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. LMN and GGN are also working on the Convention Center and Medical Mart project.

Schedule:

  • Noon: Welcome and introductions
  • 12:15 pm: Overview of process and the design assignment
  • 12:45 - 4:30 pm: Work session in small, interdisciplinary design teams
  • 4:30 - 6 pm: Pin-up, drinks and dinner/snacks
  • 6 - 7 pm: Community presentation/conversation, coffee & dessert

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by November 23 to Gina Love Slade at (216) 696-2122 ext. 101 or glove(at)parkworks.org. A briefing document will be sent to all charrette participants a week before the event.

If you have questions in the meantime, please contact Terry Schwarz at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, (216) 357-3426 or tschwarz(at)kent.edu.

-grabbed most of the above notice block from the fine folks at the CUDC.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Greening Modernism | Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement

I received a rather interesting email this morning. If we button ourselves up in the wayback machine and take a long look at Cleveland's recent past we may well remember when County Management (only a 33% indictment rate!) decided they should consolidate by purchasing the Marcel Breuer Ameritrust Tower (at the corner of East 9th and Euclid Ave.) and then in an effort project their new, more environmentally friendly persona, demolish it for a brand new building. Many people cried foul (including yours truly) and a grassroots (of sorts) campaign was launched. Being as how this involved architecture AIA Cleveland eventually got involved at the very end (yes that was meant as snarky).

So the email I read this morning was in reference to a recent article in Metropolis Magazine whereas one Carl Stein (you may remember his lecture during the Breuer bruhaha) has recently released his new book Greening Modernism.

I would take a quote from the email, which was a quote from the article, which was slightly a quote from the book and post it here so that all this elaboration comes to a fine point (emphasis not mine, but close enough to what I would do).

"For Stein, the title Greening Modernism means two things. Firstly, the book is a rallying cry for those building in the modern “style” to return to the Modernist philosophy which, he believes, has a Green heart, with a capital-G. Secondly, he’s calling for a literal “greening” of Modernist buildings. He proves that the most sustainable building is an existing one and believes in recycling and retrofitting Modernist structures, citing a case study of a 29-story Cleveland high-rise. The building was marked for demolition until it was saved by a campaign to protect it and the city’s cultural heritage — in this case, the only high-rise by Marcel Breuer, the influential Hungarian-born Bauhaus graduate and instructor. The campaign, he notes, avoided the 1.7 million gallons of oil it would have taken to build anew."

Oh, how I remember to be all full of hope and vinegar.

I would like to also apologize publicly for being all full of vinegar when I had dinner with Mr. Stein after his lecture. Disgruntled young archi-wrecks have no place at civilized table side conversation. I am now older - but still disgruntled. Grrrr.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sanford Kwinter: Requiem for the City at the End of the Millenium

2010

Kwinter is one of the theorists that I absolutely adore, whether or not I agree nor understand the specific point of an essay; he is one of the few writers that allows my own mind to parse my limited knowledge and question my own thinking. Much like a rather thick bowl of oatmeal Kwinter's style relies on some personal asides (requiring some extra curricular examination of historical styles or events) and wordplay that may require some extra trips to a handy dictionary. This is no "Theory for Dummies" book and for that I am rather thankful. Kwinter manages to hold erudite discourse without "talking down" to the reader and structures the essays in classic logical styles making leaps of faith easy to undertake.

"Requiem" is a small collection of essays based primarily upon the idea of the city that celebrate a seemingly modernist take of putting the architectural expression of the city under a critical lens (and like Eisenman, pulls no punches).

This is no manifesto for urban manifest destiny, rather an exploration of the pragmatic goals of urban design set against the experiential intent of the designers. Kwinter relies on an heightened awareness of socio-economic impacts upon architectural styles coupled with the new constraints and releases of social technologies. While there seems to be a tone of hesitant fear (warning?) of the mechanations of social techonlogy they center mostly on possible misuse and a disconnection of the tangible idea of "real".

But this is the constant theme of the collection. What is a city? A mere collection of housing that allows for the concentration of density or rather a collective of thought and ideas that has formed it own and powerful identity? This was the rabbit hole the collection warrants chasing.

As for the book itself, it is a small read, much less dense then FFE in scope and breadth of coverage. The little white book fit well inside my jacket pocket, to be retrieved during lulls in the day. While this is the second Actar book I have received that has been printed out of order (why is there 20 pages or so before the table of contents?) that alone was not the causation for reading a second time. For educators out there who would pass along essays to students, I highly suggest having them create comments or questions during their reading so you can ascertain on which ideas they find problematic. Of course that is a post for another day.

book image from Actar

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Pecha Kucha Cleveland Vol. 10 - Nov. 19th

Friday, November 19, 2010 8:20 am – 11:00 am
at The Old Arcade at the Hyatt Regency
Free
401 Euclid Avenue

Join us for PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 10 at the Old Arcade, part of the Hyatt Regency. On Friday, November 19th, 2010, at 8:20pm, we will transition from a night in the subway tunnels of the Detroit-Superior Bridge to a night under the Stars, only under the Skylight of the Old Arcade. While presentations do not start until 8:20pm, we encourage you to show up at least an hour early to experience all that this Cleveland Gem, built in 1890, has to offer. 10-12 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 week or so. DONT FORGET TO INVITE FRIENDS!:) If you are interested 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 19th!

Cheers,
Mike Christoff & Raseem Parker
pkncleveland@gmail.com
List of presenters will show up on the site eventually :Pecha Kucha Vol. 10

Monday, November 15, 2010

Lakewood Bike Planning Meeting (Part 2) - 2010.11.07

Next Bike Planning Meeting Set For November 17

The Bicycle Network Plan Community Workshop #2 will be held on Wednesday, November 17,2010 from 6:30-8:00 PM in the Woman’s Club Pavilion at Lakewood Park. This workshop is hosted by the City of Lakewood’s Department of Planning and Development.

The goal of the bike planning effort is to improve the bicycling environment in Lakewood by gathering resident input and ideas and incorporating them into a comprehensive plan that addresses five focus areas. The 5 E’s, Engineering, Education, Enforcement, Encouragement and Evaluation, will shape a plan that not only recommends physical improvements but also helps improve city policies, identify possible funding opportunities and increase overall public awareness of the rules and responsibilities for both motorists and bicyclists.

Building on the great turn out at the October 5th workshop, Planning staff has continued to reach out to the community through surveys, an online map and field work in an effort to clearly understand the needs and habits of Lakewood’s large bicycling population. The first on-line survey gathered basic information about riders and frequently used roadways and had more than two hundred responses.

A new survey focusing on the needs of Children Biking and Walking to School can be accessed by clicking here. If you are the parent, guardian or caregiver of a child from kindergarten to twelfth grade, please take a minute to fill out this brief survey.

At the November 17th workshop, the Planning staff will report on the findings to date and continue this important community conversation. For more information contact Planning and Development at 216.529.6630 or planning@lakewoodoh.net.

*Taken directly from the onelakewood.com website for the city of Lakewood, Ohio

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Joori Suh, Jungwoo Ji Joint Lecture - KSU

6.30pm @ the Kiva, Kent State University

Museum: Breaking out of the White Cube
Joori Suh
M.A., Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University
Interior Architect, Peter Gisolfi Associates, NY
Partner, studio eu concept, NY

Re-discovering Boundary, Re-building the Gradations
Jungwoo Ji
M. Arch. Cornell University
Partner, studio eu concept, New York, NY
Design Partner, BAU Architects, Seoul, Korea
Associate, Ehernkrantz Eckstut &Kuhn Architects, New York, NY

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Yeohlee Teng Lecture Review - UMich 2010.11.05

Yeohlee Teng Lecture Review

2010.11.05

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Design


There is simultaneously too much and too little discussion of interdisciplinary design. Too much in that most discussions carefully only touch upon feigning interest and garnering inspiration from previous design work (here I will use the term precedence) while protecting the small collective fiefdoms that these disparate design elements control and harbor interest in; too little in that while the object of the discussion is good (altruistic?), the execution of the ideas is typically underdeveloped (undercooked as a friend would yell at students) and therefore a failure.


Ms. Yeohlee Teng's lecture at University of Michigan this past Friday meandered in and out of being too broad without specific, and too specific without replicable application, neither in an intentional way, instead only as a bitter afterthought which made the long dark journey back to Cleveland seem more dark and dreary.


Dear god, let me explain.


Ms. Teng's history of exploration in the fabric arts of fashion, creating “wearable structure” while exploring use of “economy”, in this term by dealing with the physical constraints of the materials (production widths of fabrics) and by minimizing waste (see Fall 2009 line), are personal ideologues successfully studied and practiced through her collections. The limits of starting out as a individual designer with limited production capability meant that her first well known piece,Fall 1981 Black wool doeskin “one size fits all” cape”, would create a signature style playing on the terms of structure, flexibility and economy, themes that would become even more popular/fitting in a disjointed, androgynous and economically jilted society.


In fact, the process by which Ms. Teng uses to develop her pieces translates directly into a logical procession for the creation of informative architecture where each step draws from yet directly informs each previous iteration.

  • understand/develop want/need
  • develop theme of inspiration [flattened]
  • understand material relative to theme and demands/constraints
  • develop strategy for construction/assembly
  • define infrastructure
  • relate/restrain/celebrate movement/stance
  • locate places of pause/storage (pockets)
  • create identity/perception


Even the discussion of construction, the consideration of the edge condition (“magic of the cut” as Teng pontificated), the comparison of fashion as process oriented (draping vs. pattern making), the celebration of using the material to define its own shape via gravity and mass in lieu of constructed supporting structure all related to the idea of honesty of materiality evident throughout Ms. Teng's entire shown collection. While not directly relating to the idea and process of architecture there was a evident shared process of exploration.


The direct comparisons to built works began to unravel at time. The Fall 2008 collection, supposedly inspired by SANAA's New Museum (NYC 2007) and the Guggenheim inspired Spring 2002 collection (Wright, NYC 1959) lack the rigor when compared to the Spring 2007 Collection. The Spring 2007 Line drew upon work done for the Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture MOCA-LA exhibition as well as the Schindler House (R.M. Schindler, Hollywood 1922) which dealt with simplicity of materiality and construction through fabric selection. The format of the lecture didn't allow any exploration into the reinterpretation of the material selection from an architectural to fashion perspective, especially when it dealt with hierarchy and assembly which I felt could have been overly interesting. The same issue arrived during the explanation of reinterpreting Mies's Barcelona Pavilion, specifically the use of the seams of the clothing in relation to the exposed “X” columns of the building. There a comment comparing the act of using the distinction of column location to organize the pattern grid as the relation to the structure of the pieces and its seams but the further exploration of the work wasn't there.


To be fair the lecture did seem rushed and covered a broad stroke of work that may have been better organized if focused on a few particular lines and the process of study. This lent to quick and unfulling explanation of what the work was supposed to mean or be interpreted which left me yearning for more.


The one aspect that it seemed even Ms. Teng was wanting to discuss was the use of urban design and planning to support artist communities and business development, a topic of study I am personally highly interested in. Ms. Teng is involved in the “Made in Midtown” movement, a grassroots organization that is meant to codify and quantify the value of the garment district to protect its existence and contributions to the fabric of New York and the fashion culture as a whole. I tried to raise a question at the end of the lecture, inspired by Monica Ponce de Leonremarking that Teng is one of the few designers who is politically active*, regarding how to create a grassroots movement in a region that lacks the creative density of NYC. How can we inspire those among us who have lost the will to fight or what magic words can we utter to instill hope in the hearts of those we need by our side?


Like most of the answers during the Q+A, time constraints may have undermined any attempt at useful discussion. I was told there was hope as out of work factory makers were selling handmade bags at local stores and the prospect of urban farming could rejuvenate community. I don't want to be a farmer, I would not be that good at it and I think the idea of having to begin an alternative craft to what I love to do insulting.


Again, I blame the format of the lecture for my unsastiated hunger. I can only hope Yeohlee Teng's work continues to playfully intwine the reinterpretation of the boundaries of design and will some day accept that as fashion can be inspired by architecture, architecture may be inspired by fashion. What other way can we extrapolate on our “first shelter” (our clothing) to become more intimately comfortable in our spaces?


resources:

YEOHLEE : WORK (book website)

YEOHLEE>>collections

skin+bones gallery guide (pdf)

skin+bones review (pingmag)

Made in Midtown


*I wonder at times the issue of architecture as a political act. There is a civic will required to create good buildings and spaces. I have a concern that if architecture is not political in any means that it is pointless. I am not espousing the standards terms of politics to be in play here, there is no republican architecture or democratic architecture, but architecture is a social act, a social art and science that must have some humane disposition to be successful. If architecture does nothing to respond to the needs of the society at the time of its inception then how can it possibly succeed? Whether personal politics are evident is up to the designer, however some personal morals or mores must inadvertently make it into the work. The idea of resting ares or building efficiency or socialization or hierarchy of space all stem from our ideals that have a political basis. It may not affect how we vote (if we do) but is sure as hell affects our designs. What good do we do then, if we sit on the sidelines and are not vocal in our beliefs, especially when it directly affects our practice?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

CPAC Cuyahoga County Executive Candidates Forum - October 21st, 2010.

From CPAC (Community Partnership for Arts and Culture)

"Tomorrow, we will be holding a forum for the Cuyahoga County Executive candidates to speak specifically to the arts and culture sector. There is still time to register for the free event if you’d like to attend, and thank you to all those who have already signed up to come. I’m writing now to send you a direct link to the live stream for all those who may not be able to make it to the Idea Center at 3:30. Please consider sending this out to all of your contacts, customers and constituents who are supporters of the arts and culture sector. This is not an endorsement of any candidate, but an easy way to get information about the candidates’ views of arts and culture and how it will be integrated into the plans for our county’s future. We hope you will find it both interesting and useful.

The forum will stream live tomorrow, October 21, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. fromhttp://www.wviz.org/show/cpac.


If you’d like to register for the event, please email me directly atvls@cpacbiz.org or contact Peggy Barnes, Office Manager atpeb@cpacbiz.org / 216.575.0331 x123."

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Fourth Annual LEAF Community Harvest Festival - Oct. 20th

  • 4th Annual LEAF Harvest Festival TOMORROW October 20th!
  • Local Holiday Shopping at the Harvest Festival
  • Third Thursday Educational Series
  • Trade Local Recipes for Local Food on our Facebook Page
Guest Farmers, Vendors and Craftspersons
at LEAF Harvest Festival
The Harvest Festival tomorrow is all about local food, community and friends. It is also the best time to stock up on local food and gifts for the soon approaching holidays andwinter months.

Guest Vendors for Tomorrow's LEAF Harvest Festival:
  • Death x Design - Spooky jewelry, capes, masks, fairy wands and wreaths
  • Dorthy's Bags - Hand painted bags with proceeds going to City Fresh @ City Fresh table
  • Honey Hive & Berry Good Farm - Honey, fresh vegetables and baked items
  • Lakewood Garden Center - Selling mums and pumpkins
  • Pocketful of Frogs - Hand-knit and crocheted babywear, hats, scarves, purses & washcloths
  • Root Cafe - Serving their freshly prepared local cuisine and drink
  • Western Reserve Foods - Various local cheeses from The Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op
* this is subject to change

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Roadtrip (20!) - University of Buffalo school of architecture and planning fall 2010 lecture series

University of Buffalo School of Architecture + Planning

best excuse to visit Buffalo (unless on the way to Toronto)

    10.20.10 Richard Kroeker

    Richard Kroeker has explored the use of wood in his designs of new buildings for native communities in Canada.

    10.27.10 Innovative Practice

    Lecture(s) sponsored by the Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity. Speaker to be announced.

    11.02.10 Lance Hosey

    Lance Hosey is president and CEO of GreenBlue, a non-profit consultancy dedicated to environmental innovation.

    11.10.10 Greg Mortenson

    Greg Mortenson, author of Stones into Schools, has created new schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

    11.19.10 Fallingwater

    John Patkau, Raymond Ryan, and Lynda Waggoner will talk at the Darwin Martin House about the design competition for new cabins at Fallingwater.

    TBA Laurie Hawkinson

    Laurie Hawkinson, a founding principal of Smith-Miller and Hawkinson Architects, teaches at Columbia University’s GSAPP.

    12.01.10 Studio Gang

    Jeanne Gang, FAIA, a principal of Studio Gang Architects, designed the Aqua Tower in Chicago, which was named 2009 Skyscraper of the Year.

    View selected lectures

  • Exhibitions

    • 08.30 - 09.24 Pella Design Awards
      Hayes Lobby

    • 09.01 - 10.02 Affinity of Form
      Kaveeshwar Gallery, Capen Hall, UB North Campus

    • 09.27 - 10.29 Intersight
      Hayes Lobby

    • 11.01 - 11.19 Global Studios
      Hayes Lobby

    • 11.22 - 12.17 UB Solar
      Hayes Lobby

    Lectures @ 5.30 pm, 301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214. The Fallingwater lecture will be held at the Greatbatch Pavilion; tickets are required through the Martin House Restoration Corporation. The Mortenson lecture, part of UB’s Distinguished Speaker Series, will be held at the Alumni Arena at 8 pm; tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster. Lectures and exhibitions supported by: Alumni and Friends of UB’s SA&P; Buffalo/WNY Chapter of the American Institute of Architects; Canadian Consulate General of Canada; Martin House Restoration Corporation; Hyatt’s All Things Creative; Rigidized Metals Corporation; UB2020 Strategic Strengths/Extreme Events; UB AIAS/GSA; UB Alpha Rho Chi; UB Canadian-American Studies Committee; UB Center for the Arts; UB College of Arts and Sciences; UB Libraries; UB School of Architecture and Planning Dean’s Office. Every effort has been made possible to recognize all sponsors prior to printing. AIA continuing education credits are available.