KSU CAED Spring Lecture Series 2012 - finalizedish finally

KSU CAED 2012 Spring Lecture Series

Thursday, March 1 @ 7 pm Cartwright Hall

Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA

Principal, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture

Ms. Drake's firm, dlandstudio, is currently planning a massive project in Brooklyn to bridge communities that have been separated since the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The new park would connect existing parks on either side of the BQE and introduce plant life to create a new green space.

"Rising Currents: A New Urban Ground" is a partnership by dlandstudio and Architecture Research Office (ARO), in exhibition at MoMA. The plan takes into account the projections of rising sea levels over the course of the next century, and creates a striking re-imagining of the Manhattan waterfront with designs to protect the land from erosion. Other smart water-management design includes a street that is made of porous material that absorbs rainwater, preventing runoff.

In addition to her work at dlandstudio, Ms Drake is Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union, and Adjunct Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an M. Architecture & M. Landscape Architecture.

Press

Imagining a More Watery New York

Going Green: North Brooklyn Locals, Activists Want More Open Space

Monday, March 5 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall

Alberto Perez-Gomez

Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University

Dr. Alberto Perez-Gomez has written extensively, and his work has been published in journals, pre-publication reports, exhibitions and reviews. His recent research includes an annotated bibliography on theatrical space 17th - 20th century; "New paradigms for architectural education: historical sources during the Enlightenment and the early 19th century;" and work on a book entitledArchitecture and Love, about the confluence of ethics and poetics in architectural praxis. 

Books

Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

Polyphilo or the Dark Forest Revisited: an Erotic Epiphany of Architecture 

Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

Dr. Perez-Gomez has received numerous research awards and grants; most recently he won the Research/Creation Grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to develop projects generated from Polyphilo in order to test digital media on problems of architecural representation.

Dr. Perez-Gomez is a native of Mexico City, Mexico. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Art (Ph.D.), History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Essex in Colchester England. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and has knowledge in 3 other languages. He resides in Canada.

Thursday, March 15 @ 7 pm in KIVA

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series

George H. Miller, FAIA

Principal & Managing Partner; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

George H. Miller is a past president of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural League of new York, Municipal Arts Society, Society of Architectural Historians and is director of the New York Building Congress.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners are known for such projects as the Grand Louvre (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Palazo Lombardia (Milan) and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington).

Thursday, March 29 @ 7 pm in KIVA

Panel discussion: Fantastic Futures in Design Education

Wednesday, April 11 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall Auditorium

Film screening: Urbanized

Gary Hustwit, acclaimed film maker

LEAF Annual Open House - March 4 2012

LEAF Annual Open House

March 4, 2012 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Lakewood Public Library, multipurpose room

LEAF Community coordinates with several farms and programs that provide fresh, locally produced products weekly at LEAF Nights. These Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs serve over six hundred families in Lakewood each year.  The Open House will host several CSA programs that will be offered in Lakewood in 2012.  Representatives from the various programs will be available to answer questions and talk about their farm or program, and sign up members.

LEAF CSA members will be promoting the "LEAF CSA Payment Plan" at the Open House.  This is a payment plan offered to limited income individuals who are interested in participating in a CSA, but are deterred by the lump sum payment required. An application is required. LEAF will pay the upfront cost of joining the CSA, and then the member will pay LEAF back weekly.   The member participating with the "payment plan" will receive all of the same benefits from the CSA program as other members.

LEAF Community coordinates community gardens at four of Lakewood's public parks, and at The Westerly. Several representatives from the LEAF Community Garden leadership will be available to discuss the community gardening program and register gardeners.  Information will also be available about the Learning Garden, which is located at Madison Library and maintained by LEAF Community volunteers.

At the LEAF Community table, representatives will be available to discuss the many initiatives and opportunities that will are planned for 2012, and provide an overview of what LEAF is all about. This includes the various volunteer, educational and fundraising opportunities available in numerous committees.

New this year at the Open House will be a seed swap!  Bring sealed (such as taped envelopes) packages of seeds, and trade with fellow gardeners. Please include important information on the label, such as variety, year produced, etc.  If you don't have seeds to swap, but are interested in getting some seeds, unswapped seeds will be available for a small donation.

Wang Shu named 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner

straight from the horse's (Pritzker Prize) mouth:

Announcement

Wang Shu of The People’s Republic of China Is the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Los Angeles, CA—Wang Shu, a 48 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Hangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, will be the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be in Beijing on May 25.

In announcing the jury’s choice, Pritzker elaborated, “The fact that an architect from China has been selected by the jury, represents a significant step in acknowledging the role that China will play in the development of architectural ideals. In addition, over the coming decades China’s success at urbanization will be important to China and to the world. This urbanization, like urbanization around the world, needs to be in harmony with local needs and culture. China’s unprecedented opportunities for urban planning and design will want to be in harmony with both its long and unique traditions of the past and with its future needs for sustainable development.”

The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was founded in 1979 by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The laureates receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.

- there is more, check out the announcement on the Pritzker website (link above).

Call for Artists - Utrecht "all the small things: Cleveland"

All the Small Things: Cleveland

Utrecht Cleveland Heights presents

“All the Small Things: Cleveland”

Art Show & Contest 

From February 6th through March 18^th customers may submit 6”x6” two-dimensional works for entry into our juried small show. 6”x6” works must be submitted on any of the following: 

Utrecht Artist Wood Panel                  
Utrecht Contemporary Canvas
Ampersand Cradled Gesso Board       Ampersand Cradled Clay Board

So that we have enough room on our wall, we will limit the amount of participants to 100, and the number of personal entries to three.  All artists will be asked to submit small works centered on the theme of
Cleveland.  
Artists will be asked to drop off their finished piece(s) before March 18th at 5pm. 

Voting will take place in store from March 19^th through April 1^st, and prizes will be announced and awarded during our Artist Reception on Saturday, April 7^th, from 5pm to 7pm. 

1st Place Winner - $150 ArtSmart Card

2nd Place Winner - $75 ArtSmart Card

3rd Place Winner - $25 ArtSmart Card

Staff Awarded Prize - $50 Utrecht Gift Bag

Utrecht Art Supplies
2768 Mayfield Rd Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106

Tel: 216-371-3500 / Fax: 216-371-3580 
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