Disruption as Management Technique

The worst thing that can occur when "in the zone" at work is an interruption that results in a work tangent, especially when it is part of a managerial technique to "stay on top of things". As a designer good input is always welcome but sometimes when in production mode all one wants is some nice solitude to get the job done so as to move onto the next one.

KSU CAED Lecture - Tuesday March 1st

KSU Kiva

7pm

Just a reminder that tomorrow evening Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design (winner of least functioning web page) will be hosting a lecture by Richard Buday of Archimage at 7pm in the Kive at Kent State's main campus.

Why all the reminders you ask? Because I don't want to hear the infamous "I didn't know" reply when I ask why I didn't see you there. Now you know. You should know about all of them. You should revisit the original post where the original list and dates were made.

Important questions.

Is it Arch-Image or Archi-Mage (like wizard)?

Reimagining Cleveland Vacant Land ReUse Forum and Photo-Documentation Exhibition Opening

One thing Cleveland needs to learn to address is how to utilize the large swaths of land that are now vacant within the urban core, in order to strengthen the existing fabric. The vacant properties can be a drain on existing infrastructure and city services and if left appearing blighted can affect the perceived economic value of a community or neighborhood. The Reimagining Cleveland intiative utilizes funding grants to to create amenities or laboratories on these vacant landbanked properties for community benefit.

-borrowed (directly copied) from the CSU email newsletter

Reimagining Cleveland Vacant Land ReUse Forum and

Photo-Documentation Exhibition Opening

Thursday, February 17, 2011

4:00-7:30 p.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Glickman-Miller Hall, Roberta Steinbacher Atrium

Cleveland State University

1717 Euclid Avenue

Image by Walter Wright

www.reimaginingcleveland.org

You may have heard about the Reimagining Cleveland initiative to reuse vacant lots for community benefit but this Forum will answer the question "What's going on here?" Join us for a program of education and inspiration. Learn from project leaders who have actually created gardens, orchards, vineyards and farms from vacant land. Gather information for your own project from a wealth of resources. And, immediately following the Forum, join us in celebrating the opening of an exhibit in the Forum gallery showcasing the work of photographers and storytellers and illuminating the narratives of the reimagining projects.

Agenda

4:00-4:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

4:15-6:00 p.m. Program Including:

City perspective, Cleveland Department of Community Development; Voices from the Gardens, Orchards, Vineyards and Farms (Mansfield Frasier, Justin Husher, Darren & Johanna Hamm, Akanni Thomas, Marlane Weslian); Tracking, Tracing and Presenting Observations on the process of documentation in making productive urban space and restoring Cleveland's ecosystem (Mark Tebeau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History Department, Cleveland State University and Helen Liggett, Ph.D., Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University); A look to the future of Reimagining Cleveland (Terry Schwartz, AICP, Director, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative)

6:00-6:30 p.m. Question & Answer

6:30-7:30 p.m. Gallery Tour, Reception, Resource Tables, Networking

Resources available include: garden tips and inspiration, technical assistance, funding and human resource assistance, vacant land assessment, and many others.

Presented by the Levin College Forum, NPI, and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.

All forum events are free and open to the public, but please register by calling 216.523.7330 or register here.

Roadtrip (7)! - Kent State University Spring 2011 Lecture Series

Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design has just forwarded on their lecture series poster. The theme of this Spring's series is "practicing" and the lectures are shared between the Kiva and the University Auditorium.

March 1

Richard Buday

Archimage

7pm

Kiva

March 28

Elena Manferdini

Atelier Manferdini

7pm

University Auditorium

April 7

Michael Meredith

MOS

7pm

University Auditorium

April 12

Michael Speaks

Dean: U. Kentucky College of Design

7pm

University Auditorium

April 20

Richard Jackson

UCLA School of Public Health

7pm

University Auditorium

All lectures will be held at the main Kent campus in Kent, Ohio. You can use the map link to help sort out where the events occur.

Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3000

District of Design Forum Series - CSU

Friday, February 11, 2011

8:00-9:30 a.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Glickman-Miller Hall, Roberta Steinbacher Atrium

Cleveland State University

1717 Euclid Avenue

A New Series of Forums Featuring Leading Design Experts

The District of Design is proud to announce it will be hosting a series of community forums on product design and innovation through Cleveland State University's Levin College Forum. The forum series will include some of the region's top experts on product design, highlighting the growing importance of design and innovation to the local and national economy. By strengthening links between the world-class Northeast Ohio design community and local consumer product companies, the series is intended to help further the District of Design's mission to establish Cleveland as the Milan of the Midwest.

Forum speakers feature some of the region's top design minds, including the Cleveland Institute of Art's Dan Cuffaro, Nottingham Sperk's John Nottingham and Doug Hall of Columbus' Eureka! Ranch. We expect the series will attract the local design community, economic development or business sectors.

The series will consist of four moderated discussions that will take place from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. between January and June. The first in the series will be held at 8:00 a.m. Friday February 11, 2011 at the Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs, 1717 Euclid Avenue and will feature The Cleveland Institute of Art's Dan Cuffaro and Wally Berry of American DaVinci. The forum will be moderated by Rich Osborn of Great Lakes Publishing. The event is free and open to the public.

PechaKucha Night Cleveland Vol. 11

PechaKucha Night Cleveland Vol. 11

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Cambridge Room

House of Blues

308 Euclid Ave.

Cleveland, OH 44114

8.20pm

Join us for PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 11 at the House of Blues in the Cambridge Room. On Friday, February 4th, 2011, at 8:20pm, with your attendance, we will turn the House of Blues into the House of Pechakucha for one night.

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.

While presentations do not start until 8:20pm, we encourage you to show up at least an hour early to get a good seat as the Cambridge Room gets packed pretty quickly.

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

Sculpture Center Encore Artist's Presentation - Jennifer Omaitz and Joshua Parker

Encore Presentation - Jennifer Omaitz and Joshua Parker

Friday, Febuary 4th

The Sculpture Center

1834 East 123rd Street, Cleveland, Oh 44106

6-8pm

The best artist's opening I have seen this year is having an encore artist's presentation. If you missed the previous show at the Sculpture Center, this Friday, February 4th Jennifer Omaitz and Joshua Parker will be speaking about their work.

Both projects illustrate a very concise and thorough understanding of space and form, playing with the expectations of experience and confinement while simultaneously questioning a construct based upon the premise of privacy, voyeurism and viewpoint.

If you missed the first show I highly suggest you make the second one.

ARTISTS JOSHUA PARKER AND JENNIFFER OMAITZ WILL BE AT THE SCULPTURE CENTER AGAIN THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 FROM 6:00 TO 8 PM IF YOU MISSED THE OPENING OR WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEIR WORK AGAIN, DO DROP BY TO MEET THEM AND HEAR THEM SPEAKING ABOUT THEIR NEW INSTALLATIONS. JOSHUA PARKER: HUMANS ARE THE ONLY SPECIES ON THE PLANET THAT CREATE TRASH, ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER AND THE WORST PART ABOUT DYING IS THAT YOU CAN ONLY DO IT ONCE - BUT DON'T WORRY, THE WATER'S STILL FINE HERE Main Gallery JENNIFFER OMAITZ: SHADOW STRUCTURES Euclid Avenue Gallery Joshua Parker and Jenniffer Omaitz initiate the 2011 W2S series as outstanding representatives of the art schools of Northeast Ohio. Parker is a BFA graduate and former teaching assistant from Kent State University. Omaitz is a BFA graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, MFA graduate of Kent State University, and currently adjunct professor at the University of Akron and Youngstown State University. Parker and Omaitz make art that makes you think about habitation, building stuffs, architecture, engineering, and damage to the contemporary urban landscape and human psyche. Parker's gets you completely inside and thinking hard about getting out; Omaitz's keeps you outside and considering a try to get in. To galvanize your senses, put your animal instincts on high alert, and set your brain to spinning, Parker has built, with reclaimed material and cardboard, a facsimile of a structure filling the entire Main Gallery. He writes, "My goal, and the only real rule that I strictly follow, has always been to create things that I would want to encounter...I want to experience the unknown." Omaitz has created installations, varying fromroom to ruler size, to provide "ideas of interior and exterior, construction and destruction, physical and psychological landscapes." Meticulously made of a multiplicity of found manufactured materials, objects, and a preponderance of architectural models, the pieces are suspended within the galleries' spaces, hurtling through their walls, and ever expanding through stuttering shadows. Both artists' works evoke the disasters, uncertainties, perplexities, and ever present paranoia that have most recently overtaken our world, locally to globally. Images Upper: Joshua Parker, installation detail, Humans are the only species on the planet that create trash, one good turn deserves another and the worst part about dying is that you can only do it once - but don't worry, the water's still fine here, 2011. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Lower: Jenniffer Omaitz, installation detail, Shadow Structures, 2011. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. artists' bios Joshua Parker, of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, was born into a family of artists and musicians and has considered himself a serious artist since the age of eight. Throughout high school he was creating art and writing music, and he self produced bitter frog almanac, a zine, until his 2001 college enrollment. He received his BFA from Kent State University. His work has been exhibited extensively in this area and was twice included in The Sculpture Center's annual juried exhibitions. He plans to attend graduate school in the fall of 2011. Jennifer Omaitz is a nationally exhibited painter and installation artist. Omaitz received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2002) and her MFA in Painting from Kent State University (2009). She has been exhibiting her work in Cleveland and Denver since 2002. Her most recent exhibitions include a site-specific installation commissioned for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas in Denver, Colorado. Trained as a painter, Omaitz blends practices of painting, drawing, and sculpture in her installations. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Akron and Youngstown State University and also maintains a rich studio practice. Born and raised on Cleveland's East Side, Omaitz currently lives and works in Kent, Ohio.

Roadtrip (6)! - University of Waterloo Winter 2011 Lecture Series

You completely thought I was going to skip on University of Waterloo School of Architecture during my "Somewhat Near to Cleveland Architecture School Lecture Tour" didn't ya? Well, that isn't possible. Yet another school slated for a quick sneak peek (especially since they recently moved to their new digs). "Why do you like to visit other schools?" you ask? Because I like to learn. There, I said it. And I like myself still too (not as much as I like architecture lecture series posters for my blog posts).

WINTER 2011 ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES

All lectures will take place in the Main Lecture Hall at the School of Architecture in Cambridge at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

R&SIE (n) FRANCOIS ROCHE LECTURE
Friday February 4 at 6:00 pm

“Ecosophical Apparatuses & Skyzoid Machines”

This is the Keynote Lecture given in conjunction with the Fourth Natures Conference that is being held on Friday, February 4 and Saturday February 5 at the School of Architecture.

additonal information
www.new-territories.com

DAVID GISSEN LECTURE
Thursday February 10 at 6:00 pm

"Groundwork"

David Gissen is Associate Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies and the Coordinator of the history/theory curriculum for architecture at the California College of the Arts. He is the author of Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environment, and editor of the issue of AD Magazine “Territory” and the book Big and Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003). His recent work focuses on developing a novel concept of nature in architectural thought and the parameters for an experimental form of practice in architectural history. He is currently preparing a manuscript — Maintenance Architecture — on architectural environments that emerged during New York City’s so-called “crisis” years.
www.htcexperiments.org

INFRANET LAB / LATERAL OFFICE LECTURE
White / Sheppard / Przybylski
Tuesday February 15 at 6:00 pm

“Next North”

Information to follow
www.infranetlab.org

5468796 ARCHITECTS LECTURE
Hurme / Radulovic / Neufeld
Thursday March 17 at 6:00 pm

“TBA”

Information to follow
www.5468796.ca

KARA TAYLOR WOODS ENGINEERS LECTURE
Kanif Kara
Tuesday March 22 @ 6:00 pm

“TBA”

Information to follow
www.akt-uk.com

University of Waterloo
School of Architecture Cambridge
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario N1S 2H4
Phone: 519 888 4567 (x27602)
Fax: 519 622 3525
Email:info@architecture.uwaterloo.ca
Hours: Mon to Fri 8:30 am to 4.30 pm

2011 Ohio Brownfield Conference Presentations

A myriad of topics were apparently covered at the recent 2011 Brownfield Conference. They have recently been posted online for your enjoyment.

There looks to be some good stuff in there, case studies, media relation discussions, funding info, etc.

Thank you Ohio Division of Emergency and Remedial Response (which keeps me really well updated on Brownfield discussions, funding and other going-ons).

Roadtrip (5) - Ryerson University Spring 2011 Lectures

I am totally on a Canada bend this week. I need to start planning my next trek over the border and hoping it may align with taking in a lecture at Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Science. Get those passports ready! I didn't get to visit Ryerson last time I was in Toronto, I hope to rectify that very soon.

[LECTURE] Craig Dykers February 1, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm [LECTURE] Greg Curran February 17, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm [LECTURE] Bjarne Mastenbroek March 3, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm [LECTURE] Sara de Giles March 10, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm [LECTURE] Billie Tsien March 24, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Department of Architectural Science

Ryerson University
325 Church Street, Toronto

Roadtrip (4.5)! - Univ. of Toronto Winter 2011 Midday Talks

I completely love that Daniels College of Architecture, Landscape and Design also has midday lectures. I think you can bring a bagged lunch. Much more fun then watching Will & Grace reruns or sitting alone in a cafe ignoring your co-workers.

Winter 2011 Midday Talks

02/02/2011 - 03/31/2011

Academic Year:

2010-11

Semester:

Winter

Jorge Ayala / Laura Miller / Rainer Hehl + Jörg Stollmann / Amy Kulper / Kenny Cupers / Anna Dyson

Organized by Aziza Chaouni & Liat Margolis

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Landscaping strategies for a new reading of the city: [Ay]A Studio Perspectives

02/02/2011

Jorge Ayala

[Ay]A Studio, Paris

1:00 PM - Room 106

Mexico City-born Jorge Ayala is the founder and principal of [Ay]A Studio, an international studio committed to cutting edge research and experimentation. [Ay]A engages the field of design, architecture and landscape urbanism in both theoretical and professional praxis.

TBA

02/17/2011

Laura Miller

Associate Professor of Architecture, Daniels Faculty

1:00 PM - Room 106

Laura Miller is a partner in borfax /BLU, a research-based design office that seeks to renegotiate the disciplinary boundaries between architecture, landscape, and urban design in its work. Her proposals for the redevelopment of large urban areas, such as Hell’s Kitchen (Manhattan) and Mission Bay (San Francisco) have been exhibited and published, most recently in Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Miller’s design work has received several AIA awards and citations and a Progressive Architecture Design Award citation.

As Found: Research for Design Impact in Informal Urban Territories

03/10/2011

Rainer Hehl + Jörg Stollmann

MAS Urban Design, ETH Zurich

1:00 PM - Room 106

Rainer Hehl is an architect and urban planner currently directing the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design program at the ETH Zurich.

TBA

03/17/2011

Anna Dyson

Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, New York

1:00 PM - Room 106

Anna Dyson teaches design, technology, and theory at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer. She is the director of The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) which hosts the Graduate Program in Architectural Sciences, concentration is Built Ecologies. She has worked as a design architect and product designer in several offices in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

Taxonomy as Technique

03/24/2011

Amy Kulper

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor

1:00 PM - Room 106

Amy Kulper is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

In Search of the User

03/31/2011

Kenny Cupers

School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo

1:00 PM - Room 106

Kenny Cupers is the Reyner Banham Fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, for 2010-2011.

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto

230 College Street | Toronto ON M5T 1R2 | CANADA

Roadtrip (4)! - Univ. of Toronto Bulthaup Spring 2011 Lecture Series

Not as if anyone needs a specifically fantastic reason to visit Toronto, but if you happen to be there enjoying the fine city, perchance you could take part in a lecture about design.

Bulthaup Spring 2011 Lecture Series

02/03/2011 - 03/22/2011

Academic Year:

2010-11

Semester:

Winter

Cary Wolfe / Stanley Saitowitz / Todd Saunders / Elizabeth Meyer / Renée Daoust / Stephen Teeple

Lecture Series Poster

www.bulthaup.com

Biopolitics, Biopower, and the (Nonhuman) Animal Body

02/03/2011

Cary Wolfe

Professor and Chair, Department of English, Rice University

6:30 PM - Room 103

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Rice University. He has published widely on animal studies, systems theory, posthumanism, and literature, art, and culture in venues such as Boundary 2, Diacritics, New Literary History, Cultural Critique, New German Critique, and Postmodern Culture.

Frameworks

02/16/2011

Stanley Saitowitz

Natoma Architects Inc., San Francisco

6:30 PM - Room 103

2011 George Baird Lecture

Stanley Saitowitz is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and Principal of Stanley Saitowitz/ Natoma Architects Inc. in San Francisco.

Recent Works

03/01/2011

Todd Saunders

Saunders Architecture, Norway

6:30 PM - Room 103

Saunders Architecture is a firm owned by Canadian Todd Saunders who has lived and worked in Bergen, Norway since 1997.

Sustaining Beauties 2.0, Aesthetics as an Ecosystem Service

03/08/2011

Elizabeth Meyer

University of Virginia School of Architecture

6:30 PM - Room 103

2010-11 Michael Hough / Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Visiting Critic

Elizabeth K. Meyer is one of the leading landscape architectural theorists in the United States.

Daoust Lestage - From the City to the Object

03/15/2011

Renée Daoust

Daoust Lestage Inc., Montreal

6:30 PM - Room 103

Renée Daoust, principal of the firm Daoust Lestage Inc., takes on the roles of both project and design architect.

Recent Works

03/22/2011

Stephen Teeple

Teeple Architects Inc., Toronto

6:30 PM - Room 103

Stephen Teeple is founder and principal of the firm Teeple Architects in Toronto and member of the Ontario Association of Architects.

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto

230 College Street | Toronto ON M5T 1R2 | CANADA

Metroparks Planning Meetings need bicyclists' input

from Century Cycles blog

"The Cleveland Area Mountain Bike Association has put the Northeast Ohio bicycling and outdoors communities on high alert with this message on their website:

The Cleveland Metropaparks has embarked on a master planning effort and they are seeking public input to determine their priorities and directions for the next decade. While the park always must strike a balance with conservation and public use, they are currently willing to re-examine this balance.

This is OUR CHANCE as the active community to tell the parks what we think! Wish we had MORE outdoor recreation in the Metroparks? More cycling/running races and events? Maybe camping, backpacking, rock climbing, xcountry skiing, MOUNTAIN BIKING?? It’s time to ask!

Please make time to attend one of these meetings and express your thoughts.

Tuesday, January 25- 6:30 to 8:30pm- Rocky River Nature Center

Wednesday, January 26- 6:30 to 8:30pm- Canalway Center

Thursday, January 27- 6:30 to 8:30pm- North Chagrin Nature Center

For more information, call 216-655-3200 or visit Cleveland Metroparks.com

Don't know what to say once you get there? CAMBA has helpfully provided these talking points."

Roadtrip (3)! - Carnegie Mellon Spring 2011 Lecture Series

Oh Carnegie Mellon, you may be in Pittsburgh, but we still love you.

(image coming once the .pdf link is fixed)

Who schedules lectures for a Monday?

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture

2011 Spring Lecture Series

cosponsored by the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art

Lectures Mondays 6:00pm

at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater

4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh

(please note: all lecture will be at CMoA theater, except final Craig Dykers lecture, which will take place at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall)

POSTPONED* GORDON GILL

Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill, Chicago

'Toward the Zero Energy City'

Lecture cosponsored by Epic Metals

Mon 07 Feb: DORA EPSTEIN-JONES

SCI-Arc, Jones, Partners: Architecture

'Same Old, Same Old'

Mon 14 Feb: DALE CLIFFORD

Carnegie Mellon University

'On Order and Madness'

Mon 21 Feb: FARSHID MOUSSAVI

Foreign Office Architects, London

'Form and Ornament'

William Finglass Lecture

Mon 21 Mar: GASTON NOGUES

Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angelos

"Spaces Between the Hammer and the Mouse"

Mon 04 Apr: CHRIS SHANLEY

Marmol-Radziner, Los Angeles

'It Stinks of Hollywood...'

Mon 18 Apr: CRAIG DYKERS

Snøhetta, Oslo, New York

'Snøhetta: Works'

Henry Hornbostel Lecture

*Due to circumstances beyond our control, the lecture by Gordon Gill has been postponed from its original date of 24 January. We hope to reschedule Mr Gill's lecture for later in the spring; please check back soon for new date.

Carnegie Mellon Lecture Page