Blaine Brownell Lecture - KSU CAED

I am a big fan of Brownell's Transmaterial books and Transstudio website. They are thoughtfully organized and offer all the information one would want when looking at new materials being offered to designers. It also allows one to take stock of how newer materials perform in order to re-purpose familiar (and potentially cheaper/more available) materials to fulfill a newly discovered purpose. They are more then eye-candy, however at times that adds the frustration of being a designer. It is akin to being in a toy store but not being able to touch anything.

Blaine Brownell Lecture

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

KIVA, Kent State University

7pm

More from Kent CAED events blog (ps, happy birthday Peter!):

Blaine Brownell is a Minnesota based architect, author, educator, and former Fulbright scholar. . He worked with Yung-Ho Chang, Mark Wamble, and NBBJ before establishing the design/research practice Transstudio, which focuses on disruptive material applications and emergent environmental building strategies. Brownell is considered one of the preeminent scholars of advanced materials for architecture and design, having authored theTransmaterial series for Princeton Architectural Press (2006-2010), in addition to an online material catalog that provides today’s architect and designer with a steady flow of inspiration that could be likened to a 21st Century version of the Grammar of Ornament. Brownell has been published in over forty design, business, and science journals, and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was selected for a “40 Under 40” award by Building Design & Construction magazine in 2006, and Transmaterial was nominated for an International Book Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007. Brownell was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Tokyo University of Science as a Fulbright recipient (2006-07), and the Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Michigan (2007-08). He is currently an assistant professor and director of the Master of Science program in Sustainable Design at the University of Minnesota (2008-present).

http://arch.design.umn.edu/directory/brownellb/

http://transstudio.com/

http://transmaterial.net/index.php/author/admin/

http://www.architectmagazine.com/blogs/post.aspx?BlogId=mindmatterblog&UserName=Blaine+Brownell

Blaine E. Brownell, AIA LEED AP

Assistant Professor, Co-Director, Master of Science Program in Architecture,University of Minnesota, School of Architecture

Creative Culture Grants - Finalists, Get Your Vote In!

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture [CAC] new Creative Culture Grants awards $150,000 American Dollars(!) to 2 creative local projects as selected by popular democratic opinion, meaning you have to vote.

Voting occurs from February 1st until February 20th. so do us all a favor and figure out your favorite and vote for it.

VOTE!

There are six proposals under consideration:

(taken from the CAC CCG webpage)

AHA! FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Lead Organization: LAND studio

Project Partners: Cleveland Public Library, Positively Cleveland, Downtown Cleveland Alliance and others.

This project is a free, multi-day festival of lights in downtown Cleveland’s public spaces to celebrate the recent development boom and “illuminate” changes to our urban landscape. AHA will bring together people from across the region in the spring or summer of 2014 to highlight these beloved public spaces through art installations using light, video projections and live cultural performances by a combination of local, national and international artists.

CLEVELAND IMAGE FESTIVAL

Lead Organization: Cleveland Museum of Art

Project Partners: The Transformer Station, LAND studio, the Great Lakes Science Center and others.

Celebrate historical, contemporary and emerging image-making during the Cleveland Image Festival in April 2014. Throughout the month, at programs and displays at museums galleries, and public spaces throughout Cuyahoga County, you’ll have a chance to discover and learn how digital image technologies are transforming culture through the widespread accessibility of the Internet and social media. Engage and participate through social media platforms and other avenues in this collaborative project by Cuyahoga County’s leading arts and culture venues.

DARING TO BE "DUMBO"

Lead Organization: Dancing Wheels

Project Partners: WKYC-TV Ch. 3, The Diversity Center of Cleveland, Girl Scouts of America and others.

Led by Dancing Wheels, this project will expand on the dance company’s world premiere performances of the multi-media ballet “Dumbo” (May 6-11, 2013) to create an entertaining and educational TV documentary based on the issues of bullying and social injustice.  Using the life stories of artists and community figures, the documentary will explain how they rose above the ridicule to become successful.  The program will be made into a school assembly program that will be performed at schools and in the community throughout the county.  The documentary will premiere in March 2014 and will air on WKYC-TV Ch. 3 in Northeast Ohio, and outreach programs will take place between April and August 2014. 

EAST MEETS WEST: CLEVELAND ROAD TRIP

Lead Organization: Zygote Press, Inc.

Project Partners: LAND studio, St. Clair Superior Community Development Corp., Gordon Square Arts District and others.

This project is a year-long, community-wide collaboration between businesses, artists, commuters, neighborhood residents and city government intended to bridge the east (via Superior Ave.) and west (via Detroit Ave.) side divide of the Detroit-Superior Bridge over the Cuyahoga River.  Between August 2013 and August 2014, EmW will employ a multi-media approach to bridge this gap using sign-painting and artist installations to unite the neighborhoods along this corridor while giving artists the opportunity to work collaboratively with businesses beginning in the Gordon Square Arts District on Detroit and ending at East 55th St. and Superior Ave.

MOBILE ENCOUNTERS

Lead Organization: Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Project Partners: Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Bike Cleveland and others.

This projectwill temporarily transform two streets in Cleveland into physically active cultural corridors.  Concentrating multiple urban acupuncture points of activity, the temporary interventions will stimulate long-term change, complete with safe bicycle amenities, pop-up shops, reactivated vacant lots, organized play activities and interactive public art installations, which respond to the distinct cultural flavor of each neighborhood.  To take place on Payne Avenue between E. 30th St. and E. 40th St. (May 18 - June 9, 2013), and on Lorain Avenue between W. 41st St. and W. 32nd St. (August 24 - September 14, 2013). 

OUT OF THE BOX AND INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Lead Organization: Cleveland Public Theatre

Project Partners: Cuyahoga County Public Library, Northeast Shores Development Corporation, St. Clair Superior Development Corporation and others.

Cleveland Public Theatre seeks to build on the momentum that inspired Gordon Square Arts District and energize neighborhoods in the process of revitalization.  By commissioning artists to make great performances inspired by neighborhoods, and transforming vacant spaces into exciting new places to make art, we break out of the confines of conventional arts institutions into the community.  A dozen performances throughout Cuyahoga County to take place in vacant commercial, industrial and public spaces are planned, beginning in February 2014, culminating with a festival of performances in July 2014 (performances will be free or pay as you can). 

More info about the Creative Culture Grants

2013 CPAC Fellowship - Thank you Cuyahoga County, I hope I can live up to your expectations

I found out a while back, November maybe, that I had been selected as a finalist for the 2013 Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Community Workforce Fellowship. I did my best to keep it under wraps until the final awards ceremony last week at MOCA when it became a bit more real (I had to walk on a small stage, accept a certificate and get out of there without falling over myself). The honor is amazing so I want to take some time and effort and put out there exactly what this may mean. For those you not interested in self exploration of the creative process or whatever, this isn't the post for you.

I have been very lucky in this "creative career" trajectory and while I am humbled by the recognition (which is very nice!) and the grant (to be used for doing "more stuff") I am well aware that this could not have happened without whatever force connected me to so many talented and driven people that pushed me to do more then just punch a clock and never be satisfied with "good enough". I'm not going to name drop, but those of you whom know of which I speak, well, know.

TOIstudio started as an experiment in sorting out why a math and science nerd such as myself loved the act of design. Not just of creation, but what was behind the creation. While many failed experiments (which could be construed as set backs) occurred, most of the time they created a pool of knowledge of what didn't work which at times can be more useful then what does work. Nowadays TOIstudio is just a name to hide behind so that I don't have to brand anything with myself. It is an acute acknowledgement that I work horribly in a vacuum, that I would rather collaborate and have meaningful discussions about making things and how people move about within them, then not. I enjoy being challenged and frustrated, enraged at times, so that I feel the blood in my ears as I work to prove out a vision. It is my way to ride the coattails of very talented people and suck any and all knowledge from them that I can. The very marrow of existence (I haven't seen that movie in a while).

So.

What does the fellowship mean, exactly? That I cannot quite answer. Yet. To me it is a stepping stone, a way to set up a strong foundation to continue research in design without many of the normal constraints. It gives me a voice. It gives me some very appreciated financial backing. It gives me some confidence that what I am doing could be interesting to someone else (which I admit is pretty exhilarating).

For those of you paying attention, way back in 2007 by first attempt at a shop flooded in some freak rainstorm. I was located in Midtown and the space  have a very poorly designed sanitary/storm clean out (eg lacking a closure device or cap) and my space flooded  destroying quite a bit of equipment, belongings and momentum. The idea was to build a shop/gallery space to give architects a creative outlet through more personal art then buildings. That idea still holds somewhat.

Fast forward to 2012 and the nice fellow who was letting me squat in his shop while we put together BookBox decides he has had enough of civilization and moves out West to Montana to teach architecture. To be fair it is beautiful out there and the school appears to have a decent program that he finds happiness at. Apparently. So another shop closes down.

Now the beginnings of 2013 encroach. I am finishing up my first pass at the Architecture Registration Exams and am currently looking at a new space for a shop. Someplace to live, work and create a gallery space in. My big plans have changed little so far, the dreams just seem more, reasonable. CPAC has given me more momentum however, more focus. Maybe a stronger voice. Either way it is humbling and scary. All I can think about is letting down the strangers who had enough interest in my work to tell me to keep going, keep digging and making and testing. And playing.

I'm scared to death of screwing up. Which is fine though, it means I'm on the right track.

Thanks Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, Cleveland, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.

Thanks to those that let me hang out with them and their process, frustration and creation.

Thanks to those who put up with me and what I do.

I look forward to making more stuff. Thanks.

2013 Annual Lenten Leadership Series talks (Jeff Speck as series opener) posted

5th annual Hope for the City discussion/lecture series.

2013 Annual Lenten Leadership Series

2013 marks Hope for the City’s 5^th Anniversary!
Thanks to a special grant from the Goodrich Fund of the Old Stone Church
we are able to present Jeff Speck as our series opener.

REGISTER NOW!

All speakers and lunches are by donation.
We appreciate all your support so that we can continue this important annual series. Thank you!

Speaker Schedule

February 20	Jeff SpeckDesigner, architect, city planner, former Director of Design, National Council of Arts and author, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. 11:30am – 1:30pm: Public Forum, including lunch and presentation 2:00pm – 4:00pm: Closed session with city planners, developers, and civic leaders.
February 27	Ann Zoller, Executive Director of Land Studios Gregory Peckham, Managing Director of Land Studios Noon – 1:00pm
March 6	Jennifer Coleman Chairperson of Cleveland Landmarks Commission, architect and creator of CityProwl digital walking tours of Cleveland Noon-1:00pm
March 13	No meeting – Mayor’s State of the City address
March 20	Anthony Coyne Attorney, Planner and Chair of the Group Plan Commission Noon-1:00pm

RoadTrip! - Daniels School of Architecture Spring 2013 Events

Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Spring 2013 Event Series

Bruce Kuwabara

01/22/2013

A founding partner of the renowned firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, Bruce Kuwabara was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 and has left an indelible mark on Toronto and Canada, raising the standards and the profile of Canadian architecture throughout the world. His lecture will provide an overview of his completed and current work to demonstrate the role of architecture in thinking about the city, its formation, and its future.

Date: Tuesday, January 22
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 PM

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Urban Ziegler: Designing for District Energy Systems

01/24/2013

Urban T. Ziegler, M.Sc., P.Eng., Chief Engineer, RETScreen International, Natural Resources Canada, is an expert in district energy systems design and implementation. A graduate of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, Urban Ziegler has specialized training in the area of district energy systems combined with extensive hands-on experience.

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Manuelle Gautrand

01/29/2013

Manuelle Gautrand was born on July 14, 1961 in Marseille, France. She obtained her graduate diploma in Architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier in 1985. Manuelle worked for 6 years in different architecture studios in Paris, and founded her office, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture in 1991.

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Internal 

Fora:

Metropolis and Mobile Life

01/31/2013

This is a public event. Tickets are required and are available throughEventbrite. Please click here to RSVP for a free ticket.

Due to the popularity of our Fora series, we ask that all ticket holders arrive by 6:20 PM to claim their seats. There will be a rush line for non-ticket holders. After 6:20, unclaimed seats will be made available to those in the rush line.

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External

Teetzel Lecture featuring Prof. Barry Bergdoll

02/05/2013

Out of Site / In Plain View: on the Origins and Modernity of the Architecture Exhibition

Prof. Barry Bergdoll
The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design
The Museum of Modern Art
New York City

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Elke Krasny

02/07/2013

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Marion Weiss

02/12/2013

Marion Weiss received her Master of Architecture at Yale University, where she won the American Institute of Architects Scholastic Award and the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. She has taught design studios at Yale University, Cornell University, and since 1991 has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn School of Design where she is currently the Graham Professor of Architecture.

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Andres Lepik

02/14/2013

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Martin Rein-Cano

02/26/2013

Martin Rein-Cano was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied art history at Frankfurt University and landscape architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco, and has worked with the office of Gabi Kiefer in Berlin. Martin Rein-Cano has taught as a guest professor in Europe and North America.

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Mark Lawton: The Myths and Realities of Thermal Bridging

02/28/2013

Mark Lawton, B.A.Sc., P.Eng., is Vice President and Senior Building Science Specialist at Morrison Hershfield, Vancouver B.C. He was recently awarded a Fellowship with Engineers Canada in recognition of his contributions to advancing the practice of the engineering profession in Canada. Mark is one of Canada’s recognized leaders in the Building Science field and his areas of particular expertise include building envelope durability, energy conservation methods, HVAC systems, indoor air quality and mould mitigation in buildings.

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Alan Berger

03/05/2013

Alan Berger is Tenured Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in the department of urban studies and planning. He founded and directs P-REX, The Project for Reclamation Excellence (www.theprex.net), a multi-disciplinary research effort at MIT focusing on the design and reuse of waste landscapes worldwide.

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John Danahy

03/07/2013

John Danahy is a professional Landscape Architect, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, and an OALA Academic Councilor. Professor Danahy has developed an internationally recognized expertise in digital media for design, planning and visualization. He teaches in landscape architecture, urban design, planning, architecture, and computer science. His mentors and influences include Jan Gehl (Copenhagen), Jim Clark (SGI), Alain Fournier (CSRI) and Ron Baecker (KMDI).

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Rahul Mehrotra

03/19/2013

Rahul Mehrotra is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design. He is a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator. His firm, RMA Architects, was founded in 1990 in Mumbai and has designed and executed projects for clients that include government and non-governmental agencies, corporate as well as private individuals and institutions. RMA Architects has also initiated several unsolicited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai.

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Marshall Brown

03/21/2013

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Erkin Ozay

03/28/2013

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RoadTrip! - Miami University Spring 2013 Lecture Series

Miami University School of Creative Arts
Spring 2013 Lecture Series

Dr. Vikramaditya Prakash
"Uncertain Urbanism"
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Room 1, Alumni Hall
4-5pm

Dr. Chris Luebkeman
"Drivers of Change"
Monday, February 11, 2013
Center Performing Arts Souers Recital Hall
4-5pm

Mayor of Knoxville
Monday, March 18, 2013
Room 1, Alumni Hall
4-5pm

Lawrence C. Novak
"The Philosophy of Engineering for the Burj Khalifa, the World's Tallest Building"
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Room 1, Alumni Hall
4-5pm

Northeast Collaborative Architects
John Grosvenor AIA
Michael Abbot AIA
Dan Hechenroether AIA
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Shideler Hall 115
4-5pm

Roadtrip! - UB School of Arch & Planning Spring 2013 Lecture Series

University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
Spring 2013 Lecture Series

Lectures

The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce its Fall 2012 series of events and exhibitions.

This year's events and exhibitions are planned as public programs, aimed at engaging many responses to and initiatives with our world today. Please join us for a year of diverse forms of work with differently formatted events: issues of regional, urban and architectural concern, by way of multiple participants in lecture, debate, discussion, symposium and exhibition. 

Free and open to the public.
All lectures begin at 5:30 pm in Crosby 301 unless otherwise noted.

LECTURE SERIES POSTER

January 23, 2013

The Banham Symposium: On Error

Organized by Thomas Kelley, Banham Fellow

2 - 7 pm

Martin House Greatbatch Pavilion, 125 Jewett Parkway

Symposium Participants include: Kelly Bair, Sarah Blankenbaker, Stephanie Davidson, Eva Franch-Gilabert, Jordan Geiger, Omar Khan, Jimenez Lai, Sean Lally, Sergio López-Piñeiro, James Lowder, Paul Preissner, Andrew Zago

Event Description

January 30, 2013

Harold Cohen and Al Gowan

Lecture/Book Signing

"Shared Vision: The Second American Bauhaus"
105 Harriman Hall

Event Description

February 6, 2013

Iñaki Alday and Vikramāditya Prakāsh

Organized by Sergio López-Piñeiro

"Leaving"

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February 20, 2013

Perry Kulper and Nat Chard

"Augmentations"

Co-sponsored by Visual Studies and Architecture

February 27, 2013

Andrew Herscher and Dennis Maher

"Precarity and Possibility: Re-Imagining Detroit and Buffalo"

Sponsored by the Partnership for the Public Good

March 6, 2013

John Forester and Faranak Miraftab

The GPSA Symposium

"Staying: Space & Contestation in Urban Planning"

March 18, 2013

Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo

"Genealogical Architectural Design from Behaviorology"

March 20, 2013

Charles Waldheim

"Landscape as Urbanism"

 

Exhibitions

• All Exhibitions in Hayes Annex A unless otherwise noted
  February
  Perry Kulper: Secret Decoder Ring
  March
  Thesis Posters
  Crosby Hall, 3rd Floor
  April
  Thomas Kelley: Wrong Chairs
  May-August
  End of Year Show
  Offsite Exhibitions:
  January 24 - May 30Time Mutations, Curated by Liz Flyntz and Max Neupert
  UB Art Gallery, North Campus
  January 26 - May 12
  Dennis Maher: House of Collective Repair
  2012 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  March 16 - April 7
  Lifecycles: Proposals for an Orangery and Demonstration Garden by UB Architecture Students
  Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

Lectures and exhibitions supported by UB’s School of Architecture and Planning Dean's Office, Clarkson Chair Endowment Fund, Martell Distinguished Visiting Critic Fund, Gender Institute, Confucius Institute, The Ibrahim and Viviane Jammal Fund for Global Planning Studies, American Institute of Architecture Students, Graduate Student Association/Architecture, Graduate Planning Student Association, American Institute of Architects WNYAIA, Architectural Resources.

Kent State Architecture Proposals Unveiled

I admit, I didn't make it down to Kent to watch the proposals in person. I was thinking I could live stream it via the KentUtubevideo channel I posted earlier. I was able to see some images, mostly disjointed from the audio, with a whole bunch of hiccups, freezing and skips. About 5 sentences into Westlake Reed Leskosky's proposal I couldn't take the video player's horrible-ness and just gave up.

KentPatch did post some images that they received from the school regarding the proposals and I am trying to get in contact with folks about sharing the video link somewheres on the internets.

I don't have many comments (at this time) but I will say this, when illustrating a crit space in use, put the model on a table so that someone can actually see the damn thing from eyelevel, every time I see a model on the floor I question the entire design premise. Sure, it looks great for seagulls but what about the folks who have to interact with it. When I see something like that in an architect's proposal I get a little flustered. It just means that the designer who put these slides together missed a very important element in their design studio and I start to question everything. Over-thinking of schematic proposals is not a good idea.

That's a Pro-tip, write it down.

Kent Patch Article: Kent State Architecture Proposals Unveiled

UPDATE!

Videos have been posted online (they are near the bottom with yesterday's date).

relinked below for your clicking/scrolling pleasure:

Team 1 - Bowen + Weiss/Manfredi
Team 2 - Bialosky + ARO
Team 3 - Westlake Reed Leskosky
Team 4 - The Collaborative + Muller Hull

Roadtrip! - Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Spring 2013 Lecture Series

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture
2013 Spring Lecture Series

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture

Spring 2013 Lecture Series

cosponsored by the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art

MICHAEL MURPHY

MONDAY 28 JANUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
MASS Design Group
'Buildings that Heal'
William Finglass Lecture

ISAAC CAMPBELL

MONDAY 04 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Office 52
'Practice Matters'
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
with reception sponsored by Epic Metals
Additional support provided by CMU Campus Design & Facilities Management

SANFORD KWINTER

SATURDAY 09 FEBRUARY
2:00PM, KRESGE THEATER
Harvard GSD
Alan H Rider Distinguished LectureThis lecture presented as part of [En]Coding Architecture

MICHEL ROJKIND

MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
rojkind arquitectos
'Overstimulation'
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture

LISS C. WERNER

MONDAY 18 MARCH
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
George N Pauly Jr Fellow
're-entry - the architecture of architecture and their eigenform'
Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture

WINY MAAS*

MONDAY 08 APRIL
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
MVRDV
'What's Next?'
Alan H Rider Distingished Lecture
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services

PETER BUSBY

MONDAY 22 APRIL6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATERPerkins + Will'Toward Regenerative Design'Henry Hornbostel Lecture Cosponsored by the Consulate General of Canada and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service

*Winy Maas and MVRDV are featured in the exhibition Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture on view at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in the Purnell Center for the Arts through Feb. 24, 2013. www.bit.ly/ImperfectHealth