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Chicago, June 10-12, 2004.
The AIA 2004 National Convention and Design Expo is the premier event for building and design industry professionals. With more than 150 continuing education programs, 45 tours, 50 special events and added attractions, and 700 leading-edge companies exhibiting their products and services, you'll find plenty of exciting educational and entertaining activities. Whether you're an architect, designer, landscape architect, engineer, developer, builder, interior designer, educator or manufacturer, this convention brings together all members of the design and construction industry!
The AIA 2004 National Convention and Design Expo is the premier event for building and design industry professionals. Don't miss the opportunity to reach the largest architectural market in the world. With over 20,000 attendees, AIA Expo2004 will bring you face to face with professionals from every major field in the design and construction industry.
AIA Information Central:
800-242-3837, infocentral@aia.or g
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July 17, 2004, AIGA/San Diego's Center for Design, San Diego, CA
This summer, AIGA/San Diego will redefine K-9 architecture with their upcoming "Bowhaus" project. Hand-picked artists, designers, sculptors, architects and woodcraftsmen will design and build one-of-a-kind pet dwellings in the tradition of AIGA/San Diego's previous nationally recognized public-art triumphs such as Urban Art Trail, BenchMark and Tweet Street. The creations will be displayed as public art installations at AIGA/San Diego's Center for Design and other highly visible downtown locations. Following their display, each pet home will be sold in a public auction with proceeds benefitting animal advocacy organizations and future AIGA/San Diego community-outreach projects.
AIGA/San Diego operates the Center for Design, the only gallery space in the U.S. run by a local AIGA chapter. Center for Design is located across the street from PETCO Park at 344 Seventh Ave., San Diego, CA 92101 in downtown's historic Gaslamp Quarter.
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Man has always had a strong nesting instinct and, until relatively recently, the majority of people had to create their own homes. Professional builders only constructed churches, big public buildings, castles and mansions.
We have increasingly bought ready-made, off-the-peg houses, but the growth of the owner-builder movement has led to the rediscovery of the value of the use of natural resources, economic approaches, sustainability and self-help. What greater satisfaction can there be than to create your own nest?
Climatic Considerations
Climate can determine the method most suitable for you. For example, you are unlikely to want to live in a bamboo house in a temperate climate, since big bamboo grows in the tropics and it also has next to no insulation. The most versatile material is strawbale, which can keep you warm in the cool and cool in the hot: its insulation qualities serve both equally well. As for wet weather, as long as your roof has large overhanging eaves and the walls are well-rendered and maintained, all materials will survive indefinitely.
Materials and Methods
A fifth of the world's homes are built from earth, mostly of pise (rammed earth) or adobe (mudbricks).
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Many of us become aware of architecture only when superstars like Frank Gehry or Richard Meier design award-winning buildings like Disney Hall or Getty Center. But alongside these men are scores of men and women who are working away with a public fervor to bring good design into all aspects of our lives. They believe that their profession is essential to the wellbeing of society and that they are indispensable in developing livable cities and a healthy environment.
This group wants all of us laypeople to think about architecture and design and to learn the difference between good design and no design.
Architectural schools have always been laboratories for new ideas, but now the A+D Museum is presenting the world of design and architecture to the public in an accessible way.
Longtime Los Angeles architect Bernard Zimmerman always wanted a museum to bring attention to architecture and design, says Palisadian Stephen Kanner, who trained with Zimmerman and is currently the president of the A+D board of directors,.
The idea evolved from the success of a number of exhibitions over the last decade specifically dedicated to design. For instance, in 1998 Zimmerman conceived New Blood 102, which brought together 102 of the newest talents in the fields of architecture, int
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March 20 through June 20, 2004. This exhibition was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curators: Matilda McQuaid with Bevin Cline
Coordinating Curator: Chrysanthe B. Broikos
Exhibition Design: MaryJane Valade with Chrysanthe Broikos. The National Building Museum's presentation of Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York is made possible by
Lt. Col. and Mrs. William Karl Konze, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The featured drawings, by more than 60 architects-includi ng Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Aldo Rossi, Rem Koolhas and Zaha Hadid-have been integral to the development of modern architecture over the last 100 years. They are also striking achievements of the hand and eye.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has been collecting architectural drawings for 70 years, acquiring nearly 1,000 drawings by the most eminent architects of the 20th century, in addition to the 18,000 that form the core of its Mies van der Rohe Archive. This exhibition, which features the work of more than 60 architects, represents the breadth and variety of the past 100 years of architecture and highlights the artistry of this extraordinary collection. Ranging from visions of cities both real and imagined to i
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