http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/calendar Events from February 10, 2010 to March 12, 2010 en-us Copyright 2010 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:17:37 +0500 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:17:37 +0500 Harvard Design School Events Calendar www.gsd.harvard.edu http://www.gsd.harvard.edu webmaster@gsd.harvard.edu webmaster@gsd.harvard.edu http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026335 2/10/2010 Wed 12:30pm 2/10/2010 Wed 1:30pm Rm 111, Gund Hall Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026077 2/10/2010 Wed 6:30pm 2/10/2010 Wed 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall **PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. WE ARE PLANNING TO RESCHEDULE THIS EVENT - STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION! John Portman pioneered the role of Architect as Developer by financing, owning managing and designing major building projects throughout the world. His philosophy of architecture is rooted in the desire to understand and shape the aesthetic as well as the economic dimensions of the urban environment. Portman, over a 55 year career, has personally designed and realized the construction of over 50 million sqft of commercial space, over 40,000 hotel rooms and over 18 million sqft of mart and exhibition space. These projects have had a positive impact on the urban fabric of major cities in the United States and around the world including Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. Portman's leadership in the movement to revitalize America's city centers as architect and developer of large scale mixed-use projects marked the US's return to urbanism in the latter half of the 20th century. Portman received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1950. After a three year apprenticeship, he opened his own firm and in 1956, he formed a partnership with H. Griffith Edwards to create Edwards & Portman, Architects. When Mr. Edwards retired in 1968, the firm became John Portman & Associates. Today, Portman is best known for his urban mixed-use complexes wherein his understanding of people and their response to space translates into enhanced environments and award-winning architecture which have had great impact on the cities in which they were built. Portman's impact is perhaps greatest on his hometown of Atlanta where today the 14-block Peachtree Center complex attests to his commitment to the downtown business district and includes some of his landmark projects such as the Hyatt Regency Atlanta Hotel. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta recently opened a successful exhibition entitled "John Portman, Art and Architecture" which highlights not only his accomplishments in architecture, but also his work as a painter, sculptor and designer of furniture. John Portman believes that an architect cannot gain understanding by isolating himself. He must interact with his society through participation and public exposure. Mr. Portman has always been an active participant in civic and community affairs, and with his design philosophy, he has made a profound impact on Atlanta and the international community. John C. "Jack" Portman III serves as chief executive officer for John Portman & Associates, the architectural and engineering company affiliated with Portman Holdings, and, as vice chairman of Portman Holdings, he is responsible for the development activities of the company. Jack began his career in 1973 as an architect for John Portman & Associates in Atlanta. He later expanded his responsibilities from the design field to a position of corporate leadership. Initially working with the domestic arm of the Portman companies' real estate development, he subsequently became involved in the companies' activities in the Middle East, particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He moved to Hong Kong and later to Shanghai utilizing Portman Overseas as the entity to pursue the companies' international endeavours in the design, development and management of all East Asian overseas projects. Jack was responsible for Portman's early entry into China in early 1980, at which time Portman was the first western development company to develop real estate in China. He later established Portman offices in India and Korea. He maintains a current focus on all of the companies' activities worldwide. Jack, a licensed architect, holds a B.S. degree in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Mack Scogin is a principal in the firm of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the Kajima Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was the chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1990 to 1995.]]> John Portman & Associates]]> Portman Holdings]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026316 2/11/2010 Thu 1:00pm 2/11/2010 Thu 2:30pm Portico 123, Gund Hall Alexander von Hoffman, Senior Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies and author of Wrestling with Growth in Acton, Massachusetts: The Possibilities and Limits of Progressive Planning Commentary by Toni Griffin, Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT and author, The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making The history of land-use regulation in Acton, Massachusetts offers important lessons on the possibilities and the limits of our current systems for regulating land uses in greater Boston and other major metropolitan areas. Like many other suburbs, Acton initially embraced new development and then began imposing increasingly stringent and complex restrictions on future growth. Unlike many suburbs, Acton also adopted many promising new approaches, such as cluster zoning, that try to shape growth in ways that address some, but not all, concerns about the impacts of further growth. Consequently, the town offers both a model for other localities trying to manage their growth and a caution about what can be accomplished under the current political and legal frameworks that shape growth not only in greater Boston but in other areas as well. This event is co-sponsored by Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Urban Planning Program.]]> Joint Center For Housing Studies]]> Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston]]> Angela Flynn (aflynn@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026355 2/11/2010 Thu 7:00pm 2/11/2010 Thu 9:00pm Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY Event information at Storefront for Art and Architecture]]> New Geographies]]> Rania Ghosn (rghosn@gmail.com) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026376 2/11/2010 Thu 7:30pm 2/11/2010 Thu 9:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director's favorite themes-that of generational conflict-in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema's greatest masterpieces.]]> Tokyo Story page on Wikipedia]]> Yu Inamoto (yinamoto@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026375 2/12/2010 Fri 12:00pm 2/12/2010 Fri 2:00pm Rm 111, Gund Hall Katie Soven (ksoven@gmail.com) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026296 2/16/2010 Tue 6:30pm 2/16/2010 Tue 8:30pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall New Trajectories: Convergent Flux, Korea Exhibition.]]> KYWC architects]]> New Trajectories: Convergent Flux, Korea Exhibition]]> Chung Whan Park (cpark2@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1025895 2/17/2010 Wed 6:00pm 2/17/2010 Wed 7:30pm Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall (Copley Square, Boston) THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED. Leaders of the internationally renowned team of architects chosen to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC discuss their collaboration and the winning design. Co-sponsored by Boston Society of Architects, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard, and the Boston Public Library]]> BSA Exploring Design Lecture Series]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026078 2/17/2010 Wed 6:30pm 2/17/2010 Wed 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure (written by Kelly Shannon and Marcel Smets, Nai-Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010). More information can be found on http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/Landcape_infrastructure_e.html -------------------- Marcel SMETS has studied architecture (University of Ghent, 1970) and urban design (Technical University Delft, 1974). He obtained a PhD from the University of Leuven (1976), where he was appointed to the chair of Urbanism in 1978. He has been active in theory and history with books on H. Hoste, Ch. Buls, the Belgian garden cities and the reconstruction of Belgium after 1914. He served as a critic for Archis, Topos, Lotus, Casabella and has been juror for many competitions. He was founding member of the ILAUD (Urbino,1978) , visiting professor at the University of Thessaloniki (1987), and Design Critic at the Harvard University GSD (2002, 2003, 2004). Since 1989, he has directed Projectteam Stadsontwerp, a research and design group, specialized in the urban re-appropriation of abandoned industrial areas and outworn infrastructures. In this function he has been the chief urban designer of conversion projects in Leuven (B), Antwerpen (B), Hoeilaart (B), Rouen (F), Genoa (I), Conegliano (I). The transformation of the Leuven Railway Station area has since been widely published and awarded. In June 2005, Smets was appointed Chief Architect for the Flemish Region, a five year mandate in which he is advising the Government on most important public commissions. Since 2001, Smets has concentrated his research on the landscape of infrastructure. In January 2010 he co-authored with K. Shannon the influential book on The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure.]]> Marcel Smets CV on University of Leuven website]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026079 2/18/2010 Thu 6:30pm 2/18/2010 Thu 8:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Rachael Ziady DeLue, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University Vittoria di Palma, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Moderated by Erika Naginski, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Harvard GSD Check back soon for more information!]]> Princeton University faculty page for Rachael Ziady DeLue]]> Columbia University faculty page for Vittoria di Palma]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026216 2/19/2010 Fri 12:30pm 2/19/2010 Fri 1:30pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture]]> Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026080 2/22/2010 Mon 12:00pm 2/22/2010 Mon 1:30pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Craig Schwitter biography on Buro Happold website]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026081 2/22/2010 Mon 6:00pm 2/22/2010 Mon 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Seung H-Sang of IROJE architects & planners, Hyung Min Pai of the University of Seoul Department of Architecture, and Yoonjin Park of PARKKIM. Check back soon for more information!]]> IROJE architects & planners]]> PARKKIM]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026082 2/23/2010 Tue 12:00pm 2/23/2010 Tue 2:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Bernard Tschumi Architects]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026095 2/23/2010 Tue 6:30pm 2/23/2010 Tue 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Agence Ter]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026096 2/24/2010 Wed 6:30pm 2/24/2010 Wed 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026175 2/25/2010 Thu 12:00pm 2/25/2010 Thu 1:30pm Portico 123, Gund Hall Andy Smith Andy Smith is an architect and an educator with a career characterized by challenging projects in architecture, historic preservation and urban design. He has taught extensively at both the university and secondary levels. Following his father, Andy has directed for the past thirty years a firm which will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary this year. Two projects: the restoration of the Walnut Street Bridge, presented a 1995 AIA Honor Award in Urban Design, and the design of the Tennessee RiverPark are considered to be major contributing factors in the revitalization of Chattanooga's riverfront. Andy received a lifetime achievement Award in Historic Preservation in 2004. For the past four years, he has committed his practice to education and pro-bono work in urban neighborhoods. David Fox David Fox is in his eighteenth year at the University of Tennessee where he teaches first year design and upper level studios focusing on urban geography and housing. In addition he leads a painting studio elective. He focuses on specific issues of race, class, and urban form. Prior to coming to UT in 1991, he worked in Washington DC on mostly a wide variety of projects both at the micro and macro scales. IN 1985 he went to Arkansas to work for three years in the office of E. Fay Jones. He attended graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1988-90 and then went to work for Sam Mockbee in Canton, Mississippi in 1990. The experience with Mockbee led to his commitment to architecture's social obligation, which is the foundation for his research and this lecture. Both Mr. Jones and Mr. Mockbee's work exhibits the highest levels of design and a commitment to explore the poetics of architecture. At the University of Tennessee David founded the Urban Program in Sustainable Design Education (UPSIDE), where upper level UT students team with inner city high school students to design and build local housing in depressed neighborhoods. This event is co-sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship and SoCA. ]]> Loeb Fellowship]]> SoCA student group blog]]> Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026176 3/1/2010 Mon 12:00pm 3/1/2010 Mon 2:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Loeb Fellowship]]> Sally Young (syoung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026235 3/1/2010 Mon 12:30pm 3/1/2010 Mon 1:30pm Location TBA dlandstudio llc]]> GSD faculty bio for Susannah Drake]]> Vanessa Cheung (vcheung@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026097 3/3/2010 Wed 6:00pm 3/3/2010 Wed 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Please note the 6:00 pm start time. Check back soon for more information!]]> CityCenter website]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026098 3/4/2010 Thu 6:30pm 3/4/2010 Thu 8:00pm Rm 112 (Stubbins), Gund Hall Georges Farhat, Associate Professor, Urban and Town Planning/Landscape Programme, Ecole Nationale Superieure D'Architecture de Versailles Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland Moderated by Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard GSD Check back soon for more information!]]> Faculty page for Georges Farhat (in French)]]> University of Maryland faculty page for Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026099 3/5/2010 Fri 12:00am 3/5/2010 Fri 12:00am Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Amy Dahan-Dalmedico, professor and writer, University of Paris and CNRS France, Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard GSD, George L. Legendre, GSD design critic, architect and author, IJP London, and Keynote Lecture by Bernard Cache, architect and author, Objectile Paris. Convened by George L. Legendre]]> Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/details.cgi?event=1026100 3/9/2010 Tue 6:30pm 3/9/2010 Tue 8:00pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)