May 2009 Enewsletter
This E-newsletter keeps fellows in the know about each other's professional lives. It includes new job titles, recent publications, current projects, conferences, symposia, lectures and other events involving fellows.
See Fellowship Events for upcoming conferences and lectures featuring current Loeb Fellows and alumni.
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Announcements
Welcome to the class of 2010!
- Rob Bleiberg is the Executive Director of the Mesa Land Trust (MLT) in Grand Junction, Colorado. He is a leader in the vital movement to conserve land for ecological, environmental and social reasons.
- Patricia Leigh Brown is a contributing writer for the New York Times and Architectural Digest who works out of San Francisco. She writes feature pieces about the cultural landscape, vernacular architecture and the relationship between people and place.
- Julie Campoli is a landscape architect and author whose work has focused on analyzing urban form and the relationships between place and culture and the landscape and human settlements.
- Michael Creasey is the Superintendent of the Lowell National Historical Park, a strong model for the urban parks that comprise many of our National Park sites.
- Jose de Filippi has just completed a third term as the Mayor of Diadema, Brazil. He focused particularly on innovative programs to reduce violence and on cooperative ways to renew the favelas within his community. Jose was trained as an engineer.
- Donna Graves is an arts and cultural heritage consultant and urban historian. She has worked with cities and community groups to document and activate their histories.
- Weiwen Huang is Director of the Department of Urban and Architecture Design, Shenzhen National Planning Bureau.
- Gil Kelley is the former Director of Planning for Portland, Oregon, and previously served in the same role in Berkeley, California.
- Neal Morris is a developer in New Orleans. He is concerned about the zoning ordinance and other regulations in New Orleans and is involved in efforts to re-write them and to change the regulatory environment.
- Peter Steinbrueck FAIA, principal of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies, LLC, is an architect who recently completed a third successful term as a Seattle City Councilor.
Farewell
Dear Fellows,
I will be leaving the Loeb Fellowship on June 30th. Despite my departure
from the GSD, I plan to keep in touch.
In August, I will be moving to the woods of New Hampshire, specifically Stoddard,
a tiny town with one general store and a lake. This summer I plan to complete
construction work on the home I will share with my partner, Glenn, and in the
fall, I will be seeking a new part-time job. If you know of any employment
opportunities in or near Keene, NH, I would appreciate hearing from you.
Over the past 8 years, I have learned so much from all of you as I've sat in
on your lectures and panel discussions, read about your latest projects and awards,
talked with many of you about your passions, listened in on your conversations
with one another, joined you on field trips, fall and winter retreats, and attended
many Loeb dinners and outreach events. I feel fortunate to have been
exposed to so many bright and creative people who have so much energy and so
much to offer. Thank you all for broadening my knowledge of the world. I can
be reached at ef_twilight@yahoo.com.
With affection and gratitude,
Cindy
OMD and the students at Taliesin have great news on our Taliesin
Mod.Fab project! The Taliesin Mod.FabTM was designed and built
by graduate and undergraduate students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of
Architecture with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson and Jennifer
Siegal,
project manager Christian Butler, recent M.Arch graduate, and assistant project
manager Nick Mancusi, current BAS student.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1892751_1892594,00.html
Gustavo Leclerc, LF 1999 explores and expands traditional notions of art exhibition by bringing it into his home
A year ago Gustavo Leclerc and his wife began exploring the idea of using their mid-twentieth century modernist home for a range of artistic and cultural events that incorporate music, film, performance pieces and painting exhibitions. In addition to celebrating art, these events bring together people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures within a creative context. The exhibition space, called La Palma de Oro, domesticates curation and blurs the line of public and private, formal and informal.
The second event of this kind, "La Palma de Oro/Redeux", will take place Saturday, May 9 and includes recent work by Gustavo Leclerc, Barbara Jones and Barbara Carrasco that is taking the tradition of panio art and adding a personal and surreal narrative quality. The event will also include live jarocho music and a film project.
Publications
The June issue of Architectural Digest will feature a country home
for a Chicago family designed by Margaret McCurry, LF 1987, on
a former truck farm in rural Michigan. This past February, the magazine
featured a remodeling she did in the Chicago suburbs. Also, a home in
Aspen designed by McCurry and her husband Stanley Tigerman with garden designed
by landscape architect Maria Smithburg, MLA '85, was just published in The
Architect’s Garden, Schiffer Press by Lucy Rosenfeld.
Alumni News
Robin Chase, LF 2005 was named Time 100 most influential people in the world. Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar, found a way to use the internet to promote "cooperative capitalism" and offer people the opportunity to share a pool of vehicles instead of owning individual cars.
Artist Janet Echelman, LF 2008 recently inaugurated public art for downtown Phoenix, the largest publicly funded sculpture commission in North America. The piece, titled Her secret is patience, is the new civic icon suspended above the new Phoenix Civic Space, a two-city-block park in the middle of downtown. This $2.5 million netted sculpture makes the invisible patterns of desert wind visible to the human eye. Through her art, Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight.
Her secret is patience Project Sheet
American Academy in Rome seeks Director
Reporting to the President in New York, the Director provides intellectual and managerial leadership for all the activities and programs of the Academy in Rome. the Director manages a culturally and linguistically diverse staff of approximately 40-50, with direct reports from the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, the Drue Heinz Librarian, the Executive Secretary to the Director; the Assistant Directors of Operations, Properties (Properties is a joint report to the President in NY), Finance (Finance is a joint report to the Vice President for Finance and Administration in NY) and the Executive Chef.
The City of Portland, OR seeks Housing Director
This is a high-level management position responsible for establishing, directing and overseeing Portland’s new Housing Bureau. The Housing Director plans, integrates and directs the organization, administration, financial management, personnel and programs of the bureau and is accountable for developing, implementing and executing short and long-range plans, strategic planning, policies, budgets and strategies to accomplish the mission and priorities of the Bureau and the City to provide housing and community services. Responsibilities are broad in scope, allow for a high degree of program and administrative discretion, and are evaluated in terms of overall program and cost effectiveness. The application deadline may be extended.
IFF Seeks Vice President of Real Estate Services
IFF (formerly the Illinois Facilities Fund) is a not-for-profit community development financial institution serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The new vice president’s key task will be to double the real estate consulting department’s Chicago-area business and revenues to $2.3 million by 2012 while planning for and initiating an active consulting practice in IFF’s broader five-state region. The successful candidate will be a strong leader with strong business skills. She or he will have a minimum of 10 to 15 years’ experience in consulting, community development, real estate development and finance, and management, and an M.A. in finance, business, planning, architecture, or other relevant field.
Seeking Hosts for Outreach Events
Outreach Activities:
As a result of our outreach events this fall and last spring we have
a diverse applicant pool for the current application cycle including applicants
from a number of cities where we have no Fellows or very few Fellows, and
a set of strong applications from people of color.
We are delighted that our ongoing efforts are yielding strong applications. But
our work is just beginning. We would like to continue this trend
into next year and in the years ahead. Personal connections and encouragement
from Loeb alumni have been the most powerful tool in attracting strong and
diverse candidates for the Fellowship. Loeb alumni can be of assistance
to the general outreach efforts and in our diversity outreach by nominating
promising applicants whom you believe would make excellent candidates for
the fellowship, and by hosting an outreach dinner or event to introduce candidates
to the program. We welcome participation from all of our alumni.
We invite you to take a look at our Diversity link (located
on left hand menu of Loeb Fellowship home page at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/).
The Diversity page contains profiles of alumni/ae Fellows from a variety of
backgrounds who share their personal stories about their time as a fellow,
and ways in which their professional lives were affected after the Fellowship.
If you have any suggestions concerning minority and or general outreach
efforts, contact Jim Stockard at stockard@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.5988 or Sally Young at syoung@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.9345.
Thanks for your efforts.
Searchable Database
Send updated contact and career information, including key search words and job description, to Sally at: syoung@gsd.harvard.edu, 617.495.9345.