August 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 past and current Loeb Fellows.
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Announcements
12th Annual Alumni Fall Field Trip to Birmingham, Alabama
October 8 - 11, 2009
Register and Reserve your hotel now. Click on the links below:
James Batchelor, FAIA, LF '85, BSA President, recently announced that Tom Keane has been named Executive Director of the Boston Society of Architects
Peter Vanderwarker, LF '97, slide lecture - Barcelona: A Visual Perspective
September 1, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Downtown Harvard Club, One Federal Street, Boston
For reservations contact Tania Wong at twong@harvardclub.com or 617.450.8468
Presentations by the 2009 - 2010 Loeb Fellows
September 14 - 17, 2009, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Stubbins, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
For details go to EVENTS
Anthony Flint, LF '01, is celebrating publication of his new book, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City. Details, reviews and book tour dates are available at the author's website:
Janet Echelman, LF '08, an artist working in the public realm, will speak on October 21, 2009 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. as part of the Boston Society of Architects' Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall at Copley Square and are free and open to the public.
The Lowell Plan: Creative Economic Development
Speaker: Rosemary Noon, LF '92, Creative Economy Consultant
Monday, October 26, 2009, 12:00 p.m.
Location: BSA, 52 Broad Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA
Lunch will be provided. RSVP to the BSA at 617-951-1433 x221 or rsvp@architects.org by 9:30 a.m. on the day of the meeting.
Rosemary will discuss the Lowell Plan’s sense of common enterprise and its track record of implementing ambitious projects in civic engagement.
Design Excellence in Public Places at Build Boston
Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:00-4:30 p.m.
This daylong symposium brings together leading professionals from the areas of architecture, planning, landscape architecture and public art who have distinguished themselves through a holistic approach to the design of public places, including the integration of public art.
Janet Echelman, LF '08, will sit on a panel of a discussion titled Visionary Public Spaces from 10:30 - 12:00 p.m.
More information about the symposium
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Phil Freelon, LF '90, and David Adjaye, architects on the winning team for the Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum on the mall in Washington, D.C., will speak as part of the Boston Society of Architects' Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall at Copley Square. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, May 17, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Susannah Sayler, LF '09, Photographer and Co-Founder of the Canary Project, will speak as part of the Boston Society of Architects' Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall at Copley Square. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Save the date for the Loeb Fellowship 40th Reunion
October 7 - 10, 2010
Class of 2009 Trip Report
The Class of 2009 travelled to Brazil in May, 2009 and visited "informal settlements" in three cities (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Diadema). Read one Fellow's account of this experience.
Alumni News
Cathy Crenshaw, LF '07, appeared recently on Blueprint America for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
A recent report on Blueprint America for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer hones in on a specific six-lane interstate highway projected for Jefferson County’s Northern Beltline, encircling Birmingham, Alabama. The highway, which is slated for completion in 2025, is receiving criticism from locals. Cathy, a Birmingham real estate developer, imagines how a project like the ADHS could be reevaluated to actually meet the public demand. “It would be pretty wonderful if we could shift some of these dollars for larger projects back into cities. The question is, how do we build neighborhoods that we want to live in and want to walk around in and know people? That requires investment. So, I would much rather, personally, see investment in public transportation, which is much less expensive than a new highway system.”
Rick Lowe, LF '02, awarded the Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art + Architecture
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in partnership with the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis created the award, which includes a generous cash prize, to recognize an artist, architect or designer whose individual or collaborative works, innovative projects and creative research have inspired new ideas and made a profound and lasting impact on society, culture, or the environment on a local, national or international level. Rick was chosen from an international pool of nominees for his accomplishments as founder and director of Project Row Houses in Houston and his work in New Orleans and Los Angeles. The award will be presented to Rick at the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and National Council of Arts Administrators on November 5, 2009 in St. Louis.
Alex Marshall, LF '99, organizing a co-housing development in Brooklyn
Alex and his wife Kristi have been working for two years to create one of New York City's first co-housing developments. The building will be designed to promote energy efficiency and to foster a supportive community of residents who would utilize communal indoor and outdoor spaces.
Read full article in the NY Times
Margaret McCurry, LF ‘87 chosen as one of the “20 Icons of Design”
Margaret has been chosen as one of the “20 Icons of Design” by Traditional Home Magazine and will be honored at the Traditional Home 20th Anniversary and Icons of Design Event this fall at the World Market in Las Vegas.
Read article in Traditional Home
Edward Morris, LF '09, and Susannah Sayler LF '09, in residence at Indiana University Bloomington this Fall
Canary Project co-founders Edward and Susannah will teach a class at the University, work with students on climate-change related projects and put on an exhibition at the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery titled The Canary Project: Works on Climate Change 2006-2009. The exhibition will run from Friday, September 4 through Friday, October 9, 2009. Edward and Susannah will give a lecture about their work on Friday, September 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Radio/TV 251. The Opening Reception will follow from 7:00-9:00pm.
Bob Peck, LF '78, to head General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service
The Obama administration officially named Bob Peck as head of the General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service. Public Buildings Service acquires space and manages federal properties across the country. PBS owns or leases 8,600 properties and maintains more than 354 million square feet of workspace, including 96 million square feet in the Washington region. As manager of the government’s vast building portfolio, he will oversee an annual budget of more than $8 billion and a work force of more than 6,200.
Bruner Award winning project St. Joseph Rebuild Center in New Orleans receives coverage
The Rebuild Center, a collaborative effort of partners including architect Wayne Troyer and Dan Pitera, LF '05, of the Detroit Community Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy, with the participation of his students, has been credited as being functional, stylish and economical. The Center has also proven to be a valuable service to the homeless population, offering spaces to eat, shower, wash clothes and get medical care.
Article about the project in the The Times-Picayune
Project details on the Detroit Community Design Center website
Barry White, husband of Eleanor White, LF '79, nominated by President Obama to be the Ambassador to Norway
Barry White has been recently nominated to be the Ambassador to Norway. Subject to Senate confirmation (probably by mid-September), Eleanor White, LF '79 will be headed to Oslo with her husband, Barry White, for what she describes as a “late mid-life adventure." In addition to her new role as wife of the Ambassador, Eleanor will continue her work with Housing Partners, Inc. thanks to the wonders of technology. See the White House press release regarding this nomination.
U.S. General Services Administration seeks Architect/Engineer
The incumbent of this position serves as an Architect or General Engineer for Sustainable Design in the Office of Federal High- Performance Green Buildings, Public Buildings Service.
Complete Job description and Requirements
Gensler is seeking a Managing Director for its Seattle office
Gensler, a global architecture, design, planning and consulting firm, is looking for a Managing Director who will play an integral role in the leadership of Gensler's practice in Seattle, with responsibility for the management and financial performance of the Seattle practice.
The Partnership for Downtown St. Louis seeks President & CEO
The Partnership for Downtown St. Louis seeks a dynamic, high-energy, downtown advocate who is passionate and willing to drive sustainable change to serve as President and CEO.
Seeking Hosts for Outreach Events
Update on Outreach Activities:
The strength of our Fellowship is a product of the excellence and the diversity of our Fellows. In order to select a great class each year and welcome ten new Fellows into our rich network of colleagues, we must have an exceptional pool of candidates. We will only have such a pool if the Fellowship is known broadly throughout the professions for which we are a resource. And you are the key to this. Nearly 60% of all candidates for the Fellowship first heard about the program from a Loeb alumni/ae.
You can be helpful in a number of ways. For more information on general Loeb outreach and diversity outreach and to find out how Loeb alumni/ae can help, click here.
If you have questions or suggestions about how to increase the size, quality and diversity of our applicant pool, please call Jim (617-495-5988) or Sally (617-495-9345) or e-mail either of us (stockard@gsd.harvard.edu or syoung@gsd.harvard.edu).
Thank you for your help.
Exhibitions
James Brown, LF 09, participates in architecture exhibit, "Mix: Nine San Diego Architects" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
James Brown and his practice, Public, joins eight other architecture firms in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla. The show runs through September 6, 2009. Admission: $10; $5, seniors and military; free to visitors 25 and under.
Publications
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