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September 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
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This event, the Launch of Artists in Context, may be of interest to Loebs in the Boston area. The organization is national in scope and may be of interest to Loebs in other locations so check out their website at www.artistsincontext.org.
Artists in Context Launch Event, October 9, 2009, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, Harvard University. Speakers include: Claudine Brown, Director of the Arts and Culture Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Mel Chin, Artist
Ann Hamilton, Artist & Professor of Art, Ohio State University, Dava Newman, Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
and an additional speaker TBA
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, session moderator, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Seating is limited; reservation recommended, send to RSVP@artistsincontext.org
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.
Ann Coulter, LF '04, and Rodolpho Ramina, LF '04, involved in planning of International Conference of Innovative Cities scheduled for March 10 - 13, 2010
Th goal of the IC-IC is to plan a global network of people involved with innovations in cities, searching for a permanent exchange of innovative technologies of all sorts (including the social ones) among connected cities.
Save the date for the Loeb Fellowship 40th Reunion
October 7 - 10, 2010
Alumni News
Patricia Leigh Brown, LF '10, recently published two articles in the New York Times
Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left with 'Nobody to Talk to' looks at older immigrants, cut off from society by language and culture differences, now America's fastest-growing immigrant group.
A Doctor for Disease, A Shaman for the Soul covers a California hospital's attempts to cater to its immigrant patients resulted in a policy allowing for Hmong shamans to practice within their walls.
Toni Griffin, LF '98, appointed adjunct associate professor of urban planning at the GSD
Dean Mostafavi recently announced Toni's appointment, effective July 1, 2009. Previously she held the position of Design Critic in Urban Planning from 2006 to 2009, during which time she taught lecture and studio courses.
Julio César Pérez Hernández, LF '02, involved in Cuban Chapter of INTBAU
Julio was recently designated President of the Cuban Chapter of INTBAU, www.intbau.org/charter.htm (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism). INTBAU is an international charity founded in the United Kingdom in 2001, under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales. INTBAU promotes traditional architecture and urbanism and a strong network of practitioners, academics and supporters from different parts of the world. INTBAU organizes workshops, Charrettes, conferences, training courses and academic programs. INTBAU is a not-for-profit organization and its activities aim to help local communities to preserve their traditions and identity.
Julio will be heading to Italy next month to lecture at the 5th Bologna Triennial and will also lecture at the Institute of Town Planning in Rome and at the University of Santa Elena in Venice.
Robin Chase, LF ' 05, a finalist in the Dutch Postcode Lottery Green Challenge
Robin is one of 6 finalists selected from a group of 313 in the Dutch Postcode Lottery Green Challenge. She is the only woman the the only America of the finalists. The Dutch Postcode Lottery Green Challenge encourages and aids the invention of great new green products and services by offering a prize of 500,000 Euros to a winner each year. The winner will be announced on Friday, September 25, 2009.
Check out the website and follow the competition to see if Robin wins 500,000 Euros in to execute her Green idea.
David Kamp, LF '96, to speak at "A Sense of Place" 2009 Conference
David, FASLA, Principal of Dirtworks, PC is one of five international speakers at the “A Sense of Place” 2009 Conference from September 2-5, 2009 to be held in Cornwall, UK. A returning speaker at this biannual conference, David Kamp will speak on “Connecting People and Place: A Design Perspective.”
Tracy Metz, LF '07, recently published an article in Next American City Magazine about the Bruner Loeb forum in New Orleans
In April, Tulane University’s School of Architecture hosted a forum organized by the Bruner Foundation and the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship with the title “Urban Adaptability: Sustaining Place in a Dynamic Environment.” The speakers, most of them former Loeb Fellows, were trying to answer the question of how New Orleans can move forward amidst the still-ubiquitous destruction.
Link to article on Americancity.org
Civic Park, Inc. in Los Angeles seeks Executive Director
Civic Park, Inc. is a new nonprofit organization responsible for the management of the Grand Avenue Project, which will include up to 3.6 million square feet of development over four parcels of land as well as the 12-acre Civic Park.
Complete job description and requirements
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation seeks Director of Architecture
The Director of Architecture would manage architecture design studio of 20-25 people, including two Deputy Directors, in the Capital Projects Division and would ensure design excellence for portfolio of approximately 100 architecture projects valued at $55 million.
Complete job description and requirements
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.
Complete job description and requirements
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.
Complete job description and requirements
Grant Opportunity
Stimulus Funds Grant Announcement for Communities
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.
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.
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