Women in the Dirt

In my inbox:

I invite you to come to the Denver Film Society on Colfax next Thursday night.

This is a joint fundraiser with Women in Design and Denver Film Society.  We will be watching a documentary on current women Landscape Architects in California.

Then I am on a panel of local women LA’s after the show. There is a pre-film happy hour (cash bar). Get your ticket through www.widdenver.org

For more info on the film:

http://womeninthedirt.com/

Hope to see you there!

Le Corbusier 2.0

A beautifully rendered video describing the accomplishments of Le Corbusier:

Quote of the day

"Revolutionary businesses are founded on the basis of science, technology, and design--not necessarily by people who might think of themselves as an entrepreneur and want to copy another idea..."
-Sir James Dyson

 

Village Architect

While we're still recovering from many life altering events here at taow to try and offer some original content, here is an excellent interview with Brian Mackay-Lyons over at TheEditorial.com:

VILLAGE ARCHITECT

AIA recap

world-architects.com has a great summary of the AIA Convention here in Denver last week.

A Month of Architecture & Design

by John Hill

Desert Dreams and Deja Vu...

PKN Vol 18 is tomorrow night!

June 20th | 8:20 PM

At Cactus | 2128 15th Street Denver

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www.pechakucha.org


Presenters include:
Gregory Crichlow from Chocolate Spoke

Bobby Weidmann from Bikalope Tours

Dave Kingsbury from B-Cycle

Mike Miller from Boulder Bolder and Yeti Cycles

Brad Appel  from Wish For Wheels
Matthew Chiabotti and Lee Pearlman from Bike From Work Bash
 

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 PKN Vol 18 is around the corner!

June 20th | 8:20 PM

At Cactus | 2128 15th Street Denver

facebook.com/pkndnever
www.pechakucha.org


Presenters include:
Gregory Crichlow from Chocolate Spoke

Bobby Weidmann from Bikalope Tours

Dave Kingsbury from B-Cycle

Mike Miller from Boulder Bolder and Yeti Cycles

Brad Appel  from Wish For Wheels
Matthew Chiabotti and Lee Pearlman from Bike From Work Bash
 

Poster designed by Cactus

MCA Denver: Mixed Taste

 This is a bit late, but so good that we don't want any more to be missed.  Join us at the David Adjaye designed MCA Denver for the always enlightening, and sometime hilarious events each week for "Mixed Taste".  Two topics, seemingly unrelated, are mashed up by two experts on each subject and the audience witnesses what comes out!  An article in Westword has a wonderful interview on the series creator--our friend and neighbor Sarah Kate Baie.  Also-I hear they offer some amazing cookies as snacks!

 
Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated topics
Enjoy & Learn from Experts
Thursday Nights June 6–August 29, 2013


Now back at MCA Denver!
5:30PM Reception, 6:30PM Main Event
Tickets $20 / $15 members
BEcome a Member

June 6  Zombies & Raw Milk Cheese
June 13  Honky Tonk & Paper Recordings
June 20  Comedic Opera & Vulcan Steel
June 27 Houdini & Déjà Vu
July 4 NATIONAL MIXED TASTE HOLIDAY
July 11  Sinkholes & Wormholes
July 18  Draft Beer & Draft Urbanism
July 25  Fiscal Cliff & Cliff Diving
August 1  YBAs & UFOs
August 8  Refrigeration & the Austrian Avant Garde
August 15  Sandhill Cranes & Performance Enhancing Drugs
August 22  Game Theory & Moonshine
August 29  Tyrannosaurus Rex & Lucha Libre

Mixed Taste Members Only VIP Season Passes are SOLD OUT

BUY TICKETS

Seating is limited. Events sell out early.

CAST INCLUDES: June 6: Alexandre Philippe & Julie Schondel; June 13: Halden Wofford & Alexis Madrigal; June 20: Central City Opera & Joe York; June 27: Amazing Dave Elstun & Anne M. Cleary, PhD; July 11: Jonathan White & Andrew Hamilton; July 18: Patrick Crawford  & Paul Andersen; July 25: Tracy Mott & Casa Bonita Cliff Divers; August 1: Nora Burnett Abrams & Bryan and Baxter; August 8: Nicola Twilley & Patrick Greaney; August 15: Chris Pague & Annie Skinner; August 22: Jason Marden & Matthew Rowley; August 29: Dr. Scott Sampson & Delta Jr.

*Seating held until 6:30PM. Shout-out may be whispered.

Mixed Taste is sponsored in part by MCA Denver’s Director’s Vision Society Members and Colorado Creative Industries. We also thank the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.

Wang Shu: Amateur Architecture

I design a house instead of a building. The house is the amateur architecture approach to the infinitely spontaneous order.

Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant.

One problem of professional architecture is, that it thinks too much of a building. A house, which is close to our simple and trivial life, is more fundamental than architecture. Before becoming an architect, I was only a literati. Architecture is part time work to me. For one place, humanity is more important than architecture while simple handicraft is more important than technology.

The attitude of amateur architecture, - though first of all being an attitude towards a critical experimental building process -, can have more entire and fundamental meaning than professional architecture. For me, any building activity without comprehensive thoughtfulness will be insignificant. 

--Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture

Micro-house competition event reception

Pecha Kucha Night Denver: Volume 17

In the inbox today:

American Folk Art Museum doomed

Such a terribly tragic, unsustainable waste of an amazing piece of Architecture.  MoMA should be ashamed of themselves.

New York Times: MoMA to Raze Ex-American Folk Art Museum

Check out BUILD LLC's open letter reaction.

Sign the petition to save the building here.

Our visit to this building in 2007 was one we will never forget:

Go here for the Architects' reaction to the decision to raze a building that is only 12 years old.

See more photos and design description on the TWBT website.

Update: Huffington Post blog has a new article here.

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peter zumthor: Buildings and Projects 1986-2013

save your pennies architecture fans--because a massive, multi-volume 800-page opus delving into the working details of peter zumthor's buildings will arrive this autumn:

Due out September 15th, 2013
Edited by Thomas Durisch
Currently available for pre-order [$200 on Amazon.com]

Allied Works Lecture: The Limiting Field

Join the University of Colorado Boulder's Environmental Design Program on Tuesday, April 9, at 5:47 p.m. for The Limiting Field, a lecture by Brad Cloepfil, AIA, of Allied Works Architecture, Inc.

Brad Cloep fil, AIA, founding principal of Allied Works Architecture, will discuss recent projects in the U.S. and abroad, as well as the ideas and principles that form the basis of the rm's work. As architect of the Cly fford Still Museum, Cloepfi l will focus on how these were realized in the museum's design and construction, and will discuss the challenges, opportunities and lessons of creating a single-artist museum in Denver's Civic Center.

The lecture will be held on the CU Boulder Campus in the Environmental Design Building, ENVD 134 (1060 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80302). Download the event flyer for more information.

Special thanks to Saunders Construction, AIAS CU Boulder, and AIA Colorado North.

Special thanks to scott for the heads up!

Reminder: PKND Vol 16 tonight!

PechaKucha Night Denver Vol 16 is Feb 26th at 7:30pm. Presented by Modern In Denver at Semple Brown Design 1160 Santa Fe Drive. Kristian Barowsky | the Desk Jeff Faine | Avenue Two David Lauer | David Lauer Photography Mike Lee | Cactus Damon McLeese | Access Gallery Norm Shearer | Cactus Maya Wright | Kirkland Museum Anika Zappe | Punch Bowl Social More info at www.pechakucha.org