EVENTS

OCTOBER 27–30, 2023

ASLA 2023—SCALE UP

CONFERENCE ON LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture is the largest gathering of landscape architects and allied professionals in the world with more than 6,000 attendees—all coming together to learn, celebrate, build relationships, and strengthen friendships of our incredibly varied professional community. Visit more than 240+ exhibitors showcasing products and services exclusively for landscape architects. This stellar in-person event will be located at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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APRIL 12, 2023

JOHNSTON MARKLEE AT THE DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

LECTURES SERIES CON SHARON JOHNSTON AND MARK LEE

Johnston Marklee designs award-winning projects of diverse scale and type, spanning fourteen countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the new UCLA Graduate Art Studios campus in Culver City; and the new Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco. Current projects include the design of the new home for the Whitney Independent Study Program at Roy Lichtenstein Studio; a renovation of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center; and the renovation of the Hauptbau at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Sharon Johnson, FAIA is Professor in Practice at the Harvard GSD and was named as an Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture: New Generation Leader. Mark Lee is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard GSD and has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and ETH Zurich. Both Mark and Sharon have also taught at Princeton and UCLA and held the Cullinan Chair at Rice and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto. The studio has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards and received the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. Publications include House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House, and monographs 2G N. 67, El Croquis N. 198, and A+U N. 614. The firm’s work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, SF MOMA and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Sharon and Mark were the Artistic Directors of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

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APRIL 13, 2023

CREATURES ARE STIRRING

INSTALLATION OPENING AND BOOK LAUNCH

Join us for the opening reception for the Animate Arcade, a new installation and design research project led by Joseph Altshuler located at the Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The event will include a panel discussion and book launch for Creatures Are Stirring: A Guide to Architectural Companionship, featuring co-authors Altshuler and Julia Sedlock, moderated by Professor Tudy Watt, academic director for the Master of Science in Design and Innovation program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Taken together, the installation and the book speculate on new modes of intimacy, empathy, and solidarity among humans and the built environment. Books will be available for sale from the Illini Union Bookstore, and refreshments served.

SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN (1208 S 4th St, Champaign, IL)
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
5:00-6:30pm

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MAY 3, 2023

G.E. KIDDER BOOK LAUNCH

JOIN US FOR THE BOOK LAUNCH OF G.E. KIDDER SMITH BUILDS BY ANGELO MAGGI

The first comprehensive overview about a talented 20th-century writer, photographer, and “builder” of books who greatly impacted architecture appreciation in America and beyond. George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century. Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice within the conventional strictures of an architecture office. Instead, Kidder Smith “designed,” researched, wrote, and photographed a remarkably diverse collection of books about architecture and the built environment. His work and life were deeply interwoven and punctuated by travel related to the research, writing, and promotion of books that sought to reveal the genius loci of the countries whose built environments he admired and wished to share with a broader audience. From the early 1940s to the late 1950s his interest in architecture led him to describe visually the architectural and historical identity of many European countries. After his far-flung travels over the decades, with his wife Dorothea, Kidder Smith focused on his own country and produced a series of ambitious books focused on the United States. Kidder Smith’s vision and narrative betray the gaze of the traveller, the scholar, and the architect. Angelo Maggi is Associate Professor of Architectural History and History of Architectural Photography at Università Iuav di Venezia. Maggi trained as an architect at the Università Iuav di Venezia, and he obtained his PhD in Architecture and Visual Studies at Edinburgh College of Art.

AA Visiting School Programme Head Chris Pierce will introduce Angelo Maggi at an event at the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of this new publication over refreshments.
The book will be sold at the special price of £40 RRP £50.

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