While I was waiting for a table at Tin Lizzy on Memorial Drive, I came upon this poster on the window at the restaurant…
2nd Annual Decatur Old House Fair
I’ve only taken interest in this kind of thing recently, especially when the real estate market has dropped. I feel that renovating older homes are better than buying new homes for many reasons. There is obviously the financial aspect of it. But another reason is that you can have a older house at a GREAT location at a price that fit into people’s budgets. I also think that by renovating older homes around Atlanta, we can beautify the city and ease up on urban sprawl. Read the rest of this entry »
Flux Projects is sponsoring Lauri Stallings and her gloATL troupe of dancers and multimedia artists for three performances of “Bloom,” a new site-specific performance at Lenox Square mall over Valentine’s weekend. gloATL will be joined by spoken word artist and hip-hop producer Big Rube, as well as Tom Sherwood and Brad Ritchie, musicians include both the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Sonic Generator.
Go see innovative dance in one of architecture’s greatest conundrums. Let the love story begin.
Gatje authored Marcel Breuer: A Memoir (Monacelli, 2000)
Robert F. Gatje, a long time associate of Marcel Breuer, will be at the College for a seminar on Breuer on Wednesday, October 28, 2-3:30 p.m. The seminar is an informal event with an extended question-and-answer session and open to faculty, students and staff. Robert Gatje is the author of Marcel Breuer: A Memoir (Monacelli, 2000). Working with Breuer for twenty three years, he was responsible for several projects including IBM France’s research center at La Gaude, and the alpine ski resort at Flaine, France.
Putting an Arts Representative on their transition team?
Earmarking 1.5% of TADs to fund Public Art on the Beltline?
Affordable spaces for artists & arts grous?
Public funding for cultural facilities?
Find out TODAY, Monday October 12!!!
6-8PM
Rich Auditorium, Woodruff Arts Center
RSVP to: advocacy@metroatlantaarts.org
The Arts & Culture Mayoral Forum
Participating Candidates:
Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed & Jesse Spikes
On Monday, November 2, the College of Architecture will have its inaugural Douglas C. Allen lecture at 6pm in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium. This lecture series was established last year in appreciation for Senior Associate Dean Allen’s long-time dedication to the COA.
Join us to hear a lecture from James Corner, founder and director of James Corner Field Operations in New York (http://www.fieldoperations.net/). Corner is an ambitious landscape architect defining design of the post-industrial city, manifested in projects reclaim landfills, remediate brownfields, and develop neglected waterfronts.
Currently, Corner is most credited with the High Line project in NYC (http://www.thehighline.org/) a project to redevelop a historical elevated train corridor into a green park corridor in Manhatten’s West Side.
His project made the cover this month’s issue of Architectural Record.
More information can be found at the college’s website. It is also presented in part by the T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination.
ASIFA- (International Animated Film Association of Atlanta) is presenting film tonight at 8PM at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
“Step into the life and work of Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, and explore why a man would spend his entire life playing with lumps of colored clay.
Sadly, the filmmaker died shortly after the film was completed so it never had much of a release- it has not available on DVD in the US, so this is a rare opportunity to see it!”
“Join DOCOMOMO/US, Georgia Chapter for a 2009 National Tour Day event, a special walking tour of Downtown Atlanta focusing on Modern sites, including buildings designed by SOM, FABRAP, John Portman, Robert and Company, and other nationally and regionally recognized designers.
Participants will learn more about the development of Downtown Atlanta during the 20th Century and visit several historic sites. Included is a guided tour of the Marcel Breuer/Stevens and Wilkinson designed Atlanta Central Library. An introductory program will look at the impact Modern architecture made (and continues to make) on Downtown Atlanta.
Refreshments and discussion following the tour at context design gallery.
Please RSVP. The tour will begin at MODA, 285 Peachtree Center Avenue, Marquis II Tower, Downtown Atlanta. DOCOMOMO Georgia suggests taking MARTA’s north/south line to the Peachtree Center station for easy access. The event will take place rain or shine.
Tickets available at the tour, no credit cards accepted for this event. Tickets $10, $5 DOCOMOMO members/students, free for those renewing membership or joining DOCOMOMO at the tour. Limited tickets available, first 25 – so RSVP soon.
AIA Continuing Education credits will be available for this event.”
From Facebook Event
Last Friday the Young Architect’s Forum chapter in Atlanta held its annual Emerging Voices show at MODA. Beverages were enjoyed, projects were displayed from three great, young, local firms, winners of the 48 Hour Competition engaging the Breuer library were addressed, the AWPL showed a great collection of furniture… All in all it was a wonderful time to talk shop with peers and enjoy a night out in downtown.
One element of the exhibit, however, stood out, well, like a rotting beam on a pristine, white marble floor… namely BLDGS contribution to the exhibit. Backed by a purple, life-scale forrest graphic featuring a dizzyingly bright horizontal tube light towards one end, the focal point was a gloriously aged, salvaged, heavy-timber beam sitting slightly angled directly on the floor – molding and shedding chunks of itself shamelessly at the feet of Atlanta’s little black dress wearing Friday night design crowd. Read the rest of this entry »
The book club will be meeting this Friday to discuss an excerpt from Rem Koolhaas’ seminal work S,M,L,XL that takes a critical look at Atlanta and it’s built environment. The reading is available on the public drive under “Book Club” or on the internet here.
Will the candidates commit to:
