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09. 04
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Authors in Architecture: Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy 6pm– Author Presentation 7pm – Reception and Book Signing Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy Michelangelo Sabatino, Ph.D., is co-editor of Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean. He serves as Assistant Professor Architectural History & Theory Coordinator at the University of Houston Gerald D Hines College of Architecture. Sabatino’s research and teaching are focused on critical and historical problems in late 19th and 20th century European and North American architecture, urbanism, and design with special attention to the competing and often contradictory ways in which the appropriation of rural and commercial vernaculars has shaped the pursuit of national, regional, international identity during this period. Debuting in January 2009, Authors in Architecture is a collaboration between the Houston Public Library Downtown and the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). Our aim is to create a dialogue between these two cultural centers and their patrons. This series is free and open to the public. |
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09.16
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Rice Design Alliance Gives Second Annual Spotlight Award to Japanese Architect Sou Fujimoto 7:00 p.m. (pre-lecture wine reception begins at 6 p.m.) As this year’s award committee deliberated about whom to give the second annual Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize, the up and coming architect Sou Fujimoto rose to the top as a unanimous choice. Graduating from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Architecture in 1994, Fujimoto established his eponymous practice, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in 2000. Fujimoto’s work, which he defines as “formless form” where the architecture exists between nature and artifact, has garnered multiple awards and much praise. Many of his projects employ material layering to heighten sensory experience, perhaps most evident in the log-stacking of his award-winning and highly-lauded Wooden House. Spotlight committee member and professor at the Rice School of Architecture Carlos Jimenez says,“Fujimoto has managed in a short time to build his own unmistakable position through works that surprise with their multifaceted simplicity. These works might be initially read as minimal yet on closer inspection they reveal a more complex reading where program, culture, and nature produce an abundance of architecture.” Eligible honorees for the Spotlight Prize must be within their first 15 years of professional practice. An RDA committee of architects and academics convenes annually to consider local, national, and international architects who demonstrate design excellence and promise a great design future. Fujimoto will be in Houston this fall to formally accept the RDA prize. He will present his firm’s work at the annual Spotlight lecture. |
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09.07
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| Brown Auditorium, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet. www.ricedesignalliance.org |
09.29
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| RDA Fall Lecture Series focuses on materiality and material use in architecture We Are Living in "A Material World" presents Blaine Brownell Transstudio, St. Paul, Minnesota transstudio.com Rice Design Alliance (RDA) is pleased to announce that its annual fall lecture series will take place September 29 through October 20 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series, called “A Material World,” will focus on innovative and cutting-edge uses and practices of materials in the built environment. The speakers will address various topics, ranging from what “green” buildings and materials really consist of and how they fare throughout their lifecycle to how different materials are chosen for a particular project and how materials function both aesthetically and practically. The tactile and aesthetic qualities of materials have always been integral to construction and architectural experience, but emergent materials and their associated technologies are rapidly altering the way designers work and the way end-users engage buildings. This series, as well as Cite Magazine's November issue, seeks to address the ever-expanding world of materials and their incorporation into our built environment. All lectures will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Brown Auditorium in the Caroline Wiess Law Building ww.ricedesignalliance.org, |
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