AIA Central Virginia takes great pleasure in Honoring :
Henry J. Browne, AIA – Milton L. Grigg Award
James R. Boyd, AIA – Architect Service Award
Sally Thomas – Citizen Service Award
Overton McGehee – Special Citation
Please join us for the Honors & Awards Reception
Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at 6:30pm
OpenSpace 455 2nd Street SE, Charlottesville VA
Please RSVP to Elizabeth{at}aiacentralva{dot}org
Please join us today for a panel discussion with representatives from Piedmont Housing Alliance , Building Goodness, Habitat for Humanity, & Design Marathon.
These organizations aid our community by providing a professional service to clients that would never have the resources to hire professionals. Each of these groups focus on aiding and bettering a community through good design.
These organizations face similar challenges: red tape, working for a much larger client base, and trying finding funding for their projects, as the reach for their ultimate goal: to better our community and give a helping hand to the undeserved.
City Space
7:30
photo from the daily progress
photo: Ansel Olsen via SMBW Architects
Join Fred Hopkins from SMBW Architects in Richmond for a tour of the Boys and Girls Club at noon.
AIA VA Architectural Bike Tour 2011 from Ian Ayers on Vimeo.
Special thanks to Ian Ayers, our bike safety specialist, for making this video.
Vinegar Hill, 7pm
$5 suggested donation
“The purpose of architecture,” said John Lautner, “is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life.”
Infinite Space, a new documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
As a young man, Lautner broke from his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright, and went west to California to forge his own architecture. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally – monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. It was a life in pursuit of beauty.
Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner’s dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Other voices join him: comments from Frank Gehry and his peers who were influenced by Lautner, the emotional memories of original clients, owners and builders, the remarks of Frank Escher, the architect who restored the Chemosphere house, and Julius Shulman who famously photographed all the great modernists.
Original drawings and historical photographs from the John Lautner Archives at the Getty Museum are layered with the artistic photography of seminal buildings, bringing to life Lautner’s quest to create timeless space.
A Googie Company Production in association with The John Lautner Foundation and The Hammer Museum. Directed by Murray Grigor.
“The creative process – it’s a sweat. The thing is to be able to hold, and try to pull together, all the possible emotional elements, physical elements, structural elements and nature, and try to pull that into an idea. One idea. An you have to practice. So since I have been practicing that way for 50 years I can do it. But I have better control now than I ever did.” John Lautner
Join us on the 4th floor of Live Arts for a screening of Bette Jane Cohen’s film The Spirit in Architecture in 16mm format. Born in 1911 in northern Michigan, Lautner grew up on the wild edges of Lake Superior in northern Michigan where he was deeply influenced by the “infinite variety of nature”. After college, Lautner worked as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin East - witnessing Wright design “Falling Water” (1936) and supervising the construction of several projects. Lautner started his own practice in 1940 after six years at Taliesin and from the Wrightian principles of “organic architecture” developed his own body of work over the next 50 years, primarily in Southern California.
Come out for the screening monday evening to discover Lautner’s extraordinary creative process – in celebration of his legacy and lasting contribution to the modern american landscape. Happy Birthday 100th Mr. Lautner!
The Milton Hanger has come a long way from its Piper Cub Club days.
Now, the Hanger serves the University of Virginia’s Architecture School and School of Engineering Work Space.
It is currently a construction site for Initiative reCOVER’s Breathe House prototype.
RSVP at http://aiacv-archweek.org/register/ and get the map to its location!
Join us out at the Hanger at Noon on Monday for a tour of the facility.
and check us out on facebook!
GOD’S ARCHITECTS trailer from Zack Godshall on Vimeo.
Welcome visiting director Zack Godshall at a sit down Community Pot Luck (Bring your Favorite Dish!) and then grab some popcorn for his movie God’s Architects.
A documentary that tells the stories of five divinely inspired artist-architects and their enigmatic creations. The film details how and why these oft-marginalized creators, with neither funding nor blueprints, construct their self-made environments. Beyond the builders and their work, the film functions as a personal essay that explores the nature of inspiration and one’s dedication to a creative project, no matter how absurd or mysterious the circumstances may seem.
Rain or Shine 6:30 pm Potluck, Film at 7:30pm
Random Row Books, 315 West Main St
suggested donation to Random Row book $5 for Movie
photo from www.katheats.com
AIA Central Virginia is excited to saddle up and bike around in the fresh spring air.
Starting and Ending at Random Row Books- 315 W Main Street, We will explore a few gardens and learn about some interesting homes and structures around the Downtown area, which may have caught your eye over the past few years.
Please meet at Random Row at 2:30pm to sign waivers and get a map. If groups becomes large we will break into groups and leave in 15 min shifts. Remember to wear a helmet when biking, wear light colored/reflective clothing, and have a lights on your bike for ride around at dusk or later. (white in the front and red in the back)
Tour times 3:00-5:00pm
If rain, bike tour portion of event will be cancelled.
Space is limited please sign up by emailing elizabeth{at}aiacentralva{dot}org
View Sat, April 23 2011 Bike Tour – AIA CV in a larger map
Come back with a dish to Random Row at 6:30 for Community Pot Luck and Movie God’s Architect at 7:30.
Explore Fridays after Five with AIA CV and Kick off Architecture Week at the City Space.
UVA’s ecoMOD will be out on the Mall in front of the City Space showing off their XS project. ecoMOD XS is a design effort to create extra-small housing units — accessory dwelling units for use as aging-in-place urban infill housing. The designs aim for zero energy use and overall reduced environmental impact. The designs are informed by the needs of older Americans, and the principles of universal design.
Come inside the City space for drinks and socializing at 6:30pm.
We are bring Secretly Ya’ll back to C-Ville all the way from RVA with “Man made Space: stories through architecture”. Stories will start at 7:00pm.
At 8pm, we’ll head straight into Pecha Kucha C-Ville style.
Pecha Kech means “chit chat” in Japanese. Presenters will be showing 20 images in 20 seconds- you got talk and think fast on this night.