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May 3, 10 //

We made it through, and what a dynamic and fun filled week! There were so many amazing events: the community mural, OLIO, city market design charrette, kid’s day, Roxanne Sherbeck, Women in Design, Urban Farming, and all the movies- oh my!

We had so many great people who helped us this year. They built, designed, photographed, and volunteered their little hearts out! We could not have done this without them and the support of the community. The volunteers for Central Virginia continue to expand and build Architecture week year after year. Their dedication and time expresses their passion for architecture and design, and their commitment to help build a community through their efforts.

Special thanks to:

Dan Zimmerman

Liz Rhodes

Lowell Morin

Dina Sorensen

Jen Siomacco

Blaine Butler

Andy Orban

Andy Franck

KC Sperry

Pete O’Shea

Andrew Sherogan

Aaron Eichorst

Clare vanMontfrans

Joe Celetano

Dick Smith

Jackson Smith

Leslie McDonald

Candace DeLoach

Lori Garrett

The AIA Central VA Board:

Bob Moje

Patricia Jesse

Kim Smith

Carter Green

Ellen Cathey

Garett Rouzer

Jo Lawson

The Women in Design Members

Secretly Y’all

The Jefferson Madison Library & Staff

The CCDC and Staff

Vinegar Hill Theater and Staff

Dean Kim Tanzer and The University of Virginia’s Architecture School

Feature Film: Visual Acoustics

April 28, 10 //

Join us for a screening of Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, a Documentary Film by Eric Bricker,

Thursday, April 29th, at time 7 pm at the Vinegar Hill Theater. ($5 suggested donation)

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

The running time for this film is 84 mins.

Following the screening of Visual Acoustics, we will be showing VDL Research House: Richard Neutra’s Studio and Residence by Dir. Lauren Weiss Bricker (running time: 40 mins).

The VDL Research House was designed by architect Richard J. Neutra in 1932 and served as his studio and residence for the rest of his career. Uniquely among his projects, it represented the three major phases of his aesthetic development. It exemplified his early works, which featured compact volumes in white or silver, with thin surfaces and bands of windows. The Garden house built behind the VDL house in 1939 shows an emphasis on indoor/outdoor living, with its large windows and deep overhangs, typical of his work in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The original house was destroyed by fire in 1963 and rebuilt in 1966. Neutra’s post-war work reflected his interest in environmental design, seen in the VDL House II with its use of site and climate responsive features.

See events calender for details.

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series

April 28, 10 //

PHILIP JOHNSON: Diary of an Eccentric Architect [56 mins] Directed by Barbara Wolf, Checkerboard Film Foundation

“My place in New Canaan is…a diary of an eccentric architect.” Thus begins a fascinating look into the mind of one of our most creative and significant architects. Philip Johnson has always been on the forefront of stylistic change, and his property in New Canaan, Connecticut, is a kind of laboratory where Johnson is his own best client. It was there that he built his famous “Glass House” he still resides in. This building has no walls; (the landscape became “expensive wallpaper”) an accompanying guest house, by contrast, has no windows, though it is light and sensuous inside. We visit these, as well as the gallery which houses Johnson’s extensive collection of contemporary art on its revolving walls. “My latest folly,” says Johnson, “is to build buildings without straight lines…It’s the first time I’ve had a building I can’t draw and have to design partially as it goes up.” This new structure is at the core of the video, and we get to see the sculptural building from its initial stages to completion. The video depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment, in this case the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series

April 28, 10 //

YOSHIO TANIGUCHI: The New Museum of Modern Art [30 mins] Directed by: Muffie Dunn, Checkerboard Film Foundation

Architect Yoshio Taniguchi, revered in his native country of Japan for the design of consummately minimal museums, won the much-coveted commission to expand and renovate the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1997. Opened in 2004, the serenely elegant complex of taut, smooth glass, aluminum, and granite planes plays off the International Style vocabulary of the original museum building, designed in 1939 by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, In this tour, Taniguchi guides us through the museum, discussing his thinking behind the design of the six levels of galleries for the much-heralded collection of late-19th to early 21st-century art. The tour also takes us up and around the dramatic, 110-foot-high atrium, through the famous sculpture garden designed by Philip Johnson and landscape architect James Fanning in 1953, ending in the new education and research center that Taniguchi completed at the garden’s East end in 2006.

Landscape Architecture Day: Urban Farming

April 28, 10 //

April 28th, 2010

11.30 –1:00pm Open Gallery at the AIACV Architecture Week’s Storefront 101 East Main Street, on the Downtown Mall

Urban Farming is more than a trend- it is about creating a sense of place; changing the way we eat; creating art; changing lifestyles; and, it is about creating communities and changing the urban fabric.

Installation Loop

Take a seat in a pop-up pod Lounge to watch short films that expand the topic of Urban Landscapes with radical urban proposals by Dutch firm MVRDV and THE WHY FACTORY, New York firm WORKAc, and Dutch design firm DROOG in Milan implementing a Slow Food experience in GO SLOW.

Installation Living / Vertical Walls, by Sean Ealey of Outdoor Living

6:30 pm – Movie and panel discussion at The Jefferson-Madison Library

THE GARDEN a film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy- The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall.

Along with the movie, a panel of designers will discuss plights of the urban farm, the concept of permaculture, new technologies and vertical gardens, the impacts and benefits of a school of growing food its own food or buying locally.

Speakers :

Matt Whitaker, NBWLA; Sean Ealey, Outdoor Living; Niels Asmussen, Edible Lanscapes; Mike Parisi, BRBH

Moderated by Shane Emmett of United States of Food

Women in Design Day

April 27, 10 //

Women in Design (WiD) Charlottesville is pleased to sponsor a panel discussion with Women Leaders of the Built Environment.

Join us for a conversation

with Virginia Commonwealth University Architect – Mary Patton Cox, FAIA.

University of Virginia , Assistant University Architect - Connie Warnock and

Virginia Tech’s Executive Director of Planning Construction and Design – Lynn Eichorn.

Hear what these three women leaders think about women’s roles in architecture and construction – a predominately male industry. Learn how they balanced work and life; family and creative pursuits; and personal and professional challenges. Find out how they navigated their careers to positions of leadership, and if upon getting there – - they feel they’ve crashed through the glass ceiling.

Meet these women leaders, friends, and colleagues at a 5:00 reception – - watch the short film recognizing the 100 women who worked for Frank Lloyd Wright – - then join the audience for a moderated discussion and conversation on leadership in the design and construction industry at three of Virginia’s finest institutions of higher education.

Location : The University of Virginia’s Architecture School, click here for a map.

Date: Tuesday, April 27th

Time: 5:00 for reception

Martha Jefferson Hospital Tour

April 27, 10 //

Virtual Design and Construction on Pantops by Minneapolis based Mortenson Construction

The new Martha Jefferson Hospital, designed by Kahler Slater Architects is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2011. To stay on schedule and maximize efficiency on site and in the trailer, Mortenson Construction utilizes the latest in digital technology.

Join Kai Ellestad, Integrated Construction Coordinator for a walk through the BIM model and Joh Nehls, Senior Superintendent for a tour of the Martha Jefferson Hospital construction site.

Kai and Jon will share information about Mortenson’s strategies for construction coordination and scheduling using building information modeling. Responding to complex and tight scheduling constraints, the team utilized a combination of Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) and BIM, to create a 4D model that allowed the superintendent to identify potential challenges in steel erection sequencing. Kai leads the ICC effort to track information requests and coordinate building systems for the multiple trades on site.

3:30 pm BIM presentation onsite in the construction trailer – construction tour directly following the presentation. The site tour is limited to 25 people – sign up early. Visit our registration page to sign up.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010. 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Details will be distributed to attendees via email

http://www.mortenson.com/

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series: Koolhaas Houselife

April 26, 10 //

As part of our Brown Bag Lunch Film Series, we are screening Koolhaas Houselife, directed by Ile Beka & Louise Lemoine (58 mins), on Tuesday April 27th at the CCDC from 12-1pm.

Koolhaas Houselife is a film on one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture of recent years: The House in Bordeaux designed in 1998 by Rem Koolhaas/OMA. Unlike most movies about architecture, this feature focuses less on explaining the building, its structure and its virtuosity than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of an architectural icon. This experiment presents s a new way of looking at architecture and broadens the field of its representation. Like any house, the House in Bordeaux is a place of plurality with all its chaos, its wear and tear, and its changes. The work of Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine offers us a portrait of the real and changing vitality of one of those monuments that we believe are immortal. This is realized through the stories and daily chores of Guadelupe Acedo, the home’s caretaker and housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Following and interacting with Guadalupe, blooms an unusual and unpredictable look at the spaces and structure of the building. SPECIAL THANKS TO BEKAFILMS

See events calender for details.

Women in Design Film

April 26, 10 //

A GIRL IS A FELLOW HERE: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright [Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, 15 mins]

This documentary film explores an unknown legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. Produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, the film premiered on June 10, 2009, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright. The film tells the story of how six women worked and went on to distinguished careers of their own, beginning with his first staff member Marion Mahony, and including Isabel Roberts, Jane Duncombe, Lois Davidson Gottlieb, Eleanore Pettersen and Read Weber.

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April 26, 10 //

Achitecture Week seems to have a live feed today for the tours over at UVA!

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Feature Film: Visual Acoustics

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series

Landscape Architecture Day: Urban Farming

Women in Design Day

Martha Jefferson Hospital Tour

Brown Bag Lunch Film Series: Koolhaas Houselife

Women in Design Film

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