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Archive for November, 2005


Panel Discussion: Design Build

The Design-Build Masters Program is sponsoring a talk and panel discussion on The Design Build Movement by board members of the Design Build Institute of America, Southeastern Region.

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND
Wednesday evening
November 30th
B6 Auditorium at 4:30 p.m.

Panel:
Wayne Myrick, DBIA - President of Myrick Gurosky and Associates
Jim Griffo, AIA, - Partner of Gresham Smith and Partners
Yolanda Devine Johnson - J Devine Company - Director of SE Region of DBIA


Lecture: Kenneth Frampton

Time: 4:00pm cst
Location: Dudley Hall Parker Auditorium (B-6)

Professor Kenneth Frampton (1930) is Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He is an architect and architectural historian educated at the Architectural Association in London and has worked as an architect in England, Israel and the United States. He has worked in the field of housing design in both London and New York. Before migrating to the United States in 1965 he was Technical Editor of the magazine Architectural Design for three years.
From 1964-1972 he was a member of the faculty at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. With the exception of three years at the Royal College of Art in London, 1974-77, Professor Frampton has taught at Columbia University since 1972, serving as Chairman of the Division of Architecture from 1986 to 1989 and, since 1993, director of the Ph.D. program in the History and Theory of Architecture. He has taught as a visiting professor in numerous schools of architecture worldwide including the Berlage Institute, the Eidgenosche Technische Hochschule, Switzerland, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Professor Frampton has received numerous awards including the AIA National Honors Award (1985), the L’Academie d’Architecture Gold Medal (1987), Phi Beta Kappa Award (1987), the AIA New York Chapter Award of Merit (1988) and the ASCA Topaz Award (1990). He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1991), the University of Waterloo (1995) and California College of the Arts and Crafts (1999).
He has written extensively and contributed to numerous international journals. His publications include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980), Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1993), American Masterworks (1995), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). More recently he was the editor of Latin American Architecture: Six Voices (2000), Labour, Work and Architecture: Collected Essays on Architecture and Design (2002) and Richard Meier: Complete Works (Modern Masters Series 2003).


Seminar: Kenneth Frampton

Date: November 18, 2005
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am cst
Location: Dudley Hall 101 (Foundation Unit Studios)

The school of Architecture is pleased to Host Kenneth Frampton as a guest speaker in a one day seminar workshop. Topics for discussion include: “The Predicament of the Place-Form” and “The Case for the Tectonic.” All are Invited.

Professor Kenneth Frampton (1930) is Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He is an architect and architectural historian educated at the Architectural Association in London and has worked as an architect in England, Israel and the United States. He has worked in the field of housing design in both London and New York. Before migrating to the United States in 1965 he was Technical Editor of the magazine Architectural Design for three years.
From 1964-1972 he was a member of the faculty at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. With the exception of three years at the Royal College of Art in London, 1974-77, Professor Frampton has taught at Columbia University since 1972, serving as Chairman of the Division of Architecture from 1986 to 1989 and, since 1993, director of the Ph.D. program in the History and Theory of Architecture. He has taught as a visiting professor in numerous schools of architecture worldwide including the Berlage Institute, the Eidgenosche Technische Hochschule, Switzerland, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Professor Frampton has received numerous awards including the AIA National Honors Award (1985), the L’Academie d’Architecture Gold Medal (1987), Phi Beta Kappa Award (1987), the AIA New York Chapter Award of Merit (1988) and the ASCA Topaz Award (1990). He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1991), the University of Waterloo (1995) and California College of the Arts and Crafts (1999).
He has written extensively and contributed to numerous international journals. His publications include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980), Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1993), American Masterworks (1995), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). More recently he was the editor of Latin American Architecture: Six Voices (2000), Labour, Work and Architecture: Collected Essays on Architecture and Design (2002) and Richard Meier: Complete Works (Modern Masters Series 2003).