Our newest section, RECORD Events, is your go-to source for information about exhibitions, lectures, conferences, and symposia around the globe. This section also features competition announcements for both emerging and established architects.

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity The show is a must see. At New York’s Museum of Modern Art from November 8 until January 25, the exhibition was organized by MoMA curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman in collaboration with three German institutions—all celebrating the 90th anniversary of the influential school’s founding. Josef Albers Scherbe ins Gitterbild (Glass fragments in grid picture) c.1921

Control|Print
New York City
November 6—December 20, 2009
Control|Print features works by a number of notable international artists and designers who play with the notion of digital technology. In this first American presentation, prominent members of the Parsons community create work in traditional, digital, and mixed media that extend the idea of ink on paper and showcase how machinery and technology can enter the representational process. For more information, visit newschool.edu/events.

Energy and Architecture: How Green is Green?
November 16, 2009
New York City
A panel discussion including American and Danish architects will analyze the benefits, compromises, and challenges in creating and designing sustainable buildings and communities in the U.S. and Denmark. The panel, which includes architects Stephen Kieran of the well-known Philadelphia firm Kieran Timberlake and Bjarke Ingels, head of the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), will explore the differences and similarities in the energy-saving measures used by architects in each country. Since the U.S. and Denmark vary greatly in size, climatic conditions, and commonly-used building materials and energy-saving features, the discussion will examine how each country can learn from the other. The moderator of the discussion is Suzanne Stephens, deputy editor of Architectural Record. At Scandinavia House. Visit scandinaviahouse.org for more information.

Detour
New York City
December 3, 2009—January 10, 2010
Detour documents notable architectural projects along Norwegian tourist routes that have gained national and international attention. The exhibition design is marked by a large cylindrical construction that transports the visitor to the Norwegian landscape through the use of films and models. For more information, call 212/229-8919 or visit newschool.edu/events.

Graffiti Gone Global
Miami
December 4—6, 2009
This groundbreaking exhibition, set to take place in a 4,000 square foot venue in the Midtown Arts District, will be the largest in Miami to feature the work of today’s top street artists. Presenter SUSHISAMBA has commissioned Miami-based architect HOX (Douglas Hoekzema) to design a sprawling, Brazilian-inspired favela structure for Graffiti Gone Global. For more information, visit graffitigoneglobal.blogspot.com.

 

 

Ongoing Exhibitions

Chicago: You Are Here 
Chicago
This engaging permanent exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation provides images, models, artifacts and video presentations, encouraging visitors to explore the architecture, infrastructure and environment of Chicago. For more information, visit www.architecture.org.

Chicago Model City 
Chicago
Through November 20, 2009
A highlight of the citywide Burnham celebration, Chicago Model City draws tourists and locals alike and consists of a large, highly detailed scale model of Chicago, photographs, maps, videos, and computer animations. The scale of the model is 1 inch to 50 feet, making the Sears Tower nearly three feet tall! For more information, visit www.architecture.org.

B Like Burnham
Chicago
Through November 20, 2009
This exhibition helps Chicago Architecture Foundation visitors understand the man, the Plan, and the legacy of Daniel H. Burnham. For more information, call 312/922-3432 or visit www.architecture.org.

What Makes India Urban? Challenges Towards Mobility, Infrastructure, Energy, and Perpetual Change
Berlin
Through November 26, 2009
This exhibition takes place in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2009. This year’s thematic focus is “Mobility and Energy.” At Aedes am Pfefferberg, with a symposium on October 10, 2009. For more information, call 0049-30-2827015 or visit www.aedes-arc.de.

Architect Sverre Fehn. Intuition • Reflection • Construction
Helsinki, Finland
Through November 29, 2009
In this retrospective of Norway's most prominent architect, 18 of his built and unbuilt projects are on display. Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1997, Fehn is especially known for his museum and exhibition buildings and private houses. For more information, visit www.mfa.fi/atmuseum

Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil
New York City
Through December 4, 2009
Exploring oil dependency and climate change interventions, from citywide environmental initiatives to futuristic floating cities, this exhibition discusses how historical theories of urban development can inform today’s urban designers (and how contemporary problems require new solutions). For more information, call 212/935-3960 or visit www.mas.org.

Jean-Pierre Hébert: Drawings as Thoughts 
Los Angeles
Through December 13, 2009
The works presented in Drawings as Thoughts blend computer drawn lines with snippets of texts, keywords and quotations to create an abstract landscape of reveries, thoughts, and memories of Jean-Pierre Hébert’s personal architectural readings, encounters, and experiences. At the Southern California Institute of Architecture. For more information, visit www.sciarc.edu.

Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece
Charlottesville, Virg.
Through January 3, 2010
Exploring Thomas Jefferson’s design for the construction of the University of Virginia, this exhibition will present the original drawings, prints, and letters that he exchanged with his colleagues as the plan for his iconic Academical Village took shape. For more information, visit www.virginia.edu/artmuseum.

Design for a Living World: Green Design Challenge
New York City
Through January 4, 2010
This exhibition showcases ten leading designers who have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to demonstrate the power of conservation and design. Students will work in teams to address a design challenge and to create a proposal for a sustainable product design. For more information, visit www.cooperhewitt.org.

Ghost Stories, New Designs from Nendo 
New York City
Through January 10, 2010
The newest projects and prototypes from the renowned Tokyo-based design studio Nendo will be seen for the first time at the Museum of Arts and Design. Nendo has garnered international attention and more than 45 design awards for its beautifully simple yet surprisingly humorous work in interiors, furniture, product design, graphics and architecture. For more information, visit www.madmuseum.org.

The Art of Architecture: Foster + Partners
Dallas
Through January 10, 2010
Coinciding with the grand opening of the Winspear Opera House, this exhibition explores Foster + Partners’ major architectural achievements over the past four decades. It features architectural models, drawings, renderings, photographs and videos to give insight into the formal and conceptual underpinnings of the practice’s work, as well as provide a context for better understanding their new contribution to modernist architecture in Dallas. For more information, visit www.nashersculpturecenter.org.

Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009
New York City
Through January 23, 2010
Accompanied by over three dozen photos by celebrated architectural photographer Elizabeth Felicella, this exhibition explores the role and regulation of contemporary architecture of five historic New York neighborhoods. At the AIANY Center for Architecture. For more information, visit www.aiany.org.

Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman
Pittsburgh
Through January 31, 2010
This exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects. At The Heinz Architectural Center. Call 412/622-3131 or visit www.cmoa.org.

David Chipperfield Architects - Form Matters
London
Through January 31, 2010
With a style that is restrained, quiet and thoughtful, David Chipperfield is of one of Britain’s leading architects. This comprehensive overview will look at key moments in his development as well as at major recent projects including the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, the America’s Cup Building in Valencia, Spain, the newly completed Neues Museum in Berlin and the Hepworth Museum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. For more information, visit www.designmuseum.org.

What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi Scott Brown & Associates
New Haven, Conn.
Through February 5, 2010
Two separate exhibitions offer complementary perspectives on the legendary studio taught at Yale in 1969 and its subsequent impact on the teaching, research and design work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, two of America’s most prominent architects. The first exhibition, “The Yale Las Vegas Studio,” consists of more than 100 color photographs, slide presentations and miscellaneous original materials documenting the famed 1968 Yale “field trip” to Las Vegas led by Venturi and Scott Brown. The second exhibition, “What We Learned,” focuses on Venturi and Scott Brown’s critical contributions to the urban landscape and our understanding of it. Visit www.architecture.yale.edu.

China Prophecy: Shanghai
New York City
Through March 2010
The exhibition explores the 21st-century skyscraper city of Shanghai, a vast metropolis of 18 million residents — the largest city in the world’s most populous nation. At the Skyscraper Museum. For more information, call 212/945-6325 or visit www.skycraper.org.

Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
New York City
Through April 4, 2010
This exhibition celebrates the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, including works of fashion, technology, graphics, architecture, landscape, and product design. Following the exhibition, students will have two workshop options: In Chair Design or Graphic Identity. For more information, visit www.cooperhewitt.org.

John Portman: Art & Architecture 
Atlanta
Through April 18, 2010
Featuring fifteen completed and current architectural projects of Atlanta-based architect John Portman, this exhibition explores five decades of national and international developments, including the Hyatt Regency Atlanta (1967) that is globally renowned as the first modern atrium hotel. For more information, visit www.high.org.

From Village to Grounds: Architecture after Jefferson at the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virg.
Through May 31, 2010
This exhibition explores the wide range of solutions to the architectural and planning problems posed by adding to the Academical Village, from 19th-century picturesque ideals to the classicism of McKim, Mead & White and the modern architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. For more information, visit www.virginia.edu/artmuseum.

House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage
Washington, D.C.
Through July 11, 2010
In a world without parking garages, parking lots might sprawl across cities. For more than 100 years, the parking garage has provided design and engineering solutions to the parking problem. This is the first major exhibition to explore the history of this familiar structure and open conversations about innovative designs and parking solutions for the future. For more information, call 202/272-2448 or visit www.nbm.org.

Architecture and Design as a Catalyst for Change
Chicago
November 5—7, 2009
This conference will be the first meeting of the Association of Architecture Organizations, which intends to develop an alliance of like-minded non-profit groups to educate the public about architecture and the built environment, and to serve as a forum for the sharing of best practices, materials and ideas. For more information, visit www.adenweb.org/conference2009.

Inaugural Association of Architecture Organizations Conference
Chicago
November 5—7, 2009
The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association will gather for a wide variety of educational and self-development sessions on the latest issues in construction, BIM, “green” construction, energy efficiency, LEED, and sustainability. Sessions will be presented by industry experts and will provide tailor-made solutions to meet the technical and business management needs of sheet metal and air-conditioning contractors. Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will speak at Sunday evening’s opening session. Visit www.smacna.org or call 703/803-2998.

Barnes Foundation Design Presentation
New York City
November 9, 2009
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will present their design for a new home in Philadelphia for the Barnes Foundation’s world renowned art collection. In 2007, the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously selected their firm from six entries in an invited interview process. The new design will be the first addition to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway in many generations. For more information, call 212/753-1722.

Current Work: Grimshaw | Andrew Whalley
New York City
November 9, 2009
Andrew Whalley, partner in charge of Grimshaw’s New York office, will present the firm’s recent and current work, including EMPAC (The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) at RPI in Troy and the Fulton Street Transit Center. For more information, call 212/753-1722.

GreenBuild International Conference and Expo
Phoenix
November 11—13, 2009
GreenBuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of building professionals from all over come together for three days of educational sessions, renowned speakers, green-building tours, special seminars, and networking events. For more information, visit www.greenbuildexpo.org.

Jefferson, Palladio, Art and Architecture and the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virg.
November 20—21, 2009
This two-day symposium will feature leading and emerging scholars from several disciplines to explore the art and architecture of Thomas Jefferson, Andrea Palladio and the development of architecture at the University of Virginia including the work of McKim, Mead & White. To register, call 434/924-1428.

Book Talk and Signing with Randall Mason, Author of The Once And Future New York
New York City
December 1, 2009
In The Once and Future New York, Mason challenges several myths about New York’s historic preservation, asserting that preservationists were not simply antiquarians concerned only with architecturally significant buildings, but that many were social reformers interested in recovering the city’s collective history. For more information, call 212/945-6324.

China Eco Expo
Beijing
June 3—5, 2010
Featuring green building products, technologies, and services from around the world, this high level conference addresses China’s need for more sustainable, eco-friendly growth. Highlights include an extensive matchmaking program and a full-scale model “Green Office of the Future.” For more information, visit www.ecoexp.com.

 

USITT 2010 Student Design Competition
Registration deadline: November 20, 2009
The competition asks, “What is the ideal theatre for teaching professional theatre”? This question is to be explored by a team composed of at least one theatre student currently enrolled in a college or university theatre program and one architectural student enrolled in an accredited architectural college or university program. Email sfg@workshoparchitects.com

The SHIFTboston Ideas Competition
Submission Deadline: December 11, 2009
Submit your most innovative, provocative and radical ideas in this competition that seeks to collect new visions for Boston’s urban environment. Eligible topics include: renewable energy, ecological urbanism, creative redevelopment, municipal involvement in the field of design, and city as a cultural center and cultural force. For more information, visit www.shiftboston.org.

Tradewell Fellowship with WHR Architects
Submission Deadline: January 22, 2009
The Tradewell Fellowship was created to build the careers of aspiring healthcare architects. Each year, the Tradewell Fellow is involved with clients in early master planning and design with a particular focus on healing environments and collaborative design methods. The Fellowship begins and ends in July and includes employment at WHR Architects in Houston. For more information, visit www.whrarchitects.com.

Construction Excellence Awards
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010
Recognizing the outstanding achievements of professionals in the design, fabrication, and functionality of acoustical and specialty ceilings as well as in interior systems construction, these awards also further their contributions to the architectural industry. For more information, call 630/584-1919.

IESNYC Challenge: Liminal Luminosity
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2010
This competition challenges NYC students to interpret and express how light facilitates, defines, or bridges a point of transition. The students are to interpret and express this theme in the form of a three-dimensional abstract lighting composition; constructed of their choice of materials. For more information, visit iesny.org or call 212/993-6460.

Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Design Competition
Deadline: April 1, 2010
A two-stage international design competition to choose a winning proposal to build a fitting and compelling memorial to the holocaust and genocide in general, which has the potential to raise the consciousness of millions of visitors each year. Entry is anonymous and open to professionals and students in architecture, design, and the visual arts. Visit www.acbhm.org.

 

E-mail information two months in advance to sebastian_howard@mcgraw-hill.com.