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THREE VIEWS OF OMAN
The Photography of Wilfred Thesiger, Charles Butt and Edward Grazda
1945-2006
| On View thru Apr 25
Houghton Gallery
7 E 7th Street, 2nd fl
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Presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
"Three Views of Oman is a great example of the dialogue of cultures. Rather than repeating the Orientalist approach that has weakened so many Western studies of Arabic societies, this exhibition builds a new bridge between two civilizations with different histories but shared values."
- Radwan Ziadeh, George Washington University
Collected here for the first time is a history of Oman in images. One of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Ibadi Islam, the sultanate sits along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. From early days of world trade through the port of Muscat to contemporary engagement with international diplomacy and the West, Oman has always evoked beauty and mystery in equal measure. The Three Views of Oman exhibition reveals the country as its contours emerged over the past seventy years in an intimate portrait through the eyes of the West, as captured in images by English explorer Wilfred Thesiger in the 1940s, British Army major Charles Butt in the 1970s, and award-winning American documentary photographer Edward Grazda in the first decade of this century. The exhibition chronicles the rapid social and physical changes in Oman, as well as the changing nature of photography itself over 60 years. These original photographs have traveled to Oxford and London, England; Grenada, Spain and other destinations; this will be the only presentation in New York City.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Friday 2pm-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm-7pm
Exhibition on view: March 11 - April 25, 2015
Image: Muttrah business district, Muscat, Edward Grazda, 2006
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SUSTAINING ARCHITECTURE
Design Practice and the Matter of Care
| Mar 24 at 12pm
RM 315
Foundation Bldg
Lunch Provided |
Lecture by Nicholas D'Avella
Dr. D'Avella is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union.
This talk is based on fieldwork in the architecture school at the University of Buenos Aires in the years following Argentina's economic and political crisis in 2001. In the aftermath of the crisis, buildings had become an important form of economic investment for many middle class Argentines, resulting in a boom in investment-driven construction. The talk examines the politics of architectural education in this context, taking a longer historical view at the politics of architectural education in Buenos Aires from the dictatorship years of the 1970s through the neoliberal policies of the 1990s and into the present. I analyze drawings and models as political technologies through which students were invested with ways of caring for the built environment that extend beyond market value, offering the possibility to conserve particular human-building relations in the face of the economic priorities that threatened to overtake them.
Image: 'Entrega Final, Facultad de Arquitectura, Dise�o, y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires,' Nicholas D'Avella
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BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE
Call for Proposals
| Deadline:
Mar 31, 2015, 5pm |
The Buckminster Fuller Institute formally announces the Call for Proposals to the 2015 Fuller Challenge. Recognized as "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award", the Fuller Challenge invites activists, architects, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, students and planners from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions to some of humanity's most pressing problems. A $100,000 prize is awarded to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy.
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SOM INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES | Deadline Approaching: March 20, 2015
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is pleased to announce that the application process for our 2015 Summer Internship Program is now open.
SOM is seeking the best emerging talent to join them this summer in their Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC and London offices. Selected candidates will get hands-on project experience in architecture, interiors, structural engineering, sustainable engineering and urban design. In order to be considered, current students who are returning to study in the Fall of 2015 should apply by March 20, 2015. Details and requirements can be found here.
Decisions will be announced the week of March 30, 2015 and the internship program will run from June 8 - August 14, 2015.
For questions, please feel free to contact [email protected]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Thresholds 44 (MIT Department of Architecture) is accepting submissions on the theme of Workspace. Thresholds 44: Workspace seeks to mine how the meanings of and locations for work have been historically and culturally defined, how work transposes earlier notions of labor and craft production, and how the work of artists, writers, architects, designers, and urban planners - alongside managers, psychologists, political leaders, and employees themselves - have been integral in construing the physical and mental conditions of work, rest, and play. Deadline: May 1, 2015 learn more ... |
RSA-US STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS | RSA-US Student Design Awards (SDA-US) is an awards program to inspire collaborative, multidisciplinary design-led social change which connects design students and faculty with industry needs. This program is open only to undergraduate students currently enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States. Deadline: March 18, 2015 learn more ...
SOM is seeking the best emerging talent to join them this summer in their Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC and London offices. Selected candidates will get hands-on project experience in architecture, interiors, structural engineering, sustainable engineering and urban design. In order to be considered, current students who are returning to study in the Fall of 2015 should apply by March 20, 2015. Details and requirements can be found here.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY | The Van Alen Institute is sponsoring 20 applicants for the New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project grants. To apply, download the registration and application forms and return along with all support materials to [email protected] by midnight on March 23, 2015 learn more ...
DESIGN COMPETITION | The Chicago Architecture Biennial announces the Lakefront Kiosk Competition, organized in partnership with the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago. In keeping with the mission of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Lakefront Kiosk Competition is an opportunity to support innovative architectural work and to use the city-more specifically, the iconic shoreline of Lake Michigan-as a laboratory for architectural experimentation. Deadline: March 23, 2015 learn more ...
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OPEN CALL: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | Arts Letters and Numbers is welcoming creative thinkers to invest their time in individual, focused and exploratory work at our facilities Upstate, New York in Averill Park near Albany. Our wood and metal shop at the Mill and our Residence next door are now open and active year-round. There are a limited number of private bedrooms and studio spaces available so we encourage residency candidates to apply to the program at least two weeks prior to your intended arrival. Residency durations may be 1 week to 3 months. Deadline: Rolling Basis learn more ...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The journal Nova Organa is accepting written and visual work that utilizes new and forgotten methods of fiction, critique, and philosophy in the creation of art/architecture theory and thinking. The next issue will use "The Scene" as an epigraph/theme. Deadline: April 15, 2015 learn more ...
DESIGN COMPETITION | ARCH+ Journal announces the international competition "PLANETARY URBANISM - CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT in the Medium of Information Design" open to all architects, designers, artists and students in the fields of architecture and art. The competition is in the context of the UN-HABITAT III Conference awarded by the Journal ARCH+ with the support of the Federal Foreign Office, Germany consulted by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Register by April 30, 2015. learn more ...
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SYMPOSIUM | Diane Lewis will moderate the panel discussion Big Dreams: AIANY Global Dialogues to be held at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY on March 18, 2015. learn more ...URBAN OMNIBUS | Stephen Rustow is a columnist for the Architectural League of New York's Urban Omnibus. His recent contribution titled "The Tragic Poetry of Building Codes" was published on March 11, 2015. read more ...LECTURE SERIES | Pablo Lorenzo-Eiora is presenting a series of lectures as part of Architecture in Formation in the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania during March. learn more ...SYMPOSIUM | Michael Samuelian will participate on the panel discussion Big Dreams: AIANY Global Dialogues to be held at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY on March 18, 2015. learn more ...
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Daniel Libeskind (AR '70) | article | "New Spin for an Old Town," Architectural Record, March 2015 Toshiko Mori (AR '76) | news | "Toshiko Mori's ecological cultural center in Senegal set to open," Designboom.com, March 4, 2015 Shigeru Ban (AR '84) | lecture | "Shigeru Ban's Goal: A Balancing Act of Architecture and Social Contribution," Japan Society, New York, NY, March 28, 2015 Vladimir Belogolovsky (AR '96) | lecture | "Curating Architecture," University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, March 13, 2015 OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee (AR '97) | award | Church in the Arctic, Tana Bru, Norway, Projects Merit Award, 2015 AIA NY Design Awards OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee (AR '97) | article | Building of the Week: Casa OSA by OBRA, World-Architects.com Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin (both AR '02) | article | "Open Book," Architectural Record, March 2015 Sotirios Kotoulas (AR '03) | moderator | "Architecture as Energy," Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival, February 3, 2015 Sotirios Kotoulas (AR '03) | appointment | President, Board of Directors, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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