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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Richard Cameron talks about THE NEOCLASSICAL DIVIDE

Studio Talks: Artists on Artists
Grand Central Academy South Studio
20 W. 44th Street 6th Floor
New York, NY 10036
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Refreshments will be served
rsvp: grandcentralacademy@gmail.com

Noted architect Richard Cameron will discuss the legacy of Stuart & Revett’s seminal work, Antiquities of Athens and its important place in the debate over the neo-classical divide – a debate that continues to influence classical work today.

“It’s stunning, in a stuffy-professor kind of way. And its presence is absolutely vital, I’d guess, on the bookshelf of any self-respecting architect.”
—- ART + AUCTION

A recent reprint of Antiquities of Athens was published by Princeton Architectural Press in association with the ICA&CA’s “Series in Art and Architecture.”

About Richard Cameron
Richard Cameron is principal at Ariel – The Art of Building, LLC and co-founder of the ICA&CA. Mr. Cameron has taught drawing and the history of architectural theory at the Institute since its founding, and currently serves on the Board of Directors as its Vice-Chairman. He was awarded first prize in the Royal Oak Foundation’s Annual Architecture Competition in 1993. His work has appeared in numerous publications including House and Garden, The New York Times, Period Homes, New Old House, and Traditional Building. For more information, please visit www.ariel-llc.com

November 16th, Sunday: Sacramento Art Deco Society /Towe Lecture Series. Guest speaker Therese Poletti introduces her new book:

Come meet the author and hear details about our favorite architecture and this gifted architect of San Francisco.

Books are available for signing. Location: Towe Auto Museum, Sacramento. Doors open at 2 pm; lecture begins at 2:30 pm. $5 for SADS and CVF Members, $7 for non-members, includes light refreshments and admission to the Museum. For more information call (916) 442-6802 or visit www.toweautomuseum.org

Timothy Pflueger’s Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA

November 14: Book signing with Faythe Levine at Reform School, Los Angeles, CA 6-9pm

November 15: Book signing with Faythe Levine at Barnes & Noble, Glendale, CA 3pm, Los Angeles, CA

November 17: Faythe Levine gives artist talk UW Milwaukee Union + Book signing with both Faythe & Cortney

November 16: Vending & screening 20 minute clip with Faythe Levine & Cortney Heimerl, Felt Club, Los Angeles, CA

November 20: Book signing with Faythe Levine at Barns & Noble, Alpharetta, GA

November 21: Book signing & screening 20 minute clip with Faythe Levine at Young Blood, Atlanta, GA, 7pm

November 22: Book signing & screening 20 minute clip with Faythe Levine, Hand.Craft.It, Madison, GA, 2pm

November 29: Vending Art vs. Craft with Faythe Levine & Cortney Heimerl, Milwaukee, WI

More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Author Jennifer Siegal book signing

Saturday, November 15th from 4:00pm-6:00pm

Hennessey + Ingalls
214 Wilshire Blvd. (between 2nd and 3rd Street Promenade on the south side of the street)
Santa Monica, CA
90401
Phone: (310) 458-9074

The allure of mobile, portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old. From the desert tents of the Bedouin to the silvery capsules of the Airstream trailer, mobile architecture has inspired designers with its singular characteristics of lightness, transience, and practicality. In More Mobile, the follow-up to her groundbreaking 2002 book Mobile, Jennifer Siegal explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable structures. From serious Refuge Wear to the playful Bar Rectum and the practical Kunsthallen, More Mobile explores the working methods and finished work of the most exciting contemporary designers and presents today’s most dynamic, active mobile structures in beautiful color images, detailed drawings, and thoughtful text. Contributors include Studio-Orta, Dré Wapenaar, Andrea Zittel, Andrew Maynard, Andreas Vogler, Horden Cherry Lee Architects, N55, Atelier Bow-Wow, Mark Fisher Studio, MMW, LOT-EK, and the Office of Mobile Design. A foreword by Jude Stewart discusses life on the move, while an introduction by William J. Mitchell considers the house as a robot in which to live.

Jennifer Siegal is founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Office of Mobile Design, which explores the ideas of dynamic, accessible, sustainable architecture. She is a former Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow at Woodbury University.

THERESE POLETTI

Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Talk, slideshow & booksigning for Art Deco San Francisco

The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street in San Francisco
For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com

If you can’t attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author’s new book, please email or phone the store.

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Wednesday November 19th, 2008

The Cirque Room at the Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason Street, San Francisco

Please join the ADSC at one of the first bars to open in San Francisco following prohibition, designed by San Francisco legendary architect Timothy Pflueger.

6:30 cocktails and entertainment provided by Sara Klotz de Aguilar who will seranade those gathered with songs from the Deco Era.
7:30 Slide show, lecture and book signing

Local journalist and author Therese Poletti will share slides and stories of her newly-released book Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger, with photos by Tom Paiva.

At the close of the program, there will be a book sale and signing. Books will be available for sale for $45.00, ten dollars off the list price.

Admission:
$10 ADSC members,
$15 guests.

Come and enjoy the ambiance of the Cirque, now only open for private parties. Deco cocktail attire admired but not required. Please RSVP by calling the ADSC office at 415.982.DECO.

“Perhaps the finest architect San Francisco has ever produced.”
—John King, San Francisco Chronicle

November 11, 2008

The winner of the Architecture Design category for Cooper-Hewitt’s 2008 National Design Awards, at 54 Tom Kundig maintains a youthful sense of wonder at the path his career has taken. He refers to his recent string of successes as something like riding a wave, while citing the inimitable power of the internet to create fluid connections. Indeed, while the Seattle-based firm in which he is partner, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects (OKSA), maintains a surprisingly polished website, the viral, word-of-mouth power of blogs and online media have aided in this crescendo, bringing him new clients from around the world.

Tom Kundig: Houses by Dung Ngo

Alluding to nature comes readily to Kundig, who grew up in the high desert of Idaho and Washington and spent his formative years, as have many Pacific Northwesterners, connected to his surroundings through activities such as mountaineering and rock climbing. In contrast to the East Coast’s more formalistic mentality of architecture, his designs are rooted in the culture of landscape: “Perhaps because of my upbringing, I have more of an elemental feel for material and details… My buildings are intended to age and move and weather.” Perhaps like no other Kundig project, the Montecito Residence (top images, courtesy Tim Bies) follows these very tenets. Like a bird of prey readying to take flight through the valley below, the house sits perched on the hillside, its oxidized steel panels and toned concrete slabs meant to become part of the very landscape.

Movement remains central to Kundig’s most recognized residential projects. Early exposure to mining, logging, and farming industries instilled a fascination with machinery that has influenced many of his architectural solutions. A commission for a remote cabin in eastern Washington called for a retreat that could adapt to the owner’s presence; opening up when in use, sealing off during inclement weather or periods of disuse. The finished structure, named the Delta Shelter (right, courtesy Benjamin Benschneider), is an exquisite box featuring steel shutters that roll on a hand driven mechanical system.

Kundig likens these kinetic apparatuses, which have taken the nickname “gizmos,” to inventions of necessity “that oddly put us back in touch with the nature of natural forces.” It’s an interesting turn of the phrase natural forces of nature, but the distinction is apt, coming from a man who once spent years defying gravity. These gizmos are so prevalent in Kundig’s work that OSKA recently released a video, “Prototypes and Moving Parts,” that features many of them in motion (see below).

What keeps the Mr. Kundig so happily busy? “It’s unending, the source of inspiration,” he says, “The idea is to harvest the ideas whenever they’re happening. Because the older you get, the deeper the ‘bags of tools’ that you have to work with.” A fitting metaphor for an architect so committed to the process of building.

Enciting Americans at home to do their part in producing for the war effort, the poster—inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present—was an ideal agent for making war aims the personal mission of every citizen. From 1941 to 1945, government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images linking the military front with the home front, calling upon all Americans to boost production at work and at home. The U.S. Office of War Information created the “Poster Pledge,” urging volunteers to “avoid poster waste,” “treat posters as real war ammunition,” and “never let a poster lie idle.”

This colorful collection of over 150 World War II-era posters focuses on the theme of wartime production on the home front. The range of designs and images will inspire graphic designers, while the descriptive captions and informative text will interest history and military buffs.

1854 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
tel. 773/342-0910
www.quimbys.com

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Come to the TDC to celebrate the typographic legend who brought us Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery, and the indispensable Zapf Dingbats. See an exclusive exhibition of some of Zapf’s many type designs. Sign the Hermann Zapf birthday card (designed by Paul Shaw). Feast on typographic cake. Raise a toast to the master. And hear a speech by Jerry Kelly (book designer, calligrapher, typographer, and former Zapf student).

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347 West 36 Street (between 8 and 9 Avenues), Suite 603
New York, NY 10018

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