"Checkerboard Conversations" series at AIA NY Center for Architecture features 3 PA PRESS authors! · Aug 30, 10:50 AM
From the AIANY website:
Join us for a series of films and conversations with Checkerboard Film’s featured architects. Conversations will be led by Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record. All four events take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.
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Film
Rick Joy: Interludes
Thursday, 09/16/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Rick Joy, an architect based in Tucson, Arizona, owes his reputation to his innovative residential designs that respond gracefully to their desert environment. Joy exploits natural and passive energy-saving techniques and unusual materials, such as rammed earth and rusting steel, to create striking architectural solutions for living in a hot, dry climate. In this film, Joy takes viewers through the Desert Nomad House, built in 2005, the Ventana Canyon Residence (2007), Tucson Mountain House (2001), and his first completed project in the Northeast, a house in Woodstock, Vermont (2009).
Color, 22 minutes
Book coming Spring 2011
Film
Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
Thursday, 10/14/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Jeanne Gang, who started her architectural practice in Chicago in 1997, completed Aqua, an 82-story apartment tower, overlooking the city‚s Millennium Park in 2009. Already an icon on the city‚s skyline, the concrete floorplates take on a different contour at each level, with variously curved cantilevered balconies. In addition, Blair Kamin, the architectural critic of the Chicago Tribune, appears in the film to elucidate the impact Gang has had on the Chicago landscape.
Color, 27 minutes
Film
KieranTimberlake: Loblolly House (2007) Cellophane House (2008)
Thursday, 10/28/2010, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
KieranTimberlake, an architectural firm based in Philadelphia, is a recognized leader of the “green” architecture movement in the U.S. As this film illustrates, its founders, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, have been developing innovative means to combine sustainable design principles with off-site construction for the mass customization of houses. The firm‚s Loblolly House, built in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland in 2007, and the Cellophane House, a specially commissioned design, executed for an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 2008, serve as outstanding examples of the firm‚s research-based approach.
Color, 27 minutes
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