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Lecture by Farshid Moussavi
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, February 13, 2012, 7–9 pm
Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and professor of architecture at Harvard University. As founder and principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she works on a wide range of prestigious international projects integrating architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and the Quran Museum in Tehran. Before FMA, Moussavi was coprincipal of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), whose projects include the Carabanchel housing scheme in Spain, the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street Station in the United Kingdom, and the award-winning design of the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in Japan. Moussavi is also the author of the books The Function of Ornament and The Function of Form.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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Currents: First Year Exhibition 2012
March 5–9, 2012Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Mar. 7, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-noon and 1-4:30 p.m. (closed Wed. morning)
Info: 510.594.3642 or firstyear@cca.edu
Currents is a thematic show of works by CCA art, design, and architecture students in their first year of undergraduate study. The exhibition is juried by students in CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice and is intended to engage and challenge first-year students in presenting their work to the public. Come see what ideas and issues are central to CCA's newest makers.
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Lecture by Philippe Rahm
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, March 5, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Philippe Rahm studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993. He works currently in Paris. In 2002 he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and was one of the 25 manifesto architects of Aaron Betsky's 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He is a nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and was in 2008 in the top ten ranking of the International Chernikov prize in Moscow. In 2007 he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide and was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2000. He is currently visiting lecturer at Princeton University. He is working on several private and public projects in France, Poland, England, Italy, and Germany. He has lectured widely, including at the Cooper Union, Harvard School of Design, UCLA, and ETH Zurich.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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Ecopoesis: Spring Graduate Studies Symposium
March 7–9, 2012
San Francisco campus
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Info: ecopoesis@cca.edu
Artists, filmmakers, writers, and scientists come together to explore frontline concerns around climate, biodiversity, and spatial expressions through film screenings, lectures, performances, and an expo of speculative + practical designs + art. The collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship with ideas of nature and to offer fresh understandings of the places we live + research + create around + in. This symposium is a collaborative effort of the graduate programs in Design and Fine Arts, with a sponsored reading in Graduate Writing.
More info will be posted as it becomes available!
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The Way Beyond Art: Architecture in the Expanded Field
Presented by the CCA Wattis Institute and the Architecture ProgramMarch 8–April 7, 2012
Wattis Institute, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., Mar. 8, 6-8 p.m.
Hours: Tues.–Fri., noon-8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9210 or www.wattis.org
As a part of the series The Way Beyond Art, the Wattis Institute presents WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field by Douglas Burnham/envelope a+d and CCA Director of Architecture Ila Berman. This exhibition will examine the emerging "expanded field" of architectural installation through a self-reflective, immersive, and didactic exhibition structure.
WBA3 will be an architectural installation, operating both within and outside of the Wattis gallery, that supports an embedded exhibition presenting the mapped expanded field of art and architectural installation. Operating on the fundamental conditions of the architectural, the installation will extend the spatial, perceptual, and material territory within which both artists and architects are working. Similarly it will enable the investigation of ideas, experimentation with emerging technologies, and the distillation of perceptual and experiential conditions without the limitations imposed by the permanence of architecture. Blurring the boundaries between art and architecture, this exhibition will explore a broad terrain of installation practices whose conceptual, spatial and material trajectories have generated an expanding network of relations between architecture, sculpture, interiors, and landscape.
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. General support for the Wattis Institute provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator's Forum.
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Lecture by Joshua Stein, Radical Craft
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, March 12, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Radical Craft is a Los Angeles-based research and design studio operating between the fields of architecture, art, and urbanism. Through collaborations with other specialists both inside and outside of these disciplines, Radical Craft locates and reworks the existing logics into unexpected solutions. This method of research/production takes the sensibility of craft steeped in tradition, expertise, and intuition, and injects a critical investigation into emerging technologies and typologies, creating new situations that appear both logical and novel. The founder, Joshua Stein, has taught design studios and seminars at Cornell University, Woodbury University, and SCI-Arc. He holds a master of architecture degree from UCLA.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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Graduate Program in Architecture Virtual Information Session
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Architecture at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
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Graduate Open Studios
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 12–5 pm
San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9214 or gradoffice@cca.edu
CCA graduate students in Architecture, Curatorial Practice, Design, and Fine Arts open their studios to the public. Please note this event takes place on the same day as the Senior Painting Exhibition.
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Lecture by Willem Jan Neutelings, Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, April 2, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Neutelings Riedijk Architects was established in Rotterdam in 1987. It offers a strong commitment to design excellence: realizing high-quality architecture through the development of powerful and innovative concepts into clear built form. Over the last 25 years Neutelings Riedijk Architects has established itself as a leading international practice, specializing in the design of complex projects for public, commercial, and cultural buildings. The office has great experience in balancing the complex challenges of these projects to meet the ambitions of our client. The work of Neutelings Riedijk Architects has gained worldwide appreciation through several awards and numerous publications in the international press.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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Lecture by Heather Roberge, Murmur
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, April 9, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
Heather Roberge is a practicing architect and educator in Los Angeles. She is associate vice chair of the Department of Architecture at UCLA, and director of the undergraduate program in architectural studies. She teaches graduate courses in design and technology. Formerly, as coprincipal of Gnuform, she explored an architecture of effective atmospheres through a vitalist-materialist model of practice. Murmur continues these investigations, with a special focus on the spatial, structural, and atmospheric innovation made possible by emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques. Roberge's research focuses on the atmospheric implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses. Prior to co-founding Gnuform, Roberge worked at Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Davis Brody Bond, Architecture Research Office, and Eisenman Architects.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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