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SUMMARY:UMass Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Spring Architecture Lecture Series at UMass\nSelf Report for Learning Units\nMore information here. \nAll lectures will be held in Design Building 170 at 5:30pm \nWednesday\, 3/6\nMimi Love\, Principal\, Utile Architecture and Planning \nWednesday\, 3/27\nJoseph Zeal-Henry\, 2024 ArtLab Loeb Fellow at Harvard \nWednesday\, 4/17\nAlan Organschi\, Principal\, Gray Organschi Architecture \nWednesday\, 5/1\nKatie Faulkner FAIA\, Principal\, West Work \nSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES\nMimi Love is a principal at Utile. Her expertise ranges from complicated renovations to new construction projects with challenging programmatic requirements. Mimi led a master plan for Belmont Day School\, and oversaw the recent construction of “The Barn\,” a 24\,000 square foot building that houses specialty classrooms to support their STEAM program and a Field House. She managed campus master plans for two independent schools; St. Andrew’s School in Austin\, TX and The Park School in Brookline\, MA. She also served as a consultant to Reed Hilderbrand for the Cranbrook Educational Community Master Plan in Bloomfield Hills\, MI. Mimi led an urban campus master plan for a global search engine company based in Kendall Square in Cambridge\, MA that will eventually occupy a half million square feet of office space. Several phases of the expansion have been completed. She was the design principal for Autodesk’s office expansion at The Innovation and Design Building in Boston’s Seaport District and was one of the Utile principals who led the Rethink City Hall project for the City of Boston. She completed the redesign of the Boston City Hall lobby as well as other pilot projects throughout the building. Prior to joining Utile\, Mimi was an Associate at Machado Silvetti in Boston where she was the lead designer for the renovation projects at the Getty Villa in Malibu\, CA. Mimi co-authored Color Space Style\, a reference book on interior design for Rockport Publications. She has recently been appointed as a Commissioner for the Boston Civic Design Commission (BCDC). \nJoseph Zeal-Henry is a designer\, urbanist and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and cultural production. His unique multi-disciplinary practice bridges public service and art.\nHe has written for Dezeen\, Casabella\, and Architectural Review. In addition to his role with the Greater London Authority’s Culture Team\, he is a cofounder of Sound Advice\, an ‘extra-institutional’ platform exploring new forms of spatial practice through music. In 2022\, the British Council selected Joseph to co-curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 alongside Jayden Ali\, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham. Their pavilion\, Dancing Before the Moon\, explores the need for architecture to look beyond buildings and economic structures and toward everyday social practices\, customs\, and traditions to meaningfully reflect how people use and occupy space. \nJoseph works for the mayor of London in the Culture and Creative Industries Unit\, delivering new cultural infrastructure for the city. He works on the New London Museum\, East Bank\, and the Thames Estuary Production Corridor. He cofounded the social enterprise platform Sound Advice alongside Pooja Agrawal to explore new forms of spatial practice through music. In 2020 they published the book NOW YOU KNOW. He is a trustee of UD Music\, a charity that empowers and harnesses opportunities for young people through Black music culture. \nAlan Organschi is a principal and partner at Gray Organschi Architecture\, an architectural practice in New Haven\, Connecticut recognized internationally for its integration of design\, construction\, and environmental research. He is also the founder of the fabrication workshop and construction management firm JIG Design Build which in 2018 created the Ecological Living Module\, a fully self-sustaining micro house for the United Nations Environment Program. \nIn April 2021\, Mr. Organschi was appointed Director of the Innovation Lab at the Bauhaus der Erde (Earth Bauhaus – www.bauhausdererde.org) a global interdisciplinary initiative that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population. In that capacity\, he will direct the development of the Lab\, its experimental projects\, public programs and trans-sectoral collaborations with global partners. \nMr. Organschi continues as a Senior member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for two decades. During the 2019 and 2020 academic years\, he also served as the Portman Critic at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture. The findings of the research and design work of the studios he conducted were published in the two-volume collection entitled Technosphere/Biosphere. \nHis ongoing research project\, the Timber City Initiative (www.timbercity.org)\, examines the application of emerging structural wood fiber technologies to the construction of global cities. Timber City has been awarded grants from the Hines Fund for Advanced Sustainability Research in Architecture\, the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant program and the SITRA Finland innovation Fund for the Circular Economy. Mr. Organschi has written and lectured extensively on the carbon storage benefits of biogenic material substitution in urban building and is a co-author of the upcoming book Carbon: A Field Manual For Building Designers and the scientific paper “Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink” published in the journal Nature Sustainability in January 2020. That same year\, the paper received the Aquila Capital Transformation Award which honors scientific research that contributes to the decarbonization of Europe. \nIn addition to features in numerous publications\, Gray Organschi Architecture was recognized by the Architectural League of New York as an Emerging Voice in Architecture and has received American Architecture Awards for the Storage Barn in Washington\, CT\, the Common Ground High School in New Haven\, and the Ecological Living Module at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. In 2012\, Mr. Organschi and his partner Elizabeth Gray were honored for their work with an Arts and Letters Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nKatie Faulkner\, FAIA\, LEED AP has been working for twenty-five years on spaces and buildings for education\, working\, living\, and healthcare. She received her MArch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and an MBA from Boston University.\nBefore West Work\, Katie was a Vice President of Design for Katerra\, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype. She was a founding partner of the firm NADAAA\, recognized with notable awards\, including the 2014 Holcim Award\, an AIA COTE Award\, and numerous other accolades. Before NADAAA\, Katie was an Associate Principal at Shepley Bulfinch. In 2017 she received the BSA’s Women in Design Award. In 2020 she was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/umass-lecture-series/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education,Other Programs
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SUMMARY:Western MA Committee on the Environment (COTE)
DESCRIPTION:Register Now! \nPlease join the COTE committee for our spring continuing education series on embodied carbon – with a focus on practical tools for architects hoping to reduce the carbon in their projects. \nEmbodied Carbon in Existing Buildings\nTuesday March 12| 4:00-5:15PM| Zoom |1 HSW approval pending\nBarbra Batshalom\, founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Building Institute\, and CEO of BuildingEase\, will kick off our discussion of embodied carbon with a look at existing buildings. \nDesigning for Low Carbon New Buildings\nTuesday April 9| 4:00-5:15PM| Zoom |1 HSW approval pending\nAndrea Love\, FAIA\, LEED Fellow\, Principal & Director of Building Science at Payette will address tools and practices around designing low carbon new construction. \nTally Carbon Calculator – Demonstration\nTuesday May 7| 4:00-5:15PM| Zoom |LUs TBD\nSee a demonstration of the Tally Carbon Calculator and learn the basics for implementing this carbon calculating tool in your practice. \nLow Carbon Building Tour – Amherst College Lyceum\nTuesday May 21| 4:00-5:15PM| In Person |1 HSW approval pending\nJoin us for a tour of the Amherst College Lyceum\, with Bruner/Cott architects\, and a discussion of the low carbon strategies that we implemented in this project. \nRegister Now!
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/western-ma-committee-on-the-environment-cote/2024-03-12/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education,COTE Events
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SUMMARY:Emerging Professionals ZOOM Hour
DESCRIPTION:EP Hour – via ZOOM \nCome join WMAIA’s Garrison Piers-Gamble Associate AIA and Kerry Bartini AIA for an informal discussion of all things EP.  Drop in for a moment or stay for the hour. Let’s discuss what’s on your mind as an Emerging Professionals navigating through licensure or post-licensure; or as a Supervisor/Firm Stakeholder trying to keep up with all the changes EPs have seen recently.  Please share this invite with any EPs in your office.  Meet you there! \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/86351266520?pwd=ObAfMHku5nX0hwEfrIzOwGZA2oJeGm.1 \nMeeting ID: 863 5126 6520\nPasscode: 354288
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/emerging-professionals-zoom-hour/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Emerging Professionals
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SUMMARY:Building Energy Boston CONFERENCE
DESCRIPTION:BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design\, energy efficiency\, and renewable energy. \nIt brings more than 1\,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. Sessions are curated by a volunteer NESEA-Member content committee to ensure that conference sessions are genuinely useful to attendees. \nThe conference will feature product demonstrations\, networking events\, and accredited sessions that offer best practices and lessons learned\, case studies and proven data\, technical “how-to”s\, emerging technologies\, and innovative policies and programs. \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/building-energy-2024/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Continuing Education,Other Programs
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series!
DESCRIPTION:THE WMAIA FILM SERIES RESUMES MARCH 20th  \nWednesday March 20 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nLeisurama\nIn 1963\, All State Properties\, capitalizing on publicity from an international debate between Nixon and Khrushchev\, built a development of second homes in Montauk\, New York. The homes were designed by architect Andrew Geller at industrial designer Raymond Loewy’s office and were sold through Macy’s Department Store. They came fully furnished\, down to the toothbrush. A kitschy cold war architecture story. \nWednesday April 3 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nNew England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century\nThe United States saw a revolution in popular architectural style between the 1930s and 1970s. American Modernism\, originally influenced by the work of European masters including Le Corbusier and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius\, began to establish footing in New England in early 1930-32. 32 in part with the construction of the Field House in New Hartford\, Connecticut by William Lescaze and the Ralph-Barbarin House in the city of Stamford\, designed by Le Corbusier protégé Albert Frey. By the 1940s\, the region was a hotbed of modernism\, led by a group of architects known as the “Harvard Five” who settled in New Canaan\, Connecticut and included Marcel Breuer\, Landis Gores\, John Johansen\, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. Other architects who designed notable mid- century modern structures in New England included Victor Christ-Janer\, Andrew Geller\, Alan Goldberg\, Carl Koch\, John Black Lee\, Hugh Smallen and Edward Durell Stone. The work produced by this pool of talent had international and permanent influence. The story of New England Modernism is one of imagination\, creativity and industriousness. \nWednesday April 17 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nTHE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD: Olmsted\, Vaux\, and the Buffalo Park System\nCOMMUNITY BY DESIGN: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline\, Massachusetts\nTHE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD This film explores the development of the nation’s first park system\, designed for Buffalo by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868. Drawing national and international attention\, their scheme carefully augmented the city’s original plan with urban features inspired by Second Empire Paris\, including the first system of “parkways” to grace an American city. Displaying the plan at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia\, Olmsted declared Buffalo “the best planned city\, as to its streets\, public places\, and grounds\, in the United States\, if not in the world.” \nOlmsted and Vaux dissolved their historic partnership in 1872\, but Olmsted continued his association with the Queen City of the Lakes\, designing additional parks and laying out important sites within the growing metropolis. When Niagara Falls was threatened by industrial development\, he led a campaign to protect the site and\, in 1885\, succeeded in persuading New York to create the Niagara Reservation\, the present Niagara Falls State Park. Two years later\, Olmsted and Vaux teamed up again\, this time to create a plan for the area around the Falls\, a project the two grand masters regarded as “the most difficult problem in landscape architecture to do justice to. \nCOMMUNITY BY DESIGN In 1883\, Frederick Law Olmsted deserted New York City for Brookline\, which had anointed itself the “richest town in the world.” Over the next half century\, he and his successor firm became the dominant force in the planned development of this community. This film tells the story of the development of the wealthy Boston suburb through the planning initiatives of the firm. From Fairsted\, the Olmsteds’ Brookline home and office\, the office collaborated with an impressive galaxy of neighbors which included the architect H. H. Richardson and the horticulturalist Charles Sprague Sargent. \nThrough plans for boulevards and parkways\, residential subdivisions\, institutional grounds\, and private gardens\, the firm carefully guided the development of the town\, as they designed cities and suburbs across America. While Olmsted Sr. used landscape architecture as his vehicle for development\, his son and namesake\, “Rick\,” viewed Brookline as grounds for experiment in the new profession of city and regional planning\, a field that he was helping to define and lead. \nRegister here!  (click RSVP on upper right of landing page)
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates-5/2024-03-20/
LOCATION:District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:UMass Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Spring Architecture Lecture Series at UMass\nSelf Report for Learning Units\nMore information here. \nAll lectures will be held in Design Building 170 at 5:30pm \nWednesday\, 3/6\nMimi Love\, Principal\, Utile Architecture and Planning \nWednesday\, 3/27\nJoseph Zeal-Henry\, 2024 ArtLab Loeb Fellow at Harvard \nWednesday\, 4/17\nAlan Organschi\, Principal\, Gray Organschi Architecture \nWednesday\, 5/1\nKatie Faulkner FAIA\, Principal\, West Work \nSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES\nMimi Love is a principal at Utile. Her expertise ranges from complicated renovations to new construction projects with challenging programmatic requirements. Mimi led a master plan for Belmont Day School\, and oversaw the recent construction of “The Barn\,” a 24\,000 square foot building that houses specialty classrooms to support their STEAM program and a Field House. She managed campus master plans for two independent schools; St. Andrew’s School in Austin\, TX and The Park School in Brookline\, MA. She also served as a consultant to Reed Hilderbrand for the Cranbrook Educational Community Master Plan in Bloomfield Hills\, MI. Mimi led an urban campus master plan for a global search engine company based in Kendall Square in Cambridge\, MA that will eventually occupy a half million square feet of office space. Several phases of the expansion have been completed. She was the design principal for Autodesk’s office expansion at The Innovation and Design Building in Boston’s Seaport District and was one of the Utile principals who led the Rethink City Hall project for the City of Boston. She completed the redesign of the Boston City Hall lobby as well as other pilot projects throughout the building. Prior to joining Utile\, Mimi was an Associate at Machado Silvetti in Boston where she was the lead designer for the renovation projects at the Getty Villa in Malibu\, CA. Mimi co-authored Color Space Style\, a reference book on interior design for Rockport Publications. She has recently been appointed as a Commissioner for the Boston Civic Design Commission (BCDC). \nJoseph Zeal-Henry is a designer\, urbanist and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and cultural production. His unique multi-disciplinary practice bridges public service and art.\nHe has written for Dezeen\, Casabella\, and Architectural Review. In addition to his role with the Greater London Authority’s Culture Team\, he is a cofounder of Sound Advice\, an ‘extra-institutional’ platform exploring new forms of spatial practice through music. In 2022\, the British Council selected Joseph to co-curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 alongside Jayden Ali\, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham. Their pavilion\, Dancing Before the Moon\, explores the need for architecture to look beyond buildings and economic structures and toward everyday social practices\, customs\, and traditions to meaningfully reflect how people use and occupy space. \nJoseph works for the mayor of London in the Culture and Creative Industries Unit\, delivering new cultural infrastructure for the city. He works on the New London Museum\, East Bank\, and the Thames Estuary Production Corridor. He cofounded the social enterprise platform Sound Advice alongside Pooja Agrawal to explore new forms of spatial practice through music. In 2020 they published the book NOW YOU KNOW. He is a trustee of UD Music\, a charity that empowers and harnesses opportunities for young people through Black music culture. \nAlan Organschi is a principal and partner at Gray Organschi Architecture\, an architectural practice in New Haven\, Connecticut recognized internationally for its integration of design\, construction\, and environmental research. He is also the founder of the fabrication workshop and construction management firm JIG Design Build which in 2018 created the Ecological Living Module\, a fully self-sustaining micro house for the United Nations Environment Program. \nIn April 2021\, Mr. Organschi was appointed Director of the Innovation Lab at the Bauhaus der Erde (Earth Bauhaus – www.bauhausdererde.org) a global interdisciplinary initiative that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population. In that capacity\, he will direct the development of the Lab\, its experimental projects\, public programs and trans-sectoral collaborations with global partners. \nMr. Organschi continues as a Senior member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for two decades. During the 2019 and 2020 academic years\, he also served as the Portman Critic at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture. The findings of the research and design work of the studios he conducted were published in the two-volume collection entitled Technosphere/Biosphere. \nHis ongoing research project\, the Timber City Initiative (www.timbercity.org)\, examines the application of emerging structural wood fiber technologies to the construction of global cities. Timber City has been awarded grants from the Hines Fund for Advanced Sustainability Research in Architecture\, the US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant program and the SITRA Finland innovation Fund for the Circular Economy. Mr. Organschi has written and lectured extensively on the carbon storage benefits of biogenic material substitution in urban building and is a co-author of the upcoming book Carbon: A Field Manual For Building Designers and the scientific paper “Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink” published in the journal Nature Sustainability in January 2020. That same year\, the paper received the Aquila Capital Transformation Award which honors scientific research that contributes to the decarbonization of Europe. \nIn addition to features in numerous publications\, Gray Organschi Architecture was recognized by the Architectural League of New York as an Emerging Voice in Architecture and has received American Architecture Awards for the Storage Barn in Washington\, CT\, the Common Ground High School in New Haven\, and the Ecological Living Module at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan. In 2012\, Mr. Organschi and his partner Elizabeth Gray were honored for their work with an Arts and Letters Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nKatie Faulkner\, FAIA\, LEED AP has been working for twenty-five years on spaces and buildings for education\, working\, living\, and healthcare. She received her MArch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and an MBA from Boston University.\nBefore West Work\, Katie was a Vice President of Design for Katerra\, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype. She was a founding partner of the firm NADAAA\, recognized with notable awards\, including the 2014 Holcim Award\, an AIA COTE Award\, and numerous other accolades. Before NADAAA\, Katie was an Associate Principal at Shepley Bulfinch. In 2017 she received the BSA’s Women in Design Award. In 2020 she was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
URL:https://wmaia.org/event/umass-lecture-series/2024-03-27/
LOCATION:District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education,Other Programs
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