Filmmaker Samuel Wainwright Douglas and Big Beard Films present the documentary “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio” about the late Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, founder of the Rural Studio. Mockbee pioneered the “radical, educational design/build” approach of the Rural Studio to address destitute living conditions and poverty in rural Hale County, Alabama.
CMPBS served as the fiscal sponsor for the film which debuted at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Please visit the film’s website for more information about the film and screenings.
CMPBS announces the launch of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems Facebook group. Become a fan of the page and receive announcements about upcoming CMPBS events including information about our lecture series, CMPBS 10 in 10.
Join us for the next installment of CMPBS’s 10 in 10 series
STEALTH
Future Past Cities: 10 years of projects between art, architecture, & the city
Following collaboration since 1996, in the year 2000 ANA DZOKIC and MARC NEELEN initiated STEALTH, a practice based between Rotterdam and Belgrade - in which shifts of perspectives between urban research, visual arts, spatial intervention and cultural activism are a key element.
STEALTH shapes opportunities where various fields of investigation and people meet to mobilize thinking about possible future(s) of the city. They consider space both a tool and an agency, and focus on innovation aspects of sometimes hidden, temporary or unplanned urban practices that challenge ways in which to create physical aspects of the city and its culture. By creating devices that can take the form of specific spatial interventions, occasions for knowledge exchange, but also a piece of software, STEALTH produces conditions to probe the shared authoring of urban space and culture.
STEALTH established or participated in a number of internationally published and exhibited projects on the complexity and inconsistency of the contemporary city, like Wild City (Belgrade), Urban Catalyst (Amsterdam), Adaptations (Apexart, New York and Fridricianum, Kassel), Challenging the Conservative Brain (Kunstverein Munich), Cut for Purpose (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam), Lost Highway Expedition (Western Balkans), Plans and Slums (Rome/Belgrade), Port City Safari (Rotterdam), Constituting the Meantime (The Netherlands). In 2008 we co-curated the Dutch Pavilion at the Architecture Biennial in Venice, with the project Archiphoenix: Faculties of Architecture. In the same year, together with Marjetica Potrc, we completed the project Fruit and Energy Farms in a Public Square, a public art commission for a schoolyard in Knivsta, Sweden. STEALTH most recently curated the first architectural contribution to the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennale (T.I.C.A.B) that took place from September to October 2009.
Friday, April 9th
7-10 PM
Talk begins at 7:30,
followed by reception
CMPBS
8604 FM 969
Austin
For more info
512.928.4786
center@cmpbs.org
RSVP required
due to limited capacity
Provide full name and number of guests to center@cmpbs.org
William Shutkin, Visiting Research Fellow, RASEI and Principal at Shutkin Consulting, will moderate the discussion and the panel will gather business leaders from other segments of design, construction and sustainability to discuss the next generation of best practices for green building.
The event is sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainability Institute and will take place at the Grand Hyatt Denver from 8:00 Am to 2:30 Pm.
For more information or to register for this event please visit the RASEI website or register here.
