The Austin Green Roof Advisory Group was convened by City Council to explore credits and incentives for green roofs in Austin. CMPBS is represented on the Advisory Group by associate principal Dylan Siegler. The group’s work to date–including background information on expected green roof impacts in our region, the progress of the advisory group, and a summary of the interim report–will be presented to the community on June 3.

Interim Report Presentation

Thursday June 3, 2010

5:30 to 7:30 (the presentation will start promptly at 6:00 pm)
Carver Library, 1161 Angelina St., Rooms 2 & 3
Download a flyer here for additional information and to RSVP.

In addition, the council will present the rainfall simulator and greenroof test plots being used to measure stormwater runoff at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on July 8th at 10:00 a.m.

**Update** Due to overwhelming response, the RSVP list for this event is now closed

Join us for the next installment of CMPBS’s 10 in 10 Series for a screening of the film:Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio with filmmaker Samuel Wainwright Douglas and producer Jack Sanders.

In 1993, the architect and MacArthur Genius Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build education program, in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by frank, passionate interviews with Mockbee, Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic, destitute client, Jimmie Lee Matthews, known to locals as Music Man because of his zeal for R&B and Soul records. The film reveals that even beyond Mockbee’s death in 2001 the Rural Studio continues to be about more than architecture and building.

Mockbee’s program provides students with an experience that forever inspires them to consider how they can use their skills to better their communities. Interviews with Mockbee’s peers and scenes with those he’s influenced infuse the film with a larger discussion of architecture’s role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship.

Saturday, May 22, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Film Screening: 8:30 - 9:30 PM
Q&A with filmmaker and producer following film.

$15 suggested donation

CMPBS Co-Director Gail Vittori will participate in the 2010 National Women’s Leadership Summit in Anchorage, Alaska. U.S Senator Lisa Murkowski will be co-chairing the Alaska summit from June 3 - 5. The Anchorage Summit and its sister conference in Little Rock, Arkansas will focus on energy and environment.

Gail will join other women experts in energy and the environmental policy to lead panel discussions for the 3-day conference while articulating the best practices to employ at home.

Details about the summit and registration information are available on the NWLS website.