As part of CMPBS’s lecture series 10 in 10, Carlos Eduardo Curi Gallego and Rodolpho Ramina of Curitiba, Brazil, will share their compelling work on complex water/hydrology planning projects that link environmental issues, economic development and social participation, with scales that span from mid-sized cities to the largest states to continental-sized watersheds in Brazil and South America.  Gallego and Ramina will explore their parallel research and development work with conceptual approaches and methodological tools developed in synchrony with CMPBS over many years—how they have been applied and the main outcomes—to showcase where the experience can be translated and replicated elsewhere when complex contexts are involved.

Carlos Eduardo Curi Gallego is a Civil Engineer who has been working with Urban Planning, Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources Management since 1995. Mr. Gallego leads a team formed by architects and engineers at “COBRAPE – Cia. Brasileira de Projetos e Empreendimentos” (www.cobrape.com.br).  COBRAPE is one of Brazil’s most important consulting firms, with more than 20 years of experience in planning, development and environmental projects. 

Rodolpho Ramina is a Civil Engineer and an Economist.  In 2007 he created the consulting firm “U&A Engineering and Planning” designed to work in partnerships with other architecture and engineering offices helping twist traditional projects towards more environmentally-friendly outcomes. He is also a Sr. Research Fellow at CMPBS and a member of the Advisory Board to the Urban Greenspaces Institute in Portland, OR (www.urbangreenspaces.org).

The talk will be presented on Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 1-3 PM as part of the weekend of our CMPBS 35 Years of Serious Commotion anniversary celebration.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

1-3 PM

CMPBS

8604 FM 969

Austin, TX 78724

Please RSVP due to limited capacity

For more information and to RSVP: 512-928-4786 / center@cmpbs.org

$15 suggested donation (Complimentary with ticket to 35th anniversary celebration on November 5, 2010)

**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

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

$15 suggested donation

CMPBS, AIA Austin and Austin EcoNetwork are proud to present:Lance HoseyThe Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design

Great design is a marriage of art and science, but so far green design has focused on science and neglected art. When photovoltaics, wind turbines, and fuel cells overshadow basic decisions about shape and form, green tech becomes a green crutch. Do ethics support or supersede aesthetics? Does going green change the face of design or only its content? Can we be as smart about how things look as how they are made? Form, image, and experience can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design, from products to buildings to cities. Fully embracing the principles of ecology could spark a revolution that could change every aspect of design.

Lance Hosey, AIA, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP Nationally recognized architect, designer, writer, speaker, and advocate Lance Hosey has been featured in Metropolis magazine’s “Next Generation” program and Architectural Record’s “emerging architect” series. Until 2009, he held the position of Director with William McDonough + Partners, the world-renowned pioneer of sustainable design, with which he had been associated for nearly a decade. Lance’s essays have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Architecture, and he is a Contributing Editor with Architect magazine, where he writes the monthly “Ecology” column. With Kira Gould, he is co-author of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007). Lance studied architecture at Yale and Columbia and jazz at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, TX. In 2009, he was voted an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals.

Sunday, March 14
4-6pm
CMPBS8604 FM 969Austin
RSVP required (limited capacity)
RSVP with name and number attending to center@cmpbs.org.
Suggested Donation : $15