Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) and Friends of the Goldstein board members Susan Bradley, Judith Kinghorn, and Audrey Henningson will be showing work next weekend in Northeast Minneapolis' ArtAWhirl open studio event, May 16-18, 2008.

Bradley, Kinghorn, and Henningson will exhibit work at the Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE, #363, Minneapolis, MN 55413.

Porwit will exhibit at the California Building, 2205 California Street NE, #502, Minneapolis, MN 55418.

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A 3-D textile sculpture, entitled "Moonray," will be installed in the atrium of McNeal Hall on May 7 as part of the upcoming Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space exhibition. The sculpture was designed by Cynthia Thompson of Maine-based Transformit.

The world of specialty textiles has been changing at a rapid pace with new materials, technologies, and innovations in production around the world. Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space examines many of these innovative materials and how they are being used by leading designers from around the globe.

Curators of the exhibition are Bruce Wright (Design Minor Fellow) and Karen LaBat (Clothing Design)

The exhibition runs May 16-July 27, 2008, with an opening reception and panel discussion May 15, 2008, 7-9p.m.

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Dean Tom Fisher will participate in the first of a series of conversations in the Design Salon Series, sponsored by the College of Design and Target.

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Reflections from a family member
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
April 21, 2008

Leonard Bernstein wrote: "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown to him or to anyone else, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another inevitably, leaving us at the finish with the feeling that something is right in the world, that something checks throughout."

I am struck by how much my father's notes followed one another, inevitably -- how his personal qualities so fully mirrored his professional qualities. A sense of joy. A passion for people. A ceaseless curiosity. A deep loyalty to his community.

I'd like to say a word about each of these qualities.

Continue reading "Rip Rapson remarks at Ralph Rapson memorial service" »

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Barbara Porwit (Goldstein Museum of Design) will exhibit artwork in this weekend's Saint Paul Art Crawl. Included will be originals and prints of figurative work and portraiture in graphite, charcoal, conte crayon, and oil bar. 310 Dow Building (with Natalie Domka), 2442 University Ave., Saint Paul.

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The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
April 21, 2008

Ralph Rapson is still with us, and still among us,

Not just in the many extraordinary buildings -- the houses, churches, theaters, and institutional structures that he designed --

But also in the remarkable memories we all have of him as a person -- as a father and grandfather, a friend and colleague, a fellow faculty member, and a brilliantly accomplished architect --

And also in the educational legacy he left behind as the head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota for 30 years. The generations of students who studied there during the Rapson era remain one of the most important ways in which Ralph will continue to live on for decades to come.

I sit in Ralph Rapson Hall, at the desk that Ralph sat at when head of the school, and near my desk sit a set of accreditation reports from the Rapson years that reveal the compelling character of his vision. In them, you see the boldness of Ralph's architecture in educational form.

Continue reading "Tom Fisher remarks at Ralph Rapson memorial service" »

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Third-year interior design students of Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (Interior Design) have developed the Building Ties '08 exhibit featuring culturally sensitive housing designs for Mexicans and Ojibwe. The exhibit opens May 3, 2008 from 2-4 p.m. at the Hennepin History Museum, and runs through June 8, 2008.

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Monica Fogg (DHA) has painted a landscape of Stillwater's historic Fairy Falls for Minnesota's sesquicentennial. Working in cocoa butter and food coloring instead of oil paints, Fogg worked from a 1904 photograph of Fairy Falls to create the 18x20 painting.

Fairy Falls is said to be the site where a Chippewa woman and her Sioux lover were killed.

The chocolate painting will be offered in a silent auction on Saturday, May 10, 2008 during the Washington County Historical Society's Minnesota Statehood Celebration, from 7-11 p.m. at the historic Washington County Courthouse. For more information, call 651-439-5956 or visit the Washington County Historical Society Web site.

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The University has invested more than $400 million since 1997 into preserving its historic buildings. The preservation activities help the University maintain its sense of place.

Associate Dean Kate Solomonson is the primary source in a U of M Foundation article on the University's preservation activities:

"Historic buildings are not just physical entities; they connect with the past. Their loss impoverishes the University. For anyone who has a relationship with the University, there are buildings they deeply associate with their experiences. ... Historic preservation involves thinking not only about buildings, but also about the green or open space, trees and plantings, sidewalks, even fields that are part of an integrated cultural landscape. ... All of these components are part of a whole that shapes the spaces we pass through and experience as part of our daily lives on campus. They're also part of the iconic image and values presented beyond the world of the campus that anchor us in our history as we look to the future."

Solomonson is also featured in a preservation video tour of the buildings on the University's mall.

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Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) has been selected to present at two upcoming conferences.

In May, he will chair a panel discussion, "Gettin' R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Academy: What Constitutes Graphic Design Research?," at the University and College Design Association conference in DeKalb, Illinois. Daniel Jasper (Graphic Design) is one of the panelists.

In July, McCarthy will present "From Graphics to Products: Critical Design as Design Authorship" at New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogs in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication in the UK.

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Rebecca Krinke (Landscape Architecture) participates in a panel discussion -- "The Present Moment" -- on the creation of a contemplative environment for stress reduction on campus, including a series of ephemeral spatial transformations for a portion of the Nolte Center lounge. The seminar is part of the Institute for Advanced Studies time symposium and will take place on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 4 p.m. in 125 Nolte Center.

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As part of the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibition, Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) will participate in a panel discussion "about the challenges and successes of new suburban design, how suburbs are becoming destination environments, and the cultural implications of these shifts."

The panel discussion, Next Exit: The Shifting Landscape of Suburbia, takes place Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Walker's Cinema. Free tickets are available from 6 p.m. in the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk.

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Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) will make a presentation entitled "Documenting the Graphic Design Learning Abroad Experience: From Journals and Photos to YouTube and Blogs" on Friday, April 4, 2008 at the Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media conference in Boston. The conference runs April 4-6, 2008.

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Jodie Walz and Jen Green (Digital Collections + Archives) presented "Building relationships, integrating resources: A collaboration between the Digital Collections + Archives unit and the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota" (.pdf; 1Mb) at the Museum Computer Network 2007 conference in Chicago.

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The public is invited to attend The Arts and the Built Environment: Changes in Suburban Life, a panel discussion in honor of Minnesota's 150th birthday.

The panel offers a look back 50 years and forward 50 years to the idea of suburbia: changing forms and uses in housing, suburban culture as seen through media and popular culture, and the evolution of a new mode of living: that of the suburbanite.

Featuring Moderator: Tom Fisher, dean, College of Design
Presenters: Kate Solomonson, associate dean, College of Design; and Becky Yust, head, Design, Housing, and Apparel, and John Archer, chair, Cultural Studies, College of Liberal Arts with special guest, Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Thursday, April 3, 5:30-6:30 p.m., free refreshments and cash bar
6:30-8:30 p.m., panel presentation
Campus Club, 4th floor, Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E.

Reservations are required (click on link above) and will be accepted as long as space remains available.
Questions? Anne Schultz, external relations assistant, schultz@umn.edu, 612-301-2337.

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The School of Architecture and the Graham Foundation hosts the first international symposium on architecture, ethics, and spiritual geography bringing together a diverse community of scholars, design practitioners, and a local community to participate in a series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops located around the central questions of perception, place, and ethical landscapes.

Co-organized by Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture), Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) and Richard Kroeker (Dalhousie University, Canada) the symposium has two tracks:

One track examines the role of the sacred as place and perception in our creative processes and sits at the locus of academia and professional practice. The focus is necessarily inter-faith and cross-cultural, highlighting the rich dialogue of sacred space to contemporary questions of politics, identity, and belonging. Sessions will include examinations of architecture and the sacred across world heritage, ethics, Abrahamic, and eastern religious traditions.

The second, parallel, track brings together community elders and other members of the Native American Dakota community who have worked to preserve sacred spaces against great odds, to examine and recount their history, and begin to map the way toward cultural restoration. This track will be opened by traditional spiritual ceremonies and will include speakers from mid-western Lakota communities and MikMaq First Nations communities from Canada.

The symposium is free and open to the public and will be held Friday, April 4, 2008 through Sunday, April 6, 2008 in Rapson Hall.

Additional sponsors of the symposium are the College of Design, the Metropolitan Design Center, Station 19 Architects, AIA-Minnesota, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, and the Space and Place Collaborative.

• Download the sacred sites program (.pdf; 8.5x11; 460Kb)


• Download the sacred sites program (.pdf; 11x17; 268Kb)


• Download the sacred sites speaker biographies (.pdf; 11x17; 1.6Mb)


• Download the sacred sites poster (.pdf; 11x17; 2.8Mb)


• University News Service media release on symposium

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Jean Johnson, product manager (CHE grad) and Gabe Doring, designer, from Stearns Manufacturing of St. Cloud, MN visited Karen LaBat's (DHA) functional clothing design studio class. They demonstrated and discussed the design of Stearns' "ice rescue suit" and several of the new personal flotation devices Stearns is developing. The "ice rescue suit" will be one of the featured products in the upcoming Goldstein exhibition, Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space.

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The CDes Faculty/Alumni Exhibition Program at the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library announces an upcoming exhibition, Three Faculty Art Exhibition: Ceramic works by Janet Abrams (Design Institute), Drawings by Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture), and Stereotomy studies by Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (Architecture). The exhibition opens March 10 and ends April 25, 2008. A reception and artists talk will be held Friday, March 14, from 5:30-7:00 p.m.

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Dean Tom Fisher is one of the featured speakers at "Good Design Makes a Difference," on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:30 p.m., at International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Suite 54, Minneapolis. The event kicks off the sixth season of the American Institute of Architects Minnesota (AIA-MN) and Star Tribune Home of the Month program. Tickets are $15 and online registration is available.

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Architect Teddy Cruz lectures as part of the Walker Art Center's Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes exhibition on Thursday, February 28, at 7 p.m.

Free tickets for Cruz's lecture, "Drawn Here: Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz," are available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 p.m.

From the Walker's Web site description of Cruz's lecture:

"In a society increasingly obsessed with policing borders and erecting boundaries, architect Teddy Cruz operates in the zone between countries, disciplines, and cultures. "We should be turning our attention away from the wall and towards the landscape, the ecology, and the communities," says Cruz, whose work is featured in the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. He has followed that admonition with projects of passion, gaining critical acclaim for engaging issues of community, sociability, and immigration, and for collaborating with community-based nonprofit organizations on affordable, sustainable housing and its potential to transform urban policy. A native of Guatemala, Cruz has won the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, had his own longtime architecture practice (Estudio Teddy Cruz), and is a teacher in the visual arts department of the University of California, San Diego."

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John Carmody (Center for Sustainable Building Research) discusses research proving awnings reduce home energy use in B-roll media footage available through the Professional Awning Manufacturers Association (PAMA).

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Lance Neckar (Landscape Architecture) will discuss his research and new methods in urban planning at the Wells Event Center, 6139 West Highway 10, Ramsey today at noon. Neckar's address is part of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's year-long, state-wide speakers tour.

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Design + Technology & Sustainablity public lectures will be held on Thursdays in 225 Rapson Hall from 12-1 p.m. by the following Architecture faculty search candidates:

• Feb. 7: Blaine Brownell, visiting professor, University of Michigan


• Feb. 14: Jenny Lovell, assistant professor, University of Virginia


• Feb. 21: Thomas Spiegelhalter, assistant professor, University of Southern California


• Feb. 28: Michael Zaretsky, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati


• Mar. 6: Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla, visiting assistant professor, University of Minnesota


• Mar. 13: Jen Maigret, visiting assistant professor, Washington University

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The Goldstein Museum of Design's exhibit, "Russel Wright: Living with good design," opens February 9 and runs through April 20. An opening party will be held Friday, February 8 from 7-9 p.m. in the Goldstein Gallery and will feature a lecture by exhibit curator Robert Stearns.

A lecture by Carol Franklin, principal, Andropogon Associates, Ltd., will take place on Monday, February 11 at 5:45 p.m. in 100 Rapson Hall. Franklin's lecture, "Russel Wright's Woodland Landscape: History and Perspective," will cover her in-depth study of Wright's home, Manitoga, in upstate New York. Manitoga became a national historic landmark last year.

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Working through architecture is a lecture series presented by the School of Architecture and The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library held at the Minneapolis Central Library (Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis). The events are on Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:30 p.m., and are free to the public.

February 5
Leon Satkowski, Professor
ANDREA PALLADIO: ARCHITECTURE AND AGRITECTURE

February 19
Ozayr Saloojee, Assistant Professor
SINAN: TRADITION IN TRANSFORMATION

February 26
Kate Solomonson, Associate Professor + Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, CDes
CASS GILBERT: RE-IMAGINING THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE

March 4
Leslie Van Duzer, Associate Professor
ADOLF LOOS READYMADE

March 11
John Comazzi, Assistant Professor
BALTHAZAR KORAB: ARCHITECT OF PHOTOGRAPHY

March 25
Julia Robinson, Professor
LUCIEN KROLL: ARCHITECTURE OF EMPOWERMENT & ECOLOGY

April 1
Gunter Dittmar, Associate Professor
PETER ZUMTHOR: ARCHITECTURE OF BEING, BUILDING AND DWELLING

April 8
Renée Cheng, Associate Professor + Head, School of Architecture
FRANK GEHRY: MODERN OR MEDIEVAL MASTER?

April 15
Thomas Fisher, Professor + Dean, College of Design
RALPH RAPSON: THE PLAYFUL MODERNIST

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Dean Tom Fisher lectured at the University of New Mexico Friday, January 25, as part of the School of Architecture and Planning's spring lecture series. Fisher's lecture was titled "Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival."

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The College of Design presents the 40th annual senior fashion show on February 2. Two shows are scheduled, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., at the McNamara Alumni Center. This year's show, entitled Abandon Your Threads, showcases a fully conceptualized line by each of the 17 individuals graduating from the clothing design program. A standing exhibition of work from the sophomore and junior classes is featured as well. More information is available in a University News Service release.

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Lectures

Carol Franklin
principal, Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
Woodland Landscape: History and Perspective
Russel Wright's home
February 11

• Download podcast of Carol Franklin lecture (.mp3; 17.4Mb)

David Dove
principal, Perkins + Will
Sustainable Design: Moving from Buildings to Communities
February 18

• Download podcast of David Dove lecture (.mp3; 18.9Mb)

Liska Clemence Chan
associate professor of landscape architecture, University of Oregon
TRAVERSE: Shifted Waterways and Urban Life
H.W.S. Cleveland Lecture
February 25

• Download podcast of Liska Clemence Chan lecture (.mp3; 17.2Mb)

Bob Close, FASLA (BLA '76)
president and founding principal, Close Landscape Architecture+
Human Settlement: Lessons Learned
H.W.S. Cleveland Lecture
March 3

• Download podcast of Bob Close lecture (.mp3; 25.3Mb)

Alice Friedman
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College
New Light on New Canaan: Philip Johnson's Glass House/Guest House
Cass Gilbert Lecture
March 10

• Download podcast of Alice Friedman lecture (.mp3; 14.4Mb)

Nezar Al Sayyad
professor of architecture, city planning, urban design, and urban history, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition
March 24

• Download podcast of Nezar Al Sayyad lecture (.mp3; 12.9Mb)

Ria Van Dijk
urban designer, Municipality of Almere (The Netherlands) and visiting professor, School of Architecture, College of Design
Floating Cities
March 31

Rip Rapson
president and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
The Fifth Sector: Philanthropy's Role in Community Change
Mertie Buckman Lecture in Leadership and Philanthropy
April 7

• Download podcast of Rip Rapson lecture (.mp3; 15.9Mb)

Eric Rodenbeck
founder and creative director, Stamen Design, San Francisco
Visualizing Urban Data Streams
April 14

• Download podcast of Eric Rodenbeck lecture (.mp3; 20.6Mb)

Shashi Caan
interior designer and architect, Parsons, The New School of Design, New York
Interiors Parlance: Inside Out
April 28

All lectures are at 5:45 p.m. in 100 Rapson Hall

All lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public

Exhibitions

Abandon Your Threads: Senior clothing design runway exhibition
February 2, two shows -- 5 and 8 p.m.
Alumni and friends reception 6:45-7:45 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center

Russel Wright: Living With Good Design
February 8-April 20, 2008
Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall
Russel Wright's (1904-76) prolific output -- ranging from the interior space of house wares, furniture, and fabrics to the exterior environment of landscape design -- made lasting contributions to shaping the lifestyle of the American middle-class.
Curator: Robert Stearns, Arts Midwest
National tour sponsored by Target

Fall 2007 School of Architecture Design Excellence Awards
March 10-21, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall

College of Design Culminating Degree Exhibition
Graduating seniors and capstone honor students; MArch thesis award winners and MLA capstone winners
May 5-18, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall

Inner Space to Outer Space: High Tech Textiles Today
May 17-July 27, 2008
Goldstein Museum of Design, McNeal Hall
New developments in extreme textile engineering and sophisticated fabric uses that extend human capabilities in the smallest and largest arenas. The exhibition will include an outdoor installation of fabric structures.
Curators:
Bruce Wright, editor, Fabric Architecture and design minor teaching fellow
Karen LaBat, professor of clothing design, College of Design

Sacred Sites | Sacred Sights: Architecture, Ethics, and Spiritual Geography
March 28-April 30, 2008
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Presented in conjunction with the Sacred Sites symposium, this exhibition provides a look at a number of notable sacred structures and sites from Minnesota and around the world.

Rapson Hall is located at 89 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis 55455 (East Bank)
Parking in Church St. Garage, 80 Church St. S.E.

McNeal Hall is located at 1985 Buford Ave., St. Paul 55108
Parking in Gortner Ave. Ramp, 1395 Gortner Ave.

612-696-9068 design.umn.edu

For disability accommodations, please call 612-626-9068.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

• Download the Spring 2008 College of Design Events and Lectures poster (.pdf; 1.4Mb)

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This Saturday, December 15, from 6-9 p.m., celebrate the fall 2007 senior graphic design exhibition at the Ivy Arts Building, 2637 27th Avenue S. in south Minneapolis. Refreshments will be served; the event is free and open to the public.

Seniors showing work include:
Christina Adams
Nicholas Andreoli
Sheila Bruggeman
Kit Casey
John Dahl
Freda Duong
Christina DiMeo
Dave Hagen
Ashley Hay
Elizabeth Homer
Christine Lavarda
Jessica Lee Moore
Laura Lewis
Yao Lin
Trinh Mai
Lisa Poola
Kari Sivula
Sergey Trubetskoy
Meagan VanBurkleo
James Walz

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For his Master of Liberal Studies final project, Aaron Fahrmann (Photographer) has created an interactive installation designed to amplify our daily experiences of synchrony, and question traditional ideas of linear time. This project attempts to incorporate network theory, chaos theory, string theory, synchrony, relativity, and dimensional translation -- all unified under a new idea of human movement within time. The project will be installed in Rapson Hall on the first floor between the new addition and the original building. This area, appropriately called the link, will hopefully have even more relevance after visiting this project. Visit the installation during finals week December 17-21.

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Dean Tom Fisher and John Koepke (Landscape Architecture) were co-chairs of the administrators conference -- "Preparing for the Inconvenient Truth" -- of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). The keynote speakers were Will Steger, polar explorer, and J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh Energy. The conference took place on November 1 in Minneapolis.

Preparing for the inconvenient truth
 
Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota
John Koepke, University of Minnesota
 
Cultural preservation
 
John Dwyer, Shelter, University of Minnesota
New Orleans and the Clean Hub

James West, Mississippi State University
Rebuilding Biloxi

Ozayr Saloojee, University of Minnesota
Cultural Sustainability

Marielle Richon, UNESCO
World Heritage and Climate Change

Global flooding
 
Robert Sykes, University of Minnesota
The Situation in Venice

John Dwyer (Architecture alumnus)
Global Climate Change After Katrina

Reclamation landscapes
 
John Koepke, University of Minnesota
Laurentian Vision for the Iron Range

Laura Musacchio, University of Minnesota
Landscape Reclamation

Kyle Brown (Landscape Architecture alumnus), now at California State University at Ponoma
Greening our Campuses

Integrated practice

Marc Swackhamer, University of Minnesota
BIM and Biomimicry

Renee Cheng, University of Minnesota
BIM and Biomimicry

John Carmody, University of Minnesota
Supporting Faculty Research Integration in Professional Programs

Harrison Fraker (former Architecture faculty & department head) and Patrick Condon (former Landscape Architecture faculty)
Global Settlement, Sustainable Housing

2030 challenge
 
Mary Guzowski, University of Minnesota

Building our schools
 
Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota

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Christopher Baker (Design Institute; Art) presented his vision of "What's Next" during the 20/20 event at the 2007 AIGA Design Conference in Denver last month. Baker described Urban Echo, an interactive architecturally-integrated urban projection that he recently showed in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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The Cass Gilbert Society will present a talk on Cass Gilbert and the architecture of St. Paul by Larry Millett, former St. Paul Pioneer Press architecture critic and author of the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, on Tuesday, November 13, 7 p.m., at the University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. There is a $5 fee for nonmembers.

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Dean Tom Fisher's "State of the college" (.ppt; 2Mb) presentation is now available.

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