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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

UW Spring Lecture by:

Jay A. Taylor, P.E., S.E., Hon. AIA

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

New Appointee, Barry Onouye Endowed Chair in Architecture

Join us as we kick off the Spring Lecture Series and celebrate Jay’s appointment to the new Barry Onouye Endowed Chair in the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Following a reception at 5:30 p.m., Jay will speak about structures that range from sculptural to minimalist to heroic.  

The event is free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Space.City invites you to an intimate happy hour lecture and discussion

with Architect Gilles Saucier of Saucier Perrotte.

Friday, November 5th, 4 – 6 pm

BOKA Studio 1000 lounge*

1010 First Avenue

Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets**

*Happy hour food and beverages will be available for purchase.
**Due to the venue size, a limited number of tickets are available.

Space.City works in collaboration with Suyama Space.  We thank Peter Miller Books, Greg Bishop, Fryer Noble Co., Naramore Foundation, and  The Miller Hull Partnership for their support.  This lecture is presented in collaboration with AIA Seattle and with the sponsorship of Perkins+Will and BOKA Kitchen + Bar.

Gilles Saucier is both a photographer and an architect. His work in photography has helped fine tune his approach to architecture and evolve his perspective on his work in the world. Saucier Perrotte, his architectural firm, places as much emphasis on using their hands as it does employing evolving virtual 3d technology. Their recent project, Les Bains Vieux Montréal, has won both a 2010 International Architecture Award and a Governor’s Award. They  won an International Architecture Award for the Private Residence and Guest House in the Laurentian Mountains. Saucier Perrotte was honored as the best architectural firm in Canada in 2009 by the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, saying, “They have pursued and achieved poetics of space in architecture.”

Since 1990, Saucier has been a visiting professor and an invited critic at several Canadian and American universities, including University of Montréal, McGill University, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and Seattle University. He has been invited as a guest speaker for AIA San Francisco and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2008 and the New Voices lecture series organized in 2001 by the New York Architectural League. He has also lectured at the power-plant series in Toronto and in “architecture rampant” at the royal Ontario museum in Toronto. Saucier was one of three Canadian architects invited to join a governor general team to promote Canadian culture through a series of state visits to Finland and Iceland.

Where: The Miller Hull Partnership 71 Columbia, Sixth Floor

When: Thursday, 10/28 at 6 pm

What: Please join us for an illustrated talk by architect Robert F. Gatje, FAIA, based on his experiences writing the recently published “Great Public Squares, An Architect’s Selection.”

Inspired by the 19th century thumbnail sketches of the great Austrian critic, Camillo Sitte, and the insight of Professor Paul Zucker in judging squares as containers of space, this new book features shadowed, colorful plans at identical scale that allow everyone to rank their favorites and compare them to the greats – Piazza di San Marco, Place des Vosges, and Old Town Prague. These maps help you understand solid and void, grasp street patterns, and, in some cases, identify significant works of architecture.

Robert Gatje is a New York architect, a former partner of Marcel Breuer
and Richard Meier, and author of “Marcel Breuer: A Memoir.”

You+the Built Environment+Design
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26
Barbara Swift has influenced some of Seattle’s most treasured landmarks: Discovery Park, Seattle Civic Center and Ballard Commons. Swift will discuss the need for all of us to use everyday skills to evaluate and pursue intentionally designed environments.

Join the Library and the Seattle Architectural Foundation for a series of free design lectures.

Each lecture takes place at the Central Library, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 1000 4th Avenue.

Gathering to mark life of Folke Nyberg

A celebration of life for Folke Nyberg, an emeritus professor of
architecture and of urban design and planning who died Aug. 15, will be held
from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, at the University of Washington Club.

Nyberg was a faculty member from 1969 to 1999, known as a strong advocate
for affordable housing, public open space and neighborhood preservation.

Born in Sweden in 1934, Nyberg moved with his family to Seattle in 1947. His
last several years at the UW, he held appointments in both Architecture and
Scandinavian Studies.

Nyberg’s family requests that gifts in his memory be made to the Folke
Nyberg Column 5 Editorship Endowment.

Credit card information or checks payable to the UW Foundation may be sent
to UW Gift Processing, UW Tower Box 359505, Seattle, WA, 98195-9505. Gifts
may also be made online here.

Link to article: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?id=60873

House on a Steep Site – Hutchison + Maul Architecture

SMALLMEDIUMLARGE 4 HOUSES

Reception: A reception tor the speakers will be held in the lobby of Architecture Hall at 5:30 pm.  Please come.

Event: Thursday 21 October 2010 6:30 pm, Rm. 147 Architecture Hall, University of Washington

SMALLMEDIUMLARGE is a series of lectures that will examine the impact that graduates of the University of Washington Department of Architecture have on the built environment of the region.  The subject of each lecture will be a single building type associated with a particular scale of architectural intervention.    The first lecture in the series, SMALL 4 HOUSES, will feature:

Columbia City Live Aboves by Arellano ( Christofides Architects

Wood Block Residence by chadbourne + doss architects

North Beach House by Heliotrope Architects

House on a Steep Site by Hutchison + Maul Architecture.

A presentation of each project by the architects will be followed by a short moderated discussion.   This lecture is sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Architecture.  It is free and open to the public.

Suyama Space will host Charanga Danzon for a special concert within NASCENT: Installation by Gerri Sayler’s suspended waves of translucent hot glue gossamer. Seattle’s unique Cuban music ensemble Charanga Danzon, led by violinist Irene Mitri, performs Cuban repertoire including traditional son, danzon, cha-cha-cha, classical, and jazz.

October 09, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Suyama Space is a non-profit installation venue that provides opportunities for experimentation, inspiration, and education in contemporary art. Suyama Space is located at:
Suyama Space
2324 Second Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121

This is an all ages concert. General advance admission is $25, ages 12 and under $10. Seating is limited. Door tickets (if there are still seats on the night of the event) will be $30 for general admission, still $10 for ages 12 and under.  Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets.

Lost in Nature: The Architecture of Jarmund / Vignaes Architects

September 17–November 14, 2010

Lost in Nature features a collection of work by the Oslo-based architectural firm Jarmund / Vigsnaes. Through photographs and models, the exhibition highlights architectural projects that focus on close relationships with Norwegian nature.

Please join us for a preview reception Thursday, September 16, 6 to 8 p.m.

Nordic Heritage Museum

3014 nw 67th st
Seattle, WA 98117
(206) 789-5707

Jarmund / Vigsnæs Architects was established in 1995 by Einar Jarmund—an alumnus of the University of Washington—and Håkon Vigsnæs. In 2004 the partnership acquired a third partner, Alessandra Kosberg; JVA currently employs 17 architects. With projects ranging from summer cabins and private homes to schools, office buildings, and research centers, the work of JVA has been published and exhibited extensively in Europe, South America, and Asia. Lost in Nature is the firm’s first United States exhibition.

Lost in Nature is supported in part by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

NASCENT

Gerri Sayler has created a site-specific installation made from 2,000 fibrous ribbons of hot glue for Suyama Space, located at 2324 2nd Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Sayler, a sculptor and installation artist who lives in Moscow, Idaho, recently returned from a residency in New Zealand. The installation opens to the public on September 20 and continues through December 17, 2010.  Sayler’s artist reception will be held on Friday, September 17, 5 – 7 pm and she will present an artist talk at the gallery on Saturday, September 18 at 12-noon. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm and admission is free to the public.

Nascent: Installation by Gerri Sayler is made possible through funding from 4Culture/ King County Lodging Tax Fund, National Endowment for the Arts’ Recovery Act Stimulus Funds through 4Culture’s Recovery Act sub granting program, the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, the Suyama Space Friends and was curated by Beth Sellars in partnership with Space.City. Artist support is made possible in part by a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts. Suyama Space is in compliance with the 504/ADA Assurance for people with disabilities.

For more information:
Beth Sellars or Emma Shultz
[206.256.0809]
www.suyamapetersondeguchi.com/art
www.gerrisayler.com