They Speak for Themselves this Friday @ Seattle Central Library!

John Grade’s Circuit is in town. Don’t miss the beautiful installation at the Davidson Galleries. Much to reflect on and it isn’t over yet. With the support of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Rick and Peg Young Foundation, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and our fleet of volunteers, Pottery Northwest is proud to be part of John’s vision. Please join us at the Seattle Central Library this Friday, September 10th at 6 pm for a image talk with John. Hear and see the thought behind the process and the new directions in John’s work. This event is free and open to the public, with parking available under the library for $5.

Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio

Co-Presented by Space.City and Northwest Film Forum

Sponsored by JAS Design Build

The film will be shown at Northwest Film Forum

Tuesday, Jul 20 at 07:00PM*
Tuesday, Jul 20 at 09:00PM

*Screening will be followed by a Q&A with UW Professor Steve Badanes

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets (click)

Architect Samuel Mockbee began a radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama, hoping to instill his passion and philosophy in a new generation of “citizen architects.” Mockbee works on instilling architecture’s future practitioners with the knowledge and passion to improve their community’s quality of life by putting compassion and ethical responsibilities at the heart of their design. The results are graceful, clever and often stunning structures that provide shelter for the body and soul while fostering a dialogue between groups of people with disparate assumptions about race, class and economics. Mockbee and his team are the avatars for a new generation of architects and designers committed to putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of their practice.

See his recent Space.City lecture on Vimeo!

Space.City Mels Crouwel Lecture from rob spooner on Vimeo.

Space.City congratulates two of our board members on their recent accomplishments:
President Susan Jones, now a Fellow of the AIA
Board Member Daniel Toole, recipient of the 2010 AIA Seattle Travel Award to a young architect.