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Events Edition: September 2011

 

 

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LECTURES

 

Lectures begin at 6 PM in 100 Rapson Hall, Minneapolis, unless noted.
Lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

 

GLOBAL PRACTICES IN ARCHITECTURE

LECTURE SERIES

 

Kerem Erginoğlu and Hasan Çalışlar

 

Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects, Istanbul, Turkey
October 14

 

Daniel Lopez and Renata R. Elizondo

 

Independent architects, Oaxaca, Mexico

October 19

 

Philippe Block

 

Assistant Professor, Structural Engineering Institute
for Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
October 31

 

Juan Ignacio del Cueto

 

National University of Mexico, Mexico City
November 21

 

MORE LECTURES:

 

Next Generation of Parks
Tom Leader
Tom Leader Studio, Berkeley, CA
Sheila Kennedy and Frano Violich
Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd., Boston, MA
September 19, 7 PM

 

Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale

 

Community in a Large-Scale World

 

with architecture alumnus Ross Chapin (BArch/BED '79); book signing follows lecture
September 28

 

Image provided by Global Practices in Architecture Lecture Series speakers Daniel Lopez and Renata R. Elizando.

 

EVENTS

 

Registration required for events.
* indicates registration fee.

 

Housing Alumni Gala

 

October 5

 

RENDEZVOUS WITH THE U

 

October 14

 

RETAIL CONNECT:Going Mobile, Getting Social…

Shopping with Today’s Consumers

 

October 27 *

 

Landscape Architecture Alumni Reunion
ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo, San Diego

 

October 30 *

 

Goldstein Museum of Design 35th
Anniversary

 

November 4 *

 

Sustainable Neighborhood Design
Conference

 

November 5 *

 

E3 2011: The Latest in Renewable Energy Innovation

 

November 7 *

 

The State of the Interior Design Profession

 

November 15

 

INK LINK: A Letterpress Mixer

 

November 18 *

 

Dirty Laundry—delivering the dirt on design

 

December 1*

 

All programs subject to change.

 

For details and updates see design.umn.edu/events.

 

Image provided by Rendezvous with the U lecture speakers Hasan Çalışlar and Kerem Erginoğlu.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

Beyond Peacocks and Paisleys: Handcrafted Textiles of India and Its Neighbors
through September 25; Lecture by Donald Clay Johnson, September 18, 2 PM

 

Polarities: Black and White in Design
October 15–December 30; Reception October 20

 

The Architecture of Erginoğlu & Çalışlar
September 6–October 22

 

Architecture and Ceramics: A Material for the Ages October 31–December 17

 

The Old Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania: An Artist’s Perspective
September 23–December 30; Reception September 23

 

 

Image from Goldstein Museum of Design collection for Polarities: Black and White in Design.