Distance Learning Continuing Education

Eero Saarinen Symposium: Beyond the Measly ABC

October 10-12, 2008

University of Minnesota College of Design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), Walker Art Center (WAC), and Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis

Tickets: $40 ($25 Walker, MIA, AIA members) for Saturday program

Symposium fee includes lunch, roundtrip shuttle service between MIA and WAC and admission to WAC and MIA on Saturday, October 11. Friday and Sunday events are not ticketed. To purchase tickets or more information call 612-870-6323 or visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Web site.

Join us for an in-depth symposium to examine the legacy of the one of the modern masters of architecture. The three-day event begins with a conversation with architectural photographer Balthazar Korab and features presentations by architectural historians and curators—both local and national—on the reassessment of Saarinen’s work and its impact on contemporary design practice.

To register: Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts event page.

Limitied free seats to CDes students, staff, and faculty (lunch not included). To register contact Lori Mollberg at 612-625-8796 or lmollber@umn.edu.

Agenda

Friday, October 10, 2008

Rendezvous with the U

A conversation with Balthazar Korab

7 p.m.
Lecture, Bell Museum of Natural History Auditorium, 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN

8:30 p.m.
Reception, Ralph Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN

Sponsored by AIA Minneapolis, College of Design

Free. For more information, call the College of Design

Balthazar Korab is an architect and photographer who worked with Le Corbusier before coming to the United States in 1955 to join Eero Saarinen and Associates, where he began experimenting with the use of photography as part of the design development process. In 1964 Korab received the prestigious AIA Medal for Architectural Photography, recognizing his worldwide coverage of architects such as Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. Korab is joined in conversation by John Comazzi, assistant professor of Architecture, College of Design, who is currently working on a biography of Korab.

Saturday, October 11

Morning session
Location: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN

8:30-9:00 a.m.
Registration – MIA Third Avenue Entrance
Coffee - Fountain Court

9 a.m.
Conference sessions – Pillsbury Auditorium
Welcome
Jennifer Komar Olivarez, associate curator, architecture, design, decorative arts, craft, and sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Introductory Remarks
Andrew Blauvelt, design director and curator, Walker Art Center

9:30 a.m.
Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture & design, Museum of the City of New York, and curator of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future and co-editor of the accompanying publication Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale University Press, 2006) on the reassessment of Saarinen.

10:15 a.m.
Jennifer Komar Olivarez, associate curator, architecture, design, decorative arts, craft, and sculpture at MIA, and essay contributor to Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future on Saarinen’s architecture of sacred spaces.

10:45 a.m.
Coffee break – Fountain Court

11 a.m.
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, assistant professor, Yale School of Architecture on Saarinen’s search for form. Co-editor of  Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future on Saarinen’s search for form.

11:30 a.m.
Q&A with Donald Albrecht, Jennifer Komar Olivarez, and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, moderated by Andrew Blauvelt.

11:45 a.m.
Lunch in Reception Hall, Target Wing MIA

1:15 p.m.
Shuttle leaves MIA Third Avenue entrance for WAC

Afternoon Session
Location: Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN

1:30 p.m.
Nancy Miller, Center for World Heritage Studies and adjunct assistant professor, College of Design, University of Minnesota on Saarinen’s corporate campuses.

2 p.m.
Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture and founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, on Saarinen’s use of the media.

2:30 p.m.
Q&A with Beatriz Colomina and Nancy Miller, moderated by Andrew Blauvelt.

2:45 p.m.
Break

3 p.m.
Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin curator and chairman, Department of European Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and essay contributor to Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future on design for the Miller House.

3:30 p.m.
Tom Fisher, professor and dean of the College of Design, University of Minnesota on Saarinen’s legacy in contemporary architecture.

3:45 p.m.
Q&A with Christopher Monkhouse and Tom Fisher, moderated by Andrew Blauvelt.

4 p.m.
Reception
Cargill Lounge, WAC

Sunday, October 12

Christ Church Lutheran
3244 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
612-721-6611

2 p.m.
Welcome
Kristine Carlson, pastor, Christ Church Lutheran

Ozayr Saloojee, assistant professor of Architecture, College of Design, University of Minnesota, presents new research on Christ Church Lutheran accompanied by an exhibition at the church.

2:40 p.m.
Timo Tuomi, head of research at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki on the connections between Eliel and Eero Saarinen’s work.

3:30 p.m.
Reception

Dress & Sport for Women Symposium

October 10-12, 2008
Friday 4-8 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sunday 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Dr. Patricia Campbell Warner, professor emerita, history of dress, Department of Theater, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Warner is the author of When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear.

  • In the Twenty-first Century, we take sportswear for granted.
  • We all wear it.
  • But why “SPORTS wear”?
  • What is its relationship to sport?
  • Where did it come from?
  • What struggles did women face in order to play sports, to wear clothing that allowed them freedom of movement in a fashion-driven world?
  • What relationship do sports have to the clothing that defines American Style?

Continuing education non-credit course

Registration required for Saturday and Sunday - $60.00

To register online: See the information on the College of Continuing Education Web site, or contact Sandy Symons at 612-625-2131 or symonss@umn.edu.

10 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
Saint Paul, MN  55108

Acadia 2008: Silicon + Skin
Biological Processes and Computation

October 16-19, 2008

University of Minnesota

The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) together with the Digital Design Consortium in the School of Architecture and Computer Science at the University of Minnesota will hold the ACADIA 2008 conference in Minneapolis. The upcoming conference entitled Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation fosters design work and research from the worlds of practice and academia which lie at the intersection between design, biology, and computation. More specifically, this conference seeks to identify and examine current trends in digital design technologies developed and applied in the framework of biologically inspired processes and digitally assisted sustainable design.

For more information: See the ACADIA Web site.