Join us for a fascinating discussion of the Rotunda Renovations led by Brian Hogg, Senior Historic Preservation Planner at UVA, followed by a guided tour of the Rotunda. Meet on the south steps of the Rotunda facing The Lawn. 11:30 & 3:30

Lance Hosey (GreenBlue) will moderate a panel including Maurice Cox (former mayor, NEA director of design, currently at UVA Architecture School), Kathy Galvin (architect and City Council), Alison Hirsch (UVA School of Architecture), and Pete O’Shea(Siteworks Studio).

The Bridge is located at 209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22902
7-9pm

http://www.monticelloroad.com/2012/04/creative-community-planning.html

If you prefer to tour at your leisure, that is a-ok with us! Firms will be open to the public from 4-7pm.

MAP – FIRM TOUR 2012

*Note: Bike tour is for Downtown locations ONLY!

Thanks to this year’s participating firms!

AIA Central Virginia takes great pleasure in Honoring :

Henry J. Browne, AIA – Milton L. Grigg Award

James R. Boyd, AIA – Architect Service Award

Sally Thomas – Citizen Service Award

Overton McGehee – Special Citation

Please join us for the Honors & Awards Reception

Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at 6:30pm

OpenSpace 455 2nd Street SE, Charlottesville VA

Please RSVP to Elizabeth{at}aiacentralva{dot}org

These organizations aid our community by  providing a professional service to clients that would never have the resources to hire professionals.  Each of these groups focus on aiding and bettering a community through good design.

These organizations  face similar challenges: red tape,  working  for a much larger client base, and  trying finding funding for their projects, as the reach for their ultimate goal: to better our community and give a helping hand to the undeserved.

City Space

7:30

photo from the daily progress

photo: Ansel Olsen via SMBW Architects

Join Fred Hopkins from SMBW Architects in Richmond for a tour of the Boys and Girls Club at noon.

AIA VA Architectural Bike Tour 2011 from Ian Ayers on Vimeo.

Special thanks to Ian Ayers, our bike safety specialist, for making this video.

Vinegar Hill, 7pm

$5 suggested donation

“The purpose of architecture,” said John Lautner, “is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life.”

Infinite Space, a new documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.

As a young man, Lautner broke from his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright, and went west to California to forge his own architecture. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally – monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. It was a life in pursuit of beauty.

Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner’s dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Other voices join him: comments from Frank Gehry and his peers who were influenced by Lautner, the emotional memories of original clients, owners and builders, the remarks of Frank Escher, the architect who restored the Chemosphere house, and Julius Shulman who famously photographed all the great modernists.

Original drawings and historical photographs from the John Lautner Archives at the Getty Museum are layered with the artistic photography of seminal buildings, bringing to life Lautner’s quest to create timeless space.

A Googie Company Production in association with The John Lautner Foundation and The Hammer Museum. Directed by Murray Grigor.