Two of our authors are featured in the 2012 Penn Design Lecture Series.

Thursday, February 23

Paula Scher (Maps, Make it Bigger)
Designer, Pentagram
Spiegel Resident
5:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Co-sponsor: Spiegel

Monday, March 19

Marion Weiss/Michael Manfredi (Surface/Subsurface)
Graham Chair Professor of Architecture, PennDesign
Principals, Weiss/Mandredi
Kenneth Frampton
Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
Barry Berdoll
Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MOMA
6:30pm, Meyerson Hall, B1
Sponsor: Kohn Pedersen Fox Lecture Fund

All lectures are held at 6PM in Meyerson Hall and free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Continuing education credits available.

102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

From archdaily:

Weiss/Manfredi has just been selected to transform the urban campus of the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, D.C. following a competition among top firms such as Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Diamond Schmitt Architects, and Steven Holl Architects. The project will establish new connections among the diverse collection of buildings that span more than a century on the Washington D.C. site and create a new expression for National Geographic’s international programs, museum, media, and research activities.

Published in 2008, their monograph Surface/Subsurface includes essays and interviews that present nine recently completed projects.

The quest for sustainability will increasingly concentrate development in cities, resulting in architecture that will be a fusion of new and old forms, especially as policy incentives are implemented that encourage major additions to existing buildings. San Francisco architect Charles Bloszies, joined by Megan Carey of Princeton Architectural Press, will explore this topic as he presents case studies from his recently released book.

Friday, February 3, 2012, 7-9PM

Inside Prefab is a book launch event that celebrates the history and resurgence of prefabricated domestic interiors from a world of standardized serialism to one of endless variations on the occasion of the release of Inside Prefab: The Ready-made Interior, a new book by Deborah Schneiderman.

The event will showcase a series of presentations by designers, students and architects that address serialization and difference in a space of interiority. Presenters include: Karen Fairbanks, Ferda Kolatan, Britney Malave, Katelyn McKernan, Christopher Quiles, Ada Tolla, Allan Wexler and Deborah Schneiderman.

About the book
As an inherently sustainable and affordable building method, prefabrication has enjoyed a revival in recent years, attracting clients and architects alike. In Inside Prefab: The Ready-made Interior, Schneiderman turns her attention to a much-overlooked area of prefabrication: interior design. Offering a fascinating history of prefabricated interior design, followed by twenty-four contemporary case studies, the book includes projects by established architects, designers, and artists such as Shigeru Ban, Greg Lynn, and Atelier Tekuto, Andrea Zittel, among others, and up-and-coming firms. The richly illustrated case studies range from original designs for prefabricated interior walls, kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, and offices to complete prefabricated house interiors.

Copies will be available for purchase at Storefront during the event

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795
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After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design Book Launch

Parsons
Thursday, February 2
5:30-6:30pm
The Glass Corner (room 206), 25 East 13th Street

Please join editors Kent Kleinman, Lois Weinthal, and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, and guests Jonsara Ruth, Susan Yelavich for a discussion moderated by Anita Cooney about After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design. This critical collection establishes a new intellectual framework for interior design. Crossing boundaries into photography, animation film, philosophy, and even space travel, the works featured in this study document new theories and emerging practices. The discussion will focus on the original intent and future of the After Taste project.

PRODUCTION PREPRESS MANAGER

Princeton Architectural Press is looking for a multi-talented individual with excellent Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign skills to work as a Production Prepress Manager. The applicant should understand all aspects of book print production and will work closely with design and editorial to troubleshoot files and image problems to help produce printer-ready files for books. The position requires excellent technical skills as well as artistic sensitivity to the aesthetics of the project. Candidates must have a proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on the Macintosh platform. Knowledge of K4 and Abobe Digital Publishing Suite a plus.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

—Four-color retouching and image manipulation of photos and illustrations in Photoshop and Illustrator
—Reviewing files from the project editor and designer,
—Preparing tests of art and design elements, and reviewing tests and proofs. Recommending revisions to files or requesting replacement files that will eliminate or reduce anticipated print problems
—Preflighting and preparing final book files to send to printer
—Creating and archiving PDF versions of final book files

Email your PDF resume to prepressmanagerposition@papress.com. No phone calls, please

Join the editors (Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand, Kate Orff), photographer Laura McPhee, and GSAPP’s Sarah Williams to celebrate the launch of Gateway.

The event starts at 7:00pm

Vist the Van Alen Institute website for more details.

Join PAPress tonight at 6pm at the New York Public Library to attend Architectural Explorations in Books. Speakers will be architect Tom Kundig (author of Tom Kundig: Houses 2), and Mark Rozzo (executive editor of Town & Country).

For more details visit the NYPL website.

The event is free and open to the public. Located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum. Doors open at 5:30pm.
Map and Directions

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tom Kundig: Houses 2

Super-Urban-Mega-Listic: An Evening with Smout Allen

Friday, January 20, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Studio-X NYC (map)
180 Varick St
New York, NY 10014

Join London-based architects Smout Allen and students from the Bartlett School of Architecture as they present interim student work developed with the help of a winter week spent exploring the hidden infrastructures, megastructural remnants, buried steam tunnels, and techno-ecological landscapes of New York City.

All are welcome to this open student crit; no RSVP required.

This event is a chance to talk type with two type fans!

Design and Style – Typography Sketchbooks – Steven Heller and Lita Talarico
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.

Free – Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
First come, first served

Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event.

Design historian Steven Heller and educator Lita Talarico, co-chairs of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, and designers Travis Cain, Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst, Esther K Smith + Dikko Faust (of Purgatory Pie Press), discuss the merits of the graphic designer’s typography sketchbook, a creative “work-out” space for generating ideas and drafting unique type that becomes synonymous with brands and institutions around the world. An unrestrained and idiosyncratic collection, the book Typography Sketchbooks includes work by boundary-pushing designers including Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segua, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal, Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Viktor Nubel, Peter Bilak, and Jean-Baptiste Levee.

Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provides fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.

Paula Scher MAPS
January 12 – February 18, 2012
Opening Reception: January 12, 2012 from 6 – 8 PM

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

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The interview

Tulsa, OK (KWGS) – On today’s Studio Tulsa, we offer a conversation with Avi Friedman, who is a Professor at the McGill School of Architecture. Friedman has written on “subjects ranging from construction technology to suburban planning and space management”—and his most recent book is The Nature of Place: A Search for Authenticity. It’s basically a book about the “good” places that we as human beings tend to seek out—those authentic, engaging, beautiful, and/or comfortable places that we most want to work, play, relax, socialize, dine, dwell, or simply be in. The author profiles sixteen such spots from around the globe, and in so doing explores, among other matters, the widespread rise of farmer’s markets, the disappearance of folk art from certain neighborhoods, and the relationship between cities and their natural environments.

AIGA/NY Winter Bash!

TIME AND PLACE
Tuesday 20 December 2011
8:00–11:00PM

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
in DUMBO, Brooklyn
8:00PM Check-in and grab a drink
8:30PM DEBBIE MILLMAN!
9:00PM Live karaoke band

REGISTER TODAY
No refunds available after December 15, 2011.
$13 AIGA member
$26 General public

Must be 21 and over to attend.

From the AIGA/NY website:

Our Winter Bash elves are excited to announce our special guest speaker at this year’s Winter Bash!

Design rockstar Debbie Millman will be giving a talk to get the party started. In addition to being the special guest speaker, Debbie will kick off our night of live band karaoke with her rendition of “Love Me Tender.”

Check your coat at the door and warm your hands by the lights of our photo booth (not actually recommended). Prepare a song to spotlight or sing with a group of friends, Crash Course Karaoke is bringing it back, old school, in our live band karaoke set.

Not the karaoke or dancing type? You can sing along under your breath from a safe distance. We’ve got Grimaldi’s pizza for sale and a cash bar to keep you occupied while you tap your foot to the beat. And just for registering for the event, you’re automatically entered into a drawing for fabulous gifts!

Invite your close friends, your not-as-close co-workers and your boss! Let’s celebrate the holiday season while everyone is still excited about the snow. Don’t miss out!

To pick a song for karaoke, visit crashcoursekaraoke.com. If you don’t see your favorite sing-a-long on the list, shoot them an email and they will learn it for you!

List of prizes so far:
Gift bag from Aperture
Gift bag from Random House
Gift bag from Rizzoli
Bose items
Gift bag from TayEveryday
Shutterstock 3-month free subscription worth $709
Noble Desktop class worth between $600-$900
Signed copy of Paula Scher’s book MAPS
Signed copy of Stan Lee’s book “How To Draw Comics”
Friends of Type posters
Tattly gift box
Two copies of the not yet published The Electric Information Age Book
Plus more!

TO BE PUBLISHED, OR SELF-PUBLISH?
with Mary Virginia Swanson, Publish Your Photography Book

Sunday, January 15th, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Griffin Museum

Members: $50.00 – Order On- Line
Non-Members $90.00 – Order On-Line

The print-on-demand revolution has opened up new publishing possibilities for photographers; it has never been easier or more affordable to produce and market a book of your photographs. Traditional publishing brings a specialized team with experience with design, production, marketing and distribution systems to your project. In a self-publishing scenario you create the book you envision, but without the input and publishing house expertise. Which scenario is best for you?

In this three-hour illustrated presentation, Mary Virginia Swanson will discuss the pros/cons of both avenues to publishing towards determinng which path is right for you and your work. Swanson will share resources from her recent title Publish Your Photography Book (co-authored with Darius Himes), as well as insights she has gained through her own experiences and those of artists with completed publications.

The Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890
Tel. 781-729-1158 | Fax: 781-721-2765

Congratulations to Steven Holl on being awarded the architecture’s highest honor — The American Institute of Architects 2012 Gold Medal!

In recognition of his legacy to architecture, his name will be chiseled into the granite Wall of Honor in the lobby of the AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

For more information visit the AIA site here.

The Arts Club of Chicago

Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision

“For those seriously interested in how Marina City was developed, built, and used the media to become what it is today, this is a must-have. Marina City is a project that deserves a well-researched, academic case study, and this heavily illustrated one does it beautifully.”
— A Daily Dose of Architecture

Meet authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA, and Richard C. Peters, FAIA, on the launch of their new book The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living.

Sunday, December 11, 2011
2 pm Short presentation, followed by a book signing
OMCA Store / Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, at 10th Street
Oakland, CA

Over the course of a career that spanned forty-five years, William Wurster (1895–1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Wurster described these homes as “frames for living.” For the book, the authors draw upon extensive historical research as well as personal relationships with Wurster to tell the story of his career. The book features new and archival footage of thirty-three of the architect’s best-known houses and includes a foreword by Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA.

The PhotoNOLA, in partnership with Octavia Books and The Historic New Orleans Collection, invites you to a multiple artist book-signing event during PhotoNOLA 2011, the sixth annual festival of photography in New Orleans.

12/9/11 from 5pm-7pm
The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Williams Research Center
410 Charter St. in the French Quarter, New Orleans

The In Print: Multi-Artists Book Signing will feature more than eight photographers with recent publications including our own Mary Virginia Swanson (Publish Your Photography Book).

Join authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom and Richard C. Peters at Van Alen Books to discuss their new book:

The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living

Tuesday December 6, 2011
7:00pm-9:00pm

Van Alen Books
30 W. 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010

Free and open to the public!
Books available for purchase and signing.
Wine will be served.

About the book:
Over the course of a career that spanned forty-five years, William Wilson Wurster designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. A blend of modernism with vernacular, Wurster described these homes as “frames for living”: spaces that could be fully transformed by the occupant to meet their needs and desires. Authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA, and Richard C. Peters, FAIA, draw upon extensive historical research as well as personal relationships with Wurster to tell the story of his career.

AIGA/NY – Paula Scher: MAPS from AIGA/NY on Vimeo.

From October 19, 2011 at The Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design.

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