2009 LECTURE SERIES HAS BEEN FINALIZED

We have four great lectures scheduled. The first guest, Paul Lewis of Lewis. Tsurumaki. Lewis out of New York will be featured on Thursday, March 19th, 2009.
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Anne Fougeron out of San Francisco will be speaking to us on Thursday, May 14th, 2009.
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John Frane, Principal of Predock-Frane out of Santa Monica, California will be speaking to us on Thursday, June 18th, 2009.
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Eric Cobb, out of Seattle, Washington will be speaking to us on Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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As usual, all lectures will be held at the Nevada Museum of Art. Free Silver Peak Beer will be available starting at 5:00pm. The lecture will start at 6:00. Due to the recession we will now be charging for the previously free camaraderie. Continuing education credits for AIA are available.

Lawrence Scarpa is a recognized leader in design innovation: formal, social, and sustainable. Under his direction as Lead Designer of Pugh + Scarpa, the firm has received 36 major design awards, notably eleven national AIA Awards, including 2006 and 2003 AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Project” awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, and finalist for the 2002 United Nation’s World Habitat Award. In 2004, The Architectural League of New York selected him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. His work was recently on exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools including UCLA, University of Florida, Mississippi State University and SCI-arc. He is the 2008 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington Univerisy, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Alfred Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2005 Univerisy of Michigan Max Fisher Visiting Fellow, and 2004 Friedman Fellow at the Univerisy of California at Berkeley.  Mr. Scapra is also a co-founder and current board memeber of Livable Places, a non-profit development and policy organization dedicated to promoting healthy communities and improving quality of life through policy reform and responsible mixed-use housing developments.

http://www.pugh-scarpa.com

Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

May 2nd: Paul Goldberger
May 16th: Eric LLoyd Wright
June 26th: Lawrence Scarpa

New for BRDI this year is an exhibit in the Media Gallery at the NMA. From March 29th to July 6 2008, We have an showing of local unbuilt projects. Two discussions are scheduled in association with this event. For more information check the calender at the NMA.

Ticket prices vary per event and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

Alice Kimm was born in Chicago and spent her high school years in Seoul , Korea . She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1986 from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture degree in 1990 from Harvard University .

She co-founded John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) in Los Angeles in 1996. Since then the firm has completed projects in the United States and in South Korea . JFAK’s work has been widely published and has garnered numerous awards, including a 2004 AIA Institute Honor Award for the LA Design Center. More recently, JFAK’s Ehrlich Residence as well as the LA Design Center were recipients of AIA/LA Decade Awards.

In 1997 Alice was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research housing types in Korea . Alice has taught design studios at USC, SCI-Arc, and Otis College of Art + Design. She has served on the Board of Directors of the L.A. Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and is currently a peer reviewer for the Government Services Administration’s Design Excellence Program.

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Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

Robert Thayer, landscape architect, and founder of the landscape architecture program at the University of California at Davis believes that sustainable landscape is defined by a physical place where human communities, resource uses, and the carrying capacities of supporting ecosystems can all be perpetually maintained. Robert Thayer’s professional practice includes sustainable design theory and methods, wind energy facility siting, bioregional planning, and applications of user perceptions and community needs to site design.

This lecture is Co-sponsored by: The Northern Section of Nevada American Society of Landscape architects.

University of California, Davis Landscape architecture program

Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

Jason Coomes, Visiting instructor at Auburn University’s School of Architecture, through slides and discussion, introduces Nevada to the remarkable Rural Studio Program which enables students to work with citizens of a community to design and build creative and affordable community projects.

Under the direction of School of Architecture’s Associate Professor Andrew Freear, the Rural Studio enables students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community. The rural Studio seeks solutions to the needs of the community within the community’s own context, not from outside it. Abstract ideas based upon knowledge and study are transformed into workable solutions forged by real human contact, personal realization, and a gained appreciation for the culture. To most, the measure of success of the Rural Studio is in its built projects; in reality, its success is measured by its effect upon the lives of the faculty, sutudents, faimilies, and communities it touches. It is not only the buildings that make the Rural Studio what it is, but also the edcuation the students receive about architecture and about society. Ultimately, it is about “sharing the sweat” with the community.

This Black Rock Design Institute presentation is part of the OASIS 2007 CONFERENCE, sponsored by the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs and Nevada Humanitites. Conference registrants may attend this presentation at no charge with OASIS badge.

www.ruralstudio.com

Doors open at 1:45pm and the lecture will begin at 1:45pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

A trained biologist and dedicated ecologist, Paul Kephart has over twenty years of diverse experience in the field of ecological design. Positioned as one of the leading green roof consultants in the Wesern United States, Paul applies ecological design alternatives to conventional development through vegetative building systems. He is recognized as one of the top horticulture experts in California, designing ‘living roofs’ dedicated to watershed management and corridors for migratory wildlife.

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Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

“Formed in 1982, DB+P is a mid-sized firm with three partners. Our staff is well-versed in the personal, political, and commercial dynamics of bringing new architecture into diverse, urban environments. Our work combines social concern with a signature design character, resulting in distinctive, high-quality buildings that provide residents with a strong sense of community. In this way, our work acts as an advocate for improved urban planning, where looking good only counts if it does good, too.”

Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

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get this lecture through iTunes as a podcast .

Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.

“As a California architect, I have a deeply embedded connection to the geometries of landscape and to the abstract and variable qualities of light. The forms of my buildings respond to both: they are at one with the land and serve as receptive containers of natural light.

Design always begins with the site, and with the clues and conditions that are found there. Each physical circumstance will suggest its own potential for a particular expression of scale, space and material. I believe a building must be rational, as well as poetic. It must reveal its internal logic by giving a true sense of its structure.

Founded in 1975, my practice is known for the coolly sensuous rigor of our designs. The office is run as a studio where I am intimately involved with each project throughout the process, and where the sole purpose is the making of timeless architecture.”

Jim Jennings

Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.