Our newest section, RECORD Events, is your go-to source for information about exhibitions, lectures, conferences, and symposia around the globe. This section also features competition announcements for both emerging and established architects.

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity The show is a must see. At New York’s Museum of Modern Art from November 8 until January 25, the exhibition was organized by MoMA curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman in collaboration with three German institutions—all celebrating the 90th anniversary of the influential school’s founding. Josef Albers Scherbe ins Gitterbild (Glass fragments in grid picture) c.1921

The Great White Whale is Black
New York City
February 2—March 13, 2010
Through a selection of work spanning over the past five decades, the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and painter/architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what this tells of the future of architecture in this exhibition at The Cooper Union. For more information, visit www.cooper.edu.

SNØHETTA
New York City
February 4—April 13, 2010
The innovative, award-winning, and environmentally conscious architectural firm, Snøhetta, will be featured in this multi-faceted exhibition. SNØHETTA architecture – landscape – interior offers insight into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works, including the celebrated Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the recently completed Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway, and the planned National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York. For more information, visit www.scandinaviahouse.org.

 

Ongoing Exhibitions

The Function of Form
In this book, internationally acclaimed architect Farshid Moussavi provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. The book provides a thought-provoking account of the challenges facing the 21st century built environment, and an enlivened awareness of the wider possibilities of architectural form.

Chicago: You Are Here 
Chicago
This engaging permanent exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation provides images, models, artifacts and video presentations, encouraging visitors to explore the architecture, infrastructure and environment of Chicago. For more information, visit www.architecture.org.

What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi Scott Brown & Associates
New Haven, Conn.
Through February 5, 2010
Two separate exhibitions offer complementary perspectives on the legendary studio taught at Yale in 1969 and its subsequent impact on the teaching, research and design work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, two of America’s most prominent architects. The first exhibition, “The Yale Las Vegas Studio,” consists of more than 100 color photographs, slide presentations and miscellaneous original materials documenting the famed 1968 Yale “field trip” to Las Vegas led by Venturi and Scott Brown. The second exhibition, “What We Learned,” focuses on Venturi and Scott Brown’s critical contributions to the urban landscape and our understanding of it. Visit www.architecture.yale.edu.

Rites of Passage
New York City
Through February 11, 2010
This exhibition explores the routes taken by recent alumni of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, including sound, text, architectural intervention, performance, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Avenues of expression range from the intangibility of light and sound to the poetry of infrastructure. For more information, visit http://cooper.edu.

Later Layer
Los Angeles
Through February 28, 2010
This exhibition will feature models and drawings of design work that Johnston Marklee architects are doing for DEVELOP RE and the DEPART Foundation in Italy along with photographs and sculpture by Beshty from the DEPART Foundation Collection. Johnston Marklee’s combined work is conceived as an alphabet of elemental building blocks for art exhibition, artist-in-residence studios, exhibition pavilions, creative offices, and residences. For more information, visit www.johnstonmarklee.com.

China Prophecy: Shanghai
New York City
Through March 2010
The exhibition explores the 21st-century skyscraper city of Shanghai, a vast metropolis of 18 million residents — the largest city in the world’s most populous nation. At the Skyscraper Museum. For more information, call 212/945-6325 or visit www.skycraper.org.

Zaha Hadid Retrospective Exhibition
Padua, Italy
Through March 1, 2010
A major retrospective on the works of Zaha Hadid Architects, this exhibition will examine the practice’s continued experimentation and research into digital design and construction methods at the cutting edge of the industry. Addressing the demand for an increased level of articulated complexity, the practice has evolved its experimentation by means of retooling its research methods on the basis of parametric design systems. Visit www.camron.co.uk.

Still Robot
Los Angeles
Through March 7, 2010
The Still Robot exhibition presents OCTA.BOT, a universal building system based on the combination of freely rotating elements into robust tectonic assemblies. The OCTA.BOT system seeks to expand the application of lightweight SPACE-FRAME structures into the everyday realm by streamlining the design and assembly process into a simple, robust and versatile building system allowing for an unlimited formal vocabulary while eliciting economies in material resources, energy expenditure and assembly time. For more information, visit www.sciarc.edu.

En Contrucción
London
March 29, 2010
A lyrical and humorous cinematic observation of a neighborhood, its inhabitants, its history and its future, En Construcción won the Fipresci, Best Film and Special Prize of the Jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival at its premiere. Director José Luis Guerin shot over 120 hours of footage to create a document of a city, ‘searching for its future while jostling its past… a construction site, where if you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds that move the world’. For more information, visit www.architecturefoundation.org.uk.

Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
New York City
Through April 4, 2010
This exhibition celebrates the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, including works of fashion, technology, graphics, architecture, landscape, and product design. Following the exhibition, students will have two workshop options: In Chair Design or Graphic Identity. For more information, visit www.cooperhewitt.org.

Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
New York City
Through April 8, 2010
Exploring the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis, this exhibition is comprised of over 60 documents created between 1953 and 1984, including rarely-seen hand-rendered musical scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and samples of his pioneering graphic notation. A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. For more information, visit http://drawingcenter.org.

John Portman: Art & Architecture 
Atlanta
Through April 18, 2010
Featuring fifteen completed and current architectural projects of Atlanta-based architect John Portman, this exhibition explores five decades of national and international developments, including the Hyatt Regency Atlanta (1967) that is globally renowned as the first modern atrium hotel. For more information, visit www.high.org.

Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music and Everyday Experience
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Through May 23, 2010
Hosted by The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, this exhibition highlights how design can influence the production and consumption of music and in turn how making and consuming music influences design in fashioning our experience of music in everyday life. Rewind Remix Replay reflects strong community ties as well as national scholarship focusing on music and design. For more information, visit www.smoca.org.

From Village to Grounds: Architecture after Jefferson at the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virg.
Through May 31, 2010
This exhibition explores the wide range of solutions to the architectural and planning problems posed by adding to the Academical Village, from 19th-century picturesque ideals to the classicism of McKim, Mead & White and the modern architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. For more information, visit www.virginia.edu/artmuseum.

House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage
Washington, D.C.
Through July 11, 2010
In a world without parking garages, parking lots might sprawl across cities. For more than 100 years, the parking garage has provided design and engineering solutions to the parking problem. This is the first major exhibition to explore the history of this familiar structure and open conversations about innovative designs and parking solutions for the future. For more information, call 202/272-2448 or visit www.nbm.org.

Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
Washington, DC
Through December 31, 2010
This first-ever retrospective exhibition of the National Building Museum’s unique collection explores quintessentially American, 20th-century buildings from center-city mansions to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers. Anchored by a series of large architectural elements, this walking tour of the cityscape is complemented by exquisitely detailed drawings; rare, early-20th-century photographs; and smaller-scale fragments from National Historic Landmarks—including the former U.S. Pension Building, the Museum’s extraordinary home. For more information, visit www.nbm.org.

Investing in Culture
Bahrain
Through January 2012
Envisioned to endorse a new cultural renaissance for Bahrain, this exhibition at the Bahrain National Museum will highlight future architectural proposals related to Bahrain's culture, showcasing them through various media: large urban models explaining the context of each proposal, large display boards depicting drawings and renderings, individual 1/250 scale models of the building, as well as video projections for each future project. Among the future proposals are projects by Tadao Ando (Museum and Research Centre), Zaha Hadid (Museum of Contemporary Art), Architecture Studio (National Theatre), and Claus Wohlert (Visitor Centres). For more information, visit www.moci.gov.bh/en/.

imm Cologne
Chicago
January 19—January 24, 2010
Imm is one of the world’s largest and most international industry trade shows for the home furnishing and accessory industry. More than 1,000 exhibitors from 50 countries will show products to over 100,000 attendees. The event is known for its promotion of young designers, award competitions and the annual edition of its “Trend Book”. Attendees are furniture retailers, interior designers, architects, facility managers and designers. For more information, visit www.imm-cologne.com.

Cecil Balmond
Pittsburgh
February 6, 2010
Accompanying the current exhibition Forum 64: Cecil Balmond, Carnegie Museum of Art presents an artist’s lecture by the internationally renowned engineer, designer, and artist Cecil Balmond. The artist will discuss his unorthodox and visionary ideas, which merge architecture and engineering. Since the early 1980s, Balmond has collaborated with important contemporary architects and artists such as Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Álvaro Siza, and Anish Kapoor. For more infromation, visit www.cmoa.org.

Risk Contamination
Los Angeles
February 10, 2010
In this lecture, Michel Rojkind Halpert speaks to the challenges of building during this time of economic crisis, stressing the strategy necessary to get things accomplished in different environments. In 2005, Rojkind Arquitectos was recognized by Architecture Record as one of the ten best "Design Vanguard" firms of the year. For more information, visit www.sciarc.edu.

Michael Sorkin: Pro Eutopia
Los Angeles
February 17, 2010
The Michael Sorkin Studio is devoted to both practical and theoretical projects in all scales with a special interest in the city and in green architecture. Previous to his current post at CCNY, Sorkin was the Professor and Director of the Institute for Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Sorkin was the architectural critic of the Village Voice and is currently contributing editor for Architectural Record. For more infromation, visit www.sciarc.edu.

For the Greener Good: A Green Building is a Healthier One
Washington, DC
February 25, 2010
This lecture addresses several questions regarding green building, including: Can working in a green building make you healthier? And if you can prove this, would it reduce a company’s health care insurance? Find out if these questions are game changers when considering how and when to build sustainably. For more information, visit www.nbm.org.

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Architecture Fantasy Camp
Chicago
March 5—8, 2010
In this chance-of-a-lifetime workshop experience, participants from around the world work with accomplished architects to plan and design a structure of their own. No architecture experience is necessary as the skilled designers will help participants create a new addition to their home, remodel their kitchen, and design a picturesque dream home. For more information, visit www.gowright.org.

SmartGeometry 2010 Conference
Barcelona
March 23—24, 2010
Attend the premier event focused on innovative design tools, technologies, and methodologies that allow and encourage new forms of architectural and structural expression. Carrying the theme "Working Prototypes," the SmartGeometry Conference includes an interactive "shop talk" day, a hands-on workshop, and an enlightening symposium featuring presentations by preeminent authorities on the theory and practice of computational and parametric design approaches. For more information, visit www.smartgeometryconference.com/2010.

Global Construction Technologies and Building Materials
Doha, Qatar
March 28—29, 2010
This second annual conference aims to add to the key operational aspects of building materials and construction technologies, putting forward new and emerging trends in this dynamic field that will help professionals gain a competitive edge, build a sustainable built environment, and achieve business goals. It will feature international case studies on iconic buildings and structures such as: Tornado/QIPCO Tower, Dubai Towers, Ocean Financial Centre, and Masdar City Centre. For more information, visit www.marcusevans.com. 

Return to Paradise: 6th Annual Modern Phoenix Home Tour and Expo
Scottsdale, Ariz.
April 10—11, 2010
This crowd-pleasing event draws architectural pilgrims from across the nation for behind-the-scenes tours of both lovingly restored and greatly modified midcentury homes. Return to Paradise features Paradise Gardens, an early 1960s development that is the only example of tract homes involving the input of nationally acclaimed architect Alfred Newman Beadle. One especially anticipated home on the tour re-purposes industrial shipping containers to create a new master suite addition. For more information, call 480/994-2787.

Global Challenges: Architecture Solutions
Chicago
April 15—17, 2010
In celebration of Architecture Week 2010, product leaders, design professionals, and academics will gather at the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology for the 1st Annual Global Convention and Exposition on Architecture.  The event will feature a professional exposition, a product exhibition, a design college and university connection event, a seminar series, professional and mock firm competitions, and will conclude with the first Amazing Architectural Race. For more information, visit http://chicagoarchitecturetoday.com.

Living Future ’10:  Building Hope, Re-valuing Community
Seattle
May 5—7, 2010
North America’s premier green building conference, this event will feature green building influentials and visionaries leading discussions and panels, an elite tradeshow showcasing only companies and products meeting Living Building Challenge standards, creative networking sessions, and tours of the continent’s greenest buildings and community projects. For more information, visit www.cascadiagbc.org.
  
China Eco Expo
Beijing
June 3—5, 2010
Featuring green building products, technologies, and services from around the world, this high level conference addresses China’s need for more sustainable, eco-friendly growth. Highlights include an extensive matchmaking program and a full-scale model “Green Office of the Future.” For more information, visit www.ecoexp.com.

Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class
Sydney
July 11—25, 2010
This intensive two-week design studio program involves a group design project and culminates with a design presentation by participants and a critique by Australia's best-known architect, Glenn Murcutt. The annual Master Class has been described by many participants as a life changing experience and has created a wonderful, active, international alumni network which includes practicing architects (older and younger), academics, postgraduates and senior students. For more information, visit www.ozetecture.org.

AIA San Francisco Design Award
Submission Deadline: February 12, 2010
AIA San Francisco’s Design Awards program celebrates the best in architecture and urban design in the Bay Area. Recognizing achievement in a broad range of architectural work by members and nonmembers, the program serves to inform the public of the breadth and value of architectural practice. Winning projects are featured in California Home + Design and all residential entrants are considered for inclusion in the San Francisco Living: Home Tours weekend as well as top, national design publications. Visit http://designawards.eventbrite.com.

ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award
Submission Deadline: February 19, 2010
This awards program was created to recognize excellence in the design and development of urban public open spaces. It is fostered on a strong belief in the power of well-designed public spaces to serve both as gathering places accessible to all citizens as well as catalysts for economic development. For more information, visit www.uli.org.

Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition
Submission Deadline: February 19, 2010
This competition, now in its 17th year, recognizes the exceptional work of North American architects and designers who feature Italian ceramic tiles in their institutional, residential or commercial/hospitality spaces. For more information, visit www.tilecompetition.com or call 718/857-4806.

IESNYC Challenge: Liminal Luminosity
Registration Deadline: February 24, 2010
This competition challenges NYC students to interpret and express how light facilitates, defines, or bridges a point of transition. The students are to interpret and express this theme in the form of a three-dimensional abstract lighting composition; constructed of their choice of materials. For more information, visit www.iesny.org or call 212/993-6460.

Ecohousing Art
Registration Deadline: February 28, 2010
Conceived as an eco-constructive idea factory, this competition promotes the restoration of the ecosystem to an equal balance between humans, housing, and habit. Competitors will have the opportunity to catch the attention of traders, investors, dealers, collectors, and potential purchasers of ecohousing artwork and projects. For more information, visit www.ecohousing-art.it.

The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: ReSource
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2010
This annual competition asks young designers and architects: In what ways is architecture proving itself resourceful in the face of recent global shifts – from the financial crisis to the environmental crisis – that demand that architects and designers rethink their resources, produce new approaches, techniques, and even terminology? For more information, visit http://archleague.org.

Yéle Music Studio Design Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: March 9, 2010
The purpose of this competition is to enable the realization of a new music studio in Cité Soleil, Haiti, for Wyclef Jean’s charity Yéle Haiti. Yéle Haiti is a grassroots movement which aims to raise global awareness for Haiti and transform the country through the regeneration of forgotten neighborhoods and programs in education, sports, the arts and environment. For more information, visit www.architecture.com/competitions. 

The Chicago 2010 Initiative
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
The main challenge of this competition is to spur urban renewal through the proposal of a design for a Chicago Union Stockyards Museum & Education Center incorporating the landmark gate and expanding the park. The second design challenge is to provide sustainable residential spaces which encourage assimilation and foster dignity, community and opportunities for immediate vocational participation to immigrant communities currently dwelling in less than desirable conditions. For more information, visit www.chicagoarchitecturetoday.com.

Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: March 26, 2010
TOGS was created in order to challenge the visual and conceptual boundaries of the outdoor gallery space, and to transform the open-air art fair experience into one that not only showcases fine art, but also introduces the element of architecture to the public. Following the successes of TOGS 1 and 2, TOGS 3 will continue to generate innovative proposals for a temporary outdoor structure that will function simultaneously as an exhibition space and as an architectural exhibition. For more information, visit www.artallianceaustin.org

Deborah J. Norden Fund Travel/Study Grants
Application Deadline: March 29, 2010
Established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden, this competition awards a total of up to $5,000 annually in travel/study grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies. For more information, visit http://archleague.org.

Personal Infrastructures -  2010 SMIBE Short Film Competition
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2010
For this competition, SMIBE welcomes moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. For more information, visit www.smibe.org.

Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Design Competition
Deadline: April 1, 2010
A two-stage international design competition to choose a winning proposal to build a fitting and compelling memorial to the holocaust and genocide in general, which has the potential to raise the consciousness of millions of visitors each year. Entry is anonymous and open to professionals and students in architecture, design, and the visual arts. Visit www.acbhm.org.

Art in Architecture Juried Competition
Registration Deadline: April 1, 2010
The thematic goal of this competition is to seek images about architecture as a repository for art, revealing how art is expressed in architecture, and how art and architecture affect and are affected by each other. In focusing on the capacity of art and architecture to be transcendent, this exhibition will add special voice to the current debate between the ‘container’ and the ‘contents’ that has been taking place across the globe. Visit www.somersetart.org.

Tiananmen Square Landscape Architecture Competition
Deadline: June 1, 2010
The aim of this competition is to generate debate and ideas for re-designing part of the most important urban space in the history of Chinese Civilization. The intention is to set a new course for eastern landscape architecture, helping in the development of an ecologically and culturally distinctive design tradition. For more information, visit http://www.gardenvisit.com.

Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards
Deadline July 30, 2010
The Western Red Cedar Architectural Design awards specifically recognize innovative design using one of the world's most unique building materials, Western Red Cedar. Winners will be chosen by a panel of notable architects, and the results announced at the Greenbuild Expo in Chicago.

 

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