Modern Views: A Project to Benefit the Farnsworth House and Glass House
Chicago
September 16, 2010
To be auctioned at Sotheby's, 100 works have been donated to benefit the Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois and Philip Johnson’s 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The Modern Views project leadership invited a global slate of participants to create and donate a drawing, sculpture, painting or other artwork, accompanied by a short statement that captures how these two iconic buildings inspire their work. For more information, visit www.sothebys.com.

Ongoing Exhibitions

Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement
New York City
October 3, 2010—January 3, 2011
This exhibition focuses on 11 major architectural projects in underserved communities around the world: Alabama, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Lebanon, Los Angeles, Paris, South Africa, Southern California, and Venezuela. Confronting inequality via the tools of design, these architectural projects engage social, economic, and political conditions by developing post-utopian architectural interventions beginning with an understanding of and deference to a community. For more information, visit www.moma.org.

XXII Columbian Biennale of Architecture
Medellin, Columbia
October 11—15
Held in Medellin, one of the most architectonically and socially innovating cities in Colombia and Latin-America, the Biennale will show the best work of Colombian architecture in 2010 and will be part of a bigger event called The Week of Architecture, which includes Expo Arquitectura, a free exhibition space with novelties in technology, materials and worldwide known publications for architects. For extended information, visit www.sociedadcolombianadearquitectos.org.  

New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House
Through March 7, 2011
On view at this exhibition is the innovative work of Los Angeles photographer James Welling on Phillip Johnson's modernist architectural masterpiece, Glass House. Welling's atmospheric works reveal the ambiguity between the interior built space and exterior natural space evoked by Johnson’s home. At the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. For more information, visit www.artsmia.org.

ASAE10: Architecture and Beauty – A Troubled Relationship
Malmö, Sweden
September 10—11, 2010
Held at Lund University, this two-day symposium aims to maintain an ongoing discussion about international education programs and architectural education strategies by raising poignant issues regarding the place of beauty, aesthetics, and self-expression within the psychology and the design process of architects. For more information, visit www.lu.se.

Annual Landscape Architecture Convention
Washington, D.C.
September 10—13, 2010
The largest annual gathering of landscape architecture professionals in the world, this event at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center will focus on the theme “Earth Air Water Fire DESIGN.” Attendees may choose from more than 125 education sessions to earn up to 21 professional-development hours. More than 400 product manufacturers and service providers will be featured in the attendant EXPO trade show. For more information, visit www.asla.org.

East Coast Green
Atlantic City
September 16—17, 2010
This two-day conference will focus on the relevant industries in the green marketplace, including government and legislation, alternative energy, and health care. Some of the green legislative courses and lectures will include the “Mayors Panel on Greening Efforts of New Jersey Municipalities,” and a presentation on “Sustainable Growth as Public Policy” presented by Mark Strauss, senior partner at FXFOWLE Architects. At Bally’s Atlantic City. For more information, visit www.aia-nj.org.

INPUT_OUTPUT: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments
Philadelphia
October 8, 2010
At Temple University, this symposium will address the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experienced within architecture and related disciplines. The purpose is to interrogate the relationships that exist between each of four discrete, yet interrelated technologies of adaptive materials: Material Compositions, Material Fabrications, Material Behaviors, and Material Computations. For more information, visit www.temple.edu.

IMCL Conference on Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities
Charleston, South Carolina
October 17—21, 2010
This conference will focus on how to design healthy communities and improve children’s health and development by improving the built environment and making natural and community spaces accessible. The conference will bring together 350 to 400 delegates from around the world. At the Dock Street Theater. For more information, visit www.livablecities.org.

SHIFTboston Moon Capital Competition
Deadline: September 3, 2010
SHIFTboston aims to collect visions that will provoke thought on the moon as a new destination. It welcomes radical ideas for lunar elements, such as rovers, growing pods, inflatable structures, and lunar habitats. Visit www.shiftboston.org.

Housing and Health in Haiti
Registration deadline: September 20, 2010
Seeking housing prototypes that work to reduce the transmission of tuberculosis for a community in St. Marc, Haiti, this competition encourages ideas that vary in size, scale, layout, grouping, building construction methods, structural responses, materials, and form. Five winning designs will be used to build five single-family units. Visit www.archiveinstitute.org/haiti.

Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition
Registration deadline: September 30, 2010
This competition asks architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, students, and environmental professionals to create an innovative urban vision for the Cleantech Corridor, a several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.sciarc.edu.

E-mail information two months in advance to recordevents@mcgraw-hill.com.