Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio

Co-Presented by Space.City and Northwest Film Forum

Sponsored by JAS Design Build

The film will be shown at Northwest Film Forum

Tuesday, Jul 20 at 07:00PM*
Tuesday, Jul 20 at 09:00PM

*Screening will be followed by a Q&A with UW Professor Steve Badanes

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets (click)

Architect Samuel Mockbee began a radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama, hoping to instill his passion and philosophy in a new generation of “citizen architects.” Mockbee works on instilling architecture’s future practitioners with the knowledge and passion to improve their community’s quality of life by putting compassion and ethical responsibilities at the heart of their design. The results are graceful, clever and often stunning structures that provide shelter for the body and soul while fostering a dialogue between groups of people with disparate assumptions about race, class and economics. Mockbee and his team are the avatars for a new generation of architects and designers committed to putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of their practice.

See his recent Space.City lecture on Vimeo!

Space.City Mels Crouwel Lecture from rob spooner on Vimeo.

Space.City in association with the  Northwest Film Forum present artists and architects Sofia and Mauricio Pezo Von Ellrichshausen

April 15th, 6:30 pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave E
Tickets $10 Advance | $15 Door ($10 Door with Student ID)
Available online at Brown Paper Tickets

Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen are the principals in Pezo von Ellrichshausen, an architecture firm from Concepcion, Chile. They’ve been awarded the Best Work Of Young Architects prize at the V Ibero American Biennial (Montevideo, 2006), the Architectural Quality Prize at the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial (Santiago, 2006) and the Commended Prize at the AR Awards For Emerging Architecture (London, 2005).

Their work has been included in publications such as HATCH: The New Architectural Generation (London, 2009), Key Contemporary Buildings (London, 2008) and Architecture Now Volume 5 (Koln, 2007) – and has been shown in exhibitions such as Freshlatino (Hamburg, 2009), Building Dwelling Thinking (Valencia, 2008) and Visions Of Latin American Architecture (New York, 2007).

They’ve lectured across Europe, North America and South America, and were recently featured on ArchDaily.com.

See more work at:
www.pezo.cl

Space.City presents Mels Crowel of Benthem Crouwel Architeken:

Seattle Central Library
April 27, 6:30 pm
Tickets $10 Advance | $15 Door ($10 Door with Student ID)
Online at Brown Paper Tickets

“We always try to come up with a good answer or to distil a theme from the assignment and then work out the project in a clear and well-detailed manner. Materials and detailing are very important to us. We want to be able to explain everything and not simply make something nice and pretty.”

How should we handle the viaduct-tunnel infrastructure? How will light rail change our city?  Come hear how Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architekten (BCA) has tackled big infrastructure projects.  BCA is known for finding simple, lucid, and enduring solutions for complex programs.  Schiphol Airport, the Anne Frank House, and the Malie Tower, an office built over the A12 motorway in the centre of The Hague, are all examples of public projects BCA has built at landmark locations.  They have also completed a steel-clad building for the Amsterdam RAI Conference Center, a railway bridge for the high-speed rail line over the Hollandsch Diep waterway, and an extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.  Their recent book, BC AD, covers their 30 years as one of the Netherlands’ most successful architectural practices.

See more work at:
www.benthemcrouwel.nl
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Space.City congratulates two of our board members on their recent accomplishments:
President Susan Jones, now a Fellow of the AIA
Board Member Daniel Toole, recipient of the 2010 AIA Seattle Travel Award to a young architect.

We regret to inform you that Stefan Behnisch has cancelled. We hope to host him in the future!

Architect Stefan Behnisch founded Behnisch Architekten in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1989, becoming renowned for innovative sustainable buildings, such as the Institute for Forestry and Nature Research in Wageningen, The Netherlands. As the firm expanded, further offices were founded in Los Angeles, CA (1999), Boston, MA (2007), and Munich, Germany (2008). Stefan Behnisch has been an advocate of sustainable design since he started working as an architect. Many of his buildings have received prestigious awards, and the Genzyme Center in Cambridge, MA, was rated LEED Platinum. Projects on the firm’s drawing boards include Harvard’s Allston Science Complex in Allston, Boston, and residential buildings in the USA and Germany, as well as office buildings, laboratories, and health care buildings in various countries.

Stefan Behnisch was the Eero Saarinen Chair visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture from 2005 to 2008. In 2007 he was nominated for the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (one of five) and in 2008 named Honorary Fellow of the AIA – American Institute of Architects. Born 1957, he studied philosophy, economics and architecture in Munich and Karlsruhe, Germany.

See examples of his work at:
http://www.behnisch.com/