Please join us for a lecture by Joseph Valerio, FAIA on January 23, 2008 in the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at 6:00PM, Building 540, Room 108.
The Stanford University Architect and Campus Planning Office is hosting a Spring lecture series with a total of 4 Wed. eve speakers - all are free and open to the public. The following lectures begin at 6:30 pm and all are held in William R. Hewlett Teaching Center 201.
April 11 - Stan Boles, Architect, BOORA, Portland. www.boora.com
April 25 - Cheryl Barton, Landscape Architect, (SF). www.toocb.com
May 9 - Scott Erdy, Architect, Erdy McHenry Architecture, Philadelphia. www.em-arc.com
May 23- Scott Wyatt, Architect, NBBJ, Seattle. www.nbbj.com
Joshua Prince-Ramus was the partner-in-charge of the celebrated Seattle Central Library, when he was the head of the New York outpost of the (OMA) Office for Metropolitan Architecture. OMA is the architecture firm founded by Rem Koolhaas. Check out this video clip of Joshua discussing the Seattle Central Library:
Tuesday, March 6, 7PM, Cummings Art Building - Room Art 2
AIA San Francisco and SFMOMA sponsor an architectural lecture series. There will be three speakers this upcoming winter quarter.
Brigitte Shim – from the Toronto based firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Kevin Burke, AIA, Director of Practice, William McDonough + Partners will discuss the firm’s principled approach to sustainability and explore how it applies to a broad range of project scales and typologies.
Admission is free to AIA members, including students.
Reservations required. Call (408) 298-0611 by noon, Tuesday, November 7.
Date: Thursday, November 9
Time/Place:
6-7pm: Social Hour (Hartley Conference Center - Mitchell Bldg)
7:15-7:45pm: Chapter Business (Bldg 370)
7:45-9:00pm: Presentation (Bldg 370)
Demountable Concrete Structures - A Contribution of the Concrete Prefab Industry to the Sustainability of Construction
by
Professor Hans Reinhardt, Stuttgart University, Germany
Demountability means further development of construction technique, generation of life cycles, no down cycling of construction material, optimization of construction and demounting activities, reuse of structural elements, and finally relief of the environment due to saving of resourses. There are special requirements which should be fulfilled in order to make a concrete structure demountable. The systems which exist in the Netherlands will be presented and discussed.
Thursday, November 2, 2006
4:15pm
Bldg. 550 Rm. 550a