DESIGNlife News

January 6 - February 5, 2011 - Assistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan has a solo exhibition at UNC-Wilmington’s Boseman gallery. Re Materialization will run till February 5. http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/atuncw/annview.aspx?id=6330 The Boseman gallery is located on the second floor of the Fisher University Union on the UNC Wilmington campus.
January 31, 2011 - Landscape Architecture lecture [...]

[Read more →]

SPARKcon lit up Raleigh again this year with a long weekend of arts programming to close out the summer. This time around, photography got a close-up through the debut of photoSPARK, held at The Fish Market Student Gallery, a student initiative of the NC State University College of Design.
Learn more here: http://goodnightraleigh.com/2010/09/photospark-the-first-photography-show-in-sparkcon/#more-7756

[Read more →]

SAVE THE DATES!
Friday, February 11, 2011
4th Annual Growing in Place Symposium
Marbles Kids Museum
Saturday, February 12, 2011
8th Annual Urban Design Conference
Raleigh Marriott City Center
Stay tuned for details!
Register for Natural Learning Initiative Workshops at www.naturalearning.org
Research to Practice: Maximizing Child Outcomes in the Outdoors Symposium for Early HS and HS Programs.
Sept. 28-29, 2010
College of Design, NC State [...]

[Read more →]

A Landscape Architecture Registration Examination preparatory course will be offered May 7-9, 2010 by Instructor Ray Freeman from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the College of Design. Freeman will be teaching the performance section, grading & drainage, section E bootcamp. For more information on how to register for the course visit: LAR Preparatory Course.

[Read more →]

Sharon Silcox of the Design Library received an honorable mention in the 2010 Hexapod Haiku Contest from the NC State University Insect Museum.
Judges gave her high marks for “the best combination of science and art” and “every syllable, punctuation, meaning, imagery, etc. is purposeful.”

[Read more →]

Landscape Architecture Registration Examination preparatory course offered May 7-9, 2010. Instructor Ray Freeman to teach Section E. For more information and to register visit: Landscape Architecture Registration Examination.
This course would benefit candidates for the LARE who are taking the exam for the first time, are having difficulty with Section E, or need a refresher on [...]

[Read more →]

Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities
The 7th Annual Urban Design Conference, Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities, will explore the design strategies that cities imagine, develop, and implement as they grow stronger and more vibrant while facing economic, environmental, and social challenges. Presenters and conference attendees will delve into the elements of resiliency that designers, [...]

[Read more →]

Interested in urban design? Don’t miss this wonderful line up of speakers for Friday and Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010, to present the 7th annual Urban Design Forum at the Raleigh Convention Center.
Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities on Saturday, March 6

Maurice Cox, Director of Design, National Endowments for the Arts
Associate Professor of Architecture, [...]

[Read more →]

Four speakers are confirmed for the Saturday, March 6th conference “Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities,” including HUD Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Communities Shelley Poticha; architect, urban designer and professor of architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Joan Busquets of Barcelona; executive director of the Center for Resilient Cities Thomas [...]

[Read more →]

Matt Noblett, partner in Behnisch Architekten, Boston, will be speaking on October 19 at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium on “Integrated Design: Towards an Architecture of Content.”
Robert Matthew Noblett, AIA, NCARB (Cleveland, USA, 1971)  obtained his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and the Master of [...]

[Read more →]

6th Annual Urban Design Conference
Title: Creating Value: Designing for a Resilient City
Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Place: Raleigh Convention Center
Committee:
Chris E. Brasier, AIA, LEED AP
Vice President & Office Director
SmithGroup
Douglas Brinkley, AIA, CO-CHAIR
Partner
Pearce Brinkley Cease & Lee PA
Michael S. Cole, ASLA, CO-CHAIR
Partner
ColeJenest & Stone

[Read more →]

Finding Home
Morning Times Gallery
Rebecca Necessary (MArch 2007), photographer
Susanna Birdsong, writer
August 7th-31st
Opening Reception August 7th, 6-11 pm
10 E. Hargett Street, Raleigh
On any given night there are 12,500 homeless individuals in North Carolina. In cities across our state, we pass people sleeping on benches and we notice lines at shelters, yet the stories, faces and experiences of [...]

[Read more →]

AIA Triangle is hosting its second free summer lecture on July 29 at 7 p.m. The lecture titled “Architecture Without Architects Clients” will be presented by Associate Professor Wendy Redfield and Assistant Professor David Hill at BBH DESIGN, 8208 Brownleigh Drive in Raleigh. Please RSVP here: http://www.aiatriangle.org/cde.cfm?event=268579

[Read more →]

In countries such as Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, playwork is well established as a profession… working directly with children in an open-ended, creative way in community settings such as parks, schools, museums, urban farms, etc. Playwork is not established in the United States as a profession. The Natural Learning Initiative is working towards [...]

[Read more →]

AIAT 2009 Summer Lecture No. 1 features NC State Architecture faculty Associate Professor Wendy Redfield & Assistant Professor David Hill, AIA. They will present “Grounded Prototypes: Relating Site and Prototype in the Work of Jean Prouve and Le Corbusier” on July 1, 2009, from 7-9 p.m. at the BBH Design, 8208 Brownleigh Drive in [...]

[Read more →]