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 [...]

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Landscape Architecture Lecture on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. A public presentation by Alan Berger, associate professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from MIT, entitled “Exterial Landscapes.”
Alan Berger will explore the concept of Landscape Externalities: specifically, the large-scale unintended environmental consequences that are produced from distant politico-economic activities. Several [...]

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The College of Design has a new advisory body to help inform its progress.
The Leaders Council, made up of over 30 distinguished alumni from around the country, convened for the first time on campus Nov. 5 and 6 to discuss issues that impact how the college moves forward in the 21st century.
The council is a [...]

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Each year, the Design Guild - a body of alumni and friends in the design community - hosts a reception honoring College of Design scholarship recipients and their sponsors. This year’s gathering held Nov. 5 in the Belk Rotunda in Brooks Hall involved a record turnout and featured a visit by NC State University Chancellor [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first open call show of the semester on Friday, October 1, 2010 with doors opening at 6 p.m. As always, this months show will feature fantastic work from all College of Design disciplines. Music will be provided by DJ Chocolate Rice. You won’t want to miss it.
Fish Market [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first opening of the school year on Friday, September 3 with doors opening at 6 p.m. This month’s show will feature dresses from Art to Wear 2010 along with screen prints on various media. There will also be a live screen printing station so guests are invited [...]

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Master of Architecture alumna Sarah Corbitt (’09) will be giving a presentation at the GreenNC trade show on the topic of “The International Code Council’s forthcoming International Green Construction Code: Public Version 1″ on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in the McKimmon’s Center.
The IGCC is a code overlay which can be voluntarily [...]

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Professor of Graphic Design Denise Gonzales Crisp has been invited to lead a three-day workshop with Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Graphic Design MFA students September 3-5, which will launch a project spanning several weeks.

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The NC Japan Center and Gallery C of Raleigh have teamed up to present a special exhibition, “Invitation to Sushi Country,” of acrylic paintings by alum Keiko Genka (BAD 1997). This is an exciting opportunity for all involved and hopefully the first of many exhibitions for the NC Japan Center. The opening reception is from [...]

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A luncheon event with a keynote address by Bill Reed, AIA, LEED will take place at the McKimmon Center on Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will be in conjunction with the 6th Annual Tradeshow for the North Carolina Building Industry.
Reed will focus on integrated and regenerative design. For more [...]

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“Southern Roots of Mid-Century Modern” exhibition is ongoing at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design August 19 through December 18, 2010. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, September 9 from 6-8 p.m.
The exhibition will feature works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, George Nelson, Marcel Breuer, Eero [...]

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Co-sponsored by AIA Triangle.
September 13 - Plenary | National + Local Contexts
(Michael Crosbie, Roger Clark, Wes McClure, Ellen Weinstein)
September 20 - Sacred Place
(Thomas Kundig)
October 11 - The Endurance and/or Transience of Sacred Places: Devotion, Commodification, and Accommodation in Southern Mexico
(Lindsay Jones)
November 1 - Somewhere in Between
(Michael Rotondl)
November 8 - Defining Local
(Trey Trahan)
November 22 - Shadow [...]

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The School of Architecture and the College of Design at North Carolina State University present Drawings: The Art of Brian Shawcroft.
Mr. Shawcroft is an architect and former associate professor of architecture at NCSU. His contributions to the modern movement of architecture made him a recipient of the Kamphoefner Prize in 1991. Mr. Shawcroft is also [...]

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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 [...]

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Join Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2010 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.
The Henley Park Hotel
926 Massachuessetts Avenue NW
(one block from the Washington Convention Center)
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:00–7:30 PM
please rsvp by September 3 to:
919.515.8320 or design.ncsu.edu/rsvp
We will honor new alumni fellow:
WHITNEY A. [...]

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