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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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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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On Thursday, April 8, 2010, the Third Annual Charles H. Burger Lectures will be delivered by the very prominent landscape architecture educator, Richard Hawks, Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Burns Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m.
Professor Hawks will speak on the [...]

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A presentation by Mitchell Silver, Planning Director of the City of Raleigh entitled “A Century of Big Demographic Change” will take place on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 4-5 p.m. in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall.
The presentation will illustrate the historic shift that will occur during the first half of the 21st century and [...]

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NC State University’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is pleased to welcome former NSF director and White House science advisor Neal Lane as its 2010 Scope/Harrelson Lecturer. Dr. Lane, who currently serves as Malcolm Gillis University Professor and senior fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, will [...]

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Graphic/Industrial Design Lecture:
Project H
Design Revolution Road Show
Monday, March 1 at 1:30 p.m. in Burns Auditorium
The Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing “product design that empowers” to 25 high schools and university design programs across the nation in the Spring of 2010. A Project H Design initiative, the road show [...]

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AIA Triangle/College of Design Joint Architecture Lecture Series featuring Dana Buntrock on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall beginning at 7 p.m.
Buntrock will be presenting a lecture titled, “Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today.” Temples and teahouses, shrines and sliding shoji screens, cascading cherry blossoms and solitary [...]

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NC State University College of Design Alumni and Friends are cordially invited to attend a reception and lecture in New York City.

LECTURE
The Bauhaus: Answers to a Complex Challenge
The Bauhaus has been called the most influential design school of the Twentieth century. Ninety years after its founding by the German architect Walter Gropius, its achievements remain [...]

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College of Design/School of Architecture/Triangle AIA Lecture Series
Tonight’s speaker - hashim sarkis
Title: “a question of geography ”
Sarkis received his BArch and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987, his MArch with distinction from the GSD in 1989, and his PhD in architecture from Harvard University in 1995. Prior to establishing his own [...]

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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 [...]

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AIA Triangle / College of Design, NC State University Joint Lecture Series featuring Marlon Blackwell, FAIA
August 31, 2009
Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall beginning at 7:00pm
Marlon Blackwell was born in Germany, grew up in Florida and the Philippines, studied architecture at Auburn, worked in Boston, taught at Syracuse, and in 1992, at the [...]

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One and the Same: Burnham the Architect and Burnham the Planner
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m.

In many discussions of Burnham’s career, his work as an architect is treated separately, and often less favorably, then his work as a planner.  Yet he himself viewed the world and his role in it, holistically.  This [...]

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SECOND ANNUAL CHARLES H. BURGER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Thursday, April 23 at 6:00 PM, Burns Auditorium located in Kamhoefner Hall
On Thursday, April 23rd, the Second of the Annual Charles A. Burger Lectures will be delivered by the very prominent Landscape Architect Laurie Olin, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Olin will speak on the [...]

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By Assignment and By the Way: Gordon Schenck Photographs Architecture
Raleigh Convention Center
500 S. Salisbury Street Raleigh, NC
March 7 - April 30, 2009
“Gordon Schenck Photographs Architecture”
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6 p.m. in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall.
Talk by Rebecca Shenck and Margaret Supplee Smith, exhibition co-curator and professor of Art History, Wake Forest University

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