Events this weekend, lectures, HRC happenings, CRL events, openings, links. Enjoy.

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This weekend

Art Opening Wednesday, September 28th - 6 p.m. at The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum; Free admission
Austin Green Art and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum are proud to present a new large scale installation by renowned sculptor, Mari Shields.

Join us for a spirited celebration of art, nature, and community.
Celebrate the completion of Mari’s new sculpture, meet fellow art patrons, fans, and advocates. Music by Austin rock diva Laura Scarborough. Have some refreshments. Sponsored in partnership with the Reese Foundation. Hosted by The Torchbearers, the Umlauf’s support group of young professionals. Independence Brewery, Austin’s finest brewery generously providing hand-crafted beer.
Location:
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
605 Robert E. Lee Road
Austin, Texas 78704
Contact:
Raul Garza
Austin Green Art
www.austingreenart.org
512. 415. 8825


Exit Art's Traffic Biennial this Saturday, October 1 from 7p-10p.

Contact:
J Gabriel Lloyd
401-954-5650
www.jgabriel.org
www.5did.blogspot.com
He will be showing his Urban Agricultural Unit, a collaborative project he has been working on with his friends, PIPS for the past three years. A tractor trailer converted into a living sculpture, this mobile project serves both as a provocative module and an educational tool. It references projects by Vito Acconci, Andrea Zittel, Nils Norman, Atelier van Lieshout and N55, yet has a unique grassroots foundation in the Providence community. For more information, please visit PIPS website link: http://www.pipsworks.com/uau.html

Exit Art (http://www.exitart.org/) is located on the corner of 36th and 10th Ave in Manhattan.


Friday, September 30th, 2005, 3:00 pm
Location: ART 1.102 (located on the corner of 23rd & San Jacinto across from the Winship Drama Building)
Cinematic Re-articulations; Film-screening & Lecture by British artist & filmmaker, Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. On graduating from St Martin’s School of Art in 1984, where he studied painting and fine art film, Isaac Julien founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1999. Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), made in collaboration with Javier de Frutos and Vagabondia (2000), choreographed by Javier de Frutos. Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), the Cannes prizewinning Young Soul Rebels (1991) and the acclaimed poetic documentary Looking for Langston (1989).
Isaac Julien was visiting lecturer at Harvard University’s Schools of Afro- American and Visual Environmental Studies and the Whitney Museum of American Arts’ Independent Study Programme. He is a research fellow at Goldsmith’s University of London and a Trustee of the Serpentine Gallery. In 2001 Julien was the recipient of the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. In 2003 he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne for his single screen version of Baltimore.


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Lectures, CRL Events, HRC Events

Friday, September 30th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Bryan Bell, Founder and Director of Design Corps, Raleigh, NC (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Monday, October 3rd 2005
Design Lecture: Ola Rune and Erro Kiovisto (ART 1.120, 4:30pm - 6:30pm)

Wednesday, October 5th 2005
HRC Lecture: John Elder, “A certain slant of light” (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Thursday, October 6th 2005
HRC Landscape Symposium w/ Rick Bass, Robin Doughty, and John Elder (Jessen Auditorium, 7:00pm)


Thursday, October 6th 2005
CRL Opening: Faculty Exhibition II (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 6:00-9:00pm)

Friday, October 7th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Mary McLeod, Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)
Lecture Title: Le Corbusier, Domestic Reform, and the New Women
Description: This talk explores the relationship between Le Corbusier's architecture and the emergence of the New Woman in France after World War I, examining how changing gender identities and social conditions (such as women working and the so-called servant crisis) affected Le Corbusier's vision of domestic living in the 1920s. It addresses the influence of Charlotte Perriand on the atelier's designs, as well as the role of an emerging domestic reform movement in Germany and France (especially the writings of Paulette Bernège) on Le Corbusier's view of modern living. One theme that will be considered is the new importance that the kitchen gained in his work in the late 1920s. The Salon d'Automne apartment of 1929 will be discussed as a pivotal project.
Biography: Mary McLeod is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, where she teaches architecture history and theory, and occasionally studio. She has also taught at Harvard University, University of Kentucky, University of Miami, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. She received her B.A., M.Arch., and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her research and publications have focused on the history of the modern movement and on contemporary architecture theory, examining issues concerning the connections between architecture and ideology. She is co-editor of Architecture, Criticism, Ideology and Architecture Reproduction, and is the editor of and contributor to the book Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living (Abrams, 2003). Her articles have appeared in Assemblage, Oppositions, Art Journal, AA Files, JSAH, Casabella, and Lotus as well as other journals and anthologies, such as The Sex of Architecture, Architecture in Fashion, Architecture of the Everyday, Architecture and Feminism, The Pragmatist Imagination, and The State of Architecture. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, NEH award, and grants from New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation.

Friday, October 14th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Perry Kulper, Los Angeles, CA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Monday, October 24th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Gary Hilderbrand, Watertown, MA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)
Wednesday, October 26th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Rodrigo Perez de Acre, Santiago, Chile (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Thursday October 27th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Smiljan Radic, Santiago, Chile (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Thursday October 27th 2005
HRC Reading: Simon Winchester, "A Crack in the Edge of the World" (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Wednesday, November 2nd 2005
Architecture Lecture: Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics, New York, NY (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Friday, November 4th 2005
CRL Opening: Visual Art Studies Undergraduates (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 6:00-9:00pm)

Thursday, November 10th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Rick Joy, Tucson, AZ (Charles W. Moore Memorial Lecture, ACES 2.302, 5:00pm)

Friday, November 11th 2005
Architecture Lecture: David Orr, Professor in Environmental Studies, Oberlin College (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Wednesday November 16th 2005
HRC Lecture: Don Olson “The Moonrise Photographs of Ansel Adams” (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Friday, November 18th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Walter Hood, Oakland, CA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Saturday, December 3rd 2005
CRL Event: HEYDAYS Creative Marathon (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 10:00am-10:00pm)


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Links


Inclusive-designed products

Design students who create products for disabled people are hoping the Independent Living Exhibition will be an opportunity to turn ideas for more usable everyday devices into reality.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4272516.stm

Identity Works reviews newer corporate logos.
http://www.identityworks.com

Note Amtrak http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2000/amtrak.htm David Shields (UT Design professor worked on this, according to his website http://viewers-like-you.com/. This site also has the Acela logo

Identity Works also has a review of the new UPS logohttp://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2003/ups.htm.
Even if you don't agree with their views its a good resource to see all the logos in action and read the story behind them.

"Really bad" logos:
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2002/conoco_phillips.htm

"Downright baffling logos that misguide the public":
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/1998/monsanto.htm
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2000/bp.htm
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2003/altria.htm

Paul Rand; UPS, ABC, Enron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand

Saul Bass; Alcoa, AT&T, Girl Scouts of America, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass

This is the guy who designed the original Apple logo:
http://www.newtrix.org/