June 6, 2008
  Libeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to Open in San Francisco June 8
Studio Daniel Libeskind’s new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will open to the public on June 8. The museum turns the 1907 Willis Polk-designed Jessie Street Power Substation into “a powerful connection between tradition and innovation.” In an interview about the groundbreaking 18 months ago, Libeskind said: “This design really is about the celebration of life. It’s about the openness of America, of the Jewish culture, of a kinetic sense of the museum that speaks to everyone. The Jewish Museum of Berlin, of course, deals with a tragedy, with a catastrophe, and they communicate a very different story in a very different place. This is about celebration.” The 63,000-square-foot, stainless-steel-clad museum, on two levels, houses two gallery spaces, multipurpose room, special events space, retail, lobby, education spaces, and a café. WRNS is the architect of record; KPM Consultant, the project manager; and ARUP and OLMM Consulting Engineers, the structural engineers. (Photo © Bruce Damonte.)

View the COD’s “Branding the American House” Ideas Competition Entries
Entries for the AIA Committee on Design’s international “2008 COD Ideas Competition: Branding the American House” competition are now available for viewing on the COD Web site. The competition invited architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches for a design problem that examined parallels between design professions and the automobile industry. Pictured here is the first-place winner, “REACHOME,” by Daniel V. Scully Architects, which offers a modest, energy-efficient (LEED® certifiable) house with a “car room” to accommodate multi-modal transportation equipment, including the car, bikes, and kayaks. View all the winners on the COD Web site.

Speakers on Diversity in the Profession Wanted for the 2009 Convention
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Discussion Group (DIDiG) of the AIA seeks engaging speakers for its continuing education session at the 2009 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco, April 30–May 2. This session will focus on the issues facing those with disabilities, seen and unseen, within the architecture profession. Topics for consideration include the education process, mentoring, hiring practices and retention programs, and building accessibility. Proposals are due by 3 p.m. ET on June 26. Interested in submitting a proposal? Click here for more information.

Just How Do You Integrate Research Into Practice?
Join this year’s ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar at Cranbrook, June 19–22
The AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) invite you to join them as they explore learning about how to make the leap from research in the academy to research in the profession at the 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar, June 19–22, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The conference theme, “Deep Matters: The Path to Meaningful and Provocative Architectural Research,” will offer both inspiration and information for design studio instructors to help their students, faculty, colleagues, and communities learn and use these important lifelong research skills.

 

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