Calendar of Events

Oct. 31

Simon Penny Artist in Residence lecture:
Simon Penny,an Australian artist, theorist, teacher and curator in thefields of digital cultural practices, embodied interaction, art and technology and interactive art, will present an Artist in Residence lecture 5:30 – 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 in the Wright Gallery. Penny’s work consists of interactive installation and robotic art utilizing custom sensor and robotic technologies. It has been exhibited at ZKM, Ars Electronica, the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) and elsewhere. He has published essays on digital culture since 1987 and lectures internationally on electronic media art. He curated Machine Culture (arguably the first international survey of interactive art) for SIGGRAPH 93. Penny is professor of arts and engineering at University of California Irvine. He is architect and founding director of UCI’s transdisciplinary ACE (Arts, Computation and Engineering) graduate program. Through the 1990’s he served as professor of art and robotics at Carnegie Mellon. For more information, see the story or contact Carol LaFayette at clafayette@wildblue.net.

Nov. 2

Architecture-for-Health lecture, “Case Studies in Practice: Chinese Health and Hospital Design — Past, Present and Future,” featuring Xiqiu Huang, chief architect at the Institute of Project Planning and Research in Beijing, China, will be held 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of Langford building A. The lecture, open to the public, is part of the Fall 2011 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series sponsored in part by the Center for Health Systems & Design and the Health Industry Advisory Council. For additional information, contact Judy Pruitt at 979.845.7009 or jpruitt@tamu.edu.

Architect Paul Lewis lectures 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Langford building B, as part of the Department of Architecture’s Fall 2011 Lecture Series. Lewis is a principal of the New York-based architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects). He received both the Emerging Voices Award (2002) and the Young Architects Award (1996) from the Architectural League of New York and was recognized a part of “The New Vanguard” by the Architectural Record. His firm has received six International Design Magazine Awards, three AIA design awards, and their drawings are in the permanent collections of both SFMoMA and the Heinz Architectural Center. LTL’s recently built projects include Arthouse, a contemporary art center in Austin, Bornhuetter Hall at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, the Buffet at The City Center in Las Vegas, Fluff Bakery, Xing Restaurant and Tides Restaurant in New York City. For more information, contact Hala Gibson at hgibson@arch.tamu.edu.

SEED meets: SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) meets 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 in Langford A 348. For more information, contact Michael Martin at grafmichaelmartin@gmail.com.

SIGGRAPH meets 7 – 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 in Langford C 105. SIGGRAPH strives to promote an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the educational, artistic, and scientific aspects and applications of modern computing in computer graphics. For more information, contact Margaret Lomas Carpenter at 979.845.3465 or marge@viz.tamu.edu.

Nov. 3 – 5

Health Industry Advisory Council meets: The annual meeting of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Health Industry Advisory Council is set for Nov. 3 – 5 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus. The keynote address, “Recent Hospital Area Measurement Research,” will be presented by Kirk Hamilton and Sarel Lavy 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 in the Wright Gallery. The meeting includes a roundtable discussion on healthcare design in China, as well as networking opportunities for students and faculty. HIAC was founded in 2002 to support the activities of the Center for Health Systems & Design and to advance effective university-industry partnerships. For more information, contact Judy Pruitt at 845-7009 or e-mail jpruitt@archmail.tamu.edu.

Nov. 3

ASHRAE meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 in Langford A 348.The meeting will include an overview of the Houston chapter student scholarships, wind turbine research, and speaker Kenneth Shifflet, P.E. DistribAire, Inc. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers) is an organization geared toward the advancement of heating, refrigerating, and air conditioning engineering and related sciences. For more information, contact Ying Yang at yangying0922@hotmail.com.

Nov. 4

Roundtable Discussion: "Healthcare Architecture in China" — A discussion of issues related to the practice of healthcare architecture in China featuring firm members of the Center for Health Systems and Design’s Health Industry Advisory Council is set for 10 – 11:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of Langford building A. Roundtable participants include: Xiqiu Huang, chief architect for the Institute of Project Planning and Research in Beijing, China; Ying Zhou, associate professor of architecture at Southeast University in Nanjing, China; Craig Beale, executive vice president and healthcare group director for HKS, Dallas; Edward E. Huckaby, senior principal and senior project designer for FKP Architects in Houston; Harold Nesland, managing principal-international for HDR, Dallas; Greg L. Hughes, director of Healthcare for PBK, Houston; Kurt M. Neubek, associate principal of PSP, Houston; Peter D. Trice, vice president, and Kevin Schlaht, president, of The Innova Group in Austin, Boston and Tucson; Jean Mah, principal, healthcare market sector leader for Perkins & Will, Califorina; Sam W. Burnette, senior designer/principal for Earl Swensson Associates in Tennessee; John Castorina, senior vice president and design leader for healthcare at RTKL, Dallas; Karl Sonnenberg, partner with ZGF Architects LLP, and Uma Ramanathan and Ming Yan of Shepley Bulfinch, Boston. The discussion, open to the public, is part of the Spring 2011 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series sponsored in part by the Center for Health Systems & Design and the Health Industry Advisory Council. For additional information, contact Judy Pruitt at 979.845.7009 or jpruitt@tamu.edu.

Nov. 7

Michel Rojkind lecture — Founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos in Mexico City, Michel Rojkind will lecture 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Langford building B, as part of the Department of Architecture’s Fall 2011 Lecture Series. Rojkind, who studied architecture and urban planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana, has been a guest professor at several universities, lectured internationally, and is a regular contributor to design publications worldwide. For more information, contact Hala Gibson at hgibson@arch.tamu.

Nov. 9

Architecture-for-Health lecture, “Problems, Pitfalls and Opportunities of Practicing in China: Case Studies of Hospitals, Health Facilities and Long-Term Care Facilities in China,” featuring L. Bradford Perkins, founding principal for Perkins Eastman in Shanghai and New York City, will be held 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in the Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of Langford building A. The lecture, open to the public, is part of the Fall 2011 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series sponsored in part by the Center for Health Systems & Design and the Health Industry Advisory Council. For additional information, contact Judy Pruitt at 979.845.7009 or jpruitt@tamu.edu.

Nov. 10


Real estate finance lecture: A.J. Reese, Controller and CPA of the Oldham Goodwin Group, will lecture 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in the Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of Langford building A. Reese oversees the accounting, finance, and treasury processes for all segments of his company. For more information, contact Geoffrey Booth at gbooth@archmail.tamu.edu.

Nov. 14

“Nomadic Practice,” Kyong Park lecture — Kyong Park, an associate professor of visual arts at the University of California at San Diego who views art as a process for cultural inquiry, examination and articulation, will present a lecture titled “Nomadic Practice” 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in the Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Langford building B, as part of the Department of Architecture’s Fall 2011 Lecture Series. Park researches, documents and represents urban landscapes that delineate the economic, political and cultural borders and territories of the contemporary social geography. For more information, contact Hala Gibson at hgibson@arch.tamu.edu.

Nov. 15

GIS Day keynote address: "Using GIS to Fight Racial Inequality" — Ann Moss Joyner, president of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Inc., will present the GIS Day keynote lecture 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 in the Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Langford building B. Texas A&M University’s GIS Day events are sponsored, in part, by the Texas A&M Libraries and the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems technology to demonstrate real-world applications. For more information, contact Miriam Olivares at moa@library.tamu.edu. For a schedule of GIS Day events on campus, visit the library’s GIS Day website. To learn more about the nationwide observance, visit the official GIS Day website.

Nov. 17 – 19

“Imagining New Futures: Conservation by Design” —Registration is under way for the Imagining New Futures forum, an event-packed Nov. 17–19 gathering of students and urban planning practitioners sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. The forum, themed “Conservation by Design,” will be held at the College Station Conference Center on 1300 George Bush Drive, next to the Texas A&M campus. The three-day event includes a two-part urban planning workshop led by Randall Arendt, the nation's foremost authority on conservation development, a keynote address by Fritz Steiner, dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, and a number of special events including recreational outings, a Texas A&M Master of Urban Planning class reunion and meetings of the Master of Urban Planning Program Advisory Council and the American Planning Association. The festivities culminate with a tailgate party prior to the Nov. 19 Aggie-Jayhawk gridiron showdown at Kyle Field. Registration for the workshop and lecture — $85 for professionals and $50 for students — is available online. For more information, visit the event website or contact Rebecca Itz at ritz@arch.tamu.edu. For additional details and speaker bios, see story in the archone newsletter.

Feb. 24 – 25, 2012

CHC Historic Preservation Symposium: The Center for Heritage Conservation will host their 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium Friday, Feb. 24, 6 – 9 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 – 6 p.m. in the Preston Geren Auditorium. More details will be posted as they become available. For more information, contact Angela Mellow at amarie1605@neo.tamu.edu.

— Calendar updated November 1, 2011 —

Contact:   Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.