tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265367592010-02-04T10:56:16.712-05:00Treachery of Images- Good design is taking the time to realize that everything deserves the effort of being thought out. Everything is design. Green design, social design, etc. all become inherent if the thought behind the idea is critical.Dru McKeownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00296931924454239141noreply@blogger.comBlogger755125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-38826342111576180382010-02-04T10:44:00.003-05:002010-02-04T10:56:16.722-05:00

Kent State University has just posted their 2010 Spring Lecture Series (and the first one is coming right on up!) Elena Manferdini Design Is One February 09, 2010 7:30 pm Michael Schwartz Auditorium Mark Foster Gage Computation, Aesthetics & the Contemporary BaroqueFebruary 23, 2010 7:00 pmCartwright Auditorium Hansey Barraza Studio LuzMarch 10, 2010 7:00 pm Cartwright Auditorium Stephen

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I never did see Snakes on a Plane, however if you have any interest in advocating for a cycling/pedestrian path on the innerbelt bridge because you are one of the people who live near and go to downtown Cleveland you may want to stop in at this Friday's Cleveland Planning Commission Meeting and show your support or voice your concern. Friday, February 5th.Cleveland Planning Commission Meeting

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Asterios Polyp by David MazzucchelliA "paper" architect (one who wins recognition for proposals/competitions but not built work) suffers from being overly academic, fatalistically literal in his search for recognizing (what he sees) as design purity and insufferable in having the last word (typically critical) has his past life destroyed by fate, realizes what happiness he sacrificed to further

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Discourse is one of those things older people and professors talk about when they wax poetic about how good ideas are the result of collaboration, civil discussion and a willingness to expand beyond your own preconceptions to willingly accept another's beliefs even if you cannot fully support them.It also makes conversation interesting.

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Cleveland Design Competition ReceptionFriday, January 29th, 2010Colonial Marketplace, 530 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohioenter from Euclid side6pm - 9pmReception Page:6:00pm Light hors d'oeuvres (catered by The Greenhouse Tavern) and Project 2009: Lakefront Station Design Ideas Exhibit7:00pm Welcome7:10pm Introduction by Councilman Joe Cimperman, City of Cleveland7:25pm Announcement of

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University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning posted their spring 2010 lecture series. 3 hours from Cleveland makes it an easy drive to see a city that is so remarkably similar to Cleveland (albeit their downtown seems a little more lively) and catching a decent lecture just adds a bonus.Spring 2010 LecturesAll Lectures begin at 5:30 pm in Crosby 301 unless otherwise noted.01.20.10

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University of Waterloo's School of Architecture has posted their Spring 2010 Lecture Series. Remember to bring the proper papers if making the journey from the States (or be willing to find a place to cross at the hundreds of miles of unprotected border that separate our two countries. What? I admit I find the necessity of a passport or special card to travel from Canada to the USA sort of

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The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture has posted their Spring 2010 Lecture/Symposium Series and has quite a few decent events and speakers coming up, enough to warrant yet another trip to Ann Arbor. I haven't found the lecture series poster yet (which for some reason is a big part of the lecture series to me, perhaps I just like marketing, etc.) but as soon as I do find it I

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Massive Quake Causes Widespread Destruction On January 12th around 4.50pm local time a powerful 7.0 earthquake hit the impoverished nation of Haiti.This was followed more than 30 strong aftershocks. There has been widespread major damage and a loss of life estimated to be in the tens of thousands.We had been set to send a design team to Haiti this month to partner with local NGO Yele

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The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture has posted their Spring 2010 Lecture Series. More Roadtrip fun for those with the gas money!Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Lecture Series, Spring 2010:All lectures take place at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh and are free and open to the public. The Spring 2010 lecture series is cosponsored by the Heinz

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While perusing one of the online blogs I frequent daily (A daily dose of architecture) I realized that as the author (John Hill) is currently putting together a book on new architecture in New York he had stumbled across an occurrence that made me pause for a variety of reasons. While compiling a list of projects Mr. Hill had asked for his reader's to help out and suggest a few projects. The

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Ohio State University's Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture has posted their Winter/Spring 2010 Lecture series. What better way to spend a dark evening then inside some lecture hall learning about ideas and what not? Seriously, going to lectures has to be infinitely more interesting than catching up on repeats of Cougar Town.KSA Lecture Series: Winter + Spring 2010EconomyAll lectures are

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Today's e-newsletter from the GCRTA asks me to click a link so that I can inform my legislative representatives that I think more money should be supporting public transportation. Which I do. I believe that wholeheartedly. I believe it with a deep seated burning passion that easy and logical public transit is paramount to livable communities. When I say "livable communities" I don't just mean

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First off I appreciate the comments. I wish I got less comments from the guy named Anonymous but I can't pick and choose who comments here. Actually I can, I have that control.I am posting this as a full post because I didn't type anything up tonight and part of my new resolutions is to write more on this thing again and also because my response was so long that by the end putting it in the

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So this is the third year I have tried to complete some sort of milestone to track the potential progress the city has to offer. In doing so I checked back with my 2008 Year in Review looking for some sort of benchmark to hit. My, the bar was set so low.The economy may have stifled the Flats East Banks project but the city has stepped in offering money for a truncated phased development in

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Just a quick note to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season.Cleveland itself has really begun to push towards some new sensibility with its self image. Projects such as the Euclid Corridor are starting to show their strengths as other projects such as the Lakefront Development Plan, East Banks Project and the Medical Mart struggle to gain traction but are still slowly pushing forward. Investment

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A 42 page post summit report has been made available online for your viewing pleasure if you happened to have missed the 3 day summit in person. You can catch up on the major occurences and discern synapses of major events.Summit Report pdfThe Website where you can hopefully figure out how to keep in touch with updates and happenings.I am hoping that some things are happening/in process due to

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We need everyone who believes that an Open Access Bridge is good for Cleveland and good for the region in creating a sustainable, healthy, and wealthy region for ALL to attend the Dec 11 NOACA Mtg. An Open Access InnerBelt Bridge would enable cyclists and walkers and joggers  a mainline connection between Tremont & Downtown.  Open, multi-modal access on highway bridges is nothing new, and has in

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image taken from Shelter blogCall it kooky and kitschy but Malcolm Wells thoughtful work continuous battled with the burden that most architects and designers succumb to, an attempt to mark the land in such a way as to claim it for humanity. Well's solutions weren't in any manner simplistic, nor did they rely heavily on futuristic technology to decrease mankind's burden on the careful ecological

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I would really like someone to help me out here. How has concern for the natural environment become defined by political affiliations? Why is climate change considered a "Liberal Myth"? What makes it political enough to polarize society? Is the realization that our actions may have consequences limited to politics and political pundits?The recent hacked emails of the Climatic Research Unit (

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image of overlook on bridgeW. 14th St. and Kenilworth AvenueLincoln Park, Tremont Neighborhood of Cleveland OhioSunday, December 6th2 - 4pmA rally to support pedestrian and bike access on the bridge will be held Sunday, December 6 at 2 p.m. at Lincoln Park in Tremont (W. 14th Street and Kenilworth Avenue). Anyone interested in safe, convenient and healthy car-free access between Downtown and

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First off, I would like to actually acknowledge that there is quite a bit I am thankful for this year; the MarJ, I am still employed, my family (wherever they happen to be), that I have a roof, food/walls and some good friends.So yay.Next I would like to state that for "Black Friday" I am going to be hiding in my office, not doing anything but watching select videos online, hoping that the "

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"...but anything that is touched by man, is transformed by man, is by its very nature, design".I was so easily disappointed, and I really didn't want to be. In fact, this was one of those rare occasions (similar to Episode One) where I went into a room expecting to like everything, or at the very least, the vast majority and instead felt worse for the experience. I enjoyed Dwell magazine when I

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The post Forclosure Crisis Forum lunch yielded the most fitting of all cookie communiques I have ever received. It was so befitting the conversation that we were sure that someone with a typewriter was in the next room, eavesdropping and predicting.For those of you who can't squint it reads:"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than you settled for."...Cleveland.Oh dear

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To be completely fair and honest I did not attend Dr. Beatley's lecture at CMNH however I was included in the 2 hour workgroup which occurred before the lecture which was more of a Q&A session with Tim Beatley and others involved in the city. Luckily Erie Wire commented on one of my posts and directed me to a podcast of the lecture so I was able to at least listen to his presentation and

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