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Professional Affiliate Committee
Annual Program for October 2002
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Paul Goldberger Speaks to AIA Baltimore Oct. 8 Paul Goldberger, the nation’s eminent writer in the field of architecture, design and urbanism, will be the speaker at this year’s AIA Baltimore Affiliates in Action program on Tuesday, October 8. During his 25-year career as architecture critic and cultural news editor at The New York Times, Mr. Goldberger won the Pulitzer Prize for architecture criticism. He is currently the architecture critic at The New Yorker magazine. |
Mr. Goldberger will speak on the social consciousness of architecture, an especially appropriate topic since the untimely death this past December of Rural Studio founder Samuel Mockbee and the events of September 11. Many AIA members will remember his appreciation of Mockbee published in Architecture magazine. It was a moving tribute to an exceptional human being and architect whose life and work have encouraged many in the Baltimore architectural community. Goldberger praised Mockbee for figuring out as “no one else has … a way to respond to social problems that does as much for architectural education at the same time. The Rural Studio grounded architectural education; it continues to give it meaning.” It reminds all of us in professional practice that we still have much to learn from this architect turned teacher whose life was cut short at age 57.
The Rural Studio is a design-build program founded in 1993 in Hale County, Alabama that brings architecture students from Auburn University to one of the nation’s most impoverished areas. Using donated and salvaged materials, the Rural Studio has designed and constructed buildings ranging from chapels to community halls, all of which exhibit what Architecture magazine calls a “formal exuberance rarely associated with low-cost architecture.”
The AIA Baltimore Affiliates in Action program begins at 5:30 pm on October 8 with a reception for Mr. Goldberger followed by his lecture. It will be held in the Johns Hopkins University Downtown Center in Baltimore, Maryland at 10 North Charles Street (directions and parking information available at http://www.spsbe.jhu.edu/directions/down_dirpark.cfm). Mr. Goldberger will also touch on his upcoming books on redevelopment of the World Trade Center site and the experience of looking at architecture. He will be available for questions and book signings.
In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mr. Goldberger has received numerous awards, including the medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation awarded in recognition of “the nation’s most balanced, penetrating and poetic analyses of architecture and design”. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented him with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Preservation Achievement Award.
Paul Goldberger graduated from Yale University, where he studied architectural history with Vincent Scully. He appears frequently on film and television to discuss architecture, most recently in Ken Burns’s film on Frank Lloyd Wright, in the PBS series “Building Big,” and as host of the Learning Channel program “Super Structures.” Among his books are the classic The City Observed: New York--An Architectural Guide to Manhattan, The Skyscraper, and On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age.
Seating for Mr. Goldberger’s talk is limited and word of his visit to Baltimore has already generated many requests for tickets. Advance tickets are available exclusively to AIA members through September 9. Tickets may be purchased in blocks of ten by AIA members at a cost of $200---a savings of $50 off the regular member ticket price. Individual tickets are $25 for AIA members, $15 for students with I.D., and $35 for all others. After September 9, tickets will continue to be offered to members, but will also be available to the public. To reserve a block of tickets and for more information, contact AIA Baltimore at 410-625-2585 or info@aiabalt.com.
Annual Sponsors whose membership helps support the AIA Baltimore Affiliates in Action Program are Henry H. Lewis Contracting, Inc.; Swirnow Building Systems; Century Engineering, Inc.; CSD Architects; GWWO Inc./Architects; Hope Furrer Associates, Inc., Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.; KCI Technologies, Inc.; L&L Supply Corp.; Masonry Institute of Maryland; Oakwood Construction Corp., Oldcastle APG/Betco Block Products; James Posey Associates, Inc., Siegel Rutherford Bradstock & Ridgway, Inc.; Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse; and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
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