March Building Tour
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Building Tour
2009 AIA UK Excellence in Design Winner
Thursday 25 March, 6:30 PM
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 4JJ
Tour starts directly outside the Cafe in the Crypt promptly at 6:30pm.
Please join members of the American Institute of Architects UK Chapter, as Robert Kennett, director for Eric Parry Architects, leads a tour of the redeveloped St. Martin-in-the-Fields. This renewal project is one of the most significant and complex recently undertaken in London. Plans for St Martin’s are set against a rich backdrop of heritage, community and faith that is simultaneously sacred and secular. The site of St Martin-in-the-Fields is highly significant: a complex mix of buildings including the church, school social care facilities, residential apartments and the underground crypts and vaults. Eric Parry Architects’ response to the brief centres around a robust solution masterplan that connects each of the different elements of the site, creating and framing a space to nurture and sustain the community.
1 CES Credit
Free Admission
Space limited – please RSVP
Contact details: Wade Scaramucci
wscaramucci@ahmm.co.uk
March Film Night
Manufactured Landscapes
A film by Jennifer Baichwal
Tuesday, 16 March 7:00pm
BFI Screening Room
21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN
The film chronicles the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky throughout his time in China, documenting the economic forces and resultant urban landscapes behind rapid industrialisation. For more on Ed Burtynsky's work, view his TED talk. In addition, a book of his photography is available from Yale University Press.
2 CES Credits
Free Admission for AIA members, £4 for non-members
Seating is limited. RSVP required.
taylor.wade@gmail.com
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March Sustainability Lecture
Responsibility vs Sustainability
Polly Higgins, Barrister Advocate of Planetary Rights
Tuesday, 23 March 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
Sustainability is a word embraced by many sectors, but its very definition is elusive. Polly presents the case for substituting the word sustainability with the use of the word responsibility. In doing so, very different results fall into place. Is it possible to create architecture that supports and reveres life itself? Is it practical to embrace duties and obligations to both people and planet? What impact will planetary rights have on architectural practices?
Last year Polly Higgins, Barrister and Planetary Rights Lawyer, was voted by the Ecologist magazine as "One of the Top Ten Visionaries to Save the Planet" for her work on Planetary Rights. Polly is also the founder of Wise Women – Women in Sustainability and the Environment, a network bringing together women who are working in, are concerned about and want to do more about sustainability and the environment. She blogs under the name of The Lazy Environmentalist
www.treeshaverightstoo.com
www.wisewomen.me.uk
www.thelazyenvironmentalist.blogspot.com
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
Please RSVP to Alex Miller, amiller@kpf.com, as seating is limited. Reserve your place now and pay at the door the evening of the event.
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
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Emerging Professionals Group
Pub Night
Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm onwards
Princess Louise Pub, Holborn info
RSVP: Directly to Elizabeth Waters
In an effort to promote ARE/IDP information exchange, study groups and socialization among young professionals in London, please join us for a few drinks at our quarterly pub gathering! This is intended to be informal and open to anyone, but is especially for young professionals and those of you who are working towards US licensure and would like to meet others going through the same process.
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