The 2022 COTE® Top Ten program is in its 26th year and highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE® Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons.
AIA recently announced the 2022 COTE® Top Ten Awards. Among the recipients of this award was LEVER Architecture’s Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters. Congratulations to LEVER!
After two years' work, Eugene's proposed Middle Housing Code is at City Council! The Public Hearing is next Monday, April 18 at 7:30 PM. The meeting agenda is on the City of Eugene website, and it includes the Zoom link.
The Council will be acting on the Planning Commission's unanimous recommendation that addresses our community's affordability and climate-responsive housing goals, and includes a unique path to incentivize Affordable Housing. 9
It's time to edit and submit that letter you've been crafting in your head. Address written testimony HERE.
Then compose your thoughts to share with Council Monday evening. Signups start at 7 pm. Consider your strategy to speak early - or late - and signup accordingly between 7 and 7:30.
If you need a prompt, go to the Better Housing Together website for more info, including a couple of new infographics.
Read Randy Nishimura's blog on this process from April 9.
The Planning Commission recommendations are on the City's website
Speak up!
The University of Oregon Department of Architecture and Environmental Studies invites you to the next presentation in their 2021-22 Lecture Series:
Robert Clarke
Visiting Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice
The Black Aesthetic
April 8th, Eugene, 4pm LA 115 and Zoom
“My practice and pedagogy aims to UN-earth new expressions and aesthetics in architecture that are derived from the Black American Experience. Throughout the history of the world many cultures have manifested their own architecture that is specific to their customs and traditions. However, this cultural phenomenon has not manifested itself in the Black American Community, in terms of a recognizable architectural style. Our work aims to speculate how can one correct this cultural and artistic omission within the discourse of architecture The projects displayed with in this compilation of works will explore novel methodologies that investigates how one can interject black culture into architectural forms and motifs. How can we unearth a recognizable aesthetic that expresses lost histories, current histories, and cultural norms that is specific to African American Culture. “
Also upcoming - Save the dates!
April 11, 12pm
Marziah Zad
Ashrafi & Zad Design, “Inclusive and Participatory Urban Spaces”
Eugene LA 206 & Zoom
April 15, 4:30pm
Thomas Auer
Transsolar
Lost in Transformation!
April 15th, 4:30pm, Portland WSB main event space and on Zoom
Thomas Auer is managing director of Transsolar, Stuttgart. The Climate Engineering practice has received international attention over the last three decades and is working on all scales from single buildings to urban neighborhoods. As Professor and Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design at the Department of Architecture of TU Munich focuses on a holistic design approach. For buildings and cities, it is crucial to recognize the sustainability goals of the EU as well as the reduction of substantial CO2 emissions in the building sector, as defining parameter. Thomas and Transsolar have always advocated an understanding of energy efficiency that goes beyond technology. They develop holistic concepts that incorporate the urban and regional scale. The overall objective of this approach is to create maximum comfort in the interior as well as in the exterior of the built environment while minimizing the use of resources at the same time. Thomas works in interdisciplinary teams and has established a three-step approach comprising space design, building performance design and infrastructure design.
April 18
Urban Violence Lab Symposium
Portland
April 20, 6pm
Patricia Johanson
Environmental Artist/Landscape Architect
Zoom
Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
April 29, 4pm
Katherine Darnstadt
Latent Design, Chicago
A Street in A City
Eugene & Zoom
Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent Design, a progressive architecture and urbanism firm leveraging civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Darnstadt and her firm have prototyped new urban design systems to advance urban agriculture, support small business through Boombox, created spaces for youth makers, advanced building innovation though Blank Box, and created public space frameworks through Design Trust Chicago. She and the firm have been published, exhibited and featured widely, most notably at the International Venice Architecture Biennial, Architizer A+ Awards, Chicago Ideas Week, NPR, American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award winner and Crain’s Chicago 40 Under 40. She previously taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.
May 6, 4pm
Gonzalo Alonso
Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architectural Design
Abalo Alonso Arquitectos, Spain
Eugene & Zoom
(Portland date TBA)
May 11, 5:30pm
Rania Ghosn
DESIGN EARTH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-sponsored by the UO Provost’s Environment Initiative
May 17, 5:30pm
Save-the-date: Design for Spatial Justice
May 20-21
2022 Reynolds Symposium: Aalto : Light
White Stag Blocks & Mt. Angel Library
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