[Hist_Pres] Free talks at the AHC

[Barbara Pierce]

If you have not yet made it to one of the talks in conjunction with the
exhibit, Fostering Harmony: The Symbiotic Relationship of Architecture and
Nature, you have been missing out!  The various artists and guest speakers
have been interesting and informative and have inspired great thought and
conversation.
 
There is still time to participate in these great events!  Join us this week
or next to hear one of the final speakers and enjoy a very well rounded
exhibit of fine art.
 
All talks are at the Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand and begin
at 6pm.  They are free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be
served.  
 
 
More details here:
http://www.visitahc.org/content/annual-juried-art-exhibit-2010
 
 

Thursday, December 9

Informed by her observations as a painter as well as her studies of the
Dharma and practice with Vipassana (Insight Meditation), Danila Rumold
painter, will speak about how the built and natural environments complement
one another, how architecture and the natural environment successfully
coexist, how nature influences architecture and the built environment, and
how these ideas are present in her work.

Danila Rumold is a local artist in Seattle, WA, who works with her lived
experience of location, evoking a sense of place. Hovering between form and
formlessness, representation and abstraction, her physical relationship to
trees and architecture in her environment provide an entry into the drawing
and painting process.

 

 

Friday, December 17:  The winner of this year's Viewer's Choice Award will
be announced during the event.

 

Jeff Schnabel, artist and assistant professor of Architecture at PSU, will
address his connection to industrial sites and how these places with layered
histories have transformed his thinking about site specific design and have
provided the foundation for his artistic endeavors. He will discuss how the
primary themes of his work were realized in each form and why encaustic now
appears to be the most appropriate way for him to express his ideas.

 

Special Guest and Portland architect  William C. Tripp will speak on the
role of ritual space in architecture and nature.

The relationship of architecture to nature is a little bit like the
relationship of mind to body. Architecture is built from materials found in
nature, whether we use them raw or highly processed. We all live in the
natural realm; it's just a matter of our level of detachment.

In this talk Bill will show images of some of the ritual spaces that his
team has designed and describe the rituals themselves, many of which they
have also designed. Within this framework they are discovering a language of
ritual space and ways to weave it into the fabric of our community.

 

 About the Presenters

Jeff Schnabel is an assistant professor in the Architecture Department at
Portland State University. His art and research are informed by industrial
landscapes past and present. While in Baltimore, Jeff designed new
landscapes for an iron mill, an abandoned power plant, and ruins of a grain
silo complex. His art work frequently involves the layering of multiple
histories. This has involved the use of fused glass, projection media, and
most recently encaustic painting.

 

Bill Tripp is a Portland architect, artist and teacher.He studied at the
University of Oregon and Princeton University and in 1986 received a
Fulbright Award to study the architecture of Alvar Aalto in Finland. His
practice is dedicated to making carefully crafted houses, churches, urban
spaces, theatre sets and memorials. He teaches design, theory and drawing at
the Oregon School of Design, Portland State University and the University of
Oregon.

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Architectural Heritage Center

Resources and Inspiration for Historic Preservation

701 SE Grand Ave.

Portland, OR 97214

503.231.7264 x24

www.VisitAHC.org

 

 
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