RAIC ALBERTA CHAPTER

• 20 images
• 20 seconds
• 200 cities
• 2,000 presentations
• 200,000 people

On Saturday, February 20th, the 277 cities that host PechaKucha events worldwide will converge to present one continuous edition of PechaKucha Night. Kicking off at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo, where PechaKucha Night was first conceived, the presentation wave will travel eastward, with cities presenting one after the other. Crossing all times zones and cultures, the event will be streamed live online. All proceeds will go to Architecture for Humanity for rebuilding Haiti.

Please save the date for Calgary’s contibution to this special event. Speakers and other event details will be announced shortly.

Devised and shared by Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003 as a place for designers, developers and architects to meet, network and show their work in public, PechaKucha Nights are now taking place in 277 cities around the world. The format is simple: speakers present 20 slides each, for 20 seconds per slide. Calgary Arts Development has an agreement to host PechaKucha Nights in Calgary and will be hosting several PechaKucha Nights over the course of the year.

For more information visit http://www.calgaryartsdevelopment.com/node/2036.

The faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary has announced the upcoming Design Matters lectures.  For more information on Design Matters and past lectures, follow the link to http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds/design_matters.

18 February 2010 Andrew Kudless

Principal, MATSYS, San Francisco, CA

25 March 2010 Alistair Bath

Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

22 April 2010 Ferda Kolatan

Principal, SULL, New York, NY

March 25, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta

The CISC has brought together excellent local speakers – such as Robert Driver from the University of Alberta (who will talk about Earthquake Engineering) with experts from outside the province – Sylvie Boulanger, P.Eng. Ph.D.  ICCA-Québec and Terri Meyer Boake from University of Waterloo who will talk about The New CISC Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel Guidelines and  Mark V. Holland, P.E.; Chief Engineer;  Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. from Omaha who will discuss leading applications of the Building Information Modelling – to name a few. Randall Stout – the architect of the Alberta Art Gallery opening soon in Edmonton will be the key note speaker and discuss the design and construction of the Art Gallery.

Learning Centre Partners

The CISC Steel Workshop (Alberta Region)

An integral part of the Steel Workshop is the Steel Learning Centre, are these companies who have innovative products or technology related to steel construction will display and explain them to workshop delegates.  For a full list of the included companies, see the link below.

This workshop has been approved by the Alberta Association of Architect for learning credits for most of the sessions.  For more information on The Steel Workshop, go to http://www.cisc.ca/events/alberta/2010/TheSteelWorkshop/.

Hernan Diaz Alonso

As part of the ongoing Design Matters lecture series, Hernan Diaz Alonso will be speaking on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7 pm at the Uptown Stage & Screen located at 612 8 Ave SW.

Tickets will be sold at the door for $5; U of C students attend for free.

For more information: http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds/design_matters/nov

Pecha Kucha Night

December 3, 2009 at the Uptown Stage & Screen, 7:30 pm, $10

Calgary Arts Development Presents our 2nd PechaKucha Night: “How We Live Together”. Join architects, planners, artists and other great minds in exploring how cities become truly live-able places and how the design decisions we make today affect the future of our environmental, social and economic landscape.

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/calgary

ACAD invites all members of the public to the 2009 – 2010 season of the much anticipated Stirring Culture lecture series. ACAD’s Stirring Culture is a free, public, bi-annual event, and has brought some of the most important voices in art and design, culture, and innovation to Calgary.

This year, ACAD is celebrating the continuing evolution of this important series with Stirring Culture 3: Women Innovators in Design, a unique series of public lectures by prominent women with successful practices in the various fields of design that have had significant impacts through their innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to design practice, business, theory, use of materials, and education.

Jane Brown will kick off this year’s lecture series on November 25, 2009. Her work explores the fusion of logic, illogic, emotion and self expression in design. As Creative Director at MetaDesign, Brown has built an international career designing and directing branded solutions for a wide range of clients, from startups to established global corporations.

See a full list of speakers, and learn more at

http://www.acad.ab.ca/stirring_culture_3.html

MADE in Edmonton’s mission is to heighten the public’s awareness and ability to appreciate design, art and architecture, and in turn increase their capacity to demand good art and design in their communities.

Events are designed to appeal to both those people already practicing in design related professions and members of the general public who are interested in design issues.

For more information about MADE and for upcoming events follow the link: http://www.madeinedmonton.org/?cat=4

The following courses will be offered in Edmonton and Calgary this month.

SDCB 325: Integrating Sustainability: Selecting and Designing for Low-Energy Comfort Systems (or getting mechanical engineers back to designing, rather than simply sizing, building systems)

Edmonton: October 20, 2009

Calgary: October 21, 2009

Concrete Thinking

Calgary: October 28, 2009

Edmonton: October 29, 2009

To be really sustainable, communities have to be a delight to live and work in. Concrete can be used to produce beautiful, sustainable buildings that can be the foundation for many types of projects.

For more information on these course offerings visit: http://members.raic.org/courses.php?language=1

The City of Edmonton and Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) invites you to participate in the 2009 Edmonton Urban Design Awards Program.

Award categories:

Un-Implemented Urban Design Plans

Implemented Urban Design Plans

Urban Architecture

Civic Design Projects

Urban Fragments

Community Improvement Projects

Jury members:

Douglas Cardinal, Architect, Douglas Cardinal Architect Inc., Ottawa, Ontario

Shannon Nichol, Landscape Architect, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd., Seattle

Michael Hough, Landscape Architect, “Envision-The Hough Group, Toronto, Ontario

Tim Jones, President & CEO , Artscape, Toronto, Ontario

Brent Toderian, Director of Planning, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

The deadline for submission of completed entries is Thursday, October 8, 2009. The awards ceremony to recognize the winning projects is scheduled on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at the Edmonton City Hall.

For more information please visit www.edmonton.ca/UrbanDesignAwards