Mel attended the national AIA Small Firm Roundtable last week in Los Angeles. The meeting was held in the legendary West Hollywood Andaz hotel, and the group worked on preparation for the AIA National convention in Chicago and the development of an AIA app to serve as a resource for small and large firms alike.
We are excited to announce the latest gallery show opening Friday, December 6th from 6-9pm
. Please come join us!
We are excited to announce that a portion of our expanded office will host a brand new gallery space. Its name is Nobile & Amundsen and it will be curated by John Sebastian Vitale and Nikki Leone. We are thrilled that Hampton Boyer will be the first artist to show. See some of his excellent work here: http://hamptonboyer.blogspot.com/.
The ELA class project that Thom has been engaged in for the whole of 2011 came to a conclusion at ArchEx East, the annual regional architecture convention which takes place each Fall at the Richmond Convention Center. The group presented the project to a group of attendees which included leaders in the professional and academic realms of the architectural discipline, such as key administrators and officers of the VSAIA, Virginia Tech Dean of CAUS Jack Davis, FAIA, and principals of prominent firms both regional AND national. Michelle Kaufmann, principal of Michelle Kaufmann Studio and the Keynote Speaker for the conference, attended the presentation and provided positive feedback.
WPA’s concept for turning First Landing State Park’s welcome center (Virginia Beach, VA) into an educational exhibit.
First two days of the on-site Kiosk build was a success. There was even an article in Richmond’s Style Weekly.
Last day of the build will be Saturday, October 15th at Hull St. Public Library. So if you’re around, come and check it out.
Afterward, the kiosk will be presented at the ArchEX East 2011, which runs from November 2-4, and there its study and findings will be discussed.
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Much progress has been made on the kiosk project mentioned previously here.
Several weekends have been spent in Richmond building the structure and it is nearing completion.
Thom has been collaborating since January with 14 other architects, architectural interns, and students from around Virginia as part of the 2011 Emerging Leaders in Architecture program, an honors academy organized by the Virginia Society AIA. Part of this collaboration has been a study of the neighborhood of Manchester in Richmond, and the development of a Kiosk to serve as a physical point of conversation and engagement with the community. A portion of the Kiosk was built as a prototype by Thom, Dan Zimmerman, and Amrit Singh this past weekend in Charlottesville. The build will be installed in Manchester in September, and then put on display at this fall’s Architecture Exchange East in Richmond.
The Kiosk part 1 prototype, Dan, and Amrit.
Modeling by Amrit
