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Boston Society of Architects to create a new “design and architecture center”

The BSA is moving to the Fort Point Channel, aka ”the Station North of Boston,” where they will create a new “design and architecture center complete with a museum and lecture hall to serve the public.”
http://news.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/view/20100222architect_group_plans_new_digs_eyes_move_to_atlantic_wharf/srvc=home&position=also

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s Groundhog Day Party

Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8pm – midnight
This year’s fundraiser will be at The Maryland Club, continuing our tradition of featuring an architecturally significant space that few have the opportunity to see. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to spend the evening in one of Baltimore’s historic private clubs while enjoying the best Groundhog Day party in the [...]

Call for Proposals: Toward a Just Metropolis

http://justmetropolis.doodlekit.com/home/call_for_papers_and_presentations
Call for Proposals – Deadline March 1, 2010
Presentations, Posters and Workshops
As cities and towns around the world grapple with the impacts of multiple and concurrent crises, progressive planners, urbanists, activists, and citizens face the challenge of transforming crises into opportunities to advance profound changes in the way we plan, build, design, live in, and govern [...]

We love “Confetti Grants”

This holiday season, the Design Conversations program of D:Center Baltimore joined 14 other small Baltimore arts initiatives as recipients of surprise funding from the Baltimore Community Foundation. No one knows exactly where this money is coming from or how we were nominated, but I’m sure we’ll soon make sure it is well spent. Here’s to [...]

The Role of Design Centers in Urban Regeneration

As Part of Baltimore Architecture Week, the AIA’s Urban Design Committee Hosted a forum on the role of design centers in urban regeneration. This event generated some interesting energy and discussion. The  following are the notes of Urban Design Committee co-chair Klaus Phillipsen:

Panel Moderator Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson of the D.center. Click here to see the [...]

DESIGN CONVERSATION 13

DESIGN CENTERS-DESIGN CENTERS-DESIGN CENTERS

This Thursday evening, Oct. 15, from 6pm-8:30pm is the much anticipated panel conversation on “The Role of Design Centers in Urban Regeneration”, featured as part of Baltimore’s Architecture Week. We are fortunate to have two leading proponents of the urban design center movement with us for an evening– Maurice Cox, Director of Design for the [...]

a brief synopsis of: Design Conversation #11 : SOUND

a brief synopsis of:
Design Conversation #11 : SOUND | Baltimore Experimental Music Aesthetics and Instrument Design–A High Zero Festival Panel Discussion
Wednesday 02 september 2009
the convo featured speakers from the High Zero festival and foundation:
Dan Conrad
Neil Feather
Peter Blasser
Stewart Mostofsky
these folks enlightened us in many ways, in no particular order, including, but not limited to, the following:
-playing [...]

The 100th Window

Our front page was recently hacked, or rather – infiltrated, by spam blogs adding themselves to the ’share your voice’ section. Thanks to Amber Shriver, our volunteer web director (and mechanic, and lead designer for the web task force), the offending links were removed. When they continued to pop up, it became necessary to kill [...]

Downtown Zoning Workshop

Downtown Zoning workshop next Tuesday, Sep 15th.