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Engineers Without Borders - SF Chapter, Haiti Project is hosting a Photo Gallery Fundraising Party! We are currently working on building a sustainable medical clinic in the village of Bayonnais in Haiti. 100% of the contributions will go towards this project. On the day of the event we will be featuring photos from our January trip to Haiti! Come out and check out the gallery, bid on a photo to take home, learn more about our project, eat FREE food, boogie to live music, and have a drink with our team! We are also giving away awesome raffle prizes, so please buy some raffle tickets! (@ $5 a pop!) We will be selling them before and during the event. See you there!!
Schindler's Fitzpatrick House
R.M. Schindler's Fitzpatrick House (1936), in Los Angeles, has been donated to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture by real estate investor Russ Leland, who bought the home in 1990 and spent 15 years restoring it.
Feat of Clay
Unusual Picasso ceramic exhibition makes its last stop in Sonoma, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
LEEDing the Green Retail Sector
Jerry Yudelson Explores the Progress and Possibililites of Sustainable Development in Retail Projects
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Once attend San Francisco Art Institute, Annie Leibovitz's show, A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 is at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Dont miss it! One week left
LEEDing retail
Elephant Pharm's LEED for Retail pilot identifies with the Bay Area's green initiatives By Vilma Barr, New York Editor
Glenn Murcutt
Recipient of the 2002 Pritzker Architectural Prize, Murcutt is noted as Australia's chief exponent of sustainable and site-sensitive buildings.
Do you miss Mary Miss
As a sculptor, draughtsman, photographer, and environmental artist, Mary Miss has straddled the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and installation art for more than thirty years. Her work moves from the urban bustle of New York, to the vast plains of the American Midwest, to the remote forests of Finland and has been acclaimed worldwide for its poetry and power.
On Food and Architecture
While reading Levi-Strauss, Claude "The Origin of Table Manners" and google-ing, I've found this strange article
The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli
One of the influential History & Architectural Professor of our time, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, whom also wear the hat of being the one of the editor for Chora, with his wisdom through his writing, have guide and assist me the growth of my profession. Some of his book might aid and or shape the future of your profession.
Helvetica - A Documentary film by Gary Hustwit
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
