CITY FORUM SERIES

City Forum Series

City Forum is a planning and urban issues speaker series hosted by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization (CRPSO) and the Community and Regional Planning Program (CRP) at The University of Texas at Austin. The bi-weekly speakers series is intended to broaden the curriculum in the CRP Program by presenting the experiences, perspectives, and insights of scholars, community leaders, practicing planners, and policy makers who engage in timely issues.

Topics of discussion are relevant, contemporary issues ranging from the local and regional to international. City Forum provides a space for open, critical dialogue among faculty members, students, community members, planning practitioners, and policy-makers regarding crucial planning-related issues in Austin and elsewhere. The speaker series is intended to encourage discussion of diversity, multiple publics, and social change.

During the fall of 2008, the program will be held on selected Fridays from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. in the Texas Union Board of Directors Room, 4.118 (on Guadalupe Street between 22nd & 24th Streets). City Forum events are free and open to students and professionals interested in planning. Upcoming speakers include:

*   November 14, "Panel on Bicycle Planning, Policy, and Advocacy"

Presenters include: Annick Beaudet, Project Manager, City of Austin Bicycle and Pedestrian Program; Michael Curtis, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager, City of Austin; and Dr. Randy Machemehl, UT Austin Center for Transportation Research.

For questions, comments, or suggestions related to City Forum, contact Jenni Minner or Dr. Bjorn Sletto.

The Bunkha boys be getting busy!!!

Mike Brannon- designer/owner of Light Link Lighting has selected Bunkha Design Group to design light fixtures for several of Mikes upcoming projects, and the word from the underground is that we may get featured in an upcoming issue of Texas Architect.
Pre-lim designs will be posted within the next 2 weeks.

Wait, there's more.
There might be another commission for Bunkha as well.

The outskirts of a small rural town 30 min. west of Houston named Sheridan Tx. will become the site of a new house for Sharon Hughes. She has been looking through floor plans online for some inspiration and has selected a few that she likes.
FYI- that ain't the Bunkha style.
So.... We are going to Bunkha-fy it.
More info will be posted after we meet again on the 4th of October.


http://www.lightlinklighting.com/designs.htm

KROB '08 DEADLINE TO ENTER OCT 24

http://www.krobarch.com/index.asp

CRITIQUE

The Honor of Thinking : Critique, Theory, Philosophy

RODOLPHE GASCHE. Palo Alto, Stanford University Press

"Critique" comes from the Greek krinein which means: "to sort" (sorndern), "to sort out" and thus to "lift out that of special sort" (das Besondere herausheben). This contrast [Abheben] against others [gegen anderes] arises from an elevation [Hinaufheben] to a new order. The sense of the word " critique" is so little negative that it means the most positive, the positing of what must be established in advance [im voraus angesetzt] in all positing [Setzung] as what is determinative and decisive. Therefore, critique is a separation and lifting out of the special, the uncommon and, at the same time, decisive [des Massgebenden], therefore, and only in consequence, is it also a rejection of the commonplace and unsuitable. 

notes: critique, catalog, collage

CONFLUX

per wikipedia:

Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as the "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."^[1] 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

1.^ Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography, 1955

also reference:

Phenomenology is both a philosophical design current in contemporary architecture and a specific field of academic research, based on thephysical experience of building materials and their sensory properties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(architecture)

NO COMLY SKATE

submission for DWR : no comply skate atx

title_haru

' i miss skating - the following is how i feel _______ ! tension : on the board. '

mixed media : pencil, ink, adobe p-shop/illustrator

check the exhibit_

FRI 18th september @ design within reach ATX

Noodle Gun

check this site out : offering to post graphic, illustrative & photography on their website.

http://www.noodlegun.com/index.php?mode=contributeurs

art box 2007

art box_ a competition entry for temporary outdoor gallery spaces in austin, TX - mobile art spaces for the austin art alliance (DQ based on board size)

10x10x20 box for art

what about the box? how to create: adaptability, flexible space, texture, & patterns. inspiration from Le Corbusier's panel exercise - modulate different sized panels - the way agricultural landscape are patterns. make with textiles, art, shapes and coverings to close, open, reveal, hide and move the 'experiencer' through the box of art. 

the box itself allows an artist to exhibit his/her work and shape the box based upon the selected panels.

McCauley Residence

Oh, how I wish this project would have not been killed by clients who couldn't commit.

The Project:

2- phases,

1st: outdoor banquet room

2nd: guest/pool house (party house/ladies room)

The Banquet room is an addition to the west side of the existing house.

more to come....