Willkommen zurück in die Schule!!
You are invited to attend a special lecture/panel event injunction with studioMain and Arkansas Arts Center’s Bauhaus exhibitions.
Friday, May 24th at 5pm at the Arkansas Arts Center lecture hall, a wise and knowledgeable group of presenters will be lecturing on the Bauhaus (school, culture, architecture, furniture, etc).
This event is FREE and open to the public. Grab a date, come have some wine, and enjoy a scholarly talk about some dead germans, functional design, and good clean architecture!
See the following press release from the Arkansas Arts Center about this great event!
Special Bauhaus movement lecture to be held at
Arkansas Arts Center
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Arts Center, the state’s premiere center for visual and performing arts, together with studioMain, presents a special symposium, “From the Bauhaus to Our House,” discussing the history and influence of the Bauhaus movement to be held Friday, May 24, at 5 p.m., in the Arkansas Arts Center Lecture Hall. This symposium is in conjunction with the Arts Center’s current exhibition, Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy – Photographs by Gordon Watkinson, on view May 24 - September 1, in the Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery.
“The Arts Center is pleased to be hosting such a notable panel of expert speakers,” said Arkansas Arts Center director of education Lou Palermo. “The Bauhaus movement was inspired by a world-changing vision to unite artists and craftsmen, and we will take a deeper look into that vision with the upcoming symposium. We are so excited to be partnering with studioMain to be able to offer this event to our friends and members of the Arkansas Arts Center.”
There will then be an hour break for viewing the exhibit and refreshments, followed by a 7 p.m. discussion with a panel of architectural experts in the design fields. Admission is free and no ticket required. The symposium will feature four of the top speakers in the state to discuss this important movement in architectural history. They are as follows: Dr. Floyd Martin (UALR, Art History), John Greer (WER Architects and Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas), Mia Hall (UALR, Applied Design) and Dr. Ethel Goodstein-Murphree (UA Fay Jones School of Architecture).
This exhibition conveys the lasting philosophies of the Bauhaus, a German expression meaning “house for building” and the name of an important German School principle of architecture and design. The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and introduced the sleek, functional architecture that is found in many of today’s modern buildings.
The exhibition is comprised of photographs, plans and elevations, and furniture that capture the essence of Bauhaus design and its influence on architecture. By pairing Bauhaus buildings with contemporary examples by leading architects, Gordon Watkinson explores the legacy of such modern ideas as passive solar, radiant heat and prefabricating housing.
Join the Architecture & Design Network for this season’s first lecture:
Mark Boyer | Tuesday October 16th | 6:00pm | Arkansas Art Center
Professor and head of the Landscape Architecture Department of the University of Arkansas’s Fay Jones School of Architecture, Mark Boyer joined the school faculty in 1998. Following his graduation from Louisiana State University where he earned his graduate degree, Boyer entered private practice. His work at that time focused on sensitive ecosystems in state parks and national wildlife refuges.
Boyer was part of the interdisciplinary team that designed Habitat Trails, a sustainable neighborhood for the Benton County chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The project won seven major awards, including a national Honor Award in Analysis and Planning, from the ASLA. His interest in ecological issues and storm-water management is reflected in the courses he teaches. Established in 1976, the Department’s emphasis is on urban design, community development, wetland reclamation and the design of parks, gardens, public memorials and a variety of recreational amenities. Historic landscape preservation is also an important component of the program.
Boyer’s lecture, like all others in ADN’s 12/13 series are free and open to the public. Sponsors of the series include the Fay Jones School of Architecture, the Central Arkansas Chapter of the AIA and the Arkansas Arts Center.
For more information, contact: projects4pi@mac.com
One of our favorite groups in town, the Architecture & Design Network has announced their Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Lecture Schedule!!! Check it out, there are some incredible folks coming here in the next year. Don’t worry we’ll post information here about each lecture!
A chair that looked like a potato chip. Another that resembled a “well-used first baseman’s mitt.” A folding screen that rippled …
With a grand sense of adventure, Charles and Ray Eames turned their curiosity and boundless enthusiasm into creations that established them as a truly great husband-and-wife design team. Their unique synergy led to a whole new look in furniture. Lean and modern. Playful and functional. Sleek, sophisticated, and beautifully simple. That was and is the “Eames look.”
That look and their relationship with Herman Miller started with molded plywood chairs in the late 1940s and includes the world-renowned Eames lounge chair, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Charles and Ray achieved their monumental success by approaching each project the same way: Does it interest and intrigue us? Can we make it better? Will we have “serious fun” doing it?
They loved their work, which was a combination of art and science, design and architecture, process and product, style and function. “The details are not details,” said Charles. “They make the product.”
A problem-solver who encouraged experimentation among his staff, Charles once said his dream was “to have people working on useless projects. These have the germ of new concepts.”
Their own concepts evolved over time, not overnight. As Charles noted about the development of the Molded Plywood Chairs, “Yes, it was a flash of inspiration,” he said, “a kind of 30-year flash.”
With these two, one thing always seemed to lead to another. Their revolutionary work in molded plywood led to their breakthrough work in molded fiberglass seating. A magazine contest led to their highly innovative “Case Study” house. Their love of photography led to film making, including a huge seven-screen presentation at the Moscow World’s Fair in 1959, in a dome designed by their friend and colleague, Buckminster Fuller.
Graphic design led to showroom design, toy collecting to toy inventing. And a wooden plank contraption, rigged up by their friend, director Billy Wilder for taking naps, led to their acclaimed chaise design.
A design critic once said that this extraordinary couple “just wanted to make the world a better place.” That they did. They also made it a lot more interesting.
(Source: hermanmiller.com)
Quality + Quantity
a Conversation on Modern Furniture
Friday, July 13, 2012 | 5pm | 1423 S. Main St Suite C
studioMAIN is proud to invite you our latest exhibition, Quality + Quantity: a Conversation on Modern Furniture. We are excited to be exhibiting furniture designed by local UALR Applied Design students, and pairing it with several timeless furniture pieces that are being provided by Workplace Resource and Herman Miller.
This is an incredible opportunity to experience great local design and see some of the icons of furniture design at the same time. We owe many thanks to John Bruhl of UALR Applied Design and Karen Williams of Workplace Resource for helping curate this exhibt, great job guys!
Doors open at 5pm, and with special thanks to Herman Miller, we will be hosting a wine and cheese tasting provided by Zin Wine Bar. Come early and stay late, we look forward to seeing you there!
Whoops, time really got away from us with everything we have going on. Expect a flurry of posts this week while we get everything caught up!
So as we promised last time, here are the student home designs for the Pettaway Pocket Neighborhood:
The students developed 6 different house types, ranging from the two-story Two-Faced and Extended Porch types, to the three-story Tower houses.
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
- Eliel Saarinen
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We have finalized our logo, check it out! We went through a bunch of options, but the square won out. Clean, simple, and elegant…
