Here is an exhibition by one of our current M.Arch students – you should consider attending.

School of Building Arts students should not miss these events that are part of SCAD Style this year. Both are at the SCAD MOA, and are an easy commute from Eichberg.

Monday, Apr. 16
Lecture
Florian Idenburg, SO-IL (so-il.org)
7:00 pm SCAD Museum of Art

Wednesday, Apr. 18
Lecture
John Bricker, principal and creative director, Gensler
11:30 am SCAD Museum of Art

Kick off the spring School of Building Arts lecture series tonight! Profs. Julie Rogers-Varland, Joel Varland, and Amy Wynne will be presenting their lecture, “3 Professors, 2 Trips, 1 Country: Exploring Japanese Meaning, Materiality, and Space”. Travel and research funding for this faculty development generously provided by a Savannah College of Art and Design Presidential Fellowship. The lecture will take place at the SCAD Museum of Art auditorium at 5:30pm. Get some SBALUs out of the way early

Would you like to learn to clean up photos, improve your renderings, make better diagrams, and craft great presentations?

SCAD School of Building Arts is offering a series of tutorials and question-and-answer workshops for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. These tutorials will be held on Friday afternoons throughout Spring Quarter in Eichberg 202A, and will be followed by an open workshop for any questions with a specific project. Each session will be peer-taught by SCAD Architecture graduate student Kristi Buchler. Sign up for each tutorial will be in Eichberg’s main office – room 205 – during the week that tutorial is held. The schedule is below; topics listed for each tutorial are minimum, additional topics will be addressed based on need and schedule.

Please email Krisit at kbuchl20@studnet.scad.edu, or McKenzie Lynah at elynah@scad.edu, with any questions.

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Friday, March 30th (week one)
1:00 – Adobe Suite Basics (best use of each program, file types, workflow)
2:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, April 6th (week two)
1:00 – Introduction to Photoshop (getting started, basic cleanup tools)
2:00 – Introduction to Illustrator (getting started, basic tools)
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, April 20th (week four)
1:00 – Introduction to InDesign (getting started, basic layout tools)
2:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 4th (week six)
1:00 – Intermediate Photoshop (advanced selection tools, masks, brushes, gradients)
2:00 – Intermediate Illustrator (drawing tools, masks, patterns, brushes)
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 11th (week seven)
1:00 – Intermediate InDesign (advanced text tools, frame and image tools)
2:00 – Advanced Photoshop and Illustrator
3:00 – open question/answer workshop

Friday, May 25th (week nine)
1:00 – Document Production Workshop (help with boards, portfolio, thesis book, process book)

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March 7 5-7 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art Theater, 601 Turner Blvd., Savannah Ga. USA

Dana Thomas is a Paris-based fashion and culture journalist and is a contributing editor for the Wall Street Journal’s monthly magazine. She served as the European editor of Conde Nast Portfolio from 2008-09, was European cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris from 1995-2008, and contributed to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times in London and Australian Harper’s Bazaar. She also writes regularly for Architectural Digest and ELLE Decor. Penguin Press published her New York Times bestselling book, “Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster,” in 2007. Open to SCAD students, faculty and staff free of charge. Available to the public with the cost of admission to the SCAD Museum of Art. Visit the SCAD Museum of Art website.

The Architecture Department is excited that the School of Building Arts Winter Quarter Lectures will be located in the SCAD Museum of Art just across the courtyard from Eichberg. Just like last quarter, there will be a lecture every Thursday at 5:30pm hosted by different departments each week – below are the dates.

Jan 19 – Urban Design, Roger Sherman
Jan 26 – Architectural History, Kim Sexton
Feb 2 – Furniture Design, Rob Eastman
Feb 16 – Architecture, Dolan Daggett
Feb 23 – Interior Design, Will McGovern
Mar 1 – Historic Preservation, Ron Stanley
Mar 8 – Urban Design, Lola Sheppard

Please encourage your students to enter the upcoming exhibit Drawing Works Ideation Exploration and Expression. The show is open to all undergraduate students and work can be submitted in digital or traditional media. Sketchbooks and process work are encouraged. Last year we had 435 submissions from undergraduate students across the college in 14 departments – animation, fashion, fibers, foundation studies, game development, graphic design, illustration, metals and jewelry, painting, photo, sculpture, production design, sequential art, and visual effects. Foundation studies faculty and galleries selected 59 works ranging from first year to seniors for the exhibit in Alexander Hall. This year Nova Benway from the Drawing Center in New York will select the awards and give a lecture. Submit work by Jan. 17.

TONIGHT @ 5:30PM, SCAD Student Center

One of the last chances to get SBA LU Credits before the end of the quarter!

Gilles de Mont-Marin collaborated with the SCAD Architecture & Interior Design students in Lacoste during Spring 2011 on his Paris Rive Gauche project. The Architecture Department is extremely excited to have him here to lecture tonight! Below is more information on Mr. Mont-Marin.

After experiences in social housing and renovation of historical areas, Gilles de MONT-MARIN as had a major role in SEMAPA since the creation of the company in 1985. Since 1987, he has served as the Deputy Manager of SEMAPA “Société d’Economie Mixte d’Aménagement de Paris”. As the concessionary company of the city of Paris, the SEMAPA is one of the principal players of Parisian urban development, integrating the principles of sustainable development in its urban and architectural projects, including the Paris Rive Gauche Project.

A bus will be taking students from Savannah to Atlanta for the DAS HAUS exhibit on October 21. Below is the tentative schedule –

6:00 a.m. Everyone on the bus.
10:00 a.m. SCAD private tour of the Das Haus exhibit.
11:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch.
1:30-3:00 p.m. Tour of SCAD Atlanta.
3:30 p.m. Back on the bus.
7:00 p.m. Arrive back in Savannah.

The cost of the trip will be $30.00 per student. We have 59 seats available. It is first come first serve. If you are interested, come to Eichberg Room 205 to sing up and bring $30.00 in cash.

http://dashaustour.com/

AIAS/Kawneer Crisis Ready Stadium Student Design Competition

“The visible effects of the changing climate make civic design a whole new game.” The fabric of community is often developed around the spaces in which we congregate. Stadium, civic center, arena; regardless of the name the venue at which we join together to engage in large scale social activities become one of the cornerstones of our community, and a rallying point in times of need. This last aspect was made vibrantly clear during the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Superdome, while physically large enough to handle the influx of the community that needed a place to rest, was ill prepared to act as even temporary lodging.

The realities of climate change and the importance of designing and building in such a manner that is resilient in all forms of benign and hostile weather are critical factors facing the architects of tomorrow. The Stadium, a place where we join together to engage in large scale social activities, has become one of the cornerstones of our community, and a rallying point in times of need. This competition asks of emerging designers to find ways stadiums can be utilized to serve as not only centers of entertainment but havens of refuge during times of need, during crisis, looking at stadiums as the critical component to any community, the critical mass we can gravitate to in times of need.

Consider:

* Alternative space uses in the event of crisis and non-crisis

* ADA Requirements

* Security issues during crisis and non-crisis times

* Weather Resistive design withstanding at least a category 5 hurricane

* The entry should utilize building products by Kawneer

Registration Deadline: NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 1, 2011

Total prize value of $7,725.00

There is no entry or submission fee required to participate in the competition for AIAS members. There is a $10.00 submission fee for non-members per entry.

Effective October 1, 2010, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has announced that approved Design Competitions can now count towards core hours of the Intern Development Program (IDP)

It is the responsibility of the student submitting to the design competition and their mentor to determine whether or not their submission meets the expectations and requirements for IDP credit.

More information: http://kawneer.aias.org