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Envisioning Breuer Photography Competition

YAF announces photography competition to raise awareness of Marcel Breuer’s Central Library.

Atlanta’s Young Architects Forum (YAF) presents the 1st Annual Photography Competition, YAF10 – Envisioning Breuer. The competition is focused on the Central Library Downtown Atlanta and is aimed at raising awareness of architecture of the building. This competition is open to everyone. Students and Adults and selected works will be exhibited as part of the ACP events in October.

DEADLINES: August 16th Adult Photographers; September 15th Students (Under 18yrs)

Download Entry Forms on the YAF event website: http://www.photography.yafatlanta.org/

Student Entry Fee $5.00 (for up to 5 different photos) and Adult Entry Fee $30.00 (for up to 10 different photos)

OVER $3,000 in CASH & PRIZES FROM OUR SPONSORS!! SPECIAL PRIZE FOR SCHOOL OF THE WINNING STUDENT

1st Place – Students Competition: Workshop for the school of the winning student by Atlanta Photographer Kenneth Hamlett

¶ Posted 13 August 2010 † moderngeorgia § Announcements § Events ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Atlanta, Breuer, competition, photography, YAF

…and the winner is…the Split-Level House

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At the Georgia Trust, part of Preservation Month programs this year:

…and the first runner up is … the Split-Level House

Richard Cloues, Section Chief and Deputy SHPO, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Richard will be speaking about the Spit-Level house in Georgia.

Since 1978, Richard has worked with Georgia’s survey, National Register, environmental review, and tax incentives programs. Throughout his career, he has helped broaden the states perspective on its historic resources. Currently he is updating Georgia’s Living Places to include ranch houses and split levels. Richard has a Ph.D. in architectural history and historic preservation from Cornell University.

PLEASE RSVP at www.GeorgiaTrust.org or contact Kate Ryan, kryan@georgiatrust.org or Leigh Burns, Leigh.Burns@dnr.state.ga.us

Sponsored by DOCOMOMO/US Georgia Chapter, Inc.

Learn more about the Month’s events here: http://www.georgiatrust.org/index.php

¶ Posted 03 May 2010 † moderngeorgia § News ‡ Comments (0) °

ROAD TRIP! Georgia’s Modern Byways

5x7_horiz_draft_pdf2 ROAD TRIP! Georgia’s Modern Byways

Saturday, April 17^th 2010

Starts @ 10 AM at Hickory Hill in Thomson, Georgia

Join DOCOMOMO/US, Georgia Chapter and our friends for an exclusive tour of important Modern sites in Thomson and Augusta, Georgia.

Nationally significant sites on the tour include the 1937 International Style home in Thomson, Georgia, based on a design by Edward Durrell Stone, and a number of I.M. Pei designs in Augusta, including the Chamber of Commerce Building (1975-6, now vacant); his Bicentennial Plaza project (1976); and his unique (!) Lamar Building Penthouse apartment (1975).

In addition, Augusta’s unique collection of art deco, International Style, and Art Moderne buildings will be highlighted on a walking tour, including a visit to the Art Moderne Miller Theater (1940, Roy Benjamin).

We’ll be kicking off the tour in Thomson at with refreshments and a presentation and in Augusta with a break and presentation.

Make it a full day with an optional lunch on-your-own and a special dinner at the Pinnacle Club, located at the top of the Miesian-style Wachovia Bank Building (1967, Robert McCreary). Special hotel rates available. Email info@docomomoga.org for more.

Presented by:
DOCOMOMO/US, Georgia Chapter
Historic Augusta, Inc.
Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
CRSA Regional Commission

Special Thanks:
The Watson-Brown Foundation

Please save the date.

Tickets available at the tour start and at: www.docomomoga.org/pages/tickets2010_spring.html

¶ Posted 13 March 2010 † moderngeorgia § Announcements § Events ‡ Comments (2) °

Phoenix Flies at Georgia Tech: Heffernan’s Masterpiece College of Architecture Building

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When: 6 PM, Wednesday, March 10th

Where: Georgia Tech College of Architecture, 245 4th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia

Join DOCOMOMO/US Georgia and the Atlanta Preservation Center for a look at the recently restored and rehabilitated Dean’s Office and Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium spaces at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture. P.M. Heffernan’s Georgia Tech College of Architecture building has been referred to as his “masterpiece.”

Dr. Leslie Sharp, Assistant Dean, College of Architecture will speak of Heffernan’s legacy and the recent restoration of the Dean’s office and architect James Choate, AIA of Surber Barber Choate & Hertlein P.C. will talk about the recent renovation and rehabilitation of the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium.

Learn more about the recent restoration work: First Phase of East Architecture Building Restoration Completed.

This event is only one of over 160 events associated with the Atlanta Preservation Center’s annual Phoenix Flies event, March 6-22. Learn more: http://www.phoenixflies.org/

¶ Posted 07 March 2010 † midtownmod § Events ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Architecture, Atlanta, Georgia Tech, Heffernan, Phoenix Flies

Extended through Jan. 30! Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture

moda-2133_breuer_flyer THE MUSEUM OF DESIGN ATLANTA and
THE ATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY* proudly present

Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture

Designer and architect Marcel Breuer is considered the inventor of tubular style furniture and one of the 20th century’s leading designers. Born and raised in Hungary, Breuer headed up the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1928, where he produced a number of furniture pieces, including the classic Wassily club chair that brought him international fame. His second career as an architect began when Breuer immigrated to the United States in 1937. His buildings were recognized the world over in the 1950′s and 1960′s for their unique character and flourishes of modernism. This exhibition pays homage and brings to light the many contributions Breuer brought to both furniture design and architecture, and it does so in the last building Breuer designed. The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library was dedicated in 1980, just a year before Breuer passed away.

Opening Reception*: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

*This exhibition and opening reception will be held at both MODA and the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library.

This exhibition is sponsored by: The Scaler Foundation, AIA Atlanta, ASID Georgia Chapter, Docomomo/US, Georgia Chapter, Dornbracht, Axor | Hansgrohe, King and Spalding, and Perkins+Will

¶ Posted 15 January 2010 † midtownmod § Events § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Breuer, library, MODA

The Atlanta Central Library: The End of a Long Search

Join DOCOMOMO/US, Georgia Chapter for:

The Atlanta Central Library: The End of a Long Search

14 December 2009, 6 PM, Atlanta Fulton Central Library, One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta

John Poros is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University

While the Atlanta Central Public Library by Marcel Breuer owes a great deal of its design inspiration to the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, the Central Library is the final work in a long line of inquiry into solid, sculptural building forms by Breuer. This lecture will trace the library’s genealogy in Breuer’s work, and in doing so how this building does and does not fit its “Brutalist” label.

¶ Posted 02 December 2009 † midtownmod § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Atlanta, Breuer, library, Poros

UPDATE 11/2009: What’s up with the Constitution Building?

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A recent AJC article “Transit Terminal Downtown,” since removed from the AJC site (here’s a link to the Google cache of the article: http://ow.ly/zQm7) suggests that

“State and local leaders are interested in using the Atlanta Journal Constitution property for a transit terminal development downtown…”

The AJC plans to move its office to a new home in Dunwoody next spring.

What does this mean for the seemingly abandoned Atlanta Constitution Building site? DOCOMOMO Georgia has long asked the City of Atlanta to consider studying the rehabilitation of the building as part of an overall vision for a new transit development. The building was determined eligible for listing on the National Register in the 1990s and listed on the Atlanta Preservation Center’s list of Most Endangered Historic Places in 2003.

¶ Posted 06 November 2009 † midtownmod § News ‡ Comments (2) °

Envisioning Breuer Photography Competition

…and the winner is…the Split-Level House

ROAD TRIP! Georgia’s Modern Byways

Phoenix Flies at Georgia Tech: Heffernan’s Masterpiece College of Architecture Building

Extended through Jan. 30! Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture

The Atlanta Central Library: The End of a Long Search

UPDATE 11/2009: What’s up with the Constitution Building?

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