This year’s Virginia Design Forum speakers are making news! On March 11, The World Economic Forum named Ma Yansong, the founder of MAD Architects, a Young Global Leader for the year of 2014. Then, on March 28, Fast Company named Gluck+ among the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in architecture. Right on the heels of that announcement, Architect Magazine profiled BIG’s work on the Kimball Art Center.
The 2014 VSAIA Design Forum on Saturday, April 11 will feature presentations by:
Jeff Kovel, AIA, designer of the Twilight Movies’ Cullen House
[adrotate banner=”54″]Peter Gluck, GLUCK+, whose architect-led design-build Stack Apartments (a seven story infill in upper Manhattan) went up in four weeks
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, AIA, the worldwide business manager of BIG and managing principal of the firm’s New York City office
Ma Yansong, whose Absolute Towers built in Toronto represents the first major building competition outside of China won by a Chinese architect, and whose first anthology, MA YANSONG: From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition, has just been published
Did you know:
- The VSAIA Design Forum is one of the least expensive live events at which to earn health, education, and welfare AIA learning units?
- The VSAIA Design Forum is the largest gathering of architects and related professionals devoted exclusively to design theory?
- The 2014 VSAIA Design Forum is in Charlottesville, beginning immediately after the University of Virginia Founder’s Day Observances (which includes a 3:30 talk, free and open to the public by this year’s Thomas Jefferson Medal Recipient Toyo Ito, Hon. FAIA)?
- The 2014 VSAIA Design Forum also runs concurrently with the Tom Tom Founder’s Festival, a three day series of educational seminars and festive events for the whole family focused on residential design and construction? (Only two years old, last year’s TTFF drew 17,000 people.)
- The 2014 VSAIA Design Forum will feature opening presentations by national AIA EVP/CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA, and Terence Riley, AIA, the Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA from 1991-2006?
Time is running out to reserve your tickets. Register online today>>
Just one caveat, though. Hotel space in Charlottesville that weekend is at a premium. Get on your favorite travel accommodations website now to find a room.
The Design Forum is sponsored by:
Corporate
Clark Nexsen
Benefactor
HITT Contracting
College of William and Mary
Patron
Clark Construction Group, LLC.
EvensonBest
Forest City
Reed Construction Data
SHW Group
University of Virginia School of Architecture
Sustaining
Va. Tech School of Architecture + Design
BCWH
Supporter
2rw Consultants, Inc.
AIA Northern Virginia
Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
KBS, Inc.
L. F. Jennings, Inc.
Mark S. Orling, AIA
Edwin J. Pease, AIA
Reader & Swartz Architects
Riverside Brick & Supply
RMF Engineering
The Shockey Companies
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
Other
Baskervill
Hayes + Ewing Design Studio