AIA Kansas City: The American Institute of Architects

Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project, and Art through Architecture, a partnership of Charlotte Street Foundation and American Institute of Architects-KC, are pleased to host Informal Urbanisms: The Production of Space in the Developing World, a provocative public program organized by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, founding partners of AGENCY, a design and research practice in NYC.

The program on January 6, 6:30 at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, includes a screening of the feature-length documentary film Garbage Dreams: Raised in the Trash Trade, which follows the Zaballeen, Cairo’s traditional trash collectors, also known as “garbage people.” After the screening, Kripa and Mueller will host and moderate a panel discussion concerning emerging conditions in disadvantaged and marginalized urban populations around the world. Panelists include Toby Lunn, Mechanical Engineer; Maureen Lunn, Southtown Foundation / MA International Studies (University of Kansas); Andrew Mikhael, RA, LEEP AP; and Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of AGENCY, who will also present recent architectural and infrastructural proposals.

Need help studying for the ARE? Come out to our NEW office space (see address below) for the first study session of 2010! Katie Trenkle of Gould Evans will be leading this informative session on Schematic Design. Hurry and sign up today!

Planning for Historic Preservation (UPD 430) is a course that provides a survey of the major issues in the field of historic preservation and heritage studies. The course will include the urban planning techniques used for preserving historic buildings, neighborhood(s) and districts, as well as some of the landmark legal decisions and legislation that have shaped heritage preservation practice in the United States. Missouri has one of the most progressive historic tax credits in the nation. Learn more about how to integrate historic preservation into your practice! There will be an introduction to the primary research sources in Kansas City as part of this course.

CONTINUING EDUCATION opportunity!

Instructor: Sylvia R. Augustus Regional Historic Preservation Officer, General Services Administration, KCMO

Course number #17336, 3 credit hours
Location: UMKC Campus

Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Visiting student information: http://www.umkc.edu/admissions/applying_visitingstudent.html

Joins BHC RHODES for this informative presentation on 3D Laser Scanning.

3D Laser Scanning is a survey technology that facilitates the rapid collection of 3D geometric data of a surveyed scene. Utilizing reflectorless laser technology, millions of points can be rapidly surveyed at ranges approaching 300 meters. This presentation will introduce the technology to attendees and provide a background that will enable better decision making about the usage of 3D laser scanning. In addition the application of 3D laser scanning to real world projects will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

 What is 3D laser scanning?
 How accurate is 3D laser scanning?
 What advantages does 3D laser scanning provide over traditional methods?
 How can 3D laser scanning be used on real world projects?

This program is worth 1 HSW and lunch will be provided.

Everything Under the Sun:
Solar and Wind Power
An event of the Environmental Excellence Business Network

8:00 AM – Registration and Networking
(Bagels and coffee provided)
8:30–10:00 AM – Program

REGISTER NOW

Are you an EEBN Member for 2010? Join or Renew Now
This event is free for EEBN members, $20 for non-members
and $10 for students who register by January 12.

About the Program
Visit the first solar power and wind energy showroom in the metro area. Displays include solar photovoltaics (PV), solar hot water, solar air heating and wind turbines. The building is outfitted with Solar PV for electricity and Solatubes for natural lighting. The morning will also include a presentation showing local solar and wind installations, and payback, grant and incentive information including the new KCP&L Solar Rebates. Meet The Energy Savings Store’s engineering, design, installation and financial incentive experts.

The Environmental Excellence Business Network is a program of Bridging The Gap.
To become an EEBN member, register online at http://www.eebn.net
or call 816-561-1061, ext. 128.

Opening reception: Friday, January 15, 6-10pm
Featuring live performances, collaborative activities, evolving installations
Hours: Thursdays + Saturdays, 12-5pm

+ Third Friday February reception with additional projects: Feb. 19, 6-9pm

On view through March 4, 2010
Urban Culture Project Space / 21 East 12th KCMO 64105

Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project is pleased to present Cumulus, a multi-media, multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring select projects developed by current Urban Culture Project Studio Residents. UCP’s Studio Residency Program for Visual and Performing Artists awards free studios for one year terms to promising and accomplished Kansas City area artists of all disciplines in need of dedicated space in which to work among a community of artist peers. UCP’s Studio Residency Program currently provides studios for more than 30 artists and groups, who occupy studios in three facilities: Bonfils (125 East 12th Street), pARTnership Place (906 Grand, 13th floor) and City Center Square (1100 Main Street, 5th floor).

The exhibition’s call for proposals encouraged studio residents to “consider collaboration or interactivity in the making and /or presentation of the work.” The open nature of the call resulted in a dynamic group of proposals whose structures are inherently generous – offering room for audience participation, inviting the response of peers, and directly giving “gifts” to visitors of the exhibition. As a cumulus cloud gathers mass between opposing wind currents, Cumulus seeks to harvest exchange, hybrid design, and spontaneous expression through a mounting creative momentum.

Opening Friday, January 18, 2010, 6-9pm / Artist remarks: 6pm
+ Public Program: Tea Party – Conversation, Wednesday, January 27, 7pm
Exhibition runs January 19-February 6, 2010
Hours: Thursdays + Saturdays, 12-5pm

Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project is pleased to present Commodity, Commotion, Communication, an installation of new work by Kansas City based artist and Urban Culture Project Studio Resident Samantha “Sammy” Persons. The exhibition opens at Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East 12th Street, with a Third Friday reception on January 18, 6-9pm, with artist remarks at 6pm.

A manipulator of signs more than a producer of art objects, Persons constructs “paintings” and interactive sculptural environments from materials drawn from her own lifetime and which signal the difference between Art and non- art identified objects—her materials palette includes house paint, vinyl letters, art books and catalogs, theoretical texts, bendy straws, extension cables, air fresheners, Plexiglas, television static, fluorescent lights, life-sized Hanna Montana Stickers, highlighters, and glitter, among much else.

In part, Persons’ calculated barrage of fragments and collaged images signifies the saturation of text/media in contemporary culture. At the same time, this field of partial and re-contextualized information is meant to position the viewer as an active reader of messages rather than passive contemplator of the aesthetic or consumer of the spectacular. “Within my installations, I attempt to create a new experience out of real objects. There is always and will always be new definitions to old signifiers. The process of montage, collage, and assemblage does not reproduce the real, but constructs an object. My work strives to reach a point of instantaneous lightning flashes of paradoxical illumination,” writes Persons.

Further, by appropriating traditionally gendered materials, such as 2 by 4’s, which she paints bright pink, as well as by building up the surfaces of painting with stickers, which have a long historical correlation to femininity and decoration, the artist seeks to heighten tension between masculine support and feminine façade, destabilizing our standard readings of familiar products and materials.

“Within this installation I hope to lay the foundation of my own personal archive,” writes Persons. “I am a product of my environment….Calling upon techniques in art history I wish not only to illustrate the material but also contextualize it in terms of the present, creating identity in my work through the cross-germination of knowledge and theory with experience and intuition… I do not hide my sources, in fact I embrace their history though the creation of my own.”

Samantha Persons received her BFA in Sculpture and Art History from Kansas City Art Institute in 2008. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute; Crossroads Gallery, Kansas City; Red Star Studios, Kansas City; and Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, among others.

The Building Enclosure Council of Kansas City is pleased to announce our first session of 2010 on January 20th. We will be gathering at 6pm with the presentation starting shortly afterwards. Please note that the session will be located in the NEW office of the AIA-Kansas City at 1801 McGee on the first level.
Our speakers will be Bill Hornfeck, a Product Manager and Bob Allman Senior Structural Engineer at CENTRIA. The session will focus on:
Achieving Superior Thermal and Moisture Protection in Rainscreen Wall Design: New Strategies that are working
This course is designed to educate our audience regarding the use of ICBP (Insulated Composite Back-up Panels) as a performance back-up wall solution for masonry and rainscreen elements. The course will allow the audience to understand the functional differences between an inner back-up wall and the rainscreen component. The attendees will be shown key weaknesses in popular multi-component back-up wall assemblies. Also discussed will be the nature of problems that are created by popular back-up wall assemblies when they fail. Strategies for creating superior back-up wall assemblies, when steel framing is employed as the structural element, will be discussed. The benefits of a new, superior back-up wall (ICBP) will be explained.
After the Power Point Presentation is concluded, a 4’x 4’ mock-up wall assembly will be constructed to demonstrate the simple ICBP construction that results in a robust air/water/vapor/thermal barrier wall.
The Session is open to all trades and professions related to building design, construction, maintenance and property management.
Since space may be limited, please RSVP by no later than 5pm on January 18.

How can communities measure livability or find a balance between speed-based measures, such as Levels of Service and measures of good urban form that support non-automotive modes? Learn the appropriate way to measure performance for a corridor study where redevelopment is balanced with mobility. Planning needs good performance indicators to help officials and the public understand the implications of decisions. Whether you are working on local plans and the relationship to CIP, on state transportation plans, or regional scenario planning, this program provides answers.

A complete list of the 2009-2010 series can be found by clicking on the following link (or copying it into your browser), as well as information on how to register. http://www.marc.org/Sustain/Land_Use/apa_audio_conferences.asp

All of the programs will be held at MARC, 600 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64105 and are free of charge, but registration is required. If you already registered for this or future APA webinars, it is not necessary to register again.

Frank Lenk, the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)’s research services director, is working with a Technical Forecast Committee on a future land use scenario to support the new long-range transportation plan for the Kansas City region, Transportation Outlook 2040. The region can expect to add 500,000 people and 300,000 jobs, and the future land use scenarios under consideration show alternate ways of accommodating the region’s expected overall growth – the baseline and adaptive. Under a baseline scenario where past trends continue into the future, more than 100 percent of the region’s growth over the next 30 years occurs in new suburban settings. Under the adaptive scenario, 60 percent of the growth is in newer suburbs, yet 40 percent is in existing areas, older suburbs and urban places. The financial impact of the adaptive scenario is a savings of over $5 billion in infrastructure construction and maintenance over the 30-year forecast period. MARC is interested in sharing this information with the AIA and hearing members’ thoughts about the likelihood of achieving the adaptive scenario.

This lunch is worth 1 HSW and please feel free to bring your own lunch.