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Audio Library
Inter-School Student Design Competition Awards Ceremony
September 15, 2008
Hear the results of the 2008 Inter-School Student Design Competition. Jury members evaluate the student projects from the Washington, D.C. area’s four accredited schools of architecture,The Catholic University of America, Howard University, and the Virginia Tech Washington Alexandria Architecture Center.
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Smart Growth: The Problem with Codes, and the House on the Corner
Smart Growth
September 11, 2008
Jeff Speck, AICP, LEED-AP, former Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts, Director of Town Planning for Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., and co-author of Suburban Nation and the forthcoming Smart Growth Manual, discusses the often anti-urban nature of today’s land-use codes, and proposes alternative rules for the creation of more livable communities.
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Charles H. Thornton
Henry C. Turner Prize
September 9, 2008
Charles H. Thornton, founder of the ACE Mentor Program of America, accepted the Museum's Henry C. Turner Prize. Following the award ceremony, Norbert Young, president of McGraw-Hill Construction, led a discussion with Thornton, Peter Davoren, and Jon Pickard in a discussion on the future of the building industry.
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Spotlight on Design: Michael Maltzan
Spotlight on Design
July 17, 2008
Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan, FAIA discussed his firm’s work, which includes MoMA QNS, the recently completed Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum, and the Pirelli Re Offices in Milan.
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Planning for America’s Future Infrastructure, Economic Development and Environmental Challenges
Smart Growth
July 8, 2008
Petra Todorovich, director of America 2050, a national planning initiative, presents her organization’s research on population trends and how these findings impact local and regional land use planning and investment decisions.
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Designing Buildings for the Environment and the Community
Building in the 21st Century
July 1, 2008
Dennis Wilde, principal with Gerding Edlen Development, discusses his firm’s innovative method of incorporating both community and environmental considerations into building design: the Livable Place Index.
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Preserving Modernism in a Green World
June 30, 2008
A moderated panel discussion featuring a preservationist, sustainability expert, and an architect who will consider the situations when preservation and sustainability meet--or don't meet--in the preservation of iconic buildings of the modern era.
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Cambridge Energy Alliance: A Community Response to a Changing Climate
Building in the 21st Century
June 19, 2008
Rob Pratt, senior vice president of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, presents the Cambridge Energy Alliance, a comprehensive energy efficiency program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Alternative Housing Pilot Program: Building a Framework for Future Disaster Recovery
Community in the Aftermath
June 19, 2008
The Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHPP), funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a grant competition to develop more useful, readily available, and culturally appropriate post-disaster housing for Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas. The inaugural program of this new, three-year lecture series explores the AHPP project's critical issues and objectives.
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Green Infrastructure Strategy for Storm Water Management
Smart Growth
June 3, 2008
Jennifer Molloy of EPA's Office of Wastewater Management and Nancy Stoner of the Natural Resources Defense Council discuss their new collaborative efforts do develop and implement a Green Infrastructure Strategy for storm water management.
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