| AIA plans courthouse restoration
The Tampa Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects will share its plans to restore the historic federal courthouse during a reception and exhibition April 4 at Gallery AIA in downtown Tampa. The exhibit will feature renderings and plans for the building, architectural photography and artwork related to the future of downtown Tampa. AIA representatives will also be available for questions. AIA approached the city of Tampa with its proposal for the courthouse in October 2007, and a month later, a letter of agreement was reached. Restructuring will include re-doing the mechanical and electrical systems. Preliminary work has begun. Once restoration is complete, the building will be refashioned as the AIA center, a mixed-use facility focused on "architecture, urban planning and art with an international twist," a release said.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Madras Institute of Development Studies: Ananta Kumar Giri on ‘New Horizons of Human Development: Art, Spirituality and Social Transformations', 79, 2nd Main Rd., Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, 9.30 a.m.
Chennai Port Trust: Valedictory of Safety Week Celebrations, Administrative Building., 3-00 p.m.
International Institute of Tamil Studies: Lecture series on ‘Sanga Illakkiyam', 2nd Main Rd., Taramani, 3.30 p.m.
Bharat Sewak Samaj: ‘Mahathmaavai Vananguvom', Gandhi Mandapam, Sardar Patel Salai, Guindy, 4-00 p.m.
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation: Seminar on Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna participates, 4, Conran Smith Rd., 4.30 p.m.
Dignity Foundation: Dignity Dialogues, AASI Bldg., Anna Salai, 5-00 p.m.
Demand is growing for web designers
In a dimly lit classroom at a funky building in downtown Miami, instructor Birago Jones rattles off the day's lesson in a language that might seem foreign to visitors. ''What Flash is telling you is that there are four paradigms,'' Jones tells his students at Miami International University of Art and Design. Flash, paradigms, animation, ActionScript -- this is the lingo in the world of web design. The jargon for these Internet-savvy students is as familiar as the +, - and x symbols in a math class. ''There is a digital revolution that is on right now,'' says Suzanne Morrison Williams, chair of web design and interactive media at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, which offers one of the oldest web design educational programs in the nation. ``The web is no longer an additional tool, it is part of what we do.'' AREAS OF STUDY Those learning the tools are hoping to make a living in an industry that is continuously evolving and has three main categories: • Design focuses on the aesthetics of an Internet site.
In praise of the ICA, home of the avant-garde
When REM stepped out at the Albert Hall last night in honour of the 60th birthday celebrations of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), it can be safely assumed that Ivan Massow was not present among the assembled well-wishers. Six years ago Mr Massow, a businessman, was forced to resign from the ICA's board of directors after making outspoken and deprecatory remarks about modern art. He had to go. For better or for worse, the modern, the challenging, the outré and even the downright odd is and always has been the raison d'etre of London's most determined defender of the avant-garde. The first exhibition staged by the ICA, in 1948, was held not in the splendid surroundings of The Mall, but in a dingy Oxford Street basement. Entitled "40 Years of Modern Art", the exhibition displayed some of the greatest works in the burgeoning Cubist movement alongside a lavish range of international artists.
TRANSPARENCY THE WATCHWORD FOR ARCHITECT JEAN NOUVEL
PARIS, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel's commitment to transparency is the one factor linking his projects over the past two decades, the most celebrated being Barcelona's tall glass and metal Agbar tower office block or Paris' recent riverside Quai Branly museum.
Now aged 62, the big bald Frenchman habitually dressed in black oversees a team of 140 with a bevy of works-in-progress across the globe, including a Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, a new philharmonic concert hall for Paris and a 75-story tower next to New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Nouvel was born in southwest France where he acquired a lasting passion for rugby, food, and conversation.
A graduate of Paris' Beaux-Arts school in 1972, he won international attention after securing a much sought-after contract in 1981 to build Paris' Institute of the Arab World as part of a wide-ranging plan by then president Francois Mitterrand to throw up a series of contemporary buildings redrawing Paris' architectural map.
Toledo artist has work published
Local artist Berta Sergeant of Northwest Mosaics announced that two of her mosaics have been published in "Mosaic Art 3-2007" - an international portfolio of contemporary mosaic art on CD-ROM. "Mosaic Art 3-2007" illustrates the extraordinary diversity and creativity of contemporary mosaic art.Sergeant's work also was chosen to be part of an international collective installation, designed by Jean Destrade, which now lines the halls of the Mosaic Institute in Montpellier, France. She is currently involved in another international collective work at the Australian Zoo in tribute to the late Steve Irwin.A member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists, Sergeant has been published in the Mosaic Atlas. This is the third year in a row that her art work has been published in "Mosaic Art 3-2007." .
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