Daily Archives: September 26, 2011

Thursday, October 20, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Urban Barn Dance and Supper

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On Thursday, October 20th, from 6:30 – 9:30, enjoy the fourth annual Urban Barn Dance and Supper, a harvest celebration and benefit for Mass Farmers Markets, featuring a local feast prepared by Chef Bob Sargent of flora restaurant, followed by live music and contra dancing with caller Cammy Kaynor and friends.  Chef Sargent will be using locally grown produce and meat.  Guests will also enjoy a spectacular silent auction.  The event will take place at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center in Kendall Square in Cambridge.  Tickets are $50 each, advance purchase required.  If you’d like more information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Hannah Freedberg, Development and Outreach Director, at 781-893-8222.  To purchase tickets, click here.

 

Friday, November 18 – Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation

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In recent years there has been an accelerating attitudinal shift: a departure away from the modernist’s tabula rasa exemplified at varying scales by icons such as Philip Johnson’s Beck House in Dallas and the Lincoln Center Campus in New York. Today designers are returning to modernist sites with new motivations, attempting to balance the complex values of natural and cultural systems.

To investigate this significant evolution of professional practice, three groups of thematic presentations have been assembled that will collectively explore landscape transformations at residential, urban and metropolitan scales. The conference follows and continues dialogue initiated at the sold-out first conference convened in Chicago in 2008.

This full day conference on Friday, November 18, sponsored by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, will be held at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. You may register online at www.tclf.org. Participants will include Julie Bargmann, James Corner, Lisa Gimmy, Kathryn Gustafson, Gary Hilderbrand, Raymond Jungles, Christopher LaGuardia, Elizabeth K. Meyer, Charles Renfro, and Michael Van Valkenburgh.