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Kansas City Design Week 2012

monstersofdesign — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:07:11 +0000

Join us in celebrating the 3rd Annual KANSAS CITY DESIGN WEEK February 29th-March 7th!

KCDW celebrates the value of design in business and highlights its impact on our society. This collaborative week-long event offers the community inspiring lectures, engaging workshops, enlightening exhibitions, collaborative celebrations and meaningful design solutions.

The KCDW, is brought to you by the Kansas City Design Alliance, which is a collective of professional design organizations and institutions working together to impact our community with design discourse, thinking and solutions. The organizations participating in Design Week include: AIA Kansas City, AIGA Kansas City, ASID, IDSA, PGASLA and SEGD.

There are great events all week and registration fills up fast so, be sure to visit the website and register for events early! Also, be sure to mark your calendars for PK #15 on Thursday, March 1. Pecha Kucha Kansas City is proud to once again be a part of KCDW! http://www.kcdesignweek.org/

PK vol. 14: November 17th

monstersofdesign — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:24:35 +0000

Join us for another Pecha Kucha Night in Kansas City! On Thursday the 17th, a new crop of our city’s freshest and finest creative talents will share their inspiration, talents and ideas. Presenters are as varied as the presentation
topics, and always keep the crowd entertained and engaged with their weird, inspiring and fresh perspectives!

As always, admission is free and open to everyone (18+).

NEW LOCATION - marquee lounge in the downtown amc theater - 14th & main / doors – 7:30pm / presentations – 8:20 pm

want to present? let us know! email: pkn@monstersofdesign.com

KCDC Open House + Lecture #2

monstersofdesign — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:35:07 +0000

The Kansas City Design Center will be having a second open house on Thursday, November 10th at 5:30pm. The open house will also include a lecture by architect, Merrill Elam beginning at 6:30pm.

Merrill Elam is a principal in the firm of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to her practice, she lectures and teaches frequently and has served as Visiting Critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

KCDC is located downtown at 1018 Baltimore Avenue. For more information, please contact Vladimir Krstic: vkrstic@ksu.edu.

Lecture: Thom Faulders

monstersofdesign — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:07:13 +0000

Reminder: the final YAF lecture of 2011 is this Thursday, November 3rd!

Architect Thom Faulders is the principal of Faulders Studio, an award-winning architecture and design office with projects spanning a diverse range of building scales, interior environments, and exhibitions. The studio integrates innovative material performance, user perception, urban connectivity, and environmental exigencies to pursue architecture as a dynamic and open condition.

In combination with practice, Thom Faulders is an Associate Professor in Architecture at CCA: California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has previously taught at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and at the KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an invited design jury critic at leading universities, and lectures at national and international venues.

Thom Faulders received his license to practice architecture in California in 1998. He spent two years living in Italy, and worked for Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, one of the founding members of the influential conceptual theorist group Superstudio, in Florence, Italy. He later joined the Los Angeles firm of Marmol Radziner & Associates as an on-site building specialist for the iconic Kaufmann House restoration project in Palm Springs, originally designed by architect Richard Neutra. Faulders has been an Artist in Residence at multiple institutions, including the international exchange program at the Centre D’Art D’Herblay Residency in France.

location – aia kc 1801 mcgee / happy hour – 5:30 pm / lecture – 6:30 pm

KCDC Open House + Lecture

monstersofdesign — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:58:55 +0000

The Kansas City Design Center will be having an open house on Thursday, October 27th at 5:30pm. The open house will also include a lecture by Finnish architect, Esa Laaksonen beginning at 6:30pm.

Esa has acted as the first director of the Alvar Aalto Academy since its opening and he has his own firm in Helsinki, Finland. His past achievements include: Editor-in-chief of the Finnish Architectural Review, Head of the Exhibition Office at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, thirty competition prizes, and author of several architectural books.

KCDC is located downtown at 1018 Baltimore Avenue. For more information, please contact Vladimir Krstic: vkrstic@ksu.edu.

MoD Awards Party!

monstersofdesign — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:11:14 +0000

The event everyone has been waiting for is right around the corner. The Monsters of Design awards party is this Friday night, October 14th! The party will begin at 5:30pm, awards will be announced at 7:00 pm. The party will be in Martini Corner this year: 3100 Gillham Plaza (building on the corner of 31st street across from Sol Cantina). Parking is available just east of the event space in the lot between Gillham Plaza and Gillham Road. For more information, please email: mod@monstersofdesign.com

Come early & make sure you purchase one of the fabulous koozies you see in the picture for only $1.

Lecture Save the Date: Thom Faulders

monstersofdesign — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:14:35 +0000

Mark your calendar for another great lecture! YAF is excited to announce a lecture by architect Thom Faulders of the award-winning Faulders Studio on Thursday, November 3rd. As always, the event is free and open to the public.

more info to follow…faulders-studio.com

location - aia kc 1801 mcgee / happy hour – 5:30 pm / lecture – 6:30 pm

Reminder: MoD Registration Ends Tomorrow!

monstersofdesign — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:24:12 +0000

If you haven’t registered yet for the Monsters of Design competition, what are you waiting for? Tomorrow, September 14th, is the registration deadline! Visit the MoD page for all the info.

Still have questions? Email us at mod@monstersofdesign.com or call AIA KC at 816.221.3485

Lecture: Lars Spuybroek in Lawrence

monstersofdesign — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:55:18 +0000

Internationally known architectural designer Lars Spuybroek will speak next week at the Lawrence Arts Center. Spuybroek runs NOX, an art and architecture design office based in Rotterdam. He is also a full Professor and the Ventulett Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

Spuybroek’s work focuses on theory, design methodology and research in geometry and manufacturing. At Georgia, he is creating a curriculum that involves theoretical seminars, design studios and the manufacturing of large-scale models at Georgia Tech’s laboratory of computer numerical controlled machinery.

He will speak at 7 p.m. on September 8 at the Lawrence Arts Center [940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kansas]. For more information, visit the Lawrence Arts Center website.

MoD Registration Extended!!

monstersofdesign — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:22:58 +0000

Since we had some technical difficulties and got a late start with the online registration, we have decided to extend the deadline by 2 weeks!! The new registration deadline will be Wednesday, September 14th and the submission deadline will be Friday, September 16th. So don’t delay, register today!

Download the extended Call for Entries here: CFE 2011 Extension and register here.

Questions? Email us at mod@monstersofdesign.com or call AIA KC at 816.221.3485