Archinect - News2024-05-07T01:29:17-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150197439/online-events-today-worth-checking-out-include-david-gissen-eric-salitsky-rachel-armstrong
Online events today worth checking out include David Gissen, Eric Salitsky & Rachel Armstrong Archinect2020-05-13T12:39:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8e/8ee82c39ba1024ab9e04aeefc24fd11a.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Today's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's <a href="https://archinect.com/virtualevents" target="_blank">Virtual Event Guide</a>, address issues from the climate crisis, resilience, health and wellness, and diversity and inclusion to equity, economy and environment and much more.</p>
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<p><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2p/2pi4q0vm5irksp8h.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514&h=450" title="UCLA Virtual Lecture: David Gissen" alt="UCLA Virtual Lecture: David Gissen"></p>
<p><strong>UCLA Virtual Lecture: David Gissen<br></strong><em>Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PDT<br></em>David Gissen, architecture historian and designer, to speak as part of UCLA's Architecture & Urban Design 2019-20 lecture series.<br><a href="https://aud.ucla.edu/news-events/events/lecture-david-gissen" target="_blank">Click here to attend and/or register</a></p>
<p><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cs/cs36f4y2w29bvt5r.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514&h=450" title="LeBrun Grant Lecture - Exploring the Phenomenon of Multifaith Spaces with Eric Salitsky" alt="LeBrun Grant Lecture - Exploring the Phenomenon of Multifaith Spaces with Eric Salitsky"></p>
<p><strong>LeBrun Grant Lecture - Exploring the Phenomenon of Multifaith Spaces with Eric Salitsky<br></strong><em>Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT<br></em>In this webinar, Eric Salitsky will present his 2018 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant research in which he...</p>
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"The Mound of Vendôme" digs up Paris' dirty revolutionary past Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2014-07-02T19:20:00-04:00>2014-07-03T12:22:02-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kp/kp5w607d10fdwq3v.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Situating <a href="http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/2418-the-mound-of-vendome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>The Mound of Vendôme</strong></a>, the current exhibition on view at the <a href="http://www.cca.qc.ca/en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canadian Centre for Architecture</a>, requires looking back into Paris' history after the French Revolution. For a tumultuous two months in 1871, the city was under the control of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune#The_destruction_of_the_Place_Vend.C3.B4me_Column" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Commune de Paris</a>, a socialist revolutionary government. Their distaste for imperialistic brute force and Bonapartism led to their demolition of the Place Vendôme Column, a monumental column celebrating Napoleon's military victories -- and so on May 16, 1871, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%B4me_Column#The_Vend.C3.B4me_Column" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Column was felled</a>, and the statue of Napoleon from the Column's peak melted down for coins. After the Commune was ousted, the Column was rebuilt in 1874, topped by a copy of the original Napoleon statue.</p><p>To control the Column's fall and protect surrounding buildings, Communards piled a large mound of sand, straw, branches, and manure at its base, a large architectural intervention that completely disrupted the Column's imposing icon. These days, however, all traces of these events...</p>