light chat : takoyaki @Lampung :P

old girl : so what's the route now ?

man : 'at Lampung at my uncle's place and garden...'

old girl : nice... what fruits does he have ?

man : 'fruitsingkong, fruitsawit, fruittako...'

old girl : owh... I didn't know they have takoyaki @Lampung, I thought it only exist in Japan...


man : smartass -.-'

Snøhetta

Join Snøhetta at its office for drinks, informal conversation, and a behind the scenes look at recent and upcoming projects. This program is part of First Friday, a monthly opportunity for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices to see work on the boards and learn more about the offices’ organization and design processes. These informal social gatherings feature happy hour drinks arranged by the host office.

Snøhetta formed as a collaborative in 1989 in Los Angeles when its members designed the competition winning entry for the Alexandria Library in Egypt (winner of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture). Since that time Snøhetta formed an office in Oslo, Norway and in 2004 its two founding members formed an office in New York City after winning the commission to design the new Museum at the World Trade Center site.

The collaborative and multi-national character of the office has allowed it to work in a wide range of cultural contexts from Asia to Africa, Europe and the Americas. Recently having completed the new National Opera in Oslo (winner of the 2009 Mies van der Rohe Award), Snøhetta has gained a number of other prominent cultural buildings including the new King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture in Saudi Arabia, the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, the expansion of the SFMOMA in San Francisco, and the Redesign of Times Square in New York City.

This program is free and open to League members. Members may bring one guest whom they would like to introduce to League programs. RSVP required to rsvp@archleague.org.

Jeanne Gang

Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment
Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects
The 4th Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment, an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and re-conceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, will be delivered by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects.

Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a rising international practice based in Chicago since 1997. Recent projects include the highly acclaimed Aqua Tower, which was named the Emporis Skyscraper of the Year in 2009; the Northerly Island framework plan; the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo; and Columbia College Chicago’s Media Production Center. Gang was just named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow (the so-called “Genius Award”) for “challenging the aesthetic and technical possibilities of the art form in a wide range of structures.”


Studio Gang conceives of itself as a collective space for architects, designers, and thinkers, which “acts as a lab for testing ideas on varying scales: from cities to environments to individual buildings’ unique material properties.”

The firm’s work has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally, most notably at the International Venice Biennale, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Building Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $15 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets here from October 5 until 3:00 p.m. the day of the program.

Co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

The annual Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment was created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. The Franzen Lecture on Archiecture and the Environment is made possible by contributions from the Riggio Foundation, Juliana Terian Gilbert, and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

League programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Michael Maltzan

Current Work
Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture
“No More Play”
Michael Maltzan, principal of Los Angeles-based Michael Maltzan Architecture, will present his firm’s work. Since founding his firm in 1995, Maltzan has created a practice committed to “creating architecture that is a catalyst for new experiences and an agent for change in our cities.”


Recent projects include Inner-City Arts – Phase 3, New Carver Apartments, Rainbow Apartments, and Playa Vista Park, all in Los Angeles. The firm’s current work includes the Star Apartments and One Santa Fe in Los Angeles; Ju Gong Bridge and Waterfront Park, and Zhe Zhi Bridge both in Chengdu, China; and the recent competition winning entry for the Mashouf Performing Arts Center at San Francisco State University.


Maltzan’s complex for the Inner-City Arts campus located in the heart of the Los Angeles Skid Row serves at-risk youth from area public schools, providing a range of art facilities and services. The project was featured in the 2010 MoMA exhibition “Small Scale: Big Change.” Maltzan’s New Carver Apartments, which provides permanent supportive housing units for formerly homeless residents was awarded the 2011 AIA/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design. Additionally, his work has garnered numerous Progressive Architecture awards, citations from the American Institute of Architects, and the Rudy Bruner Foundation’s Gold Medal for Urban Excellence.

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Director of the Real Estate Development Program and The Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and serves on the Architectural League’s Board of Directors.

Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $15 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets here.

Co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

This program is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Hit The Road

'will you pray for me ?..'

of course my dear, since long time ago, eventhough I had to leave to make you realize where you should belong, I actually never stop thinking about you, never stop pray for you. So I said, just like since long time ago and forever, you're always in my prays. Hit the night road and be safe to the place where you should belong, just remember you have another home with me...

fate

and yes... I was jealous,
they got wet outside because of the pouring rain,
disturbing their date,
I just said, I still won ahead from you, dear sister,
I have what you don't have, and it keeps me going till now,
I was gone with the big hole in my heart,
and the hurt of everyday living thinking about the man I can't have,
but this was need to be done,
for the sake of a man worth fighting for...

-PANDORABOX 2007 : MEKRA-

Irish Architecture Now

morning breeze, a bit hungry not really, just like yesterday I barely eat small portion of instant noodles once in a day, well I'm in love just like I used too, see how much of weight I will lose this time just like when it happened in 2004 just scanning my e-mail and I found this...

Architects of Ireland's leading contemporary three practices will present their work and discuss issues about the architecture of Ireland as part of Architecture Ireland Now - featuring the first ever Irish architecture in the U.S., which is part of Imagine Ireland, Irish culture in Irish art in the United in 2011.

Merritt Bucholz and Karen McEvoy of Bucholz McEvoy Architects; Niall McCullough of McCullough Mulvin Architects, and Shih-Fu Peng architects Heneghan lawyers, three of the six companies on a U.S. tour this fall. The architects will discuss their practices and the latest work in a symposium to be held at The Cooper Union presented by the Architectural League.

The presenters:


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Merritt Bucholz and Karen McEvoy Architects Bucholz McEvoy in projects such as the County Halls to Fingal County Council Dublin, Limerick and Westmeath, Ireland, trying to bring "ecological intelligence" to civilian life of Ireland. Bucholz McEvoy presented their Limerick County Council HQ at the Venice Biennale in 2002. Bucholz has taught at schools of architecture in America and Ireland, where he currently serves as Professor of Architecture at the University of Limerick. McEvoy, also teaches in the U.S. and abroad, he served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, and has taught at architecture in DIT Bolton Street School of Architecture and University College Dublin.


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Niall McCullough is a co-founder, with Valerie Mulvin, of McCullough Mulvin Architects, architecture and urban design practice. Their projects include Ussher Library, the Long Room Hub, and the Dublin Dental Hospital in Trinity College, Dublin. Cultural and civic buildings, including Waterford City and Library Source Arts Centre in Thurles. Working McCullough Mulvin Architects' has been exhibited widely in Germany, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Among many other awards, the company's work was nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award last year.


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Shih-Fu Peng will be speaking on behalf of architects Heneghan lawyer. The company was founded in Dublin in 2000, and has subsequently participated in international competitions, including those for the Grand Museum of Egypt, the largest in the world, the company won in 2003. Heneghan lawyer architects have won a competition for additional Mittelrhein Bridge in Germany and the School of Architecture at Greenwich, England.

Raymund Ryan, who has curated the tour, is the curator of the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Ryan has been and continues to contribute to Blueprint (London), The Architectural Review (London), Architecture Ireland (Dublin) and Plan (Bologna). He served as Commissioner for Ireland's participation at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2000 and 2002.

Kazys Varnelis has been Director of Network Architecture Lab at the Graduate School of Architecture, Art and Planning, Columbia University since 2006. He also became a Senior Lecturer in the History of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Limerick since 2005.

Tickets are required for entry into the League program. Free tickets for the League members, $ 15 for non-members. Members can reserve tickets by email: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at check-in desk, a ticket is claimed to be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members can purchase tickets here.

Architecture Now Ireland is part of Imagine Ireland, Irish culture in Irish art in America in 2011, and curated by Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, which is produced by the Architecture Foundation of Ireland, Dublin and funded by Culture Ireland. Visit www.imagineireland.ie and www.architecturefoundation.ie for more information. A list of other locations and architects in Ireland Architecture Now tour can be found at the Irish Architecture Foundation website.

All League program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, State Board; and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.