SALA GALA

Tickets can be purchased from:

Maris MacDonald (at Lasserre)

Greg Aunger (at Lasserre)

Mike Taylor (at Lasserre)

Charlotte Falk (at the downtown studio)

Mark Hillmer and Charlotte (LARC Annex)

Alex Manson (MacMillan)

Party goes 'til midnight (after party to be announced).

Bring your dancing shoes!

GOOD TIMES IS MOVING THIS WEEK

Archus would like to applaud the hard work of all of the students involved in the FUTURE SOCIAL ideas competition so Good Times will be at the Or Gallery this week. Come down and show your support and look at some sweet drawings. Drinks are still $2.00 the opening starts at 7pm. If you want to know more about FUTUTRE SOCIAL please read the statement below:

FUTURE SOCIAL is a competition that challenges UBC students to develop innovative architectural designs for social housing. In teams or as individuals, over 50 UBC students have worked to imagine new supportive social housing that best responds to homelessness in contemporary Vancouver.

EXHIBITION

October 23 – November 7, 2009

GOOD TIMES/OPENING:

October 23, 2009

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Or Gallery

555 Hamilton Street

Vancouver, British Columbia

www.orgallery.org

Vote for your favorite prof.

This message is sent on behalf of Cynthia Girling, Killam Committee Chair

Please advise all faculty members and students (graduate and undergraduate) in your department, that nominations for the Killam Teaching Prize for the Faculty of Applied Science are being accepted.

The UBC Killam Teaching Prize recognizes all aspects of outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Three of these prizes, each having a value of $5,000 and are expected to be awarded within the Faculty of Applied Science in 2010. Students, faculty and alumni may nominate an excellent teacher.

An intention to nominate should be submitted by Monday, November 30^th to the Dean’s office Attention: Laura Vigorito. If you have any questions and/or concerns please contact Laura Vigorito directly at lvigorito@apsc.ubc.ca

Details of the nomination deadlines are available through Trish Poehnel in the SALA office. (tpoehnel@interchange.ubc.ca)

Cynthia Girling,

Chair, APSC Killam Committee

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Professor and Chair

School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

389 MCML Bldg. 2357 Main Mall

Phone: 604-822-0438

Olympic Pavilion Charette / Spacemakers 2010

What is Spacemakers?

Spacemakers is a new annual event that Archus is organizing. It is an opportunity for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning and ENDS students to work on a collaborative, out-in-the-real-world project.

This year we will be starting off big. We are going to design and exhibit a pavilion in downtown Vancouver during the Olympics.

What Kind of Pavilion?

The basic program for the pavilion will be to provide shelter from the winter rains, but besides that the charette on November 8th is a chance to let your creative little brains go wild imagining what this thing will be. There will be some design requirements, of course, since this is a real structure that will actually be constructed, and there is a theme that we are interested in exploring; beyond that you are free to design whatever you wish. We encourage you to be daring and innovative in your proposals.

What Happens at the Charette?

The charette will be an intense, 24 hour design session. We will provide you with some basic model construction materials, but you will need to bring cutting, drawing and gluing tools. We may or may not have food for you, so pack a lunch unless we tell you otherwise. In the morning we will hand out information about the site and design requirements. There will be some presentations from our industry sponsors about the capabilities and limitations of the materials that we will be using. The rest of the time will be free for you to get creative, have fun, and work in interdisciplinary teams on a quick design. You will need to prepare some sort of presentation for your concept, but there will be no formal critique of what you create; thus it is a great chance for you to try out some things that you wouldn't dare try during a design studio.

What Happens After the Charette?

A winner will be announced shortly after the charette. The winning design will then be developed by the core Spacemakers team and volunteers into something buildable. With the help of sponsors we will construct the pavilion, and then have it erected downtown Vancouver for the full Olympic period of February 11 - 28, 2010. We will also be making an intense effort to generate publicity for the project. Hopefully your design will end up being broadcast around the world thanks to the Olympic media attention, and published in industry journals.

tonight!

GOOD TIMES!

PINT GLASS

COMPETITION

student directory

competition

BE THERE!

Gender + Sustainability OCT 22 5:30pm

More Info / RSVP

Also next week: LEED User Group Meeting

This month's topic is LEED Practical Applications. Speakers will discuss challenges of the LEED system, including cost issues, trends, most achieved credits, documentation do’s and don’ts, etc.

Date: Friday, Oct 30, 2009, 12:00-1:00pm, 1111 Georgia St.

Cost: $10-$35
More Info + Tickets

Cities Fit for Children Conference

October 22 – 23 2009

Langley, BC

http://www.councilecd.ca/cecd/home.nsf/pages/Citiesfitforchildren_Home.html

Graeme Bristol ARCHUS Lunch Lecture - Wednesday Oct 21

Hi all, come see our first ARCHUS Lunch Lecture next Wednesday! Graeme Bristol will be speaking. See you there.


Architecture & Human Rights: Horizons of Professional Responsibility

Wednesday, 21 OCT 09

12:30pm in Room 5C (in the basement, next to the reading room)

Mason White Lecture - THURSDAY OCT 22nd

Mason White is a Principal at Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab in Toronto.
http://www.lateralarch.com/master.html

6:30 PM, UBC Lasserre 104

FUTURE SOCIAL - Exhibition ‏Friday Oct 23 – Saturday Nov 7

For those who missed the presentations or want a closer look at the work, come check out the exhibition.

ARCHUS MOVIE NIGHT Vol.1

You guys! This Thursday is the first ARCHUS MOVIE NIGHT (fullcaps). Come to room 202 at Lasserre and enjoy some popcorn and two documentaries that are required viewing for design students. Its not all golden rectangles and regulating lines in the design world. This is stuff you should know.

Cover design contest!!

--- if you can decipher this image, it is about the SALA staff and student directory cover page contest
--- deadline is 4pm next friday, oct 16th enter as many you can produce!!
--- pin up entries by the kitchen
--- we'll vote on one and then SALA will produce the directory
--- the directory is quite handy for finding laser cutting/3D print TAs, who can be hard to pin down at times.
--- see you friday!

Pint Glass Competition

--- post your entries by the kitchen

--- enter as many as you want

--- make it look amazing

Sustainable Buildings 101: Introduction to Sustainable Buildings (Part 1)

UBC EGB proud to host a five-part series on sustainable buildings.
Everyone is invited to come learn about sustainable built environment.
Each part will feature a different industry professional present an
aspect of green buildings. The first talk this Thursday, October 8,
will feature Michael Driedger introducing what sustainable buildings
are about!

Speaker: Michael Driedger, B.A. Dip T LEED AP, Sustainability Research
Advisor, Busby Perkins+Will
Date: Thursday, October 8
Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Location: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120, 1855 West Mall

Map to event is here:
http://sites.google.com/site/ubcegb/whatsnew/sustainablebuildings101introductiontosustainablebuildingspart1

vancouver HUB project -- OCT 8th

You're invited to an evening of ideas sharing and visioning for a "Vancouver Hub".

Thursday, October 8th
5:30-7:30pm, BYOB
109 - 5 West Pender Street, Vancouver
778.960.5337
RSVP: hubvancouver@gmail.com

What is a ‘Hub’?
A Hub is a shared work space with a dynamic cafe-like culture that facilitates creativity, collaboration, and social innovation. Often a social enterprise itself, a Hub is comprised of a diverse interdisciplinary membership base, ranging from freelance designers to small social enterprises to mid-size NGOs and green businesses. Hubs include shared amenities like meeting spaces, social/event spaces, cafe/bar, business equipment, kitchen, telecommunications, etc.

There are a number of organizations and individuals from the Vancouver business community, arts community, non-profit community, and academic community keenly interested in starting or joining a hub. Ideally, a Vancouver Hub would include an element of all of these communities, with a common social / sustainability mandate.

Who should attend this meeting?
If you have a vision / idea for what you would like to see in a Vancouver Hub – please come prepared to share this in the discussion portion of the evening. If you are curious about how a Vancouver Hub might support or enhance your work – you are welcome to listen, ask questions and learn more.

Who will be joining us?
We are extremely fortunate to have some Hub "veterans", who will offer their inspiration, lessons from past experiences and practical feedback:

* Jeremy Murphy, Director of Sustainability Solutions Group, collaborator on Halifax Hub
* Bill MacEwen, former owner of Workspace
* Jay Catalan, Founder of The Network Hub
* Michelle Hoar, Business Director of The Tyee
* Kevin Millsip, Director of Genius, former Director of Check Your Head

We strongly feel that Vancouver needs a Hub to incubate and catalyse social and ecological innovation in our city. If you share this aspiration, we look forward to meeting you, and collaboratively exploring a common vision.

RSVP to hubvancouver@gmail.com.

Regards,

Sustainability Solutions Group, Recollective, The Natural Step Canada, Vancouver Design Nerds, Workben.ch, Building Opportunities with Business, The Tyee, Genius, The Hub, Environ, and many more...

Other similar hub-models:

* http://socialinnovation.ca/
* http://www.the-hub.net/index.html
* http://thehubhalifax.ca/
* http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/
* http://wiki.coworking.info/

SUSTAINABILITY CANDIDATES!

The UBC SALA is looking for a new sustainability professor and they have narrowed it down to three candidates for the next year. The lectures and open forums will be as follows:

Lance Hosey: October 5
All School lecture: 12:30 in Lasserre 202
SALA Student Forum: 5:30 in Lasserre 107

Chong-Zi Chen: October 8
All School lecture: 12:30 in Lasserre 202
SALA Student Forum: 5:30 in Lasserre 107

Joseph Dahmen: October 15
All School lecture: 12:30 in Lasserre 202
SALA Student Forum: 5:30 in Lasserre 107

You can read more about these candidates on their websites below:

Lance Hosey: http://www.shapeofgreendesign.com/

Chong-Zi Chen: http://www.chenarchitect.com/profile.html

Joseph Dahmen: http://joedahmen.com/index.php

See you there.