Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Launched in 1987 by AIA Baltimore, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation is a non-profit, educational, public-oriented outreach organization. The Foundation is a member-based organization with a 26-member board of directors drawn from the architectural, business and cultural communities.

The Foundation today focuses its attention and energies on helping to promote an understanding of and an appreciation for Baltimore’s built environment – it does this through walking tours, lectures, public programs, and an architecture-in-the-schools program.

The Foundation is also actively engaged in researching the early architectural firms and practitioners of architecture in Baltimore.

Morgan Park Presentation & Tour

Saturday March 13th, 10:00am

Student Center Theatre in the Morgan State Student Center
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD
Campus Map | Directions (use the University Parking Garage, accessed via Morgan State Campus Rd)

Due to all the snow in February, our celebration of Black History Month will now be in March!

Join the Baltimore Architecture Foundation as we tour the Morgan Park neighborhood with Prof. Dale Glenwood Green, Associate AIA, NTHP, LEED AP of Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning.

Morgan Park is significant for its concentration of more than 145 historic detached residential dwellings, including the Morgan State University Presidents House, Dr. Carl J. Murphy residence which was frequented by Robert Kennedy, and the primary residence owned and occupied by Dr. W.E.B DuBois and his family; now a Baltimore City Landmark.

Developed in 1917, during the time of Jim Crow, Morgan Park provided housing for the faculty of then, Morgan College, now Morgan State University and other African-Americans who were legally barred by covenant from neighboring communities.

Today, it is a uniquely unknown neighborhood that warrants local, state and national recognition as it remains the only African-American neighborhood developed from the faculty of a historically black college or university (HBCU) that is still intact and thriving. Professor Green and his students have been researching and documenting the neighborhood’s history. Please join us for a brief presentation in the Student Center followed by 45 minute walking tour through Morgan Park.

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Free for Members/$10 Non-Members

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baf@baltimorearchitecture.org or (410) 539-7772

Dear friends,

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation and the rest of Baltimore’s art and design community all lost a remarkable friend and colleague last week.  John Gutierrez, or “Guti” as many of us knew him, was a man who believed in the importance of art and architecture in our daily lives.  His was an enormous personality, infused with warmth and a zest for life that he freely shared with anyone he met.  Guti is to be credited with transforming our Groundhog Day Celebration from a modest get together with like minded friends into a major event, capable of raising significant funds for pursuing the mission of the Foundation.  I will always remember the “A-Ha!” moment that came to me during that party at his studio in Woodberry four years ago, and I know many of you will too. He single-handedly raised the profile of Groundhog Day, and we shall never forget it.

Guti’s generosity of spirit was always evident to those who came into contact with him. It has continued in the form of his request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, as well as the Ingoma Foundation, through the Fusion Partnership.  This organization participates in a manufacturing apprenticeship partnership with Gutierrez Studios that trains individuals from disenfranchised communities to produce high quality products.  I am honored that John thought so highly of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation that he would include us in such company.

Finally, I want everyone to know that friends and family are invited to celebrate his life at the center of his artistic endeavors, Gutierrez Studios in Clipper Mill tonight, Monday, March 1, 2010 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.  I look forward to remembering this giant of the Baltimore Art world with many of the other people who’s lives he has touched.

John Kennedy Gutierrez
20 March 1964 – 25 February 2010

Gutierrez Studios
2010 Clipper Park Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
Map & Directions

Parking will be difficult, so traveling via Light Rail is suggested. If you are driving, check the upper lot (the entrance is just past the main entrance to Clipper Mill) or the streets above the mill. Cocktails will be from 6:00 – 7:00 after which there will be a few speakers and a candle lighting.

Sincerely,

J. Eric Lowe
President
Baltimore Architecture Foundation

p.s. Jacques Kelly’s obituary for John Gutierrez is here.

Penn State Architects Propose New Buildings for Greenmount West

Sunday, February 28 :: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School
1600 Guilford Ave
Baltimore, MD 21202

The School of Architecture at Penn State is working on a project to design buildings for several sites in Greenmount West and to improve the design of public spaces. They are now ready to present their work to the community, hear what the community has to say, and work with the community to come up with other ideas.

Please come to the Montessori School this Sunday afternoon, at the corner of Guilford Avenue and Lanvale Street.

Penn State students will present and take questions from 1:00 PM to 3.00 PM.

The community will then work with the Penn State students in a charrette from 3:00 to 5:00. This is a chance for the community to test its own ideas.

This is a fascinating chance to get some completely new ideas about the future of Greenmount West. Good ideas? Bad ideas? You’d better come and find out!