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2008 Annual Meeting

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Please join us for the

2008 Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Tuesday, May 20th – 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

The Peale Museum
225 N Holliday St
Baltimore, MD 21202

Come see the historic Peale Museum and mingle with other members of the Foundation as we hold our annual meeting. New board members will be introduced. The Golden Griffin for 2008 will be awarded. A new annual award will be introduced! It’s going to be a great evening and we hope to see you there.

Press coverage of Groundhog Day

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Sloane Brown, of The Baltimore Sun was in attendance for Groundhog Day along with photographer Colby Ware. Sloane’s Scene & Heard article, a short video report, and Colby’s photographs are all available here.

Groundhog Day 2008

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Groundhog Day is coming!

2008 will be better than ever. Good Food, Good Music, Good People and of course

Good Architecture!

February 2, 2008, 7 p.m-late

The Bottle Building @ Brewers Hill
Conkling St & Toone St. (1 block north of Boston St.)

Food by Woodberry Kitchen
Live Music early with DJ later.

THEME: Light and Shadow. Black/white cocktail attire strongly encouraged

RSVP to baf@smgarch.com

CONTACT: Adam Blumenthal baf@smgarch.com or 410-539-7772

Download the Invitation here:

Groundhog Day Invite

Follow the link below for up to date information:

http://baltimorearchitecture.org/events/groundhog-day/

Bromo Seltzer Tower Tour

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At long last, the Bromo Seltzer Tower is finished and ready to reopen as the Baltimore Arts Tower.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation will be presenting a tour at Noon On Tuesday, December 11th. The Tour is free to BAF members and $10 for non-members. Spaces are limited so please reply by e-mail to baf@smgarch.com to confirm your place on the tour.

Baltimore’s role in building the US Capitol

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As part of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society’s annyal fall symposium, Scholar Ben Schwantes will present his research on Baltimore’s Poole and Hunt Foundry and the building of the US Capitol Building.

The U.S. Capitol Historical Society Annual Fall Symposium on the Art and Architectural History of the Capitol

Friday, October 26

Speakers include:

Gordon Brown

“Polymath in the Federal City: Capitol Architect William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C.”

Todd Larkin

“Whose ‘State Portraits’? Assessing Republican and Royalist Interests in the Development of Trans-Atlantic Political Culture, ca. 1779-1785″

Arthur S. Marks

B. Henry Latrobe’s national orders

Benjamin Schwantes

“From Pulleys to Peristyle: Poole & Hunt and the Construction of the U.S. Capitol Dome”

Katherine Manthorne

“Vixen or Visionary: Vinnie Ream and the Art World of the 1870s”

The conference will be held in room G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Schedule

8:30 am: Registration opens
9:00 am – 11:30 am: Morning Session
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Afternoon Session and Closing Reception

Free and open to the public.

Pre-Registration

Pre-registration is encouraged, though not required.

Email uschs@uschs.org or call (202) 543-8919 x. 38 and provide:

Name
Address
Phone Number
Email address

Donations gladly accepted. Mail a check made out to USCHS or call (202) 543-8919 to donate by credit card.

Preserving Baltimore’s Modern Buildings

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Michael Murphy, AIA will speak about recent activities of CHAP and the need to expand our awareness of the importance of and protection of 20^th century architecture in all parts of Baltimore.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation presents its 2007 Fall Forum. Wednesdays at noon, the public is invited to bring their lunches to the Berman Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins Downtown Center, Charles and Fayette Streets, for lectures about Baltimore’s built environment. All Forum sessions are free. For information, call Adam Blumenthal at 410-539-7772.

The Forum is supported by Century Engineering and the JHU Carey School of Business.

Ft. McHenry Visitors Center

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September 26—Gay Vietzke, superintendent of Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, and Alan Reed, AIA, president and design principal of GWWO, Inc./Architects, discuss plans for the new Fort McHenry Visitor and Education Center.

Wednesdays at noon, the public is invited to bring their lunches to the Berman Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins Downtown Center, Charles and Fayette Streets, for lectures about Baltimore’s built environment. All Forum sessions are free. For information, call Adam Blumenthal at 410-539-7772.

Library Tour, Saturday Sept. 28

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Libraries of Mount Vernon Place Tours

Saturday, September 29

11 am and 1 pm

Tours begin at the George Peabody Library

Libraries on the Tour:

The George Peabody Library, designed to be A Cathedral of Books, has a historic collection spanning five centuries of knowledge.

The Arthur Friedheim Library is the music library of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central Library is the main branch of the nation’s first library system, with resources that span the globe and the centuries, as well as providing up to the minute research capabilities.

The Maryland Historical Society’s Library focuses on research about all things Maryland; although history and genealogy predominate, there are many other facets to the collection.

In the Manuscript Room at the Walters Art Museum, with its superb illuminated manuscripts, you will return to the days of books for the wealthy before the printing press brought the written word to all people.

Note that the each tour is limited to 20 people.

BAF presents Robert Campbell, Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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The Baltimore Architecture Foundation and the Walters Art Museum
present the 2007 Lewis Memorial Lecture, Tuesday, October 16, 2007

August 17, 2007, Baltimore, MD-Robert Campbell, FAIA, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The Boston Globe will deliver the 2nd annual Robert E. Lewis Memorial Lecture for the Baltimore Architecture Foundation. Mr. Campbell has published more than 80 feature articles in national periodicals and writes a regular column for the magazine Architectural Record. Of his book Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time, a collaboration with photographer Peter Vanderwarker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: “Campbell is esteemed by many to be the leading architectural critic in America today.” The Chicago Tribune said the book “belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about the fate of the American city.”

Mr. Campbell has been in private practice as an architect since 1975, chiefly as a consultant for the improvement or expansion of cultural institutions, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and (since 1983) the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has been an urban design consultant to cities and is an advisor to the Mayors’ Institute for City Design in Washington, which he helped to found. Mr. Campbell is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He has received the AIA’s Medal for Criticism; the Commonwealth Award of the Boston Society of Architects; a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; and grants from the Graham Foundation and the J. M. Kaplan Fund. He was the 2004 recipient of the Award of Honor of the Boston Society of Architects “in recognition of outstanding contributions to architecture and to the profession.” He has served as a juror in several national design competitions, is a former Regent of the American Architectural Foundation, and since 1994 has been a member of the U. S. government’s advisory National Register of Peer Professionals.

Time: 6:30pm, Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Place: The Walters Art Museum, Centre St. Entrance (Between Cathedral and Charles Sts.)

Cost: Free and open to the public; reservations are required, either online at www.thewalters.org or by phone by calling 410-547-9000 x238.

For more information, please contact Adam Blumenthal at 410-539-7772.

Free Fall Baltimore is made possible by a grant from Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. Special thanks to Free Fall Baltimore media sponsors: Maryland Public Television, WBAL-TV, 92Q-FM, Magic 95.9-FM, and The Baltimore Sun.

Fall Forum 2007

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THE BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION KICKS OFF ITS
FREE FALL FORUM SERIES 2007

August 9, 2007, Baltimore, MD—On September 12, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation launches its 2007 Fall Forum. Wednesdays at noon, the public is invited to bring their lunches to the Berman Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins Downtown Center, Charles and Fayette Streets, for lectures about Baltimore’s built environment. All Forum sessions are free. For information, call Adam Blumenthal at 410-539-7772.

September 12—Fraser Smith, local political analyst, discusses the results of the previous day’s Primary Elections

September 19—Tom Noonan, new CEO of BACVA discusses his organization’s strategies for attracting conventions and tourists to Baltimore in this highly competitive industry.

October 3 —Donald Fry, President of the Greater Baltimore Committee will be discussing transportation issues facing the region.

October 10—Michael Murphy, AIA, discusses recent changes with CHAP and the issues of making Modern structures city landmarks.

October 17—Jane Shaab, VP, Economic Development
University of Maryland, Baltimore will discuss the University’s award-winning Biotech Park on Baltimore’s West Side.

October 24—Baltimore City Planning Director Doug McCoach discusses Comprehensive Rezoning in Baltimore City.

October 31—Adam Gross, FAIA, presents “Musings about urban design in Baltimore – Pratt Street and its environs”.

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s Fall Forum 2007 is supported by Century Engineering and The Johns Hopkins University.

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.

The Forums are supported by Century Engineering and the Edward St. John Department of Real Estate at JHU.