What: New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Architecture presented by visiting Professor Roberto Segre

Where: VUW School of Architecture, LT1 (Vivien Street)

When: Wednesday July 8 (5.30pm drinks) 6-8pm lecture

RSVP: k.adams@vuw.ac.nz

What: A Place to Stay - a film about Salisbury Garden Court
When: Saturday July 11, 11.30am
Where: Paramount Cinema, Courtney Place

This film by Marie Russell and Shane Loader presents the history of Salisbury Court in Wadestown, and asks, what is the relationship between people, their community, and the architecture that surrounds and houses them?

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Well OK, there’s only one debate - but it is coming up so sooooon!

Put on by the local branch of the Institute of Building, the topic is the somewhat un-nerving topic of:
“THAT WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL POLICY ON EARTHQUAKE PRONE BUILDINGS WILL WORK”

Hmmmm. Surely it will, won’t it? Read the rest of this entry »

This documentary is a treasure trove of modernist architectural eyecandy, like a Taschen coffee table book come to life. ‘Visual acoustics’ is a coinage of photographer Julius Shulman, and the film is a celebration of his decades of work shooting architecture. Shulman was so intimately connected and concerned with promoting the homes created by the great American modernists (Wright, Gehry, Neutra et al.) that the film doubles as a celebration of that entire era, one which he was arguably pivotal in defining. Most architecture films tend to focus on the contemporary creation of large public buildings. Visual Acoustics takes the opposite approach and is all the better for it: it takes us into domestic spaces and talks with the people who have lived in them for decades. Shulman, a spry nonagenarian, has maintained long-term relationships with the architects and the owners of the homes he documented and he gives us a privileged entrée to the kind of iconic houses most of us can only dream about. — AL  (http://www.nzff.co.nz/n7678.html?region=1)

Sadly Julius Shulman (98) died on Wednesday 15th July 2009 at his home in Los Angeles. But the film will be screening Sunday 26th July 6:15pm (Te Papa), Wednesday 29th July 11:15am (Paramount) and Sunday 2nd August 11:45am (Paramount)

An Italian art tour with coffee & biscotti - at the Museum of City and Sea, on the 31st July at 5.30pm.  Join Carolina Izzo for an image-rich presentation about Italian works of art and find out about issues of conservation in Italy and NZ.