Arch Centre AGM is tonight - Tuesday 20 April 2010.
To be held at the School of Architecture, 5.30 food and drink, for 6.00 meeting

To be discussed: Manners Mall, and the Basin Reserve.
See you there!

Also added: new poll - under “Your Opinion” below right. The Sept 11 discussion, it seems, goes on…

A Pecha Kucha Night is happening on 19 April. Doors open at 6.30 for a 7.30 start.

Downstage, 12 Cambridge Terrace,  Wellington
tickets: $9 // door sales // cash only // come early seats are limited //

Starring:

Peter Wilson // artistic director // capital e national theatre for children // www.capitale.org
Fifi Colston // author / illustrator // the birth of velvet, a wearable art  piece // // http://fifisart.blogspot.com
Spencer Levine // designer // www.spencerlevine.co.nz
Gerbrand Van Melle // media designer / intercept > decipher > participate // www.gerbrandvanmelle.com
Roger Walker // architect / car enthusiast // dancing with the cars //
Sam Trubridge // performance designer/director //
Briar Monro // arts consultant // connecting creativity //
Chris Moller// architect // click-weave space-time sketching // http://click-raft.blogspot.com/
Tommy Honey // director film school // street crime //
Ravi Kambhoj // photographer // urban fusion // www.urbanfusion.co.nz
Joe Bleakley // art director / concept developer //
Lorenzo Buhne // musician / about the bite of the tarantula /
Tom Beard // urban designer // about a sentence  by Baudelaire //
Eric Dorfman // ecclectus inc. //

Just an advance reminder that the Arch Centre is having its AGM on the 20th April. Starting from 5.30pm with a few drinks and nibbles, at the School of Architecture, we’ll then be going in at 6.00pm to elect a committee for 2010, and executive officers. If you’re a member, and keen to put your name forward, then we’re keen to hear from you.
Send us an email at the usual address: arch @ architecture . org . nz

We’re going to be discussing a few things with you - including plans for the Basin Reserve, and other matters. Keen to see you there.

On Friday 26 March, the Architectural Centre and the Wellington branch of the NZIA is delighted to launch the latest book from Gerald Melling, Tsunami Box.

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Tsunami box tells the story of an architectural journey into the heady tropics of emergency housing in Sri Lanka, following the Asian tsunami of 2004.

With tenacious commitment, an eye for detail, and a reckless sense of humour, architect and author Gerald Melling launches fundamental ideas about architecture onto the troubled waters of post-tsunami re-construction and hopes to see them float.

They sink, of course, but not without a trace - this book offers genuine insight into the nature of ‘good intentions’ and the anatomy of a useful architecture.
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Launch of Gerald Melling’s new book, on the Architecture of Disaster.
Personal experiences from the 2006 Aceh tsunami and the attempts to rebuild.
5.30 drinks, 6.00 talk, LT1 School of Architecture

Bus tour and afternoon tea.
Sunday 7th March 2.00pm only
Two Bill Toomath designed homes in Mt Victoria will be open to view.
Catch a bus up to the house for afternoon tea for just $5.
Places are limited to 30 seats RSVP to arch@architecture.org.nz
Starts at the City Gallery