LECTURE: SMITH-MILLER+HAWKINSON:
The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning continues its spring speaker series with the 2nd of 12 lectures. This event features the New York based design firm Smith-Miller+Hawkinson. Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson have designed a series of significant civic projects. These include: Pier 11/Wall Street Ferry Terminal, the Corning Glass Center, the North Carolina Museum of Art Amphitheater and Outdoor Cinema and the Shilla Daechi Building in Seoul, South Korea. They received the Brunner Prize in 2001 and in the following year they were awarded the AIA-NY Chapter Medal of Honor. They are currently designing the new US Border Stations at located at Massena and Champlain in upstate New York.
EXHIBITION: THRESHOLDS ALONG THE FRONTIER: Contemporary U.S. Border Stations.
The lecture is presented in conjunction with an exhibit of new U.S. Boarder Stations. The opening reception for the exhibition, in the Dyett Gallery of Hayes Hall on the Main Street Campus, will directly follow the Lecture and includes a gallery discussion led by Thomas Grooms, Director, Design Excellence & The Arts, GSA and Robert G. Shibley, Director, Urban Design Project, UB. This combination lecture and exhibit promises to be an extraordinary event and is highly apropos to Buffalo as the region continues planning for the proposed new Peace Bridge.
When / Where:
Lecture: Wednesday February 1st, 2006, 5:30 pm in room 301 of Crosby Hall on the Main Street Campus. Exhibition: The exhibit opens immediately after the lecture with a reception in the Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall on the Main Street Campus and will run from February 1st through March 13th, 2006.
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/sap/overview/index.asp Hayes Hall 3435 Main Street Buffalo, New York 14214