ROME PROGRAM APPLICATIONS
This is a reminder to 3rd and 4th year students that
Rome applications are now being accepted from 3rd and 4th year students for next year’s Rome Program (Fall 2014 and Spring 2015). Please fill out the application along with an 8 ½ by 11 portfolio of your work and submit it to Rome Director Carmen Guerrero
carmeng@miami.edu or 305-284-6134.
GERALD D. HINES URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION STUDENT APPLICATIONS
DUE DECEMBER 9TH
The 12th annual Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is now accepting applications from graduate student teams for the
2014 competition. Assemble an interdisciplinary team and compete to win $50,000 with finalist teams winning $10,000 each. Application due date, December 9, 2013; applicants notified of eligibility, December 16, 2013; competition dates, January 13, 2014 - January 27, 2014. For inquiries, email
udcompetition@uli.org.
MIAMI RESILIENCY: ADAPTING RESIDENCES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
This competition is organized by the SOA US Green Building Council Students to develop strategies to adapt free standing homes in Miami to the natural environment.
Registration is now open to individuals or teams up to 4. The submission deadline is November 11; winners announced on the 12th; and entries exhibited at AIA Miami’s new headquarters November 13.
DESIGN FOR HABITAT HOMES FOR GREATER MIAMI
This competition and collaboration between Habitat Young Professionals of Greater Miami and the students of SOA and FIU is to create awareness about our community’s needs, while providing possible solutions for Habitat. First prize is $750; Honorable Mention $250.
Registration is open now until October 25.
October 17 - January 5: Concrete Paradise: The Miami Marine Stadium, an exhibition at the Coral Gables Museum sponsored by the Museum and Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium; 285 Aragon Avenue.
October 23: Transforming the Food System, a lecture by Dr. Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director
of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, Glasgow Hall, 6:00 p.m. with reception to follow. This lecture is in honor of the national Food Day celebration which begins Monday, October 21, on the Gables Campus.
October 24 - 26: East-West Dialogues: Modern Architectures in Florida, the second of the School’s two-part symposium designed to investigate the multiple forms and meanings of mid-century architecture in Florida; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida. Sponsored by the James Deering Danielson Foundation. Contact angela@eastwestdialogues.com.
October 30 - November 1: ZEMCH 2013 International Conference, an interactive discussion on design, production and marketing issues surrounding the delivery of low to zero energy/CO2 emission mass-customized homes being built in developed and developing countries. For more information, email zemch2013@miami.edu or call John Onyango at 305.284.5187.
November 8: SOA Annual Homecoming Reunion Celebration; School of Architecture Perez Center Courtyard, 7 to 10 p.m. $25 per person, $15 per student, $225 per corporate table of ten. Contact Carolyn White at 305-284-5002 or cwhite@miami.edu.
November 20: Artist < = > Architect – a lecture by Visiting Critic Sara Caples of the firm Caples Jefferson Architects, New York; Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6:00 p.m. Open to students and the public.
