Speaking of Architecture

2012: Volume I, Issue I Editor: Krysten Stein admin@architecturecincy.org

Apple Award 2012

AFC honored Pete Strange with the Alice and Harris Weston Apple Award for his leadership, advocacy and service to the community at the annual Apple Award Gala on June 7, 2012 at the Hilton Hall of Mirrors. Our thanks to event sponsor Messer and patron sponsors: Archiable Electric, Baker Concrete, CHC Manufacturing, CR Architecture + Design, GBBN Architects, HGC Construction, Hixson, iSqFt, Mike & Jean Keating, KZF Design, RCF Group / Haworth, TriVersity Construction, UBS Financial Services, and US Bank

Cincinnati Builds the World

The Cincinnati Builds the World exhibit was a popular favorite this summer among residents and World Choir Games visitors. Cincinnati Builds the World showcased international architecture and design envisioned and executed by Cincinnati based firms. The work exhibited reveals the global territory of contemporary design practice and the local talent, which is making its imprint on an international scale Design firms participating in the exhibit included: A359 Partners in Architecture, Champlin Architecture, FRCH Design Worldwide, GBBN Architects, Jack Rouse Associates, Jose Garcia Design, Kolar Design, REZTARK Design Studio, SFA Architects, University of Cincinnati School of Design and/Village Life Outreach Project.

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FOTOFOCUS: Cincinnatis New Photography Festival Comes to AFC

The Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati is pleased to present Picturesque Cincinnati: Then and Now, as part of FOTOFOCUS, the regional photographic festival. FOTOFOCUS recaptures the spirit of Cincinnatis legacy as an epicenter of art production and creative exchange, and seeks to revitalize that spirit for the 21st century. Acting as a catalyst for institutional collaboration and community engagement, FOTOFOCUS organizes a month-long biennial celebration spotlighting independently programmed exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography and lens-based art. The exhibition juxtaposes vintage photographs by the Kraemer Art Company made at the turn-of-the 20th century and contemporary scenes of Cincinnati made by former native David La Spina. For the exhibition, La Spina selected Kraemer Art Company images from the archives of the Cincinnati Historical Society, some of which were never translated into postcard or book form. The selected images often bely the optimism of Cincinnati at the beginning of the 20th Century, depicting half-completed public works, vacant new industrial parks, commuter neighborhoods and city streets. A century later, echoing this geography and focus, La Spinas images are populated by the citizens now inhabiting and working in this built environment. From suburban vignettes to post-industrial tenements and factories, La Spinas landscapes explore the neighborhoods that inspired his selections of the Kraemer outtakes and speak of a different Cincinnati at the beginning of the 21st Century. Presented together these two groups of images also reflect on how types of photography created for distinct purposes function in the context of historic record.

Meet our Board Members: First Row: Nick Rosian (Treasurer), Michael Kelley (President)
Second Row: Jamie Humes, Jay Schuermann (Vice President) Third Row: Bob Grace, Gary Volz Fourth Row: John Krug (Secretary), Mario San Marco, Wick Ach, Bill Woodward, Gary Meisner Not Pictured: David Arends (Past President Ex-Officio), Kyle Campbell, Eric Inglert, Randy Merrill Christine Schoonover, Mark Schlachter

AFC Thanks our Corporate Partners

Anchor Properties CR architecture + design Gilbane Building Company Graydon Head & Ritchey Hixson Architecture Engineering Interiors KZF Design Turner Messer RCF

Join us for the opening reception of Picturesque Cincinnati: Then and Now on September 18th from 68pm and meet photographer David La Spina. Light refreshments will be served.

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