“Preserving Cultural Identity In The Era Of Gentrification” with Tom Howorth, FAIA
Friday, June 1st, at 7 p.m. in the Essex Town Hall
In 1986, Tom Howorth moved from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi to form the partnership of Mockbee•Coker•Howorth Architects, a firm that won immediate critical recognition, such as a prestigious P/A First Award for architectural design from Progressive Architecture, and inclusion in the Domino’s Top 30 list of the world’s best architects. The firm also collaborated with other firms to win and successfully execute a number of multi-million dollar commissions.
In 1990, Mr. Howorth left that partnership to form Howorth & Associates Architects, providing architectural and interior design services for a wide variety of clients—governmental, corporate, not-for-profit, and private individuals—who consider their buildings investments rather than expenses.
Tom graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and has degrees from Leeds Metropolitan University, Vanderbilt University, Mississippi State University and Virginia Tech. He is a past president of AIA/Mississippi, of the Mississippi Heritage Trust and of Parents For Public Schools national organization. He was recognized in 1993 with the AIA’s Young Architect’s Citation and elected to the College Of Fellows in 1999. He served on the AIA’s Committee On Design Advisory Group from 2007-2011, and as its Chair in 2011.
Come hear a fascinating lecture on the conflict between historic preservation, economic development, and environmental (and social) sustainability in emerging economies. Tom has recently visited Cuba and China, among other places, to research current developments on this subject.
This is the last talk in the 2011-12 series; see the list of speakers here. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for next year. Stay tuned for more information on the schedule.
Havana at sunset. Photo by Tom Howorth, FAIA.
Whether it’s for designing award-winning restaurants for celebrity chefs Tom Colicchio (Craft restaurants in New York, Las Vegas and L.A.) or Danny Meyer (Eleven Madison Park , The Modern), or the renovation of Le Bernardin, or designing hotels in Boston and Amsterdam, and high-roller suites in more than one Las Vegas hotel, Bentel & Bentel has cemented their place in the hospitality field of architecture. Their designs have garnered awards from not only the American Institute of Architects but also the James Beard Foundation and all the Bentel & Bentel partners have been inducted into the Hospitality Design Hall Of Fame. Find out how restaurants are designed for customers to see and be seen while conducting successful business meetings and social gatherings.
Le Bernardin Restaurant Photo by Archphoto Inc.
Carol Bentel was born in St. Louis in 1957. She received her undergraduate degree in architecture at Washington University and her graduate degree in architecture at North Carolina State University. Prior to receiving her post graduate education in the history and theory of modern architecture at the Modern architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Venice (Italy). She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. She has taught at Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, and the Architectural Association in London. She has delivered lectures at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the Centro Palladio in Vicenza (Italy).
Bentel & Bentel has received both international and national recognition including the recent induction of all the partners in the Hospitality Design Hall Of Fame in 2007. Their projects have garnered numerous awards for design excellence including the American Institute of Architects Awardfor Interior Design and the James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design. Their restaurant projects include designing The Modern, located in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Craftsteak and Craft, as well as Eleven Madison Park–all in New York City.
Click here to see the schedule of Centerbrook Architects Lectures for 2012.
Many of the Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series talks for 2010-2011 can be viewed on YouTube or you can scroll through the listing on this page for their links.
The Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series Continues With Landscape Designer Louis Raymond
March 6, 2012
Louis Raymond at home in the Red Border
“Plays well with Plants: A Gardener’s Garden of a Lifetime, Fifteen Years & Counting”
Friday, March 23rd, at 7 p.m. in the Essex Town Hall
Louis Raymond is a garden and landscape designer with clients nationwide; his own riotous garden in Hopkinton, Rhode Island will be the subject of an upcoming book. His exuberant designs have been widely published, including in House & Garden Magazine (on the cover), Metropolitan Home, and Design New England. In “Plays Well With Plants,” he’ll talk candidly about his garden’s successes and failures, and how his design philosophy has guided its creation. Overall, he is pleased with the fruits of his own labor: “So far, so good: The red borders actually do look red, sometimes triumphantly. The Belgian fence – of beeches, not fruit trees – is filling out its frame. Two of the pergolas are built and largely canopied. The double-ball topiary of hardy orange is the biggest and baddest on the continent. The Southern magnolias, so rare this far north, are almost as high as the roof.”
Raymond has been gardening for over 50 years, ever since, as a pre-schooler, he “borrowed” a number of geraniums from public gardens across the street from the family home. While he has always had a fondness for plants and gardening, Raymond took the scenic route to his current vocation. By the time he was 25, he had already earned baccalaureate degrees in chemistry, piano, and voice – and still found time for a couple of years of medical school along the way – before launching successful careers as an opera singer and a freelance writer. By 30, he had retired from both to take up the trowel fulltime. Click here to register for this program.
Click here to see the schedule of Centerbrook talks for 2012.
Many of the Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series talks for 2010-2011 can be viewed on YouTube. Links to the films are on our Lecture page here.
Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series Continues On Friday, February 3rd with Joeb Moore
February 2, 2012
Joeb Moore, AIA – “House, Form and Culture”
Friday, February 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Essex Meadows auditorium, 30 Bokum Rd, Essex, CT
In the field of architecture, designing houses is a proving ground. It is often the place where the best young architectural talent has the opportunity to push the art of architecture forward. Frank Gehry, and Frank Lloyd Wright, for that matter, started their careers by designing houses that changed the way we think about home. For adventuresome clients, their house is an opportunity to try something new. To be sure, everyone wants their home to be functional and comfortable – but we also aspire to something special.
Connecticut is lucky to have Joeb Moore. He has provided a decade of inspiration in how to design comfortable houses that also inspire us about what is possible. He is a perennial favorite in the Connecticut AIA design awards because even if you don’t want the house for yourself (it was not designed for you anyway) you are inspired by how interesting and beautifully crafted it is. Joeb will discuss how these houses were designed and built and will inspire us to think about our homes in a different way.
Mr. Moore is principal of Joeb Moore + Partners, Architects, an architecture and design firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. Mr. Moore received his B.A. and M. Arch. degrees from Clemson University. He is the recipient of more than twenty-five AIA New England, AIA CT, and AIA NY Design Awards since founding his practice in 1993. Recent awards include a 2010 AIA National Residential Honor Award; 2009 North American WOOD Design Award; 2009 AIA New England First Honor Award; and “2009—Best of the Year” Merit Award, Interior Design.
Before joining the Yale faculty in 2007, Mr. Moore taught at Catholic University and Columbia University. From 1996 to 2006 he was the assistant director of the Barnard/Columbia Undergraduate Architecture Department. His background is in the history and theory of aesthetics and systems of representation in architecture. He has lectured and exhibited widely on his work and research, which currently is focused on the history of the suburban house and the legacy of the “Harvard Five” and the American mid-century “Good Life” residential house and program.
See the entire schedule of upcoming Centerbrook Lectures and videos from past talks here.
