Learning from Bob and Denise is coming to Chicago!
The film preview will be the opening act of Pecha Kucha Night Volume 5.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 7:45pm
Martyrs’
3855 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60613
Map and directions

I will give a brief talk after the screening. To learn more about Pecha Kucha Chicago and how to by tickets click here.

We are racing to complete the film by the end of this year. In the meantime, please join us for another film preview screening event in New York.

Friday, April 11, 6:00-8:00pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York Chapter
536 LaGuardia Place
Main Lecture Hall
New York
(Map and directions)

The event is free of charge. Please RSVP here.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best,
Jim

PS. This past Monday, I gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, coupled with a screening of our trailer. Lisa Roberts, author of Antiques of the Future, made an exciting introduction of the project. Over 150 people joined the event! Thank you.

Learning from Bob and Denise receives the 2007 Arnold W. Brunner Grant of the New York Chapter, the American Institute of Architects.

We are having another screening of our new film trailer here in New York!

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:15pm–8:00pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Department of Architecture
25 East 13th Street, 2nd floor
Between University Place and 5th Avenue
www2parsons.edu/architecture/AIDL/contact.htm

Henry Smith-Miller and I will be part of a panel moderated by Fred Schwartz. We will be showing the new trailer afterwards and I will answer questions from the audience.

I look forward to seeing you there.

-Jim

The new trailer of Learning from Bob and Denise premiered yesterday at the Architecture School of Columbia University in New York. It went really well. More than 100 people joined the event and we received lots of valuable feedback. The unanimous response: they all look forward to seeing the feature-length film in 2008.

Thank you to all of you who joined us.

Best,
Jim

Mark your calendars! We are almost finished with our new trailer and will be screening it twice at the end of the year.

Here are the details:

November 26, 2007, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Nathaniel Kahn and I will be part of a moderated discussion on growing up with architects. We will be showing the new trailer afterwards.

December 7, 2007 at 7:00 pm

The Architectural League of New York
457 Madison Avenue
Between 50th and 51st Streets
New York, New York 10022

After the screening there will be a Q&A session with the audience.

I would be happy to see you there.

Thanks,
Jim

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown received this year’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Mind Award, which recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research, and scholarship. Each year, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a New York arm of the Smithsonian Institution, presents the National Design Award in more than ten categories, “celebrating the best in American design.” To learn more, visit www.nationaldesignawards.org.

Brief update on what has been going on during the last few weeks. Our screening in Brooklyn last Tuesday went really well. Over hundred people came to see the film preview! About a month ago, I went to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to talk about the project. Our film was screened afterwards, and many architecture students joined the event. More good news: we started editing in April!! The film project is moving into the next stage. It’s very exciting.

Talk to you soon,
Jim

Good news! There will be another screening of the preview of Learning from Bob and Denise in New York. The screening is part of a bi-weekly short series presentation by Reel Life Moviehouse. I will answer questions and talk about the film project after the event.

Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, between Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, New York
(Take the L to Bedford Ave Station)

Tuesday, May 15 at 8:00 pm

Hope to see you there,
Jim

We are having a screening of the preview of Learning from Bob and Denise on Wednesday, January 17 at 6pm at Anthology Film Archives at 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street). I will be speaking afterward and there will be questions from the audience.
Please join us.

Thank you,
Jim