CURRENT
The Napier Youth Photovoice Project
May
5 – July 31, 2008
Gallery
is open 9:00 AM -4:30 PM, Monday - Friday
PAST EXHIBITS
AIA East Tennessee Design Award Winners 2007
March
19 - March 27th
Gallery
open 9:00 – 5:00 Monday – Friday
SPACE
+ TECHNOLOGY + PLACE
This exhibit contains
the catalog plates from a recent show at the University of Tennessee
College of Architecture + Design featuring the work of its faculty.
Graphic design of the catalog was by Diane Fox.
February 4- 28
Vancouver
/ Barcelona
City Form: Two Cities Through the Lens
December 3 - January 31
The
Nashville Riverfront Concept Plan
October 29 - November 29
The Lake Flato Landscapes and Buildings
October 1 - 23
The
United Nations Center for Sustainability in New York City:
Two Projects from the Fifth Year Studio of Edgar Stach
September
5 – September 20
SitePhocus:
Selected Contemporary Amphitheaters
August
6 - August 31
T.
K. + M. K. Davis: In Retrospect
July
11 – August 2
A
VISION FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT:
The
Beaver Creek Watershed Green Infrastructure Plan
June 5 — 28, 2007
AIA
Tennessee 2006 Design Awards
March
5 — 31, 2007
City
of Bridges —Connections Across Nashville
February
1– 28,
2007
Drivers
of Change 2006
What
will our world be like in 2050?
November
10,2006 – January 8, 2007
Selected Public Art
Projects for the New Civic Square
October
16 – November 9, 2006
Holyhoke Revisited:
An Urban Design Study at a Certain Moment in Time
August
24 through September 7, 2006
Projects
for the City of New Orleans:
Students Visions for Rebuilding the City
This
Spring, 30 advanced architectural design students at the University
of Tennessee traveled to New Orleans to see the impact of Katrina. Upon
return, they devoted the semester to designing projects as part of
a national student design competition staged to encourage ideas on
how to rebuild. The exhibit is comprised of selected projects
from this initiative.
Schneider
+ Schumacher
The
German practice of Til Schneider and Michael Schumacher was established
in 1988. The firm now has five more partners and some 30 architects.
Schneider + Schumacher have received numerous awards for their stunning
work, with their most conspicuous project is perhaps the “temporary” bright
red Info-Box in Berlin.
Plan
of Nashville Community Vision Workshop Maps
This
workshop series (held in February 2003) asked the community to consider
what they wanted to see in the Nashville of the future. At the suggestion
of the participants in the community assessment workshops, sections
of the study area were combined for the vision workshops to produce
a broader consensus. These combined sections were ultimately used to
define the treatment of the first-ring neighborhoods.
Simon
Ungers: In Tribute
In
March 2006, Simon Ungers died in Cologne, Germany. The son of Oswald Matthias
and Liselotte Ungers, Simon came to the United States with his family in
1969. He graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture
in 1980.
Monday, April 3 – Thursday, April 27, 2006
Comparitive
Urban Design 1830 - 1842
The
map-plans in this collection were first published in the nineteenth century
by England’s Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. All
commissioned and drawn within a period of thirteen years, the maps present
a unique
opportunity to compare urban development among many cities around the
world at one moment in time. An exquisite feast for the eye, the hand-colored,
hand-lettered steel engravings are artistic masterpieces in themselves,
representative of an era of exceptional artisanal skill. They are reproduced
here in fine detail.
This rare collection first appeared in its modern form twenty years ago in a
limited addition by Melville C. Branch; long out of print, this book, here exhibited
as selected plates, has been much sought after by architects, urban planners,
and map enthusiasts everywhere. Princeton Architectural Press is proud to make
available once again this valuable resource.
Wednesday, March 1 through Friday, March 31 2006
This exhibit is in homage to the creative life of Jerzy Soltan, a beloved architect and teacher who educated generations of students in principles of modernist design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). Soltan, the Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture and Design Emeritus died at his Cambridge home in September at age 92. After working for Le Corbusier in the 1950’s in Paris, Soltan was an enthusiastic advocate of Corbu’s design philosophy. Soltan received the Topaz Medallion of Excellence in Architectural Education in 2002. The jury called Soltan “the epitome of the inspirational educator, bringing boundless energy and architectural vision to generations of future practitioners,” many of whom are now prominent professionals as well as influential educators.
February 1-24, 2006.
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to present “Venice: The Grand Canal,” a photographic mural 5” high and over forty-two feet long. Thousands of photographs were digitally combined into two amazing seamless images that cover the entire length of Venice’s Grand Canal. This mural is hung as two stacked linear images, one with the view extending from the Dogana di Mare to Piazzale Roma and the other from Santa Lucia Station to San Marco. The lighting, the backgrounds, the elevations have all been balanced through the magic of digital photography, so that the effect is of slowly gliding down one side and then up the other. The Grand Canal is the world’s most magnificent street of water.
December 14, 2005 through January 31, 2006.
Frederic
Schwartz, Architect
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased
to announce an exhibit of design projects by New York
architect Frederic Schwartz.
After witnessing the tragedies of September 11th firsthand,
Schwartz founded THINK team and went on to become a finalist
for re-planning
the World Trade Center. In September 2002 Schwartz was
featured in a New York Times
profile entitled "The Man
Who Dared the City to THINK Again."
Friday,
October 28th through Tuesday, January 3rd.
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Civic Design / Public Art Exhibit Featured at the Kingsport Renaissance Center
The Arts Council of Greater Kingsport and Kingsport’s Cultural Arts Division are pleased to present The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City, a civic design exhibition on the history, process, research and plan for a reconstructed state capitol for the state of Tennessee. This exhibition comes to Kingsport through an agreement with the Nashville Civic Design Center and the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee.
October 3 through November 7 at the Kingsport Renaissance Center
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AIA
TENNESSEE 2005 DESIGN AWARDS EXHIBIT
The AIA Tennessee Annual Design Awards seeks to salute excellence and elevate
the quality of architecture in the State. During the Annual Meeting and Convention
held in Nashville, sixteen architectural design awards were presented, celebrating
the best by Tennessee architects.
Monday 3 October through Friday 28 October
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THREE BUILDINGS; Karl Schwanzer. Drei Bauten
The
Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibition
of photography by Sigrid Neubert entitled Three Buildings.
Karl Schwanzer, one of Austria's most prominent architects, served
as teacher to a large number of the country's contemporary architects.
Of his numerous works, three buildings: the Residential Building in
Vienna (1962), the BMW Building in Munich (1973) and the Austrian Embassy
in Brasilia (1975), are featured in the exhibit.
Monday,
September 5th - Friday, September 30th.
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THE PLAN OF NASHVILLE: Avenues to a Great City
The University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery will present 'The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City' from September 2-25. Featured will be over 250 architectural drawings which document the process by which this community collaborated on a vision for their city.
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion on September 22, 4:30 PM, in Room 111 of the UT Art and Architecture Building. Speakers will include Thomas K. Davis and Mark Schimmenti of the UT College of Architecture, and Gary Gaston of the Nashville Civic Design Center. The exhibition reception will follow in the Ewing Gallery.
The Ewing Gallery is located at 1715 Volunteer Boulevard on the UT Knoxville campus and is open free to the public Monday, 8:30-8:00; Tuesday-Friday, 8:30-5:00; and Sunday, 1:00-4:00. The Gallery will be closed September 4-5 for Labor Day. For more information, please call 865-974-3200 or visit http://www.ewing-gallery.org/
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The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibition of the design proposal for the revised Signature Tower.
August 2005's Urban Design Forum revisited the subject of a previous Urban Design Forum: Tony Girrantana's proposed Signature Tower. Comments made at that Forum led the Girrantana team to make significant changes to the initial design, which has resulted in a superior concept proposal.
Wednesday, August 17th - Friday, September 2nd.
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NASHVILLE'S FIRST "PERCENT FOR PUBLIC ART" PROJECT: SIX SEMI-FINALISTS
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibition of the design proposals for Nashville's first "Percent for Public Art" project. The six internationally recognized artists were selected from a group of 150 artists.
Tuesday, July 5th - Friday, Auguest 5th.
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The
Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce the first of two
exhibits on the urban architecture and drawings of Karl Friedrich Schinkel,
the master architect of the early nineteenth century Berlin.
Wednesday, June 8th - Thursday, June 30st.
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YOUNG ARCHITECTS GRAPHIC DESIGN PROGRAM 2005 EXHIBITION
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of entries in the Young Architect Graphic Design Program 2005. Sponsored by the Masonry Institute of Tennessee. The Young Architects Forum Graphic Design program recognizes young Tennessee architects for excellent achievement in graphic design.
Friday, May 6th - Tuesday, May 31st.
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THE AIA TOP TEN GREEN BUILDINGS EXHIBITION
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of the AIA Top Ten Green Buildings, on loan from the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC.
In recognition of Earth Day 2004, The AIA Committee on the Environment (AIA/COTE) has selected ten examples of “green “design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The selected projects address significant environmental challenges with designs that integrate architecture, technology, and natural systems. The Top 10 projects make a positive contribution to their community, improve comfort for building occupants, and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, use of green construction materials, and design that improves indoor air quality. Equally important, the projects are thoughtful and beautiful as architecture. The 7th annual AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects initiative was developed with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Building News magazine, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program.
Thursday,
March 10th - Tuesday, April 5th.
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The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of photographs by Gerald Zugmann, on loan from the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City.
Born in Vienna, Gerald Zugmann has been working as a freelance photographer in since 1978, specializing in architectural, exhibition and project photography. Widely exhibited internationally, Zugmann has photographed the architecture of Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph M. Schindler, Louis I. Kahn, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Gunther Domenig, among others. Sine 1995, he has dedicated himself to "the architecture of plants" and "artificial landscapes" (Twilight project). He is currently lecturing architectural photography at the Department of Artistic Design of the Vienna University of Technology. With his precise and individual visual language Gerald Zugmann has established an entirely new generation of architectural photography. ZZugmann's photographs do not regard the architecture in its functional capacity. Instead, he searches for the perspective that reveals the essence of a project. Using lighting and focusing on salient images, he "materializes" the idea of the architecture in dramatic images that have been likened to still lives. In his black and white gelatin silver prints, Zugmann himself does the darkroom work, which he regards as responsible for as much as 50% of an image's quality. He employs fine art digital printing to produce giclee prints from his gelatin silver prints and his color photographs, all of which are printed on handmade paper or on photo rag paper.
Thursday, February 16 - Thursday, March 3, 2005
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THE PLAN OF NASHVILLE Visionary Transit Systems
The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of designs by University of Tennessee Graphic Design Students.
Thursday,
January 20 - Tuesday, February 14, 2005