The public is invited to attend a panel discussion and learn how decisions on transportation are made, what designs are working and not working, and how you can be more involved in the decisions making process. Thursday, January 28th 6 to 8 PM AIA NC Center for Architecture and Design 14 East Peace Street, Raleigh,…
Please join us tonight, Thursday, June 25th, for the Transitional Housing panel and the competition showcase. We showed a few of the Tiny Home competition boards at the Oak City Outreach Center last weekend, where homeless people and outreach missions gather for food and other supportive services. We received an overwhelmingly positive response from the…
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**Activate14 is excited to announce the Tiny Home Ideas Competition winners at the Transitional Housing event on Thursday, June 25, 2015. See event details here.** Activate14 would like to thank all of the participants who worked long and hard to make this an outstanding competition. We received over 100 entries, each of which was reviewed carefully…
Please join us for the Transitional Housing Event on Thursday, June 25th. This exhibit and panel discussion will be both a celebration of the Tiny Home Community Competition winner for a hypothetical transitional housing community just outside of downtown Raleigh, and a panel discussion lead by experienced professionals and advocates of transitional housing and alleviating homelessness. The…
Last Tuesday we celebrated J. Michael Welton‘s new book, Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand, which explores the work of 26 national architects who draw by hand, including six North Carolina architects – Ellen Cassily, Chad Everhart, Phil Freelon, Matt Griffith, Frank Harmon, and Erin Sterling Lewis. The author and architects gave a short…
We are pleased to present Retro Connector, TriMech, Touchstone 3D, Fusion3, and the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics for the 3D Printing Exhibit + Talks on Thursday, April 16th.
We had a great turnout for the TEDxManhattan “Change the Way We Eat” viewing party last month. The day was full of great local food, interesting conversations, and cross-pollinating connections. Why can’t architects help shape our food systems? How can children be involved in addressing homelessness and hunger? What resources do citizens have to change the…
5 to 8pm, Thursday, April 16th Talks begin at 6:30pm and last 1 hour, Q&A to follow 3D printing – technically referred to as additive manufacturing – is transforming architecture and design. Architecture firms and schools model projects with it, China uses it to build entire houses, local designers print shoes with it, and the…
We are pleased to host a TEDxManhattan viewing party next Saturday from 10 to 7pm at the Center for Architecture and Design in conjunction with Community Food Lab, and Piedmont Picnic Project. The event is free and open to the public – you can stop by for a few talks or stay for the entire event. Register for…
The Urban Housing presenters are so good the News & Observer and WRAL picked it up! Stop by this Saturday from 2 to 6pm for six presentations and a panel discussion. In addition, we are hosting several events in the morning: Gathering for Good, Historic Oakwood Walking Tour + Panel, and George Smart’s Mayberry Modernism presentation. Ted…
The Urban Housing event on Saturday, September 13th includes great programming all day. See the schedule for more information. This is Happening Here Take an informative walk through the historic neighborhood of Oakwood as our guides walk you though examples of how this historic neighborhood stays vibrant from decade to decade. The tour focuses on…
Frank Harmon raised a skateboarder, Will, who is known internationally and is now the editor-in-chief of Kingpin magazine. Frank encouraged his son to skate and refuses to incorporate anti-skateboarding elements into his designs. Skateboarders see our urban environments differently-they activate under-utilized spaces in our urban centers. Join Frank tomorrow for Urban Grind at 5:00pm Frank Harmon, FAIA has designed…
