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South Carolina's Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for the Arts Honors Simeon Warren.
ACBA's Simeon Warren was honored by the state of South Carolina Arts Commission for outstanding achievements and contributions to the arts in South Carolina. Simeon Warren was one of the original founding faculty members of the American College of the Building Arts.
Nine South Carolinians were honored for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the arts by the South Carolina Arts Commission. This is the State's highest arts honor award.
“It is an honor and privilege to recognize individuals and organizations who live out the service, commitment, and passion that help the arts thrive in South Carolina,” S.C. Arts Commission Chairman Henry Horowitz said. “Each of the Verner Award recipients makes a tremendous contribution not just locally, but they are honored for broad impact on the state’s arts community and beyond. These are outstanding ambassadors for our state.”
For more information please see:
http://www.scartshub.com/2019-verner-award-to-honor-nine-south-carolinians/
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ACBA's Patricia Willis and India Lee were chosen by American Friends of Coubertin Inc to be “fellows” in order to attend the Coubertin Fellowship in France. The Coubertin Foundation is a registered public charity (nonprofit) in France dedicated to the preservation and advancement of traditional crafts by combining education and production and has been in operation for more than 50 years. Training and experience for selected craftsmen are provided through the activities of Ateliers Saint-Jacques, which competes in the marketplace for historical restoration projects as well as new commissions from individuals and corporations and thus provides trainees with a real working environment. To learn more about the Coubertin program: http://www.coubertin.fr/
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May Graduation Information
Graduation Date/Time:
Saturday, May 18 / 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Commencement Address By:
Mr. Roy Underhill, The Woodwright’s Shop, PBS
Since 1979, he has been the host of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop. Along with This Old House which debuted the same year, it is the longest running PBS "how-to" show.
For more information about Mr. Underhill please visit:
http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/home/
Ceremony Location:
Charleston Museum Auditorium, 360 Meeting Street
Reception Location: Charleston Museum Lobby
Parking Information:
Visitor’s Center John Street non-metered parking lot:
375 Meeting Street
Visitor’s Center parking garage
63 Mary Street
- Cash and Credit Card accepted
- $1 per half hour
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Capstone Event Information
Open to the Public
Come celebrate!
Come out and meet our graduates and view their capstone projects!
Each year during graduation week at ACBA we open our doors to the public in order to view and celebrate our graduating senior's accomplishments by displaying their capstone projects.
The capstone projects consist of student-created pieces in architectural forged iron, architectural plaster, architectural stone, architectural carpentry, and architectural timber. These pieces are cumulative of the students four years of study and learning their craft. Please come and celebrate these amazing students!
The event is open to the public, but an RSVP is required. Please RSVP to handall@acba.edu
Date/Time:
Friday, May 17 / 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
ACBA:
649 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29403
Parking Information:
Parking lot on Cool Blow across from ACBA
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April Magill, principal, and architect of Root Down Designs announces that her firm will host Chris Magwood, builder, author, and executive director of the Endeavour Centre in Ontario, for a talk on “Buildings as Carbon Capture and Storage Devices,” on Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the American College of Building Arts in Charleston, S.C.
Attendees will learn how buildings can become the world’s sixth-largest carbon sink, providing an important climate change drawdown solution. Currently, the harvesting and manufacturing of building materials account for 11 percent of global greenhouse (GHG) emissions, with that number expected to rise sharply in the coming decades.
There are buildings being made today that are net sequesterers of carbon, showing that it is possible to change the current paradigm. The ability to retain more carbon is an important issue to Charleston-area residents, who are seeing more sunny-day flooding events as sea levels continue to rise. Ten years ago, the Post and Courier quoted energy specialist Joseph Romm as saying, in response to climate deniers stymying progress in climate change solutions, “I think that it will become apparent that the scientists were right, and then in the 2020 decade, people will start getting desperate.” (“S.C. has a swelling carbon footprint,” by Tony Bartelme, Post
and Courier, Oct. 11, 2009.)
Residents, builders and policymakers will have a chance to learn what they can do as homeowners to make a small, yet significant, impact by attending Magwood’s talk at
the end of April.
Details on the workshop:
“Buildings as Carbon Capture and Storage Devices” lecture
When: Wednesday, April 24
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Where: American College of Building Arts, 649 Meeting St., Charleston, SC 29403
Cost: $10
To secure a ticket: visit
https://rootdowndesigns.com/product/buildings-as-carbon-capture-and-storage-devices-
an-evening-with-chris-magwood/
Design Your Own Sustainable Home Workshop:
Charleston, SC with Chris Magwood & April Magill
Thursday, April 25, 2019 – an evening workshop
Chris Magwood will bring his course, Design Your Own Sustainable Home, Endeavour’s most popular workshop, to Charleston, SC. This workshop has been called exciting, engaging and even life-changing. The workshop is designed to be an unbiased look at all the options available to the prospective owner-builder and to assist you with tools to help you assess and choose your way to the house of your dreams. You will leave this workshop ready to handle all the competing claims and information you will face by focusing on your personal goals and aspirations and creating a road map for how best to meet them.
Instructor Chris Magwood is an expert guide for this journey, having helped hundreds of owner-builders through the process of designing and building their dream green home.
What’s Provided: presentation, workshop, classroom, materials
Location: The American College of the Building Arts, Charleston, SC
Cost:$50 regular
2 scholarship spots available! If you would really like to attend but need financial assistance, please contact
us for details.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! https://rootdowndesigns.com/product/design-your-own-sustainable-home-with-chris-magwood/
Host: Root Down Designs, www.rootdowndesigns.com
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A curated collaboration by The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs with the College of Charleston, Clemson University, The American College of the Building Arts, Datum Workshop fabrication studio, and architects will be held at the City Gallery from March 30, 2019- May 5, 2019.
For more information and details please visit:
http://charlestonarts.org/event/city-gallery-at-waterfront-park-presents-the-city-luminous-curatorial-talk/
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ACBA recently received certification for Title IV for the Higher Education Act (HEA ACT 1965) from the U.S. Department of Education. What does this mean?
"Title IV" refers to the section of the Higher Education Act that authorizes the administration of the United States federal student financial aid programs. This will enable our students to qualify for and apply for federal student aid and loan programs. For example, a Title IV school is able to process U.S. federal student aid, such as Stafford loans.
ACBA was recently featured on Samantha Brown's Places to Love
Charleston episode that just came out (link below); Ryan Woodall and Christine Butler both had a couple of lines, and there's some great footage of the school:
https://samantha-brown.com/episodes/season-2/
ACBA's faculty member Christina Butler's new book is out!
"Ansonborough: From Birth to Rebirth, and is an overview of the history, architecture, and preservation in Ansonborough neighborhood in Charleston"
It was commissioned by Historic Charleston Foundation and Historic Ansonborough Neighborhood Association.
Once the book is available you will be able to purchase through:
http://www.historiccharleston.org/store/books/history/charleston.html?p=1
A note of reflection from Professor William Bates on a recent friend, mentor, and colleagues passing.
Vince Scully died, Nov 30, 2017, at 97 years old and I have been thinking about him in the way one does when you can no longer interact with someone directly. Since his death I have replayed ideas and moments of the relationship, revisiting lessons and conversations often. For those of you who did not know of Vincent Scully, he taught Architectural History at Yale for over 40 years and at the University of Miami until retiring in 2009. Phillip Johnson described Scully as the “most influential architectural historian-ever” because his lectures were widely known to gather not only architecture students on the campus but also a broad swathe of others; medical students, housewives and casual observers alike. In the field of preservation, he was a fierce proponent of old buildings and of his home town, New Haven, Connecticut. He fought hard against the destruction of old buildings including Pennsylvania Station in 1963.
While Scully voiced early advocacy for modernist originators like Mies Van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he was not afraid of personal change and shifted his allegiance from modernism to postmodernism. Arguing for irony, ornament, and humor in architecture, he opened the flood gates for those of us who would create an ornament and called for an end to the long, dry, post-war era of modernism. He gave us permission to use beauty and humanity together; the fledgling makers movement is reborn. Without this cultural shift, we would not enjoy our successes today at the College of the Building Arts, where we
focus daily on the aspects of ornament—if not irony and humor. Scully received the National Medal of Arts in 2004 and countless others in recognition of his efforts. In graduate school, I had the distinct honor of holding a coveted role as a teaching assistant for Vince. Beyond the typical tasks, and without the worry of taking the exam, I sat in class each week mesmerized. Vince taught me to approach comparative analysis differently—to seek out how two seemingly disparate things, buildings usually, often from diverse ages relate to each other. He saw those relationships through form, through the material, but always through humanity. Vince taught me to embrace my own empathy, an empathy he himself was famous for, bringing passion, vigor and occasionally tears to the lectern.
William Bates R.A. AIA NCARB
Chair of Architecture and Allied Arts
The American College of the Building Arts
Charleston South Carolina
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