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Public Programs
Lecture Series on Architecture and Design
September 17, 2008 • Lori Ryker will present an illustrated lecture on sustainable architecture, with an emphasis on the design and construction of modernist houses off the grid. Dr. Ryker is executive director of the Artemis Institute in Livingston, Montana. Artemis Institute runs Remote Studio, which provides architecture and design students with educational programs, activities, and forums that seek to “improve how human beings understand and employ the relationship between creativity, spirituality, and experience of the natural world to make the Earth a better place.” Lori Ryker is author of Off the Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sustainable Living and Off the Grid: Modern Homes + Alternative Energy, both from Gibbs-Smith. Her essay, “Learning Montana, Evolving Place,” appeared in Drumlummon Views (2007; www.drumlummon.org). She is founder and principal of studioryker in Livingston, and she was a founding partner of Ryker/Nave Design (1994–2007), which focused on ecologically inspired and sustainable architecture. Dr. Ryker lectures nationally on the topics of sustainability, off the grid technologies, and the Artemis Institute, including lectures at the National Building Museum, Structures for Inclusion Conference, New West Conference, University of Washington, University of Hawaii, and University of Texas Austin. She is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Architectural Education. She has taught at Montana State University, Texas A & M. and Auburn University. She received a BED from Texas A & M University, Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. from Texas A & M University.
October 1, 2008 • TBA
October 15, 2008 • Celia Bertoia will present an illustrated program on the life and work of her father, famed modernist sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia. Harry Bertoia fled Mussolini’s Italy in 1937, emigrating to the U.S. and becoming a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, where he was part of a renaissance of artists and designers that included Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and Charles Eames. He later worked with Eames and helped design the Eames Chair. In 1952, working through Knoll International, he designed the well-known bent wire Bertoia chair, a significant contribution to the “modern” furniture movement. Bertoia went on to produce monoprint drawings, sculpture centered around the concept of space, metal rod sound sculptures that produce a range of gentle and sharp sounds when touched or brushed, and his recordings from his "Sonambient" sound sculpture. Bertoia's legacy includes a number of large public commissions and sculptures located across the United States. Celia, a resident of Bozeman and curator of her father’s monoprint drawings, will bring for display the Bertoia chair, a Sonambient sound sculpture, jewelry samples, and catalogs of her father's work. Her personal stories about her father and his interesting life will offer a number of insights into his personality and the times, his artistic philosophy, and his passion.
October 29 • Maire O’Neill will present the illustrated lecture, “ Rugged Individualists or Consumer Society: Mail-order Farm Buildings and Agricultural Builders in the Gallatin Valley.” A native of Ireland, Dr. O’Neill is Associate Professor of Architecture at Montana State University-Bozeman, where she has taught since 1990. She is a licensed architect in California and Montana. Her research focuses on haptic experience in understanding space and place. Her publications include “ Corporeal Experience: A Haptic Way of Knowing,” Journal of Architectural Education (2001), in which she explores the character and significance of spatial perceptions gained by movement, touch, and other sensibilities, with an emphasis on how ranchers in rural Montana accumulate their place-based experiences. She has served on the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau and is currently co-chair of the planning committee for the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s meeting scheduled for June 2009 in Butte, Montana. She received her Ed.D. in 1997 from Montana State University, her Masters in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley in 1985, and her A.B. in Environmental Design from UC Berkeley in 1982. This presentation will explore how a collusion of forces may have profoundly influenced how Montana growers and producers made decisions regarding the buildings they erected and the means they used to construct them. In contrast to the idea that all vernacular structures are evolved directly from local conditions, Midwestern mail order farm buildings—available as early as 1910—may have comprised a significant and influential portion of the agricultural landscape. Kit buildings available by rail from several companies are compared with extant farm buildings in the Gallatin Valley. |
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