GRAY AREA Preservation Provocateur: Cara Bertron on Rightsizing Cities
GRAY AREA Preservation Provocateur: Cara Bertron on Rightsizing Cities
Philadelphia, PA
GRAY AREA's free Preservation Provocateurs speaker series continues with "Right Size, Right Place: A New Role for Preservation." Even though Philadelphia's population decline has halted, it and other older industrial cities have lost significant population over the past 50 years, leaving behind a v…
Wednesday, February 12 2014
6:00 PM
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7:30 PM
GRAY AREA Community Meetings: Germantown
GRAY AREA Community Meetings: Germantown
Philadelphia, PA
Join the conversation in Germantown! GRAY AREA is an experiment and public conversation to encourage new ways of thinking about older buildings in Philadelphia and beyond. Our first laboratory for ideas is the Max Levy Autograph Company building in Germantown at 212-220 Roberts Ave., just across fr…
Mon, Oct 7 2013
6:30 PM
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Wed, Nov 20 2013
8:00 PM
GRAY AREA Final Community Meeting
GRAY AREA Final Community Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
At its final community meeting, GRAY AREA invites the public to once again “play cards” and further test and refine its in-progress preservation toolkit by applying the kit to an expanded range of historic sites around Powelton Village and Mantua. GRAY AREA is developing the toolkit as a deck of ca…
Wednesday, May 28 2014
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
GRAY AREA Hawthorne Hall Community Meeting #1
GRAY AREA Hawthorne Hall Community Meeting #1
Philadelphia, PA
You're invited to play "cards" and discuss the future and potential of Hawthorne Hall, the wonderful neighborhood landmark that straddles Mantua and Powelton Village on Lancaster Avenue. GRAY AREA is developing a preservation toolkit -- a deck of cards designed to promote community dialogue and pro…
Wednesday, March 19 2014
6:00 PM
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7:30 PM
Preservation Provocateur Rick Lowe on Art Making and the Future of Preservation
Preservation Provocateur Rick Lowe on Art Making and the Future of Preservation
Philadelphia, PA
Rick Lowe is a Houston, Texas-based artist, community activist and founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston. Houston's definition of a "row house" is different from ours in Philly, referring to…
Tuesday, May 6 2014
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
GRAY AREA Presents Preservation Provocateurs: Post Preservation?
GRAY AREA Presents Preservation Provocateurs: Post Preservation?
Philadelphia, PA
Architect Shohei Shigematsu, of OMA New York and a curator of the Cronocaos exhibition with Rem Koolhaas, will present diverse responses to historic preservation in the contemporary city. Cronocaos posited that preservation is detrimental to urban environments. Shigematsu will use the exhibit, OMA'…
Wednesday, October 16 2013
6:00 PM
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7:30 PM