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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects I Partners focuses on work for institutions, not-for-profit organizations and people who value issues of aspiration and meaning, timelessness and beauty. Over the past three decades their studio has crafted a body of work that is varied in scale, type, program and location, carefully made in ways that speak to both efficiency and the spirit. A sense of light, texture, detail and most of all, experience, is at the heart of what they build.

They have received numerous national and international citations, including the 2013 National Medal of the Arts from President Obama and the 2013 National AIA Architecture Firm Award. Both Tod and Billie are Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and have been inducted into the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In parallel with their practice, they maintain active academic careers and lecture worldwide. As both educators and practitioners, Billie and Tod are deeply committed to making a better world through architecture.

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Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic co-founded the Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture as a reaction to decades of public apathy and ambivalence about architecture. Instead of looking for silver-bullet solutions 5468796 pursues invention as a way to reinstate legitimacy in architecture in everyday life by exploring opportunities in the most rudimentary of briefs and re-imagining the role of architecture in the city.

Sasa and Johanna are passionate about making architecture an integral part of the broader culture by spearheading ventures like Table for 12 + Table for 1200, Chair Your Idea, On the Boards, and the RAIC 2014 Architecture Festival, each focused on promoting public awareness of the power of architecture to positively impact our lives and communities.

Firm recognitions include the Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Award, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s inaugural Emerging Architectural Practice Award and two Governor General’s Medals in Architecture. Their project, One Bucket at a Time Mexico, was selected as Interior Design Magazine’s Best Installation of the Year and has been nominated for ArchDaily’s Building of the Year in the Cultural Projects category.

ur dear friend and fellow Louisiana architect, Allen Eskew, was famous for his

collaborative workshops held throughout a project’s development, with neighborhoods, with churches and schools, and with government agencies, eagerly listening to their dreams and ideas, as well as their concerns. Allen deeply believed that the design would be strengthened by these many voices, not compromised. For the Obama Presidential Center, the President explained the symbolism of the centerpiece tower as “many hands, each one different, coming together as one …. It’s our way of showing that it takes many hands to shape a place.”

“Listening to many voices, working with many hands” is engagement at many levels to build community; it is working collaboratively to explore possibilities; and it is establishing connections to the particulars of a place, to local culture and traditions, and to past voices and memories.

ENGAGEMENT AT MANY LEVELS• The Obama Presidential Center by Tod Williams Billie Tsien

Architects will be located in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. Tod and Billie have reached out to those living and working in the surrounding neighborhoods, listening to their voices and concerns, and responding with a collection of appropriately scaled buildings set in a landscaped public plaza, an offering back to the community.

• Much of the work of 5468796 Architecture involves interactive design promoting public engagement, as in their “Chair Your Idea” open competition in Winnipeg where the public generated over 1,000 urban design ideas, each written on a white chair that were placed in various public locations as a means for people to take part in discussions on how to make their city a better place.

• Johanna and Sasa are deeply involved in their local community serving on regulatory boards and civic organizations, while also working to increase the public awareness of architecture by organizing events such as “Table for 1200,” where the Esplanade Riel pedestrian bridge was transformed into a giant dining room inviting guests to experience and discuss the power of architecture and design.

• Our buildings can express an ideal or a philosophy, as in Billie and Tod’s design for the Center for the Advancement of Public Action which reflects the center’s mission to educate young people to be actively involved in making the world a better place. Rather than one large building, program elements are divided into three smaller scaled buildings that form a central courtyard, encouraging a spirit of collaboration and connection.

CRAFTSMANSHIP & MATERIAL EXPLORATION• In their book, The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation, Tod and

Billie wrote, “The Barnes Foundation building … has not emerged from the minds, hands or hearts of two, but of many.” At the threshold into the Light Court they collaborated with artisan Nelson Londono on the design and fabrication of the stone tile mosaic floor, which was

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Doug Ashe has served on a number of AIA honor award juries over the years, including chairing both the National AIA Gold Medal/Architecture Firm Award Jury and the AIA/ALA National Library Honor Awards Jury. Ashe Broussard Weinzettle Architects has received numerous AIA honor awards for design excellence at the regional, state, and local levels over the years.

Doug received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Architecture, with honors, from Georgia Tech. This is Doug’s 19th year serving as coordinator and moderator for Celebrate Architecture.

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SCHEDULEWELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS, AND OPENING REMARKS DOUG ASHE

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OVERVIEW OF 5468796’s WORK JOHANNA HURME & SASA RADULOVIC

OVERVIEW OF TOD WILLIAMS BILLIE TSIEN ARCHITECTS’ WORKTOD WILLIAMS & BILLIE TSIEN

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Since 2014, the ARCH 335 Design-Build Studio, led by associate professors Brad Deal and Robert Brooks, has developed an ongoing partnership with MedCamps of Louisiana, a non-profit organization that provides free summer camp experiences for children with a range of chronic illnesses and disabilities. The projects that have resulted from this partnership have led to the consistent growth of MedCamp’s fundraising and operations while also earning the studio national recognition in both professional and academic arenas.

The work of the ARCH 335 Design-Build Studio was featured in winning entries to AIA National’s 2016 and 2017 I Look Up Film Challenge; the projects have earned AIA Louisiana and AIA Gulf States Region Merit awards; and the studio received the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ACSA) Collaborative Practice Award in 2016.

Quotes and excerpts are sourced from the guest architects’ websites and other publications.

derived from the Liar’s Cloth pattern of African Kente textiles.• A number of Sasa and Johanna’s projects involve the innovative use of

everyday materials, such as “One Bucket at a Time” in Mexico City where common painter’s buckets were used as building blocks for an interactive pavilion that recaptures lost public space in this much congested city.

• Tod and Billie often work with craftsmen to explore the potential of materials, such as the façade of their Museum of American Folk Art, where bronze poured directly into sand molds resulted in faceted panels that catch the light in different ways throughout the day.

• In their Crossroads Garden Shed, Johanna and Sasa “…provide value beyond the original mandate…” by using recycled shipping containers wrapped in a custom fabricated metal trellis, expanding a simple program for sheds to house garden tools into a sculptural pavilion with a civic presence.

ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS • Our work can establish connections to a place by listening to past voices to

inform the future. Johanna and Sasa’s Brewery at The Forks makes reference to early gravity fed breweries by stacking the key functions of the brewing process, then wrapping the vertical structure in a steel skin that frames a series of apertures that provide glimpses of the process within.

• Modern reinterpretations of local building traditions and techniques can emphasize a sense of place particular to the locale, as in Billie and Tod’s Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, which uses hand crafted stone panels known as Jali screens to clad a pedestrian bridge, providing shade from the harsh sun.

• In their Zibi Windmill Tower in Ottawa, Sasa and Johanna break down the building mass into simple blocks organized around existing pedestrian routes and heritage buildings “increasing points of contact between street and building, old and new, residents and visitors, resulting in a rich and memorable every day experience.”

• Billie and Tod’s Freeman-Silverman House outside Phoenix is delicately integrated into the hot and arid landscape, where two simple bars connected by a pair of bridges span a wash, which becomes the focus of the house and serves as home for much of the desert’s animal life and vegetation.

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For additional information about The Manship Theatre, visit their web site: www.manshiptheatre.org, or The Shaw Center website: www.shawcenter.org

Convenient parking can be found at the Third Street Parking Garage (across from The Shaw Center), which is located on the corner of Third Street and Convention Street (enter from Convention Street).

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Several hotel options are listed below. The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, Hotel Indigo, and the Sheraton Baton Rouge are within walking distance of the Shaw Center:

• Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center - 225.344.5866 201 Lafayette Street hilton.com/Baton_Rouge

• Hotel Indigo - Baton Rouge 1.877.270.1392 200 Convention St. hotelindigo.com

• Sheraton Baton Rouge Convention Center & Hotel 225-242-2600 or 1.800.565.7654 sheraton.com/batonrouge

• Baton Rouge Marriott – 225.924.5000 marriott.com

• Best Western Richmond Suites – 225.924.6500• Chase Suites by Woodfin – 225.927.5630

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