Doors open at 6:30, concert starts at 7: 30 (German time). $15 entry.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Alhambra Orchestra @ German American Social Club Miami - 3/31/2012
Please join the German American Social Club on March 31, 2012 for an amazing performance by the Alhambra Orchestra.
Doors open at 6:30, concert starts at 7: 30 (German time). $15 entry.
Doors open at 6:30, concert starts at 7: 30 (German time). $15 entry.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
DINNER HONORING JACK MEYER ENGINEER, MIAMI MARINE STADIUM 2/29/12
DINNER HONORING JACK MEYER
ENGINEER, MIAMI MARINE STADIUM
Wednesday, February 29 6:00 PM Cash Bar
7:00 PM Program and Dinner
Biscayne Bay Yacht Club
2540 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove
Jack Meyer, former Commodore of Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, was the project engineer for the construction of the Ralph Middleton Munroe Marine Stadium from its inception in 1961 through completion in 1963.
While at Dignum Engineers, Jack considered the Marine Stadium the most difficult project of his career. All of the other engineers refused to work on this assignment.
When the Marine Stadium was built, it was considered the longest span of cantilevered concrete in the world. Due to Jack's brilliant effort, the Stadium has withstood almost half century of neglect and is now destined for restoration.
The event is co-sponsored by the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.
Cost: $40 per person, includes full buffet dinner with both Prime Rib and Salmon.
Tickets MUST be purchased before Monday, February 27. We expect to sell out so we recommend that you purchase tickets by Friday, Feb. 24. Call 800-838-3006 and ask for "The Jack Meyer event February 29" or click here
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Renowned Architect and Urban Planner Andres Duany will lecture at the SOA on March 5, 2012
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On Monday, March 5, 2012, the School of Architecture’s Center for Urban & Community Design (CUCD) will present a lecture by Andres Duany, renowned architect and urban planner, on the subject of Classicism. The title of the lecture is Heterodoxia Architectonica which explores the future of Classicism.
Here is an excerpt from Mr. Duany’s remarks on Classicism on the occasion of he and UM SOA Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk receiving the Driehaus Prize in 2008:
“Will this generation bore deeper into refinement and elitism, or will it endeavor to spread classical architecture outwards to a broad, democratic, indeed populist, future? Will they continue reprinting ever more esoteric treatises, or will they write new ones conceived to serve, not the 16th or even the 20th century, but the future which is upon us? To explain what I mean, please permit me a rudimentary example. How can there be a viable canon of architecture that is incapable of producing an opening wider than it is high… I would propose a new ethos – one no longer dedicated to the polishing of the classical canon of Vitruvius, Palladio and Vignola, but to supplementing that canon. Because this process cannot be allowed to devolve into neo-postmodernist dissipation, it should still be based on the authority of masters and masterpieces. First, we must transcend the closed historic treatises, to rescue that which was discarded in the reductive process of writing them. Then we must recover to our side those transitional 19th- and 20th century architects who have been assigned to the modernist camp — where they reside as the foundation of their authority — when they are, in fact, the last great flowering of classicism. An expanded canon would include newly drawn plates alongside Vignola’s: the Orders of masters such as Gilly, Soane, Thompson, Garnier, Perret, Hoffman, Loos, Asplund, Piacentini, Terragni, Stern, Graves, Porphyrios and Rob Krier. This treatise would claim an enormous amount of new territory for classicism. We are almost there. We have only to climb one last Everest.”
Andres Duany received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a Master’s of architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Duany was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica, and in 1980, Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1993. In 2001, he and Plater-Zyberk were awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum and in 2008 the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. Mr. Duany has co-authored several books including: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream; The New Civic Art; and Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism.
The lecture on Monday, March 5, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon in the University of Miami School of Architecture Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, 1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
On Monday, March 5, 2012, the School of Architecture’s Center for Urban & Community Design (CUCD) will present a lecture by Andres Duany, renowned architect and urban planner, on the subject of Classicism. The title of the lecture is Heterodoxia Architectonica which explores the future of Classicism.
Here is an excerpt from Mr. Duany’s remarks on Classicism on the occasion of he and UM SOA Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk receiving the Driehaus Prize in 2008:
“Will this generation bore deeper into refinement and elitism, or will it endeavor to spread classical architecture outwards to a broad, democratic, indeed populist, future? Will they continue reprinting ever more esoteric treatises, or will they write new ones conceived to serve, not the 16th or even the 20th century, but the future which is upon us? To explain what I mean, please permit me a rudimentary example. How can there be a viable canon of architecture that is incapable of producing an opening wider than it is high… I would propose a new ethos – one no longer dedicated to the polishing of the classical canon of Vitruvius, Palladio and Vignola, but to supplementing that canon. Because this process cannot be allowed to devolve into neo-postmodernist dissipation, it should still be based on the authority of masters and masterpieces. First, we must transcend the closed historic treatises, to rescue that which was discarded in the reductive process of writing them. Then we must recover to our side those transitional 19th- and 20th century architects who have been assigned to the modernist camp — where they reside as the foundation of their authority — when they are, in fact, the last great flowering of classicism. An expanded canon would include newly drawn plates alongside Vignola’s: the Orders of masters such as Gilly, Soane, Thompson, Garnier, Perret, Hoffman, Loos, Asplund, Piacentini, Terragni, Stern, Graves, Porphyrios and Rob Krier. This treatise would claim an enormous amount of new territory for classicism. We are almost there. We have only to climb one last Everest.”
Andres Duany received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a Master’s of architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Duany was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica, and in 1980, Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1993. In 2001, he and Plater-Zyberk were awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum and in 2008 the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. Mr. Duany has co-authored several books including: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream; The New Civic Art; and Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism.
The lecture on Monday, March 5, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon in the University of Miami School of Architecture Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, 1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Miami Beach Botanical Garden - The 11th Annual Tour of Private Miami Beach Gardens
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Presents:
The 11th Annual Tour of Private Miami Beach Gardens
Saturday, March 17, 2012
A once-a-year opportunity to visit six outstanding residential gardens that include private island properties, a tortoise habitat and edible garden created at a waterfront estate, and elegant personal retreats designed by several of South Florida's leading landscape architects
Photo by Robin Hill
The tour is self-guided: drive yourself or bicycle.
Gardens are open 10 a.m. to 3a.m.
Tour tickets: $25 advance/ $30 day of tour
Tickets online at www.mbgarden.org
Telephone: 305-673-7256 ext. 206
E-mail lajamieson@mbgarden.org
Sale of orchids, plants, books, souvenirs, jewelry, housewares and
gems & junque throughout the day at 2000 Convention Center Drive
Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day at our public garden.
Free admission all day at Miami Beach Botanical Garden
On March 17 only, 11AM to 4PM, the Garden hosts the Truck Stop
with Miami's trendy food trucks serving fast and fun lunches and snacks.
Featuring:
Latin Burger
The Fish Box
Gastropod
SugarYummyMama
Like us on Facebook
For more information: www.mbgarden.org
Presents:
The 11th Annual Tour of Private Miami Beach Gardens
Saturday, March 17, 2012
A once-a-year opportunity to visit six outstanding residential gardens that include private island properties, a tortoise habitat and edible garden created at a waterfront estate, and elegant personal retreats designed by several of South Florida's leading landscape architects
Photo by Robin Hill
The tour is self-guided: drive yourself or bicycle.
Gardens are open 10 a.m. to 3a.m.
Tour tickets: $25 advance/ $30 day of tour
Tickets online at www.mbgarden.org
Telephone: 305-673-7256 ext. 206
E-mail lajamieson@mbgarden.org
Sale of orchids, plants, books, souvenirs, jewelry, housewares and
gems & junque throughout the day at 2000 Convention Center Drive
Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day at our public garden.
Free admission all day at Miami Beach Botanical Garden
On March 17 only, 11AM to 4PM, the Garden hosts the Truck Stop
with Miami's trendy food trucks serving fast and fun lunches and snacks.
Featuring:
Latin Burger
The Fish Box
Gastropod
SugarYummyMama
Like us on Facebook
For more information: www.mbgarden.org
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Miami Marine Stadium Update
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Don Worth
305-742-9238 dontonton@gmail.com
Miami Marine Stadium Update
WHAT: Local and National Leaders Gather to Show Support for
Restoration of Miami Marine Stadium
WHEN: Friday, February 17, 2012, 10:00 AM
Press Conference at 10:15 AM. Tour of Miami Marine Stadium at 10:45
WHERE: Miami Rowing and Watersport Center
3601 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, 33149
WHO: Elected Officials including Tomas Regalado, Mayor of Miami; Miami City Commissioners Marc Sarnoff, Francis Suarez, Willy Gort; Franklin Caplan, Mayor of Key Biscayne; Xavier Suarez, Commissioner, Miami-Dade County, Raquel Regalado, Miami-Dade School Board
Guests Including: Hilario Candela, architect of the Marine Stadium; Bonnie Burnham, Executive Director, World Monuments Fund; Robert Hammond, Co-Founder, Friends of The High Line (NYC); Philip Aarons, Founding Chair, Friends of The High Line; Tony Goldman, Goldman Properties; Senior Officials, National Trust For Historic Preservation; Becky Roper Matkov, Executive Director, Dade Heritage Trust; Greg Bush, Virginia Key Planning Coalition
BACKGROUND: On January, 24, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) approved a Resolution and Memorandum of Understanding between Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami City Commission and MSEA. This legislation now represents a first step to the creation of a partnership which will lead to the restoration and operation the Marine Stadium. The matter is now before the Miami City Commission and approval is expected shortly.
The Marine Stadium initiative, which started in 2008, has now attracted national and international support. The leaders above will discuss the importance of the Marine Stadium and next steps in the plans for restoration.
Photo Opportunities: Interior and exteriors of Miami Marine Stadium and Basin
High Resolution images and digital media kit available
More information at: www.marinestadium.org
Contact: Don Worth
305-742-9238 dontonton@gmail.com
Miami Marine Stadium Update
WHAT: Local and National Leaders Gather to Show Support for
Restoration of Miami Marine Stadium
WHEN: Friday, February 17, 2012, 10:00 AM
Press Conference at 10:15 AM. Tour of Miami Marine Stadium at 10:45
WHERE: Miami Rowing and Watersport Center
3601 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, 33149
WHO: Elected Officials including Tomas Regalado, Mayor of Miami; Miami City Commissioners Marc Sarnoff, Francis Suarez, Willy Gort; Franklin Caplan, Mayor of Key Biscayne; Xavier Suarez, Commissioner, Miami-Dade County, Raquel Regalado, Miami-Dade School Board
Guests Including: Hilario Candela, architect of the Marine Stadium; Bonnie Burnham, Executive Director, World Monuments Fund; Robert Hammond, Co-Founder, Friends of The High Line (NYC); Philip Aarons, Founding Chair, Friends of The High Line; Tony Goldman, Goldman Properties; Senior Officials, National Trust For Historic Preservation; Becky Roper Matkov, Executive Director, Dade Heritage Trust; Greg Bush, Virginia Key Planning Coalition
BACKGROUND: On January, 24, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) approved a Resolution and Memorandum of Understanding between Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami City Commission and MSEA. This legislation now represents a first step to the creation of a partnership which will lead to the restoration and operation the Marine Stadium. The matter is now before the Miami City Commission and approval is expected shortly.
The Marine Stadium initiative, which started in 2008, has now attracted national and international support. The leaders above will discuss the importance of the Marine Stadium and next steps in the plans for restoration.
Photo Opportunities: Interior and exteriors of Miami Marine Stadium and Basin
High Resolution images and digital media kit available
More information at: www.marinestadium.org
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Artecology Expands to Coconut Grove
Artecology is proud to announce the re-location of the all day "Enviro- Art" concept making its debut in the heart of Miami’s bohemian tapestry, Coconut Grove thanks to such overwhelming interest and response. After working with the production power behind Rockaz MVMT and most recently One Love Nutrifest, Iraklis Kalamenios, the founder of Artecology Organization, has confirmed Artecology’s presence at the 2nd annual Miami Reggae Festival encompassing every piece of green and shade throughout the larger and more spacious Peacock Park on Saturday April 28th 2012.
The two pro-culture platforms are guaranteed to have an impact on Miami’s forward-thinking momentum currently taking shape over Miami’s masses. It will be a day of art, celebration, music, and plenty of local goods and grub to keep you and your little ones, smiling and swaying throughout the day.
The event will be divided into these areas:
Arts & Crafts, Kids Area in conjunction with Big Blue & You Foundation and Fertile Earth Foundation, Local Food Court, 305Green Village, and a Women’s Wellness and Yoga Center.
Each area is being spearheaded by local community based organizations to ensure the local aesthetic is properly represented. According to Iraklis Kalamenios, Artecology’s mission is to use the power of music, art and culture including performing, digital and visual arts, to provide awareness to the environment in a unique way.
All participants will have the opportunity to represent their craft and/or specialty among other like-minded, equally earth conscious individuals in a relaxed outside music-making setting.
From now until the end of February there are reduces rates for vendor spaces.
Reserve your space now!
Prices are as follows:
Handmade Arts and Crafts $125 (end february) - $150 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = 175$
Retail and Businesses $225 (end february) - $250 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = $275
For more information please visit artecologyweb.com or email artecologyweb@gmail.com.
The two pro-culture platforms are guaranteed to have an impact on Miami’s forward-thinking momentum currently taking shape over Miami’s masses. It will be a day of art, celebration, music, and plenty of local goods and grub to keep you and your little ones, smiling and swaying throughout the day.
The event will be divided into these areas:
Arts & Crafts, Kids Area in conjunction with Big Blue & You Foundation and Fertile Earth Foundation, Local Food Court, 305Green Village, and a Women’s Wellness and Yoga Center.
Each area is being spearheaded by local community based organizations to ensure the local aesthetic is properly represented. According to Iraklis Kalamenios, Artecology’s mission is to use the power of music, art and culture including performing, digital and visual arts, to provide awareness to the environment in a unique way.
All participants will have the opportunity to represent their craft and/or specialty among other like-minded, equally earth conscious individuals in a relaxed outside music-making setting.
From now until the end of February there are reduces rates for vendor spaces.
Reserve your space now!
Prices are as follows:
Handmade Arts and Crafts $125 (end february) - $150 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = 175$
Retail and Businesses $225 (end february) - $250 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = $275
For more information please visit artecologyweb.com or email artecologyweb@gmail.com.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Join us for the USGBC South Florida's Miami-Dade Branch GREENWORKING event at the Brickell Irish Pub!
Come unwind with the Miami-Dade Branch and enjoy an an evening of GREENworking at the Brickell Irish Pub. Expand your network while you mingle and meet with other branch and chapter members in a casual, fun atmosphere.
This is a free event and open to everyone.
Our networking events are always highly attended so be sure to rsvp!
Complimentary cocktails from 7-8PM
Suggested $10 donation (tax-deductible)
Business Casual Attire
Educational Presentation: Brickell Green Space
Special Thanks to our Sponsors & Affiliates:
Urban Land Institute
Miami Downtown Development Authority
City of Miami Office of Sustainable Initiatives
Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
Brickell Green Space
Miami Urbanist
Environmental News & Views
Miami New Times
Zahn Development
Tsao Design Group
Cervera Real Estate
Megacity Events
REGISTER HERE
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Wynwood Green - Sundays on the Green 2/26/2012
Bringing our community together in Wynwood for events that inspire our minds to think green and experience something new. Working in collaboration with 305Green, I Am Your Villain, Ground Up Collective and WVUM we will be doing monthly events with Farmer's Markets, half-pipes, educational presentations about environmentally friendly ways to live and most of all will include fun things to do for the whole family in Miami...and it's OUTSIDE!
Vendors interested please email info@wynwoodgreen.org
http://www.wynwoodgreen.org/
Vendors interested please email info@wynwoodgreen.org
http://www.wynwoodgreen.org/
Thursday, February 02, 2012
GASC Family night February 24, 2012
Please join the German American Social Club for our monthly Family Night - fun and games for all ages. The bar will be open and food will be served!
February 24, 2012 - 6:30 doors open until 11 pm... See you There!
February 24, 2012 - 6:30 doors open until 11 pm... See you There!
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