Space.City : Javier Sanchez of JSa

This fall Space.City will host the lecture series Urban Acupuncture. Three award-winning architects present strategic urban interventions. Tim McDonald of Onion Flats spoke on Monday September 28, Javier Sanchez of JSa will speak on Tuesday October 27, and Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architects is confirmed for Thursday November 19. All lectures take place at Seattle Central LIbrary at 6:30. Lecture tickets are available for $10 at Peter Miller Architecture and Design Books, 1930 1st Avenue (at Virginia St.) in Seattle. Tickets are also available via brownpapertickets Tickets will be $15 at the door. Javier Sánchez is based in Mexico City. He is the founding partner, lead designer and director of the architectural workshop of JSª designdevelopment, formerly known as Higuera + Sanchez. He was recently selected Honorary Fellow for the American Institute of Architects and the curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the Biennial of Architecture in Venezia. Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architects. The Los Angeles-based practice engages the increasingly complex reality of our information-driven culture, crafting intimate spaces of individual experience interwoven with the kinetic experience of the city beyond. Through a focused belief in architecture’s role in the contemporary city, these projects create new connections and catalyze change in a range of programs and contexts from single family residences to office towers, from institutions including MoMA and JPL to Skid Row. These designs emerge from their individual context—the city, geography and ideas, equally. They likewise engage their environment through deep, ongoing collaboration across disciplines to integrate sustainability and form. Onion Flats is a “develop/design/build” collective. Over the last ten years they have completed numerous multi-family housing projects in former vacant and blighted neighborhoods of Philadelphia.Their mission is to bring sustainability to both builders and dwellings. They also hope to educate the public about the interaction of architecture, space and culture in contemporary society. The family of designers and innovators at the Onion Flats collective is raising the bar on innovation for Philadelphia architecture. Space.City wholeheartedly thanks NAC for their sponsorship of Tim McDonald/Onion Flats, Walsh Construction, Miller/Hull Partnership and Mahlum for their sponsorship of Javier Sanchez and Schuchart Dow for thier sponsorship of Michael Maltzan. http://space-city.net/current.html