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SUMMARY:"Materials Matter" Training Series
DESCRIPTION:BE+ Materials Matter training series\, Materials Matter: The Path to Healthier Buildings is offering an exclusive promo code for the AIA Massachusetts members. Details below: \nMaterials Matter: The Path to Healthier Buildings \nA training series by Built Environment Plus\, focused on embodied carbon and healthy material solutions. \nA limited number of discounted tickets available in addition to this exclusive AIA member promo code for 40% off: EDU-MATERIALSMATTER-2025 \nUpcoming courses:  \n10/23 – Bio-Based Material Solutions \n11/13 – Specifying Healthier Materials Beyond Checking Boxes \n11/20 – Applied Strategies for Carbon Emission Reduction
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-fall-2/2025-11-20/
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series FALL
DESCRIPTION:The Fall 2025 Films Series is comprised of four documentaries from Checkerboard Films about Cornell Tech\, located on Roosevelt Island in New York City. \nCornell Tech was conceived as a revolutionary model for graduate education that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. Designed and built simultaneously by as assemblage of well-known architects. These films explore the campus from vision through construction. \nThese programs are free but require registration\nClick here for detailed film information and to register \nWednesday October 15| 6:30 | ZOOM |1 LU (approval pending)\nInventing Cornell Tech: The Vision \nWednesday October 29| 6:30 | ZOOM |1 LU (approval pending)\nCornell Tech: Sustainability\nThe Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech \nWednesday November 12| 6:30 | ZOOM |1 LU (approval pending)\nCornell Tech: The Realization \nClick here for detailed film information and to register \n 
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-fall/2025-11-12/
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SUMMARY:Spring Film Series - Register NOW!
DESCRIPTION:WMAIA FILM SERIES\nRegister Now! \nThese films are free but you must register here to receive the Zoom link. WMAIA will record the learning units for each film and discussion attended.  All films will be shown via Zoom. \nWhen registering\, select the TOTAL # of dates (1 or 2) that you plan to attend. Each evening we will present  film followed by discussion. \nStudio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower\nWednesday April 16 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU pending approval\n \nChicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture\, owing to the legacy of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1900s\, and Mies van der Rohe in the mid-20th Century. \nJeanne Gang\, founder of Studio Gang\, gave the epithet “Chicago School” a new meaning. \nThe film not only examines the thinking behind Aqua which makes the building’s presence against the skyline so striking\, but takes visitors to the award-winning “Brick Weave House” (2009) in a Chicago residential neighborhood\, where brick walls form a large open-air “screened porch” at the house’s front. \nAnother project\, the SOS Children’s Village Lavezzorio Community Center on Chicago’s South Side (2008) makes use of irregular\, workmanlike concrete. \nRobert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House\nWednesday April 30 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\n \nEven during the Great Recession of 2008\, one new apartment house in New York City continued to set the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects\, the lavish\, limestone-clad structure from 61st to 62nd streets is arguably one of the most luxurious residential buildings to rise in the city in decades. Stern deliberately evokes the grand era of New York apartments designed in the 1920s and 1930s\, especially the intricately planned architecture of Rosario Candela. \nFor more info and to register visit here
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/film-series-spring/2025-04-30/
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SUMMARY:Film Series resumes December 4\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:WMAIA : Fall 2024 Film Series – Film followed by discussion \nFilms are free but you must register here to receive the Zoom link. WMAIA will record the learning units for each film and discussion attended.  All films will be shown via Zoom. \nWednesday December 4 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nFacing a Slumlord\nJoin us for an inspiring documentary by local filmmaker Dylan Landry. For years\, low-income tenants in Hartford put up with persistent rodent problems\, water leaks\, mold\, and even collapsed ceilings. Upon organizing into the No More Slumlords campaign\, they discovered that what they thought were problems caused by a single landlord with bad intentions were actually the side effects of a lucrative business model through which wealthy landlords around the country exploit low-income renters—the vast majority of them Black and Brown—for profit. Facing a Slumlord traces the years-long fight by these tenant-activists to not only hold the slumlord who had exploited them accountable\, but also to change the systems at the municipal\, state\, and federal level that had allowed for such exploitation. That fight started in the city of Hartford but reached all the way up to the federal government. \nRegister Now!
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/film-series-resumes-december-4-2024/
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series!
DESCRIPTION:THE WMAIA FILM SERIES RESUMES MARCH 20th  \nWednesday March 20 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nLeisurama\nIn 1963\, All State Properties\, capitalizing on publicity from an international debate between Nixon and Khrushchev\, built a development of second homes in Montauk\, New York. The homes were designed by architect Andrew Geller at industrial designer Raymond Loewy’s office and were sold through Macy’s Department Store. They came fully furnished\, down to the toothbrush. A kitschy cold war architecture story. \nWednesday April 3 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nNew England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century\nThe United States saw a revolution in popular architectural style between the 1930s and 1970s. American Modernism\, originally influenced by the work of European masters including Le Corbusier and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius\, began to establish footing in New England in early 1930-32. 32 in part with the construction of the Field House in New Hartford\, Connecticut by William Lescaze and the Ralph-Barbarin House in the city of Stamford\, designed by Le Corbusier protégé Albert Frey. By the 1940s\, the region was a hotbed of modernism\, led by a group of architects known as the “Harvard Five” who settled in New Canaan\, Connecticut and included Marcel Breuer\, Landis Gores\, John Johansen\, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. Other architects who designed notable mid- century modern structures in New England included Victor Christ-Janer\, Andrew Geller\, Alan Goldberg\, Carl Koch\, John Black Lee\, Hugh Smallen and Edward Durell Stone. The work produced by this pool of talent had international and permanent influence. The story of New England Modernism is one of imagination\, creativity and industriousness. \nWednesday April 17 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU\nTHE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD: Olmsted\, Vaux\, and the Buffalo Park System\nCOMMUNITY BY DESIGN: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline\, Massachusetts\nTHE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD This film explores the development of the nation’s first park system\, designed for Buffalo by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868. Drawing national and international attention\, their scheme carefully augmented the city’s original plan with urban features inspired by Second Empire Paris\, including the first system of “parkways” to grace an American city. Displaying the plan at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia\, Olmsted declared Buffalo “the best planned city\, as to its streets\, public places\, and grounds\, in the United States\, if not in the world.” \nOlmsted and Vaux dissolved their historic partnership in 1872\, but Olmsted continued his association with the Queen City of the Lakes\, designing additional parks and laying out important sites within the growing metropolis. When Niagara Falls was threatened by industrial development\, he led a campaign to protect the site and\, in 1885\, succeeded in persuading New York to create the Niagara Reservation\, the present Niagara Falls State Park. Two years later\, Olmsted and Vaux teamed up again\, this time to create a plan for the area around the Falls\, a project the two grand masters regarded as “the most difficult problem in landscape architecture to do justice to. \nCOMMUNITY BY DESIGN In 1883\, Frederick Law Olmsted deserted New York City for Brookline\, which had anointed itself the “richest town in the world.” Over the next half century\, he and his successor firm became the dominant force in the planned development of this community. This film tells the story of the development of the wealthy Boston suburb through the planning initiatives of the firm. From Fairsted\, the Olmsteds’ Brookline home and office\, the office collaborated with an impressive galaxy of neighbors which included the architect H. H. Richardson and the horticulturalist Charles Sprague Sargent. \nThrough plans for boulevards and parkways\, residential subdivisions\, institutional grounds\, and private gardens\, the firm carefully guided the development of the town\, as they designed cities and suburbs across America. While Olmsted Sr. used landscape architecture as his vehicle for development\, his son and namesake\, “Rick\,” viewed Brookline as grounds for experiment in the new profession of city and regional planning\, a field that he was helping to define and lead. \nRegister here!  (click RSVP on upper right of landing page)
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates-5/2024-04-17/
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SUMMARY:SAVE THE DATES: Film Series Resumes
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATES!\nFall Film Series – films to be announced \nA registration link will be sent soon \nWednesdays at 6:30 PM — Zoom \nOctober 11\nOctober 25\nNovember 8
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/save-the-dates-film-series-resumes/2023-11-08/
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series!
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 21 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU requested\nSite Specific\nSite Specific is a special commission of ten short documentaries for Open House Dublin 2020. Dyehouse Films wonderfully reveal the personalities\, processes\, complexity\, creativity and transformative impact that surround the act of designed space. The protagonists: the architect\, the historian\, the user\, speak directly to the camera\, they speak directly to us. Site Specific crosses the city\, scales and building types from play parks\, social housing\, places of worship to a building not yet built. Taken individually\, each 5-minute video has something of the condensed power of a short story.\nEmail director@wmaia.org to register. \nTuesday April 4| 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU requested\nTwo short films about the work of Zaha Hadid\nZaha An Architectural Legacy\nOne year after Zaha Hadid died\, this film takes a look at her career\, and legacy\, through five stages which signal significant progressions in her work. The film begins with her drawings and paintings while at the Architectural Association\, then captures her first built project at Vitra\, moving on to the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI\, which secured her place in the architectural canon\, and the London Aquatics Centre – a building which made her known to the public – and finishes with the Maths Gallery at the Science Museum\, completed just months after her death. Featuring interviews with those who knew her including long-time collaborator Patrik Schumacher\, architects Eva Jiricna and Nigel Coates\, urbanist Ricky Burdett\, AJ editor-in-chief Christine Murray and engineer Hanif Kara\, the film gives thoughtful insight into the impact Zaha had on the architectural profession.\nThe Queen of Curves\nThe Queen of curves\, that is the term used by the guardian to describe Zaha Hadid. Taking the world by storm\, Zaha Hadid or should I say Dame Zaha Hadid had become one of the most influential women in the world\, and one of the most recognizable architects. With bold ideas and a strong will\, she has designed some of the most iconic buildings in the world today. But what led to her becoming the queen of curves\, and how did this queen build her kingdom?\nEmail director@wmaia.org to register \nTuesday April 18 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU requested\nTado Ano: From Emptiness to Infinity\n“The essence of architecture is to open the hearts of the people\,” says Japanese minimalist master Tadao Ando\, “and to move them in such a way that they are glad to be on Earth.”Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity\, a 2013 documentary by German filmmaker Mathias Frick\, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the work and processes of Ando\, the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker\, Carlsberg\, Praemium Imperiale\, and Kyoto Prize.Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete\, wood\, water\, light\, space\, and natural forms creates a Zen-like connection between Japanese traditions and contemporary modernism. His creative use of natural light and his buildings’ ability to seamlessly evoke the contours of the landscape are his calling cards\, and give Ando’s award-winning homes\, churches\, museums\, apartment buildings and cultural spaces an open\, inviting quality that belies the structures’ minimalist construction.”To change the dwelling is to change the city and to reform society\,” Ando says\, noting that his deceptively simple buildings are meant to give people space to live and unfold in a contemplative manner. By taking viewers into the architect’s thought processes and motivations\, the documentary delves into the nature of how those changes have been woven throughout Ando’s four-decade-long career.\nEmail director@wmaia.org to register
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-2/2023-04-18/
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 11 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 HSW requested\nGreat Architecture on a Small Planet\nSustainable architecture is on the rise all over the world. Architects are reinventing the way we are going to live and build in the future. By 2050\, the world population will reach 10 billion people. More and more people will settle in constantly growing cities\, putting nature and our climate under pressure. Around the world\, Danish architects are dealing with global challenges in ways that also give us a better everyday life. They strive to create Great architecture on a small planet. \nTuesday October 25| 6:30 PM | Zoom |1.5 LU requested\nBreuer’s Bohemia\n“James Crump\, the intrepid director\, writer\, and art historian\, has done the impossible\, crafting a smart\, serious architecture documentary that isn’t hopelessly dry and boring.  His latest film\, Breuer’s Bohemia\, takes an incisive look into the roiling cultural milieu in which Marcel Breuer crafted some of his most groundbreaking residential projects.  It’s a take of inspiration and decadence\, rife with heavy drinking and free love\, all set against a backdrop of leftist politics and social iconoclasm incubated in the seemingly staid suburban outposts of Connecticut and Massachusetts.” – Architectural Digest \nTuesday November 8 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1.5 LU requested\nArchitecture of Infinity\nTemporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and\, depending on one’s outlook\, may transcend to infinity.  How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? Filmmaker Christoph Schaub starts his personal journey through time and space in his childhood\, when his fascination with sacred buildings began- and his wonder at beginnings and ends.  Schaub explores\, together with architects Peter Zumthor\, Peter Markill and Alvaro Siza Vieira\, the artists James Turrell and Cristin Iglesias and drummer virtuoso Jojo Mayer\, the magic of sacred spaces\, defined here as far more than church buildings.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates-4/2022-11-08/
CATEGORIES:Films,WMAIA Programs
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series: REGISTER NOW
DESCRIPTION:THE WMAIA FILM SERIES RESUMES MARCH 16th  – REGISTER NOW!\nEmail director@wmaia.org to register \nWednesday March 16 | 6:30 PM | Zoom 1 LU Approval Pending\nGehry’s Vertigo\nGehry’s Vertigo shakes up the idealized image of one of the most iconic buildings of contemporary architecture: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao\, built by Frank Gehry in 1997.The film allows an immersion in the day-to-day life of this living myth and offers a rare and vertiginous trip on the top roofs of the building\, putting us in the shoes of the climbers in charge of glass cleaning. Surprisingly realistic and highly emotional\, the film observes through their ascensions\, techniques and difficulties\, the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry’s architecture. \nWednesday March 30 | 6:30 PM | Zoom  1 LU Approval Pending\nTokyo Ride\nRevisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way\, the film takes us on board Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa Romeo for a day long wandering in the streets of Tokyo\, immersing us in the city’s busy daily life.  More than a portrait\, in the classical sense\, of one of the most talented and celebrated Japanese architect of today\, the film renders in its pure spontaneity the experience of this friendly urban drift. Ryue Nishizawa narrates along the way his strong relationship with his hometown through some of his favorite sites\, buildings that have influenced him\, and some of his own architecture projects. \nWednesday April 13 | 6:30 PM | Zoom  1 LU approval pending\nHomo Urbanus Venetianus\nAfter the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum\, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit\, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: namely\, public space. Taking the form of a free-wheeling journey around the world (10 films\, 10 cities)\, the project invites us to observe in detail the multiple forms and complex interactions that exist every day between people and their urban environments.  We will screen the film focused on Venice.  Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life\, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental\, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together. \nEmail director@wmaia.org to register
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates-3/2022-04-13/
CATEGORIES:Films,WMAIA Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T183000
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series
DESCRIPTION:WMAIA – 5 COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES BEGINS OCTOBER 5th  – Save the dates!\nThis series will be offered on Zoom – 1 LU credit pending\nFree\nTo register\, email director@wmaia.org for log in information \nTuesday\, October 5 | 6:30 PM | Zoom\nKoolhaas Houselife\nKoolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house’s daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo\, the housekeeper\, and the other people who look after the building. The realities of high-profile architecture; maintenance\, circulation and accessibility concerns are extensively examined. Houselife is both a portrait of a building as well as a vivid visual diary \nTuesday\, October 19 | 6:30 PM | Zoom\nThe Pruitt-Igoe Myth\nIt began as a housing marvel.  Two decades later\, it ended in rubble.  But what happened to those caught in between?  The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II\, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. \nTuesday\, November 2 | 6:30 PM | Zoom\nThe Infinite Happiness\nConceived as a personal video diary\, The Infinite Happiness is an architectural experience. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing development considered to be a new model of success.  Inhabiting the giant “8 House” built by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in the suburbs of Copenhagen\, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine recount their subjective experience of living inside this experiment of vertical village\, elected in 2011 as World best residential building.  As a Lego game\, the film builds up a collection of life stories all interconnected by their personal relationship to the building. The film draws the lines of a human map which allows the viewer to discover the building through an inner and intimate point of view and questions the architecture’s ability to create collective happiness showing the surprising results of this new type of social model of the 21st century.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series/2021-11-02/
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series - Spring 2021
DESCRIPTION:WMAIA/5-COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES  \nTuesday March 23| 6:30 PM | Zoom 1.5LUs  \nKISS THE GROUND\n\nTo significantly mitigate the climate crisis\, there are a lot of problems humans need to solve — and as the new Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground suggests\, one of the biggest problems is right under your feet: the soil. \nNarrated by Woody Harrelson and featuring music from your favorite avocado farmer Jason Mraz\, the star-studded film explains why transitioning to regenerative agriculture could be key in rehabilitating the planet\, while simultaneously invigorating a new sense of hope and inspiration in viewers. \nRSVP to director@wmaia.org to receive Zoom login info \nWMAIA/5-COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES  \nTuesday\, April 13 | 6:30PM | Zoom 1.5LUs  \nWASTE IS FOOD\n\nMan is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in na­tions like China and India. The waste production worldwide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill.  But there is hope. \nThe German chemist\, Michael Braungart\, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the technosphere (all the technical products we make)\, produc­tion and consumption could become beneficial for the planet.  A design and production concept that they call Cradle to Cradle: a concept that is seen as the next industrial revolution. Design every product in such a way that at the end of its lifecycle the component materials become a new resource. Design buildings in such a way that they produce energy and become a friend to the environment. \nRSVP to director@wmaia.org to receive Zoom login info
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-spring-2021-2/
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series - Spring 2021
DESCRIPTION:WMAIA/5-COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES  \nTuesday March 23| 6:30 PM | Zoom 1.5LUs  \nKISS THE GROUND\n\nTo significantly mitigate the climate crisis\, there are a lot of problems humans need to solve — and as the new Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground suggests\, one of the biggest problems is right under your feet: the soil. \nNarrated by Woody Harrelson and featuring music from your favorite avocado farmer Jason Mraz\, the star-studded film explains why transitioning to regenerative agriculture could be key in rehabilitating the planet\, while simultaneously invigorating a new sense of hope and inspiration in viewers. \nRSVP to director@wmaia.org to receive Zoom login info \nWMAIA/5-COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES  \nTuesday\, April 13 | 6:30PM | Zoom 1.5LUs  \nWASTE IS FOOD\n\nMan is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in na­tions like China and India. The waste production worldwide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill.  But there is hope. \nThe German chemist\, Michael Braungart\, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the technosphere (all the technical products we make)\, produc­tion and consumption could become beneficial for the planet.  A design and production concept that they call Cradle to Cradle: a concept that is seen as the next industrial revolution. Design every product in such a way that at the end of its lifecycle the component materials become a new resource. Design buildings in such a way that they produce energy and become a friend to the environment. \nRSVP to director@wmaia.org to receive Zoom login info
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-spring-2021/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series - Save the Dates
DESCRIPTION:We are working out the details for a virtual film series.  Please save these dates – details soon! \nWednesdays October 14 and 28\, 6:30 PM.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates-2/
CATEGORIES:Films,WMAIA Programs
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SUMMARY:WMAIA Film Series - Save the Dates
DESCRIPTION:We are working out the details for a virtual film series.  Please save these dates – details soon! \nWednesdays October 14 and 28\, 6:30 PM.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/wmaia-film-series-save-the-dates/
CATEGORIES:Films,WMAIA Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T200000
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SUMMARY:FILMS:  - CANCELLED - Concert of Wills – the building of the Getty Museum
DESCRIPTION:Concert of Wills – the building of the Getty Museum\nTuesday March 24 | 6:30 PM | 117 Fayerweather Hall Amherst College | LUs: 1.5 HSW\n \nThis acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center\, one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century. Spanning fourteen years\, from the early blueprints to the groundbreaking to the public opening of the Center in December 1997\, the film takes viewers from California to a rock quarry in Italy where the Center’s signature travertine originated. \nThe gathering of creative personalities needed to complete this monumental complex gave rise to conflict as well as consensus\, to tension as well as resolution. Concert of Wills looks behind the scenes and chronicles intimate moments of success as well as frustration and heated debates.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/films-making-space-2-2-2/
LOCATION:Amherst College\, Room 117 Fayerweather Hall\, 01002
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T200000
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SUMMARY:FILMS: New York Underground – CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:In response to COVID 19 concerns\, Amherst College has restricted campus access to students\, faculty and staff.  We will try to relocate our next film – scheduled for March 24th.  Stay tuned for more info on this quickly changing situation. \nNew York Underground – the remarkable building of the NYC subway system\nTuesday March 10 | 6:30 PM | 117 Fayerweather Hall Amherst College | LUs: 1.5 HSW \nIn the mid 1800s\, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of constant complaint. \nOn March 24\, 1900\, ground was broken for the Big Apple’s subway; the Interborough Rapid Transit Line opened four years later\, running more than 26 miles of underground track at the speed of 35 miles per hour. Soon thousands in the city were “doing the subway.”
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/films-making-space-2-2/
LOCATION:Amherst College\, Room 117 Fayerweather Hall\, 01002
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T200000
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SUMMARY:FILMS: Brooklyn Bridge - the late 19th century engineering feat
DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Bridge – chronicling the late 19th century engineering feat\nTuesday February 25 | 6:30 PM | 117 Fayerweather Hall Amherst College | LUs: 1.5 HSW \nThis award-winning film by Ken Burns recaptures the drama\, struggles\, and personal tragedies behind the greatest of all achievements of America’s industrial age\, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. \nThe largest bridge of the era\, its construction entailed enormous problems and ingenious solutions. Witness the human heroics behind the bridge that seized America’s imagination in the 1880s. Discover the enduring charm and beauty of a granite-and-steel masterpiece.
URL:https://www.wmaia.org/event/films-making-space-2/
LOCATION:Amherst College\, Room 117 Fayerweather Hall\, 01002
CATEGORIES:Films
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