The fifth and final video from the All You Can Eat: A Buffet Of Architectural Ideas For Cleveland panel discussion is now online and available for viewing.

Check it.

A gallery of all submitted AYCE projects is now available for your viewing pleasure. We are also in the process of uploading the panel discussion. The first thirty minutes of the roughly hour long discussion is posted, with the final two portions forthcoming.

Project gallery

Panel discussion

note: Apparently there were some technical difficulties with the project gallery. It should be cleared up now. If not, let us know, but also try emptying your web browser cache.

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What is Cleveland’s recommended daily intake of architecture? Let’s exceed it…

All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland

For immediate release – Cleveland Ohio

Friday, October 30, 5-10 PM
Saturday, October 31, noon – 5 PM
Roundtable Conversation on Saturday at 3 PM

ONE WEEKEND EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY ONLY

The organizers of an upcoming exhibition at the Sculpture Center, titled All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas, are pleased to announce the show’s opening event, to be held Friday, October 30th from 5-10PM and Saturday, October 31st from Noon-5PM. All You Can Eat is a collective exhibition of architectural ideas for vacant sites in Cleveland, Ohio. If Cleveland has a surplus of anything it’s vacant land, and the organizers have faith that others, like them, have favorite sites around the city upon which they’d love to unleash their new (or old) tricks. This exhibition hopes to provide the impetus and opportunity for many to unleash said tricks in a publicly visible way. Friday’s event will feature a buffet of tasty treats for both your stomach and your intellect. As well, DJ Jose Alberto Luna will be providing audio treats for your ears of his own creation throughout Friday evening.

All You Can Eat is not intended to generate “shovel-ready” proposals but to instigate dialogue; it is a forum to encourage the development of new concepts both aesthetic and programmatic. The organizers charge participants with being as outlandish and uncompromising as they can be.

The organizers would also like to announce the lineup for a panel discussion to be held Saturday at 3PM, moderated by Michael Abrahamson of POST, including:

Julia Christensen is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Big Box Reuse (MIT Press), which is about the reuse of abandoned big box buildings in the United States. She is the Henry Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College. Ms. Christensen lectures widely about urban design, the future of the built environment, and the impact of vacated commercial real estate. She is invited to speak by universities, real estate corporations, city councils, community groups, and more; she is also asked to consult on reuse projects across the country. Ms. Christensen is the founder and leader of The Big Box Reuse Group, LLC, a consulting firm that draws on her experience documenting and analyzing dozens of reclaimed commercial real estate sites nationwide. Her photography, video, architectural installation, and new media art work has shown internationally, at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts, and the Lincoln Center.

Piet Van Dijk, FAIA, is an immigrant from the Netherlands. He served two years in the US Army and has a Masters Degree from MIT. He also was a Fulbright scholar to Italy. Van Dijk worked for four years with Eero Saarinen and Associates in Michigan. He came to Cleveland in 1961 to design the Celebreeze Federal Building and became a partner in the Cleveland firm that is now Westlake Reed Leskosky. Van Dijk has been responsible for the design of dozens of buildings including hospitals, offices, and universities. He has especially enjoyed designing projects for the performing arts such as Blossom Music Center, The Denver Arts Center, and the CSU Music building. He also designed CSU’s physical education building featuring an Olympic sized pool. A world champion Masters Swimmer, Piet has also received the AIA Ohio Gold Medal and the Cleveland Arts Prize.

Marc Ciccarelli, AIA serves as a principal partner for studioTECHNE|architects, responsible for project and firm management, planning, design, project research and client development. He works directly with clients during Programming and Design, providing innovative solutions in a collaborative approach to preserve the unique goals and characteristics of each client. He believes the best design solutions arrive from an interactive dialog of ideas and information, which allows for rational design solutions and effective decisions relating to budget and schedule. The firm’s dedication to exceptionally designed environments is rooted in the belief that the buildings constructed for our clients exist in a context and must positively effect the environment in which they exist. Additionally, the built environment has an enormous impact on the social and physical places we inhabit. Owing to this, Marc leads the office research efforts on sustainability, education and the built environment, and lectures to groups and boards across the country on human interaction in built and perceptual space.

Sally L. Levine, AIA, principal of Levine Architecture & Design, Ltd., is an architect, educator and artist. When she moved back to Cleveland in 2001, Sally brought her practice to Cleveland as Levine Architecture & Design, Ltd., a multi-disciplinary architecture studio that approaches its work from a human-centered perspective. Currently, Sally is a lecturer teaching a two-semester architectural studio sequence at Case Western Reserve University, and she is a visiting faculty associate in the University’s Center for Health and Aging.  In addition, she is a lecturer at CSU’s Maxine Goodman Levin School of Planning Master’s Program teaching the urban design seminar.   With colleague David Ellison, AIA, Sally has organized three architecture exhibits for Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festivals, and she has created a nationally traveling exhibit called Palladio’s Sister.  Sally’s own artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibits from San Francisco to Milan, Italy.  She has lectured throughout the US and in France and Spain.

Marc Manack is an Architect born and raised in Canton, Ohio. Since 2001, Manack has been an Architect with Robert Maschke Architects in Cleveland, Ohio where he has been responsible for the design and realization of numerous award winning projects. In 2006, Manack co-founded SILO AR+D (pronounced R+D) to explore architectural projects with an approach that is experimental without being ostentatious. Manack has taught design studios at Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design and currently teaches at Ohio State University’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.

Matthew Setzekorn, PE, CBCP, LEED® AP, is Director of Sustainable Engineering at Integrated Engineering Consultants, Inc. He is a member of the Northeast Ohio USGBC High Performance Building Committee and an active participant in multiple LEED projects as the Engineer of Record and also the Commissioning Authority. Matthew is also a lecturer in Environmental Technology at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design of Kent State University.

Panel moderator Michael Abrahamson is a designer and critic currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the very first graduate in architectural criticism from the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and received a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from Kent State University. He has published criticism in trace and Log in addition to maintaining a polytropic web log, Critic Under the Influence. His collaborative design work has been exhibited at 1point618 gallery in Cleveland, and, with Theodore Ferringer and Jeremy Smith, has organized the All You Can Eat exhibition.

The submission deadline is fast approaching and we are excited to receive your work!

As a reminder, projects should be portrait formatted on a 36″x24″ sheet (we have decided to require portrait formatting for consistency) and mounted on foamcore. This hard copy should be delivered to the Sculpture Center by 5PM this Friday, October 23rd.

Also, On Saturday, October 31^st at 3 PM we will be holding a roundtable discussion on the work featured at the event moderated by Post’s Michael Abrahamson.

Again, thank you for your interest and participation. We are encouraged by the enthusiasm generated by the call for entries and hope to see a similar level of excitement at the opening Friday, October 30th at The Sculpture Center’s Euclid Avenue Gallery.

Please Address Entries:

All You Can Eat

The Sculpture Center

1834 E. 123rd Street

Cleveland, OH 44106

After having approved more proposals then we can care to count (ok, its around 50!), POST would like to thank everyone who has submitted a proposal for All You Can Eat. We have been humbled not only by the response from participants in the Northeast Ohio design community, but nationally and internationally as well.

While we have much work to do between now and the exhibition (as do you, proposal submitters!), we can promise that quite the feast of architectural ideas awaits us all at the end of the month when the exhibition opens.

We have a couple housekeeping items to attend to:

First:

We have a received a few emails from people who found about the show and call for entries either the day proposals were due or afterwards, or just plain submitted late, wondering if they can still enter the show.

Yes! You can! still submit your project proposals and boards, up until October 23rd, even if you have not already submitted a proposal to POST.

POST is still accepting revised proposals and entries from anyone who has not been approved, up until October 23rd, as outlined in the call for entries. Last week’s deadline was only a preliminary deadline to be able to guarantee the best and brightest, placement in the show.

Refer to the call for entries for more details.

Secondly: For those of you that have been approved, we are awaiting your entry boards. If you sent a proposal and do not follow through and submit a final board, expect the condemnation and scorn of the entire Cleveland architecture community. That is a joke. Maybe.

And finally, if lady luck is on our side, we will be announcing the roundtable panel – a discussion of the gallery show as well as Cleveland design culture in general – within the next week or two. Based on what we have lined up so far, it promises to be an incredible conversation that you will not want to miss.

Also, once you’re done proposing the project you’ve always wanted to do in Cleveland but haven’t found a benefactor to fund yet, check out our good friends at the Cleveland Design Competition who are organizing yet another great event for the third year in a row. Its going to be the best one yet! And they’ve got some pretty serious prize monies this year.

While we have already received a large number of proposals, we have been notified that in at least two instances, there have been technical difficulties submitting to our gmail account, postarchitecturejournal@gmail.com

While we unfortunately cannot explain this problem, we hope it isn’t widespread and would like to offer an alternate option. You may also try:

chiclitz.cherrycokeATgmailDOTcom

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and look forward to reviewing any further proposals ASAP.

Reminder: proposals should be prepared merely for advance approval and to reserve space in the exhibition. Final projects should be submitted in physical form on a 36″x24″ sheet, portrait format, mounted on foamcore (as stated in the call for entries).

What is Cleveland’s recommended daily intake of architecture? Let’s exceed it…

What is Cleveland’s recommended daily intake of architecture? Let’s exceed it…

All You Can Eat posits that the city is of a high metabolic rate, burning through ideas faster than they can be ingested. In response it presents a binge of possible futures excessive in scale and exhaustive in scope, ideas both raw and cooked, half-baked and hair-brained.

The minds behind POST are proud to announce the release of the call for entries, for All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas For Cleveland.

Always had an idea for project for Cleveland or for a Rust Belt / Great Lakes city in general, but had nowhere or no reason to see it through? Here is your chance to show your ideas to the world! There is no entry fee, but space is limited. Submit early to increase your chances (that are already high, as your idea is undoubtedly brilliant!) for inclusion in the show.

All submitted entries, whether included in the physical show or not, will be available for viewing on the POST website. The most intriguing entries will be included in a publication of POST Architecture Journal, to be available in early 2010.

For more information: see the All You Can Eat page on our website.

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Downloads

Press Release (.pdf)

Call For Entries (.pdf)

Event Postcard (.pdf)

Questions: postarchitecturejournal@gmail.com

Project Proposal Deadline: September 30th 5PM

Project Submission Deadline: October 23rd 5PM

Exhibition Open:

Main Course: Friday, October 30th

5–10PM

Leftovers: Saturday, October 31st

Noon–5PM

Roundtable Discussion: Saturday 3PM

What is Cleveland’s recommended daily intake of architecture?

All You Can Eat posits that Cleveland is of a high metabolic rate, that it burns through ideas faster than they can be generated. In response, All You Can Eat presents a binge of possible futures excessive in scale and exhaustive in scope, ideas both raw and cooked, half-baked and hair-brained. All You Can Eat is a an event/exhibition to be held at The Sculpture Center in Fall 2009. A formal announcement and call for entries is forthcoming.

Check the POST-blog daily for updates!

Call For Entries: First Full Week Of September

Exhibition: October 30th and October 31st, Euclid Avenue Gallery, The Sculpture Center