Spend this week learning about misfits and heroes of modern design in Philly, the passive design planned for Ridge Flats, and see a deindustrialization documentary:
April 30-May4: Philadelphia Modernism | Ridge Flats @ DAG | ‘Reclaiming the Rust Belt’
DAG talks vacant property strategies with panel Thursday
The Design Advocacy Group’s monthly meeting will be all about different strategies for confronting the city’s vacant land problems. Join the conversation on Thursday, April 5 at 8am.
The First Ten Years of the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia [DAGspace]
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Elise Vider, one of the Design Advocacy Group‘s founding members, looks back at organization’s first decade of activity. She analyzes DAG’s special character, adds up its accomplishments, and then peers ahead.
DAG’s next meeting is at 8am Thursday, March 3 at the Center for Architecture, featuring a presentation on Carpenter Square.
February 27-March 2: Enrique Peñalosa, Pavilions, Race Street Connector Phase 2, Michael Katz, Germantown’s Commercial Corridor, Carpenter Square at DAG
Picking up on signs: (de)sign controls, visual preferences, digital billboards, and wayfinding
Talk about signage is all the rage. DAG is meeting Thursday about sign design and regulations, the former ZCC wants your “visual preferences,” and stories about Market East’s first digital signs and Philly’s wayfinding signs have been in the news this week.
Failings of the new Family Court’s design and development process
Joanne Aitken, chair of the Design Advocacy Group, opined in Wednesday’s Inquirer that attempts to raise the new Family Court Building’s height are misplaced when the project’s budget surplus should be put toward improving its design.
January 2-6: skate the Winter Classic ice, Bicycle Coalition vol call, DAG hosts DIGSAU and Studio Bryan Hanes
Holiday lighting, CitiesAlive, high-speed rail forum, Chinatown Community Center presentation, Northeast Resurgent symposium
DAGspace: Confessions of a Center City Booster
Painter and architect Ed Bronstein uses DAGspace to write an appreciation of today’s Philadelphia–the city whose many architectural textures he loves to paint.
DAGspace: Looking Up on Broad Street
This issue of DAGspace comes from DAGspace editor David Brownlee, who casts his eyes upward at the mutilated roofscapes of some of South Broad Street’s greatest skyscrapers. Old photographs document what’s been lost, and the recent renovation of the Terra Building by the University of the Arts demonstrates how some of it might be put back.
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