October 17, 2007 (RALEIGH, NC) – The importance of place and region to innovative, appropriate and sustainable design in contemporary architecture will be the subject of award-winning Raleigh architect Frank Harmon’s address to the International Design Center (IDC) in Estero, Florida on Friday, October 17.
For several years, Harmon, principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, has been a popular speaker on the subject of “America’s New Regionalism” and lessons in sustainability to be learned from vernacular structures at regional, state and national gatherings and conferences of design professionals. He presented seminars at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 National AIA Conventions and at Dwell magazine’s recent 2007 Dwell On Design Conference in San Francisco.
“Regional architecture is enabling, not confining,” he says, “and it embraces what the late Harwell Hamilton Harris called ‘the particulars of client, place and materials.’
“I like to talk about geographic regions and how traditional building methods have responded to the particulars of climate, topography and materials. I illustrate this through my own work as well as the work of W.G. Clark, Glenn Murcutt and Brian MacKay-Lyons, three contemporary architects who are very attuned to their place and region.”
Harmon’s address is part of the Alfred W. French III series of lectures on architecture sponsored by the Southwest Florida chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/Florida). It began on October 5 with a lecture by Frank Visconti of Visconti Architecture in New York and continued with a presentation by Sarah Graham of Angelil/Graham Architect in Los Angeles..
The IDC, located between Naples and Fort Myers, Fla. is a resource for design professionals (www.IDCFL.com).
For more information on Frank Harmon, visit www.frankharmon.com.
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