Simple Registration

When:  Nov 5, 2018 from 11:30 AM to 01:30 PM (CT)
Where:   Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, US

When & Where



Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Pl
Minneapolis, MN 55403
US

Nov 5, 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM (CT)


Description

CSI MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL november 2018 PROGRAM


Walker Art Center

Monday, November 5, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

For more than a century the Walker Art Center has been one of the nation’s top contemporary art institutions. Nestled on a sloping hill just outside of downtown Minneapolis, the Walker campus is home to a challenging and diverse program focused on the visual and performing arts.

With a campus that includes two existing architectural masterpieces by Edward Barnes (1971) and Herzog and de Meuron (2005), the Walker offers a multidisciplinary approach to the creation and interpretation of art. However, when the Herzog expansion shifted the main entry away from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden to Hennepin Avenue, the Walker suffered from an absence of clear identity across from the garden. In addition, the art center lacked a centralized public space that could unify the Walker’s distinctive architecture and iconic landscape.

Addressing the planning, accessibility and architectural concerns, the Walker embarked on an expansion and remodeling project. The 5,500 SF addition includes an entry foyer and vestibule, a 96-seat restaurant with outdoor patio, a kitchen, green roof and 6-acre garden. The 15,200 SF renovation includes a relocated main lobby and gift shop, re-imagined parking ramp entry, restrooms, mechanical rooms, and circulation.

The project’s aim was thus – to create a stronger identity and entry experience for visitors arriving from the underground parking ramp or the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; to clarify and ease wayfinding and navigation around the Walker campus through architectural cues and clear visual paths; to develop an architectural language that is deferential to the past yet has a voice of its own; to integrate the Walker’s extensive modern art collection throughout the landscape and architecture; to create a scenic outdoor venue for large-scale gatherings like Walker’s annual summer festival, Rock the Garden; and to provide a transformative space that acts as both welcoming entry and public heart for the campus.


COST

Members - $0.00
Non-Members - $45.00
Non- Member Students - $15.00

Registration ends on Wednesday, October 31, 2018.


ITINERARY

Registration & Social Hour - 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Chapter Business Meeting - 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Lunch & Presentation - 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM


REGISTRATION & LUNCH LOCATION

Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Pl
Minneapolis, MN 55403


PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

Onsite Underground Parking - $5.00
Enter the ramp on Vineland Place at Bryant Avenue
Accessible parking in the underground ramp is designated near the elevator and entrance

On-street Parking - $0.00
Limited, on-street parking is available on the surrounding streets (restrictions enforced)
Metro Transit Bus Lines - 4, 6, 12 & 25


SPEAKERS

John Cook Joan Soranno
HGA Architects

Joan M. Soranno, FAIA, and John Cook, FAIA are award-winning architects specializing in museum, cultural, and religious architecture at HGA in Minneapolis. Together, they have created a small in-house design studio that serves as an incubator for innovative design, wherein their projects are aesthetically driven and technically challenging.

Among their recent work are the Walker Art Center Expansion in Minneapolis, which won the prestigious American Architecture Award for Museums and Cultural Building; five musician cottages for the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vermont; Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum in Minneapolis, which won the 2014 AIA Honor Award for Architecture and 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence; and Bigelow Chapel for the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, which won the 2006 AIA Honor Award for Architecture.

Soranno frequently serves as a juror for national design awards programs and as a presenter at national design forums. She has a BS in Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and is a member of the GSA Design Excellence Program-National Peer. She has been published in The New York Times, Architectural Record, AIArchitect, and ARCHITECT.

Cook has played key roles in some of the Twin Cities most notable architecture of the past three decades, including being the lead local architect on the 2005 Walker Art Center expansion (Minneapolis, Minnesota) working in close collaboration with the Swiss architectural team of Herzog and DeMeuron. He performed a similar role on the 1993 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota and again on the expansion in 2010 (with Frank O. Gehry and Associates), the Winton Guest House (also with Frank Gehry).

Pricing

registration type
regular
    Member
FREE

    Speaker
No charge

    Student Member
$5

    Non-member
$45.00

Contact Information

Madison Silva

952-564-3044

msilva@intrinxec.com