Baltimore Brainstorming Session - Group Photo - 06-26-08 Baltimore Brainstorming Session - Group Photo - 06-26-08
Baltimore Brainstorming Session - Group Photo - 06-26-08

Design Conversation #1 >>

Sept 3, 2008

Baltimore a city to watch
By Edward Gunts
Sun architecture critic
June 30, 2008

Thanks to everyone who participated and especially Joe McNeely and Charlie Duff for doing a wonderful job facilitating the discussion!

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Click here to view the record sheets

Brainstorming Session Invitation

On June 26th from 6-9pm at Load of Fun 120 W. North Avenue there was a brainstorming session on the idea of a "Design Center" for Baltimore. The Baltimore design community has been discussing possibilities for such a central place for design and discourse for many years. Such centers have opened with great success in many cities across the world. We, a group of interested parties loosely organized around the AIABaltimore Urban Design Committee have taken this up and organized this event to discuss what such a center could do and how it could be made viable. A call was issued for one page white papers on what this "Design Center" could possibly be and are posted here.

Sponsors:
AIABaltimore Gary Anderson Stryker Sessions
Morgan State University Cho Benn Holback Peter Notari
University of Maryland, College Park, Architecture DANA Risk management Tim Duke
MICA Gabriel Kroiz Arhitects Fred Scharman
Peter Fillat Architects ArchPlan Architects Nathan Scott
Mahan Rykiel, Landscape Architects   Mark Herbkersman
Craig Purcell Colbert, Matz & Rosenfelt
Related Articles:

New Places for an Informed Public

Architects and planners ponder a city design center

Precedents:

San Francisco: SPUR

Copenhagen: Architecture Center

Paris: Le Pavillion De L'Arsenal

Chicago: CAF

Amsterdam: ARCAM

White Papers:

Globalization and the Baltimore Design Center

Baltimore Design Center White paper

Urban Design Committee

The Baltimore Urban Design Center: Hold the Door Open
Morgan State University

Baltimore Design Center
Rebuilding Baltimore Neighborhoods

POTENTIAL

Thoughts on a Design Center for Baltimore: NDC

Design Center as Design District

Ideas:

Organizational diagram #1

Organizational diagram #2

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 216-217

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 218-219

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 220-221

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 222-223

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 224-225

excerpts from "the art of city-making - pg 226-227

Organizational Ideas

Design Center Organization Diagram

Organizational Ideas

Design Center Gestalt Diagram

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 216-217

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 218-219

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 220-221

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 222-223

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 224-225

Excerpt from "The Art of City Making"

The Art of City-Making pg 226-227