PECHA KUCHA: COAST TO COAST TO COAST Center to Center, City to City, and Coast to Coast

cultureNOW together with 11 students spent the summer reaching out to many of the architects, artists, historians, and critics who shape New York, Boston, and LA. to create our Museum Without Walls. For one night, in partnership with the three AIA Chapters, cultureNOW brought some of the most interesting and provocative people they have listened to this summer to the Center for Architecture (NY), the Boston Society of Architects Space (Boston) and LA's AIA at the Haas Audio Showroom. Center to Center, City to City, and Coast to Coast for a simultaneous pecha kucha. Each presenter showed a single project in 10 slides for 3 minutes.

August 1st, 2013 VENUES: NEW YORK:Center for Architecture BOSTON: BSA Space LOS ANGELES: AIA Los Angeles (Haas Entertainment) MODERATORS: BOSTON: Franziska Amacher AIA Amacher Associates LOS ANGELES: Warren Techentin AIA WTArch NEW YORK: Abby Suckle FAIA cultureNOW SPEAKERS: Sam Aquillano Design Museum Boston Arreen Andrew Senior Program Manager, Boston Cultural Council Bruce Becket AIA, Bruce Becket & Associates Barry Bergdoll MoMA Phillip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design, Columbia GSAAP Lawrence Chan FAIA Chan Architecture and Urban Design Jim Collins FAIA Payette Anthony Coscia Coscia Architecture and Design Mike Enomoto FAIAGruen Associates Wendy Feuer Assistant Commissioner Urban Design & Art, NYC Department of Transportation David Fixler FAIA DoCoMoMo Belmont Freeman FAIA Belmont Freeman Architect David Fixler DoCoMoMo Karin Goodfellow Director of the Boston Art Commission Ellen Lanet Ellen Lanet Architect Michael Lehrer FAIA Lehrer Architects LA Helen Lessick Artist Arshia Mahmoodi VOID Lorcan O'Herlihy FAIA LOHA Barton Phelps FAIA FAIA Barton Phelps and Associates David Piscuskas FAIA 1100 Architect John Powell Artist Juergen Riehm FAIA 1100 Architect John Ruble FAIA Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners Gretchen Schneider AIA Schneider Studio Erica Stoller Director, ESTO Nader Tehrani NADAA, Head MIT Department of Architecture Anna Torriani AIA Atelier Pagmenta Torriani Scott Uriu B + U Architects Anthony Vanky MIT Senseable City Lab Peter Vanderwarker Photographer Jane Weinzapfel FAIA Leers Weinzapfel Associates Claire Weisz FAIA WXY Architecture + Urban Design Carol Willis President of the Skyscraper Museum James Wines SITE Architecture Buzz Yudell FAIA Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners Anne Zimmerman AIA AZ Architecture Studio