September 2010 Sightlines September 2010 News & Notices Nominations Open for: Architecture Awards Golden Pen Rising Star USITT Awards Young Designers IALD Student Award Member Benefits In Memoriam: Bill MOrse Remembering bill Jon Schoenoff Announcements 2011 Study Tour The Last Word News From: Around The Institute Contributing Members Sustaining Members USITT's President Regional Sections ExEcutive Director The Harvey B. Gantt Center For African American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, Commissions North Carolina is just across the street from The Westin, headquarters hotel for the Costuming Services upcoming 2011 Annual Conference, and from the Charlotte Convention Center, where Scene Design most sessions will be held. Online registration for the 2011 event will open soon, so read more about the many area museums here. Conference & Stage Expo Photo/Barbara E.R. Lucas Charlotte Museums Student Volunteers Table Space at Stage Expo For the Record Leadership Contributing Members Sustaining Members September 2010 issue pdf United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.: © 2010 Volume L, Number 9 http://wwwtest.usitt.org/sled/v50n09Sept2010/v50/n09/stories/SeptemberCover.html (1 of 2)9/1/2010 3:00:29 PM To Open Nominations for 2011 Architecture Awards September 2010 The Royal Conservatory News & Notices of Music, TELUS Centre Nominations Open for: for Performance and Architecture Awards Learning in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was Golden Pen selected as the only Rising Star Honor Award winner in the USITT Awards 2010 USITT Architecture Young Designers Awards competition, the IALD Student Award highest award. Member Benefits Applications for the 2011 In Memoriam: awards will be accepted Bill MOrse until November 8, 2011. Remembering bill Jon Schoenoff Announcements 2011 Study Tour The Last Word News From: Around The Institute To Open Nominations for 2011 Contributing Members Architecture Awards Sustaining Members Now in its second decade, USITT Architecture Awards continues USITT's President to draw submissions of the finest in new uses and reuse from Regional Sections around the world. ExEcutive Director Commissions Applications will be available on the website September 1. Submission and entry forms are due November 8. Costuming Services Scene Design Adjudication will take place later in 2010 with Honor and Merit Conference & Award winners announced early in 2011. Finalists will be invited Stage Expo to the Charlotte 2011 Annual Conference & Stage Expo where all submissions will be discussed in a special session, and the awards Charlotte Museums presented as part of the Architecture Commission events. Student Volunteers Table Space at Stage Any building completed in the last 10 years is eligible. For past Expo winners, application, and details of the awards process click here. For the Record Notable jury members include Joshua Dachs, theatre consultant; Leadership Norman Pfeiffer, FAIA, founder of Pfeiffer Partners and former Contributing Members founding partner of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA); Sustaining Members and Yasuhisa Toyota, president, Nagata Acoustics. September 2010 issue pdf Mr. Dachs is an architect and theatrical lighting designer. He directs Fisher Dachs Associates where he provides planning, programming, and design leadership. In more than 25 years of practice he has helped plan and design hundreds of projects. He actively participates in room shaping, spatial organization, and http://wwwtest.usitt.org/sled/v50n09Sept2010/v50/n09/stories/ArchitectureAwards.html (1 of 3)9/1/2010 3:00:31 PM To Open Nominations for 2011 Architecture Awards other major design issues in the early stages of virtually all of FDA's significant projects. As a principal consultant to Lincoln Center, Mr. Dachs has been involved in the renovation of the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the renovation of Alice Tully Hall, the expansion of the Juilliard School, and renovation plans for Avery Fisher Hall. Among the other projects completed under his leadership are the flexible REDCAT Theatre at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles, California; the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas; a new opera house in Daegu, South Korea, and the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Pfeiffer has been recognized during his long career for memorable performing arts and cultural spaces. His diverse portfolio includes contemporary new construction as well as historic renovations and additions. His inclusive approach grounds each design solution in an understanding of site opportunities, community objectives, architectural influences, and functional parameters and has resulted in both iconic and contextual resolutions. His buildings have been amply recognized by the profession with numerous planning, design, and restoration awards for their contribution to architecture, urbanism, and the communities they serve, including several USITT Architecture Awards. Mr. Pfeiffer received a USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in Architecture in 2007. Among his noted performing arts facilities are Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon; Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage; and Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver, Colorado. Current and recent projects include the Performing Arts Center Eastside in Bellvue, Washington; the Debartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame; the Colburn School of Performing Arts Expansion in downtown Los Angeles; and the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center at the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Pfeiffer has taught, written, and lectured extensively about architecture throughout his career. Dr. Toyota leads Nagata Acoustics room acoustical consulting activities and spearheaded the company’s advancement into the international arena. He has been project chief and chief acoustician on major concert hall projects in Japanese and United States, engineering some of the most acoustically-admired spaces built in the last 40 years. Dr. Toyota began his professional career in 1977, joining Nagata Acoustics directly from Kyushu Institute of Design, where he received a Bachelor of Design degree in Acoustical Design and Engineering. For more than two decades, he collaborated closely with Dr. Minoru Nagata, the company’s founder, retired president, and current executive advisor. http://wwwtest.usitt.org/sled/v50n09Sept2010/v50/n09/stories/ArchitectureAwards.html (2 of 3)9/1/2010 3:00:31 PM To Open Nominations for 2011 Architecture Awards In the United States, his work includes the Bard College Performing Arts Center, New York City; and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California. Other international work includes the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia; Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert Hall, Shenzhen, China; and the Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. Among Dr. Toyota’s noteworthy accomplishments is the acoustical design of Suntory Hall, completed in Tokyo, in 1986. Dr. Toyota has made numerous presentations, given lectures, and written papers for both technical and music industry professionals. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Nagata Acoustics has an office in Los Angeles, California. To Top United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.: © 2010 Volume L, Number 9 http://wwwtest.usitt.org/sled/v50n09Sept2010/v50/n09/stories/ArchitectureAwards.html (3 of 3)9/1/2010 3:00:31 PM Nominate Now for 2011 Golden Pen Award September 2010 USITT’s 2010 Golden Pen News & Notices Award winning book was Nominations Open for: the basis of a special Architecture Awards Blockbuster session at the Annual Conference & Golden Pen Stage Expo in Kansas Rising Star City, Missouri last April, USITT Awards where the awards were Young Designers presented. Nominations IALD Student Award are now open for the 2011 Member Benefits award. In Memoriam: Bill MOrse Photo/Tom Thatcher Remembering bill Jon Schoenoff Announcements 2011 Study Tour The Last Word News From: Nominate Now for 2011 Golden Around The Institute Pen Award Contributing Members Martha Marking Sustaining Members Golden Pen Awards Committee USITT's President Regional Sections All USITT members are eligible to nominate books for the USITT ExEcutive Director Golden Pen Award, which honors an outstanding publication in Commissions the field of design and production for the performing arts. Books are eligible for a three-year period from the date of publication. Costuming Services Nominations do not automatically carry over from one year to the Scene Design next, but it is possible for a book to be nominated more than once. Conference & Stage Expo Nominations for the 2011 Golden Pen Award are being accepted until September 15, 2010. Members can easily nominate a book Charlotte Museums by using the form here. Anyone with questions about this process Student Volunteers may contact a member of the Golden Pen subcommittee of USITT Table Space at Stage Expo Publications: Martha Marking, [email protected]; Mike Monsos, [email protected]; Rich Dunham For the Record [email protected], or Lance Brockman, brock001@tc. Leadership umn.edu. Contributing Members Sustaining Members The winning work should make a significant contribution to the September 2010 issue field of theatre design and technology as an outstanding example pdf of one or more of the following: ● scholarly research and critical thinking; ● presentation of the work and methodology of exceptional practitioners of theatrical arts and/or crafts; or http://wwwtest.usitt.org/sled/v50n09Sept2010/v50/n09/stories/GoldenPen.html