The American Institute of Architects, Sierra Valley Chapter and the Modesto Art Museum will hold the sixth annual Modesto International Architecture Festival, which is scheduled to take place from Saturday, September 14 to Sunday, September 22, 2013. The festival offers participants with an opportunity to enjoy more than 60 tours, engaging movies, exhibits, talks, workshops, and events based on architecture.
Started in 2008, the Modesto International Architecture Festival aims at celebrating architecture and the architecture profession as both a science and art, and raise awareness of public about the significance and value of architects.
During its first season of the festival in 2008, four films were presented along with exhibits and discussions about architecture and architects to a large number of people in the Modesto area. The very next year, festival was organized for three consecutive evenings and presented various exhibits and movies. In 2010, the Festival was transformed into a Thursday - Saturday event. That year, the Festival started on Thursday evening by presenting Spirit of Space from Chicago, Ill. and continued on Friday with an Architecture Cafe in the morning and architecture tours and conversations all through the day.
The special events this year include: opening night reception, architecture poetry event, parking day, children’s architecture and design workshop, architecture tours, exhibits, architecture cafes, and movies. You will hear from pre-eminent architectural photographer and writer Russell Abraham about California Modernism.
The festival has emerged as a crucial event for community interaction and has been successful in informing the local people about architects and their work. The festival provides student architects at the college level with an opportunity to display their work in the lobby of the theatre. The festival has also touched the lives and works of several associated professions, city and urban planners, architects, contractors, photographers, and people who are interested in architecture classic, post modern, or modernist era architectural designs.
You can view and download a calendar on the schedule page of event’s website here.
Event's detail page: http://commingly.com/events/detail/modesto-international-architecture-festival
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