Event Details:

Tues, August 3rd, 6:30PM
Waikiki Parc Hotel,
2233 Helumoa Road, Honolulu
free to the public.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.

This lavishly illustrated book traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880-1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices in Denver and San Francisco to his arrival in Hawaii in 1919 as a partner of C. W. Dickey and eventual solo career in the Islands. An outspoken leader in the development of a Hawaiian style of architecture, Wood incorporated local building traditions and materials in many of his projects and was the first in Hawaii to blend Eastern and Western architectural forms in a conscious manner. Enchanted by Hawaii’s vivid beauty and its benevolent climate, exotic flora, and cosmopolitan culture, Wood sought to capture the aura of the Islands in his architectural designs. Hart Wood’s magnificent and graceful buildings remain critical to Hawaii’s architectural legacy more than fifty years after his death: the First Church of Christ Science on Punahou Street, the First Chinese Church on King Street, the S & G Gump Building on Kalakaua Avenue, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply Administration Building on Beretania Street, and the Alexander & Baldwin Building on Bishop Street, as well as numerous Wood residences throughout the city.

Don J. Hibbard administered the State of Hawai’i’s historic preservation program in 1981-2002 and now works as a heritage specialist. He has written several books on Hawaii architecture, including The View from Diamond Head and Designing Paradise. Glenn E. Mason, AIA, heads Mason Architects in Honolulu and has published several articles and essays on Hawaii’s historic architecture. Born and raised in Hawaii, Glenn received an M. Arch. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1974 and then returned to Honolulu, where he has worked for 34 years in new construction as well as in his specialty, the preservation of historic buildings. Since 1978 he has guided thirteen successive phases of restoration of ‘Iolani Palace. A past president of AIA, Honolulu Chapter, and the Hawaii State Council, AIA, Glenn currently serves on several other not-for-profit boards.

Books being available for purchase signing at the talk

• FIRST LOOK and chance to purchase the unique titles jeffstaple has chosen for the Reed Space HNL bookshop.  Almost all Reed Space HNL items are here in limited quantities and several titles debuting in Hawaii, exclusive to Reed Space HNL.
• COCKTAILS by Nobu's Dave Newman courtesy of Tuaca, and delicious pupus by our friends in the kitchen at Nobu Waikiki
• Help us give a warm WELCOME to jeffstaple to Honolulu
• When was the last time you were in WAIKIKI to explore a new bookstore with friends and creatives (...FREE VALET PARKING too!) ?
• SUPPORT Interisland Terminal - in addition to delicious pupus and cocktails, your $35 ticket helps to underwrite the costs of Interisland Terminals programs, while furthering our mission to cultivate the creative capital of our community.  For just over a year, we've been presenting unique programs in contemporary art, design and film.  We've been engaging with Honolulu's creative community, taking stock, promoting what others are doing in town, and continuously working to build a strong slate of international quality programming to share.  We do this as professionally as possible, while being a completely volunteer, non-profit organization. Shipping, venue rentals, website, printing, licenses, insurance, artists fees, etc. are all paid for with the cumulative contributions of donors, grants and sponsors.

Interisland Terminal is proud to present this event for only $10 (advance purchase)! Thanks so much to our partners who helped make this entire program, Reed Space HNL, possible: Waikiki Parc Hotel, Tuaca, Nobu Waikiki, AIGA Honolulu, Staple Design, Reed Space, Creative Solutions, and UH Press.

The inspiration for REED SPACE HNL is our desire to see a return of independent bookshops in Honolulu featuring thoughtfully selected titles to nurture the intellect and creative capital of this community. Renowned graphic designer and brand developer jeffstaple will curate the bookstore’s selection of art, architecture and design books.

We’ll have full information on the website soon, including a special preview evening event on July 28, and a jeffstaple lecture event on July 29 at Halekulani. Sign up for the Interisland Terminal email list to keep updated.

Special thanks to Waikiki Parc Hotel, Tuaca, Nobu Waikiki, AIGA Honolulu, Staple Design, Reed Space, UH Press, and Princeton Architectural Press.

First, our friends over at The Department of Public Works have a show currently going on at the Contemporary Museum Cafe

The Contemporary Museum (www.tcmhi.org) Café Gallery exhibits, “Foray” by the Department of Public Works. The exhibition begins May 4 and runs through May 31, 2010. TCM Café Gallery is located at 2411 Makiki Heights Drive in Honolulu, and is open Tuesday – Sunday from 11:30 am – 2:30 pm.

This selection of work by four members of the Department of Public Works—Evil Genius, Raul Soria, Kevin Blanchard, and Jared Yamanuha—includes an eclectic mix of graphic design, illustration, sculpture, and photography.

Next up, we want to offer our congratulations to partner and supporter 8 Inc. They were recently awarded the Grand Award from the Building Industry Association for their work on the 280 Beachwalk Property.

Our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, recently featured us on their blog.

I’d imagine it’s attributable to our good behavior :)

Finally, things-we’re-announcing-after-the-fact-but-hope-you-were-able-to-make-it-to:

One of our interns Angelica Rabang recently organized “Sustainability 101 for graphic designers” talkshop in her role as the sustainability chair for AIGA.

Another of our interns, Michelle Carino recently had her work shown in the BFA Gallery on UH campus, and at the BFA design show held on May 6th at Linekoa campus.

Because it’s commencement day and because we’re so thankful to have them, we also wanted to congratulate our interns Jocelyn Kaku and Michelle Carino on graduating from UH!

Being a person with a graphic design background and a strong interest in architecture, I was especially excited to see Jennifer Siegal’s lecture. It might have been her portfolio of work or the title of her lecture, but for me, it was her portrait. Symmetrical: her arms fallen comfortably to her sides with her hands meeting in front as she holds a pair of red wings firmly… held high enough as if she is offering it to you, the viewer. The gift of mobility.

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Her work is clean, sophisticated, well thought out, and representative of our times. It has everything you need in a structure… and nothing you don’t need. It is an expression of our values of today combined with our needs of tomorrow. (Tomorrow is the key word.) She said, “When you’re not pushed to perform, there’s a reluctance to see beyond what’s already here.” Siegal has overcome this.

Using reclaimed and high-performance materials, she designs modular pieces, prefabricated, then assembled on site to what will become… a home. “These buildings have no borders,” she said.

After the lecture, the young aspiring architect beside me said, “She’s everything I thought she would be: strong, intelligent, and confident.” He forgot to add “brilliant.”

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4505&Itemid=70

“I’ve always loved the idea of a trailer park”, says Jennifer Siegal roughly 3 minutes, 30 seconds into her interview with Noe Tanigawa on Hawaii Public Radio.

For Siegal, the concept of a “third space” for shared activities that fit between the things you do in the privacy of your home and those you do in public) is an important one in her work. And perhaps it should be an important one in our own home, where space is limited and the forces driving development don’t seem to be letting up.

In what was perhaps a reference to our own ongoing Architecture competition, Takigawa asks if Siegal is suggesting the framework of a “New Community Architecture”. No doubt she is.

But Siegal has some interesting things to say about Hawaii as well. 22 minutes in, she touches on the interesting history of the ownership of land and how it might cue us moving forward. A few minutes later she touches on the impact that more responsive, potentially bio-engineered materials, might enable ocean dwellings clad in sharkskin! (ok that’s stretching what she said a little…)

Towards the end she mentioned how creativity can often come out of a lack of resources. That’s something that Interisland Terminal couldn’t agree with more.

If you’re free at 6:00PM today, join us at the UH School of Architecture auditorium to hear Siegal’s lecture: Generation Mobile – The Death of Distance. If you’re not, listen to the long version of the interview between now and then, and it might convince you to make the time.

Tune in to Hawaii Public Radio on Friday, April 2. Noe Tanigawa is interviewing Jennifer Siegal, the founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based Office of Mobile Design (OMD) on KHPR 88.1 FM at 7:30 am and 4:30 pm. The interview will also run between 8:00-8:30 am and at 1:30pm on KIPO 89.3 FM. If you miss it on air, the interview will also be available online later in the day at www.hawaiipublicradio.org.

Jennifer Siegal is presenting a talk titled “Generation Mobile: the Death of Distance” at the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture on Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 6:00-7:30 pm. This event is FREE.

Interisland Terminal and the University of Hawaii School of Architecture are sponsoring Jennifer Siegal’s lecture at the University of Hawaii. Jennifer Siegal is also one of the juror’s of Interisland Terminal’s Competition For New Community Architecture. The announcement of the winner of the Competition For New Community Architecture will take place on April 15, 2010.