Date:
November 4, 2010 (Movie Start 7:00pm)
Location:
Tivoli Theater
4050 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, MO 64111
Fee:
$10, At door $12(cash only)
Date:
November 4, 2010 (Movie Start 7:00pm)
Location:
Tivoli Theater
4050 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, MO 64111
Fee:
$10, At door $12(cash only)
Typeface Trailer
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner Trailer
The September Issue Trailer
Typeface, Kartemquin's latest documentary in progress, will bring this fascinating junction of historical and contemporary, as well as rural and urban America together for enjoyment and contemplation. This film will be of interest to art and graphic design enthusiasts, to teachers as an educational resource, and to anyone looking for a film about perseverance and preservation in the heart of America.
Click here to watch the trailer for Typeface
Typeface is currently nominated for a 2010 Emmy for Best Documentary - Current Significance by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Date:
October 7, 2010 (Movie Start 7:00pm)
Location:
Tivoli Theater
4050 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, MO 64111
Tickets:
The REEL DESIGN Film Series is sponsored through the Kansas City Design Alliance with AIA Kansas City, AIGA - Kansas City, Kansas City APA and KCMODERN.
Click here to register for October 7, 2010 - Typeface
Join us for the other two films in the REEL Design Film Series.
Click here to register for November 4, 2010 - Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Click here to register for November 11, 2010 - The September Issue
Join KCMODERN in celebrating a successful Mid-Century Modern adaptive reuse.
Please Join us for
Friday June 4, 2010, 10:00 AM in Wichita, Kansas
Friday June 4, 2010, 6:30 PM in Newton, Kansas
Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Hudson Home
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
We are posting information about the Tour and Architect, David B. Runnells almost every day, so check out some of the older posts and keep coming back here often.
This is the home of one of the architects – James Ingraham Clark. -- looking south down the slope
House: Leawood, Kansas
Runnells Clark Waugh & Matsumoto Architects
PROGRAM: Suburban residence for a growing family. Space provided under present bedroom wing for duplication of facilities on upper level.
SITE: Land at end of cul-de-sac street; one acre sloping toward the south; stone ledge under most of actual house site.
SOLUTION: Plan organized to turn its back to the street side and open out to the east and south. Design developed to have advantages of prefabrication although built on the side. Ledge proved both solid and flat; hence, prefabricated heating panels and foundations were laid directly on the stone; footings needed under bedroom portion only where rock ledge ran out. Plan worked out on a 4’-1/4” module – the 4’ to take standard sheets of plywood; the ¼” to allow a space between sheets, eliminating any fitting or butting at the joints. Dry construction throughout.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
CONSTRUCTION: Framing: wood. Walls: no footings; stone foundations on solid rock; native stone. Interior finishes: Douglas fir plywood; exterior: 5-ply waterproof plywood. Floors: wood sash: double-insulating glazing; glass block (bathroom only). Insulation: acoustical; cement-impregnated wood-fiberboard exposed on ceilings; thermal’ double-thick expansible blanket; flameproof cotton: glass-wool batts: blown-in wool type. Partitions: frame. Surfaced both sides with plywood. Doors: birch-surfaced hollow core; solid flush exterior doors.
EQUIPMENT: Heating: hot-water radiant panel, zoned for three areas; gas-fired boiler; automatic controls; attic fan. Kitchen: electric stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, garbage disposal unit, deep freeze, and exhaust fan. Special equipment: water softener.
front door - (looking south)
view from street (utility rooms, left, bedroom wing, right)
bedroom wing, additional bedrooms to be added later at lower level
view from east (living rooms left, outdoor living, right center, service right
living room and porch (right); glazed stairwell (left)
(first floor plan)
south window of living room and stair hall to bedroom wing
fireplace corner of living room with east porch beyond
master bedroom with cantilevered deck outside southeast window wallwall between dining area and kitchen
same wall, opened up
Name: James Ingraham Clark ResidenceKANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Built for one of the partners in an architectural firm, this house of the James Ingraham Clarks is planned carefully for expansion as the family grows. It turns away from the street – originally a quite thoroughfare which has since became much more busy, partly because people come to see the house – and faces towards the south and southeast on a sloping site which ends in a wooded creek bed. When the house was built there was one child; now there are two, and family plans are for two more. Hence it was desired that the house could grow both in bedroom accommodations and in living space. Facing the street is a “core” which will not change: utility rooms, kitchens, laundry and garage. Past these rooms as one enters the house is a living room which is at present reasonably large, but certainly not oversized. In the future, as the plan indicates, this room will be extended, and even may have a porch on the end as a final expansion. The solution to the addition of bedrooms is made possible by a steep drop of fifteen feet in the site at the point where the bedroom wing breaks from the main house. Under the present two bedrooms there is now an open terraced space which, can, when the family has grown, be converted into a lower bedroom floor with three rooms. Mr. Clark is thoroughly objective about the value or lack of value of a number of ideas that went in the house. Orientation for sun control, studied mathematically, has worked out excellently. Plans to use a certain amount of site prefabrication – panels constructed on the property and raised into place – did not work so well, because of unfamiliarity of the available labor with this system. There is “nearly too much: storage space in cupboards, drawers and shelves. These are minor troubles, however. In general the dry-wall construction, the acoustic ceilings, the efficient kitchen layout, and the orientation have worked very well.
RUNNELLS, CLARK, WAUGH & MATSUMOTO, ARCHITECTS
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM 
KCMODERN's David Benton Runnells House Tour and Party will feature at least six Modern Houses by the architect. The dates of the events are
Name: James Kemper Residence
Name: Shoor Residence
