October 23, 2002

Design Detailings: Goldberger to speak on WTC

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker and former architecture critic for The New York Times, will present a lecture, “After the World Trade Center: The Struggle to Make a City for our Time.” Goldberger last year authored the book, “The World Trade Center Remembered,” which chronicles how the towers evolved from targets of criticism to American icons.

The lecture will be at Town Hall Seattle, at Eighth and Seneca, 7 p.m. A special dessert reception with Goldberger is being offered after the lecture. The lecture is sponsored by Historic Seattle.

Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for Historic Seattle members, and $50 for the lecture with dessert reception. For information, call (206) 622-5444.

Engineers take lifetime awards

Carpenter

Olson

The Structural Engineers Association of Washington announced James E. Carpenter and Bruce C. Olsen have been awarded the association’s highest honor — the newly created Lifetime Service Award. The award is given for outstanding service to association, with additional consideration of service to the structural engineering profession in general. Carpenter and Olsen attended official presentations at the annual Northwest Conference Aug. 23.

Jim Carpenter has been a member of the Engineers Association since 1980. He has held several officer positions including Seattle chapter president and Washington state president, and was named the Seattle chapter Engineer of the Year in 1989. He has been involved in many committee activities, including lateral forces and emergency preparedness, and served on the Board of Directors.

Carpenter has been actively involved in the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a life member. He is an American Concrete Institute fellow and was a Engineers Association representative to the Building Seismic Safety Council.

Bruce Olsen, 88, honorary life member to SEAW and dedicated structural engineer, died Aug. 31. He was an active member of the Engineers Association, having served as a director of the Seattle Chapter, chair of the Professional Relations and Ethics Committee, and chair of the Lateral Forces Committee. For upholding high standards of structural engineering and his contributions to the association, Olsen was named the Seattle chapter’s first Engineer of the Year in 1982. He was a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, serving as president of the Seattle Section.

The association is a statewide organization of more than 800 individuals engaged in the design and construction professions, over half of whom are registered as structural engineers in the state. Incorporated in 1950, the association pursues issues affecting public safety and professional practice in structural engineering.

Educator/architect speaks tonight

The Praxis lecture series for fall 2002 continues tonight with Sandy Stannard, educator musician and architect. Stannard is an assistant professor at Cal Poly University. She speaks at 5:30 p.m. at University of Washington’s Gould Hall, Room 137. She joins other accomplished 30-something architects, planners, professors and artists this fall who are sharing their past, present and what they think of the future. The next speaker will be Heather Johnson, designer and innovator, who speaks on Monday at 5:30 p.m., in Room 240 of Gould Hall. Johnson is an architect and founder of Place Architects, Seattle. For more information on the series, go to caup.washington.edu/praxis/.

Sea-Tran seeks artist in residence

Seattle Department of Transportation is seeking a one-year artist-in-residence, and the application deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 1. The artist will work half-time in the Sea-Tran offices studying the work of that agency, developing an art plan and proposing a pilot project demonstrating how art can be integrated into Seattle’s transportation infrastructure. Visual artists from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are eligible to apply. For more information, contact etc@space-city.net.