Glenbow: A Museum Re-Imagined- INTERN | Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

 

Glenbow: A Museum Re-Imagined- INTERN

SKU: CE2023CONF10

Glenbow: A Museum Re-Imagined

This webinar is part of the RAIC 2023 Conference on Architecture, now available to stream!

Topics: History, Heritage and Culture

Length: 1 hour | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion 

This session will be a curated presentation of re-imaging the Glenbow Museum. The design process has been 7 years in the making with construction starting in late summer of 2022. By the time of the conference the transformation will be well underway. The project is about working with an existing cast-in-place (almost brutalist) concrete building. The interventions within the building provide new ways of seeing the spaces and the collections, creating a building that is much more aware of its presence in the community and its responsibilities to the may communities that it serves. As architecture engages site, program, context and history, each building has the potential, and a responsibility, to express a greater, more inclusive cultural meaning. Whether new construction or renovation, it is through this exploration that we gain insight, and an understanding of ourselves and our time as being both more nuanced and more complex than possibly we ever imagined. Located at the corner of Stephen Avenue and 1st Street SE, Glenbow is as much about the public space as it is about the building. It is an anchor to the public realm of Stephen Avenue and Olympic Plaza and in physical partnership with Arts Commons and the Telus Convention Centre. A civically engaged Glenbow is at the heart of the cultural precinct of Calgary.
 

Learning Objectives:

By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the many sustainable benefits of renovating existing buildings as opposed to replacing them.
  • Describe the potentials and processes of contemporary GFRC in advanced building envelopes.
  • Recognize and discuss the advantages of reprogramming museum spaces to be more user focused and front of house.
  • Explain the concept of Threshold Anxiety and measures that this project has taken to overcome this phenomenon. 

Subject Matter Expert:

Mr. Robert Claiborne


AAA, AIA, NCARB, MArch, BArch
Architect, DIALOG

A design partner at DIALOG, Robert has led many international cultural, institutional and master planning commissions. Robert is the creative force behind many national and international award-winning projects. He believes that each project has an opportunity and a responsibility to express a greater cultural meaning. Robert puts emphasis and focus on understanding and reshaping the many forces that influence each project and strives to find a unique and inspired response to those conditions. A keen observer with many interests, but particularly in the arts, Robert believes that architecture comes to us through our experiences with the world not from other architecture. Engaged and committed, Robert works closely with clients and colleagues alike and fosters a strong dedicated team approach to work with the studio. Robert is a licensed architect in both Alberta and California. He previously had his own architectural practice in Montreal, Studio 451, where he focused on cultural projects and international competitions. For almost a decade he was design lead with Studio Libeskind in Berlin and Los Angeles where he led many design projects in Europe, North America and Asia. Robert earned his Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in 1993 and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1985 and a certificate from the Ecole d’arts americaines in Fontainebleau, France. He has taught architecture for many years at universities including the University of Calgary, McGill University, the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California and California Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work has been exhibited both in Canada and internationally.

Pricing A-La-Carte

$35.00
List price: $50.00
Member Price: 
$35.00