denny Architectural Art & Design

Los Angeles architect Neil M. Denari, AIA is the founder and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA) an office dedicated to exploring the worlds of architecture, design, urbanism and global cultural phenomenon. Long considered one of the pioneers in the use of computers in architectural design and visualization, NMDA has produced a body of work that has fused the physical and the graphic worlds in unprecedented ways. From their groundbreaking installation in Tokyos Gallery MA in 1996 to their current explorations, they have pursued the development of cultural ergonomics, ie those forms the fit our contemporary life. Although NMDA operates on a global level, Los Angeles and its landscapes and cultural institutions play an important role in the development of their work.

www.channelbeta.net //////// Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials IM Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. In 1948, William Zeckendorf hired Pei to work at the real estate development corporation Webb and Knapp in a newly created post, Director of Architecture. While at Webb and Knapp, Pei worked on many large-scale architectural and planning projects across the country and designed his buildings mostly in the manner of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. IM Pei is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Corporate Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1975 he was elected to the American Academy, which is restricted to a lifetime membership of fifty members. In 1978, he became Chancellor of the American Academy, the first architect to hold that position. He served until 1980. Mr. Pei was inducted a "Membre de l'Institut de France" in 1984, and decorated by the French government as a Commandeur in the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in 1985. On July 4, 1986, he was one of twelve naturalized American citizens to receive the Medal of Liberty from President Ronald Reagan. Two years later French president François Mitterrand inducted IM Pei as a Chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur ...

This screenplay by Michael Giese & David Ladr, with music & lyrics by Roshann Lund & Casey Kidd, was created during the 2011 'Writing the Film Musical" course given by Diane Lake, assistant professor at Emerson College, Boston, and Michael Wartofsky, professor at Berklee College of Music. The course won the first Pro Arts Consortium Classroom Connect Award, for the most innovative course design by faculty collaborating across multiple ProArts schools. The course matches Berklee songwriters--composers and lyricists--with Emerson screenwriters to create original screenplays with songs. Students study the screenplays of a variety of film musicals from the beginning of the genre to the present. Working in teams, writing students from Emerson complete an outline and first act of an original screenplay, and composers and lyricists from Berklee write songs to help tell that story. The semester ends with staged readings—with music—performed by acting/musical theatre students from both Berklee and Emerson. WRITING THE FILM MUSICAL will next be offered Fall 2012. For more information, please contact diane_Lake@emerson.edu or mwartofsky@berklee.edu ---------------------------- x ----------------------- Starving Artists Selected scenes Screenplay by..............................................Michael Giese & David Ladr Music & Lyrics by.......................................Roshann Lund & Casey Kidd Directed by ...