Streamlining the Design Review Process

Multiple project design reviews can have a detrimental effect to a firm’s bottom line. Furthermore, a lengthy review process can serve to erode the client/architect relationship. Please join us for Wednesday’s chapter meeting where we will have a panel discussion with representatives from Charleston’s Board of Architectural Review , Commercial Corridor Review Board, as well as, Mount Pleasant Commercial Design Review Board. We will be asking them to relate their experiences on how to make the review process go both smoother and faster. On the panel will be:

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Holiday Oyster Roast with USGBC-SC Lowcountry Branch

When:

Thursday December 1, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST

 

Where:

James Island Yacht Club

734 Wampler Drive

Charleston, SC 29422

Cost is $15 for members and $25 for non-members.  This includes one raffel ticket towards the sustainable giveaway!

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"A Postmortem on Postmodernism" Ralph C. Muldrow, RA

When famed architect Robert Venturi claims that he “is not now, and never was, a Postmodernist,” he’s evading the blanket label that architectural historian Charles Jencks once threw over a design movement’s entire body of work - including that of Venturi.  Jencks, of course, coined the term for the new architectural direction in the 1970s.

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"A Postmortem on Postmodernism"

Board Member Elections

November 16th Open positions include Vice-President/President Elect, Treasurer, Secretary Allied Representative, EP Chair, CRAN Liaison and 4 directors at large.

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Matthew Hufft