Build DC Lecture tonight

Via Iris Miller, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, CUA:

(This is an announcement from the Congress for the New Urbanism's developing DC Chapter. However, it isn't listed on the organization's website.)

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America and the National Civic Art Society invite you to participate in the Build DC Charrette #1 Pre-Charrette Lecture, "The Spirit of Place."

Alexandria Lyceum
201 S. Washington Street
Alexandria, Virginia

at 6:30 pm on June 23rd 2006, featuring:

Calder Loth, Virginia State Historian
Calder will speak about the Spirit of Place in the DC Region.

and

John Bailey, Executive Director of the Washington Smart Growth Alliance
John will present Reality Check

We will convene after the lectures for dinner within walking distance of the Lyceum to discuss the lectures and their impact on our design approaches. Dinner will be Dutch Treat, (location TBD).

Please RSVP for the post-lecture meeting as well as for the lectures themselves as we need to know the number of attendees.
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I'm going to try to make it, as Iris asked me to come. Plus, I'd like to meet Dr. Loth, who was kind enough to share with me (and us) photos of his award-winning alley beautification-gardening efforts in the Fan District of Richmond.
204 N. Granby Street (rear), Fan District, Richmond, Virginia.

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