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| James Wines is the President and Founder of SITE Environmental Design, an architecture and environmental arts organization started in 1970 for the purpose of exploring a more socially and environmentally responsive approach to the design of buildings, interiors, public spaces and commercial products. Under Mr. Wines' direction, SITE has become identified internationally with innovative concepts for buildings and public spaces. His projects, drawings, and essays have been extensively published in the professional, popular, and academic journals of twenty-five countries, and his architectural works have been exhibited in more than 100 museums and galleries in North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, SITE buildings and interiors have been given major design awards. The current focus of James Wines' creative work is in the area of green architecture, the fusion of buildings with landscape, and advocacy of a new role for all building arts in the global environmental protection movement. Program Descriptions: New Wave Organic Architecture: Building Art in the Age of Ecology An overview of architects in the 1990's who are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and natural environment. It is a compendium of their constructed and proposed works that, with varying degrees of success, are dealing with such issues as environmental technology, energy conservation, and sustainability. At the same time, these designers are trying to translate this emerging revolution into an appropriate language of form. While there are many publications that cover the technological side of green design, Wines approaches the subject from a conceptual, philosophical, and aesthetic perspective. Identity in Density James Wines discusses the belief that a building should not be conceived as an object sitting in the environment, but as a fusion of inside and outside elements that can be seen as the environment. He will also discuss how buildings and public spaces should move away from the influences of the 20th-century Age of Industry and Technology to respond more effectively to the present Age of Information and Ecology. |