| lecture
AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition
Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House by Judith Sheine

On the occasion of the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition (May 17-19, 2012, Walter E. Washington Convention Center), Judith Sheine, a leading authority on the American architect Rudolph Schindler, who has Austrian roots, will give a lecture and power point presentation on Schindler’s Kings Road house in Los Angeles. She will describe and analyze the house in detail and place it in global context. She will also present the book, Schindler, Kings Road, and Southern California Modernism, which she authored in cooperation with Robert Sweeney, President of the Friends of the Schindler House, and which will be published by the University of California Press in November this year.

Judith Sheine is Professor and Chair in the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor. She has published a number of books on the architect R.M. Schindler; she co-edited, with Lionel March, R.M Schindler: Composition and Construction ( Academy Editions, 1993) and authored “R.M. Schindler: Works and Projects” ( Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1998) and R.M. Schindler (Phaidon Press, 2001). She is also a practicing architect and has won several prizes in design competitions and a Record  House Award from Architectural Record (1995) for the Sarli house.

Friday May 18 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington, DC 20008
Admission is free. RSVP required: http://www.acfdc.org/events-registration or 202-895-6776

| reading in English
Small Nations Poetry Night 2012

Would you like to listen to great poetry from Slovenia, Monaco, Malta, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Bahrain and Austria? Then attend the Small Nations Poetry Night 2012 at the Katzen Arts Center Abramson Family Recital Hall at American University.
Ambassadors of the participating countries will read poetry/lyrics from their home countries. This year’s topic will be comedy, so we will expect a fun night!

The Small Nations Poetry Night will be followed by a reception provided by the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Bahrain. Wines from the  participating countries will also be served.

Wednesday May 23 | 7:00 pm | Katzen Arts Center | American University | 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW | Washington, DC 20016
Admission is free. RSVP required: http://www.acfdc.org/events-registration or 202-895-6776

| concert in cooperation with the Wiener Konzerthaus
Acies Quartet

The Acies Quartet was founded in September 2000 by four outstanding students of the Kärntner (Carinthian) Landeskonservatorium and received its first chamber music tuition from the head of the conservatory’s string department, Prof. Brian Finlayson. In the sequel, the quartet won many important prizes, among them in June 2003 the Prima la Musica Competition with distinction and in October 2006 the  first prize in the category string quartet  Gradus ad Parnassum, Austria’s elite competition in classical music. The quartet also received the Mozart Prize 2006, awarded for the best Mozart interpretation. In January 2008 the quartet won the annual Musica Juventutis Competition of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Their debut at the Schubertsaal of the Konzerthaus followed in May 2008.

The Acies Quartet participated at many master classes and performed highly acclaimed recitals at numerous music festivals at home and abroad, including performances at Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, Teatro dei Dioscuri Rome, Musikwochen Millstatt, Klassikfest Oberneukirchen, Konzerthaus Klagenfurt and Brucknerhaus Linz.

Artists: Benjamin Ziervogel, violin; Raphael Kasprian, violin; Manfred Plessl, viola and Thomas Wiesflecker, violoncello.

Program: Works by Joseph Haydn, Friedrich Gulda and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Friday May 25 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington, DC 20008
Admission free. RSVP required: http://www.acfdc.org/events-registration or 202-895-6776