Frederick Fisher and Partners

Visit FFP at AAM Annual Meeting 2012

CTB — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:45:23 +0000

Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects will be exhibiting, beginning Sunday, April 29, at MuseumExpo 2012 at the 106th AAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul.

As a leading architecture and planning firm Fisher Partners has been recognized internationally for over 20 years for its work with cultural institutions, art schools, and art spaces in Europe, Asia and the United States. Museum and cultural projects include work in programming, design and master planning for clients including Colby Museum of Art, Princeton Museum of Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Flint Institute of Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, the Broad Arts Foundation, Oceanside Museum of Art, Otis College of Art & Design and, the Lois & Robert F. Erburu Gallery at the Huntington Library, among others. As a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, founding principal, Frederick Fisher focused his Rome prize scholarship the rehabilitation of historic and abandoned structures into art spaces.

Visit us at booth #1600.

Fred Fisher Will Speak on Representations of Los Angeles

CTB — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:39:31 +0000

Fisher presents a gallery talk exploring representations of Los Angeles. Complements the exhibition In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980. Fred is known for his creative spaces. He and his firm, Fisher Partners, designed the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology as well as the Robert F. Erburu Gallery at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, LA Louver Gallery, among others.

Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
The Getty Center, Museum Galleries
Free. Call (310) 440-7300 for more information.

Opening Celebration for the Recently Completed Sunnylands Center & Gardens at The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.

CTB — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:53:26 +0000

This weekend marked the celebration of the opening of a extraordinary new public building in Rancho Mirage.

The recently completed Sunnylands Center & Gardens is part of an important new initiative by the Annenberg Foundation, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. The new Center is part of a desert landscape and architecture complex which includes the 1966 A. Quincy Jones house designed with Leonore and Walter Annenberg.

The new initiative, which will include conversations and retreats with global leaders, was kicked off this weekend with an important day-long symposium focusing on geopolitics, education, the role of the arts in our daily lives and how personal relationships impact history.

Frederick Fisher & Partners is honored to be a part of the development and launch of The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, which will open to the public on March 1st. To find out more information about this groundbreaking project, please visit: www.sunnylands.org

Distinguished Alumni Lecture This Month at UCLA

CTB — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:37:48 +0000

Be sure to catch Fred’s next lecture at UCLA’s Perloff Hall, Decafé on January 30 at 6:30pm. Fred will be highlighting recent and ongoing projects related to art spaces, dwelling, and public work.

For further details regarding this program and other upcoming events at UCLA, refer to the department website: www.aud.ucla.edu

Caltech’s Annenberg IST Center Takes Top Honors from USGBC/LA

CTB — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:03:09 +0000

We are excited to announce that FFP’s Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at Caltech was tapped for “Project of the Year” for the 2011 Sustainable Innovation Awards. This is the inaugural year of this awards program by the Los Angeles chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, which is intended to recognize sustainable excellence that goes above and beyond LEED credit achievement. The Annenberg IST Center won in the category of Indoor Environmental Quality in addition to this year’s top prize. FFP is extremely honored to have received such praise. Thank you to the 2011 USGBC/LA, and congratulations to our exceptional project team and client, Caltech, for their strong collaboration that made this success possible.

Sunnylands Center & Gardens wins AFLA Design Green Award

CTB — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:36:06 +0000

Four projects were recognized for sustainable excellence by the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles (AFLA) at last night’s AIA/LA Design Awards Gala, including FFP’s Sunnylands Center & Gardens at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. The Design Green Awards were created in 2008 by the AFLA to support and recognize the metamorphosis of design as architecture explores a language of sustainability. This is the second consecutive year that FFP has been honored by this organization, having received an Honor Award for the Annenberg Community Beach House in 2010. FFP would like to thank the AFLA and the 2011 Design Green Jury for this great honor.

Women Hold Up Half the Sky – Opens Thursday

CTB — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:44:50 +0000

Do not miss the upcoming show, Women Hold Up Half The Sky at the Skirball Cultural Center, co-designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects. We hope you have a chance to see this important exhibition, opening this Thursday, October 27^th through March 11^th, 2012.

Inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, this exhibition addresses gender equality as the human rights cause of our time. Confronting the malign persistence of sex trafficking, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality, the exhibition tells stories of women from around the globe who have changed their lives through education, economics, and self-determination.

Experience these tales of perseverance, courage, and hope—and celebrate how individuals can be part of workable solutions.

(Photograph by Les Stone)

Groundbreaking for the Alford-Lunder Family Pavilion Next Week

CTB — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:54:33 +0000

A groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction of the new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will be held on Friday, October 21 at 6pm. The 26,000 square foot expansion to the Colby College Museum of Art is the third FFP-designed expansion to the Museum in the last decade.

The $15-million project was initiated in response to Peter and Paula Lunder’s promised gift of art in 2007. The project will include a sculpture terrace, a classroom for museum education and outreach, and 10,000 square feet of new exhibition space. Art Department studios will occupy the top floor of the addition, which is anticipated to achieve LEED-silver certification.

The new space will open during Colby’s bicentennial year, and the opening exhibition in July 2013 will present works from the Lunder Collection.

Caltech Receives Top Ranking as World’s Best Research University

CTB — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:28:38 +0000

A British higher education magazine released their findings honoring Caltech with it’s top prize. The Pasadena University home to Frederick Fisher and Partner’s Walter And Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology (pictured) won out over even Harvard University who has held that honor since the ranking began in 2004. For the full article from LA Now click here.