ICON* : Design Exhibition

EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION | September 6 . Thursday | 4:30-6:30pm

exhibit | september 6-28 | @ 511 South Main

auction | september 29 | @ Architecture Month Finale Party

An exhibition highlighting icons in design from furniture to fashion. Items will be on display in September, and auctioned off Saturday September 29 at the Architecture Month Finale Party. For more details...

AIA Memphis Golf Open

September 7 . Friday

@ The Links at Galloway

PUTTING CONTEST UPDATE

Not a golfer? Need to replace that chair you are sitting in?

Come by our PUTTING GREEN for a chance to win a Knoll ReGeneration Chair.

No need to pre-register or sign up! Just drop by from 11:30am-1:30pm. Approximate retail value $1,000. You do not have to be present to win. Visit www.aiamemphis.org for more information. This event is open to the public and raises money annually for student and emerging professional scholarships. Join us!

South Main Trolley Night Exhibit Closing Soiree

September 28 . Friday | 6 pm - til

@ AIA Memphis | 511 South Main

Come by the AIA Memphis office to see the ICON* Exhibition before it is auctioned off at the Architecture Month Finale Party!

Architecture Month Finale Party

September 29 . Saturday | 7 pm

@ LUXE (formerly the Powerhouse @ 45 GE Patterson)

Every great celebration needs a great party! Come bid on your favorite pieces from the ICON* Exhibition along with other great items for your home in the auction,

hang out in our film screening room, or simply enjoy one of Memphis’ greatest little architectural gems over cocktails with your friends in the VIP lounge!

For more details...

The Finale Party is sponsored by

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events

30th Anniversary Mud Island River Walk: A Mississippi River Architectural Marvel

opening reception . September 18 . Tuesday | 4:30 pm | free

@ Mississippi River Museum | 125 North Front Street

exhibit runs

September 14 – October 31, 2012

The exhibit in the Mississippi River Museum will feature the artistry of Nesbit Coltharp and include drawings and photographs of the formative years of the “RIVER WALK”.  Also included in the exhibit will be some of his original drawings and architectural renderings of local scenes and buildings in the Memphis area.

Mud Island is a river oriented urban park, developed on a strip of land located between the Mississippi River and the Wolf River Harbor, at the foot of Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.  One of the most popular features of the park is a working (flowing) scale model of the lower Mississippi River, including its flood plain, between Cairo, Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico, known as the ‘RIVER WALK”.  The walk is approximately two thousand feet long. The scale used for the model is such that each long step (thirty-three inches) represents a mile on the real river.  Features included four watershed panels, 65 graphic panels of historical and geographical information of the river, contours which represent river gage levels, levees and flood plains.  The ‘RIVER WALK” flows 2.2 million gallons of water in its system.

Nesbit Coltharp was the designer of the “RIVER WALK”, while employed by the local architectural firm, Roy P. Harrover & Associates of Memphis, in charge of the park development which was completed in 1982.  Mr. Coltharp received his Architectural Degree from Tulane University in 1952.  He moved from New Orleans to Memphis in 1958. Since that time until his retirement, he was an active and responsible participant in some the most significant Architectural Projects constructed in the Memphis area – including the Memphis International Airport terminal, Memphis College of Art in Overton Park and Goldsmith’s Oak Court in East Memphis.