The BSA’s new committee on international practice, the Global Practice Network, kicked-off last fall connecting international practitioners in Boston. The “pre-launch” event in September 2013 brought together a group of urban designers and planners from China (Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Harbin, Tianjin, Guangdong and Jiangsu). The day was divided between a morning session at BSA Space, consisting of several short presentations and Q&A, and an afternoon of touring Boston: starting with a walking tour of the Fort Point Channel waterfront and the Rose Kennedy Greenway up to Faneuil Hall; then a bus tour through the South Boston Innovation District; Copley Square and Back Bay; Huntington Avenue to Longwood Medical Area; and MIT / Kendall Square.
The group discusses the challenges and opportunities to global practice today and what others in Boston are doing internationally. Additionally, the group examines how Boston’s architecture and design industry can work together to strengthen practice abroad.
Upcoming events
April 11, 2014 | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Global Practice Network
PAYETTE, 290 Congress Street 5th Floor, Boston
Committee Chair
Mark Careaga AIA
The Global Practice Network is part of the Professional Practice Commission.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.