Springboard Design News

When she is not on ‘Springboard Time,’ Springboard Design’s Creative Director Petra Fallaux is busy working in her studio on the beautiful quilts featured at www.petrafallaux.com and in exhibitions such as the one that is about to close at the A.E.Backus Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida. Backus, Florida’s preeminent landscape painter, inspired a generation of landscape painters including the legendary Highwaymen to focus on Florida’s unique natural character.

Fallaux was similarly inspired by the landscape of her native land – not Florida but The Netherlands – to abstract her favorite landscape in colorful contemporary compositions of hand dyed fabrics.

The exhibition and Ms. Fallaux’s accompanying lecture at the museum were a big hit.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/apr/12/buckus-gallery-takes-quilts-off-the-bed-and-onto/

Springboard Design Principal Paul Rosenblatt just returned from the Penn State School of Architecture where he was serving as a Guest Critic for the Final Reviews of the school’s comprehensive studio. The project the students designed was a neighborhood library on a prominent corner of Pittsburgh’s North Side, not far from Springboard’s National Aviary building. He was the guest of Architect Malcolm Woolen, an associate professor of archicture in the school. Thanks, Malcolm, for the invitation! The student work was excellent – as were the critiques by Malcolm’s colleagues and other guests.

Mr. Rosenblatt’s visit to Penn State follows by a few months a similar visit to Washington University of St. Louis, where he was the guest of Dean Bruce Lindsay. These are both excellent schools of architecture and the opportunity to practice and teach – or preach – is a great way for architects to maintain their edge, be exposed to the latest academic developments, and share a professional perspective with advanced students soon to launched into the world.

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