[Scpg] [hd-films-sb] Fwd: /May 28/SB Perm Network ECO-Film Night /Honoring the Life of Visionary Architect Nader Khalili
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> From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe at silcom.com
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> Date: May 23, 2009 5:05:15 AM PDT
> To: info at hopedance.org
> Subject: /May 28/SB Perm Network ECO-Film Night /Honoring the Life
> of Visionary Architect Nader Khalili
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> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
> ECO-Film Night
> Honoring the Life of Visionary Architect Nader Khalili
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> with film-maker Dastan Khalili & documentary film feature
> "Earth Turns to Gold"
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> Thursday, May 28, 2009
> Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
> 7pm, donation $5
> "Earth turns to Gold in the hands of the Wise"
> Rumi
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> O n Thursday, May 28, at 7pm, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
> ECO-Film Night honors the life of visionary architect Nader Khalili
> and the California Institute of Earth & Architecture (Cal-Earth),
> with a feature film documentary "Earth Turns to Gold" by Dastan
> Khalili.
>
> Designing with Nature, using Earth, Water, Air, Fire and the simple
> shapes of arches, vaults and domes, Nader Khalili taught we could
> easily build homes for humanity with nothing more than the soil
> beneath our feet. He suggests that if we recognize the equilibrium
> of these elements, we will never have any environmental problems.
> Learning the perfect harmony of nature and how it can be applied to
> architecture, this practical harmony can help us build habitats that
> are sustainable, nontoxic, and ecologically sound.
>
> Leaving behind pitched roofs of conventional housing, his
> arched earthen structures don't require a single tree to be cut,
> helping to eliminate deforestation around the globe Because of the
> dome egg shaped "shell-a-structure" design, they are some of the
> strongest buildings possible, able to withstand hurricanes, floods,
> and fires. Originally designed to be ceramic (fired earth) houses,
> if properly built, grow stronger in fire, and have been tested to
> 6.5 on the Richter scale for earthquakes, making them perfect
> candidates for housing in Southern California.
>
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network began visiting Cal-Earth more
> than ten years ago for annual road-trips in the Fall to follow the
> evolving site and its many innovative building prototypes. A strong
> friendship developed that lasted until the death of Nader Khalili
> last year. Noting that Khalili's work actually started in Santa
> Barbara County, with a 600 ft prototype house on an 850 acre
> proposed village site in New Cuyama in the late 1980's, Santa
> Barbara Permaculture Network wanted to acknowledge his extraordinary
> life with an evening of tribute in our community.
>
> Khalili was a Muslim born in Iran. His grandmother raised him on
> Sufi mysticism and the poetry of Rumi, a poet born in 1 3th century
> Persia, who inspired all of his work. Khalili became an architect
> who built high-rises in both Los Angeles and Tehran. In the 1970's
> he took a sabbatical from his busy career to travel through the
> deserts of the Middle East on motorcycle. While searching for
> simple structures suitable for housing the poor he noticed dome-like
> structures used for baking and grain storage that had stood strong
> through the millennia in areas frequented by earthquakes. He
> returned to found Cal-Earth, located eventually on a ten acre site
> in Hesperia, California, where he worked tirelessly to perfect a
> building technique that would use only natural, on-site materials,
> but could also pass rigorous building and safety codes. One of his
> best-known inventions was the “Super Adobe” Earthbag construction
> system, developed for NASA in the 1980's, who had put out a call for
> designs for structures on the Moon and Mars. Khalili argued the
> same wisdom and logic for using on-site materials, as transporting
> materials from Earth would cost more than gold. Khalili's smaller
> Earthbag houses were proposed as affordable solutions for poverty
> stricken areas in Africa, India, and South America. He received
> special recognition from the United Nations for his “Housing for the
> Homeless” proposal in 1987 and his prototypes were recognized with
> the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. He is the author of
> numerous books including Racing Alone, andSidewalks on the Moon, and
> was an accomplished translator of the poetry of Rumi. At the time
> of his death, he was perfecting a 3 bedroom, two car garage house
> designed with middle America and the suburbs in mind. With the
> devastating fires that had frequented all of Southern California in
> recent years, he felt it was time to build houses that fit into the
> fire ecology of our region.
>
> Dastan Khalili is a film-maker who has recently finished a
> series of films of his fathers life work. His Greenworks Company
> works in affiliation with the Cal-Earth non-profit, and is dedicated
> to making and distributing environmental and humanitarian films and
> productions. Copies of the films and books will be available for
> purchase at the event.
>
> The event takes place on Thursday, May 28, 7pm at the downtown
> Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara.
> Donation $5, no reservations needed. The event is presented by
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Non-Profit. For more information,
> (805) 962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org, www.sbpermaculture.org
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> -end-
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> More Info/Website,You Tube sites:
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> Cal-Earth website: www.calearth.org
>
> Cal-Earth on You Tube:
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5_LPYFyaFE&feature=channel_page
>
> www.youtube.com/user/dastonkalili
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
> an educational non-profit since 2000
> (805) 962-2571
> P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
> margie at sbpermaculture.org
> www.sbpermaculture.org
>
> "We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in
> order to grow." - Anonymous
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