[Ccpg] Fwd: /May 28/SB Perm Network ECO-Film Night /Honoring the Life of Visionary Architect Nader Khalili

Sat May 23 07:05:53 PDT 2009

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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
>
> 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
>
> -end-
>
> 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
> First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
>  http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org
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