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Tour Leaders
Charles "Cris" Benton
Cris Benton is a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley who has lectured and published extensively on topics of curriculum development, field evaluation methods, thermal comfort, and daylighting. He has received two Progressive Architecture Research Awards and an AIA Education Honors Honorable Mention. Professor Benton teaches courses in the areas of energy and environmental management, daylighting, technology transfer, field evaluation of building performance, and documentary photography. Current research interests include field investigation of thermal comfort, visualization of sunlight and shadow patterns, and post-occupancy measurement of physical building performance. As a recent artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium, Professor Benton combines novel techniques for aerial photography and new media to develop readings of several transitional geographies along San Francisco Bay — in ways that juxtapose scales, collect different points of view, and encourage the sharing of ideas. (Hidden Ecologies Website)
Carrie Byles, AIA, LEED-AP
Carrie Byles, a director based in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s San Francisco office, has more than 23 years of diverse experience in design, technology, and management, with special emphasis on projects with complex programmatic and technological requirements. She is passionate about sustainable, multi-disciplinary, research-based design. She believes in bringing all parties together as early in the design process as possible to spawn new ideas, establish collaborative working relationships, and create a strong foundation for success.
As an active member of the community, Ms. Byles serves on the board of trustees at St. Francis Hospital, is a board member of the Design Futures Council, and is a member of the ULI Public Development and Infrastructure Council. Recently, Ms. Byles was selected as a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council, a fellowship granted to individuals who have provided noteworthy leadership to the advancement of the design profession.
Craig W. Hartman, FAIA
Craig Hartman is the design partner of the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). His work in the United States, Europe, and Asia ranges from entire urban districts to singular works of cultural, commercial, and civic architecture and is consistently sympathetic to issues of contemporary place and time, as well as the sustainability of urban and natural ecologies. His work has been recognized with over 80 awards for design, which, in addition to seven national AIA Honor Awards, includes two Gold LEED® Certifications and AIA awards for environmental sustainability at Treasure Island and at UC Merced.
In 2001, Mr. Hartman became the youngest recipient of the Maybeck Award, an award presented periodically by the California Chapter of the AIA to an individual in recognition of “lifetime achievement in architectural design.” During the dedication ceremony for the Cathedral of Christ the Light in September 2008, the Vatican’s Knighthood for Service to Society (St. Sylvester) was bestowed upon Mr. Hartman by Pope Benedictus XVI.
Scott Johnson, FAIA
(A.B. Arch. ‘72)
Scott Johnson is a founder and the design partner of Johnson Fain, an international architecture, planning, and interior design firm based in Los Angeles. A prolific designer of residential, institutional, and commercial buildings, a number of his best-known designs are widely published and have become local landmarks. Current projects include Museum Tower in Dallas, Texas; the American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and mixed-use projects in Japan and China.
Mr. Johnson is an alum of Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He is active in the arts community and has served as director of the Master of Architecture programs at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture, where he is a professor. He frequently writes and lectures on design and is the author of The Big Idea, Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture, and, more recently, Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, published by Balcony Press.
G. Mathias Kondolf
G. Mathias Kondolf
is a professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning at
UC Berkeley and a fluvial geomorphologist whose research concerns
environmental river management, influences of land-use on rivers,
notably effects of mining and dams on river systems, interactions of
riparian vegetation and channel form, geomorphic influences on habitat
for salmon and trout, alternative flood management strategies, and
assessment of ecological restoration. Professor Kondolf has published
over 100 technical journal articles, book chapters, and reports on
these and related topics.
Dr. Wayne Lanier
Wayne Lanier, Ph.D. is a retired microbiologist who studies microbial communities in San Francisco Bay's salt marsh ponds.
Waverly Lowell
(M.L.S. ‘79)
Waverly Lowell is curator of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley. She has held positions as director of the National Archives — Pacific Sierra Region; director of the California Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records; curator of historic documents at the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco; and curator of manuscripts and archivist at the California Historical Society.
Ms. Lowell is professionally active as an archival consultant, historical researcher, and archival educator. She is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists and has been honored with a California Heritage Preservation Commission Archivist Award of Excellence and a Society of California Archivists Sustained Service Award. She has received grants from the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, and the LEF Foundation. Curated exhibits include Design on the Edge: 100 Years of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley (2003); Drawing From Experience, Limn Gallery, San Francisco (2001); Bridging the Bay — Bridging the Campus, UC Berkeley (1999); Building California: Technology and the Landscape and Treasures of the Region 1876-1946, California Historical Society (1988); and Found Architectural Records of a Special Place, American Institute of Architects Gallery, San Francisco (1987).
Brian Maroney
Brain Maroney, Dr. Engr., P.E., is the toll bridge deputy program manager at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He formerly served as Caltrans’ principal bridge engineer and chief of toll bridge design. Dr. Maroney has worked on major projects from San Diego to Eureka, including the Bay Bridge, the Antioch and Dumbarton bridges, the widening of Route 55 in Los Angeles, and various railroad-span overpasses and earthquake engineering projects. As chairman of Caltrans’ Structures Design Earthquake Committee, he has reviewed thousands of projects and developed identifying and prioritizing procedures for seismic sources with a higher level of activity. He serves on the faculty of UC Davis as an adjunct associate professor and has taught classes in structural dynamics, bridge engineering, and structural mechanics.
Daniel Solomon, FAIA
(M.Arch. ‘66)
Daniel Solomon is a professor emeritus of architecture at UC Berkeley. His projects have been published in architectural journals worldwide and have been recognized with more than eighty awards. The main focus of his work has been residential architecture and the interaction between housing and urban design. From this base, his work has expanded in several directions, including large-scale urban planning, regulatory structures that govern urban design, and residential, commercial, and institutional architecture. He is the author of many articles and three books: ReBuilding, Global City Blues, and Cosmopolis. Professor Solomon is committed to urban repair, and the construction and reconstruction of urban neighborhoods extends beyond his project work: he was one of the co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization whose principles have helped shape the contemporary practice of community design.
Douglas Thornley
Douglas Thornley has an extensive background in architectural practice and education. Two years of study in Scandinavia greatly influenced his design direction — and fostered his belief that architecture encompasses all aspects of design, from buildings and interiors to furniture and lighting. Mr. Thornley has worked with Bay Area regionalist William Turnbull in San Francisco and in the New York studio of Rafael Vinoly prior to starting his own architectural firm, Baum | Thornley Architects, in 1994. In 2008 he merged with the nationally recognized firm of Gould Evans (Bob Gould, M.Arch. '70). He heads, together with his partner Bob Baum, the San Francisco studio of Gould Evans | Baum Thornley, Inc.
Mr. Thornley has developed a reputation for designing successful and award-winning winery projects in the Napa and Sonoma regions. He has also been recognized for his innovations in work space design, and with clients such as IDEO, he has developed alternative office environments that promote creativity and collaboration.
Jane Wardani
(M.L.A. ‘08)
Jane Wardani received her dual Master of City Planning and Master of Landscape Architecture (Environmental Planning) degrees from UC Berkeley in 2008. In the program, she focused on community involvement in planning, culminating with her thesis on watershed stewardship and justice. Currently, she consults for organizations on urban environmental sustainability and justice, specifically in policy research and analysis, community outreach, and organizational development. Ms. Wardani has dedicated her career to community service, working for large and small nonprofits in environmental stewardship and education. She spent equal time growing up in Indonesia and Singapore before arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area nine years ago for her undergraduate studies at Berkeley, where she graduated with high distinction in geography.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009, featured a day of expeditions to built alumni and faculty projects around the Bay Area that focus on high performance, innovative technology, affordable housing, environmental justice, and other aspects of sustainability.
Paraduxx Winery
From the arrival of the harvest fruit to the departure of the trucks with full cases of wine, the Paraduxx Winery is able to achieve a seamless functionality. This tour showcased the traditional agricultural building complex plan with a unique ten-sided fermentation facility, that was inspired by the form of traditional round barns.
Opus One Winery
Greenwood Common
Boat Tour
The East Span of the 1930s San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is being replaced with a striking new interpretation of a suspension bridge. Additionally, a complex and thoroughly articulated urban design and architectural plan is being developed on Treasure Island, establishing relationships between buildings, public open space, transportation, views, and natural forces and creating a compact, transit-oriented community with a commitment to sustainability unparalleled in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Creek Restoration
Cathedral of Christ the Light
Hiking Tour
At
the Weep, Cris got out his kite and showed folks how he captures
surprisingly beautiful images of the landscape using the wind and a
home-made remote for his camera. Meanwhile, Wayne set up his field
microscopes to inspect the amazingly diverse creatures that
create the colors and textures we see in Cris' aerial photos.
The David Brower Center