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ARCH Lecture
Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird Architects design buildings..., at least that’s what they are known to do. OMA Partner Reinier de Graaf has found a way to pull down the walls between the known domain of architects and the world around them, through his ideas about marketing, culture, and even energy on a global scale... Through projects such as Roadmap 2050 for the EU, the WWF Energy Report, and looking at Russia, Beyond Oil and Gas with The Strelka Institute, de Graaf has suggested a way out of the looming climate crisis. For the Roadmap, AMO developed a decarbonized power grid for Europe based entirely on renewable energy sources, proving that climate change is a trans-national problem that needs to be addressed on a trans-national scale. For The Energy Report, this study was extended beyond continental borders to envision a world 100% reliant on renewable energy by 2050. As partner of OMA, de Graaf is responsible for a number of projects in Europe and the Middle East, currently leading OMA's proposal for The Skolkovo Center for Innovation, or "Russian Silicon Valley," building on OMA's "sustainable" body of work. Additionally, de Graaf has been responsible for the new town hall design in Rotterdam, the redevelopment of the Commonwealth Institute site in London, "De Rotterdam," the largest building in the Netherlands, the masterplan for the White City area of London and dockland redevelopments in Riga and Waterfront City in Dubai. In 2002, de Graaf became a director for AMO, the think tank of OMA. AMO applies architectural thinking to issues and opportunities beyond the conventional borders of architecture and urbanism. While OMA is dedicated to the realization of buildings and master plans, AMO operates in fields including sociology, technology, media and politics. Notable AMO projects are Zeekracht; a masterplan for a renewable energy infrastructure in the North Sea; The Barcode; an alternative flag for the European Union and a conceptual study for the off-shore relocation of Schiphol Airport. Currently AMO is working for the Hermitage Museum, Strelka; a new postgraduate school for media, architecture and design in Moscow, and for Prada. Laura Baird completed a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies from Duke University in 2004, and graduated with a Master of Architecture from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 2008. Since beginning her collaboration with OMA in 2007, Baird has worked on a number of different projects at various scales and stages in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Due to her background in public policy and relevant experience in sustainable building design, and energy efficient practice, Baird is currently leading AMO's growing involvement in the fields of energy policy and renewable energy planning, having been involved in Zeekracht Masterplan, North Sea, responsible for delivering Roadmap 2050, proposing a decarbonized power grid for Europe by 2050, a plan for Carbon Neutral Costa Rica 2021, a body of research on the implementation of Renewable Energy in Russia, and in January of this year The Energy Report, a project done with the WWF envisioning a world 100% reliant on renewable energy by 2050. To translate this body of work to the built environment, she is currently also responsible for the proposal for the Masterplan for the Skolkovo Center for Innovation in Moscow, and much of OMA’s growing collaboration with McKinsey & Company. She has also been involved in developing the educational program at The Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, and taught the Energy Studio last year, while this year will be teaching Megacity: The State of Moscow. Prior to joining OMA, Baird worked in the Landscape Studio at Inside Outside in Amsterdam, where she was responsible for a number of projects and collaborations. In 2006, she worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in New York City on two iconic projects for the city: The Freedom Tower and the renovation of Penn Station (Moynihan Station). Since 2002, Baird has lectured in both academic and professional settings in the United States, Europe, Russia and China. ARCH Lecture
Merrill Elam This lecture is co-sponsored by the East Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Merrill Elam is a principal in the firm of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to her practice, she lectures and teaches frequently, recently as Visiting Critic at Syracuse University; Visiting Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York; Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto; Herbert Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University; Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Texas at Austin; Louis Henri Sullivan Research Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago; William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University; and Harry S. Shure Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Virginia; as well as having served as Visiting Critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). With Mack Scogin, she received the 2011 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 1995 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and a 2008 Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). DCRP Colloquium Cecilia Estolano Green For All is a national organization that advocates for broad access and opportunity in the clean-energy economy. Cecilia Estolano oversees Green For All’s State and Local Initiatives and the Capital Access Program. She is charged with spearheading Green For All’s effort to scale public-private partnerships as a means to grow family-supporting green jobs in cities across the United States, particularly in under-served communities. Prior to joining Green For All, Estolano served as Chief Executive Officer of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA). With an annual budget of over $726 million and a work program covering 32 project areas, Estolano redefined the role of the largest redevelopment agency in the State of California. Under her leadership, CRA/LA rebuilt its housing department, adopted a landmark policy on local hiring in construction jobs, adopted a Healthy Neighborhoods policy, and created a $42 million Land Acquisition Fund to jump-start development in underserved markets like South Los Angeles. Prior to joining CRA/LA, Estolano was counsel in the Los Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She represented developer, private equity fund and lender clients in land use, zoning, redevelopment, environmental, real estate, energy, and telecommunications matters. Estolano has served on the California Coastal Commission, as a Special Assistant City Attorney, as a Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as Environmental Policy Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Estolano was the Deputy Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency Review Team, Energy and Environment Group for the Obama Presidential Transition Team. She is currently a member of Senator Barbara Boxer’s Judicial Advisory Committee. Estolano is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law and holds an M.A. in urban planning from UCLA. She received her undergraduate degree in social studies with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges. Estolano is a Regents Lecturer at UCLA where she teaches courses in urban planning. ARCH Lecture
Carmen Fiol Carmen Fiol-Costa is an architect, urban designer, and landscape architect and co-founder of the practice ARRIOLA&FIOL. A prominent academic and architectural theorist, Fiol directed the research for her influential book Barcelona Periferia Cubista and she earned a Doctor Europaeus from UPC in 2007 with the new book Grids and Diagonals. Fiol studied at ETSAB and at Columbia University, and received a William Kinne Fellowship. Always involved in education in parallel to running her own practice, she has taught at Harvard, Leuven, IUAV, and UNICA, as well as ETSAB. DCRP Colloquium This lecture occurs in conjunction with an exhibition running from October 10-December 2 in 108 Wurster Hall. Opening reception/talk takes place Monday, October 10, at 6 p.m. Robert Adams Robert Adams is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TCAUP), where he teaches and coordinates graduate courses in design and construction. In 2005 Adams developed and directed TCAUP's first study-abroad program in Beijing, P.R. China. Through this initiative, in 2006 TCAUP became one of the founding-member institutions at B.A.S.E. (Beijing Architectural Studio Enterprise). Adams holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual arts from St. John's University. Prior to the University of Michigan, Adams has held teaching appointments in architecture at the University of Minnesota, Otis College of Art and Design, and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and its satellite program in Switzerland, where he was the Vico Fellow from 1994-1996. Currently, Adams' academic research interests and creative work focus on contemporary forms of urbanism and architecture in the rapid urbanization in China and its effects on design, construction practices, and material culture in the United States. Most recently, Adams has presented work at Image Flux: China, an international conference on digital media and image theory in Guangzhou, P.R. China; and organized a panel session, Double Export, for the 2006 American Studies conference in Oakland, California. Adams has participated in exhibitions at the Barnsdall Art Park and Bradbury Building in Los Angeles; Centro Cultural Santo Domingo in Oaxaca, Mexico; Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Additionally, he is curating and organizing a series of events related to architecture and urbanism for the upcoming China In The World theme year at University of Michigan. In 1996 Adams established Adams + Gilpin and have worked on a range of projects and creative endeavors, the most recent of which includes designing ZtA House, a project reconfiguring the status of accessibility within domesticity. LAEP Lecture Katherine Rinne Water's Flow and the City of Rome Using Rome as a case study, this lecture explores social, cultural, aesthetic, topographic, technological, and political changes that the construction of water infrastructure engenders in the city as it spurs urban development. Rome provides a compelling model for increasing our understanding of how cities function and evolve over time as access to fresh water increases, diminishes, or disappears. A graduate of the UC Berkeley Master of Architecture program, Katherine Rinne teaches advanced level architecture/urban design studios and seminars at California College of the Arts. Author of The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City, her independent research on water infrastructure has garnered numerous awards and fellowships. ARCH Lecture Sylvia Felipe and Jordi Truco This lecture is sponsored by the Joseph Esherick Endowed Fund. After four years of practice in Barcelona, Sylvia Felipe and Jordi Truco moved to London in search of contemporary influences and design strategies based on research and investigation. During their stay in London, Felipe and Truco taught at the Architectural Association, obtained several awards, worked on a responsive and adaptable architecture research project called HybGrid, and established relationships with interesting young architects of the new international design scene. Once back in Barcelona, Felipe and Truco founded HYBRIDa, an architecture research studio dedicated to using new technologies as a design method including computation systems, parametric and associative software, data-driven production, and material technologies. Because Felipe and Truco developed an interest in academia, they started teaching at ESARQ-Universitat internacional de Catalunya, where, after three years, Truco became sub-director of the master's program, "Biodigital Architecture." Felipe and Truco have taught at international academic institutions including Pratt Institute of New York, D-ARCH- ETH Zürich, The University of Reading in the United Kingdom, and HYPERBODY research at TU Dekft. Truco has also directed SIMAE, "New strategies Contemporary Techniques," an international symposium of emergent architecture. LAEP Lecture Amir Gohar Community, Sustainability, and Public Space: Urban Design after the Arab Spring The events of spring 2011 clearly demonstrated the importance of public space in social transformation, have opened new opportunities for community-based design in Egypt and throughout the region. Residents of Cairo face a critical lack of open space, a concern that can be addressed through environmental planning initiatives such as reconnecting the city with the Nile. Amir Gohar is an urban planner/designer active in sustainable tourism development, with emphasis on preservation of cultural resources in the Middle East. He has twelve years of experience working with municipal governments, international organizations, and private sector firms on site planning, urban design strategies, master planning, informal settlement development and landscape planning throughout the region. Currently a visiting scholar with the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley and member of several NGOs working towards reshaping the urban context of Egypt for a more sustainable future, Gohar was instrumental in organizing the recent UCB–Cairo workshop Connecting Cairo to the Nile. ARCH Lecture
This lecture is part of the Irish Architecture Now symposia sponsored by the Irish Architecture Foundation.
Tom dePaor has practiced as an architect since 1992, making both public and private buildings. His work has received both national and international awards. dePaor is a graduate of University College Dublin. He has served as Architect-in-Residence at the National Sculpture Factory and as a board member of the Sculpture Society of Ireland, Dublin Corporation's Public Art Advisory Board, the National Sculpture Factory Board, and on the Arts Council of Ireland's Public Art Panel. In 2003, he was made a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland. dePaor Architects was commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs to make the inaugural Irish Pavilion for the 2000 Venice Biennale and since then has represented Ireland in the group shows at the 2006 and 2008 Venice Biennales. dePaor co-curated the Irish Pavilion and was also invited by Kazuyo Sejima to make a pavilion in the International Show at the Venice Biennale in 2010. dePaor has taught extensively and has served as visiting critic in various universities nationally and internationally. He has lectured widely abroad. To date, three books have been published in relation to his work.
Yvonne Farrell co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 with Shelley McNamara, having graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1974. Farrell is a fellow of the RIAI, International Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, and elected member of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organization comprising Irish artists who have produced a body of work that is original and creative in the visual arts, literature, and music. She also has taught at UCD since 1976, was a visiting professor at Accademia d’Archittettura, Mendrisio, from 2008 to 2011, held the Kenzo Tange chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, and became the Louis Kahn Chair at Yale in August of 2011. Grafton Architects was the first Irish practice invited to show in the Italian Pavilion as part of the Venice Biennale "Next" in 2002, and exhibited in the Irish group exhibition The Lives of Spaces at the Venice Biennale 2008. The practice has been shortlisted for a number of international competitions, including the 2009 New Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow and the new Dublin headquarters for the ESB in 2010. Grafton Architects is a founding member of 91, the architects' collaborative responsible for the urban regeneration of Dublin's cultural quarter of Temple Bar.
Sheila O'Donnell graduated from the School of Architecture at University College Dublin (UCD) in 1976 and worked in London for Spence and Webster, Colquhoun and Miller, and for Stirling Wilford Associates on the design and detailed development of the Tate’s Clore Gallery in Millbank. In 1980 she received a master’s degree in environmental design from the Royal College of Art in London. O'Donnell has developed her expertise through research and an ongoing teaching role at the UCD School of Architecture. She was a member of the Interim Board of the National Museum of Ireland, the Board of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, and currently is on the board of Rough Magic Theatre Company. She has been an external examiner at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association, London. In 1988 she set up O'Donnell + Tuomey with John Tuomey, and in 1994 was raised to the rank of Fellow by the RIAI in recognition of her contribution to Irish Architectural practice. DCRP Colloquium Engaging Sustainability: Linking Modeling, Scenario Planning, and 3D Visualization to Support Sustainability Planning
ARCH Lecture Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professors of Professional Practice, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley:
This lecture is sponsored by the Howard A. Friedman Endowment Fund and occurs in conjunction with an exhibition running from September 7-October 7 in 108 Wurster Hall. Closing reception takes place Monday, October 3, at 6 p.m.
Wes Jones is a partner in Jones, Partners: Architecture, a California-based architectural practice founded in 1993. Previously, Jones had been the Design Partner at HHPJ in San Francisco, where his technologically inspired designs for completed buildings and theoretical projects received acclaim for their critical engagement with the contemporary cultural scene and their disciplinary sophistication. His eight Progressive Architecture Design Awards include recognition for the Astronauts' Memorial at Kennedy Space Center and the $180M South Campus Chiller Plant for UCLA. The work of J,P:A and HHPJ has been featured in many publications and exhibited widely. A recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture, Jones has lectured internationally on technology and the work of the firm, and has taught in the schools of Architecture at Harvard, Princeton, IIT, Columbia, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Ohio State University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Jones received the A.B. with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley in 1980, and the M.Arch. with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1983. In the fall of 2007, Princeton Architectural Press published their second monograph of his work, covering the period from 1998 to date, titled El Segundo.
Los Angeles architect Eric Kahn, formerly of COA (Central Office of Architecture), is now a partner with Russell Thomsen at IO (IDEA Office). Since 1987, their work has sought to engage a range of issues, from architecture and urbanism to technology and design. Their recent work includes the donor wall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the lobby of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the winning entry in the Dead Malls Competition, a new student services building at Los Angeles Community College, the VPM prototype for the Dwell Home Invitational, and a series of compelling single family houses in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. They were finalists in a housing competition for Livable Places and the recipient of both the Young Architects Award and the Emerging Voices series sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. A monograph of their work was published in 1997. Their work has been exhibited and published internationally, and is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Kahn is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Louis Obispo and a senior faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Kahn has held the Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas and the Max Fisher Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan with appointments at various additional schools throughout the U.S., Europe, and in Japan.
Gary Paige is a principal of Gary Paige / Studio [GP/S], a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary design firm engaged in projects ranging from architecture and urbanism to furniture and graphic design. Since its inception in 1985, the studio has sought to explore the terrain that fuses the pragmatic with the poetic and the material with the atmospheric. Selected past and recent work includes an awarding-winning installation for the Venice Biennale; the design and renovation of the Freight Depot for SCI-Arc; the Manifold House; and recently, his project Variegated Mat-scape was a finalist in the Los Angeles Forum Dingbat 2.0 Competition. Paige is a graduate of SCI-Arc and taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs at SCI-Arc for over 20 years, where he was the former undergraduate director and coordinator of the Visual Studies Program. LAEP Lecture Dan Iacofano Daniel Iacofano, Ph.D., FAICP, is a founding principal of MIG. He has over 25 years of experience in urban planning and community design, specifically for downtowns, transit-oriented development, neighborhoods and urban centers. He is nationally recognized as an expert and innovator in the areas of community participation, consensus building, and facilitation. Iacofano's diverse projects have addressed such issues as public transit, traffic, housing, economic development, land use and regional growth. He has worked in a wide range of communities, from Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown Denver to Anchorage and Washington, DC. Iacofano received his Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Meeting of the Minds and The Inclusive City. |
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