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Continuing Ed: Housing Transforming Residential Practice: Todd Saunders -- Architecture in Northern Landscapes

Norway-based Todd Saunders describes how his innovative solutions to challenging sites and harsh climates acknowledge vernacular histories, respect cultural traditions and push the envelope with innovative and breathtaking structural solutions. (Photo courtesy of Todd Saunders)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Olson Kundig -- Sawmill House

Elizabeth Bianchi Conklin and Vigra Sami of Olson Kundig present the Sawmill House, a net-zero, off-the-grid family retreat embedded into the tough, scrubby landscape in the harsh high desert of California. (Photo courtesy of Olson Kundig)

Continuing Ed: TOD Transit Oriented Districts: A Catalyst for Integrated Communities

Housing experts discuss how TOD can foster walkable, mixed-use transit-accessible communities and examine inclusive strategies for ensuring historically marginalized communities. Filmed live at AIA Seattle 2025 Housing Forum. (Photo courtesy of Perkins Eastman)

Continuing Ed: SHLTR Spotlight: West Coast Modernism in Hawaii

Architect Greg Warner, FAIA, and Interior Designer Nicole Hollis, explore how modern architecture and interiors can feel deeply Hawaiian without resorting to architectural costume. Filmed live at AIA San Francisco SHLTR Spotlight Series. (Photo courtesy of Warner Walker

Continuing Ed: Nature and Design Inspiration Paul Kephart and Marta Kephart: Lightened Footprints, Natural Landscapes

Paul and Marta Kephart deliver a beautifully orchestrated and compelling case for preserving delicate landscapes and illustrate how incorporating biophilic design and ecological engineering can preserve natural landscapes. Filmed live at MDC 2019. (Photo courtesy of RANA)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration and AI Refik Anadol | Refik Anadol Studio

In this fast-paced session presented live at the 2024 Monterey Design Conference, Refik Anadol, renowned artist and inventor, explores how generative AI can be integrated across disciplines such as neuroscience, architecture, and environmental science. (Photo courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Kengo Kuma -- Age of Locations

Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA, shows over 360 mesmerizing images of his environmentally-sensitive projects throughout Asia and Europe. Filmed live at MDC 2013. (Photo courtesy of Kengo Kuma)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Michael Maltzan -- Skid Row Housing to Imaginative Towers

Michael Maltzan, FAIA, discusses his community-driven designs, from skid row housing to imaginative towers in China. Filmed live at MDC. (Photo courtesy of Michael Maltzan Architecture)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Fuensanta Nieto, Hon. FAIA, and Enrique Sobejano, Hon. FAIA | Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Fuensanta Nieto, Hon. FAIA, and Enrique Sobejano, Hon. FAIA, based in both Madrid and Berlin, share how their designs bring a feeling of transformation and discovery. Filmed live at MDC 2024. (Photo courtesy of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Alberto Kalach: Architecture, Landscape and Urbanization

Alberto Kalach showcases the work of TAX and passionately illustrates the fragile relationship between nature and urban environments. Filmed live at MDC 2019. (Photo courtesy of Taller de Arquitectura Xs)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Deborah Berke, FAIA: Current Work

Deborah Berke, FAIA, captivates the audience at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference with a whirlwind tour of 10 projects and delivers an impassioned case for adaptive reuse. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Berke Partners)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Clive Wilkinson -- Theatre of Work

Clive Wilksinson, FAIA, explores how building designs must address cultural models, community structures, knowledge sharing, diversity, the human scale, and "tribal" connectivity. Filmed live at MDC 2015. (Photo courtesy of Clive Wilkinson Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Yung Ho Chang, FAIA: Form and Content

Yung Ho Chang, FAIA, from Beijing, delights the audience with his wry sense of humor and spectacular buildings. Filmed live at MDC 2022. (Photo courtesy of Atelier FCJZ)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Bob Harris: RESONANCE: Nature, Place, Craft & Restraint

Bob Harris, FAIA, LEED Fellow of Lake|Flato, shares his passion for environmental issues as he illustrates how his firm’s designs push sustainability in new directions. Filmed live at MDC 2019. (Photo courtesy of Lake|Flato)

Continuing Ed: Restoration and Modernism SHLTR Spotlight: Restoration as Innovation

Leo Marmol, FAIA, explores how restoration can be a lower-carbon, higher-impact alternative to new construction and how the most sustainable building can be the adaptation of an historic building. Filmed live at AIA San Francisco SHLTR Spotlight Series. (Photo courtesy of Marmol Radziner)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration The Work of Carme Pinós

Carme Pinós becomes part of her own slide show, magically revealing how "rules of design" can be formed by client needs, climate and structural necessity. Filmed live at MDC 2015. (Photo courtesy of Estudio Carme Pinós)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Sou Fujimoto -- Between Nature and Architecture

Sou Fujimoto inspires us with soft lighting effects, visually arresting geometric forms and his renowned “Toilet in Nature.” Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of Sou Fujimoto)

Continuing Ed: Julie Eizenberg -- Urban Hallucinations

Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, examines placemaking, community building and affordable housing in Los Angeles. Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of Julie Eizenberg)

Continuing Ed: Housing Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, LFRAIA: Neighborhood Now!

Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, LFRAIA, explores neighborhood housing issues through numerous completed projects, including the widely-acclaimed Arroyo affordable family housing, as part of AIA Seattle's Housing Now! series

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Dominique Jakob -- Buildings and Conditions: A Broader View of Context

Dominique Jakob illustrates how her firm uses digital technology to design internationally acclaimed projects in Paris, Lyon, Orleans, Boulogne and Belgium. Filmed live at MDC 2017.(Photo courtesy of Dominique Jakob)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Gregg Pasquarelli: Thinkers and Makers

Gregg Pasquarelli, AIA, of SHoP captivates us with the art, mathematics, science and design behind his firm’s innovative portfolio. Filmed live at MDC 2019. (Photo courtesy of SHoP)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Tatiana Bilbao | Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Tatiana Bilbao from Mexico City passionately challenges convention norms and examines how architecture can address fundamental human needs. Filmed live at MDC 2024. (Photo courtesy of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio)

Continuing Ed: Housing Transforming Residential Practice:
Hardworking Home -- Innovation, Exploration, Cross-Pollination

Lewis McNell, AIA, leads us through Lake|Flato's exploriations into high-performance and carbon-reduction strategies. (Photo courtesy of Lake|Flato)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Kerstin Thompson | Kerstin Thompson Architects

With stunning images and a focus on adaptive re-use, renowned Australian architect Kerstin Thompson assesses architectural design strategies that adapt to and mitigate environmental challenges. Filmed live at MDC 2024. (Photo courtesy of Kerstin Thompson Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration SHLTR Spotlight: Stone Works - The Language of Form

Renowned stone mason Edwin Hamilton and master letter carver Christopher Stinehour examine how stone speaks in contemporary architecture and landscape. Filmed live at AIA San Francisco SHLTR Spotlight Series. (Photo courtesy of Edwin Hamilton

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Odile Decq -- Horizons

Odile Decq demonstrates how a strong vision and a bit of persuasion translates concepts into stunning buildings, yachts, furniture and, yes, dog houses. Filmed live at MDC 2013. (Photo courtesy of Studio DECQ)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Stephen Kieran -- Twelve Years, Seven Houses, a Thousand Experiments

Stephen Kieran, FAIA, LEED Fellow, shows his firm’s artistry in six inspiring residential projects, including prefabricated high-performance solutions, including prefabricated high-performance solutions. (Photo courtesy of KieranTimberlake)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Sandra Barclay Hon. FAIA: modus operandi

Sandra Barclay, Hon. FAIA, presents a series of projects that explore the bonds between landscape, climate and architecture in this 60-minute keynote, presented live at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference (Photo courtesy of Barclay&Crouse)

Continuing Ed: Decarbonization AIA Seattle Just Transitions: Upstream and Downstream Impacts of Decarbonization

Presenters illustrate how building professionals and their clients can respond to the impacts of decarbonization. (Photo courtesy of Meyer Memorial Trust)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Borja Ferrater -- Geometry and New Materials

Borja Ferrater amusingly highlights how light, geometry and new materials inform his firm’s work. Filmed live at MDC.

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Jeff Goldstein -- Building Walls: Meaning + Mass

Jeff Goldstein, AIA, explores “walls” and how the use of form, space, light, and material convey potent ideas and connect to the human spirit. Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of DIGSAU)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Marlon Blackwell -- Transmutations

Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, reveals how his designs draw upon local building typologies, contradictions of place, and environmental factors. Filmed live at MDC 2013. (Photo courtesy of Marlon Blackwell Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Frederick Fisher, AIA | Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects

Filmed live at the 2024 Monterey Design Conference, Frederick Fisher, AIA, takes us on a tour of his firm’s landmark projects designed on four pillars: process, context, function, and aesthetics.(Photo courtesy of Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Dorte Mandrup -- Buildings and Conditions: A Broader View of Context

Dorte Mandrup illustrates her firm’s playful, innovative and poetic projects Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of Dorte Mandrup)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Brian MacKay-Lyons: The Wind and the Moon

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s 2015 Gold Medalist Brian MacKay-Lyons captivates us with his spectacular buildings, storytelling and dry wit. Filmed live at MDC 2019. (Photo courtesy of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Brad Cloepfil, AIA, and Chelsea Grassinger, AIA | Allied Works

Brad Cloepfil, AIA, and Chelsea Grassinger, AIA, of Allied Works explain how each project starts with an intense investigation into the environment, economy and program as they search for simple solutions. Filmed live at MDC 2024. (Photo courtesy of Allied Works)

Continuing Ed: Accessibility
AIA California's Accessibility 2023 Series:
Universal Design - Tom and Ruth Harkin Center at Drake University

BNIM and The Harkin Institute's Executive Director discuss how the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center at Drake University sets a new standard for universal and inclusive design. (Photo courtesy of BNIM)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Bijoy Jain

Bijoy Jain connects from his Mumbai studio as part of the 2022 Monterey Design Conference and showcases a few of his breathtaking projects. Filmed live at MDC 2022. (Photo courtesy of Bijoy Jain)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Tom Kundig -- More than a Little Subversion

Tom Kundig, FAIA, describes how a little subversion results in a remarkable body of work. Filmed live at MDC. (Photo courtesy of Olson Kundig Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Alison Brooks, RIBA: Context is Everything

RIBA Stirling Prize recipient Allision Brooks, RIBA, shares her commitment to historical context, communities and landscapes through a plethora of building typologies. Filmed live at MDC 2022. (Photo courtesy of Alison Brooks Architects)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA -- Expanded Territories

Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA, illustrate how movement, light and materiality shape how participants experience environments. Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of Weiss Manfredi)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Marcio Kogan --What Makes Your Heart Beat?

Marcio Kogan, Hon. FAIA, brilliantly showcases his firm’s work with humor and passion, and asks "What Makes Your Heart Beat?" Filmed live at MDC 2013. (Photo courtesy of studioMK27)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Go Hasegawa | Hasegawa and Associates

Japanese architect Go Hasegawa displays his dry wit as he reflects on how local materials, cultural elements and environmental considerations influence his designs. Filmed live at MDC 2024. (Photo courtesy of Hasegawa and Associates)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Jeanne Gang -- Research, Themes and Process

Jeanne Gang, FAIA, describes the research, themes and process that underlie her progressive work. Filmed live at MDC.

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Shohei Shigematsu | OMA

With his wit and incisive analogies, Shohei Shigematsu leads us through a diverse portfolio that highlights the interplay of light, movement and shadow. Filmed live at MDC 2017. (Photo courtesy of Shohei Shigematsu)

Continuing Ed: Design Inspiration Rand Elliott -- Stray Dogs

Rand Elliott, FAIA, illustrates his deep respect for the land, the sun and the wind through his poetry, stunning visuals and provocative videos. Filmed live at MDC 2015. (Photo courtesy of Elliott + Associates Architects)

Insights: Carol Ross Barney, FAIA

Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, discusses growing up in the 1960's, her love for Chicago, which aspects of design talent cannot be taught, and the role of women in Chicago architecture. (Photo courtesy of Kate Joyce Studios)