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Title	Knowledge Area	Certifications/LUs	Provider	Units
Active Design 1: Creating Active Cities Through Design	Design	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA New York	1.0
Active Design 2: Creating Healthy Places Through Design	Design	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA New York	1.0
Master Architects: An Evening with Lorcan O'Herlihy	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light and Landscape	Design	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm and the Rise of Urban Agriculture	Design	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Jeanne Gang, FAIA: Fish, Sticks, Birds and Bricks	Design	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Michael Maltzan, FAIA: No More Play	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Peter Walker, FASLA: The 9/11 Memorial & Its Precedents	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0

Active Design 1: Creating Active Cities Through Design

Can transformations in the built environment inspire people to be more physically active and make our communities healthier? According to a growing body of research, the answer is yes. New York City’s Active Design Guidelines translates this knowledge into concrete strategies for a healthier, more sustainable future. Architects, designers, planners, developers, and operations managers can adapt the Guidelines to their own projects to promote physical activity and help counteract the most pressing health epidemics of our time – obesity and its related chronic diseases. Active Design 101 is a 1-hour presentation that will provide an overview of the connections between health and design of the built environment; cover the urban design and building-scale strategies included in the Guidelines; and explore the synergies between Active Design, environmental sustainability and universal accessibility. More information, including a free electronic copy of the Active Design Guidelines, can be found at www.nyc.gov/adg.

Presenter:	Karen K. Lee, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Alexandros E. Washburn, AIA
Provider:	AIANY
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Active Design 2: Creating Healthy Places Through Design

New York City’s award-winning Active Design Guidelines (www.nyc.gov/adg) offer a manual of strategies for creating healthier buildings, streets, and urban spaces, based on the latest academic research and best practices in the field. Active Design 201 is the second in a two-part series about how architects, designers, planners, developers, and other built environment professionals can encourage physical activity and improve access to healthy foods and beverages through design strategies. This one-hour session will cover in greater depth the Building Design chapter of the Active Design Guidelines, the new LEED Design for Health through Increased Physical Activity Innovation Credit, and several case studies of architecture projects that implemented the Guidelines’ strategies.

Presenter:	Karen K. Lee, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, LEED
Provider:	AIANY
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Master Architects: An Evening with Lorcan O'Herlihy

This 60-minute video course describes four innovative design perspectives: Ruthless Optimism, Contingent Patterning, Inflected Logic, and Reductive Thinking and how each leads to rational design outcomes and contextually-responsive designs. Lorcan O'Herlihy's descriptions, images and narrative motivate design professionals to experiment with building materials, reorganize interior spaces, and create buildings responsive to their urban context.

Presenter:	Lorcan O'Herlihy, FAIA, Principal, LOHA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry

In this 60-minute viceo, Borja Ferrater, a part of the family team at the innovative firm, Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), demonstrates his and the company's unique work. Ferrater delivers an engaging, entertaining and often amusing lecture, packed with fascinating projects incorporating techniques utilizing light, geometry and materials in ways that have only recently been possible. The projects themselves span a variety of different scales, budgets and purposes. Yet, given Ferrater's interest in buildings as systems, the projects form a cohesive and narratively-driven portfolio, populated by some work from one of the most exciting and innovative international firms.

Presenter:	Borja Ferrater
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light and Landscape

In this 60-minute video, Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA, of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and the University of Toronto, illustrates how she exploits seasonal changes to light, water and landscape to intertwine with her building designs. Shim's engaging lecture is filled with examples from her firm's earlier and recent cutting-edge work, significant not just for the buildings’ construction but also for the way they are integrated with their surroundings.

Presenter:	Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm and the Rise of Urban Agriculture

In this 60-minute video, Dickson Despommier, PhD, demonstrates the concept of vertical farming, a unique way of using technology to change how we grow food, treat the earth, and form our urban spaces. In a simultaneously heart-wrenching and uplifting lecture, packed with astounding facts, statistics and anecdotes, Dr. Despommier illustrates that humanity's future can easily be a bright one, but only if we act now.

Presenter:	Dr. Dickson Despommier, PhD
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Jeanne Gang, FAIA: Fish, Sticks, Birds and Bricks

How do the migration patterns of birds relate to the design of city towers? How can innovative community planning spur economic recovery in suburbs? Find out by stepping into the mind of 2011 MacArthur Genius Grant winner Jeanne Gang, FAIA, Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects. This 60-minute video offers fascinating insight into the creative process and thematic undertones that shape the work of one of America’s most visionary architects.

Presenter:	Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Michael Maltzan, FAIA: No More Play

How can architecture convince people to live, work and play in a single community? How can public housing be as beautiful as it is efficient? In this 60-minute video, Michael Maltzan, FAIA, draws on his significant architectural experience to offer new ideas for transforming the way we design, build and think about public structures and the cities they help to define.

Presenter:	Michael Maltzan, FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Peter Walker, FASLA: The 9/11 Memorial & Its Precedents

In this 60-minute video, Peter Walker, FASLA, reviews his landscape architecture work on one of the most significant new projects in the United States: the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Walker puts the Memorial's design in the context of his firm's previous work on several notable projects and examines the special techniques he helped to develop in order to implement his vision. Peter also provides a detailed account of how the Memorial came to exist in its current form: what challenges were overcome, what concepts changed, and how he helped to create a unique and somber landmark.

Presenter:	Peter Walker, FASLA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft

In this 60-minute course, Tom Kundig, FAIA, takes us through a vast body of his past and current work. Filled with wonderfully imaginative designs, inspiring solutions and more than a little subversion, Kundig's brilliance is on display as he discusses the aspects of architecture that are most personal and meaningful to him and have continued to resonate with him since he began working as an architect. Tom's inspirational lecture discusses four key aspects of his work: Craft and Making, Site, Hot-Rodding and Reuse, and Community.

Presenter:	Tom Kundig, FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

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