Continuing Education – Distilled, Practical & Advanced Knowledge

Financial Management: Annual Budgets, Revenue Forecasting and Profit Planning

The final course of this 3-part financial thriller shows how to develop annual budgets, revenue forecasts and profit plans, and leads viewers through scenario planning using financial trends and Key Financial Performance Indicators. Course takers will be ready to apply key financial concepts as they make short- and longer-term strategic, financial and operational decisions.

The presenters, Rena Klein, FAIA, and Steve Wintner, AIA Emeritus, consult with design professionals nationwide about financial management, and are skilled in distilling financial knowledge and concepts into bite-size pieces that position firm leaders to make strategic operational decisions.

Steve Wintner, AIA Emeritus, and Rena M. Klein, FAIA, ignite the screen as cash flow meets profit planning!

Presenter:
Steve L. Wintner, AIA Emeritus, and Rena M. Klein, FAIA

Insights from Art Gensler, FAIA

This course is provided FREE courtesy of Strogoff Consulting

M. Arthur Gensler, Jr., (Art Gensler) was widely seen as one the world's foremost experts at helping clients see the value of good design while operating a consistently successful global firm. In this remarkably candid address to emerging professionals, Art Gensler shares Art Gensler shares his insights into:

• Starting, growing and operating a design firm
• Developing a highly collaborative culture within a multi-disciplinary firm
• Understanding a client’s business model and mission
• Running a multi-disciplinary design firm as a well-tuned business

This course is a must-see for design professionals who share Art Gensler’s passion for strong business practices and collaboration. Get decades of wisdom in 60 engaging minutes!

Presenter:
M. Arthur Gensler Jr., FAIA, FIIDA, RIBA

The Future of Work with AI

This course, presented free courtesy of Microsoft, introduces architectsand other design professionals to M365 Copilot, showcasing how this powerful tool can enhance productivity, creativity and collaboration.

Attendees will learn how to integrate M365 Copilot into their daily tasks, from drafting reports and managing schedules to generating design ideas and automating routine processes. This course is intended for architects and other design professionals looking to stay ahead in the industry by leveraging AI to streamline their work and improve efficiency.

Presenter:
Justin Preston, Senior Director at Microsoft

Zero Net Carbon Design and Wildfire Resilience

Wildfire has become one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases in California and the world, potentially jeopardizing our ability to reach our carbon reduction targets. In this course, an interdisciplinary team of experts discuss the inter-relatedness of zero net carbon design and wildfire resilience and share best practice design solutions, explore the effects of wildfires on carbon emissions and air quality, offer advice regarding hardening of buildings to wildfire ignition, and discuss the importance of landscape design in the prevention of building ignition.

Presenter:
Libby Barnes, AIA, LEED AP BD+C | Workbench, AIA Monterey Bay Climate Director; Richard Stedman | Air Pollution Control Officer for the Monterey Bay Air Resources District; Josiah Raison Cain | Director of Innovation, Sherwood Design Engineers

Sustainable Restoration of Paul Revere Williams’s Mid-Century Legacy at UCLA

This course focuses on strategies used in the renovation and seismic retrofit of two significant buildings on UCLA’s campus designed by Paul Revere Williams, FAIA. Participants will learn how these mid-century buildings have been transformed to support modern research and teaching and the structural techniques used to strengthen them while retaining their character defining features. The course also discusses UCLA’s approach to sustainability and the systems and features incorporated into the projects that reduce energy usage and achieve Platinum Level LEED Certification.

Presenter:

Mark Graham, AIA, LEED GA, NOMA
Benjamin Bye
Phillip White, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Todd Lynch, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C
Shana Scheiber, PE, CEM, LEED AP ID+C, WELL AP

Equity in Design: Architecture and Spatial Justice

As Edward Soja writes, "space is socially produced and can therefore be socially changed." This webinar explores the concept of Spatial Justice and discusses how the creation of space as both a physical and social construct is fundamental to the practice of architecture.

Presenter:
Paul D. Bauknight Jr. is the Founder and President of the Center for Transformative Urban Design

Using Microgrids for Resilience

As natural disasters threaten large areas of the State, incorporating microgrids can promote resilience and are becoming an increasingly attractive option for communities, businesses and residents. This course illustrates how microgrids can make a positive environmental impact while providing financial incentives for exiting the traditional utility grid.

Presenter:
Alex Kaffka | Verdera and Sean Armstrong | Redwood Energy (This course is accredited by AIA for 1.75 hours of HSW -- Health, Safety and Welfare)

Zero Carbon Multi-Family Buildings Part 1: Lessons from the Field

Multi-family residential buildings present significant opportunities for decarbonization. Although not the most energy or carbon-intensive building type overall, the 24 hour/365 day operation of these buildings, coupled with high demand for new housing, have great implications for decarbonization. This session identifies design strategies and considerations to address greenhouse gas emissions in multifamily housing that also promote equity through a community-first approach. The C4GS-ZEDlife Case Study of MountZED Ecovillage (a CEC “EPIC Challenge” winner) is presented to showcase strategies in practice for delivering affordable, equitable, climate-resilient, cost-competitive, and emissions-free residential construction.

Presenter:
Kate Ackerly, AIA | Principal & Sustainable Design Director, David Baker Architects; Ladan Ghodad, Ph.D., LEED AP BD+C | CEO, Building Performance Specialist, ENERite Consulting; Dr. M. A. Greenstein | VP Of Knowledge Transfer, C4GS ZEDlife; Bill Dunster | VP Of Knowledge Transfer, C4GS ZEDlife; and Adria Fox | Co-founder, CEO C4GS ZEDlife

Zero Carbon Multi-Family Buildings Part 2: Lessons from the EPIC Challenge

Multi-family residential buildings present significant opportunities for decarbonization. Although not the most energy or carbon-intensive building type overall, the 24 hour/365 day operation of these buildings, coupled with high demand for new housing, have great implications for decarbonization. Through two case studies (both CEC "EPIC Challenge" winners), this course explores the broader context of decarbonization in multifamily buildings, discussing how to implement and benefit from emerging technologies and walking through methods that can help achieve affordable, equitable, climate-resilient, cost-competitive, and emissions-free residential construction.

Presenter:
Kate Ackerly, AIA | Principal & Sustainable Design Director, David Baker Architects; Mike Fowler, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP| Sustainability Integration Leader, Mithun; Mihnea Dobre, AIA | Architectural Nexus; Cheryl McCurty | Architectural Nexus; Megan Repka, AIA | Architectural Nexus;

Future Forward – Seeking Climate Solutions

Moderated by Jamie Stroble | Director of Climate Action & Resilience – TNC; Seattle Planning Commissioner; Founder of King County Climate Justice Framework, two inspirational climate justice advocates share their perspectives on how design professionals are addressing climate change and what design professionals should most pay attention to as we seek climate solutions.

Baja, Senior Director, Direct Support & Innovation, Urban Sustainability Director’s Network (USDN) discusses how design professionals can identify, lead and support innovative projects that actively transform local government processes, shifts power to community, and centers racial and environmental justice.

Sudha Nandagopal, Advocate and Power Building Strategist for a Just Climate Future sheds light on how design professionals can foster frontline community-led decision making and champion ecosystems that advance climate justice.

Presenter:
Jamie Stroble | Director of Climate Action & Resilience – TNC, Seattle Planning Commissioner, Founder of King County Climate Justice Framework; Baja | Urban Sustainability Director’s Network; Sudha Nandagopal | Just Climate Future

Fostering Green Infrastructure

This session explores practical methods to integrate green infrastructure that responds to current and future conditions and supports community resiliency and livability. Presenters discuss the interconnectivity of systems with a focus on urban forestry, water equity, and local indigenous practices.

After viewing this course, you will better understand ecological consequences of climate change infrastructure solutions that address climate-related challenges while promoting justice and reconciliation.

Presenter:
Laura Durgerian | Mithun; Mami Hara | US Water Alliance; Phillip Rodbell | U.S. Forest Service; Tim Lehman | OPCD, City of Seattle

Community Resilience in a Changing Climate

This course focuses on sustainability and resiliency at the community level. Presenters discuss the role of Resilience Hubs in community resilience and delve into how design professionals can help communities withstand and respond to the climate crisis. They also explore how the development of climate resiliency measures must be inclusive of all voices.

This course includes several case studies that illustrate how sustainable design principles enhance resiliency and address climate action goals, including the Bullet Center in Seattle and University of Washington initiatives.

Presenter:
Xio Alvarez | LMN Architects; César García | Lake City Collective; Jessyn Farrell | Office of Sustainability and Environment, City of Seattle; Jim Hanford, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C | The Miller Hull Partnership; Manuel Castaneda, AIA | The Miller Hull Partnership

Building for Well-Being

An amazing panel of experts focuses on the intersection between material health and embodied carbon in building materials and their impact on human health and the environment. After viewing this course, you will better understand how to choose specific product types to reduce carbon emissions, plastic waste and toxic chemical exposure in building projects. You will also gain a better understanding of how to integrate environmental, social and cultural considerations into architectural practice.

Presenter:
Angie Scott, PhD, Allied ASID | IWBI; James Miller, PhD | Western Washington University; Kimberly Seigel | Perkins&Will; Lindsay Schack AIA, CPHC | Love | Schack Architecture; Teresa McGrath | Habitat

Opening Keynote: Embodied Carbon, Why Now?

Climate advocate and author Bill Caplan, Assoc. AIA, delivers a powerful opening keynote address at the 7th Annual 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change and challenges design professionals to leverage their roles in reducing carbon emissions. Bill discusses the significance of embodied carbon in the context of sustainable design and global warming, identifies key strategies for minimizing embodied carbon emissions in construction, and helps assess the global warming potential of various building materials and construction processes.

Presenter:
Bill Caplan, Assoc. AIA

Circular Economy & Embodied Carbon

Moderated by Don Davies, Co-Founder, Principal | Davis-Crooks Associates, this esteemed group of panelists explore innovative design and construction strategies for reducing embodied carbon.

Presenter:
Don Davies, Co-Founder, Principal | Davis-Crooks Associates, Jan Top, Attache | Netherlands Consulate General in San Francisco, Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director | Enclos; Adjunct Faculty | SCI-Arc, and Pablo La Roche, Ph.D., Assoc. AIA, LEED AB BD+C, Principal & Sustainable Services Director | ARCADIS

Can We Grow Carbon-Storing Buildings?

Wil Srubar, III, PhD, Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder delivers a fast-moving overview of the environmental consequences of current building materials, particularly steel and concrete, and their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Wil guides us through new directions in material science, focusing on biomimetic and living materials, that reduce or store carbon, and takes us on a fascinating journal through nature’s most effective mechanisms for carbon storage that can be applied to the built environment.

After viewing this course, you will better understand how to harness natural building materials such as responsibly grown, wood, straw, hemp and algae-based products to reduce embodied carbon emissions.

Presenter:
Dr. Wil Srubar, III, Associate Professor of civil and architectural engineering and materials science at the University of Colorado Boulder

Financial Feasibility (De-Risking) of Low-EC Construction

Ben Stapleton, Executive Director of USGBC California, deftly moderates a discussion with an architect, a contractor and a developer, who discuss low embodied-carbon projects in the construction industry. They cover the financial risks and costs associated with low embodied-carbon projects and innovative strategies and tools for reducing embodied carbon in construction projects. Among the projects discussed is the PAE Living Building, which is the first certified living building that is both located in a metropolitan area and developer-driven.

Presenter:
Kathy Berg, AIA, Partner | ZGF Partners LLP, Celia Hoag, P.E., BEMP, True Advisor, Regional Sustainability Leader | DPR Construction, and Sarah Neff, Head of ESG | Landlease Americas

Heading Toward Zero

Don Davies, PE, SE, an industry champion for the promotion of urban density and low-carbon construction, demonstrates the use of CLT, low-cement concrete and other alternative strategies to reduce cement usage in structural systems. Don shows us how Hubbard’s Corner, his own experimental development, repurposes existing building stock and reuses materials to minimize embodied carbon while examining the challenges of implementing low carbon concrete in construction. Don’s enthusiasm and stellar visuals will inspire design professionals to rethink their approach to design and construction.

Presenter:
Don Davies, PE, SE, Principal | Davies-Crooks Associates

The Role of Government in Addressing Embodied Carbon

In preparation for CAL Green’s July 1, 2024 implementation, California State Architect Ida Clair, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, CASp, leads us through CAL Green’s prescriptive- and performance-based compliance pathways, including the maintenance of existing structures, Whole Building LCA and product GWP limits. Ida also discusses the impact and future directions of Cal Green regulations and their potential for reducing global warming, and the difficulties faced by enforcement entities, such as building officials, in integrating new sustainability requirements into existing frameworks.

Presenter:
Ida Clair, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, CASp, State Architect | California Dept. of General Services, Division of the State Architect

Building Materials and Climate: Constructing a New Future

Anna Dyson, Hines Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA), delivers this closing keynote full of useful strategies for decarbonizing our built environment. Professor Dyson discusses strategies for decarbonizing building materials, lifecycle thinking and a circular economy, the benefits and challenges of using biomaterials in building construction to lower embodied carbon, and how living biomass can contribute to lowering embodied and operational carbon.

Presenter:
Anna Dyson, Professor of Architecture | Yale University

Commissioning of Sustainable Buildings

This 60-minute video course reviews the building commissioning process, its value and integration into building projects; including a step-by-step review of the tasks needed to meet LEED Building Commissioning credits.

Presenter:
Mark Warren, CCP, LEED AP, Sr. Vice President, WSP Flack + Kurtz

Net Zero Energy and Future Challenges

This 60-minute, two-part video course provides viewers with an overview of recent efforts, processes, opportunities and constraints related to net zero energy buildings. A detailed case study of the first net zero energy classroom building in North America reinforces these lessons.

Presenter:
Clark Bisel, P.E., WSP Flack + Kurtz and Ken Powelson, LEED AP, EHDD Architecture

Retrofitting Existing Buildings to Improve Energy Efficiency

This 60-minute two-part video course delves into cost-effective HVAC, lighting, steam, and compressed air retrofit strategies to improve energy efficiency. An in-depth case study provides concrete examples on how to achieve positive results in less time and with faster payback.

Presenter:
Harry Sim, CEO, Cypress Envirosystems and Zach Gentry, Chief Strategy Officer, Adura Technologies

How to Design and Procure Low Carbon Concrete

The building industry is under constant pressure to provide low-carbon solutions. Through early collaborative decision-making, performance-based specifications, and using NRMCA’s Concrete Carbon Calculator, project teams can successfully establish and execute sustainability goals.

Although this course provides valuable information about decarbonization, it is NOT part of the ZNCD program that meets the requirements for California license renewal.

Presenter:
Luke Lombardi, PE | Buro Happold; Dave Walsh, AIA, LEED AP BD+C | Dave Walsh Consulting; Brandon Wray | National Ready Mixed Concrete Association

Design Excellence and Climate Change – Bay Area Case Studies from AIA San Francisco COTE

Course release date: April, 2019.

Climate change is one of the fundamental design problems of our time, and architects need the skills to help create attractive, resilient, high- performing buildings. In this engaging 75-minute course, presenters discuss the recently released AIA COTE® Top Ten Toolkit, their firms’ integrative design approaches, and how architects can persuade clients to incorporate strategies that achieve both design excellence and exceptional building performance.

The course starts with architects from three Bay Area COTE ® Top Ten award winners (LMS Architects, EHDD, and Siegel & Strain Architects) presenting short case studies that include a variety of high-impact, low-cost building performance strategies. Marsha Maytum, FAIA, LEED AP, of LMS Architects and the 2019 Chair of AIA National AIA COTE® then moderates an informative panel discussion with Tate Walker, AIA, LEED Fellow of OPN Architects, Corey Squire, AIA, of Lake | Flato Architects, Brad Jacobson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C of EHDD, and Susi Marzuola, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, of Siegel & Strain Architects about applying the AIA COTE® Top Ten Toolkit to projects of various scales.

Includes a download link to AIA's free COTE® Top Ten Toolkit "Super Spreadsheet"

Presenter:
Moderator Marsha Maytum, FAIA, LMS Architects, is joined by: Tate Walker, AIA, LEED Fellow, OPN Architects; Corey Squire, AIA, Lake|Flato Architects; Brad Jacobson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, EHDD; and Susi Marzuola, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Siegel & Strain Architects

Climate Action Part 1: Overview

This course is offered FREE courtesy of AIA California

Part 1 of this day-long workshop, hosted by the AIA California Board of Directors, provides an overview on climate change policies and opportunities in the areas of Water, Carbon and Energy.

Presentations include a “State of the State” on California’s ambitious Zero Net Energy goals, an impassioned “Climate Emergency” warning by Ed Mazria, and presentations about preserving water resources and reducing embodied carbon. The presenters than gather for an insightful panel discussion about how the architectural profession can take action in response to the changing climate and its impact on the built environment.

Presenter:
Subject matter experts from AIA California COTE, City of Campbell, California Energy Commission, Water Foundation, Architecture 2030, and Siegel & Strain Architects

Climate Action Part 2: Implementation Strategies

This course is offered FREE courtesy of AIA California

Part 2 of this day-long workshop, hosted by the AIA California Board of Directors, provides more in-depth insights into the ZERO Code and opportunities for architects to engage in policy discussions and the code development process, strategies for reducing embedded carbon in our built environment, and examples of zero net carbon buildings.

The course concludes with an overview of opportunities and impediments that attendees identified for adopting the Zero Code and how individual architects, firms and AIA chapters can proactively respond to climate change.

Presenter:
Subject matter experts from Architecture 2030, City of Campbell, Siegel & Strain Architects, and Integral Group

MDC Emerging Talent
Nick Hopson, Hopson Rodstrom Design

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2024 MDC, Nick Hopson, Co-Founder of Hopson Rodstrom Design, shares his firm’s work and design approach through the lens of three strikingly different housing projects: an adaptive reuse transitional housing project, a podium urban transit zone apartment building, and a single-family residence. Each project conveys the risks and challenges facing a young design practice in today's environment.

Presenter:
Nick Hopson | Hopson Rodstrom Design

MDC Emerging Talent
Gary Lewis and Julia Lewis, ReGroup

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2024 MDC, Julie Lewis and Gary Lewis of ReGroup illustrate their "What If" approach to design with four fascinating projects. First, a rural performance stage they originally designed and built as a processional and ceremonial place for their own wedding. Second, a house that doubles as a movie screen for the neighbors. Third, a duplex landlocked between industrial buildings and a TV station that creates an urban oasis. Lastly, another duplex resembling a mini-tower that captures the evening sky and an amazing set of views.

Presenter:
Gary Lewis and Julia Lewis | ReGroup

MDC Emerging Talent
Valery Augustin, AIA, DNA Architecture + Design

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2024 MDC, Valery Augustin, AIA, Founding Principal of DNA Architecture + Design, shares his exploration into materials and fabrication techniques. Valery then illustrates some of his recent public architecture where low budgets and fast schedules do not deter from his mission of providing beautiful spaces to underprivileged users and residents.

Presenter:
Valery Augustin, AIA| DNA Architecture + Design

MDC Emerging Talent
Aaron Forest and Yasmin Hobbs, Ultramoderne

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2024 MDC titled Cheapskates, Aaron Forest and Yasmin Hobbs of Ultramoderne illustrate how their economical approach to architecture sparks invention and leads to opportunities for lightness and sustainability. Among the projects highlighted: a kiosk featuring a CLT roof with no supporting beams; a performance space with roof trusses turned upside down; and two "tower houses” that share a common roof terrace. As Yasmin explains, “The idea of Cheapskate is a certain resourcefulness, playfulness, but also ecological responsibility and new forms of beauty."

Presenter:
Aaron Forest and Yasmin Hobbs | Ultramoderne

MDC Emerging Talent
Dan Weber, AIA, LEED AP, ANACAPA

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation from the 2019 MDC, Dan Weber, AIA, LEED AP, of Santa Barbara-based ANACAPA, takes us on a journey through his firm's experiential and award-winning hospitality, custom residential, creative office and urban infill mixed-use projects and, of course, his recent design for a marijuana dispensary.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Dan Weber, AIA, LEED AP, ANACAPA

MDC Emerging Talent
Urban Works Agency

Course release date: February, 2023

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2022 MDC, Antje Steinmuller and Neeraj Bhatia of Urban Works Agency discuss their research lab and recent explorations into climate justice, infrastructure and housing access. Antje and Neeraj share results of some of their case studies and surveys that might inform how society approaches the built environment.

This course is presented FREE courtesy of the AIA California Council and aecKnowledge.

Presenter:
Antje Steinmuller and Neeraj Bhatia, Urban Works Agency

MDC Emerging Talent
Hackett

Course release date: February, 2023

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2022 MDC, David Hackett, AIA, of Siol Studios showcases some of his firm’s work, from their scrappy roots designing simple rooms that illustrate big ideas to their beautiful design for one of America’s rare Masonic temples.

This course is presented FREE courtesy of the AIA California Council and aecKnowledge.

Presenter:
David Hackett, AIA, Siol Studios

MDC Emerging Talent
Morgan Sykes Jaybush

Course release date: February, 2023

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this presentation from the 2022 MDC, Morgan Sykes Jaybush of Omgivning discusses his perspective of Los Angeles, designs for unhoused people on skid row, and a series of adaptive reuses that revitalize communities.

This course is presented FREE courtesy of the AIA California Council and aecKnowledge.

Presenter:
Morgan Sykes Jaybush, Omgivning

MDC Emerging Talent
Ed Ogosta, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Edward Ogosta Architecture

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation from the 2019 MDC, Ed Ogosta, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, of Los Angeles-based Edward Ogosta Architecture, showcases his firm's quiet architecture of sobriety, coherence, simplicity and atmosphere. Ed artfully illustrates how his firm’s designs emanate from two principles: ROOTEDNESS to site, context, culture and time, and CLARITY of concept, form, experience and execution.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Ed Ogosta, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Edward Ogosta Architecture

MDC Emerging Talent
Dan Spiegel, AIA, and Megumi Aihara, ASLA, PLA, SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation from the 2019 MDC, Dan Spiegel, AIA, of SAW and Megumi Aihara, ASLA, PLA, of Spiegel Aihara Workshop start by walking us through and around their design for COURT, YARD, HOUSE in Palo Alto. Showcasing their love of storytelling, they then show us how their TRY-ON TRUCK transforms itself from a lingerie store to a meditation studio and present their prototypes of a variety of other building types.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Dan Spiegel, AIA, and Megumi Aihara, ASLA, PLA, SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop

MDC Emerging Talent
Chris Warren, AIA, WORD

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation from the 2019 MDC, Chris Warren, AIA, Principal of Los Angeles-based WORD, takes us on a tour of his firm's recent work and how their designs respond to the interface between architecture and the natural elements--light, sky and view. See why his designs have been described as confidently choreographed, experienced through ephemerality and as an intersection of the elemental and the phenomenal..

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Chris Warren, AIA, Principal, WORD

MDC Emerging Talent
Heather Roberge, AIA, MURMUR

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation, Los Angeles-based Heather Roberge, AIA, of murmur, explores the roles of computational and digital fabrication in shaping contemporary architecture, and illustrates how lightweight construction can defy structural expectations.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Heather Roberge, AIA, Murmur, Los Angeles

MDC Emerging Talent
Alan Tse, Associate AIA, Alan Tse Design

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation, San Francisco-based Alan Tse, Associate AIA, captivates the audience with stunning images and a delightfully dry wit as he describes how he learned about budgets, his role as a designer, getting work and meeting client expectations. Alan's stunning restaurant, mixed-use, residential and work space projects combine a warm neutral palette, natural light and a welcoming modern style.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Alan Tse, Assoc. AIA, Alan Tse Design

MDC Emerging Talent
Laura Crescimano, AIA, SITELAB Urban Studio

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation, Laura Crescimano, AIA, of San Francisco-based SITELAB Urban Studio, deftly shows how extraordinary events in symbolic spaces or banal ones such as highways and roads can temporarily reveal and transform our image of the urban environment. Laura illustrates how placemaking can elevate the social practice of architecture and encourage inclusive decision making.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Laura Crescimano, Assoc. AIA, SITELAB Urban Studio

MDC Emerging Talent
Jimenez Lai & Joanna Grant, Bureau Spectacular

Among the most inspirational events at the famed Monterey Design Conference are the 15-minute presentations by some of California’s finest emerging talent.

In this FREE presentation Jimenez Lai & Joanna Grant describe how their Los Angeles-based Bureau Spectacular began at the beginning of the Great Recession--through research, experimentation, teaching, publications, and exhibitions and competitions--and evolved into a group of avant-garde individuals who explore design through the lenses of art, culture and education. They conclude their presentation with a delightful Pool Party video created as part of a 2017 MoMA PS1 competition.

Don’t miss the Keynote Presentations from the Monterey Design Conference!

Presenter:
Jimenez Lai & Joanna Grant, Bureau Spectacular, Los Angeles

MDC – Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

In this keynote presented live at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference, Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, takes us on a tour of LOLA’s recent projects and makes an impassioned plea for how architecture should serve as a social act that elevates communities and transforms cities.

Lorcan discusses revitalization efforts in Detroit, employing public space and pocket parks alongside buildings to create density with green space, and affordable housing strategies that support health and community. With a bit of Irish humor, Lorcan illustrates his commitment to artistry and elevating the human condition.

(On September 26, 2023, AIA California announced that Lorcan O'Herlihy was selected as the 2023 Maybeck Award Recipient, which recognizes outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work produced by an individual architect over a period of at least 10 years.)

Presenter:
Lorcan O'Herlihy, FAIA, LOHA

MDC – Deborah Berke, FAIA: Current Work

Deborah Berke, FAIA, AIA 2025 Gold Medal recipient, captivates the audience at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference with a whirlwind tour of 10 projects and demonstrates how adaptive reuse is one of the most valuable tools design professionals can employ to help address climate change and provide an array of social benefits. Deborah illustrates strategies for capturing light, improving building performance and enhancing the health and well-being of building occupants.

Presenter:
Deborah Berke, FAIA, Deborah Berke Partners

MDC – Yung Ho Chang, FAIA: Form and Content

Presented live at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference, Yung Ho Chang, FAIA, from Beijing, Yung Ho Chang, FAIA, from Beijing, delights the audience with his wry sense of humor and spectacular buildings. Yung Ho Chang showcases six recent projects including the Joshua Art Museum, which doubles as a pedestrian bridge.

Yung Ho ends his lecture with an in-depth look at the China Academy of Art, Liangzhu, a far cry from the MIT Department of Architecture that he headed from 2005 through 2010 before returning to Beijing to establish China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ.

Presenter:
Yung Ho Chang, FAIA, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu | FCJZ

MDC – Liu and Idenburg

In this 60-minute keynote, presented live at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference,Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO-IL lead us on a tour of their recent projects that inspire lasting positive intellectual and societal engagement. Through their use of traditional craft and interplays of form, material and light, they explore a range of issues that regenerate urban environments, engage communities and illustrate their locally sensitive perspectives of architecture.

Presenter:
Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg, AIA, SO-IL

MDC – James Wines: Architect and Artist

In this 60-minute virtual discussion with Reed Kroloff, presented at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference, James Wines, President of SITE NY, reflects on his extraordinary career. His multi-disciplinary practice focuses on the design of buildings, public spaces, environmental art works, landscape designs, master plans, interiors and product design.

From his lyrical crumbling facades of Best Products to his many other memorable projects, James explores the messages communicated, impact on natural environment and cost implications of buildings and public art since the 1960s. In his words, “I taught myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes” and challenges the audience to rethink the role of public works in a post-pandemic world.

Presenter:
James Wines, SITE

MDC – Alison Brooks, RIBA: Context is Everything

In this 60-minute keynote, presented live at the 2022 Monterey Design Conference, RIBA Stirling Prize recipient Alison Brooks shares her commitment to historical context, communities and landscapes through a plethora of building typologies: high-density, urban design, cultural buildings and private homes. Alison illustrates how her firm’s designs embrace mass and weight and “welcome gravity,” which she presents as a welcome antidote to modernism.

Alison joyfully walks us around and through "The Smile" – a Landmark Project for the 2016 London Design Festival that straddled architecture, sculpture, and public art.

Presenter:
Alison Brooks, RIBA, FRSA, RDI, Alison Brooks Architects

MDC – 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. Sandra discusses how her studio, Barclay&Crousse, is structured as a laboratory. In her words "We consider our work as an ongoing research, in which each project informs the next one in terms of hypothesis, strategies and building processes."

Sandra presents a set of spectacular designs located in the ruins and hillsides throughout Peru, each rooted in Peruvian culture, history, and local ecologies.

Presenter:
Sandra Barclay, Hon. FAIA, Barclay& Crousse

MDC – Prof. Lesley Lokko: Building and Being

Prof. Lesley Lokko, Curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and Founder of the African Futures Institute about global change making, delivers a passionate 2022 Monterey Design Conference keynote presentation about embedding diversity, equity and inclusion in the built environment.

Through a series of poignant illustrations and videos, Lesley paints a future built on Confront, Connect and Change, and showcases how the African Futures Institute is reversing a thousand years of exploitive practices, giving Africa’s dynamism and creative energy a space to flourish.

Presenter:
Prof. Lesley Lokko, African Futures Institute

MDC – Bijoy Jain

In this 60-minute keynote, Renowned architect Bijoy Jain connects from his Mumbai studio as part of the 2022 Monterey Design Conference. Showcasing a few of his breathtaking projects, Bijoy talks about his creative process, his attentiveness to the environment and materials, and his thoughtful approach to local inhabitants. Bijoy concludes his presentation by taking us on a virtual tour of his studio.

Presenter:
Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai

MDC – Alberto Kalach: Architecture, Landscape and Urbanization

Watch one of Mexico’s most inspiring and famed architects in this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference. Alberto Kalach showcases the work of TAX—Taller de Arquitectura X and passionately illustrates the fragile relationship between nature and urban environments, from a $5,000 minimal house, to his housing developments to one of the largest project ever conceived for the Valley of Mexico Basin.

Presenter:
Alberto Kalach, TAX—Taller de Arquitectura X

MDC – Mark Cavagnero: Simple Volumes, Unapologetic Forms

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, Mark Cavagnero, FAIA, takes us on an exploration of his firm’s work, which is grounded in the belief of the power of collaboration and community buildings. His stunning buildings and reductive designs show his journey from his early exposure to Marcel Breuer and the use of architecture “as a foil to reach out and grab space” and to the long, low lines expressed by Edward Barnes.

Presenter:
Mark Cavagnero, FAIA, Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

MDC – Gregg Pasquarelli: Thinkers and Makers

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, Gregg Pasquarelli, AIA, of SHoP Architects, captivates us with the art, mathematics, science and design behind his firm’s innovative portfolio. See how this cutting-edge interdisciplinary firm is proving—at sites around the world—that intelligent, evocative design can be made within real-world constraints. Gregg reveals the process behind the world's skinniest skyscraper and a pair of skyscrapers that feature copper cladding, bent silhouettes and a skybridge suspended more than 90 metres above the ground.

Presenter:
Gregg Pasquarelli, AIA, SHoP Architects

MDC – Yvonne Farrell: The EARTH as Client

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, Yvonne Farrell, FRIAI, Hon. RIBA, shares what Grafton Architects has discovered through its widely acclaimed practice and how each project explores questions: What do we value? How do we invent? How do we create something that is useful, beautiful and meaningful? Yvonne takes us on journey through the silent language of space and inspires us to “treat EARTH as a client.” Her poetic delivery leaves no doubt about why her firm won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 and was recently awarded the RIBA 2020 Royal Gold Medal and the 2020 Pritzker Prize.

Presenter:
Yvonne Farrell, FRIAI, Hon. RIBA, Grafton Architects

MDC – Bob Harris: RESONANCE--Nature, Place, Craft & Restraint

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, 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. Starting with an overview of Lake|Flato’s practice and design approach, Bob leads us on a visual tour of some of his most innovative projects and explains how the firm’s wide body of scientific research helped produce high performance, ecologically responsive buildings.

Presenter:
Bob Harris, FAIA, Lake|Flato

MDC - Brian MacKay-Lyons: The Wind and the Moon

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s 2015 Gold Medalist Brian MacKay-Lyons captivates us with his spectacular buildings, storytelling and dry wit. Brian shows us how his designs draw on his inspiration from a rich local heritage of building types and how he reinterprets local vernacular to respond to harsh climates and exterior elements.

Presenter:
Brian MacKay-Lyons, Hon. FAIA, FRAIC, Int’l FRIBA, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

MDC – Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu: Obsessions and Disappearing Villages

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu highlight their Shanghai-based interdisciplinary work. Through stunning visuals and a series of short movies, they share their design obsessions and how their architectural practice confronts some of China's most challenging urban issues, rapid development and demolition, disappearing villages and disgruntled population. Lyndon and Rosanna highlight some of their most provocative projects and share a glimpse of Chinese urban life that is seldom seen.

Presenter:
Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu, Neri & Hu

MDC – Paul Kephart and Marta Kephart: Lightened Footprints, Natural Landscapes

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California's 2019 Monterey Design Conference, 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 and lighten the footprint on natural habitats. From their innovative rooftop of the California Academy of Sciences to their solutions for restoring dune habitats, these pioneers of landscape design, ecology and horticulture inspire us to design for people in ways that promote sustainability and increase biological diversity.

Presenter:
Paul Kephart, ASLA, and Marta Kephart, RANA

MDC – Sou Fujimoto: Between Nature and Architecture

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, renowned Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto inspires us with soft lighting effects, visually arresting geometric forms, an interplay between nature and architecture, and with his desire to "question everything."

With a gentle presence and soft wit, Sou describes his ethereal installation at London's Serpentine Gallery, the infinite forest of books that comprises one of Japan's most distinguished libraries, his magical tree-inspired high-rise residential tower in southern France and, of course, his toilet in nature.

Presenter:
Sou Fujimoto

MDC - Julie Eizenberg, FAIA: Urban Hallucinations

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, examines placemaking and community building in Los Angeles and how architecture can address regional issues of sustainability, responsible growth, affordability, and housing shortages.

Showcasing recent affordable housing, apartments, libraries, public spaces and places of worship projects, Julie illustrates strategies for creating informal social interaction within, and between, buildings. And through her firm’s urban research and a personal account of life and work in the Los Angeles region, Julie deftly walks us through her "urban hallucinations."

Presenter:
Julie Eizenberg, FAIA

MDC – Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA: Expanded Territories

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA, illustrate how movement, light and materiality actively shape how participants perceive and experience environments.

Through their museums, visitor centers, colleges, embassies, technology centers and waterfront parks, Marion and Michael describe how they push the boundaries of design to shape contemporary culture and to create buildings and open spaces that serve as models for urban ecology.

Presenter:
Marion Weiss, FAIA and Michael Manfredi, FAIA

MDC – Shohei Shigematsu, OMA

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, OMA Partner Shohei Shigematsu leads us through a diverse portfolio of museums, university buildings, high-rise buildings and cultural venues that highlight the interplay of light, movement and shadow.

Shohei captivates his audience with his wit, incisive analogies and over 500 stunning images of his remarkable projects and collaborations with artists.

Presenter:
Shohei Shigematsu

MDC – Dominique Jakob: Jakob + MacFarlane

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, Parisian architect Dominique Jakob of Jakob+MacFarlane illustrates how her firm uses digital technology as both a conceptual design and a production tool for internationally acclaimed projects in Paris, Lyon, Orleans, Boulogne and Belgium.

Dominique describes how the structure, shapes and cladding of her museums, libraries, office buildings and housing projects were digitally conceived and executed through collaborations with artists and fabricators. She concludes her keynote with a fascinating short video “Augmenting the Invisible” that animates and brings to life a simple sketch.

Presenter:
Dominique Jakob

MDC – Jeff Goldstein: Building Walls: Meaning + Mass

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, Jeff Goldstein, AIA, of DIGSAU explores how to involve end users in using indigenous materials, how existing materials and structures can be re-used and re-purposed to create stunning community buildings, and how the use of form, space, light, and material convey potent ideas and connect to the human spirit.

With passion and a bit of social commentary, Jeff highlights six of his recent projects to illustrate how to create meaningful places that empower and inspire people to be more creative, productive, and fulfilled.

Presenter:
Jeff Goldstein, AIA

MDC – Dorte Mandrup: Buildings and Conditions

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2017 Monterey Design Conference, Danish architect Dorte Mandrup illustrates the playful, innovative and poetic projects created by her “team of die-hard overachievers.” Dorte showcases her transformations of existing buildings, infills and urban planning to entirely new works, always anchored in location and landscape.

Among the projects Dorte presents are the expressive cantilever of the steel Salling Tower, the wooden truss of the Icefjord Center that bridges the rugged landscape, and the thatched roof of the Wadden Sea Centre that interprets the local building tradition and rural farmhouse typology of the region.

Presenter:
Dorte Mandrup

MDC – Rand Elliott, FAIA: Stray Dogs

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Rand Elliott, FAIA, shares his insights on designing for the environment and discusses the experiences that influence his work.

Rand'smesmerizing poetry, stunning visuals and provocative videos capture his deep respect for the land, the sun and the wind. His dramatic parking garage, iconic gas station, rhythmic boathouse and small-town house sited in a spare landscape enchant us with how light flows into a building. In his own words, Rand shows us "space that can only be heard by a stray dog."

Presenter:
Rand Elliott, FAIA

MDC – Clive Wilkinson, FAIA: The Theatre of Work

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Clive Wilkinson, FAIA, illustrates how architecture can be elevated beyond the pragmatic needs of the people a building accommodates to a level of theater. Clive explores how this theater of architecture can serve as an amplification of human life, a re-energizing of memory and experience, and a reawakening of passion. Drawing upon his diverse portfolio, he illustrates how building designs must address cultural models, community structures, knowledge sharing, diversity, the human scale, and "tribal" organization and connectivity.

Presenter:
Clive Wilkinson, FAIA

MDC – The Work of Carme Pinós

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Carme Pinos illustrates how understanding a site’s context enabled her to express buildings’ structures and create site-responsive and sculptural building designs. With her passionate Spanish accent and command of the stage, Carme becomes part of her own slide show, magically revealing how "rules of design" can be formed by client needs, climate and structural necessity and result in bold buildings in both urban and rural environments.

Presenter:
Carme Pinós

MDC – Junya Ishigami: How Small? How Vast?

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Japanese architect Junya Ishigama introduces us to an entirely different style of architecture. Is it biophilia? Or magical props?

His designs facilitate the movement of nature along with the movement of people, inviting trees and clouds and rain inside. In varied projects, from house to university hall to port buildings, an unlikely collaboration can be seen -- habitats for the elements as well as for people. Here are materials that fool the eye, and structures so light and airy that they disappear before your eyes.

Presenter:
Junya Ishigami

MDC – Frank Barkow: Spielraum

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Frank Barkow explores his deep interest in craftsmanship, structure and new technologies, and demonstrates how architectural ideas and materials are intertwined in projects that include easy-to-assemble tents, low-cost housing, advanced factory buildings and eye-catching high-rises.

Barkow illustrates how his firm, Barkow Leibinger, begins each project by first examining a particular material, then choosing the tools and software needed to turn it into a final formed product. With a deep knowledge of today’s cutting edge fabrication techniques, extensive research, and traditional model making, surprising new forms and structures arise.

Presenter:
Frank Barkow

MDC – Insights from Bernard Tschumi, FAIA

A legend goes live!

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, Bernard Tschumi, FAIA, examines some of his best known designs through concepts of space, event and movement.

Tschumi's early theoretical interests were in understanding and notating movement through space. He takes us through his design process, beginning with the concept, which evolves into form. In his varied museums, concert halls and other projects, Tschumi illustrates how structure and materials determine the form as much as the activities and movements within the space. Whether forms of movement or using a concept of "no form," his architecture is suffused with meaning.

Presenter:
Bernard Tschumi, FAIA

MDC – Art Installations by Pae White

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2015 Monterey Design Conference, artist and collaborator Pae White shows her early projects, multi-media art and site-specific installations, which defy easy categorization.

White “listens” to space and uses her art to create a story that amplifies and alters the surroundings, whether a reflective curtain for Snøhetta's Opera House or a hall for pigeons at the Venice Biennale complete with birdseed chandeliers. The inventiveness of the many projects shown, their uniqueness and unexpected variety are inspiring proof of art’s ability to transform place.

Presenter:
Pae White

MDC – Marlon Blackwell, FAIA: Transmutations

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIA California's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, discusses how his architecture and design process is based in design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and building typologies, upon contradictions of place, and upon strategies that transgress conventional boundaries for architecture.

Marlon skillfully demonstrates how resilient architecture can be achieved as an interplay between details, form and place and how responding to the specificities of site and sustainable design principles can result in architecture that can be felt as much as it is understood and be as immediate and tactile as it is legible, all while contributing to the fundamental civic dignity of communities.

Presenter:
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA

MDC – Odile Decq: Horizons

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Odile Decq, one of Europe's most provocative architects, reviews her award-winning and highly experimental work in architecture, art and design products.

With her passionate French accent, Odile demonstrates how a strong vision and a bit of persuasion translates concepts into stunning restaurants, museums, glass houses, galleries, yachts, furniture and, yes, even dog houses. She generously weaves her signature shade of red throughout her sensual designs to infuse them with energy, passion and wit.

Presenter:
Odile Decq

MDC – Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA: Age of Locations

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA, shows over 360 mesmerizing images of his projects throughout Japan, China, Italy, France, Germany and England, poetically describing how architecture should place location, climate and environmental harmony above all else.

Kengo describes his “regionalism” as a movement aimed at true independence of each town, starting with reliance on local materials and skilled craftspeople. From museums and train stations, to an “umbrella house” to a Starbucks assembled with local timber in Fukuoka, Japan, Kengo’s mastery of details will inspire and delight

Presenter:
Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA

MDC – Marcio Kogan, Hon. FAIA: What Makes Your Heart Beat?

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at the AIA California Council's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Marcio Kogan, Hon. FAIA, Director of studioMK27 in San Paulo Brazil asks "What Makes Your Heart Beat?"

Known for his special attention to details and finishes, and his own interpretation of Brazilian Modernism, Marcio and his co-presenter Diana Radomysler mix images and film in this creative presentation. Marcio and Diana brilliantly showcase their work with humor, passion and with the help of an inquisitive cat.

Presenter:
Marcio Kogan, Hon. FAIA and Diana Radomysler

MDC – Jennifer Yoos, FAIA: Material / Immaterial

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Jennifer Yoos, FAIA, illustrates how VJAA’s research-based design approach is applied to diverse building programs, locations, and scales.

Jennifer illustrates the idea of “materiality” that emphasizes craftsmanship and research into new material systems and structure. She then discusses “immateriality” by illustrating how buildings interact with climate and changing uses over time. Jennifer weaves these ideas together with her firm’s sensitive and striking designs of museums, libraries, hotels, exhibits and a rowing club.

Presenter:
Jennifer Yoos, FAIA

MDC – Anne Fougeron, FAIA: A Decade

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, San Francisco-based Anne Fougeron, FAIA, showcases a decade of her award-winning work.

With humor and wit, Anne describes how her body of work embraces architectural opportunities and responds to political forces to create buildings that redefine program, reinvent historical building types, and reinvigorate civic centers. Each project is a careful consideration of context, light and structure.

Presenter:
Anne Fougeron, FAIA

MDC – Thomas Phifer, FAIA: Outside In - Architecture, Landscape

In this 75-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2013 Monterey Design Conference, Thomas Phifer, FAIA, discuss aesthetic and environmental principles guiding the design of recent buildings and their landscapes. He poetically illustrates how technical innovations can be used to express structural lightness and architectural transparency.

Thomas presents six recent projects showing how incorporating high levels of controlled natural light and views of nature increases human comfort and health and how utilizing sustainable design features grounds a building in its place.

Presenter:
Thomas Phifer, FAIA

MDC – 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 course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC – Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC – 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 course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC – Peter Walker, FASLA: 9/11 Memorial and Its Precedents

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC – Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light & Landscape

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC – Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, 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

MDC Tribal Elder: Reflections with Herb Greene

Course release date: February, 2023

In this Tribal Elder dialogue from the 2022 Monterey Design Conference, Pierluigi Serraino engages legend Herb Greene as they discuss many of his most memorable architecture including the iconic Praire House, photographed by Julius Shulman and featured in Life and Look magazines.

Herb Greene's grandneice Lisa Cohen joins her uncle as they reminisce about his extraordinary career.

This course is presented FREE courtesy of the AIA California Council and aecKnowledge.

Presenter:
Herb Greene, moderated by Pierluigi Serrano

MDC Tribal Elder: Gere Kavanaugh - A Unique Multi-Dimensional Design Firm

In this Tribal Elder dialogue from the 20217 Monterey Design Conference, Pierluigi Serraino interviews the acclaimed American textile, industrial, and interior designer Gere Kavanaugh about her influence as a designer in the 1960s, the use of color and how interior design relates to the overall architectural design impact of a building. Gere discusses her work on the Nixon Library and her numerous exhibitions and collections, her collaboration with Victor Gruen and Frank Gehry, and her unabashed opinion about architects.

This course is presented FREE courtesy of the AIA California Council and aecKnowledge.

Presenter:
Gere Kavanaugh

Just Transition - The Water We Swim In

Lisa Richmond, Hon. AIA, (Former) Executive Director, AIA Seattle + Design in Public, and Meghan Lewis, Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington, introduce us to the upstream and downstream impacts of decarbonization and how equity and social justice impact a transition to clean energy sources, materials, and processes.

Kristen Dotson, Assoc. AIA, Sustainability Services Director, The Miller Hull Partnership, and Brent Davies, Vice President, Forests and Ecosystem Services, Ecotrust, then discuss some of the upstream impacts of the built environment including how “Climate-Smart Forestry” and the complexities of timber sourcing aim to balance ecosystem health with strong local economies.

After viewing this course, you will understand how a massive mobilization of labor and resources are often locked into systems and processes that either prioritize equitable advancement or sustain the current systemic oppressions and privileges that have been in place for generations.

Presenter:
Lisa Richmond, Hon. AIA, Meghan Lewis, Kristen Dotson, Assoc. AIA, Brent Davies

Just Transition - Building as a Public Benefit?

This session explores the downstream impacts of decarbonization, focusing on how the shift to reducing emissions influences equity, community health, and community wellbeing. Moderator Amarpreet Sethi, Assoc. AIA, Enviro, introduces how buildings can serve as public benefit rather than perpetuating the inequities that pervade our current structures.

Clyde Abrahamson, Development Manager, Spokane Indian Housing Authority, then presents a case study “Children of the Sun Solar Initiative” that highlights the Spokane Tribe of Indians’ vision to lower its carbon footprint, reduce energy cost and become more energy self-reliant.

Miquel Maestas. Housing and Economic Development Director, El Centro De La Raza, presents a case study of “The Center of People of All Races” that inspires us to design buildings that benefit the public.

Jamie Stroble, Co-Chair, Seattle Planning Commission; Founder & EJ Educator, Noio Pathways Capacity Building, presents examples of project-based considerations for climate, health and equity co-benefits.

A short, insightful panel discussion explores how the shift to reducing emissions influences equity, community health, and community wellbeing.

Presenter:
Amarpreet Sethi, Assoc. AIA, Clyde Abrahamson, Miquel Maestas and Jamie Stroble

Just Transition - Upstream and Downstream Impacts of Decarbonization

Moderator Daniel Glenn, AIA, Principal, 7 Directions Architects/Planners and a Native American architect, sets the stage by posing the question: “How can building professionals and their clients respond to the impacts of decarbonization?”

Eileen V. Quigley, Executive Director of the Clean Energy Transition Institute, discusses applying the five pillars of deep decarbonization in Washington State to help accelerate the path to zero-carbon buildings.

Jonathan Heller, President, Ecotope, Inc. takes us on a deep dive into the world of electrification and illustrates how clean energy options were incorporated into several buildings in the Pacific Northwest.

Anyeley Hallova, an equity & sustainability-focused real estate developer, presents a case study of the Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and how the design and process helped achieve its aggressive equity and sustainability goals.

Presenter:
Daniel Glenn, AIA, Eileen V. Quigley, Jonathan Heller, Anyeley Hallova

Just Transition - Building Equity, Now!

In this passionate keynote, Carlton Eley, Regional Equity Initiative Manager for the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, explores the groundswell of activity that is compelling communities to "find their true North." He explores equitable development as an approach for meeting the needs of underserved communities through projects, programs, and/or policies that reduce disparities while fostering places that are healthy, vibrant and diverse. As Mr. Eley explains, the equity challenge in the built environment rises above false choices, encourages curiosity and requires design professionals, planners, local governments and the public to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Mr. Eley is introduced by Rico Quirindongo, AIA, Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development, who emphasizes how we must keep equity, community health, economic stability, and social context in mind as we transition to a more sustainable built environment.

Presenter:
Rico Quirindongo, AIA, Interim Director, Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development, and Carlton Ely, Regional Equity Initiative Manager for the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission

2 Degrees Symposium: L.A.'s Green New Deal

In this 60-minute course filmed live at the AIA Los Angeles & AIA|LA COTE 2020 Two Degrees Symposium, Dominique Hargreaves, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles, provides an overview of LA's Green New Deal, one of the nation's most ambitious plans to combat climate change and achieve a zero-carbon grid, zero-carbon transportation, zero-carbon buildings, zero waste and zero wasted water. Dominique then illustrates how we can lead our industry and the world in mitigating climate change.

Berkeley City Council Member Kate Harrison inspires us to kick-start the Green New Deal with all-electric buildings and explains how Berkeley is implementing steps to eliminate fossil fuels from new buildings and creating well-paid jobs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and economic inequality.

Presenter:
Dominique Hargreaves, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles, Kate Harrison, Councilmember, City of Berkeley

2 Degrees Symposium: Urban Scale

In this 75-minute course filmed live at the AIA Los Angeles & AIA|LA COTE 2020 Two Degrees Symposium, three presenters provide inspiring perspectives about how design professionals can help transform the urban regions into more sustainable, less carbon-intensive environments.

Dylan Jones, AIA, of Gensler's Mobility Lab discusses how mobility has shaped our communities and how the past decade of technology-driven disruption is shaping the way we move, connect and plan the cities of tomorrow.

Nick Saponara, Deputy Executive Officer of Transit Oriented Communities at LA Metro, provides an overview of one of the largest transportation infrastructure programs in the nation, and how LA Metro fosters transit-oriented communities.

Matthew Wintner, AIA, then leads us through the planning process for the Pacific Beach EcoDistrict, which focuses on place, prosperity, health + wellbeing, connectivity, living infrastructure and resource regeneration.

Presenter:
Dylan Jones, AIA, Gensler Mobility Lab, Nick Saponara, Deputy Executive Officer, Transit Oriented Communities, Matthew Wintner, AIA, President of beautfulPB

2 Degrees Symposium: Building Scale

In this 75-minute course filmed live at the AIA Los Angeles & AIA|LA COTE 2020 Two Degrees Symposium, three presenters share insights on the design of healthy, low intensity buildings that meet or exceed the goals set forth in the Green New Deal.

In “Adaptive Reuse,” William Leddy, FAIA, provides insights into why adaptive building reuse reduces both embodied operational carbon and why it is imperative in a climate-positive world. He then suggests tangible strategies for design professionals to promote adaptive reuse.

In “Building to Cool the Climate,” Bruce King, Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet) provides strategies for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it within foundations, walls, roofs and insulation, and inspires us to transform buildings from massive carbon emitters into carbon sponges.

In “Aligning Climate and Health Goals,” Bill Walsh, Founder and Board President, Healthy Building Network, discusses why reducing embodied carbon is essential to meeting our climate change goals and why this demands a revolution in how we specify and manufacture building materials.

Presenter:
William Leddy, FAIA, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Bill Walsh, Founder and President of the Board of the Healthy Building Network (HBN), and Bruce King, Co-Founder & Director, Ecological Building Network (EBNet)

2 Degrees Symposium: The Terrestrial Biosphere

In this 75-minute course filmed live at the AIA Los Angeles & AIA|LA COTE 2020 Two Degrees Symposium, Dr. Joshua B. Fisher, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of the leaders of the ECOSTRESS mission, captivates us with stunning visuals, videos and metaphors about "The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere Under a Changing Climate." Dr. Fisher gives an overview of the latest remote-sensing datasets and model developments from JPL and discusses new insights into the behavior and understanding of terrestrial ecosystems.

Viewers will appreciate why Dr. Fisher has been named one of the world's most influential climate researchers and is a widely sought-after lecturer on climate change.

Presenter:
Dr. Joshua Fisher, NASA JPL Research Scientist

Density Done Right - Social Occupation

As architects, we have a responsibility to cities and the people who occupy them. In this 75-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, Lorcan O’Herhily, FAIA, passionately illustrates how his projects serve as a social act--a tool for engaging in politics, economics, aesthetics, and smart, sustainable growth. Lorcan shows how his firm’s recent work creating affordable, high-density housing promotes equity, human interaction and cultural evolution.

After watching this presentation, you will fully appreciate why Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects was recognized in 2018 as the #1 Design firm in the country by Architect magazine’s Architect 50.

Presenter:
Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

Density Done Right - Minneapolis 2040: Race, Place and Equity

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, Paul Mogush and Heather Worthington discuss their work with the City of Minneapolis creating more affordable and accessible housing and creating living-wage jobs through zoning changes. The Minneapolis 2040 plan is one of the nation’s most progressive planning strategies for creating higher density transit-oriented districts and lowering traffic congestion.

Learn from two accomplished city planners how to create cities more resilient to the effect of climate change and diminishing natural resources, and how to create affordable strategies for improving access to healthy living activities and environments.

Presenter:
Introduced by Renée Cheng, Presenters: Paul Mogush and Heather Worthington

Density Done Right - The Roost: Micro Housing, Community and Cultural Space

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, David Neiman discusses his firm’s innovative designs that focus on livability, affordability, community, and access to housing for all. David then presents a case study of The Roost, an affordable micro-housing development that supports and strengthens Seattle's arts community, on which he served as both architect and developer. David illustrates how to overcome market constraints and achieve a 5-Star Built Green certification in this remarkably energy-efficient congregate housing development.

Presenter:
David Nieman

Density Done Right - Pax Futura: A High-Performance Community

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, designer and developer Sloan Ritchie of Cascade Built and designer Brittany Porter of Weber Thompson (formerly NK Architects) present Pax Futura, Seattle’s first certified multifamily passive house building. Learn how this 35-unit complex builds caters to music lovers, environmentally minded and socially conscious residents while building on the concepts of Passive Houses. This case study shows how to provide thermal comfort, energy-efficiency and lower moisture penetration through heat pumps, heat recovery systems, thermal bridging, computerized shading models and air barrier details.

Presenter:
Sloan Ritchie, LEED AP and Brittany Porter

Density Done Right - Othello Square

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, architect Carey Dagliano, LEED AP BD+C and landscape architect Rachael Meyer, GRP, LEED AP of Weber Thompson and Faduma Ahmed, MPA, of HomeSight present a fascinating case study of the community-based planning and design process of Othello Square, one Seattle’s most recent affordable housing projects. They discuss how this highly inspirational project helps restore the local ecology and provide healthier living to lower income residents.

By watching this course, you will learn how proactive community engagement empowers community stakeholders to inform, consult and collaborate to design more affordable and sustainable housing.

Presenter:
Carey Dagliano, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Rachael Meyer, GRP, LEED AP, and Faduma Ahmed, MPA

Density Done Right - Granny Pad & Big Mouth House

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, Ian Butcher, AIA, and Kailin Gregga, AIA, of Best Practice present case studies of affordable accessory dwelling units. The fun designs for Granny Pad, Big Mouth House, and DadPad illustration how micro units and accessory dwelling units can increase housing density, provide much needed affordable housing options, decrease carbon footprints and better accommodate the needs of an aging family member.

Presenter:
Ian Butcher, AIA and Kailin Gregga, AIA

Density Done Right - Lightning Talks

In this series of “lightning talks” filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2019 Housing Forum, seven planners, designers, architects and builders provide distinct strategies for creating more sustainable, livable and affordable urban residential developments and safe pedestrian corridors.

Presenter:
Michael Austin, Gregory Wharton, Ryan DiRaimo, Bradley Khouri, AIA, Lauren Keene, Carey Moran and Matt Hutchins, AIA

Twelve Years, Seven Houses, a Thousand Experiments

In this 75-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle's 2018 Housing Forum, Stephen Kieran, FAIA, LEED Fellow, shows his firm's artistry in six inspiring residential projects, including prefabricated high-performance solutions that are proving to be instrumental in changing the way the industry models, constructs and delivers housing.

In the final segment of this course, Stephen discusses his firm's research and involvement in Living Choices Homes and its quest to create affordable, solid and renewable housing to meet the demand projected for India's emerging middle class.

Presenter:
Stephen Kieran, FAIA, LEED Fellow, KieranTimberlake

Housing Inspiration: Sawmill House and Karuna House

This 60-minute course, filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2018 Housing Forum, includes case studies on two inspirational residential projects.

First, Elizabeth Bianchi Conklin and Vikgram Sami of Olson Kundig present the Sawmill House, a net-zero, off-the-grid family retreat embedded in the tough, scrubby landscape in the harsh high desert of California. Sawmill harnesses the challenges and opportunities of its remote site, emphasizing sustainable strategies and reclaimed materials. The design was driven by a scavenger mentality, seeking always to do more with less, including using salvaged and recycled materials whenever possible.

Second, Cory Hawbecker of Holst Architecture presents the stunning Karuna House, an ambitious residential project designed to meet a combination of the world’s most demanding green building certifications. Built on a south facing slope overlooking the Willamette Valley’s rich agricultural land, Karuna House is the first MINERGIE-certified building in North America.

Presenter:
Elizabeth Bianchi Conklin and Vikram Sami, Olson Kundig, and Cory Hawbecker, Holst Architecture

Housing Innovation: Case Studies

This three-part, 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2018 Housing Forum, showcases a series of highly innovative approaches to the housing industry.

First, Craig Curtis, FAIA, LEED AP, presents how Katerra is redefining the $1.3 trillion housing industry through offsite manufacturing and by optimizing every aspect of building design, materials supply and construction.

Susan Jones, FAIA, LEED BD+C, of atelierjones then showcases her high-performance CLT House, a modest 1,500 SF single-family home washed in light and full of the textures and smells of natural materials.

Elizabeth Golden and Rick Mohler of the University of Washington, along with Yasaman Esmali of modular housing start-up blokable, then showcase innovative multi-family solutions that can be integrated into single-family housing zones.

Presenter:
Craig Curtis -- Katerra, Susan Jones, FAIA -- atelierjones, Elizabeth Golden and Rick Mohler -- Univ. of Washington, Yasaman Esmali -- blokable,

Making Room: Housing for a Changing America

In this 60-minute course filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2018 Housing Forum, Chrysanthe Broikos, an architectural historian and curator, leads us through the Making Room: Housing for a Changing America exhibit at the National Building Museum and makes a compelling argument for a wider menu of housing options to respond to the diversity of households across the country.

Through images of the exhibit, Chrysanthe educates us about demographic trends, micro-units, shared housing and other concepts that appeal to multi-generational families.

Presenter:
Chrysanthe Broikos, Architectural Historian & Curator, National Building Museum

Inspiration, Innovation, Impact: The Future of Residential Design

Eric Drivdahl (right) moderates a lively panel discussion with Craig Curtis, (Chief Architect, Katerra), Susan Jones, FAIA (Atelierjones), Stephen Kieran, FAIA, LEED Fellow (KieranTimberlake). Chrysanthe Broikos (Architectural Historian & Curator National Building Museum) and Rob Johnson (Seattle City Councilmember).

Among the topics: artificial intelligence, responding to rapid social change, housing prototypes, regional affordable housing policies, managing risk while embracing innovations, and lessons learned. Stephen Kieran ends the panel discussion with a moving story about how his own house has accommodated life-changes in his family.

Presenter:
Moderated by Eric Drivdahl, Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl Architecture

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

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

Aging in Place(s): Designs for Senior Living

As the baby boomers turn 65 and populations around the world continue to age, supportive living environments for seniors are receiving increased design attention. This presentaton shows how innovative examples of building designs for seniors from the United States, Europe and Asia enables seniors to lead productive and creative lives in environments that allow them to age in place with independence and dignity. This course also describes the aging-related issues that design professionals need to consider to enter a growing market sector.

Presenter:
Richard Rosen, AIA, LEED AP, Perkins Eastman

Historic Preservation of Modern Architecture

The postwar period, 1945 through 1980, produced buildings that are now old enough and sufficiently significant to warrant thoughtful preservation. This 75-minute course offers insight into the unique challenges of preserving postwar modern architecture, differing significantly from preserving buildings from an earlier period. Viewers will gain an understanding of the philosophical and technical complexities of preservation efforts for the sheer number of buildings to be considered.

Presenter:
Dr. Theodore H. M. Prudon, FAIA

Pitfalls and Minefields of Specification-Writing

This course will help design firms produce higher quality specifications that respond to the increasing complexity of building projects and that minimize the adverse consequences of poorly-worded or incomplete specifications.

Course takers will develop a better understanding of and appreciation for specifications – an often-overlooked part of the Contract Documents – and learn how to craft specifications that achieve design objectives, meet code requirements, and avoid added costs, delays, construction coordination problems and disputes. .

The presenter provides specific solutions to overcome common challenges design professionals face when writing design-based, performance-based, propriety or hybrid specifications.

Presenter:
Cornelius (Kin) Dubois, FAIA, LEED AP

BIM: Leveraging Level of Development & BIM Execution Plans

Course release date: May, 2019.

This 75-minute course features industry experts from SmithGroup, Boldt Construction Company, Stanford Health Care’s Planning Design + Construction, and Autodesk. This highly informative set of presentations and panel discussion illustrates how to: develop Level of Development and BIM Execution plans to reduce design errors and construction conflicts; leverage data incorporated into BIM models; manage scope and risks when sharing BIM models; and integrate design-assist into BIM models. Tune in as practitioners discuss lessons learned and Autodesk evangelist Jon Van Benthem presents a case study of the Denver International Airport.

This course was filmed live as part of AIA San Francisco’s Integrated Practice series.

Presenter:
Moderator Kevin Durhamn, Technical Solutions Executive, Autodesk Software Solutions, is joined by panelists: Randy Anderson, BIM Technologist, SmithGroup; Joshua Mercado, AIA, Director, BIM and Technology Integration, Boldt Construction Company; Jon Van

Risk Control in Construction Contract Administration

This course will help design professionals better understand and respond to the growing risks entailed in providing construction contract administration (CCA), how better to protect public health, safety and welfare, and compliance with building codes.

The presenter makes a compelling case for why architects and engineers must serve as both a risk manager and a project manager, and provides an easy-to-follow approach to controlling risks in a manner that enhances service effectiveness.

Viewers will gain valuable insights into how best to identify CCA areas of vulnerability, improve their ability to develop risk averse CCA procedures, and expand their skills in persuading owners to share in the numerous risks inherent in CCA.

Presenter:
James B. Atkins, FAIA, FKIA

Drawing the Line: Monitoring the Contractor’s Work Plan

This course will help design professionals understand a contractor’s exclusive responsibility for planning, organizing, coordinating, and implementing the construction work, and will describe the indicators that are evident when a contractor’s work plan is executed effectively.

Course takers will develop a better understanding of the need for dialogue, and the tools to initiate and improve communication, amongst all team members, pertaining to contractor work coordination activities.

With a wry sense of humor, the presenter discusses how to review and respond to construction coordination drawings, clarifications sketches, submittals and mock-ups, and provides valuable insights that will help guide pre-installation conferences and enforce contract requirements.

Presenter:
James B. Atkins, FAIA, FKIA

Risk Management Best Practices

This 60-minute Risk Management Best Practices course, featuring five attorneys from Morris Polich & Purdy, LLP, provides insights into reexamining business practices to keep up with the fast-changing world and turbulent economic climate.

This treasure trove of risk management and practice management advice covers: concepts and strategies to manage the legal risks provided by contractual indemnity agreements; legal risks pertaining to sustainable design; issues and procedures for securing payment on projects; strategies to avoid claims in process; and strategies for selecting the correct business entity for your practice. The course closes with a discussion of strategies for introducing Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) into your projects.

Presenter:
Penny Deihl, Esq., Ted D. Levin, Esq., Creighton Sebra, Esq., William B. Kirshenbaum, Esq., and Mehrdad Farivar, Esq., FAIA, Partners at Morris Polich & Purdy, LLP

Minimizing Risk During Construction Administration

This course provides design professionals with essential risk management practices to employ during the construction administration phase.

Attorney Michele L. Gamble provides targeted, practical tips to help minimize potential risks that architects, engineers and allied professionals face during this critical phase of projects. Topics include contracting, communicating, planning, documenting and increasing awareness of risks involved with construction administration. This course is especially relevant to design professionals who draft contracts, manage risks and/or provide construction administration-related services.

Presenter:
Michele L. Gamble, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP

Contract Language: The Foundation of Good Business

This 60-minute risk management course presents best practices in drafting and reviewing contracts between Owners and Design Professional.

Attorney Brian Stewart examines onerous contract clauses that design professionals regularly confront and provides targeted suggestions for negotiating more balanced clauses. Topics include essential contract clauses, pros and cons of typical compensation methods, dispute resolution options and limitations of liability protections.

Presenter:
Brian K. Stewart, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP

Arbitration and Litigation: A Trial Attorney's Perspective

This 60-minute risk management course describes how and why arbitration and civil litigation are vastly different procedural mechanisms.

Attorney Samuel Muir provides a candid comparison and dispels commonly-held myths as he provides design professionals insights into how to choose between arbitration and litigation and negotiate dispute resolution clauses that protect their interests. As arbitration agreements are subject to contract interpretation, this course will help design professionals negotiate a clause that provides many of the legal protections inherent in civil litigation.

Presenter:
Samuel J. Muir, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP

Project Delivery 2: Design-Bid-Build

This second in a 5-part series focuses on the Design-Bid-Build processand the variations within this project delivery method. This course starts with a video introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice, who describes how this delivery method is structured, the responsibilities of the various parties, and an overview of the pros and cons of Design-Bid-Build.

The course is accompanied by 1) Detailed Course Material on contractual relationships, quality control concerns, schedule and cost implications, capabilities required, potential conflicts of interest, insurance requirements and dispute resolutions specific to Design-Bid-Build, and 2) Case Studies of Design-Bid-Build projects.

Presenter:
AIA California Council with an introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice

Project Delivery 3: Construction Management

This third in a 5-part series focuses on Construction Management and the variations within this project delivery method. This course starts with a video introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice, who describes how this delivery method is structured, the responsibilities of the various parties, and an overview of the pros and cons of utilizing a Construction Manager as part of a project delivery method.

The course is accompanied by 1) Detailed Course Material about contractual relationships, quality control concerns, schedule and cost implications, capabilities required, potential conflicts of interest, insurance requirements and dispute resolutions specific to Construction Management, and 2) Case Studies of Construction Management projects.

Presenter:
AIA California Council with an introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice

Project Delivery 4: Design-Build

This fourth in a 5-part series focuses on Design-Build and the variations within this project delivery method. This course starts with a video introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice, who describes how this delivery method is structured, the responsibilities of the various parties, and an overview of the pros and cons of Design-Build.

The course is accompanied by 1) Detailed Course Material about contractual relationships, quality control concerns, schedule and cost implications, capabilities required, potential conflicts of interest, insurance requirements and dispute resolutions specific to Design-Bid-Build, and 2) Case Studies of Design-Build projects.

Presenter:
AIA California Council with an introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice

Project Delivery 5: Integrated Project Delivery

This fifth in a 5-part series describes Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), a project delivery approach that integrates people, systems, business structures, and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents and insights of all participants to reduce waste and optimize efficiency through all phases of design, fabrication, and construction.

This course starts with a video introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice, who describes how this delivery method continues to evolve, how best to employ IPD, and an overview of the pros and cons of IPD.

The course is accompanied by 1) Detailed Course Material about the Integrated Project Delivery method, 2) white papers on "IPD Teams - Creation Organization & Management" and "Negotiating an IPD Agreement" and 3) Case Studies of projects utilizing IPD.

Presenter:
AIA California Council with an introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice

Project Delivery 1: An Overview

This first in a 5-part series is the culmination of a decade-long exploration into alternative methods of project delivery. This course starts with a video introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice, which provides an overview of various delivery methods available to public and private clients: Design-Bid-Build, Construction Management, Design-Build, and Integrated Project Delivery.

Referring to the rapid change in project delivery methods, Don Rudy states, "It is essential to understand the delivery options available and to be able to identify which delivery method best meets the goals, skill level and available resources for specific projects."

The course is accompanied by PDFs of 1) Detailed Course Material,, 2) a Matrix of Project Delivery, which provides an overview of the first three project delivery methods: Design-Bid-Build, Construction Management, and Design-Build, and 3) a Project Delivery Glossary, which identifies terms often used when undertaking various delivery methods and sheds light on some new terms and often-confused terms that apply to all four project delivery methods.

Presenter:
AIA California Council with an introduction by Don Rudy, AIA, AIACC Vice-President of Professional Practice

Leadership 1: Influence and Effectiveness

Why do some leaders seem to have a natural ability to bring influence to bear on people and organizations?

The first in a six-part series, this 60-minute course explores key elements of effective, influential leadership in professional environments. Through lively commentary and anecdotes, Peter De Lisle, Professor of Leadership Studies, discusses the behaviors, discipline and self-reflection necessary to lead teams into exceptional levels of performance.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Hon. AIA Dallas

Leadership 2: Performance Development

The second installment in a six-part series, this 60-minute course offers leaders a proven approach for developing novices into masters of their respective fields. Here, Peter De Lisle, Professor of Leadership Studies, shares a wealth of thought-provoking insights as he examines model relationships between leaders and individuals engaged in skill acquisition. Viewers will learn to view competency in four stages and to offer the specific feedback and direction necessary for moving individuals from one stage to the next.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Hon. AIA Dallas

Leadership 3: Professional Competency

The third installment in a six-part leadership series, this 60-minute course covers the topic of Mastery. Viewers will develop an understanding of mastery as a state beyond high-performance. Here, Professor of Leadership Studies, Peter De Lisle, discusses the self-organizing, self-managing nature of mastery and the behaviors that foreshadow it. Viewers will learn to benchmark performance and incentivize productivity, while being treated to a variety of technical, interpersonal, and resource utilization strategies developed and practiced by exemplary leaders.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Hon. AIA Dallas

Leadership 4: Innovation and Problem-Solving

The fourth installment in a six-part series, this 60-minute course examines how effective leaders build and sustain innovative climates inside professional organizations. Here, Professor of Leadership Studies, Peter De Lisle, presents strategies for building atmospheres that cultivate and protect creativity, while managing the uncertainty those environments can produce. Through organizational models and examples, viewers will learn to embrace complexity and change in route to innovation and team-building.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Hon. AIA Dallas

Leadership 5: Interdependency and Teams

What is the foundation of effective, high-performing teams and how can we manifest it? The fifth installment in a six-part series, this 60-minute course focuses on the social and emotional factors that underlie motivation. Professor of Leadership Studies, Peter De Lisle, presents viewers with methods for building trust and excitement inside a team framework that will foster spontaneity, creativity and productivity in professional environments.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Hon. AIA Dallas

Leadership 6: Conflict Redefined

If conflict is a normal state inside complex environments, then conflict management is an indispensable behavior in the effective leader. The final installment in a six part series, this 60-minute course presents strategies for the optimal management of conflict inside professional teams. Viewers will gain a greater understanding of the nature of conflict by examining the impact that personal values and communication practices have on relationships. Methods for understanding and shaping conflict management skills through self-reflection are discussed and will empower leaders with powerful tools.

Presenter:
Peter A. De Lisle PhD, Professor of Leadership Studies, Austin College, Consultant to AIA Dallas