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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, 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 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:
ntje 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
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..

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Presenter:
Chris Warren, AIA, Principal, WORD

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.

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Presenter:
Dan Weber, AIA, LEED AP, ANACAPA

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.

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Presenter:
Heather Roberge, AIA, Murmur, Los Angeles

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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

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’s mesmerizing 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