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ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY FESTIVAL
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LECTURES
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ON SALE NOW! | Cameron Sinclair (1.5 LUs)
September 2, 6:00 pm
Networking & Refreshments: 6:00 PM
Lecture and Q & A: 7:00 PM
$20 AIA + AIGA Members | $30 Nonmembers | $15 Students
Adobe San Francisco, 601 Townsend Street, San Francisco | 
Cameron Sinclair | In 1999, Cameron Sinclair co-founded Architecture for Humanity, which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. Currently the organization is working in a dozen countries on projects ranging from health centers in Sub-Saharan Africa, community centers in Southeast Asia to low-income housing on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Cameron is a recipient of the ASID Design for Humanity award and the Lewis Mumford Award for Peace and was named one of three winners of the TED Prize, which honors visionaries from any field who have shown they can “positively impact life on this planet.” |
|  | The Art of Patience: Meet Architect Mark Jensen (1 LU)
September 9, 7:00 pm
Free.
The Exhibition Pavilion, located at the intersection of Storey Avenue and Ralston Avenue.
For directions, click here. | | 
Patience, Mark Jensen © Monique Deschaines | Presidio, Log Cabin, 1299 Storey Avenue, San Francisco Architect Mark Jensen will discuss his Presidio Habitats installation Patience, featuring dramatically austere yellow chairs that afford visitors a unique perspective on the Presidio’s Great Blue Herons. |
| | Caterpillar: Dynamic Solutions to Energy Efficient Residential Design (1.5 LUs)
September 14, 6:00 pm
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco | Sponsored by: Weiland Sliding Doors and Windows, Inc. | 
© Joe Fletcher Photography | The Caterpillar Residence was the first to earn the distinction of LEED Platinum for Custom Homes on the Central Coast. As such it presents the opportunity to discuss environmentally conscious design decisions including water catchment, solarPV panels, rammed earth walls, passive solar heating and cooling on a spectacular site located within the Santa Lucia Preserve near Carmel. In a discussion moderated by Amanda Dameron, Digital Content Director for Dwell magazine, Jonathan Feldman, Architect; Michael Heacock, LEED consultant; David Easton, Rammed Earth Works; and David Knight, Monterey Energy Group will present the challenges and opportunities available to residential architects and homeowners who seek sustainable solutions in new construction. |
| | Parkmerced: An Integrated Urban Ecology (1.5 LUs)
September 16, 6:00 pm
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
SOM, One Front Street, Suite 2500, San Francisco | 
Parkmerced, Courtyard © SOM | Parkmerced is a pioneering neighborhood revitalization effort that defines new standards of environmental sustainability and neighborhood livability. This pedestrian-focused community will establish a productive network of open space, apply evolving environmental technologies to reduce energy and water usage, and resolve automobile dependency by realigning public transit. Parkmerced’s proposed design creates a new vision for 21st century urbanism based on the responsive synthesis of ecological biosystems with urban infrastructure networks. The multidisciplinary panel, including members of the client and design teams, will introduce a diversity of perspectives on this topic. Panelists will offer specific metrics about the reduction of carbon emissions and energy and water consumption in large-scale developments. They will also detail enlightened planning, design, transportation, and landscape practices within the context of a diverse and socially vibrant new San Francisco neighborhood. Conversation led by SOM Design Director Leo Chow. |
| | Tracing Information: An Urban Informatics Workshop (1.5 LUs)
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
Arup, 560 Mission Street, 7th Floor, San Francisco | 
© Dan Hill | Metabolisms are adaptive systems that run on information and operate on a multitude of feedback loops. This presentation and workshop will first introduce the concept and precedences for urban metabolisms, and then collaboratively cast a wide net onto the urban metabolisms of San Francisco’s mid-Market District. The outcome will be a series of viable near-future visions that have the potential to improve the management of the city, enable behavior change and improve quality of life for all citizens. The workshop will be facilitated by Engin Ayaz and Mayra Madriz. |
| | Water for a Sustainable City: Historic Hetch Hetchy Water and Power System Presentation (1.5 LUs)
September 23, 6:00 pm
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco | 
© Robin Scheswohl | Join San Francisco City Attorney Josh Milstein for a historic overview of the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power System. The presentation will provide a intriguing overview of the building of the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power System, including the construction of the 67-mile long Hetch Hetchy Railroad and hydropower house developed to create the O’Shaughnessy Dam. For more information, click on the Exhibitions page. |
| | Los Angeles REDCAR Colloquium | Rethinking Transportation: A Strategy for Integrating the System with the Person (3.5 LUs)
September 25, 1:00-5:00 pm
Free; registration required.
CCA, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco | | This colloquium will discuss the impact of emerging digital and self-aware technologies on personal and transportation choices and our interaction with the public realm. It will specifically look at notions of emergent nodes in the urban fabric where development naturally emerges in response to socially active “hot-spots” triggered by the dynamics in physical space, transportation capacity, and the swing of social network demands. Featuring experts from academic institutions, the colloquium will present new technologies, problem solving methods, and innovative solutions for transportation infrastructure as well as distributed modes of transport that synthesizes personal communications, emergent nodes, autonomous social spaces, and the notion of a self-aware urban space to create a different way of thinking about how transportation systems can overlay and connect to existing systems present in the reality of a poly-centric metropolitan area such as the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| | Closing Night Event + Party!
GOOD Design Bay Area (1.5 LUs)
September 30, 6:00 pm
$25 General Admission; $10 Overflow Simulcast Seating
SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco
Presented by AIA San Francisco, GOOD magazine and SPUR
| | Good design can solve everyday problems. Join the brightest minds from the vast and varied Bay Area design community as they present simple solutions to some of the region’s most pressing issues, selected by the urban leaders who can help launch them into action. The fast-paced event, which highlights multiple design solutions that are relevant to the festival theme of Investigating Urban Metabolisms, will conclude with a reception and more conversation. |
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