2010-2011 Hearst Lectures

A matter of Scale

The Hearst Lecture Series is hosted by Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) through a generous grant from the Hearst Foundation. The lecture series brings local, national, and international speakers to present on Architecture and the built environment. The lectures are held on Fridays from 4-6pm and are free and open to the public. Students from all five departments in the CAED are encouraged to attend.

Acknowledging each departments contribution to the built environment, this year’s lecture series focuses on scale and the disciplinary perspectives that develop from working across scales. Scale then is not simply a means of measurement, but a disciplinary perspective focusing a breadth of interests from intricate details to urban development. The lecture series will bring a range of national recognized professionals which range from fabricators and design-builders working at full scale to landscape architects and urban planners working at urban scales. At their best, architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners, and construction managers work across scales on numerous issues demonstrating the multiple perspectives designers must take in constructing the built environment. The focus on scale in this year’s Hearst Lecture series is intended to draw out these multiple perspectives and the interdisciplinary discourse that working across scales requires.

The 2010-2011 Hearst Lecture Series Director was Professor Mark Cabrinha. The free public lectures are made possible through a grant from the Hearst Foundation. For more information about the series, contact the Architecture Department in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design by phone at 805.756.1316.

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Wes Rozen: SituStudio

Friday, October 15, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

Wes Rozen is one of the five founding partners of Situ Studio founded in 2005, the same year they graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture.

Situ Studio is a creative practice that engages in a experimental work in a variety of media. A commitment to both material investigation as well as research and writing allows for the studio to develop flexible and multifaceted strategies to approach spatial problems. This dual emphasis is reflected in its workspace which combines both a design studio an a digitally equipped workshop. In addition to its design practice, Situ Studio maintains a parallel operations a a digital fabrication and consulting firm.

Tim Kobe, Eight Inc.

Friday, October 29, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

In conjunction with Vellum Competition

Tim Kobe is founder and principal of Eight Inc. Eight Inc. designs for some of the most successful and best loved brands in the world.

Eight Inc makes extraordinary things that change the way people think, feel and do. Eight Inc. designs for some of the most successful and best loved brands in the world. The company works with global brand giants defining strategies, innovating and designing branded experiences that engage the consumer in relevant, dynamic and meaningful ways. Eight Inc. work crosses traditional disciplines and includes environments, products and communications. This work consistently results in award-winning projects and long-term client relationships such as Apple, Nokia, Citibank and Virgin Atlantic Airways. 8 has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Honolulu, Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore.

Jason K. Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Future-Cities-Lab

Friday, November 5, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, CA. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of architecture with advanced fabrication technologies, responsive building systems and urban space. Their work has been published and exhibited worldwide. Most recently they were the 2008-09 Muschenheim and Oberdick Fellows at the University of Michigan TCAUP, the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, and exhibited work at the 2009-10 Hong Kong / Shenzhen Biennale. Both Johnson and Gattegno studied at Princeton University. They currently teach at CCA and UC Berkeley, as well as workshops including the Architectural Association Global Summer Program Biodynamic Structures and Hydra-Cities Lab in Athens, Greece. Jason has also recently collaborated with Andy Payne on the FIREFLY for Grasshopper toolbar and Primer.

Grasshopper Workshop with Future-Cities-Lab

Saturday, November 6, 2010, 10:00am - 4pm
Berg Gallery, Room 05-105

Andrew van Leeuwen and Kevin Eckert, Build LLC

**Postponed Until April 8, 2011 **

Build relies on their diverse professional and construction backgrounds to provide a balanced and thoughtful approach to each client’s projects. Together with their trusted network of professional, trade and supplier resources, they bring the expertise and hands-on experience in architecture, design, structural engineering, construction trades, site superintending, and project management necessary to make every project they take on a success.

Caroline Bos, UNStudio

Friday, November 19, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

UNStudio is an international architectural practice, situated in Amsterdam since 1988, with extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, infrastructure, public, private and utility buildings on different scale levels. At the basis of UNStudio are a number of long-term goals, which are intended to define and guide the quality of their performance in the architectural field. They strive to make a significant contribution to the discipline of architecture, to continue to develop their qualities with respect to design, technology, knowledge and management and to be a specialist in public network projects. They see as mutually sustaining the environment, market demands and client wishes that enable their work, and aim for results in which their goals and their client’s goals overlap. In 2009 UNStudio Asia was established, with its first office located in Shanghai, China."

Wolf Mangelsdorf: Buro Happold

Friday, January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Wolf Mangelsdorf was born and grew up near Würzburg in Germany. He studied Architecture and Civil Engineering at Karlsruhe University, where he also worked for an architectural practice after graduation. After a research stay at Kyoto University, he moved to Britain in 1997 and became a design engineer at Anthony Hunt Associates in their Cirencester and London offices.

Since 2002 he has been with Buro Happold in London where he joined an Associate and project leader for a number of projects, including the Battersea Power Station and the Glasgow Museum of Transport. He is now a Director and Partner and leads the dynamic structures team in London, whose diverse portfolio of includes significant landmark projects with signature architects, educational buildings, specialist focus on refurbishment and conservation, and a full range from small bespoke projects to large urban regeneration schemes.

Creative thought and design is central to Wolf’s approach and this has enabled him to engineer spectacular projects including the Museum of Transport in Glasgow in Scotland and the roof to the Médiacité retail centre in Liege, Belgium. With his design led approach he plays a major role in the development of fully integrated multidisciplinary solutions both at project level and in urban design and masterplanning.

Wolf has been teaching technical studies at the AA in Diploma School since 2000 and has been a guest lecturer and tutor at a number of Universities internationally. He speaks English, Italian, French and his native German and is actively involved in many international projects.

Mia Lehrer: Mia Lehrer + Associates

Friday, February 4, 2011 at 4:00pm (please note revised date)
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Mia Lehrer is the founding principal of the Los Angeles firm, Mia Lehrer + Associates. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Mia received her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Following her education, Mia gained valuable experience by working on large-scale public projects such as the World Bank Coastal Zone Project in El Salvador, as well as intimate gardens for residential clients. Today she is internationally recognized for her progressive landscape designs – unique amalgamations of graphic configurations, found objects, architectural pottery, and rich textures – and her advocacy for environmentally sensitive and people-friendly public space.

Mia leads the ML+A office through the design and development of a diverse range of ambitious public and private projects that include urban revitalization developments such as San Pedro Waterfront, large urban parks such as Vista Hermosa Park, and complex commercial projects like the biotech campus in Thousand Oaks. In recent years, several interesting historic renovation projects have been added to her repertoire; these include Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and Santee Court, an urban housing development that pays tribute to its historical context in L.A.’s fashion district.

Committed to her profession and education, Mia is actively involved in several organizations. She is on the Board of Directors at TreePeople and the Collage Dance Theater. She is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects, Hollywood Design Review Committee, and has served on the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council.

In addition to being published in international journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, the work of Mia Lehrer + Associates has been included in several important museum and gallery exhibitions. Mia often lectures, traveling as far as Brazil and China to share her insights and philosophy on public landscape design.

Steven Rainville: Olsen Kundig Architects

Friday, February 11, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Steven Rainville has been a member of Olson Kundig Architects since 1996, becoming a principal in 2010. He takes pride in being a generalist architect, with a strong interest in building construction and architectural technologies.

Steven has been involved with the design and management of a series of well-recognized projects, including Chicken Point Cabin, Outpost – both of which have received National AIA Honor Awards – and the Olson Kundig Architects’ Offices. Among other projects, Steven is currently working on the T BAILEY Offices, a project in a delicate marine environment which utilizes the company’s product — pipes used in wind turbine towers — for sustainable strategies and as building components. He is also working with Les Eerkes on two Passive House projects – residences built to super energy efficient standards.

Projects on which Steven has worked have been published in dozens of national and international publications including the New York Times, Architectural Record, and the Wall Street Journal. They have also appeared in books including Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) and The Good Office: Green Design on the Cutting Edge (Collins Design, 2008). Several of those projects have received national, regional and local awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), as well as an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Steven maintains an active role in the firm’s staff development as manager of the mentorship and intern programs. Among Steven’s professional contributions is his recurring design studio jury participation at Washington State University (WSU). In Spring 2010, Steven and Les Eerkes co-taught a studio on Techtonics at WSU. He also serves as a member of the WSU School of Architecture + Construction Management Advisory Board. Steven has lectured around the country on the work of the firm and on the role of project managers in the realization of design concepts. A licensed architect, he has a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University.

Philip Beesley: Philip Beesley Architect Inc.

Friday, February 25, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Philip Beesley: Philip Beesley Architect Inc.
Philip Beesley is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo who practices digital media art, experimental and applied architecture. His work in the last two decades has focused on field-oriented sculpture and landscape installations, with extensions in stage design and buildings. His projects in the past several years have increasingly worked with immersive digitally fabricated lightweight 'textile' structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature interactive kinetic systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems.

He is director of the Integrated Centre for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing at Waterloo and co-directs Riverside Architectural Press, a publisher focused on contemporary design. He was educated in visual art at Queen's University, in technology at Humber College, and in architecture at the University of Toronto. He was a member of art and performance collaboratives Open Series and Studio Six/Kataraque in Kingston and the George Meteskey Ensemble in New York. Periods of study were undertaken in Rome at the Vatican and the American Academy and in New York with the Wooster Group. Prior to beginning his practice he apprenticed in instrument making and in lighting design.
He has authored numerous publications including Responsive Environments (Situated Technologies, 2009), Hylozoic Soil (Riverside, 2007), and Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design(Riverside, 2007), as well as co-chairing a wide array of conferences and symposia. He was the 2009 recipient of Fundacion Telefonica’s VIDA Award and the 2008 FEIDAD Award. Distinctions include the Prix de Rome in Architecture (Canada), Governor-General’s and Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Andrew van Leeuwen and Kevin Eckert: Build LLC

Friday, April 8, 2011, at 4:00pm.
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Kevin Eckert is the founding partner of Build LLC and emphasizes the implementation of innovative and cost-effective building solutions. He has degrees in Structural Engineering and a Masters of Architecture. Andrew van Leeuwen develops effective design strategies and generates architectural packages, and is director of marketing and is responsible for the successful Buildblog. Andrew has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Washington State along with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University.
Build relies on their diverse professional and construction backgrounds to provide a balanced and thoughtful approach to each client’s projects. Together with their trusted network of professional, trade and supplier resources, they bring the expertise and hands-on experience in architecture, design, structural engineering, construction trades, site superintending, and project management necessary to make every project they take on a success.

Anne Fougeron: Fougeron Architecture

Friday, April 15, 2011, at 4:00pm.
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Fougeron Architecture is a nationally recognized design firm whose work exhibits a strong commitment to clarity of thought, design integrity, and quality of architectural detail. Anne Fougeron is principal of Fougeron Architecture in San Francisco. Born of French parents and raised in Paris and New York, she credits her bicultural upbringing as the source of her aesthetic values: a European respect for historic precedent and a comfort level with melding old and new. After earning a B.A. in architectural history at Wellesly College and a Master of Architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked for San Francisco architect and urban designer Daniel Solomon for three years, an experience that informed her awareness of the interplay between buildings and the urban environment. In 1986, she founded Fougeron Architecture, designing award-winning private and public sector projects that have made an original statement - in a decidedly modernist vocabulary. Fougeron has taught architectural design to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

W. Mike Martin: Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Friday, April 29, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Professor Emeritus W. Mike Martin has been at UC Berkeley for the past 18 years in the Architecture Department of the College of Environmental Design. His teaching and research has focused on the study of practice, collaborative design, work-studies of practice, and storytelling as a means of knowledge transfer. Digital media is central to his process of representation of knowledge transfer from practice.

Martin currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor at DIS. He served as the undergraduate dean of CED for 11 years, and in 2006 he completed a three-year term as chair of the Architecture Department. For the past two years he has served as the University of California Systems Education Abroad Director for Scandinavia.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the 2005 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Fellowship for Research. He was the recipient of the 2009 AIACC Excellence in Education Honor Award. He served as President Elect of the San Francisco Chapter of the AIA, served as editor of Architecture California (AIACC), and received an Honorable Mention in the 2002 NCARB Prize for his Building Stories: A Case Study Analysis of Practice.

John Enright: Griffin Enright Architects

Friday, May 6, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

The Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects was co-founded by Margaret Griffin, AIA and John Enright, AIA in 2000. Their versatile practice encompasses three areas: institutional design including master-planning, high-end residential, and conceptual design. Projects include large-scale institutional and residential commissions to landscape design and gallery installations. The firm fuses interests in innovation, research, and experimentation with the exploration of cultural complexities relative to the built environment. Their work transcends the traditional scope of architectural practice, underscoring connections to the surrounding urban fabric and landscape by reinforcing existing conditions or creating new ones, allowing urban context, architecture, and landscape to be experienced in new, unanticipated ways.

John Enright, AIA is a co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based, Griffin Enright Architects. John has taught design studios and technology seminars at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Syracuse University, The University of Houston, and until recently as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. He is currently the Undergraduate Program Chair at SCI-Arc. John’s academic research focuses on design and building technology including Building Information Modeling and new digital paradigms as applied to fabrication and construction. An exhibition of his research into the work of Konrad Wachsmann was recently exhibited at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. John has received numerous grants including USC’s Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, and an NCARB Grant for the Integration of Practice and the Academy in 2009.

Doug Jackson: Assistant Professor Architecture Department, Cal Poly, SLO

Friday, May 13, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Doug Jackson is an architect whose work focuses on the production and theorization of architecture that employs user-transformation of space. Doug served as a design principal along with Wes Jones in the award-winning and internationally-acclaimed office of Jones, Partners: Architecture, whose innovative work was widely exhibited and was featured in numerous national and international publications.

In addition, Doug has maintained an independent design practice whose work has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently his work has been exhibited as part of the SOUPERgreen exhibition, which debuted at the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles.

"Innovative Schools for the New Millennium"

Friday, May 20, 2011 9:00am-7:00pm (schedule TBD)
Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab

Trung Le (Canon Design)

Friday, May 20, 2011 at 5:00pm (Education Symposium Keynote)
Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab

is a pioneer of Cannon Design’s education practice and has an incessant energy and passion for learning. Le is widely recognized as an advocate for incorporating multiple intelligences and learning styles in the design of education environments. As the lead designer for Cannon Design’s education group, he creates spaces that encourage student inquiry and imagination and offer students a sense of what it means to be a part of a global community. Le also leads The Third Teacher + , an education design consultancy within the ideas-based practice of Cannon Design that helps learning communities better serve 21st century learners. With an eye on the future of learning, the multidisciplinary team collaborates with these communities to formulate systemic strategies for pedagogical, curricular, and environmental change.

Le's work has yielded awards from the Chicago, Illinois and national chapters of the American Institute of Architects during his 20 years at Cannon Design. Le’s projects have been published in such periodicals as Architectural Record, Contract Design and Edutopia. Le is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences such as Big Ideas Fest, TEDx, CEFPI and the AIA National Convention. His recent collaboration with Bruce Mau resulted in the publication The Third Teacher, a cabinet of wonders on how design can transform teaching and learning.

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