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 - 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 - 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