MDC 2017 Keynotes (AIA California)
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Filmed live at the 2017 Monterey Design Conference, these 8 keynote presentations are visually-stunning and thought-provoking. Watch these high-definition videos to recharge your creative energies and spur important design dialogues.
8.0 AIA/LU's includes 5.0 HSW units.
- MDC - Marion Weiss, FAIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA: Expanded Territories
- MDC - Sou Fujimoto: Between Nature and Architecture
- MDC - Julie Eizenberg, FAIA: Urban Hallucinations
- MDC - Shohei Shigematsu, OMA
- MDC - Dominique Jakob: Jakob + MacFarlane
- MDC - Jeff Goldstein: Building Walls: Meaning + Mass
- MDC - Dorte Mandrup: Buildings and Conditions
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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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
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
| Provider: | AIA California - Monterey Design Conference |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |