MDC – Deborah Berke, FAIA: Current Work

Deborah Berke, FAIA, AIA 2025 Gold Medal recipient, 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 – 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 – 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