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MDC - Jeanne Gang, FAIA: Fish, Sticks, Birds and Bricks

How do the migration patterns of birds relate to the design of city towers? How can innovative community planning spur economic recovery in suburbs? Find out by stepping into the mind of 2011 MacArthur Genius Grant winner Jeanne Gang, FAIA, Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects. This 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, offers fascinating insight into the creative process and thematic undertones that shape the work of one of America’s most visionary architects.

Presenter:
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Tom Kundig, FAIA, takes us through a vast body of his past and current work. Filled with wonderfully imaginative designs, inspiring solutions and more than a little subversion, Kundig's brilliance is on display as he discusses the aspects of architecture that are most personal and meaningful to him and have continued to resonate with him since he began working as an architect. Tom's inspirational lecture discusses four key aspects of his work: Craft and Making, Site, Hot-Rodding and Reuse, and Community.

Presenter:
Tom Kundig, FAIA

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Dickson Despommier, PhD, demonstrates the concept of vertical farming, a unique way of using technology to change how we grow food, treat the earth, and form our urban spaces. In a simultaneously heart-wrenching and uplifting lecture, packed with astounding facts, statistics and anecdotes, Dr. Despommier illustrates that humanity's future can easily be a bright one, but only if we act now.

Presenter:
Dr. Dickson Despommier, PhD

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light & Landscape

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA, of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and the University of Toronto, illustrates how she exploits seasonal changes to light, water and landscape to intertwine with her building designs. Shim's engaging lecture is filled with examples from her firm's earlier and recent cutting-edge work, significant not just for the buildings’ construction but also for the way they are integrated with their surroundings.

Presenter:
Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Michael Maltzan, FAIA: No More Play

How can architecture convince people to live, work and play in a single community? How can public housing be as beautiful as it is efficient? In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Michael Maltzan, FAIA, draws on his significant architectural experience to offer new ideas for transforming the way we design, build and think about public structures and the cities they help to define.

Presenter:
Michael Maltzan, FAIA

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Borja Ferrater, a part of the family team at the innovative firm, Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), demonstrates his and the company's unique work. Ferrater delivers an engaging, entertaining and often amusing lecture, packed with fascinating projects incorporating techniques utilizing light, geometry and materials in ways that have only recently been possible. The projects themselves span a variety of different scales, budgets and purposes. Yet, given Ferrater's interest in buildings as systems, the projects form a cohesive and narratively-driven portfolio, populated by some work from one of the most exciting and innovative international firms.

Presenter:
Borja Ferrater

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC - Peter Walker, FASLA: 9/11 Memorial and Its Precedents

In this 60-minute course, filmed live at AIACC's 2011 Monterey Design Conference, Peter Walker, FASLA, reviews his landscape architecture work on one of the most significant new projects in the United States: the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Walker puts the Memorial's design in the context of his firm's previous work on several notable projects and examines the special techniques he helped to develop in order to implement his vision. Peter also provides a detailed account of how the Memorial came to exist in its current form: what challenges were overcome, what concepts changed, and how he helped to create a unique and somber landmark.

Presenter:
Peter Walker, FASLA

Provider:	AIA California - Monterey Design Conference
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

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