This Saturday, April 7th, BLDGBLOG and Chronicle Books will be hosting a day of landscape and architecture talks at the California College of Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.
BLDGBLOG is authored by Worldchanging team member and built landscapes visionary, Geoff Manaugh.
The event will run from 2:30 to 5:00 pm at the Timken Auditorium at CCA, located 111 8th street, San Francisco. Come one come all -- it's free and open to the public!
Featured speakers: John Bela and Matthew Passmore of the Rebar group, Erik Davis, author of The Visionary State and Techgnosis, Lisa Iwamoto of Iwamotoscott Architecture and UC Berkeley, Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG, and Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor and sound mixer and co-author of The Conversations.
As Geoff writes on BLDGBLOG:
Each speaker will have 15-20 minutes in which to do their thing; you'll have two different Q&A periods in which to ask questions, and there'll be a 10-minute break between the third and fourth speaker. Everything will be timed to within a millisecond... mark your calendars! And if you're anywhere near San Francisco, I hope to see you there. Be sure to introduce yourself; I like people.
San Francisco, rated the second most sustainable city by SustainLane in 2006, along with the entire Bay Area, is vibrant with exciting architecture, landscape design, and planning activity. It'll be very interesting to hear the perspectives of each speaker, learn more about their work, vision, and engage in discussion about the mosaic of human habitat and its complex and contradictory themes and problems.
Worldchanging San Francisco has highlight a variety of local solutions applicable to the built and natural environment (may be relevant for discussion at the talks), such as San Francisco community planning by Asian Neighborhood Design, the role and impact of green policy regulations in decreasing consumer waste, inspiration from many great places around the bay, ecologically-minded lifestyle, urban farming in San Francisco, sustainable business development in San Francisco and Oakland, solar energy for low-income communities, wind energy and city planning, the impact of climate change and reducing oil dependency, collaboration between community and local government for climate protection, planning suburban environmental strategy in Lafayette, serving San Francisco's homeless population, green building careers, and the COMMONspace project by Rebar.
There are also great new architectural projects in San Francisco, such as the beautiful and green federal building by Morphosis, Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences, Herzog and de Meuron's iconic de Young Museum, and the ingenious, recently announced model block project by Architecture for Humanity San Francisco that was designed in collaboration with neighborhood residents of Hunters Point/Bay View.
For further ideas, see the architecture and landscape resources of the main Worldchanging site (Sarah Rich has a current editorial on green architecture) and every other local blog -- each are rife with ideas, models, and reflections worth learning more about and beneficial to the Bay Area.
Further information about Saturday's event is being posted at BLDGBLOG. See you at CCA!
