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Integrated Design Practices
Hosted by Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Hearst Lecture Series will focus this year on integrated design practices. In advancing its reputation as a polytechnic institution, the internationally respected group of designers, practitioners, and educators invited in this year's lecture series employ new tools and technologies to integrate design and building that is core to the polytechnic tradition. The invited lecturers themselves bridge teaching and practice further integrating and innovating pedagogical practices and design practices. This year's Hearst Lecture Series Director is Prof. Mark Cabrinha.
The free public lectures are made possible through a grant from the Hearst Foundation.
For more information about the series, contact Tracee de Hahn at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, by email tdehahn@calpoly.edu or phone 805.756.7114.
Kevin Klinger
Manufacturing Material Effects and the Institute for Digital Fabrication
October 9th, Berg Gallery 05-105, 4pm
Kevin Klinger is a Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University and is the Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication (IDF). The IDF acts as a catalyst for interdisciplinary applied research and industry immersive education serving as a conduit between students, design professionals, and the manufacturing sector. Professor Klinger is the author of numerous conference publications and has lectured widely in universities and industry organizations on the topic of digital fabrication in architecture including the 2007 Architectural Record Innovation Conference “Architecture in an Age of Transformation” and he is co-editor of the book Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. Through his teaching, Professor Klinger takes designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation, encouraging new forms of collaboration with industry, challenging conventional methodologies, and suggesting a future in which designers are much more engaged in the total process of architecture.
For additional information, visit the Kevin Klinger web page
Ralph Roesling: Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects
Oct 23rd, Business Rotunda, Room 03-213, 4pm
Ralph J. Roesling is founding principal of Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects with over 30 years of experience in all phases of architecture and planning. He has served as Principal-in-Charge, Project Architect and Principal Designer for various project types from office and retail uses to educational, civic buildings and residential. Mr. Roesling has directed many major architectural and planning projects for private, governmental and institutional clients throughout California and abroad. He has extensive experience in assessment and evaluation of existing structures for reuse and redevelopment projects. His architectural projects have won several Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and an Orchid Award. He has lectured locally as well as abroad in Japan and Italy. He is a design faculty member of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Woodbury University, and the NewSchool of Architecture in San Diego.
For additional information, visit the Ralph Roesling web page
James Gates and James Brown: Public (in conjunction with Vellum)
Oct 29th, Location TBD
Public, an office of architecture and art in San Diego, is headed by Cal Poly Alumni, James Gates and James Brown. Their particular brand of phenomenological design results in a specifically “hands-on” approach to architectural practice. Public views and practices architecture with both the methodology of the designer/builder and the spirit of the inventor. By considering the practice of what is normally and jealously regarded as "art" or "craft" to be architecture, they open up the creative world for themselves, and for their clients. Their work involves not only the process of architectural conceptualization and implementation, but the study and practice of public art as well.
For additional information, visit the Public web page
Ron Radziner: Marmol Radziner and Associates (in conjunction with Vellum)
Oct 30th, Business Rotunda, Room 03-213, 4pm
Ron Radziner, FAIA is the principal in charge of design at Marmol Radziner and Associates. Radziner, a Cal Poly alumnus runs the office with fellow alum, Leo Marmol. Marmol Radziner is a unique office in that they celebrate the "joy of making" through a variety of avenues, whether it be architecture, construction or landscape, furniture or prefab housing. They remain committed to acting as both architect and contractor for many of their projects. Whereas most design/build firms are dominated by contractors, Marmol Radziner + Associates is rare in that they are architects first. In other words, they have become contractors in order to build their projects with the same rigor with which they were designed. Given their attention to detail and finish, Marmol Radziner Furniture is a natural extension of the office. The furniture is designed, built and sold by architects, while their shops are run by architects concerned with the smallest details and broad view allowing for furniture rooted in clarity of design and integrity of construction. Going Further, Marmol Radziner Prefab combines the efficiency of factory-built homes with the benefits of custom residential design. Their green homes are not a kit of parts – they build the prefab modules in a factory and ship them complete.
For additional information, visit the Marmol Radziner and Associates web page.
Preston Scott Cohen: Preston Scott Cohen Inc.
Nov. 13th, Business Rotunda, Room 03-213, 4pm
Preston Scott Cohen’s work is known for its synthesis of architectural typologies, descriptive geometry, and digital media. The work of his firm, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., encompasses projects ranging in scale from residences to educational and cultural institutions. Cohen received the first prize in the international competitions for the Robbins Elementary School in Trenton, NJ (2006), and for two Museums: the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, China (2007-2011) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Amir Building (2003-2009). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and three Progressive Architecture Awards. His work has been widely published and is in numerous collections. Cohen is the author of Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture. Cohen is the Chair of Department of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he is the coordinator of the first year design studios and teaches the foundation course in Projective and topological geometry, advanced studios and design thesis.
For additional information, visit Preston Scott Cohen Inc. web page
Karl Daubman: PLY architects
Nov. 20th, Business Rotunda, Room 03-213, 4pm
Karl Daubmann is a Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and principal of PLY Architects. The work of PLY is recognized for how it is able to create a bridge between the profession and academia. This is achieved through a research agenda that pervades the design process, exploring material and the logic of construction. Through a growing portfolio of over 50 projects, 33 of which have been built, PLY has garnered numerous national and international design awards including their selection for the Young Architects Forum by the Architecture League of New York in 2006 as well as being named one of “101 of the World’s Most Exciting New Architects” by Wallpaper* Magazine in 2007.
For additional information, visit PLY Architects web page,