The theme of the AIA Colorado 2008 Design Conference is Design Forward. The conference committee has assembled a group of speakers that will inspire attendees to focus their efforts both on design excellence and creating a more environmentally-conscious, community-driven and socially-responsible profession.
Renée Azerbegi, LEED AP, president of ambient energy (Golden, Colo.), will explore the possibilities of green design beyond LEED™, beyond energy efficiency and beyond a high-performance envelope in her session The Future of Green Building Design.
Randy Brown, FAIA, founder and principal of Randy Brown Architects (Omaha, Neb.), will cover green design strategies for commercial and residential projects; materials and methods for durable, long-life construction; and use of natural lighting techniques in Creative Control.
Gary Lawrence, director of sustainability at Arup (Seattle), will detail how the industry must embrace a new design paradigm to effectively manage the complexity of the issues impeding progress toward the goal of optimizing conditions for sustained human development over an extended period of time in The Problem of Conventional Wisdom.
Sandra Mendler, AIA, principal of Mithun (San Francisco), will examine how key development trends related to climate, energy and the environment are influencing the future of our cities in The Next Sustainable Design Agenda: Shaping the Future of American Cities.
Chris O’Hara, PE and Julian Lineham, PE, principals of Studio NYL (Boulder, Colo.), discuss innovative technologies and structural systems that can open new architectural opportunities for sustainability, saving materials and the integration of other building systems into structures in Translucent Concrete, Glass Columns and Carbon Fiber: Why Stop There? The Future of Building Structures.
Gregory Papay, FAIA, managing partner of Lake|Flato Architects (San Antonio), will cover how the profession has moved in to an era where design is, and should be, more informed than ever before by building performance in Performance Enhancing Design.
Marshall Purnell, FAIA, AIA (national) 2008 president, will speak about the current state and future plans of AIA at the conference luncheon.
Alex Steffen, executive editor of Worldchanging (Seattle), will examine the role and power that new thinking can have in helping to face the planet’s biggest problems in his session Worldchanging: The Power of New Thinking and Innovative Solutions.
James Polshek, FAIA, senior design council to Polshek Partnership Architects (New York), will present an abbreviated memoir outlining the interesting and mysterious parallels between the different professional trajectories his career and the career of Louis I. Kahn, FAIA, in Architecture Rules: Connection and Coincidence.
James Timberlake, FAIA, founding partner of KieranTimberlake Associates (Philadelphia), will take a provocative look at the future of the architectural profession by discussing current productivity and environmental problems that undermine the building industry in Forward: Design Critical.
Dr. Kenneth Yeang, Hon. FAIA, principal of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (London), will present key ideas and propositions underlying his firm’s work on green design and planning, illustrated by examples from recent projects in Green Design and Planning.
Register today for this groundbreaking conference. Contact AIA Colorado Programs Director Robin Hickey at 303.446.2266, ext. 111 with questions.
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Sponsorship opportunities, including speaker sponsorships, are available. For more information about sponsoring the Design Conference, download the Call for Exhibitors & Sponsors brochure, or contact AIA Colorado Director of Membership & Development Greg Bell at 303.446.2266, ext. 113.
