2015-2016 Hearst Lectures

2013-2014 Hearst Lectures

The Hearst Lecture Series is hosted by Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) through a generous grant from the Hearst Foundation. The lecture series brings local, national, and international speakers to present on Architecture and the built environment. The lectures are held on Fridays and are free and open to the public. Students and faculty from all five departments in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) are encouraged to attend.

For more information about the series, contact the Architecture Department in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, by email architecture@calpoly.edu or phone 805.756.1316.

The 2013-14 lecture series was co-director by Assistant Professor Carmen Trudell and Professor Robert Arens. 

Fall 2013:

Ted Hyman | ZGF

Friday October 11, 2013 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Ted Hyman is a managing partner of ZGF’s Los Angeles office. For over two decades, he has led teams for many of the firm’s most challenging and technologically complex projects, taking responsibility for the programming, management, coordination, production, and construction administration. Ted has directed the design and implementation of a broad range of research facilities, hospitals, courthouses, and other civic buildings nationally.  

As a LEED Accredited Professional, Ted has a particular passion for developing strategies for the integration of sustainable systems, materials, and technology, including the design of one of the greenest net-zero energy buildings in the United States, the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, CA. He has played a key role in guiding the development of ZGF, while also successfully directing and mentoring project teams for a number of clients including the University of Southern California, the University of California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Bolsa Chica Conservancy, Cornell University, and the University of Chicago. The Architecture Department at Cal Poly is proud to have Ted an alumnus.

Dwayne Oyler & Jenny Wu | Oyler Wu Collaborative

Friday October 18, 2013 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu are the founding principles of Oyler Wu Collaborative, an award winning architecture practice based in Los Angeles, CA. The experimental work of Oyler Wu places a focus on the expression of structural complexity, aggregation, and material research through an intensive design and fabrication process. Recent commissions include the Stormcloud, Netscape, and Centerstage pavilions for Sci-Arc, as well as installations for Dwell on Design and the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. In 2012, Oyler Wu Collaborative received the AIA LA Presidential Award for Emerging Practice and the Architectural League of NY Emerging Voices Award. 

Dwayne Oyler holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was the recipient of the prestigious SOM Traveling Fellowship in 1996 and collaborated with architect Lebbeus Woods on numerous projects. He has previously taught studios at Cooper Union, as well as at the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture in Vico Morcote, Switzerland. Dwayne Oyler currently teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. 

Jenny Wu received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was awarded the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design at Harvard and was a finalist for the SOM Traveling Scholarship in 2001. She has previously taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and currently teaches first year design at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. 

Mathew Chaney & Patti Rhee | Ehrlich Architects

Friday October 25, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Mathew Chaney joined Ehrlich Architects in 2001 and was named a Principal in 2013. He has served as Project Architect and Project Manager for some of the firm's largest and most complex projects, including the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, the ASU School of Earth & Space Exploration, and the Los Angeles Valley College Media & Performing Arts Complex. A recognized leader in Design-Build, Integrated Project Delivery and Building Information Modeling, Mathew lectures extensively for the Design-Build Institute of America on "Design-Build Done Right" and helped secure the DBIA Project of the Year Award in 2009. 

Prior to joining Ehrlich Architects, Mathew spent 3 years with Walt Disney Imagineering as Production Designer responsible for the design and integration of bleeding edge show/ride technologies, most notably on the acclaimed Soarin' Over California attraction. Mathew received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, Pomona and is an active member of the AIA, the Design-Build Institute of America, the Urban Land Institute, and the US Green Building Council. 

Patricia Rhee has played a central role on the design of several of Ehrlich Architect’s most challenging and award-winning projects. As Lead Design Architect and Project Manager she has also helped secure some of the firm's most notable projects including the winning schemes for the United Arab Emirates' Federal National Council Parliament Complex; the GSA John M. Roll Federal Courthouse; the Abuja Gateway; and the University of California, Irvine's New Contemporary Art Center. 

Patricia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania, and a graduate degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. At Harvard, she was awarded the John E. Thayer Scholarship and nominated for the James Templeton Kelly Prize for best thesis project. Patricia is a member of the AIA, the Urban Land Institute, SCUP, the Design-Build Institute of America and the US Green Building Council. Internally, she leads the firm's international internship program. 

Allan & Ellen Wexler

Friday November 1, 2013 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Allan Wexler and Ellen Wexler are a collaborative team involved in interdisciplinary projects that aim to dissolve the boundaries between the fine arts and the applied arts, between furniture design, architecture and theatrical performance, between sculpture and interactive exhibition design and between the practice and the research of architecture. 

The Wexler’s works include architecture, public and private art commissions and museum education environments. They explore human activity and the built environment as they isolate, elevate, and monumentalize daily rituals such as dining, sleeping, and bathing. The works, in turn, become mechanisms that activate ritual, ceremony and movement, turning these ordinary activities into theater. 

In 2013 Allan Wexler was awarded the Henry J. Leir Prize for his work, Gardening Sukkah, in recognition of work that expresses the dynamic, ever-evolving practice of religion today. Allan Wexler is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City and teaches in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. 

This lecture is co-sponsored with the Vellum Furniture Design Competition & Exhibition. More at architecture.calpoly.edu/current/exhibitions/vellum

Paul Hamalian | Habitat for Humanity

Friday November 15, 2013 | 3:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Paul Hamalian is the Senior Director of Strategic Planning & CEO Support at Habitat for Humanity International. From 1995 to 1997 Paul worked in Nicaragua where he advised local housing programs in the areas of construction and planning. Paul was the founding National Director for Habitat for Humanity in Ecuador from 1997 to 1999. He trained and managed the formation of a multi ethnic team of employees and volunteers, facilitating the establishment of several community-led housing programs. 

In 1999, Paul moved to Costa Rica to serve as Director of Administration and Finance for the Latin America and Caribbean area. In this role he led a diverse 14-member team to establish and manage the regional administrative, finance, human resource, credit portfolio management and information systems functions. He also developed the funding process of 22+ national Habitat programs, actively participated in multiple global initiatives, and facilitated conflict mediation in local programs.  

Paul Hamalian received a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1988; a Master of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary; and an Executive MBA from the University of Michigan in 2006. 

This fall, Paul Hamalian is being recognized as a Cal Poly Distinguished Alumni through generous support of fellow alumni.

Winter 2014:

John Ochsendorf | Ochsendorf DeJong & Block + MIT

Friday January 24, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

John Ochsendorf is the Class of 1942 Professor of architecture and civil engineering at MIT and a partner in the firm Ochsendorf DeJong and Block. Ochsendorf is the author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), and is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain (2000), a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2007), and a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2008). Ochsendorf was trained in structural engineering at Cornell, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge. He is known internationally for the engineering analysis of historical monuments, for equilibrium methods for early stage structural design tools, and for innovative contemporary buildings with traditional materials.

Craig Steely | Craig Steely Architecture

Friday February 21, 2014 | 4:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Craig Steely Architecture has studios in Hawaii and San Francisco. The firm’s buildings have been described as true and unique hybrids of these two environments. His work explores the boundaries of integration as well as emancipation from nature. They embrace the realities of the environment and our connection/separation to it over the subjugation of it, all the while focusing on developing a singular architecture rooted in its context. Active projects include work on the Big Island of Hawaii and Maui, as well as several along the central coast of California – from San Francisco to Big Sur. Craig received his architecture degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. His work has been awarded recognition by the American Institute of Architects and published widely in books and periodicals. In 2009, Craig was selected as an "Emerging Talent" by the AIA California Council. His office was chosen top firm in the 2013 Residential Architect Magazine leadership awards.

Mark P. Sarkisian | SOM

Friday March 7, 2014 | 4:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Mark P. Sarkisian, PE, SE, LEED is the Partner of Seismic and Structural Engineering in the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.  His career has focused on developing innovative structural engineering solutions for over 100 major building projects—several among the world’s tallest—including the 421 meter-tall Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, China; the 337 meter-tall Tianjin World Financial Center, Tianjin, China; the 412 meter-tall Al Hamra Fidrous Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait; the US Embassy in Beijing, China; and the Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland, California. Mark holds eight U.S. Patents for high-performance seismic structural mechanisms designed to protect buildings in areas of high seismicity and for seismic and environmentally responsible structural systems.  He has recently written and published a book titled “Designing Tall Buildings – Structure as Architecture,” and he teaches Integrated Studio Design courses focused on collaborative design opportunities that include students from the University of California, Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Stanford University, California Polytechnic State University, and Northeastern University.  He received his BS Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut where he is a Fellow of the Academy of Distinguished Engineers, and his MS Degree in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University.  He has also received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Clarkson University. 

Spring 2014:

Kevin Rice & Ryan Wilkerson | Diller Scofidio + Renfro & Nabih Youssef Associates

Friday April 4, 2014 | 4:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Kevin Rice and Ryan Wilkerson will discuss the design and engineering process for the new Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles. The Broad is a new contemporary art museum being built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museum, which is designed by architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro and engineered by Nabih Youssef Associates, will open to the public in 2015. The museum will be home to the nearly 2,000 works of art in The Broad Art Foundation and the Broads’ personal collections, which are among the most prominent holdings of postwar and contemporary art worldwide. With its innovative “veil-and-vault” concept, the 120,000-square-foot, $140 million building will feature two floors of gallery space to showcase The Broad’s comprehensive collections and will be the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library. The Broad is also building a 24,000-square-foot public plaza adjacent to the museum to add another parcel of critical green space to Grand Avenue.

Hitoshi Abe | Atelier Hitoshi Abe + UCLA

Friday April 11, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Hitoshi Abe is the Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.  He is also Director of the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA. Since 1992, when Dr. Hitoshi Abe won first prize in the Miyagi Stadium Competition, he has maintained an active international design practice as well as a schedule of lecturing and publishing. Known for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has been published internationally and received numerous awards in Japan and internationally, including the 2011 Japan Society for Finishing Technology Award for the F-town building, the Architectural Institute of Japan Award for SSM/Kanno Museum, the 2009 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Outstanding Practice for the International Architecture Workshop, the 2009 Contract World Award for Aoba-tei, the 2008 SIA-Getz Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia, the 2007 World Architecture Award for SSM/Kanno Museum and the 2005 Good Design Award for Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics. He is the subject of Phaidon Press’s monograph “Hitoshi Abe” which was released in the winter of 2009. 

Teresa Gali-Izard | Arquitectura Agronomia & University of Virginia

Friday April 18, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Teresa Galí-Izard is principal of ARQUITECTURA AGRONOMIA, a landscape architecture firm located in Barcelona. She has been involved in some of the most important contemporary landscape architecture projects in Europe including TMB Park, Coastal Park, the new urbanization of Passeig de Sant Joan in Barcelona and the Sant Joan Landfill restoration, which won the European Urban Public Space award in 2004. Through her work, Gali-Izard explores new languages and forms while working with living materials such as earth, water and vegetation and using a contemporary approach involving dynamics and management. With her partner Jordi Nebot, she has built the San Telmo Palace garden in Sevilla, Arriaga Lake in Vitoria, Odesa Park in Sabadell, Logroño Train Station park, Casabermeja Park in Malaga, Desierto square in Bilbao, and Giner de los rios Garden in Madrid.  Galí-Izard is the author of The Same Landscapes. Ideas and interpretations published by Gustavo Gili in 2005 and co-editor with Daniella Collafranceschi of Jacques Simon. Los otros paisajes. Ideas y reflexiones sobre el territorio, published by Gustavo Gili in 2012.

Anne Fougeron | Fougeron Architecture

Friday April 25, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Fougeron Architecture is a nationally recognized design firm whose work exhibits a strong commitment to clarity of thought, design integrity, and quality of architectural detail. The firm's decidedly modernist attitude is the result of founder Anne Fougeron's vision to create a practice dedicated to finding the perfect alignment between architectural idea and built form. Ms. Fougeron's keen interest in crossing disciplinary boundaries has led the firm to develop a collaborative creative process that capitalizes on her relationships with craftsmen and artists who are experts in their fields. Contrary to most traditional practices, the firm does not separate between the design and production parts of the work process, preferring to believe that the process of design and innovation must continue through all phases of design and construction.

Emilie Hagen | Atelier 10

Friday May 2, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Emilie Hagen is the Associate Director of the San Francisco office and leader of the daylight and carbon practices. She has consulted on over 50 LEED certified and LEED targeted projects ranging from one of the largest and most complex Net Zero Energy buildings in the United States to the first LEED Gold certified commercial gallery. Emilie’s experience with daylighting, resiliency, Passivhaus, Net Zero buildings, and carbon reduction have been instrumental in the advancement and expansion of the firm’s technical expertise and research acumen. Emilie has studied at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas. She has taught environmental technology to architecture students at Parsons the New School for Design.

Kai-Uwe Bergmann | Bjarke Ingels Group [BIG]

Friday May 16, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a Partner at BIG who brings his expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development which currently has the office working in over 15 different countries. In addition to these duties, Kai-Uwe is also Head of Communications. Registered as an architect in the USA, UK and Denmark, Kai-Uwe was Project Manager upon Central Asia’s first Carbon Neutral Master Plan - Zira Island in Baku, Azerbaijan. He also compliments his professional work through teaching assignments at IE University in Madrid and at the New School of Architecture in San Diego. Kai-Uwe also sits on numerous international juries and lectures on the works of BIG worldwide.

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is a New York and Copenhagen based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for completing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. BIG’s recently completed projects include the Danish Maritime Museum (2013), the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo (2010) and The 8 House (2010) being recently distinguished with a National AIA Honor Award. Projects being designed in North America, include the New York City based 600 unit West 57th Tower designed for Durst Fetner Residential which will break ground in the Spring of 2012 and the forthcoming Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah.

2012-2013 Hearst Lectures

Heather Roberge, "How Things Take Shape"

Friday, October 12, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Heather Roberge is the Director of UCLA's undergraduate program in Architectural Studies and teaches graduate courses in design and digital fabrication. She is the founder and principal of murmur, a practice that focuses on the effective implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses.

Vincent Martinez

Friday, October 26, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Vincent Martinez is the Director of Research for Architecture 2030, whose mission is to rapidly transform the U.S. Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the climate change, energy consumption, and economic crises. Co-sponsored with the Central Coast Chapter of the AIA.

Allan Wexler and Ellen Wexler

Friday, November 2, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Principals of Wexler Studio, Ellen and Allan's research has resulted in objects, buildings and environments that blur the borders between sculpture, landscape, furniture and architecture. Allan is currently an adjunct faculty member at Parsons the New School of Design. Co-sponsored with Vellum.

Victoria Kastner, historian, curator for Hearst Castle

Friday, November 9, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

As Hearst Castle historian, Victoria Kastner has written and lectured extensively about William Randolph Hearst, his art collection, and the architecture of the Castle. Kastner is the author of Hearst Castle: The Biography of the Country House and most recently Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land, both published by Harry N. Abrams. In Collaboration with Cal Poly's Robert E. Kennedy Library.

The CAED, as part of its Hearst Lecture Series, will host Victoria Kastner, historian, curator for Hearst Castle and author of two books: "Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House" and
"Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land."

A reception will take place on November 9, 2012 at 3pm in the Gallery at the Commons, 2nd Floor
Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. This reception, hosted by Kennedy Library for Cal Poly architecture students, will help to kick off the Morgan Exhibit.

A Julia Morgan exhibit will take place between November 9, 2012 - January 11, 2013 in Gallery at the Commons, 2nd Floor, Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In addition to Morgan materials, this exhibit will include a special section of drawings by Cal Poly second-year students.

Shawn Gehle and Li Wen

Friday, November 16, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

As Design Directors at Gensler Los Angeles, Shawn Gehle and Li Wen have emerged as catalysts for a new generation of discourse and speculation on the future of downtown Los Angeles including projects focused on transportation and building reuse. Directors of numerous Gensler / Cal Poly collaborations, Shawn and Li have led research driven studios with Cal Poly's Department of Architecture including the Winter 2011 Carless LA Professional Studio, Winter 2012 The Evolution of the Office Building Professional Studio and the Fall 2011 Material Research Studio that resulted in the SLO_Gen Communal Table. In addition, they are active practitioners at Gensler establishing the design direction of many of the office and region's most provocative projects, competitions and research initiatives. 

Qingyun Ma | Dean at USC, MADA s.p.a.m.

Friday, January 25, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Quinyun Ma is the dean of the USC School of Architecture and founder of MADA s.p.a.m., an award-winning architecture firm based in Shanghai.

MADA’s work has received many honors and has been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and the Pompidou Center. In addition to award-winning projects such as the Longyang Residential Complex (Shanghai) and the Silk Tower (Xian), MADA’s projects include the Quingpu Community Island (Shanghai), the Centennial TV and Radio Center (Xian), and Tianyi City Plaza (Ningpo). Quinyan Ma's honors include a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, Phaidon’s Emerging Design Talents designation and a New Trends of Architecture designation by the Euro-Asia Foundation.
Ma earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in architecture from Tsinghua University and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. Ma has served as a visiting professor and critic at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University as well as at ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute, the Universität Karlsruhe, Berlin Technical University and the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. In China he has taught at Shenzhen University, Tongji University and Nanjing University.

Marcelo Spina | PATTERNS

Friday, February 1, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Marcelo Spina is a Design Professor at SCI-Arc and the Coordinator of the newly launched Emerging Systems and Technologies post-graduate program. Along with Georgina Huljich, Spina is the Principal of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles that has gained worldwide recognition for its inventive approach to design and architecture, fusing advanced computation with an extended understanding of form, tectonics and materials. Recent commissions include pavilions for SCI-ARC and MOCA.

The work of PATTERNS has received numerous prizes and awards including the third prize in the Young Architect of the year Award in 2003 and first prizes in the competitions for the new SCI-Arc Cafe and the Vertical Garden at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. In 2011, the firm participated in the Emerging Voices Series of the Architectural League of New York, and was the recipient of the Arch Is__ Award by the AIA Los Angeles Chapter. PATTERN’s work has been exhibited and published worldwide and is part of the permanent collections of SF Moma, the Chicago Art Institute and MAK Museum in Vienna. The firm's first comprehensive book-monograph entitled "Embedded" is forthcoming by AADCU Beijing.

Marcelo Spina holds a professional degree from the National University of Rosario and a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Tulane University, the University of California Berkeley and the Technical University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has previously taught at the National University of Rosario and the Di Tella University in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Lewis Knight | Senior Urban Designer at Gensler SF

Friday, February 8, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Lewis Knight, AILA, leads the planning and urban design practice area at Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm.

With his expertise in urban design and the planning of recreational, educational and transportation facilities, Lewis has directed award-winning projects spanning five continents. Prior to joining Gensler in 2008, he was the Director of Operations for EDAW (now AECOM) in San Francisco where he led multi-disciplinary planning, urban design and landscape architecture projects both locally and internationally.
At Gensler Lewis has manages diverse project teams that included scientists, planners, economists and public artists with the common goal of melding academic rigor with the design process. He maintains an active teaching agenda, and has taught urban design, landscape architecture design and theory, and technology at Universities in Australia and the USA.

Claire Fellman | Snohetta

Friday, February 22, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Claire Fellman, LEED AP, is an architect and landscape architect with Snøhetta AS, the award-winning design firm.

Formed in 1989, Snøhetta is an integrated architecture, landscape, and interior design practice based in Oslo and New York. The firm, which is named after one of Norway's highest mountain peaks, pursues a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach, with approximately 100 staff members from multiple professions working together to explore diverse perspectives on each project. Snøhetta has completed a number of critically acclaimed cultural projects, including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and the National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway (both received the World Architecture Award for best cultural building). In 2004 the firm was awarded the commission for the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center site in New York and is currently designing the expansion of SF MOMA, scheduled to break ground in summer 2013.

As an architect and landscape architect, Claire Fellman personifies Snøhetta’s philosophy of maintaining a strong relationship between landscape and architecture in all of its projects. Joining the New York office in 2008, Claire has been involved in many Snøhetta projects in the US, notably the Times Square Reconstruction in New York, the Wolf Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University. Claire earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from Carleton University and master’s degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.  

Benedetta Tagliabue | EMBT

Thursday, March 14, 4pm-5pm
Business Rotunda, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (03-213)

Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles' studio where she eventually became a partner.

Her work with EMBT includes a number of high profile buildings and projects in Barcelona such as Parque Diagonal Mar, the Head Office of Gas Natural, and the Santa Caterina Market and Quarter. Projects in Europe include the School of Music in Hamburg and the City Hall in Utrecht. In 1998, EMBT won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building and despite Miralles' premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint director and successfully completed the award-winning project in 2004. Recently completed projects include the Hafencity Public Space and the Youth Music School in Hamburg, Germany and the Italian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.

Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio engages architectural projects, open spaces, urbanism, rehabilitation and exhibitions, trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition that espouses collaboration rather than specialization.

Benedetta received the Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Napier University (2004), the RIBA Stirling Prize (2005), the Centenary Medal from Edinburgh Architectural Association and the 2005 Spanish National Architecture Prize 'Manuel de la Dehesa' for the Scottish Parliament building. She recently won the World Architectural Festival Award for Spanish Pavilion at the 2009 Shanghai World Expo. She has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Columbia University, the Architectural Association, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Berlage Institute, as well as at a number of other institutions. 

2011-2012 Hearst Lectures

2010-2011 Hearst Lectures

The Hearst Lecture Series is hosted by Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) through a generous grant from the Hearst Foundation. The lecture series brings local, national, and international speakers to present on Architecture and the built environment. The lectures are held on Fridays from 4-6pm and are free and open to the public. Students from all five departments in the CAED are encouraged to attend.

Acknowledging each departments contribution to the built environment, this year’s lecture series focuses on scale and the disciplinary perspectives that develop from working across scales. Scale then is not simply a means of measurement, but a disciplinary perspective focusing a breadth of interests from intricate details to urban development. The lecture series will bring a range of national recognized professionals which range from fabricators and design-builders working at full scale to landscape architects and urban planners working at urban scales. At their best, architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners, and construction managers work across scales on numerous issues demonstrating the multiple perspectives designers must take in constructing the built environment. The focus on scale in this year’s Hearst Lecture series is intended to draw out these multiple perspectives and the interdisciplinary discourse that working across scales requires.

The 2010-2011 Hearst Lecture Series Director was Professor Mark Cabrinha. The free public lectures are made possible through a grant from the Hearst Foundation. For more information about the series, contact the Architecture Department in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design by phone at 805.756.1316.

Wes Rozen: SituStudio

Friday, October 15, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

Wes Rozen is one of the five founding partners of Situ Studio founded in 2005, the same year they graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture.

Situ Studio is a creative practice that engages in a experimental work in a variety of media. A commitment to both material investigation as well as research and writing allows for the studio to develop flexible and multifaceted strategies to approach spatial problems. This dual emphasis is reflected in its workspace which combines both a design studio an a digitally equipped workshop. In addition to its design practice, Situ Studio maintains a parallel operations a a digital fabrication and consulting firm.

Tim Kobe, Eight Inc.

Friday, October 29, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

In conjunction with Vellum Competition

Tim Kobe is founder and principal of Eight Inc. Eight Inc. designs for some of the most successful and best loved brands in the world.

Eight Inc makes extraordinary things that change the way people think, feel and do. Eight Inc. designs for some of the most successful and best loved brands in the world. The company works with global brand giants defining strategies, innovating and designing branded experiences that engage the consumer in relevant, dynamic and meaningful ways. Eight Inc. work crosses traditional disciplines and includes environments, products and communications. This work consistently results in award-winning projects and long-term client relationships such as Apple, Nokia, Citibank and Virgin Atlantic Airways. 8 has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Honolulu, Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore.

Jason K. Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Future-Cities-Lab

Friday, November 5, 2010, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, CA. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of architecture with advanced fabrication technologies, responsive building systems and urban space. Their work has been published and exhibited worldwide. Most recently they were the 2008-09 Muschenheim and Oberdick Fellows at the University of Michigan TCAUP, the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, and exhibited work at the 2009-10 Hong Kong / Shenzhen Biennale. Both Johnson and Gattegno studied at Princeton University. They currently teach at CCA and UC Berkeley, as well as workshops including the Architectural Association Global Summer Program Biodynamic Structures and Hydra-Cities Lab in Athens, Greece. Jason has also recently collaborated with Andy Payne on the FIREFLY for Grasshopper toolbar and Primer.

Grasshopper Workshop with Future-Cities-Lab

Saturday, November 6, 2010, 10:00am - 4pm
Berg Gallery, Room 05-105

Andrew van Leeuwen and Kevin Eckert, Build LLC

**Postponed Until April 8, 2011 **

Kevin Eckert is the founding partner of Build LLC and emphasizes the implementation of innovative and cost-effective building solutions. He has degrees in Structural Engineering and a Masters of Architecture. Andrew van Leeuwen develops effective design strategies and generates architectural packages, and is director of marketing and is responsible for the successful Buildblog. Andrew has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Washington State along with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University.

Build relies on their diverse professional and construction backgrounds to provide a balanced and thoughtful approach to each client’s projects. Together with their trusted network of professional, trade and supplier resources, they bring the expertise and hands-on experience in architecture, design, structural engineering, construction trades, site superintending, and project management necessary to make every project they take on a success.

Caroline Bos, UNStudio

Friday, November 19, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda, Room 03-213

UNStudio is an international architectural practice, situated in Amsterdam since 1988, with extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, infrastructure, public, private and utility buildings on different scale levels. At the basis of UNStudio are a number of long-term goals, which are intended to define and guide the quality of their performance in the architectural field. They strive to make a significant contribution to the discipline of architecture, to continue to develop their qualities with respect to design, technology, knowledge and management and to be a specialist in public network projects. They see as mutually sustaining the environment, market demands and client wishes that enable their work, and aim for results in which their goals and their client’s goals overlap. In 2009 UNStudio Asia was established, with its first office located in Shanghai, China."

Wolf Mangelsdorf: Buro Happold

Friday, January 14, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Wolf Mangelsdorf was born and grew up near Würzburg in Germany. He studied Architecture and Civil Engineering at Karlsruhe University, where he also worked for an architectural practice after graduation. After a research stay at Kyoto University, he moved to Britain in 1997 and became a design engineer at Anthony Hunt Associates in their Cirencester and London offices.

Since 2002 he has been with Buro Happold in London where he joined an Associate and project leader for a number of projects, including the Battersea Power Station and the Glasgow Museum of Transport. He is now a Director and Partner and leads the dynamic structures team in London, whose diverse portfolio of includes significant landmark projects with signature architects, educational buildings, specialist focus on refurbishment and conservation, and a full range from small bespoke projects to large urban regeneration schemes.

Creative thought and design is central to Wolf’s approach and this has enabled him to engineer spectacular projects including the Museum of Transport in Glasgow in Scotland and the roof to the Médiacité retail centre in Liege, Belgium. With his design led approach he plays a major role in the development of fully integrated multidisciplinary solutions both at project level and in urban design and masterplanning.

Wolf has been teaching technical studies at the AA in Diploma School since 2000 and has been a guest lecturer and tutor at a number of Universities internationally. He speaks English, Italian, French and his native German and is actively involved in many international projects.

Mia Lehrer: Mia Lehrer + Associates

Friday, February 4, 2011 at 4:00pm (please note revised date)
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Mia Lehrer is the founding principal of the Los Angeles firm, Mia Lehrer + Associates. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Mia received her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Following her education, Mia gained valuable experience by working on large-scale public projects such as the World Bank Coastal Zone Project in El Salvador, as well as intimate gardens for residential clients. Today she is internationally recognized for her progressive landscape designs – unique amalgamations of graphic configurations, found objects, architectural pottery, and rich textures – and her advocacy for environmentally sensitive and people-friendly public space.

Mia leads the ML+A office through the design and development of a diverse range of ambitious public and private projects that include urban revitalization developments such as San Pedro Waterfront, large urban parks such as Vista Hermosa Park, and complex commercial projects like the biotech campus in Thousand Oaks. In recent years, several interesting historic renovation projects have been added to her repertoire; these include Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and Santee Court, an urban housing development that pays tribute to its historical context in L.A.’s fashion district.

Committed to her profession and education, Mia is actively involved in several organizations. She is on the Board of Directors at TreePeople and the Collage Dance Theater. She is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects, Hollywood Design Review Committee, and has served on the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council.

In addition to being published in international journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, the work of Mia Lehrer + Associates has been included in several important museum and gallery exhibitions. Mia often lectures, traveling as far as Brazil and China to share her insights and philosophy on public landscape design.

Steven Rainville: Olsen Kundig Architects

Friday, February 11, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Steven Rainville has been a member of Olson Kundig Architects since 1996, becoming a principal in 2010. He takes pride in being a generalist architect, with a strong interest in building construction and architectural technologies.

Steven has been involved with the design and management of a series of well-recognized projects, including Chicken Point Cabin, Outpost – both of which have received National AIA Honor Awards – and the Olson Kundig Architects’ Offices. Among other projects, Steven is currently working on the T BAILEY Offices, a project in a delicate marine environment which utilizes the company’s product — pipes used in wind turbine towers — for sustainable strategies and as building components. He is also working with Les Eerkes on two Passive House projects – residences built to super energy efficient standards.

Projects on which Steven has worked have been published in dozens of national and international publications including the New York Times, Architectural Record, and the Wall Street Journal. They have also appeared in books including Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) and The Good Office: Green Design on the Cutting Edge (Collins Design, 2008). Several of those projects have received national, regional and local awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), as well as an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Steven maintains an active role in the firm’s staff development as manager of the mentorship and intern programs. Among Steven’s professional contributions is his recurring design studio jury participation at Washington State University (WSU). In Spring 2010, Steven and Les Eerkes co-taught a studio on Techtonics at WSU. He also serves as a member of the WSU School of Architecture + Construction Management Advisory Board. Steven has lectured around the country on the work of the firm and on the role of project managers in the realization of design concepts. A licensed architect, he has a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University.

Philip Beesley: Philip Beesley Architect Inc.

Friday, February 25, 2011 at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Philip Beesley: Philip Beesley Architect Inc.
Philip Beesley is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo who practices digital media art, experimental and applied architecture. His work in the last two decades has focused on field-oriented sculpture and landscape installations, with extensions in stage design and buildings. His projects in the past several years have increasingly worked with immersive digitally fabricated lightweight 'textile' structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature interactive kinetic systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems.

He is director of the Integrated Centre for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing at Waterloo and co-directs Riverside Architectural Press, a publisher focused on contemporary design. He was educated in visual art at Queen's University, in technology at Humber College, and in architecture at the University of Toronto. He was a member of art and performance collaboratives Open Series and Studio Six/Kataraque in Kingston and the George Meteskey Ensemble in New York. Periods of study were undertaken in Rome at the Vatican and the American Academy and in New York with the Wooster Group. Prior to beginning his practice he apprenticed in instrument making and in lighting design.
He has authored numerous publications including Responsive Environments (Situated Technologies, 2009), Hylozoic Soil (Riverside, 2007), and Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design(Riverside, 2007), as well as co-chairing a wide array of conferences and symposia. He was the 2009 recipient of Fundacion Telefonica’s VIDA Award and the 2008 FEIDAD Award. Distinctions include the Prix de Rome in Architecture (Canada), Governor-General’s and Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Andrew van Leeuwen and Kevin Eckert: Build LLC

Friday, April 8, 2011, at 4:00pm.
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Kevin Eckert is the founding partner of Build LLC and emphasizes the implementation of innovative and cost-effective building solutions. He has degrees in Structural Engineering and a Masters of Architecture. Andrew van Leeuwen develops effective design strategies and generates architectural packages, and is director of marketing and is responsible for the successful Buildblog. Andrew has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Washington State along with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University.
Build relies on their diverse professional and construction backgrounds to provide a balanced and thoughtful approach to each client’s projects. Together with their trusted network of professional, trade and supplier resources, they bring the expertise and hands-on experience in architecture, design, structural engineering, construction trades, site superintending, and project management necessary to make every project they take on a success.

Anne Fougeron: Fougeron Architecture

Friday, April 15, 2011, at 4:00pm.
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Fougeron Architecture is a nationally recognized design firm whose work exhibits a strong commitment to clarity of thought, design integrity, and quality of architectural detail. Anne Fougeron is principal of Fougeron Architecture in San Francisco. Born of French parents and raised in Paris and New York, she credits her bicultural upbringing as the source of her aesthetic values: a European respect for historic precedent and a comfort level with melding old and new. After earning a B.A. in architectural history at Wellesly College and a Master of Architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked for San Francisco architect and urban designer Daniel Solomon for three years, an experience that informed her awareness of the interplay between buildings and the urban environment. In 1986, she founded Fougeron Architecture, designing award-winning private and public sector projects that have made an original statement - in a decidedly modernist vocabulary. Fougeron has taught architectural design to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

W. Mike Martin: Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Friday, April 29, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Professor Emeritus W. Mike Martin has been at UC Berkeley for the past 18 years in the Architecture Department of the College of Environmental Design. His teaching and research has focused on the study of practice, collaborative design, work-studies of practice, and storytelling as a means of knowledge transfer. Digital media is central to his process of representation of knowledge transfer from practice.

Martin currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor at DIS. He served as the undergraduate dean of CED for 11 years, and in 2006 he completed a three-year term as chair of the Architecture Department. For the past two years he has served as the University of California Systems Education Abroad Director for Scandinavia.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the 2005 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Fellowship for Research. He was the recipient of the 2009 AIACC Excellence in Education Honor Award. He served as President Elect of the San Francisco Chapter of the AIA, served as editor of Architecture California (AIACC), and received an Honorable Mention in the 2002 NCARB Prize for his Building Stories: A Case Study Analysis of Practice.

John Enright: Griffin Enright Architects

Friday, May 6, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

The Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects was co-founded by Margaret Griffin, AIA and John Enright, AIA in 2000. Their versatile practice encompasses three areas: institutional design including master-planning, high-end residential, and conceptual design. Projects include large-scale institutional and residential commissions to landscape design and gallery installations. The firm fuses interests in innovation, research, and experimentation with the exploration of cultural complexities relative to the built environment. Their work transcends the traditional scope of architectural practice, underscoring connections to the surrounding urban fabric and landscape by reinforcing existing conditions or creating new ones, allowing urban context, architecture, and landscape to be experienced in new, unanticipated ways.

John Enright, AIA is a co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based, Griffin Enright Architects. John has taught design studios and technology seminars at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Syracuse University, The University of Houston, and until recently as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. He is currently the Undergraduate Program Chair at SCI-Arc. John’s academic research focuses on design and building technology including Building Information Modeling and new digital paradigms as applied to fabrication and construction. An exhibition of his research into the work of Konrad Wachsmann was recently exhibited at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. John has received numerous grants including USC’s Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, and an NCARB Grant for the Integration of Practice and the Academy in 2009.

Doug Jackson: Assistant Professor Architecture Department, Cal Poly, SLO

Friday, May 13, 2011, at 4:00pm
Business Rotunda (03-213)

Doug Jackson is an architect whose work focuses on the production and theorization of architecture that employs user-transformation of space. Doug served as a design principal along with Wes Jones in the award-winning and internationally-acclaimed office of Jones, Partners: Architecture, whose innovative work was widely exhibited and was featured in numerous national and international publications.

In addition, Doug has maintained an independent design practice whose work has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently his work has been exhibited as part of the SOUPERgreen exhibition, which debuted at the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles.

"Innovative Schools for the New Millennium"

Friday, May 20, 2011 9:00am-7:00pm (schedule TBD)
Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab

Trung Le (Canon Design)

Friday, May 20, 2011 at 5:00pm (Education Symposium Keynote)
Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab

is a pioneer of Cannon Design’s education practice and has an incessant energy and passion for learning. Le is widely recognized as an advocate for incorporating multiple intelligences and learning styles in the design of education environments. As the lead designer for Cannon Design’s education group, he creates spaces that encourage student inquiry and imagination and offer students a sense of what it means to be a part of a global community. Le also leads The Third Teacher + , an education design consultancy within the ideas-based practice of Cannon Design that helps learning communities better serve 21st century learners. With an eye on the future of learning, the multidisciplinary team collaborates with these communities to formulate systemic strategies for pedagogical, curricular, and environmental change.

Le's work has yielded awards from the Chicago, Illinois and national chapters of the American Institute of Architects during his 20 years at Cannon Design. Le’s projects have been published in such periodicals as Architectural Record, Contract Design and Edutopia. Le is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences such as Big Ideas Fest, TEDx, CEFPI and the AIA National Convention. His recent collaboration with Bruce Mau resulted in the publication The Third Teacher, a cabinet of wonders on how design can transform teaching and learning.