arcCA 9.3 beyond LEED

Re-Designing Good Design William Leddy, FAIA, is a founding partner of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. He has lectured internationally, served as a visiting professor at several universities and been honored by organizations including the AIA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the California Preservation Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the French Institute of Architecture. Real Mitigation of Climate Change: The Path to Zero Net Energy Buildings Edward Dean, AIA, is an architect who heads the Berkeley office of Harley Ellis Devereaux and Greenworks Studio. Greenworks Studio is a partner company to HED that focuses on sustainability and the design of Zero Net Energy buildings. Click here to read article. Global Benchmarking? Taking a Critical Look at Sustainable Design in the U.S. Architect, engineer and industrial designer Thomas Spiegelhalter, ACE, ISES, LEED AP, is principal of Architecture Office for Sustainability in Freiburg, Germany, and professor at Florida International University in Miami. He has taught previously in Kaiserslautern and Leipzig, Germany, and at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California. Click here to read article. New Metrics for a Sustainable Planet David Thurman, AIA, LEED AP, is a Senior Associate at Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists. His experience includes leadership on sustainable architectural and master plan designs, including master plans for the campuses of Occidental College and New College of Florida, as well as the City of Visalia’s Southeast Area Specific Plan. Click here to read article. A Sea Level Rise Strategy for the San Francisco Bay Region Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is the federally designated, state coastal management agency for the San Francisco Bay segment of the California coastal zone. arcCA’s condensation of BCDC’s Sea Level Rise Strategy is available at www.aiacc.org/arcCA. The full report, along with other documentation of BCDC’s ongoing response to climate change, can be found at http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/planning/climate_change/climate_change.shtml. Click here to read article. Emerging Water-Smart Design Geoffrey Holton is principal of GHA, an architecture firm in Oakland. In addition to small residential and commercial work, the firm is currently pursuing community-based projects emphasizing sustainable urban futures. Click here to read article. Getting Specific: Arcade 27.01–04 John Parman is an editorial adviser to the California edition of The Architect’s Newspaper who also writes for the web (www.j2parman.com). Click here to read article. Book Review: The Urban Homestead, by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen David Scott Bruce is Vice President of InnerSpace Engineering and a LEED AP working toward a green MBA from the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, where he combines his mind for business and his love of nature.Click here to read article. Blog Is In the Details Jimmy Stamp is a freelance writer and designer currently enrolled in the M.E.D program at the Yale School of Architecture. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and websites and he has been publishing the architecture blog Life Without Buildings [lifewithoutbuildings.net] since 2004.Coda: Greenwood Coda: Greenwood Common Waverly B. Lowell is the Curator of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley. She has also served as Director of the National Archives, Pacific Sierra Region, and Director of the California Cooperative Preservation for Architectural Records Survey. Her publications include. . .click here to continue reading Predictions Fall Flat, but Future Trends are a Useful Tool Predicting the future is a notoriously risky business. In 1959, U.S. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield confidently predicted that, “We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.” That same year, IBM told the future founders of Xerox that they were denying them start-up funds because. . .click here to continue reading. … and Counting David Meckel, FAIA, is Director of Research & Planning for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He may be reached at dmeckel@cca.edu. Mad Scientists, Rabble Rousers, and Other Thoughtful People arcCA asked a dozen and a half thought leaders to reflect on the most misunder stood notions, the most neglected problems, and the most underappreciated opportunities in sustainable design today. These are their responses. To view past issues of arcCA click here