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2012 Fellow Fred Powell, FAIA

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Fred Powell, FAIA; Verde Elementary School, Richmond, California, Powell & Partners


Fred Powell, AIA/NOMA, has dramatically strengthened the architectural profession through tireless community service over forty years. His advocacy, leadership, and teaching efforts have improved professional, business, and educational opportunities for minority and emerging architects and students.

Fred is an architect who leads through community service. As one who experienced the injustice of racism in the segregated south, Fred has dedicated his career to providing opportunities for minority and emerging professionals; to teaching, mentoring and inspiring underserved youths; and to designing and building spaces that promote healthy, vibrant communities. His efforts have enriched the field by increasing the number of minority professionals, by removing barriers, and by changing attitudes. His prominent engagement in the community demonstrates to the public and profession alike the importance of an expanded role for architects and inspires others to become involved.

Fred’s efforts have focused on minorities in the profession and schools, but his results have clarified the viewpoint, mission, and programs of the most important architects’ professional organizations, strengthened education for everyone, and increased business possibilities for all. The fact that he has received nine community service awards demonstrates the depth of his service and the extent of appreciation for his efforts.

East Palo Alto Downtown Urban Re-Design Charrette

Fred has provided vision, guidance, and philosophical clarity during four decades of service with the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and twenty years with the American Institute of Architects. NOMA is the key national organization representing minority architects, and Fred was one of the founders of its Northern California chapter. He served as its president for four years, working tirelessly to strengthen the organization and build its membership to an all-time high. He serves as a bridge between NOMA and the AIA. He was one of the organizers of the AIA National Diversity conference and served as a board member of both the San Francisco chapter and California Council of the AIA.

Fred deeply appreciates the fine education he received and is therefore a fierce advocate for the importance of schooling and for improving quality and access to good education for underserved youths. His efforts to enrich the profession include increasing the number of minority students and ultimately, minority professionals, through teaching, mentoring, lecturing and advocating. He has taught more than five hundred students on a volunteer basis and raised tens of thousands of dollars for schools and scholarships. His passion for architecture has served as model and inspiration for youths who have not even dreamt about the possibility of entering the field.

Fred is a quiet but determined advocate for minority architects, consistently pressing for increased opportunities, recognition, and work. He lobbies political leaders and organizations for change and for the elimination of artificial and unjust barriers. He has been successful working with organizations such as the Urban League, the Small Business Administration, and the Bay Area Purchasing Council to improve access, status, and possibilities for minority firms.

Fred lives by the value that he articulated for his student body while a college student: “No student will be insensitive to the needs of his brothers while he improves himself. His personal development will constantly be a reflection of the development of his community and the enrichment of his fellow man.” Throughout his long career, Fred has never lost sight of improving his community by focusing his practice on carefully selected, locally enriching projects: affordable housing, public schools, community centers, churches, and civic buildings. He passionately believes that buildings are not merely walls and roofs but spaces that change how people live, feel, and think. He therefore creates buildings that stir the imagination and give users a sense of pride and hope.

Heritage Homes, San Francisco, HKIT Architects/Powell & Partners

 

2012 Fellow David Rogers, FAIA

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David Rogers, FAIA; Beursplein, Rotterdam, The Jerde Partnership, Design Architect; De Architekten Cie, Architect-of-Record


David Rogers’ creative passion, reflected in his compelling architectural designs, is instrumental in revitalizing city centers globally, sustaining their historical and cultural elements and enriching the lives of millions of people.

David’s unwavering belief in the importance of meaningful, experiential public space and responsible design drives his personal purpose in creating places that sustain community development over time and preserve historical vitality through generations. His passion to safeguard and sustain cities fosters bold and transformative additions to the global architectural landscape, both through his design contributions as an architect and through his mentorship of colleagues and students at the University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, and the University of Southern California over his remarkable, 40-year career. Designing with cultural sensitivity and communal connectivity, Rogers has been resolute in his regenerative, urbanist ideals, always aiming to create a catalyst for progressive sustainable evolution.

In the Netherlands, the Beursplein project revitalized the district with an excavated, open-air, commercial boulevard that provides seamless pedestrian connections between two previously separated districts of the central city. Rogers’ work for Zlote Tarasy in Poland similarly transformed the city center of Warsaw, generating a new life from what was once a vast, empty site by recalling the poetic profile of the 17th Century urban parks of the city through a contemporary architectural vernacular.

Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas, The Jerde Partnership, Design Architect;
Harry Campbell Architects (HCA), Architect-of-Record

Along with such international works that have gained much acclaim, Roger’s designs have similarly set in motion positive social and economic ripples at home. The redesign of Santa Monica Place has resulted in the restoration of the urban fabric of Santa Monica, increasing both the commercial and social activity within this progressive California coastal community.

Beursplein was honored by AIA/LA with the Decades Award in 2006 and the Merit Award for Urban Design in 1997, while also receiving the AIA National Honor Award in 1997. In 1996, AIA/LA awarded Fremont Street Experience with the Merit Award for Urban Design. Other worldwide organizations have similarly praised Rogers’ designs with the Urban Land Institute awarding Hangzhou Lakeshore Development the Asia-Pacific Award for Excellence in 2005 and Global Retail and Leisure International recognizing Zlote Tarasy as the Shopping Center of the Year in 2007.

Zlote Tarasy, Warsaw, The Jerde Partnership, Design Architect; Epstein Sp. z.o.o., Architect-of-Record

 

2012 Fellow Anthony Moretti, FAIA

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Anthony Moretti, FAIA; Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, CO Architects, © Robert Canfield Photography

Through visionary work in construction documentation, Anthony Moretti developed an efficient and harmonious production process and pioneered building information modeling techniques that empower construction teams to create beautifully crafted, high-performing science, academic, and healthcare buildings.

Called a “pioneer who blazed the trail for the entire industry” by the 2010 AIA/Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) awards jury, Tony Moretti has provided the design and construction indus¬try with a more efficient and harmonious way to work, through the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). In 2004, when challenged by Palomar Pomerado Health to design “The Hospital of the Future,” he led CO Architects’ bold commitment to BIM, at that time an unproven technology, on the largest and most complex Revit project in the U.S., the 740,000 square-foot Palomar Medical Center. Among other benefits, BIM/IPD saved more than $8 million alone in the detailing on the project’s green roof steel truss system. This project has earned the 2010 AIA/TAP Citation for BIM Excellence, the highest such recognition in the country. At the request of the AIA TAP committee, Tony presented a live national webcast, “Using BIM and IPD to Design and Build the Hospital of the Future,” which required an encore presentation, due to viewer demand.

Tony’s sustained 25-year commitment to detailing and construction documentation for high-performance, technically complex buildings is the cornerstone of his firm’s influential industry leadership. CO Architects earned the number 12 national ranking in Architect magazine’s 2009 top 100 firms based on design and sustainability. Tony’s construction documents have been used to teach building inspection at the University of California, San Diego. Clients, contractors, and plan checkers have noted their appreciation for Tony’s clear, concise documents. Sudheer Karnik, Senior Architect at OSHPD, California’s hospital review agency, calls Tony’s drawings the “best he has ever reviewed.” His documents produce bids that are on average 4.8 percent under budgets with change order rates less than 2.5 percent over a 22-year period.

Kendall Square Building B, Cambridge, Massachusetts, CO Architects

Tony developed the “+CO Quality Standard,” a time-tested, living production standard, continuously gathering and dissemi¬nating best practices and lessons learned across all project teams. It is a body of valuable technical and design knowledge that benefits the entire profession by advancing the evolution of building types and design solutions and fostering the cross-pollination of ideas across design and construction teams.

Tony’s hands-on work is manifest across a distinguished collection of more than 60 projects, recognized with multiple national, state, and local AIA awards, 5 LEED certifications (with 4 more pending), and numerous international and national publi¬cations. These projects exhibit a consistent beauty in their craft, while executed in a variety of contextual settings and with a diverse range of materials, designers, and teams. They span the science, academic, healthcare, public, and civic arenas in 8 states from Hawaii to Massachusetts.

In addition to his national BIM webcast, Tony is interviewed in national publications and widely used information sources, in¬cluding the McGraw Hill Smart Market Report, CivilEngineerGroup.com, and Autodesk.com. An active member of the AIA Los Angeles TAP committee, he has presented BIM case studies to members of AIA Los Angeles. He has directed his firm’s AIA CES program for 12 years, overseeing 74 separate learning programs, 12 of which he designed himself. These courses help architects learn cutting edge practices and also help recent graduates pass the Architect Registration Examination. As a mentor, Tony has had immeasurable influence on the profession, cultivated through years of daily face-to-face teaching and collaboration with the architects, engineers, and contractors he encounters in his work.

Palomar Medical Center West, BIM views, CO Architects

 

2012 Fellow Gilbert Cooke, FAIA

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Gilbert Cooke’s dedication to teaching and innovative student experiences has transformed the NewSchool of Architecture & Design and other programs, and his leadership of NCARB and NAAB improved accountability, enhanced testing, and strengthened architectural education.

Gil has made significant contributions to architectural education through his teaching, academic leadership, and innovative academic program development. As dean of San Diego’s NewSchool of Architecture & Design, he transformed the fledgling program into a nationally recognized school with a practice-oriented, hands-on curriculum. In a few short years at NewSchool, he increased enrollment from under 100 to nearly 700 students; hired 17 new professors, many with international backgrounds, creating a world-class faculty; retained design and construction industry professionals to serve as lecturers, creating cutting-edge, urban laboratories; expanded to accommodate the growing student population, involving students in the design and construction of the new urban campus; elevated entrance requirements, raising the level of excellence of the student body; and created a new graduate program, which has grown exponentially in stature. He is also a founder of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture, the only organization in the world devoted to the goal of building intellectual bridges between neuroscience and architecture.

In addition to his work at NewSchool, Gil was a distinguished director of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s architecture program for six years. Already recognized as an outstanding program nationally, the undergraduate program was rated first in the nation following a NAAB accreditation visit under Gil’s leadership. Because of his leadership, the international programs grew dramatically, years of discord among faculty disappeared, ties to the community enhanced, and attention to sustainability strengthened.

Earlier, Gil began his teaching career at the Maryland institute of Art, then Morgan State University, an historically black university in Baltimore. Morgan State became the smallest accredited program at that time based on the quality of the work, the commitment of the fledgling student body, and the clarity of the material for view by the NAAB team.

Parallel to his teaching, academic leadership, and practice, Gil is as an advocate for the profession and architectural education. He served two five-year terms on the Maryland Architectural Registration Board, where he presided over hearings resulting from the Spiro Agnew scandal. He was appointed co-chair of NCARB’s first ARE Building Design Committee, where he was instrumental in changing the site planning division to become a discrete section of the ARE. As Design Group chair, he worked to establish uniform levels of accountability for graders. As NCARB’s treasurer, he developed a five-year financial strategic plan, a simplified method of reporting finances for the NCARB board and the membership, and was instrumental in negotiations that healed a rift between the California Architects’ Board and NCARB. As an NCARB and NAAB board member, Gil has been either a team member or the chair of 21 accreditation visits nationwide.

Finally, Gil has been an active, valued member of three AIA chapters: Baltimore, California Central Coast, and San Diego, and served as president of the AIA Maryland. He worked to bring the profession closer to the academy and the community at each component, creating programs that invite collaboration and educational opportunities.

 

2012 Fellow C. Keith Boswell, FAIA

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C. Keith Boswell, FAIA; Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light by SOM, under construction


C. Keith Boswell, AIA advances the science and art of technical innovations in practice through leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, research and mentorship, which has elevated design solutions and high quality completed public and private work worldwide.

As Technical Director of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) San Francisco office and leader of the firm-wide Technical Design Group, C. Keith Boswell has made significant contributions to his clients, fellow practitioners, colleagues, builders, and students. He is actively involved in the early design phases to establish detailed design direction and orchestrates systems and details in all project phases. He draws inspiration from nature and manufacturing processes to develop technically innovative and appropriate solutions that enhance design solutions. Keith elevates architecture nationally and internationally, through his tenacious pursuit of efficient solutions, details, advanced building performance, and his passion for collaboration.

Keith’s career-long collaboration with engineers, builders and fabricators has led to technical innovations and improved practices. He has developed skills in designing and detailing building systems with a particular interest in exterior building enclosures. From projects such as the custom unitized curtainwalls for the Gas Company Tower in Los Angeles to recent work on the multiple blast resistant exterior enclosures for the US Embassy in China, Keith pursues material research, shop fabrication and assembly techniques through his architectural detail solutions. One of his signature projects, the San Francisco International Airport Terminal, incorporates an iconic roof structure spanning over a custom exterior enclosure designed for 24 inches of seismic movement with full post event functionality. The concept is based on each enclosure panel acting as “scales of a fish” to accommodate their share of the movement.

Lenovo / Raycom Infotech Park Phase II, Building C, Beijing, SOM, 2004

His design and details have created improvements in enclosure systems. His approach to design details begins with the concept of “a way” and culminates with a collaborative concept of “the way.” System details are composed with knowledge of how the design can be built. This is “a way.” Methodical detail improvements are merged with builder input to create a collaborative result: “the way.”

Keith has also developed specific expertise in training and teaching new construction practices in the rapidly evolving Chinese market, where additional challenges lie in interfacing with local suppliers and craftsmen. Keith’s ability to work with Chinese builders and manufacturers has advanced the capabilities and standards of Chinese curtain wall systems. Under Keith’s guidance, some of the most ambitious curtain wall systems, such as the largest cable-net glass structure in the world designed for Beijing Poly Plaza, the suspended column-free glass pavilion at Lenovo’s Beijing campus and multiple unitized and double skin enclosures have been achieved.

Recognizing that the success of projects is rooted in a rigorous design and documentation process, Keith continually harnesses his extensive experience to improve practice standards and educate his colleagues within SOM and beyond. He leads the SOM SF Technical Design Group consisting of more than 50 architects in system research and development, specifications, project documentation methods and field services. He has co-authored the firm’s Quality Control/Quality Assurance protocols and leads SOM’s National Technical Steering Committee with colleagues in other SOM offices.

Keith generously contributes his knowledge and experience to the profession through active mentoring, frequent lectures, and in-depth publications, including his forthcoming book, Exterior Building Enclosures: Design Process Through—and Beyond—Realization. He is a lecturer and chairman of Glass Performance Days Finland and China, among other conferences and publications. His article for arcCA, “Construction Documents in China,” has been included in the AIA Best Practices Publications. He is a member of the San Francisco code development process on the Advisory Group with the San Francisco Fire Department regarding high-rise life safety systems incorporating elevators. Overseas, Keith collaborates with Fire Departments in Beijing and Fuzhou on high-rise life safety systems. At the core of Keith’s efforts is a commitment to attain works of architecture that satisfy clients goals, achieve high standards of craft, safety, and sustainability to elevate the work of the profession as a whole.

Harvard University Northwest Science Building, SOM, 2008

 

2012 Fellow Gary Dempster, FAIA

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Gary Dempster, FAIA; Waikiki Beach Walk, Honolulu



Gary Dempster’s hands-on interaction with collaborating architects worldwide brings quality design to life in vastly different cultural contexts, while mentoring local architects in developing countries to aspire to meet international standards of process and craft.

The foundation of Dempster’s practice is collaboration. As the partner in charge of technical and construction services for Altoon + Porter’s practice in 43 countries, he is a knowledgeable advisor for many associate architects around the world, modeling a leadership role with sensitivity and respect, while raising the level of professionalism for architects at home and abroad. By creating significant opportunities for these partner firms in emerging economies, Dempster leads others to success as they expand their own portfolios based on their work with him. He is an expert in conflict resolution, who is able to deal with entrenched contractors in Moscow as easily as with a native Hawaiian priest or a Chinese official. In all his dealings, he understands the critical role that personal and cultural relations play in a project’s success. His approach is to build trust through open communication, allow an easy exchange of ideas, and foster teamwork to create solutions. In the process he has advanced local practice standards, introducing American technology and safety standards to other countries. More than once Dempster has stepped in to save a project that is in danger of running aground or defused disagreements before they became a crisis, whether due to problems on the team, with local officials or cultural differences. In the process he teaches others how to collaborate successfully for the good of the project.

Metallist City Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dempster is respected for his encyclopedic knowledge of the technical side of construction, and his understanding of the business of the real estate industry, from design to construction to occupancy, which allows him to apply his skills across the wide range of circumstances that inevitably arise on complex projects. He shares that knowledge with his colleagues and peers, enhancing the profession’s leadership and skills. For 30 years, he has taught and mentored interns, practitioners, and students, encouraging achievement in the next generation of architects. In addition to mentoring interns and students in his own firm, he teaches a variety of project management courses at his firm’s AIA-accredited, in-house university. He personally sponsors interns and doctoral candidates, taking them to meetings and construction sites for “hands-on” training. He was a contributor to the AIA California Council/Associated General Contractors Joint Recommendations Handbook, which is widely used today as a practice tool for architects and contractors.

Paramaz Avedisian, American University Of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

 

2012 Fellow Paul Endres, FAIA

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Paul Endres, FAIA; beam anchorage, Marin Glass Bridge, Tiburon, California

Reaching across the lines that segregate professions, Paul Endres, FAIA, both designs buildings and perfects innovative structural concepts, both for his own projects at EndreStudio and collaborating with other designers to achieve their visions.

His projects include private residences, pedestrian bridges, science museums, and schools, and he has pioneered structural concepts such as a torquing spiral helix, ziggurat bar stair designs, floating roofs of cable and wood, and glass bridges. Paul’s design merges philosophical, architectural, and engineering processes into projects that perform with elegance and simplicity.

Georgia June Goldberg, “Emergence,” American University Museum, Washington, DC

Paul has provided structural engineering for major sculpture installations by such artists as Georgia June Goldberg, Don Mill, Bill and Mary Buchen, and The Flaming Lotus Girls.

In addition to being a licensed architect, civil engineer, and structural engineer in multiple states, Paul holds the Morgenstern Chair at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he lectures and conducts a design studio refining his work on structure and space.

Shoreline Pedestrian Bridge, San Mateo, California

 

2012 Fellow George Pressler, FAIA

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George Pressler, FAIA, a respected leader in the healthcare design community, died on January 4, 2012. He was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA posthumously. Over the course of a distinguished career, George advanced the planning of medical facilities internationally as architect and advocate, educating healthcare leaders, design professionals, policy-makers, and communities by expanding their understanding of the impact of the built environment on healing.

George was a Founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) and served as a faculty member for ACHA’s Planning and Programming workshops. He was an active leader with many professional organizations, including the ACHA, AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, The Healthcare Facilities Symposium, ACHE/Health Care Executives of Southern California, and the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC). His passion for sharing his knowledge led him to serve as a faculty member at California State University Northridge Graduate Program in Health Administration, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a regular participant with the AIA Los Angeles Committee on Architecture for Health Care.

George served as the Director of Design for the architectural firm of Jenkins Fleming in Los Angeles before he joined Medical Planning Associates (MPA) in Malibu in 1979. As its Director of Business Development, he cultivated his acumen for healthcare planning, and was touched over 600 healthcare projects throughout the United States and abroad. In 1992, he founded Planning Decision Resources, Inc., which provides planning, programming, and design services to healthcare systems, facilities, architects, and consultants.
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2012 Fellow Lisa Sachs, FAIA

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Lisa Sachs, FAIA; her recently published What Is Your Construction Management IQ?

Building an alternative career in the field of construction management, Lisa Sachs has elevated architecture to a position of leadership, advanced California to landmark legislation, and set a national standard for contract performance.

As an owner’s representative for more than 20 years, Lisa Sachs has been a foremost advocate for architects in the construction industry. As President of the Southern California Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), she is one of the first architects to lead her field. She encouraged architects to become CMAA members, to benefit from the collaboration among owners and builders. As a result, her chapter grew more than 100% to over 1000 members, the largest in the country, with more than 15% of nationwide membership, winning local and National CMAA Awards for her efforts and influencing this national organization.

As a board member and mentor at universities and schools of architecture, Lisa is a role model for students and young professionals. She has recently authored an authoritative new book on construction management, What is Your Construction Management IQ?, the proceeds of which benefit the scholarship funds of the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles and the CMAA. Included in the book is a new method, known as the IQ Check System, which Lisa developed for managing, monitoring, and evaluating the success of major public capital improvement programs. This new system raises the bar for architectural and construction management standards, industry-wide, and is now employed on major capital school construction programs in California and across the nation.

LAUSD’s Miguel Contreras Learning Complex. Design Bid Build Team: Johnson Fain Architects & Clark Construction Group, LLC. 2006

In a pilot project for the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), Lisa saw the opportunity to advocate for quality design, bringing a stronger voice for architecture into the construction process. Her success on this project guided California to enact landmark building delivery legislation, enhancing the role of the architect in public development and construction. This innovative law facilitates new building delivery methods that improve collaboration between design professionals and the construction industry.

Under Lisa’s direction, the renovation and preservation of an entire city block for the Los Angeles Music Center continues to be developed collaboratively with key preservationists, the most architecturally significant arts and concert hall complex on the west coast. Her work at Southwest College changed the face of a college campus, leading to innovative new development at college districts throughout California. At the LA Unified School District, her continued success directing projects on the $20 billion Capital Construction Program is reshaping the architectural landscape of Los Angeles County.

Mark Taper Forum Renovation. Design Bid Build Team: HED & Taisei; Design Architect: Rios Clemente Hale, 2008

 

2012 Fellow Fredric Sherman, FAIA

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Fredric Sherman, FAIA; Visual and Performing Arts Village, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, HGA Architect and Engineers


Fredric Sherman exemplifies how architects can design for ongoing change in higher education. From community colleges to research universities, his projects are pioneering design models for social access and new learning environments.

Fredric’s practice in higher education architecture creates new models benefiting both the profession and clients. His major areas of innovation include design models for interdisciplinary learning, higher education architecture for social access, design innovation that draws people in, and new models for flexibility and change in education.

Sherman’s projects are new models for learning spaces that offer interdisciplinary learning, varied teaching methods, new technologies, and sensory stimulation. He explores and builds upon recent research suggesting that students learn best when information is presented in a variety of environments and teaching methods. At Napa Community College and the College of the Desert near Palm Springs, for example, he integrated general education spaces with laboratories, art studios, and computer labs—disciplines that rarely overlap but offer rich interdisciplinary insights. This significant planning innovation exposes students to multiple teaching disciplines on a daily basis.

Sherman’s designs for the arts, general education, and technical training serve an extraordinary range of “first generation” college students and recent immigrants. For twelve years, he has helped Cabrillo College to offer affordable education. Sherman set a new precedent at Cabrillo for learning spaces that can do many things at once—such as serving senior citizens in night courses, high school students trying out college courses during the day, and meeting the area’s desire for arts education. The inherent flexibility of Cabrillo’s campus and individual buildings generates significant savings in operational costs that help to keep tuition costs low.

Recently, Sherman developed the community library in Hercules, California as an exemplar of multiple uses and social access. Active throughout the day and evening, the library is a community center, home for extension courses, research hub for college students, and work space for the self-employed. The Hercules Library typifies Sherman’s vision for learning that is collaborative, socially accessible, and woven throughout communities.

Hercules Public Library, Hercules, California, HGA Architects and Engineers & will bruder +PARTNERS LTD

The Hercules Library, Napa College’s Performing Arts Center, and the Visual and Performing Arts Center at Cabrillo are all models for design that draws visitors and invites community partnerships. In each project, Sherman advocated for well-designed gathering spaces, mixed uses, and indoor-outdoor connections. The result is that all three are vibrant social centers with growing circulation, theater use by local groups and expanding enrollment.

One of the most impressive qualities of Sherman’s projects is their ingrained flexibility for new uses over time. At Napa Valley Community College, Sherman planned classrooms that can be easily modified to accommodate future digital technologies. For Monterey Community College and College of the Desert, he designed classroom buildings that can be re-purposed to accommodate other educational or administrative needs—one of the most sustainable ways to manage campus assets in the long-term.

Fredric Sherman’s architectural practice continues to grow more refined as an integrated model for community partnerships, new teaching methods, and interdisciplinary learning. He exemplifies how the profession can bring long-term value to higher education design.

Student Services Center, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California, HGA Architects and Engineers