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The 99%, a Great Debate, and Tiny Houses

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The 9th annual Reinvention Symposium convenes in Chicago October 17-19, 2012, around the theme, “OCCUPY EVERY STREET: Tapping the power and potential of everyday architecture.”

Meanwhile, on the first day of the symposium, the Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA) will be holding its annual meeting and convening The Great Debate, declaring, “As Reinvention ‘Occupies Every Street’ and brainstorms about how architects may reach and serve more than the privileged few, CORA Occupies Reinvention with a classic Oxford-style debate.” Ponder and respond to CORA’s provocative Questions That Haven’t Been Asked about the role of architects in residential design and construction.

Elsewhere, CORA founder Duo Dickinson, AIA, co-hosts a radio show about the idea of home with psychotherapist Binnie Klein on WPKN-FM Bridgeport. HomeWork debuted in December 2011. In its third episode, “Let’s Get Small,” aired 29 March 2012, Dickinson and Klein explore the Tiny House Movement and wait patiently to interview Lloyd Kahn, Editor-in-Chief of California’s Shelter Publications.

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HomeWork hosts Duo Dickinson, AIA, and Binnie Klein

 

Jonathan Segal, FAIA, Recognized by Residential Architect Magazine

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The Charmer - Jonathan Segal, FAIA, Architect - Photo courtesy of Matthew Segal


The Charmer, San Diego, designed by Jonathan Segal, FAIA, has been named 2012 Project of the Year by Residential Architect magazine. Other California winners are Aidlin Darling Design, Ehrlich Architects, Brooks + Scarpa, Push, Warren Techentin Architecture, and Minarc. Read about them here.

 

From Minnesota by way of Finland, David Salmela to Talk Design at MDC 2011

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The winner of the 2008 Minnesota Gold Medal Award, David Salmela, FAIA, will speak at this year’s Monterey Design Conference in October.

Salmela was born into a Finnish family, grew up in Minnesota, practices in Duluth and never went to architecture school. That hasn’t inhibited him from winning fifty regional and national design awards including National AIA Honor Awards for architecture for his Brandenburg’s Ravenwood Studio and the Emerson Sauna projects.

Here’s an excerpt from a great Residential Architect feature by Vernon Mays on him that’s well worth the read and includes a fantastic slideshow:

“As he tells it, Salmela started his career as a forward-thinking modernist, but after a few years he started to question why the public failed to embrace the modern agenda. He took a harder look at the old buildings of his region and studied the architectural traditions of Scandinavia.”

MDC gives California and Western United States designers the opportunity to converse informally with a number of out of state and out-of-the-country architects as well as to hear them present. Have you heard Jeanne Gang, FAIA LEED AP, who is based in Chicago, speak? What about Toronto-based Brigitte Shim, FAIA? They’ll be at this year’s MDC along with all the continuing education credits you need.

What does Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, the winner of the 2010 AIA National Firm Award say about attending his first MDC. It’s not what you would expect. Here’s the answer.

How did her experience at Rem Koolhaas’ OMA influence MDC 2011 speaker Jeanne Gang, FAIA? She’ll tell you.