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Hundreds packed the beautiful Green Room of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center last month for the design awards gala honoring this year's winners. Each of the winning projects is featured in the June issue of California Home + Design magazine and complete information on the 2010 AIA San Francisco Design Award winners can be found at www.aiasf.org/awards. All award-winning projects will be on exhibition at the 3A Gallery in San Francisco during the Architecture and the City Festival this September. Click here to check out some of the post press. In Review - Marin Living: Home Tours We hope our first Home Tours in Marin was a great experience for everyone! A BIG thank you to all the architects, supporters, sponsors, volunteers and participants for making it happen. We look forward to having you join us again on our San Francisco Living: Home Tours coming this September 11+12. More details coming soon. Click here to read posts from the media.
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AIGA Presents San Francisco Design AIGA San Francisco will host a Opening Reception to kick-off Design Week and unveil the exhibit: San Francisco Design. The exhibit will feature award-winning design from the San Francisco chapters of the:
Visit http://aigasf.org for more information.
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Design Competitions/RFPs For information on competitions/RFPs visit our website at www.aiasf.org/Job_Resources/CompetitionsRFPs.htm.
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Join AIA San Francisco in celebrating with Peter Bohlin, FAIA, Principal, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and 2010 AIA Gold Medal Recipient on June 30, 5:30 - 8:00 pm. The presentation will highlight his latest work and insights included in his new book "The Nature of Circumstance". Booksigning to follow. For more details and to sign up, visit http://aiasfbcj.eventbrite.com Combining a sensitivity to site with an elemental feel for materials and an affinity for people, Peter Bohlin has created a body of work grounded in the principles of enduring architecture. Article first appeared on MetropolisMag May 12, 2010 There is still snow on the ground, and a cold wind blows off the dark blue waters of New York's Seneca Lake, but inside the lake house of Kim and Wendell Weeks, it is warm and sunny. You can see the lake from almost any seat at the long maple dining table: choppy waves to the south, framed by a stand of trees and a chunky concrete inglenook; and, to the north, the house's dock and a boxlike, wood-sided boathouse in the distance. The Combs Point House is long and lean, meandering back from the water into a glen. A boardwalk connects the house to two more structures in the glen, a one-room office and a two-bedroom guesthouse. All three are sided in cedar, but the house sloughs off solidity as it moves toward the lake: by the end, it is essentially a porch, half indoors, half outdoors, as the roof, its full length supported by twinned glue-laminated beams, rises up to gain a few more hours of sun. "The site is so touching," says Peter Bohlin, the house's architect, using a favorite word in his idiosyncratic architectural vocabulary. "The magic moment is when you move from the ravine to the delta and you look sideways at the lake. It is a visceral moment." That's where he put the table, turning the traditional home center, the kitchen, into something more dynamic. The Weekses, who live in Corning, New York, came to Bohlin with clear ideas about what they wanted: a house for many generations, with a big, open living-dining area for gathering but enough separate spaces for their teenage children to have privacy. "He came to the property on several occasions just to wander around with us, to figure out where the sun was in the winter, what path the house should take through the gorge, where you wanted the dining table to be so that everyone can see the water," Kim Weeks says. "That provided everything he needed to come up with the design. It was almost perfect the first time." Bohlin, who will receive the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal this June, has been practicing architecture since 1965, operating his 174-person firm, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, out of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. A measure of fame has come to BCJ only in the last decade, as its high-profile stores for Apple have become landmarks in cities across the globe, but the scale of its work still varies widely. In Seattle, where BCJ opened an office in 1997, the firm recently designed the new city hall, a green-roofed branch library, and a charming three-unit row house faced in red-and-blue HardiePanel siding. Bohlin is committed to maintaining that range, even though his firm has 12 partners and five offices on both coasts. From the beginning, he says, "We worked hard to seem like we weren't working too hard. My practice sprung from a modest place, and I had to prove myself by doing modest things." Click here to read full article.
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The 2010 Convention theme, Design for the New Decade, will highlight, for architects and for others, how design, knowledge, vision, and leadership are essential in making a lasting, positive future in creating buildings and cities across the globe. Join our distinguished keynote speakers, some of our nation's most provocative thought leaders, who will share their knowledge, experience, and wisdom about a variety of topics related to design. If you are interested in volunteering at the AIA 2010 Convention in Miami, Florida (June 9th - June 12th), visit www.aiamiami.com/2010_conv_volunteer.php or contact Beverly Holton at bholton@aia.org. If you are interested in being a delegate and voting on business matters for the Institute, plan to attend the California Regional breakfast at 7:00am on June 10, 2010 at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel to receive your delegate card. (And no, AIA SF did not choose this time.) For questions, or to learn more about issues to be voted on at the Convention, click here. If you have questions, feel free to contact Margie O'Driscoll, Executive Director, AIA SF at: modrisoll@aiasf.org.
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