Donna Duerk, Emeritus Architecture Professor, scuba diver, and space architecture expert, enlightens us authoring a textbook by committee, designing a moon base to learn sustainability, and outlines the amazing path her career has taken.

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Show Notes

Site News

• New Facebook Fans
  • Ken LoFrano

Cal Poly News

• Join Tom di Santo at the recently completed Contraband Caffé Gallery (by M:oME) this Saturday, April 9th, 2011. Reception takes place on Saturday at 6pm.
  • The paintings will be up until Saturday 7 May, 2011.
  • The exhibit will include 31 framed and unframed architectural watercolour sketches and seasonal abstracts.
  • Press Release Contraband Caffé Gallery.
• Hearst Lecture this Friday
  • http://arch.calpoly.edu/news-events/hearst-lectures.html
• Arch Department to reimburse the first 40 students on the NCARB record!
• Cal Poly Job Fair
  • http://www.arch.calpoly.edu/current/index.html

General News

• Green roof industry grew by 28.5% in 2010
  • http://www.eco-structure.com/vegetated-roof/green-roof-industry-grew-285-percent-in-2010.aspx
  • Chicago: 500,000 sf
  • “Government investment in green roofs for their stormwater, air quality, green space, and city cooling benefits largely fuels the growth of our industry”
• White House under construction
  • http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/04/obama-white-house-undergoes-big-dig/1
• 20 Questions with the other Uncle Frank
  • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704474804576222872016570928.html
  • “The best advice I’ve received is to be yourself”
  • “I used to sketch—that’s the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches and I got self-conscious, so now I don’t do it much. I’ve got to do that more.”
  • “I can’t stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can’t live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff”
  • “I can’t retire. I’m 82. It’s too young.”
• Reactions to Calatrava bridge issues
  • http://www.660news.com/news/local/article/206957–local-architects-react-to-peace-bridge-headaches
  • Calgary, Canada
• NJ Wright House for sale, move to Hamptons included
  • summering in star-archiecture in style
  • http://hamptons.curbed.com/archives/2011/03/31/architects_to_move_frank_lloyd_wright_house_from_nj_to_sagg.php

Rapid Fire Questions:

• Cal Poly or Berkeley? Poly
• Autocad or Revit? Neither
• Parallel bar or T-Square? Bar
• Facebook or LinkedIn? Neither
• Arch Record, Arch Digest, or Architect? Record
• Drafting dots or tape? Tape
• Yellow trace or white? Either
• Ad Markers or Prisma? Prisma
• Mac or PC? Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac…!
• Pen or Pencil? Pencil
• What’s the Meaning of Life? 42

SCORE:   ??  Tim forgot to give one!

Interview

• Tell us about your love for space?
  • Sputinik!  Apollo!
  • What has been your roll with the AIAA and the SATC?
    • In 1985 did a project for the Western Space Port and Science Museum
    • Mark Coen
    • Test things on Earth, then the Moon, and then Mars
    • Working on writing a text book for teaching Space Architecture
  • When will people finally live on the moon?
• Why architecture?
  • Blend of art and science
  • Mother of interior design
• What brought you from North Carolina and MIT to Cal Poly?
  • ACSA conference
• Why are you licenced in Texas?
  • Ended up finding work in Houston Texas with CRS, 1970’s
  • Worked for facilities planning department at University of Houston
• You authored “Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design” in 1993 what was that experience like?
  • Started teaching in 1981
  • Used in MIT Chinese program, Ohio, Mexico
  • “As far as I know, this is the Omnibus of Programming reference books….Just grit your teeth and pay the price for this one, because you’ll need it!”
  • Any plans for updating the book?
    • 25% needs to be new for a reissue, not quite there yet.
    • Architecture is still about designing for people.
• What are you plans for the future?
  • So busy I can hardly stand it
  • Master gardener, sustainability
  • Writing a book
  • Grandchildren
  • Scuba diving
  • Clean water, ocean, organic gardening, it’s all intertwined, the beauty of the planet
• What advice would you give to current Cal Poly Architecture students?
  • Love what you do and do what you can
  • Architecture has so many aspects, if you look hard enough you can find a piece you like.
• Technology Scholarship, you can donate soon.  We’ll have details soon.  For freshman to get all of their software paid for or a computer.  Duerk Technology Enhancement Award.  Through Cal Poly Foundation

• Christine Ogorsolka Johnson

Cal Poly News

• Hearst Lecture this Friday!
  • Steven Rainville: Olsen Kundig Architects
    Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 4:00pm
    Business Rotunda (03-213)
  • He takes pride in being a generalist architect, with a strong interest in building construction and architectural technologies.
  • http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/
• Mentoring Day, last Feb. 5th
  • We are working on getting reports!  Stay tuned.
• NAAB visiting Feb. 12-17.
  • Reception Sunday Feb. 13th 5:30-7pm in Berg Gallery for visiting team, chaired by Stephen Pappas, to interact with students, faculty, CAED and University Administration staff, alumni and local partners.
  • http://www.arch.calpoly.edu/current/naab.html
• Tenure Track Faculty Recruitment
  • Eric Nulman – ARCH 420 Arch History Seminar, ARCH 470 Selected Adv Topics
    • Tuesday, February 22, (Presentation @ 10:15am, Berg Gallery) – http://arch.calpoly.edu/current/documents/Tenure%20Track%20Visits/Itinerary-Nulman-for-posting.pdf
  • Good Luck!!
• 40,000 again want Cal Poly as their school
  • http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/01/21/1452907/40000-again-want-cal-poly-as-their.html#ixzz1CwBav2Pg
  • “Don’t ask what’s the minimum I need to do to be eligible for admission, but rather focus on doing all you can to best prepare yourself for tomorrow,’” Maraviglia said.
• Spider building is no more
  • http://cosam.calpoly.edu/gallery/csmgallery.html#groundbreaking
  • Construction on Cal Poly’s Center for Science and Mathematics has entered an impressive stage. The $131 million, 197,000 square-foot building was made possible by $110 million from voter-approved state education bonds and $21 million in private donations to Cal Poly. In late January, heavy equipment and tree crews dug up, potted and moved four decades-old trees to the Cal Poly Leaning Pine Arboretum and one to Science North (Building 53). With the trees safely removed, crews began knocking down the walls of the north wings of the old science and math complex, known affectionately to generations of students as the Spider Building because of its rambling design. Cal Poly staff and students are capturing the demise of the Spider Building on video and in photos.

Discussion Point

• How is the digital medium affecting architecture?
  • http://humanscribbles.blogspot.com/2011/01/when-digital-becomes-physical.html
  • The computer doesn’t tell you how things age over time in physical reality.

• Arch Record; What’s Next: BIM
  • The comments are the most interesting part of this article.
  • http://archrecord.construction.com/features/2011/1101what_now/1101what_next/1101BIM.asp
• BIM is So Last Year
  • http://jasongrant.squarespace.com/jason-grant-blog/2011/1/31/bim-is-so-last-year.html

General News

• China to hold Solar Decathlon in 2013
  • http://www.eco-structure.com/solar-power/china-to-hold-solar-decathlon-in-2013.aspx
  • http://www.solardecathlon.gov/index.html
  • The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s National Energy Administration, Peking University, and Applied Materials for the event, reports ECO-STRUCTURE.
• A good concept gone bad?
  • http://www.eco-structure.com/green-standards/a-good-concept-gone-bad.aspx
  • Editor Katie Weeks asks if “sustainability” needs to be retired from the vocabulary and offers a few words on the publication’s new partnership with the American Institute of Architects.
• New Plaintiffs Join Amended LEED Lawsuit
  • http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2011/02/110209LEED-Lawsuit.asp
• New World Sympony: Gehry piles it up
  • http://www.architectmagazine.com/blogs/postdetails.aspx?BlogId=beyondbuildingsblog&PostId=100681
  • Beyond Buildings blogger Aaron Betsky had the opportunity to see Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony building in Miami. What did he think about it? It achieves its goals “with grace, ease, and beauty.”
  • The hall is an abstraction of L.A.’s Disney Hall, at less than one-third the size, and the acoustics are almost as good.
• Former Wright home to be demolished
  • http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Deal-Estate/January-2011/Home-Wrecker-Frank-Lloyd-Wrights-Gold-Coast-Love-Nest-Slated-for-Demolition/
  • An 1887 Chicago house that was home to Frank Lloyd Wright in 1914 and 1915 has been sold and now appears slated for demolition. Dennis Rodkin reports that the need for extension renovations means the new, unidentified owner considers their $1.5 million deal strictly a land purchase
• Making kids care about architecture and history
  • http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/434967_Architecture7.html
  • Phil Freelon recently spoke to a group of students at Houston’s Ryan Middle School. Lisa Gray reports that the North Carolina-based architect was in town to present his rethinking of Emancipation Park at the Menil Collection. The children of the low-performing school all knew of the park—it’s only a few blocks from the school—and the prominent African-American designer explained its long and prominent history within Houston’s black community
  • http://www.freelon.com/people/principals/108
  • SIDE NOTE: National Organization of Minority Architects
    • http://www.noma.net/local/
  • “There are so few of us in architecture, we haven’t developed a distinctive style. Look at music, where the barriers to entry are low: We developed jazz; we developed the blues. But where’s architecture’s Dizzy Gillespie? There just aren’t enough of us.”

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Cal Poly News

• No Hearst Lecture this week
• NAAB Visiting Team visit: 2.12.11-2.17.11
  • During the 2011 Winter quarter, a Visiting Team of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) will be on campus to review the Architecture Department as part of the 2010 Procedures for Accreditation.
  • http://www.arch.calpoly.edu/current/naab.html
• Royce Chow is having a baby!  Or at least his wife is.
  • Support Shop Technician Royce Chow will be taking a 6-week leave and we have arranged to have Bart Alford “ fill in “ while Royce is away. As a part of the extended CAED family, Bart was our former Support Shop Supervisor and we are very pleased he is able to return and assist us as a retired annuitant during this time.
  • Open Shop Hours Beginning January 24th
    • Student Project Access:
    • Mondays 1pm-4pm
    • Tuesdays 9am-9pm
    • Wednesday 9am-9pm
    • Thursdays 9am-9pm
    • Fridays 9am-4pm
    • Saturdays 11am-7pm
  • Exceptions due to staffing:
    • Wednesday, February 2nd: 9am-4pm
    • Thursday, February 3rd: 9am-4pm
    • Saturday, February 5th: closed
    • Tuesday February 8th: 9am-4pm
• LA Metro Program – fourth year NEW
  • Prof. Stephen Phillips will be conducting a two quarter long fourth year design studio during Winter and Spring quarter 2012.For additional information, please visit the off-campus LA Metro Program web page (to be uploaded 1.19.11)
• Cal Poly to Help Build New Haiti Built Environment Resource Center
  • http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/January/haiti.html

General News

• New design competitions!
  • http://www.deathbyarchitecture.com/
• Architect Frank Gehry Named Judge Widney Professor at USC
  • http://www.architectmagazine.com/architect-newswire/gehry-named-usc-professor.aspx?cid=ARCH110119003
  • http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=103943_0_24_0_C
  • Frank Gehry is a USC alumni??
  • Tim declares a ban on all Frank Gehry news

• What is the value of AIA membership?
  • http://forum.aia.org/2011/01/17/what-is-the-value-of-aia-membership/
• Twenty-five Year Award Bestowed on John Hancock Tower in Boston
  • http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB087077
• Clark Manus, FAIA, 2011 AIA President
  • “Inaugural Address Inspires Design Visions of the Future that Rest on the AIA’s Historic Past”
  • http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB087080
• Ikea Goes Solar
  • http://architect-media.com/portal/wts/cemc6Fa-A72baCn8meFF2ya-yuoj0c
  • http://articles.dailypilot.com/2011-01-13/news/tn-dpt-0114-ikea-20110113_1_solar-panels-solar-energy-technology-clean-energy
  • Sweden-based furniture store Ikea has applied for a permit to install solar panels on its store in Costa Mesa, Calif., one of seven stores in the state where they plan to do so. Mona Shadia reports that it will be the largest commercial photovoltaic rooftop system in the city

The obsession over real estate prices, Frank Gehry, and really cool green stuff continues.  Plus a rather disjointed tribute to Uncle Frank as Taliesin celebrates it’s 100th anniversary.

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• Frank Lloyd Wright
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
  • June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 (aged 91)
  • Wright was recognized in 1991 by the AIA as “the greatest American architect of all time” http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2004/nf20040728_3153_db078.htm
• Marking a Century for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
  • http://archrecord.construction.com/yb/ar/article.aspx?story_id=154337654
• “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright – Simon and Garfunkel”
  • Jazz flute FTW!
  • http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2551
  • Album: Bridge Over Troubled Water Released: 1970
  • Art Garfunkel dared Paul Simon to write a song about Frank Lloyd Wright. This song was the answer to that dare.
  • Garfunkel once studied to be an architect because he thought his career as a musician would never pan out.

General News

• Housing Market Slips Into Depression Territory
  • http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019790
  • “November marked the 53rd consecutive month (4 ½ years) that home values have fallen.”
  • http://www.zillow.com/blog/home-value-declines-surpass-those-of-great-depression/2011/01/11/
  • Homes values are still higher than they were at the bottom – Jan 2009
  • Now is the time to buy!? … or wait a few more months
• For Sale: The House From Ferris Bueller
  • http://blog.iso50.com/22641/for-sale-the-house-from-ferris-buellers-day-off/
• This ‘ark’ is green, floats and could house 10,000 people
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1345738/Ark-Hotel-Remistudio-biosphere-self-contained-haven-event-flood-disaster.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
  • http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/919846–this-ark-is-green-floats-and-could-house-10-000-people
  • The movie “2012” come to life?
  • “The building (would have an) organized community which has everything necessary for its prosperity and growth.”
  • “With the help of the architect union’s Russian Council of Sustainable Buildings, he added, The Ark will one day be realized.”
• Ani – Ghost City of 1001 Churches
  • http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/01/ani-ghost-city-of-1001-churches.html
• The Greatest Building in New York
  • http://observersroom.designobserver.com/marklamster/entry.html?entry=24108
• Diller on building next to Gehry
  • http://architect-media.com/portal/wts/cemc6Fa-2T2baBFBeeEevya-vP3-jc
  • Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne reports that Diller Scofidio + Renfro partner Elizabeth Diller isn’t intimidated by designing the Broad, Eli Broad’s new downtown Los Angeles art museum, in the shadow of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. “We tried to create a very different building,” Diller says. “Where Disney Hall is smooth and shiny and reflects light, this building really wants to be the opposite: matte and porous”
  • http://artobserved.com/2011/01/ao-news-summary-billionaire-eli-broad-unveils-diller-scofidio-renfro-design-for-downtown-la-contemporary-art-museum/
• The Next Normal
  • http://www.architectmagazine.com/the-next-normal.aspx
  • “You Can Do Better”
• Arch Record
  • http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416150943
  • Digital issue of arch record now… cover is similar topic to Architect mag… interesting on the choices of cover (black male and Asian female) like a last ditch effort to show diversity…
• University of Awesome
  • http://thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com/2011/01/university-of-awesome.html

Nicholas B. Leone, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, B’Arch ’08, enlightens us on a different way to use our architecture background.  We announce the winners of the competition and Haley insists that size matters!

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• New Facebook Fans!
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• Assistant Producer
  • We’re still looking!

• Sketching competition winners:
  • No one entered so….
• Randomly chosen Facebook fan winners:
  • 1:  Hourig Ayanyan McCray
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Cal Poly News

• Universal Design and Human Behavior workshop
  • Prof. Emeritus Paul Wolff of the Architecture Department will lead a three night workshop on UNIVERSAL DESIGN and HUMAN BEHAVIOR
  • Where: Room 05-313
  • When: Three consecutive evenings between Tuesday, February 15th – Thursday, February 17th, 2011
  • Time: 6-8:30pm
  • http://arch.calpoly.edu/current/workshops-1011-pages/universaldesign-workshop-winter2011.html

• Mentoring Day –Saturday February 5th
  • http://alumni.calpoly.edu/mentoring.html
  • http://alumni.calpoly.edu/feb2011_mentoring.html

General News

• Green codes are coming: What will happen to U.S. Green Building Council??
  • If you talk to USGBC, their plan is the continue to push the envelope, to accept the new floor established by the new green codes, and to ramp up their standards and requirements to increasing levels of sustainability. It will be very interesting indeed to see if USGBC can do this and still maintain its current business model based on numerous accredited professionals, member organizations, applications for certifications, general market penetration and resulting fees and cash flow.
• Size matters
  • Beyond Buildings blogger Aaron Betsky reports that today’s architecture—while generally of a higher quality than when he was a young architect graduate in the 1980s—still leaves something to be desired. “What is lacking, more often than not, is a sense that the resulting building reaches beyond correctness, beyond just being there, and beyond fulfilling its problem statement,” Betsky writes. “We need a few more buildings like the ones Gehry still designs, or Steven Holl, or a younger architect like Brad Cloepfil.”
• November Architecture Billings Index
  • AIA chief economist Kermit Baker reports that November’s Architecture Billing Index moved back into positive territory after a slip in October. A three-point gain puts the index at 52.0—only the second monthly increase in billings since early 2008. “With ABI scores above the 50 level in two of the past three months, the prospects of a sustainable recovery in design activity are enhanced,” Baker writes. But pessimism persists among professionals, with one-third of firms expecting revenue to fall in the new year and half of these firms expecting more than a 10 percent decline
    

Rapid Fire Questions:

• Cal Poly or Berkeley?  Cal Poly
• Autocad or Revit?  Revit
• Parallel bar or T-Square?  T-square
• Facebook or LinkedIn?  Facebook
• Arch Record, Arch Digest, or Architect?  Architect
• Drafting dots or tape?  Dots
• Yellow trace or white? White
• Ad Markers or Prisma? Ad Markers
• Pen or Pencil?  Pen
• Mac or PC?  PC
• What’s the Meaning of Life?  Drafting

SCORE:  10,205.5

Interview

• What’s he been up to since graduating
  • Graduated in 2008, stuck around an extra year for a CM and real estate minors.
  • Returned to San Francisco and has worked on the same firm ever since
  • Marx Okubo – http://www.marxokubo.com/
• He works in due diligence architecture
  • Seismic analysis
  • Assessment for owners
  • Create documents and oversees repairs
  • He’s worked more on the construction and project management side
  • He’s done very little design though, but that’s common
• Working towards licensure?
  • Taken 4 AREs, passed 3!!!
  • Just submitted second IDP experience report!!
• Why architecture
  • The typical love for Lego’s, designing
  • Realized that Cal Poly had a great program and went to Cuesta and transferred in as a second year
• What was rewarding about Cal Poly
  • Senior year thesis was a great way to stay interested in the project and professor for a longer period of time
• What advice would you give to students currently crafting their senior thesis project?
  • Come up with lots of ideas, bounce them off your professor
  • Try to be done three weeks early from your final due date, you’ll use up the time!!
• Goals
  • Get licensed in 2011
  • Looking into grad school

• Week of Welcome (WOW) coming up Sept. 15-19
  • http://studentlife.calpoly.edu/orientation/wow/home/index.asp
• September 2010 Fall term classes begin

• Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
  • http://www.pbs.org/make-no-little-plans/
  • Architect and planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. In the midst of late 19th century urban disorder, Burnham offered a powerful vision of what a civilized American city could look like. He built some of the first skyscrapers in the world; directed construction of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition that inspired the City Beautiful Movement; and created urban plans for Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Manila—all before the profession of urban planning existed. In fact, some say that he invented it.
• The Architecture Job Application Hints & Suggestions from Employers
  • http://www.archinect.com/features/article.php?id=62511_0_23_0_M
• St. Louis Arch Competition Weaves Together a City, a River, and its History and Culture
  • http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB085898
  • When a winner is selected on Sept. 24, this new relationship between monument and city will be unveiled, and it will be realized by 2015, when the competition mandates that the plan must be completed. Organizers are also seeking public comments about the design.
• Self-Inflicted Losses
  • http://www.architectmagazine.com/design-fees/self-inflicted-losses.aspx
  • How long will rock-bottom prices continue to plague the profession? Only time, and the economy, will tell. Hickock, for one, is cautiously optimistic. “We have just begun to inch up fees,” he says, but “we can’t tell yet whether they are sticking or not.”
• AutoCAD returns to the Mac, mobile app offered
  • http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20015166-37.html#ixzz0yIJum2pY
  • Presale began today, Sept 1st for $3,995
• Review your ARE scores online with CAB!
  • http://www.cab.ca.gov/candidates/are_online_scores.shtml
  • You have 180 days to review them
• On the Boards: Signature Center by Frank Gehry
  • http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/2010/08/100824_signature_center_gehry.asp
  • The new facility will feature a 299-seat end-stage theater and two 199-seat flexible theaters. It also will have a shared lobby, dual-rehearsal studios, administrative offices, a bookstore, and a café.

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