The Arid Lands Institute and the Woodbury School of Architecture invite you to register for the Drylands Design Conference.
Registration closes March 16.
RETROFITTING THE WEST: Adaptation by Design
INNOVATIONS IN PLANNING, LANDSCAPE, ENGINEERING, AND ARCHITECTURE
March 22-24
Woodbury University, Burbank.
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Nowhere are the opportunities for global leadership in water-smart design greater than in the US West. Shifts in the economy, demographics, and climate are requiring westerners to rethink the centralized, energy-intensive water systems of the 20th century.
What do design professions have to contribute, and how can they be more effective?
This conference will re-examine the built environment of the arid and semi-arid west as a vast field of opportunities for water-smart design innovation at a range of scales, from building systems to infrastructure and landscape spaces.
The conference will present and debate a portfolio of design strategies generated in response to the challenges set forth in the Drylands Design Competition, and explore the shifts in policy, practice, and pedagogy they suggest.
Speakers include:
Norman Millar AIA, Dean, School of Architecture, Woodbury University, CAF Regent
Hadley + Peter Arnold, Directors, Arid Lands Institute. Woodbury University
William deBuys PhD, Writer + Conservationist
Jamie Workman PhD, Heart of Dryness, Wesleyan University, College of the Environment
Paula Daniels, Office of the Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Rob Holmes ASLA, Mammoth, Virginia Tech
Miguel Luna, Urban Semillas
Laurel McSherry FAAR ASLA, Virginia Tech
Michael Pinto AIA, Osborn Architects
Meghan Storm, University of Pennsylvania
JT Reager, UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, UCIrvine
Stephine Pincetl PhD, Center for Sustainable Urban Systems, UCLA IoES
Shivaji Deshmukh PE, West Basin Water Control District
Terri Hogue PhD, UCLA IoES
Rob Lamb AIA AICP
Mia Lehrer FASLA, Mia Lehrer + Associates
Stuart Magruder AIA, President AIA Los Angeles
Greg Otto PE, Buro Happold
Barry Taylor PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center College of Design
Paul Bunje PhD, Center for Climate Change Solutions, UCLA IoES
Katherine Rinne, California College of the Arts
Michael Lehrer FAIA, Lehrer Architects
Frank Escher AIA, Escher GuneWardena
Ye Hua, USC Landscape Architecture
Gini Lee PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Brooke Madill, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mary-Ann Ray, Studio Works Architects
Deborah Richmond AIA, Touraine Richmond Architects
Alexander Robinson, Office of Outdoor Research
Larry Scarpa FAIA, Brooks + Scarpa
Ila Berman PhD, Dean, California College of the Arts, CAF Regent
