Design Day 2010 Schedule:

7:00 - 7:45 AM - Registration / Continental Breakfast /
Design Board Display / Exhibit Floor

8:00 - 9:45 AM - Keynote: Integrating the Whole System
The Practice of Living System and Regenerative Design
William G. Reed, AIA, LEEDap
A nationally recognized specialist in green design and Vice President of the consulting firm Natural Logic, Bill Reed has been a practicing architect for 20 years. He has served as a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council, and he works with planners, architects and developers on integrating design and construction teams to promote whole-system solutions and regenerative systems.

10:00 - 11:30 AM - SESSION 1 Architecture Beyond Buildings
Aaron Betsky, Director, Cincinnati Art Museum & Architectural Columnist & Contributor to Architecture Magazine
Aaron Betsky (born 1958) is an architect, critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From 2001 to 2006 Betsky served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Although Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana, USA, he grew up in The Netherlands. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History, the Arts and Letters (1979) and a M.Arch. (1983). He then
taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1983 to 1985 and worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before moving back to The Netherlands.

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Lunch & Exhibit Floor

1:00 - 2:30 PM - SESSION 2 Multi Cultural Modernism
Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, RIBA, Design Principal of Los Angeles based
Ehrlich Architects
Steven Ehrlich has received over 80 professional architectural awards and honors, including eight National AIA Design Awards. His firm was named AIA California Council Firm of the Year for 2003. Mr. Ehrlich is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, symposiums and museums throughout the world. He is a visiting professor of architecture at the University of Southern California and has served as a design critic at Arizona State University and Harvard University.

3:00 - 4:30 PM - SESSION 3 Cultural Design as an Agent
of Social Change
Craig Dykers, Senior Partner/Director, Snøhetta, Oslo/New York
Craig Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany and has lived extensively in both Europe and North America. Dykers received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin after initial studies in medicine and art. Dykers has worked in Texas and California and cofounded the architecture, landscape and interior design company Snøhetta in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. Dykers has worked on the design of several prominent cultural projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York City. Other projects include the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. Snøhetta has been the recipient of the Aga Khan, Mies Van der Rohe and World Architecture Prizes.

5:30 pm - 7:00 PM - DESIGN AWARDS RECEPTION
Stephen J. Carlidge, AIA
Allan Kehrt, FAIA
J. Robert Hillier, FAIA
Design Conference Committee

7:00 PM - Event Concludes

Design Day is being held in conjunction with East Coast Green to view other courses being offered the following day view the East Coast Green speakers and schedule.