AIA New Jersey

DESIGN DAY 2012

The Annual Design Conference will be held this year in Asbury Park.
Watch for more information to come soon.

DATE: September 13, 2012

TIME: 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM

LOCATION: The Berkeley Hotel, Asbury Park, NJ

Three sessions, one tour, six credits
(pending approval)

SPEAKERS:

Frank Grauman, FAIA
Senior Partner, Bohlin, Cywinski & Jackson, Philadelphia, PA

William Loose, AIA
Partner, Bohlin, Cywinski & Jackson, Philadelphia, PA

Topic: Sustainability, History and Planning

Charles Renfro, AIA
Partner, Diller Scofido & Renfro, New York, NY

Topic: Theater Street

KEYNOTE:

Stephen Kieran, FAIA
Senior Partner, KieranTimberlake Architects, Philadelphia, PA

Topic: KieranTimberlake: Inquiry

Interested in Sponsoring the Event?

There are many levels of sponsorship and ways to be invloved in this event.

Please Contact Laura Slomka
Email or Call 609-393-5690

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE: (subject to change)

8:30 – 9:00 Registration /Coffee
Design Boards on Display

9:00 – 10:30 SESSION I
Speakers:
Frank Grauman, FAIA
Senior Partner, Bohlin, Cywinski & Jackson, Philadelphia, PA
William Loose, AIA
Partner, Bohlin, Cywinski & Jackson, Philadelphia, PA

Topic: Sustainability, History and Planning
Frank Grauman joined Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 1976. His personal
career and that of the firm have advanced in parallel.
Among the concerns Frank Grauman’s projects address, there
emerges an interplay of three seemingly independent themes:
sustainability, history and planning.
In the late 1970’s, his award winning Shelly Ridge Girl Scout
Center initiated Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's tradition of sustainable
design. Always interested in making things work within their contexts
of time, place and resources, he consistently prompts
clients to consider not just what to build - but why, where and
how to build. These sensibilities, with their emphasis on environment,
preservation and long-range planning, characterize his
design work and have contributed in large part to the firm’s limber
response to astonishingly varied design opportunities.
From 1989 until 2002, Mr. Grauman was Managing Principal for
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s original office in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. There, he served as AIA chapter president and
became a strong influence in regional urban and preservation initiatives.
Now based in Philadelphia, he leads projects across the
practice’s five offices, functioning interchangeably as Design
Principal and as Principal-in- Charge. His work focuses on higher
education, workplace development, cultural institutions, public
projects, master planning and preservation.
Recent commissions include a new residence hall at Penn, a pair
of academic buildings and a library for Williams College, a new
Life Sciences research building at UCLA, and a new Fortune 500
corporate office campus in southern California. Educated at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Grauman started his career
in that institution’s campus planning office. Scarce time permitting,
his professional activities include regional planning and
preservation, lectures and design juries in a variety of venues.

10:30 – 12:00 BOARDWALK REDEVELOPMENT TOUR

Examine firsthand the eclectic refurbished Asbury Park. After a
painfully long era of boarded-up buildings, a dilapidated pavilion
and the worn desolate boardwalk to a thriving re-energized
beach front.

12:00 – 1: 45 LUNCH / EXPO HALL

1:45 – 3:15 SESSION II

Speaker: Charles Renfro, AIA
Partner, Diller Scofido & Renfro, New York, NY

Topic: Theater Street
Architecture: weather protector, activity organizer,
image-maker. Permanent, inert, neutral.
Earnest, Optimistic, futuristic. General,
Embedded, Necessary.
Theater: Temporal, provocative, engaging. Spectacular,
Transportive, critical, magical. Specific, Removed, Discretionary
The reconciliation between the theater with its darkened spaces
and fixed spectators and architecture with its roving users and
open engagement has been a preoccupation in the work of Diller
Scofidio + Renfro for years. Not content with architecture as a
neutral vessel or image machine, DS+R have tried to slide architecture
into a more performative role, bridging the seemingly
impossible gap between the two modes of cultural production,
integrating low tech bricks and mortar with high tech media technology
to help blur the distinction between the two. As the work
moves further into the public realm, performance architecture hits
the streets to construct the uncanny. Our work seeks not only to
satisfy the functional needs of buildings and cities, but to deliver
layers of experience more closely associated with theater: temporality,
spectacularity, introspection, surprise, engagement and
magic. It contains a voice, soft but accessible to multiple audiences
simultaneously. It curates and orchestrates, turning the
built environment into a character in life's unfolding play. Visitors
become actors, completing instant and self-constructed narratives
of interaction. Essential uses become ephemeral experiences,
strangers become intimates and contact is made.

3:30 – 5:00 KEYNOTE SESSION

Speaker: Stephen Kieran, FAIA
Senior Partner, KieranTimberlake Architects, Philadelphia, PA

Topic: KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Established in Philadelphia in 1984,
KieranTimberlake is an internationally recognized
architecture firm, recipient of numerous
honors including the 2008 AIA Architecture Firm
Award and 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Award. By undertaking a path of research into new materials and
potential technologies that alter fabrication and delivery methods
and influence the way we live in our environments,
KieranTimberlake reshapes our expectations of architecture. Join
Stephen Kieran as he discusses inquisitive approaches to clients’
needs, as well as the needs of the environment, and how that has
broadened the firm’s vision of the relationship between process,
craft, and form.

5:00 – 6:00 RECEPTION

Stephen Carlidge, AIA, Design Conference Chair

Announcement of the winning Design Award boards and projects