Keynote Session Schedule:
October 14,2010
The City of Charleston, A Community and Cultural Rebirth
October 15th, 2010
Creating the Fabric of Our Culture
October 16, 2010
The Language of Leadership
Keynote Sessions
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
The City of Charleston, A Community and Cultural Rebirth
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Charleston has experienced a remarkable revitalization of its historic downtown business district, with the building of the beautiful Waterfront Park, the development of nationally-acclaimed affordable housing, and significant growth in Charleston’s size and population. Washington Post columnist David S. Broder said, “...what has been achieved here is extraordinary".
Charles Steinert holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Auburn University. During his tenure as Charleston's Chair of the Architectural Review Board he saw a city grow its neighborhoods into affordable livable communities. Its cultural activities and events became anticipated desitnations, and economic development a primary goal.
As architects and landscape architects we truly believe we have a responsbility to our community, whether it is down the street or across the world. This presentation will illustrate how a city has taken this sense of responsibility to its citizens and their daily lives.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Creating the Fabric of Our Culture
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In keeping with the theme: “Creating the Fabric of our Culture”, Charles Linn, FAIA, Deputy Editor of Architectural Record will lead a stimulating conversation on the role of architecture/landscape architecture on our culture, and its environment. Each panelist is a nationally recognized architect and landscape architect who have been leaders in their fields and have had an impact on the architectural community, society and its' culture as a whole.
Panel Members:
Carol Rusche Bentel, FAIA
Partner
Bentel and Architects
Carol Rusche Bentel FAIA is a partner in the studio of Bentel & Bentel Architects in Locust Valley, NY. She has numerous design awards to her credit beginning with the winning prize for the 1985 New York Times Square Competition (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA) to the international award from the London magazine “Wallpaper” for the best restaurant design in the world for The Modern restaurant at MoMA in NYC (with Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA, Peter Bentel AIA, and Susan Nagle). Carol, along with her partners, has received many local, national awards, and international awards including three AIA National Honor Awards. Carol was the chair of the AIA National Committee on Design in 2008 with over 9,000 members.
Peter Q. Bohlin, FAIA
Principal
Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson
2010 AIA Gold Medal Recipient
Peter Bohlin is the founding principal of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and has been instrumental in establishing the firm’s consistent record of design achievement. Founded in 1965, with offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco the firm's work is known for an extraordinary aesthetic, its responsiveness to particularity of place and user, and a quiet rigor that is both intellectual and intuitive. Award-winning civic, university, corporate and residential projects span the United States and around the globe.
Charles Linn, FAIA
Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
Consulting Editor, GreenSource magazine
Consulting Editor, SNAP
Charles Linn joined Architectural Record in 1990, serving as editor of its Record Lighting magazine and was its editor-at-large for the Northwest region. In 1993 he moved to New York to become a managing senior editor for the magazine. He has written and edited hundreds of articles on every aspect of building design, architectural technology, and firm management.
In 2006 he was a leader in the launch of GreenSource magazine and its website, and is a consulting editor for the magazine, where his thought-provoking essays appear regularly. He served as the editor of Schools of the 21st Century, Record’s special issue and symposium for the K-12 school market.
He is consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Construction’s new building products magazine, SNAP, and played a key role in the launching of the magazine.
José M. Almiñana,RLA,ASLA
Principal,
Andropogon Associates
José Almiñana is a principal at Andropogon Associates, a landscape architecture firm known both nationally and internationally for its sustainable development approach. Trained as both a landscape architect and architect, his collaborative work endeavors to achieve the highest possible performance with available resources. Since 1983 José has been instrumental in many of the firm’s complex site development projects, striving to create sensitive, ecological designs that respond directly to site conditions and incorporate innovative sustainable and regenerative design technologies. Many of the ecologically responsible approaches that he and his colleagues at Andropogon initially pioneered -- from landscape-integrated stormwater management systems to restoration of native plant communities and habitats -- are now commonly accepted practices.
Bruce S. Fowle, FAIA
Founding Principal
FXFOWLE Architects
Bruce Fowle is the Founding Principal at FXFOWLE Architects, an architectural, planning, interior design, and sustainability firm with offices in New York, Washington DC, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. In the thirty-two years since FXFOWLE’s founding, Bruce Fowle has guided the firm to international recognition for excellence in design, and pioneering socially and environmentally responsible architecture and planning. The firm’s work covers a broad spectrum of typologies; from renowned cultural and educational institutions to large-scale commercial, residential and planning and infrastructure projects located around the world. Throughout his career, Bruce has been personally committed to creating a more meaningful and effective role for the architectural profession in shaping and sustaining our society.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Language of Leadership
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Louis L. Marines is the founder of the Advanced Management Institute for Architecture and Engineering, a business unit of FMI Corporation. AMI provides executive education in leadership and management skills for the design profession.
Lou’s book on leadership in the design industry, The Language of Leadership, was published in March, 2010 and is available from Greenway Publications. Lou is the co-author of State of the Profession, PSMA, 1998, a survey of top industry CEO’s supplemented by observations and commentary. His writing also appears in Building Your Learning Organization: Competitive Advantage for the 21st Century (ACEC, 1997). Lou writes extensively on issues relevant to leadership and professional practice in the A/E/C industry, and is widely published.
From 1984 through 1989, Lou was the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC.
Lou says of his work and life, “I am passionate about living my life compassionately for myself and for others. I want to touch people with grace and integrity and to thereby encourage their same stance in the world. My life is about more than work, though much of it is leadership development for A/E’s, because it’s important to me that they’re empowered to create our better world. My life is also about more than knowledge, because I equally value imagination and fierce compassion. Expression of those values is my mission, and I am accountable for the generous use of the gifts I’ve been given.”
Drawing on his experience working with architectural firms across the country, Louis Marines will emphasize the combination of the critical importance of empowering architects and landscape architects to truly commit themselves to the profession through leadership during each stage of their careers.
