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Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are co-founders of WEISS/MANFREDI, a multidisciplinary design practice known for their dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Current projects include a new building for Cornell’s Roosevelt Island campus, a building for MIT’s Kendall Square Initiative, and the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India. Their most recent book, PUBLIC NATURES: Evolutionary Infrastructures, was released by Princeton Architectural Press this past September.

Awards include the Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the International V.R. Green Prize for Urban Design, the New York City AIA Gold Medal of Honor, as well as six National AIA Honor Awards. Marion is the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael is a Senior Design Critic at Harvard University. They were recently inducted into the National Academy of Design and are currently the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professors at Yale University.

Marion received her undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia and her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. Michael received his undergraduate degree in Architecture from Notre Dame and his Master of Architecture degree from Cornell University.

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Shim•Sutcliffe’s built work explores the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape and furniture and fittings. Brigitte, along with partner Howard Sutcliffe, have led Shim•Sutcliffe Architects in receiving 13 Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, a National AIA Honor Award, along with many other professional accolades.

Brigitte is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. She has held a number of Distinguished Visiting Professorships at Yale University and has been a Distinguished Visiting Critic at the University of Buffalo, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Both Brigitte and Howard are elected members of the Royal Canadian Academy. In January 2013, Brigitte and Howard were both awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Order of Canada, “for their contributions as architects designing sophisticated structures that represent the best of Canadian design to the world.”

Brigitte and Howard received Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Environmental Studies degrees from the University of Waterloo.

any of our cities and communities appear to look increasingly the same, threatening a loss of

cultural as well as personal identity. Insensitive growth and suburban sprawl continue unimpeded, consuming more and more of our natural landscape. In today’s fast paced world there is a growing sense of disconnect, to the uniqueness of life, to our relationship to nature, even to our past and our memories. As architects, our built work can address these challenging issues in thoughtful and compelling ways, our work can be ordinary and irrelevant, or our work can actually become part of the problem.

Through a process of Interweaving, an inclusive approach to design, apparent constraints and limitations can be identified and become part of the solution, resulting in meaningful design that connects rather than separates. By engaging the specific culture, ecology, and heritage of a place, architecture can celebrate our uniqueness, reflect our cherished values and memories, while providing fresh and innovative ways of development and

revitalization. By focusing on establishing a balance between the urban and the natural, architecture can take a leadership role in advancing a thoughtful pattern of urban growth that respects and contributes to the restoration of our natural environment.

RECONNECTING AND RENEWALIn their Wandering Ecologies master plan for Toronto’s Lower Don Lands Weiss/Manfredi weave together such diverse issues as flood control and infrastructure barriers with new opportunities for recreation and social interaction, while introducing new wetlands and wildlife habitats within the fabric of the city. A series of new public park spaces link with the downtown through a variety of pedestrian and bike pathways which activate the underutilized area around the elevated highways that cross the site. Renewal can be on a personal level, as in Aidlin Darling’s Windhover Contemplative Center where the “chapel-like center provides a refuge from the intensity of daily life and a place for personal reflection.” This spiritual retreat, set within the lively campus of Stanford University, incorporates rammed earth walls, wood surfaces, and water to heighten the visitor’s sensory experience. Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe have deliberately located their house and studio in the urban core of Toronto, reinforcing their belief that the “regeneration of buildings and landscape in the city should be an important dimension of all architectural practice.” Much like a French Quarter townhouse, their Laneway House, built on a former derelict site, is a compact pavilion with a small hidden courtyard garden, establishing a direct connection with nature within the city.

ENGAGINGLocated on the edge of a Toronto ravine, Shim•Sutcliffe’s Integral House “utilizes curvilinear glass walls to shape a large performance space where building and landscape are intertwined.” These

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Doug Ashe has served on numerous AIA honor awards juries over the years, including chairing both the National AIA Gold Medal/Architecture Firm Award Jury and the AIA/AIA National Library Honor Awards Jury. Ashe Broussard Weinzettle Architects has received over 20 AIA honor awards for design excellence at the regional, state and local levels.

Doug received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Architecture, with honors, from Georgia Tech. This is Doug’s 17th year serving as coordinator and moderator for Celebrate Architecture.

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ScheduleWELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS, AND OPENING REMARKS DOUG ASHE

OVERVIEW OF WEISS/MANFREDI’S WORK MARION WEISS & MICHAEL MANFREDI

OVERVIEW OF AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN’S WORK JOSHUA AIDLIN & DAVID DARLING

OVERVIEW OF SHIM•SUTCLIFFE ARCHITECTS’ WORK BRIGITTE SHIM

OPENING REMARKS DOUG ASHE

CLOSING REMARKS DOUG ASHE

SELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTH MARION WEISS & MICHAEL MANFREDISELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTHJOSHUA AIDLIN & DAVID DARLING

SELECTED PROJECT IN DEPTHBRIGITTE SHIM

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With a shared interest in exploring design across a wide range of scales, programs, and disciplines, Joshua Aidlin and David Darling started Aidlin Darling Design around a woodshop in 1997. With an emphasis on designing for all the senses they have cultivated a diverse and collaborative studio that acts as a creative hub for an extended network of builders, fabricators, artists, engineers and even chefs. The studio’s work explores a closely held conviction that design can enlighten the human spirit by engaging all the senses.

They recently earned their first National AIA Honor Award for the Windhover Contemplative Center located on the Stanford University campus. Recent work includes the first LEED NC Gold commercial building in San Francisco, a LEED CI Platinum restaurant, and a LEED Platinum/Net Zero Energy house. Additionally, the firm has garnered over 100 regional, national, and international awards, including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Award for their body of work, a James Beard Award, and five American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum. Recent work includes projects as far away as Doha Qatar and Hong Kong, and as diverse as a high school in Santa Rosa, a Cultural Arts Center in San Francisco, and several wineries that push the boundaries of sustainability in agriculture and building.

Joshua received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Cincinnati. David also received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Cincinnati.

Quotes and excerpts are sourced from the guest architects’ websites and other publications.

serpentine walls of vertical glass and wood provide panoramic views engaging the surrounding forest, while echoing the undulating contours of the river valley. The section of the house parallels the journey of descending the ravine slope as well as ascending above into the tree tops. Creating varied opportunities for social engagement is a prime design objective for the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, where Weiss/Manfredi “focus the laboratory space around a central quad, opening the Sciences up to the University (U Penn.) landscape and providing new indoor/outdoor space” for collaboration, exchange of ideas, and relaxation. The Emeryville Center for the Arts by Aidlin Darling, which houses a variety of both gallery and performance spaces, unfolds much like a scaffolding, open and flexible, allowing for creative engagement by the participants. The building culminates with a rooftop outdoor theater that offers views out into the landscape, becoming a glowing beacon and civic presence in the skyline.

RESPECTING In their 355 11th Street mixed-use renovation, Aidlin Darling respect the historic character of the industrial structure by establishing a dialogue between old and new, where the building’s original wood post and beam construction is enveloped with a new performative skin of perforated metal. This diaphanous zinc scrim reflects changing light patterns throughout the day, while unveiling the reclaimed interior at night. Respecting the ancient, rugged and powerful landscape of Georgian Bay in Ontario was central to the design of Shim•Sutcliffe’s Harrison Island Camp, which “touches the ground lightly, and seeks to minimize possible long term damage to the rock.” The cabin, comprised of a main central bay with cantilevers to each side, was prefabricated in a controlled environment and then shipped in pieces to the island and assembled. The Sylvan Theater at the Washington Monument by Weiss/Manfredi transforms this historic site on our National Mall by “reorienting the outdoor amphitheater to allow audiences a panoramic view of this treasured monument, simultaneously elevating the audience and strategically concealing the surrounding traffic.” A new elevated pedestrian woodland walk connects the amphitheater to the nearby Tidal Basin, “descending to the water’s edge to lead to the Jefferson, Roosevelt and MLK memorials, creating a much richer visitor experience.”

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DAVID DARLING AIA

DOUG ASHE FAIA

Manship Theatre

at Shaw Center for the Arts100 Lafayette Street

Baton Rouge, LA 70801225.346.5001

or 1.800.488.2968

For additional information about The Manship Theatre, visit their web site: www.manshiptheatre.org, or The Shaw Center website: www.shawcenter.org

Convenient parking can be found at the Third Street Parking Garage (across from The Shaw Center), which is located on the corner of Third Street and Convention Street (enter from Convention Street).

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Several hotel options are listed below. The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, Hotel Indigo, and the Sheraton Baton Rouge are within walking distance of the Shaw Center:

• Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center - 225.344.5866 201 Lafayette Street hilton.com/Baton_Rouge

• Hotel Indigo - Baton Rouge 1.877.270.1392 200 Convention St. hotelindigo.com

• Sheraton Baton Rouge Convention Center & Hotel 225-242-2600 or 1.800.565.7654 sheraton.com/batonrouge

• Baton Rouge Marriott – 225.924.5000 marriott.com

• Best Western Richmond Suites – 225.924.6500• Chase Suites by Woodfin – 225.927.5630

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