ECO ARCHITECTURE
STUDY TOURS
Meet the makers of tomorrow's architecture.
San Francisco Bay Area
Sunday, August 7 - Saturday, August 13, 2005
Space is limited -- first-come first-served.
Reserve early to assure your enrollment.
Tuition: $560 for enrollment by July 22, 2005.
After July 22, if there are any openings left, tuition will be $750.
Tuition includes tour transportation,
seminars,
and office and site
visits.
Attendees are resonsible for the costs of
transportation
to the Bay Area, meals, and
housing.
Instructions will be sent upon receipt of
enrollment.
Includes visits and analyses of:
• The massive "Living Roof" of Renzo
Piano's
Academy of Sciences building.
• The green San Francisco Federal
Building
designed by Thom Mayne of
Morphosis.
• The "Green Roof" and eco design of the Gap
building
by Gensler Associates and William
McDonough.
• The workshop studio of visionary architect
Eugene Tsui,
author of Evolutionary
Architecture.
• "The Heart of the City," urban stream
daylighting project
by Richard Register, author of Eco
Cities.
• Greening urban blight with "Living
Libraries"
by Bonnie Sherk.
• The new reality of "bridge architecture,"
by the architect
of the new San Francisco Bay Bridge, Donald
MacDonald.
• The future of green architecture, by Fred
Stitt, editor of
the Ecological Design Handbook, and
author of the upcoming
encyclopedic book, Eco Wave, for
publisher W.W. Norton.
• The SF Department of the Environment and
the
SF Green Buildings Initiative.
• Creating a green architectural education --
the experimental
study programs of the San Francisco Institute
of Architecture.
Partial tour attendance
may be permitted in special
cases.
Write to SFIA@aol.com
to inquire.
Includes office and site visits with experts in
earth and
straw bale construction, PV and passive solar
energy,
bioclimatic architecture, living walls, and
native plantscaping.
Plus: Self-guided, post-seminar tour options to
the Bay Area's
natural wonders and buildings of the historic
Bay Area tradition,
including Houseboat Communities, Sausalito;
the pioneering
Village Homes of Davis, California; the
regional architecture
of Bernard Maybeck, the Greene Brothers, Julia
Morgan,
and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Three academic units can be earned by those who
complete
a thesis research project based on this
experience.
Up to 42 AIA/CES Health/Safety/Welfare units are
available.
Early bird discount fee deadline extended to July 22, 2005:
$560,
$750 after July 22.
Includes all field trips, visits,
lectures,
and seminar meetings.
Participants will be responsible for their housing in the Bay
Area,
meals, and personal incidental expenses. (Low-cost UC
student
housing in Berkeley will be recommended.)
Note:
If any scheduled visits have to be canceled for any
reason,
comparable substitute events will be provided.
Enroll by e-mail, mail, fax, or phone listed below.
STUDY TOURS
ENROLLMENT FORM
Date of enrollment:
Name(s):
School or office affiliation:
Mailing address:
AIA membership number, if applicable:
Daytime phone number:
Evening or cell phone number:
Fax Number:
E-mail address:
Paying:
__ $560 for enrollment by July 22, 2005, $750 after that date.
__ Check or M.O. enclosed, payable to SFIA.
__ Visa or MasterCard #
(Your account statement will show Guidelines/SFIA)
__ Card expiration date:
__ Cardholder's name:
Cancellations within 7 days of the tour: $150 cancellation fee.
Substitute attendees are welcome.
Withdrawal after the program begins will be charged
on a daily prorata basis, plus the $150 cancellation fee.
San Francisco Institute of Architecture
Box 2590, Alameda, CA 94501
Ph
510-523-5174
or
1-800-634-7779
Fax 510-523-5175
SFIA@aol.com
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