Sep 25, 2007 - Claremont, Calif. - Mark von Wodtke | Walker Wells | Denise DeLuca Some Annenberg lectures will be available for remote viewing via live web streaming, as indicated below. For more information on technical requirements and how to initiate the streaming video, visit our Web Streaming page. October 3 Title: “Regenerative Design” About Mark von Wodtke Energy Harvester provides solar electric and solar thermal systems, daylighting devices and group purchases of folding bikes for transportation demand management. Sycamore Plaza in the Claremont Village, which von Wodtke designed and developed in 1982, received one of the first Energy Star Awards from the Federal Department of Energy. He is involved in preserving the Claremont Packing House and is a member of the board of directors of the Claremont Museum of Art which is in this facility. As an advocate and planner for the Claremont Farmers Market, he promotes the purchase of fresh organic food from the region. He also heads the ACORN Project, which is regenerating oak woodlands in the Claremont Wilderness Park, to enhance watershed, airshed and wildlife habitat while sequestering carbon dioxide which effects climate change. October 24 Title: "Envisioning and Building Sustainable Communities" About Walker Wells November 14 Title: "Innovation Inspired by Nature: An Introduction to the Concepts, Tools and Power of Biomimicry" About Denise DeLuca About Wendy Newstetter Title: "Work in Progress #136" In 1972, Kappe co-founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), a radical alternative to the conventional system of architectural education. Beginning in a leased industrial building in Santa Monica, and with a group of six faculty members and 75 students, they started what they initially called the "New School," based on the concept of a "college without walls." Formerly the chair of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, Kappe served as director of SCI-Arc until 1987. Kappe has received many awards including the Richard Neutra International Medal for Design Excellence, the California Council/AIA Bernard Maybeck Award for Design, and the Topaz Medal, the highest award in architectural education. His own residence was designated a Cultural Heritage Monument by the City of Los Angeles in 1996. In 2007, Kappe’s Z6 House in Santa Monica was selected as one of the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment by The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment.
Wendy Newstetter | Thom Mayne | Ray Kappe
Mark von Wodtke
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona
Fellow, American Institute of Landscape Architects
Principal, CEDG, Inc.
President, Energy Harvester, Inc.
The way we use space shapes our environment. Regenerative design provides ways of shaping spaces that are more sustainable…even restorative. Mark von Wodtke will be showing how the Claremont Village could become an archetype for low-emission living by creating a pollution free-TOD (transit-oriented district). He will also show how Claremont could be an archetype for sustaining nature’s services by providing carbon-sequestering, water collecting and food-producing open space. If more communities in the Los Angeles Basin could make the transitions he is suggesting for Claremont, we could address local air pollution and global climate change while improving our quality of life. He will be discussing creative ways to think about spaces and how they shape our culture, and will also identify roles each of us could pursue to better shape our spaces.
Mark von Wodtke earned his bachelor's degree building design and architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master of landscape architecture from UC Berkeley. He has written books on the creative thinking and electronic media (Mind over Media and Design with Digital Tools). He is professor emeritus of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, where he helped develop the Center for Regenerative Studies. He focuses on regenerative design for sustainable development and is a founding principal of CEDG, Inc.—the Claremont Environmental Design Group—where he leads a group of architects, landscape architects and planners doing sustainable green design. As the founder and President of Energy Harvester, Inc.—a renewable energy company—he is providing leadership in the transition to clean renewable energy by addressing environmental and economic sustainability, local air pollution and global climate change.
Walker Wells
Director of the Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Communities Program, Global Green
Walker Wells is director of the Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Communities Program for Global Green USA, a national non-profit organization headquartered in Santa Monica. He works with affordable housing developers, municipalities and school districts across the country to further green building and sustainable development practices. Wells is an editor and co-author of the 2007 book "Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing."
Prior to joining Global Green, Wells was a senior urban designer with Gruen Associates in Los Angeles, an associate planner with the city of Santa Monica, and an urban planner for the city of Malmo, Sweden. He holds bachelor's degrees in sociology and environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree in city and regional planning from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He also studied at Lund University (Sweden) and its School of Architecture. Wells is a certified urban planner and a LEED Accredited Professional. He also contributes to the Planetizen website and is a lecturer at The Claremont Colleges.
Denise DeLuca, P.E.
Outreach Director, The Biomimicry Institute
Biomimicry is a method for studying and then emulating nature’s best materials, forms, processes and strategies to develop sustainable design solutions. Emulating photosynthesis in a leaf to design a better solar cell is an example of this “innovation inspired by nature.” The core idea is that animals, plants and microbes have already solved many of the design challenges that engineers and architects are grappling with today. These organisms have found what works, what is appropriate and, most important, what lasts here on Earth. After 3.8 billion years of research and development, design failures in nature are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to sustainability. Biomimicry is a path to a sustainable future, a survival strategy for the human race. The more the human world looks and functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
In this talk DeLuca will explore the whats, whys and hows of biomimicry: what biomimicry is (and is not); why we look at nature as model, mentor and measure; how others have created innovations inspired by nature; and how you can begin to integrate nature’s strategies into your own design process to create sustainable structures.
Denise DeLuca received her undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MSCE from Montana State University. DeLuca is a P.E. (licensed professional engineer), a LEED-AP (leadership in energy and efficient design accredited professional) and a mother of three. In her constant search for doing a “greater good,” her career path has covered both public and private sectors, including owning her own consulting business. In the fall of 2006, she had the opportunity to move back to Bozeman, Mont., and is now the outreach director for The Biomimicry Institute. In this position, DeLuca is working to advance the tools of biomimicry and to facilitate the integration of biomimicry into university-level education. 
February 6
Wendy Newstetter
Director of Learning Sciences Research Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: "Built Pedagogies: Designing Spaces for 21st-Century Learners"
Classrooms, school buildings and campuses function as architectural embodiments of educational philosophies. Such environments both constrain and promote the kinds of behaviors, interactions and activities meant to support learning. Room size and use, chairs/desk configurations and classroom accessories all work to define how learning can or should unfold. The problem facing many educators today, however, is the mismatch between the design of existing educational spaces and the needs, desires and expectations of the 21st-century learner, no matter what age. In this talk, Newstetter will argue that the impact of digital technology on today's K-16 learner should be seen not as an impediment to be overcome, but a resource that can be leveraged in the design of flexible and adaptive learning spaces that support self-directed, life-long learners. She will first visit the 21st-century learner and what sets her apart from learners in the past. She will then look at the implications of this new kind of learner in designing learning spaces. Examples of classrooms and buildings that work with this new learner in mind will be presented and discussed.
Wendy Newstetter's research focuses on understanding cognition and learning in interdisciplines with an eye toward designing educational environments that support integrative problem solving. She recently completed a six-year study of cognition and learning in three interdisciplinary research laboratories. Through Project Kaleidoscope, she works with faculty throughout the nation to design more effective math, engineering and science educational environments. She has published on learning in numerous journals and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. She received her B.A. from Colby College in Asian studies and her Ph.D. from Lancaster University in England in linguistics. 
February 27
Thom Mayne
Architect, Morphosis Architecture
You can watch this lecture via live web streaming.
About Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne received his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1968 and his master of architecture from Harvard University in 1978. He was a founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has held teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University (Elliot Noyes Chair, 1998), Yale University (Eliel Saarinen Chair, 1991), the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Currently, he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
His distinguished honors include the National Design Award for Architecture (2006), Pritzker Prize Laureate (2005), Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Design in Rome (1987), the Alumni of the Year Award from USC (1992), Member Elect from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992), and the 2000 American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, 60 AIA Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of extensive publications and exhibitions throughout the world. 
March 5
Ray Kappe, FAIA
Architect-Planner-Educator and Founder, SCI-ARC
You can watch this lecture via live web streaming.
Title: “From Eichler to Living Homes”
About Ray Kappe
Responding to a question about the 10 most important principles that helped make him a successful architect, planner, and educator, Kappe included the following two: “Always be willing to explore, experiment and invent. Do not accept the status quo”; and, “Maintain good moral and social values.” Kappe is renowned for his residential architecture which has been characterized as “the apotheosis of the California House.”
During his first 10 years of practice, he completed 50 custom post-and-beam houses. Exploring modular systems, prefabrication, passive energy and active solar systems, Kappe has completed commercial, low-cost housing, condominium, hotel and college buildings. He has also been involved in urban design and planning, as well as social and community advocacy.
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