"Reality < an Idea" The philosophy of Wallace Cunningham is “open up a structure to sky, landscape, and view, and the building becomes alive. Create unconfined space and your soul will have a place to go.” It is a spiritual experience just to view the website of Wallace Cunningham and be immersed in light and shadow [...]
Post-Modernism: Everyone Visits San Diego Eventually We continue our series: The California-Panama Exposition Centennial Lectures - Part 4: Spanning the Oceans: A War Brings the World to Our Doors. Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, is no stranger to Friends of San Diego Architecture. He has spoken to our group twice and was one of our judges in [...]
Click here for video of Vicki's April 19, 2014 lecture on The Landscape Architecture of the Exposition: 1914.
The Landscape Architecture of the Exposition: 1914 Vicki is a landscape architect, an urban designer, and president of Estrada Land Planning. The firm’s mission is “to design spaces and modify the land in a creative and ecologically sound manner.” She believes that landscape architects “are uniquely qualified, among design professionals, to create design solutions that consider [...]
Searching for Logic April 20, 2012 Catherine Herbst, principal with Todd Rinehart in the San Diego architecture firm of Rinehart Herbst, will share with us her presentation that was enthusiastically received recently in Münster, Germany. "Searching for Logic" explains the philosophy behind her company's designs and includes many examples of the work that it has inspired. [...]
Livable Landscapes: Balancing Artistic Expression in Design with Environmental Sensitivity San Diego landscape architect Glen Schmidt believes that our outdoor environments, at home, work, and play, contribute greatly to our quality of life, health, and well-being. So when he established the Schmidt Design Group in 1983, he did it with the mission to produce what he [...]
"Tall Buildings Since 9/11: The Spectacle of the Technical" San Diego architect Kurt Hunker will discuss the public's post-9/11 reaction to tall buildings and the sophisticated technology that has been applied to high-rise design since the disaster, as evidenced by what he calls "the concept of spectacle." He will share information that he presented recently at [...]
"Modernism Defined by Someone Who Committed It" LA boy Robert Mosher attended The Art Center School and USC, then majored in architecture at the University of Washington. At the beginning of his career after World War II, he worked for Myron Hunt & HC Chambers, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and William Templeton Johnson. The first office that [...]
"The Intelligent Kitchen - Getting Past Green and Towards Healthier Living" Lisa Wilson-Wirth is a national-award-winning National Kitchen and Bath Association-certified designer. Her studio, Arclinea San Diego, was recognized as one of the country's best designed showrooms by K+BB (Kitchen and Bath Business) magazine, and her work has been featured in LHQ (Luxury Home Quarterly), Qualified [...]
"Great Lost Buildings of San Diego" David Marshall, AIA, NCARB, has made a name for himself as an architect, historian, preservationist, author, and lecturer. He is president of Heritage Architecture & Planning, a San Diego firm that specializes in the restoration and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. He was a board member of the San Diego Architectural [...]