Moderator: Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, Places Journal/Design History Foundation, Berkeley
Frances Halsband, FAIA, R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects, New York City
Barton Phelps, FAIA, Barton Phelps & Associates, Los Angeles
Andrew Wagner, Dwell Magazine, San Francisco

      As innovation, change, and conventional uniformity suffuse the world in which we live, it is ever more important for architects to learn how to make buildings that help their inhabitants grasp their relation to the actual places in which they live. Architecture rooted in place can establish connects with existing communities and associations as well as bring fresh innovations that are particular to a place, while creating new insights to the changing conditions of society. Explore the multiple meanings of place in a pluralistic society and diverse world.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss how to incorporate elements of a place-based practice and how to absorb or qualify the patterns of the place and expand the benefits to the built realm
• Explore ideas to bring places to life with form, activities, and events; find or bring human measure in the place and structure a variety of encounters
• Implement methods to enhance a distinctive mix of city fabric and characterizing incident, open to and/or celebrate the passage of time and transformation; embed natural process; respond to the larger landscape; and leave room for improvisation and appropriation.