Stefano Giussani: The Complexity of Simplicity 10/18/17

Wed, Oct 18th 6-8pm

Wine, Beer & Pizza 6-7pm

Presentation & Discussion 7-8pm

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Join us for an evening with internationally renown architect & designer

Stefano Giussani!

For over a decade now Stefano has been driving artistic interior architecture and design for high-end hospitality and commercial projects around the world, such as the Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza in Tokyo, Taj Mahal Palace Suites in Mumbai, and The Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem.

 

Stefano started his collaboration with Piero Lissoni of Lissoni Associati Milano in 2004, and he became partner in 2013, leading in the firm's Interior Design Department for International Projects.  After moving to NYC in 2015 with his family, he then took on the role of CEO & Co-founder of Lissoni Inc, the US branch of Lissoni Milano which develops designs for the North American, Canadian, and Central & South American market.

In 2017, Stefano became Ambassador for the MID POLI.design Milano.

Local Legend Craig Frazier 4/19/17!

Wed 4/19 6pm-8pm

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Craig Frazier is a designer that illustrates and an illustrator that designs.  He opened his studio in 1979 in San Francisco and has built an international practice with a particular visual point of view.  Wit, irony, and simplicity have become the currency of the Frazier style.

Craig is a frequent contributor to the NY Times and business publications like Time Magazine, Fortune, Bloomberg Business Week, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal to name a few.

Amongst his corporate clients are Adobe, Boeing, Chevrolet, Deloitte, Goodwill, Herman Miller, Kia, LucasArts, MasterCard, Mohawk Paper, Navigant, Nestlé USA, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Royal Mail, Steelcase, Salesforce, U.S. Postal Service, United Airlines and The Whitehead Institute. Craig has published ten children’s books and created seven postage stamps including the 2006 Love stamp and the 2010/11 commemorative Scouting stamps.

We look forward to seeing you!

Linden Tree Speaker Series Returns!

Wed 2/22 6-8pm

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Pizza & Wine: 6-7pm

Speaker: 7-8pm

The monthly speaker series held here at 315 Linden is back!  We're kicking off this year with an in-house speaker: Build Public's Brooke Ray Rivera.  Build Public is a mission-driven nonprofit that leverages creative public-private partnerships to create, finance and maintain high quality urban public space in San Francisco and beyond!

Brooke Ray brings significant expertise in creative place-making, community development, and public private partnerships through her work in urban planning, public agency and private real estate investment sectors. Prior to joining Build Public, she led a creative real estate investment group focused on downtown revitalization in Silicon Valley, where she implemented multiple pop-up retail shops, two world-class public art exhibitions with SFMOMA and Christie’s, summer-long pop-up parks, and other creative place-making efforts  in conjunction with her work attracting and curating a vibrant commercial tenant mix in downtown Los Altos. She now brings this experience to bear in designing creative public private partnerships to leverage private interests for public benefit with Build Public.

Ron Blatman - Remaking the American Metropolis

Wed 9/24 6-8pm

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Ron is Executive Producer/Producer of Save the City: Remaking the American Metropolis, a 13-part TV series in the works highlighting successful and unsuccessful examples of urban redevelopment throughout the US and Canada. Visit savingthecity.org for more information including preview videos.

He was also Executive Producer/Producer for Saving the Bay: The Story of San Francisco Bay, a national prime time PBS TB series which aired over four weeks in 2011 and continues to be repeated around the country. Narrated by Robert Redford, Saving the Bay covers San Francisco Bay from its origins to the present and highlights three pioneering women who saved the Bay from becoming little more than a river in the 1960s. Click on the image to watch or visit savingthebay.org for video clips. 

Ron previously worked in real estate development and finance in his native San Francisco and on Wall Street in New York, as well as serving as Director of Business Development in the San Francisco mayor's office in the early 1990s. He was the mayor's point man for keeping the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the city as well as a catalyst for a major new Federal office complex. 
He was also Executive Producer/Producer for Saving the Bay: The Story of San Francisco Bay, a national prime time PBS TB series which aired over four weeks in 2011 and continues to be repeated around the country. Narrated by Robert Redford, Saving the Bay covers San Francisco Bay from its origins to the present and highlights three pioneering women who saved the Bay from becoming little more than a river in the 1960s. Visit savingthebay.org for video clips. 

Ron previously worked in real estate development and finance in his native San Francisco and on Wall Street in New York, as well as serving as Director of Business Development in the San Francisco mayor's office in the early 1990s. He was the mayor's point man for keeping the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the city as well as a catalyst for a major new Federal office complex. 

Light, Glass & the Built Environment with James Carpenter

Wed 6/15 6-8pm

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James Carpenter has worked at the intersection of art, architecture and engineering for nearly 50 years, advancing a distinctive vision based on the use of natural light and glass as the foundational elements of the built environment. Carpenter founded the cross-disciplinary design firm James Carpenter Design Associates in 1979 to support the application of these aesthetic principles to large-scale architectural projects.

 

Carpenter has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, including an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He holds a degree in architecture and sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a Loeb Fellow of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Gabe Metcalf - Manifesto for an Open City

Wed 5/11, 6-8pm

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Gabriel Metcalf is the president and CEO of SPUR. He is responsible for defining the overall vision and strategy for the organization and has led SPUR through a major expansion of its work.

Gabriel has authored or co-authored such notable articles as “The Northern California Megaregion,” “Democracy and Planning,” “The San Francisco Exodus” and “The Great Dithering.” He is also the author of Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts are Reinventing America (St. Martin’s Press, 2015).

 

A co-founder of City CarShare and the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, Gabriel serves on numerous boards and commissions. A frequent writer and speaker on planning and policy topics, he earned a Master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

Follow him on twitter: @gmetcalf

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Helle Soholt - Lessons From Denmark

Wed 4/13 6-8pm

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Helle is Founding Partner and CEO of Gehl Architects. She started Gehl Architects with Professor Jan Gehl in 2000. Through her leadership, strategic and organizational talent, the office has developed a knowledge base and experience portfolio that is respected internationally in the field of urban design and urban development. Over the years of its existence, Gehl Architects has been awarded multiple prizes and recognitions for their contribution to making cities more livable and sustainable around the world.

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Craig Dykers - Large Scale Placemaking Projects

Wed 3/16 6-8pm

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Since 1989, Craig Dykers has established offices in Norway, Egypt, England, and in the US. His interest in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being is supported by ongoing observation and development of an innovative design process. As a Founding Partner of Snøhetta, Dykers has led many of their prominent international projects, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in NYC.

Craig is currently leading the design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion in San Francisco and the new Times Square Reconstruction in New York City, both of which will be completed this year in 2016. Snøhetta has also recently been shortlisted as one of seven firms in consideration for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

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Enrico Moretti - The New Geography of Jobs & San Francisco

Wed 1/13/16 6-8pm

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Enrico Moretti is the Michael Peevy and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

 

He has published extensively in top economics journals and is the recipient of several international awards, including a Fulbright fellowship and the Society of Labor Economists Rosen Award. He is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a consultant for the World Bank. His research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and CNN, among others. His book "The New Geography of Jobs" has been defined by Forbes "the most important economic book of the year".

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Linden Tree Presentation: April 18 (at) 6:30pm.

Creativity Explored: Unlocking the Artistic Mind

Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities, create, exhibit, and sell art.

Creativity Explored Studio Manager and Visual Arts Instructor Paul Moshammer, who practices and exhibits professionally in the Bay Area and beyond, will talk about the dynamic of mutual influence in the Creativity Explored studio and its effect on the staff's work (and vice versa).

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